The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-22
ADJUSTMENTS.
!tcndcmy-"Bought md Paid For"
BfJou-"Thc Common Lnw," matinee
md night.
COloninl-VnudcvfIlc.
Emptrc-"PinufOrc" I'm Miniaf,Irc
Orpheum-Pfctures.
Little Thcatrc-Pfctures.
Worth Seeing More Than Once.

Worth Seeing More Than Once.
'Tis. true, tits pity, and pity it's tits
true that in road towns the sins OF one
ptSaucer are Are VISITED upon the heads of
raw burlesaue headed by Valcskn
Suratt into the Academy of Music last
week at an Increased scale. of prices:
real company In real play into the
same theatre at regular prices. and
But If mouth to mouth advertising"
accomplshes anything. the remaining
three performances OF Bought and
more nearly commensurate with the
worth of the Brady Offering. for rarely
has Richmond audience warmed up
than did the small Assem- BTagc that
greeted last night the first perform
ance here of George Broadhurst's ia
And with good reason. because it wit
messed remarkably good perform
ance t or an an, extremely good play. An
II offers rare blend of comedy
dramatic strength and vivid. normal
Robert Stafford. n wealthy man of
affairs, marries Il telephone operator,
and raises her. and with her n sister
poverty; the wife to utmost i1x .u;
and the others to completes comfort,
since Stafford has taken the sisters
he was earning S14 the week as third
assistant shipping clerk. and given him
employment at salary quite out of
proportion to his worth.
For three years all goes WE'LL Stat
ford and his wife growing TO love each
other more and more deeply. until the
times, into IA beast Finally. the the wife
can no longer, in self-respect. submit
to the love OF his drunken moments
gives it-and there occurs n tense,
empowering scene. in which he breaks
the locked door, Of her room.
passing, is big; il Is strong: not for
children: not vicious: not debasing, but
very. very plain, and clearly to be UNI
The wife goes back to her sister and
her shipping clerk husband. again 4
shipping clerk because he championed.
and was discharged for his pains After
months of misery for all concerned the
shippins clerk carries out one OF his
usually absurd ideas. and brings the
husband and wife together. and :he
play, closes. with reconciliation re.
freshingly free from mawkishness and
sentimentality.
George Broadhurst. a skilled crafts
man of long experience. has written
into play always marked by the
and intensely interesting, not one or
two. but four. fine acting parts, anil
several travelling companies. one that
contains certainly three admirable ac-
tors to play them: concerning the
fourth there is question.
Chester De Nonde, Il big man with q
big voice. plays the husband most sat
isfactorily. reading we'll and intelligi-
bly, and creating admirably the i'm
preston of forcefulness necessary to
the proper presentation of the charac-
ter drawn by Broadhurst. He merits
special commendation for sustaining,
throughout the second act. without eX-
aggeration. fault or let-down, the illu-
sion of a drunken man.
Evelyn Weddings wife is an artistic
conception and schoolcd execution of
an exceedingly difficult part. With in
Vulnerable opportunities and tempta
tons TO everyday. she succeeds in Civ
ing performance of Il trying emo
tional role that is marked by enviable
reserve.
Hobart Cavannaugh makes of James
Gilley Jimmy" all that even the
thor OF the piece could desire. with
in slangy lines that ring laughngly of
the lamentcd billy Baxter" and him
self an ideal type. he gets every pos
sibic bit of hmmor out of one OF the
most amusing characters of the decade.
The audience was also immensely
amused by Dorothy Davies, as Jimmy's
wife, though to my mind she plays it
very much too broadly, too much down.
: Even granting that. however. the
entire season. and we'll worth seeing
more than once.
W. Douglas Gordon.
At The Biiou.
The Common Law presented at
the Rijou this week by :: company that
has boon playing the South al regular
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