The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-01

ment and enlargement.of this. the best
OF all the large neutrality-suspicious..
Each department lis SO completely
filed with foreign and American fea-
lures as Is capable Of being transport
ed and handled In a satisfactory man.
ner
The new menagerie is vast collect
ion of the,earth's most interesting and
marvellous wonders.
New cages. rolling stock equipment,
all bright in gold and silver, will be
seen for the first time after full WIN
ter's establishment by scores Of ex-
pert artisans.
Many new and novel acts will at
tract attention in the big tent where
hundreds of skilled performers will
vie in friendly contests for supremacy
The children will be delighted with
the miniature menagerie, with boy
trainers. drivers and care takers.
The entire Institution is SO complete
in its immensely only q generalization
can. be mentioned herewith.
Nor has the circus department been
overlooked. Many acts will be offered
livened with new and amusing antics
by over two score OF funny clowns
The big shows will exhibit here
Thursday. May H.
Richmond Stock Co.
The play to be presented by Rich
mond's Own Stock company next week
at the Gennett theater Garter of the
Lazy " was written by Mr.. John A.
Preston. Isabel Dillingham; has been
driven into hateful marriage be
cause she believes it to be the only
way in which her father can be saved
from financial ruin, but the treatment
is SO unique that interest in theme
which is not entirely new, does not
lag for moment. Out of it too. are
evolved several situations of marked
strength and dramatic power which go
immensely. This is notably true at
the point where Tom Carter, owner of
the Lazy Y ranch learns from his
bride of an hour that she does not
love him, and goes back heartbroken
to the west in an effort to forget. In
the last two acts the atmosphere is
truly western and the scenes are deeply
absorbing.
miss Patsy"
Henry w. Savage, the American
producer of 1.-THE Merry Widow" has a
new up to date offering which will be
seen at the Gennett theater next
Thursday in Miss Patsy which comes
here direct from an engagement of one
hundred nights at the Chicago Opera
house. Theater goers of this city will
have an opportunity of seeing this fam
Duh farce before it is taken to New
York. Mr.. Savage has assembled one
of the strongest casts of fun makers
ever associated together, including six
of the original principals Of the George
AIDE comedy The College Widow
which he sent to London. The COM
pany is headed by Gertrude Quinlan.
who will be remembered as the orig
inal slangy waitress in THE College
Widow" She has been provided in
Miss Patsy by author Sewall Collins
with part that fits her particularly
eccentric personality like glove. She
is assisted by Laurence Wheat. one of
the cleverest young light comedians of
the day Mr.. Wheat has been star
and leading man of some OF the fore
most comic opera productions of the
past few years and the company in
cludes Adeline Dunlap. the athletic
girl of 1.-The College Widow" Thomas
Meighan Dan Mason, Jennie Laliont.
Maude Earle, Annie Buckley. w. E.
Bonney. Josephine Brown, Hazel Tup-
per. Gladys Turner, Beth Hardness,
Frank Dee, Arthur Hoyt and Forrest |
Winant The entire production will
be staged here exactly as at the Chi
cago opera house without change eth
err in the cast or effects The piece is |
described as the very acme of hilarity |
and Chicago is still rocking with the