The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-26
GAR RICK.

For the third time during the pres
ent season. Charles Rchman was vel
coined to the Garrick theater Monday
evening. Twice before Mr. Richman
was seen as leading man for Miss
Mary Mannering In "A Mans World"
This week he comes at the head of
his own company in play written es-
pecially for him called "One of the
Family The two previous visits
served TO make him wide circle Of
friends and he was given hearty re-
turn greeting. Monday evening.
The present is not Mr.. Richman' s
first starring venture by any means.
but il is several years since he tried
It before, and in the meantime he has
spent season after season in New York
In many OF the greatest successes and
most enviable roles in the best metro
politan productions. Mr. Richman Is
no novice at the trade OF acting and
he has won his place In the front rank
of capable actors through hard, con-
scientious work, as we'll as talent. And
he Is far too good an actor to waste
his time on "One OF the Family" What
ever there Is endurable in the play he
makes It 1t is rough melodrama with
crudities as many as crags on an AL
pine mountain. IL has not been on the
boards long. and the author. Charles
r. Darcy, who has other plays TO his
credit. notably In Old Kentucky" is
in Detroit this week pruning 1t into
better shape. On the popular price
circuit, where in Old Kentucky" is a
perennial favorite. "One Of the Fam
lily" would make big hit. maybe IL
has many of the ingredients that go
to make up dish warranted To tickle
the ten-twenty.thirt' palate.
The locale of the play Is the south
-Danville, Georgia. II employs the
colonels, and generals and majors and
Judges no self-respecting southern play
could do without: also. the charming
daughter with pride OF race. and the
good-for-nothing young scions of old
families playing at being gentleman
and too proud To work. There is the
time-honored grandiloquent hospitality
with bare cupboard behind II and the
nifty" scorn Of "self.made" dollars.
with nothing but mortgages In the
family exchequer Into this familiar
stage environment the author has sent
the character played by Mr.. Richman.
that of n successful young traction
magnate from the north. who goes TO
Danville because IL happened To be his
birthplace. and who returns because
of sentiment and desire TO make q
place for himself In the town and
among the aristocratic people. who. rs
small lad, knew him as that poor
house boy" or course. he Is I'm love
with the daughter OF the man who be
friended him when the keepers at the
poor house would have beaten him to
death for running away. and he re-
turns To try TO save her ancestral
home for the girl OF course. also
there is rival, real low-down sort
of a chap. who won't play fair. The
6enoumcnt discloses these two are sons
of the same father. with the Legitimate
mark on the poor house boy, SO that
all ends happily for the hero after
many vicissitudes.
IL would be difficult for Mr.. Rich.
man 10 fail in anything ne undertakes.
and ne assuredly rides to success in
his present role. but that is wholly due
TO his own good acting and his like
able personality. rather than any op
portun.ty given him in the play When
he Is off the stage. the affair drags
( heavily. and this. too, is not To be laid
up against the actors. The cast In
cludes men who have long since won
their theatrical spurs. such as Frank
Rurbeck. who plays Judge Carter
frank Kildey is excellent as Gen. War