The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-02-15
Get Rich Quick wailinxford.

Continuous vaudeville, afternoon
ana night
Get Rich Qnick Wailinxford.
Smiling suaveiy with a ready an.
swer for every question and an ex'
PLANTATION for everything, J. Rufui
wailingford. con" man and expert
swindler. put one over on good
house at the Academy last night b,
reforming, making millicnaires of the
victims he intended trimming anc
marrying the girl who started out tc
snow HIM up In his true coiors. IN
cidentaiiy horace tsiackieD Ddw
minus the black mustacne. was fore.
ed by circumstances to accept tins
same conditions and with J. hutus
decided that "a man with brains wal
. tool to be crooked"
Joseph Manning portrayed the
smooth, oily confidence man In capt.
tai style.
Those who have read the Walling-
ford stories OF George Ranaoiph
Chester will be disappointed II
Btackie Daw on his first appearance
as he IL not equipped with the brist-
ling black mustache. but the young
boyish Blackie. Edward Delaney, az
seen on tho stage, is scream and
as funny a. J. Rufus himself.
Maud Truax made up well az Bes-
sic Meers, the head waitress in the
Rattlesboroush, Iowa, hotel. and car
ried her part with q swing SO natural
that she secured a goodls share OF the
applause.
The entire company. as whole.
appears to be even better than the
original company that presented
WalIingford at the George Conan
theatre In New York.
The sale OF seats for the Sothern-
Mariowe engagement opens today in
stead OF yesterday as previously stated.
Suthern ami NARROW. plays Hamlet"
at the Academy. Monday night
Mary Garden sang Carmen in
New York Tuesday night and the
critics aver that she not only could
not sing the music but she made the
Gypsy cigarette girl o vulgar Nfago.
There was nothing In her impeT1ona.
ton that suggested Delilah. the hrst
Of the female BARRIERS: Cleopatra. the
serpent of the Nile: Pompadour. the
original lady of the rat or all the
other female pied pipers. New York
suggests that Mistress Mary quite
contrary w-does-your-g garden grow.
keep to the silver bells and cookie
shells OF That's. Meiisande and Salome.
William Courtenay is tn be featured
In Ready Money" Mr.. Ceurtenay
needs a play owning to the failure OF
Making Good III. II. Frasce has
hopes OF Mr.. Courtenay making good
in Ready Money" and getting It.
Al H. Woods is putting out the Rob
err. chambrs book-piay. The Common
Law" The rremier will be In Allan
tic City March 4.
Howe's Pictures.
To see with their own eyes THE
places OF history, world wonders and
worldwide activities and to have them
made more vivid to their minds II the
lAudable and praisworthy motive
which prompts 100000 people to
travel with Lyman III. Howe each sea
son via his Travel Festival. In recox.
milton of this true sppreciative inter
at the Academy. tomorrow on q pic.
torial tour to the homes Of genius
shrines OF art and sites OF eroch-mak-
ing history in Rome. Piss. F1rence and
othAr Italian centerS.
In Florence. that treasure house oi
Italy. the Palaxzo vecchio 10 visited
palace which has been standing In
massive grandeur over 90 years. A
statue OF Dante 10 depicted which Il
so lfelike that II seems ~ II the scuip.
tor had endowed It with life itself.
After a visit to the Leaning Towe,
6 Pisa, the tourists ere taken 4 h
fxsrs