The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-06-01
Benefit Performance Given
to Help Outfit Establish
ment Devoted to Children
of Working Women.
LOCAL TALENT PLAYS
Minstrel and Dancing Acts,
"SchOol Days" and Musical
Numbers on Program
Given Tuesday Night.

The stage is set, the curtain drawn;
only signal to the orchestra and the
Richmond Follies Of 1915" will start
its first performance at the Gennett
theatre at SIS o'clock tonight, open
ing with short minstrel perform
ance and going through seven snappy
acts. The show will be given again
tomorrow night
The show will be different from
other local talent productions in that
the principals have been instructed in
stage presence, how to act instead OF
merely how to recite their lines. The
type of show is also different, the
acts being run off in vaudeville order
instead of minstrel form.
Modern minstrelsy will start the
performance in a lively manner, with
short bits of harmony and good jokes
Some of the best ballet and minstrel
singers in the city are in the cast.
They include George Hodge. Ray
Geier, Uurban Gausepohl, Joe VESSEL,
Harry Pilgrim, Fred Wiehmeyer, Ru-
doph Gausepohl, Raymond Jones,
Bert Kolp, Robert Taylor, Howard
Messick. Clarence Turner, Ted Ryan,
George Bayer and John Deardourf.
Dancing Act.
The closing act, with four or five
of the most graceful dancing couples
here, instructed by Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Kolp, will be the favorite, not only
because it is a novelty to.-the city,
but because of the effect on the
watcher Colored spots, footlight and
floods and other electrical effects
changing on the quick, noiseless move
ments of the dancers, give an atmos-
phere which could not be created IN
any other kind Of act. The act Illus
trates what intricate steps can be
mastered in the art of terpslchore.
Besides Mr. and Mrs kolp, in this
act are John Deardourf, Ellzabetn
Shriber, Mary Candy, Mary lin, JUS
tin Mccarthy, Dorothy Bates. Howard
Messick and Raymond Jones.
For number Of years, local talent
productions of the nature OF The Fol
lies" a public benefit, have been CON
fined to acts with young men. In The
Follies" some new talent is developed.
The act school Days, farclcal take
off from the well-know old act by It's
name, brings in for the first time
number of girls
Members Of Cast.
In "School Days are Misses Meta
Pfafflin. Mona Porter. nellie becher
and Marie O'Brien Ted Ryan, NC
Kenzie Monarch, Red Turner, BOD
Taylor and John Deardourf take the
other parts.
Miss Ruth James, who has just re-
turned from Chicago, where she has
taken vocal training, will sing several
solos. Another act will be vlolln SOLOS
by Miss Ruth Scott
The most talented OF the Spanish
dancers in the spring dancing festival
at the Coliseum recently were cnosell
and instructed by Robert Nohr. Jr, IN
aesthetic dances. which will be given
tonight. The Siciliano," The FAIRY
Dance" and The Espanito.' are the
numbers composing the act.
In this act are Juliet Nusbaum Max
inc Murray. Marjorie Gennett. Ruth
pfa ff1in. Vera Pfafflin. Camilla Haner
Janet Seeker, Helen Johnson, Mildred
Nusbaum, June Robinson, Thelma
Robinson, Elizabeth Shriber. Winl-
fred Comstock, Helen Robinson, Ger
tr,,de Williams, Catherine Reed. Lois
Ward Jane Carpenter and Alice Gen
nett.
"A Study in Music and Song, by
Harry Frankel and Roy Parks, is eX
nected to be one Of the favorltes.
Runge's orchestra will play for all
acts. The proceeds of the show vii
he used in outfitting the day nursery
and a part will be added to the visit
ing nurse fund to continue the work
carried on her sinve January, 1914
under the direction Of the Domestic
Science association. The show is be
ing directed by II. r. Deardourf anc
John Deardourf Of jamestown. n.