The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-11
THE THEATRICAL SEASON IN RICHMOND
If You'll Read the Papers and Find Out What's Going
on in Town You Won't Miss Some Good Things
at the Theatres.-Why Complain?

to whether or not it Is the first" 1.-The
original or the thirty-frst company.
For in every theatrical weekly, or
monthly publication-but especially
the former in which are included the
Mirror" and the Bill Board" every
company is listed, its status designat-
ed and its itinerary put down.
However if you read the ten cent
magazines-and who does not now and
then-you see nothing but pictures of
theatrical people and accounts of their
successes or failures.
The truth is that if you care about it
you can find out for yourself almost
everything you want to know about
current theatrical affairs.
Theatrical managers are not, and
necessarily cannot be, in the business
to raise the standard of the soul uplift
! and wigwag it from the heights.
! They care little, and frequently
know less, about dramatic art.
What they want is something that
will pay"
So would you if you leased a theatre
for term of years and had all the
expenses of it's running to meet
This is cruel, cold world where
taxes have to be paid, rents collected,
salaries handed out weekly and assess
ors reports made out.
| If the high-brow stunt is what his
particular public indicates by their
support it wants, that is what it will
get.
If its Enthusiastically for the low-brow
entertainment-it will get that
And still managers will, oftener
than not, try out the high brows time
and again in the hope that they may
supply the community with the good
things"
One of the most astonishing things
that ever happened in the theatrical
history of the town was the appear
ance of the Irish Players in Richmond
last winter.
If the average person didn't know
about the Irish Players, then it was
the average persons fault for during
the past few years both the heavy
weight and the lightweight publca-
tons of two continents have Haunted
in huge lettering and tremendous and
profuse illustration the facts and the
theories concerning what may be brief
ly termed the literary and dramatic
revival in Ireland
During the past winter when they
appeared in a few Of the large East
ern cities every paper from the Po-
| dunkv1lle Banner-where they were
exploited on their patent insides"-to
the New York journals, fairly flowed
over and leaked from the roof with
commentary concerning this fine body
of thespians.
Richmond got them by accident.
They had to make one stop between
Pittsburg and Indianapolis since they
could not get into their Chicago thea
ire until a few days after they we're
originally scheduled.
| Richmond was convenient, was a
college town and so they stopped.
Still strangely enough an Earlham
professor said in response to a re.
mark from the writer to the effect that
the college people should turn out as
one man to see and hear them
Are they good?"
He had never heard of them
And yet they were representative OF
one of the most interesting and signi
fcant literary movements of recent
years.
Richmond, then, had The Irish Play.
ers who were heard in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago
Indianapolis and one or two other
large cities.
Richmond, also had the Imperial
Russian Balalaika orchestra, the only
organization of it's sort in the world
which was touring the country by per
mission of the Car and which had
with it four soloists from the imperial
lopera houses.
These musicians are incompatible.
They appeared in all the largest the
aires of the country.
But although they were billed and
advertised here a week before they