The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-29
FULL HOUSE FOR
R0EBUCKP LAYERS
Academy Practically Sold, Out
So Great Is Interest in
Boys First Show.
AUTHOR TO MAKE SPEECH
Mother and Sweetheart Arrive
to See Beatrice of the
Cumberlands."
AUTHOR TO MAKE SPEECH

When the curtain ascends tonight at
the Academy OF Music on the initial
presentation of Beatrice OF the Cum.
berlands" It's seventeen-year-ol star
and author Will be happy In the reali-
cation OF long cherished ambition.
Many people write plays. Few escape
altogether the delusIon that they are
especially gifted as playwrights and
authors But the number OF aspiring
dramatists who ever realize the fruition
Of their dreams is SO small that 1t has
been estimated that but one OF every
ten thousand plays which are written
is ever produced.
George Roebuck, author of "Bea-
trice." congratulates himself, therefore,
In the knowledge that he is one Of
the few who were chosen Of the many
who were called And the youngster
also feels that he is justified In many
other self-bestowed fluctuations. IT
nothing more, he has accomplished, and
ir spite of many difficulties, what he
set out to do, and that's lot Whether
In after life he follows the path he
has chosen or enters other fields, ne
has an asset in the knowledge of hav-
ing made the kind OF start that gen
orally wins. Into this. his first under
taking, he has put energy, industry.
determination, pluck. II we'll begun Is
half done. Roebuck has the future
looking rosy
To Address Audience.
1t will be fateful moment for the
Young author when the asbestos
clears away tonight and the charac-
ters which he has created begin to un-
fold the little drama whose inspira-
ton was his own youthful experience.
Emulatng other Southern play
wrights, Roebuck will make curtain
speech, In which he Will tell the DIG
audience q few things about himself,
his objects and his ambitions And that
there will be big audience Is no
longer merely hope-it IS a Ger,
Etainty. For the house Is about sold
out. only few scattered seats re-
manning in the rack when the box
office was closed last night.
The first telegram the author OF
i3satrice ever received. came yesterday
morning and brought the glad news
that his mother had started from
Washington on the way from Youngs-
town, O., her homo. to be present to-
night. She arrived last night. The
real Beatrice who furnished the In
spiration for the play Is already here.
Will not this be a happy day for
George Blaney Rosebuck? You can bet
tho parlor carpet that 1t will.
There can be no better evidence OF
tho interest the public is taking In
the young author and his work than
the sale of ssats for the play to-
night 1t seems assured that the
house will be sold out here and also
IN Petersburg. where Beatrice IA to
be presented Tomorrow night With
the proceeds derived from his venture
the hoy hopes to be able to enter Ran.
dolph Macon
While the writing and producing Of
Beatrice Of the Cumberland" was to
Roobuck more work of love than
anything else. It has also served MS a
means to an enl--thnt being the boys
education, With so worthy an object,
and having labored so earnestly and
determtnedly to attain 1t, the author
OF Beatrice deserves all the success
which seems to have come to him.