The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-22
The TheQterS
little MISS FIX it,"

| wal Va q AucSCuSI, "uOSc pIOuuC
ton of The Spring Maid" with Chris
tie Mac Donald in the title role is the
most talked of success of the last yeal
in New York will bring their second
success to the Gennett.
This is the new musical play, Lit
tie Miss Fix-it" by VIM. j. Furlbut and
Harry B. Smith for which captivating
Eva Tanguay gave up $50, 900 worth OF
vaudeville contracts
! Eva Tanguay is the sensation of not
only the dramatic but the musical com.
edy theatrical season. During the
past week in ST. Louis at the Century
theater Immediately after her name
was heralded, it was simply a question
as to whether the capacity of the thea.
ter could be taxed to any greater ex-
tent. The "Standing Room Only" sign
was displayed nightly and the mana
ger of the theater taxed his ingenuity
to its utmost in providing extra chairs
in boxes and in fact the crowds were
even contented with even standing
room in the aisles.
All summed up in one terse SEN
tence the worlds greatest vaudeville
and highest salaried artist on the Am
erican stage was appearing Eva Tan.
quay will appear in the joyous must
cal gayety at the Gennett theater on
next Saturday evening The book is
described as a jolly comedy, originally
written as play and therefore may
be expected to offer more substantial
entertainment than is generally af-
forded by musical comedy. The pro-
duction Is said to be more elaborate
than that which Werba & Luescher
gave the Spring Maid" and the COM
pany to be seen here is the same as
presented for the record run in both
New York and Chicago where it was
seen throughout the entire summer.
1.-THE LITTLE GIRL THAT HE
FORGOT"
June Holly, little orphan GIRL with
her little brother Bonnie, is raised by
her Uncle Jim and Grandma Martin.
June Is seventeen when the play opens
happy, temperamental, yellow-hair-
ed girl, loving novels, flowers and ev-
erything beautiful and inheriting an
artistic nature from her shiftless ia
Their Dave Stone, a young lumberman,
is in love with her, but her nature re-
volts against settling in the swamps
forever and when young Allen Powell,
the young mill owner, first meets her.
she falls in love with him, as much for
his beauty and what he seems to rep
resent as for anything else. Allen loves
the girl in return 1t is a primitive love
with no thoughts of future or mar
riage. But the boy is suddenly called
away on business and comes late at
night to tell his sweetheart goodbye.
David arrives in time to find June in
his arms and the frightened girl runs
away leaving the two men alone Da-
vid demands the truth, but Allen, seek
ing to protect June's good name,
swears that there is nothing between
them, that he does not even love her.
David demands that he leave her for
ever rather than cause her pain, and
thinking only to save her good name
Allen tells her in David's presence
that he does not love her Too late
June realizes the consequences of her
sin, and frightened and heart-broken
she starts to find Allen-only to miss
him. At last she wanders back to the
mill. a half craZed, miserable woman,
where she is arrested for the murder
Of her child. There is scene of won