The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-06

Better ThRn the First.
Thinks amt never as bad a s they
seem" Glad assured Sir Oliver Holt.
Bart. sick in spirit and allotted only
short space OF life by the best doc
tors in London. And Sir oliver Holt,
Bart. listened 10 the impish little street
waif. looked into her laughing eyes
watched the way she let her golden
hair fly in the wind without a care
and-in the last act-was cured.
Glad was Grayce Scott, who cap
tured another audience last night ut
the Academy of Music the little Stun
girl In Frances Hodgson Burnetts
The Dawn OF n To- Morrow"-the sec
ond Offering OF the Lucille La Verne
Stock Company. a metropolitan at
traction at the Auditorium and changes
of bills at all the other theatres did
not materially hurt the attendance.
Cast for n part which could easily
have been overdone, Miss Scott avoided
, the pitfalls and made of herself
Glad which last nights audience Will
remember. she wore the same drab
dress and rags through all the four
acts, and the acts stretched until ff-
teen minutes of midnight. but the
crowd never tired. AT each curtain as
at her first appearance, in the second
act. there was deafening applause
! Through 2 story which contains more
sorddness than IL does light more
wreichedness than it does joy, she
danced and talked and cried and
lauehed-the single absorbing, thrill
ing bit Of human notsam that makes
the play great play and worth see
ing
There is sir oliver Holt Bart. who is
i'll unto death--so i'll that he fees
from the doctors who have given him
UP. The might before the morning
after finds him in Apple Blossom Court
as forlorn and bedraEglcd a place
,r-.n
Dickens-thanks TO the good work Of
Messrs- Bernstein and Cahen. Sir
Oliver. disguised rs down-and- out.
and contemplating suicide. falls in
with the thugs and petty thieves OF
Apple blossom Court. and the cure
begins. Glad discovers him and inter
+ cs,s him i'm the people Of the siums.
+ with something to think about he for
gcta mis- sickness. and the recovery is
only matter OF an act or two
There Is also Dandy. played by Per-
cival AyImer. who loves Glad and Ia
io'ed by her Dandy has never had
much OF chance ana foreGathers with
bad companions A murder is com
United; Dandy. uith two others is
suspected and Hunted by the police, and
about II all ccnues the big scene.
Sir Oliver has son OF the same
name. who concerts with Madge dc
iormc' woman who iB no better
Than her name. ~ a trick Of fortune
lac rs given the power to establish a
run and complete allbi for Dandy. hut
through natural pcrversenegg, chooycg
not 10 interfere. Glad learns Of i, and
comes 10 hs chambers in the night 10
inplore him TO help clear her lover
ana there occurs the big scene In which
plivcr. Jr. oncrs 10 clear DANDY for
u price II II scene strong with emo
ton, anh MIss Scott triumphs sir
cliVerS son hnha mis- better self before
virtue suffers. and Glad ana Dandy are
united
Ne%t to Miss scott honors went TO
hue'lIe La Verne. whO. ~ Ret the
iI treated VIE OF (" pickpockct, sticks
to Glad aud her lover through thicl,
and thin She SHARED the npplai,sc
WIN The little HIuIn girl. and var com
ptiled 10 appear again and again Ia
answer TO persistent Misunderstanding
Frederick T.. itcnpe. az Sir oliver CAV.
an even chatnctcrizatiou Of III. .lck
man winning his way hack 10 health
4 ,n!"usn INC CHEEKY Optimism or tho
z niue street waif ana through a 1row
ing interest in the life about him
a There remains To he rncnilfu.d ~.
4 character WORK OF william wade
4 scott, who. as the tipsy neer-do.wci,
Lord Tommy. ~ the partner or f,i,v.,'
A Jrs rcvcls with MadRe dc Lorna ana
9 M'hi' MhaKc is PLACED by MIns Edna
3 eoh h"ciow and MINI Ia Mics Jean
a Sheiby-~hoth excellent poftraYai. ~
q Inc Kind Of woman Kiullny SANG ~ g.,
a his vampire" "' '" ~
81 Thc play VIII be repeated ovc,y .y,
"a h'hg I'M" week. with matlnoos wed.
a ncsday and saturday.
a J. I. Jsno
Il '"mc show, Friends. nome SHOW.
"a BILLY the Kid" wna n ynw,',
81 WIN 'aleHt for firearms wbo Ior,,.f'