The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-14
r NEXT WEEK AT THE ~
THEATRES

Ano oGal American play in decade
and one OF the best acted That may
+. be truthfuIly said of The Famous Mrs.
Fair" by James Forbes, which brings
Henry Miller and Blanche Bates. two
Of the most distinguished stars of the
American stage. to the Victory theatre,
Dayton, Ohio. for Tuesday night and
Wednesday afternoon and night. Jan.
II and Is.
Here is presented an ordinary fam
lily of means, such as may be duplicat-
ed by the thousands in any big Amer
lean city. Father, mother, son and
daughter-all the average folk, and the
domestic difficulty in which they be-
come involved is equally commonplace.
ct the interest aroused is absorbing,
and the effect produced intense. be-
cause Mr. Forbes has created genuine,
living characters, and lent to their
troubles all the poignancy OF humanity
and truth. Thus, with the acting equal
" attuned to reality-as it is at the
hands of these distinguished players
the lesson of THE Famous Mrs. Fair"
is brought home with peculiar init
macy and enforced appeal
No Sermonizing
One says lesson; and yet this potent
social play is one of those rare COM
Positions problem play without ar
gument or sermonizing by the author.
The audience is left severely alone TO-
draw its own conclusions from the
experience of the characters. Mrs.
Fair is typical of the majority of the
lAmerican women who took up war
work in France Her rather stodgy
business husband. like the matter-of-
fact son and the undeveloped daughter,
put up with her absence under the
stimulus of the spirit of war time sac
,rifice.
As Mr.. and Mrs Fair-Jeffrey and
3Nancy-Henry Miller and Blanche
Bates, give two of the best perform
4ances of their careers, and the fact
fthat, in addition to its long engage
Tments of over year at Henry Miller's
theatre, New York City, and four
months at the Blackstone theatre. Chi
rago, il has just completed one of the
most successful coast to coast tours
ever undertaken by dramatic attrac-
ton, attests to the power of the piece
Hand the artistry of the players. The
stars are supported by a company of
exceptional brilliance, including Mar
lory Williams. Marie Louise Walker,
Bert Leigh, Lynn Starting, Florence
Carpenter, Edne Archer Crawford,
Betty Hall, Norma Harvey, Kathryn
Meredith, Elmer Brown and others.
RICHMOND
That money talks we all know. but
that it comes in punches when J.
Rufus Wallingford begins to talk about
1t, is demonstrated in the Cosmopolitan
production for Paramount of "Get-Rich-
Quick Wallingford,' d screen version
of the popular play by George NJ. Co
hen, which closes today at the Rich
mond theatre.
How ]. Rufus Wallingford and his
associate in buncombe, "Blackie" Daw.
make a fortune for themselves and the
residents of the one-hOrse town of
Battlesburg, is a nenthralling story
which is we'll adapted for the screen.
The details of their scheme present
enough complications to make the
picture interesting from first to last.
and it is filled with amusing surprises
for the audience and the two adventur-
ers.
The featured players are Sam Hardy,
Norman Kerry, Doris Kenyon and Di-
ana Allen. The production is massive
and of a high order of excellence.
= George Melford's superb picturiza-
lion of E. NJ Hulls famous novel, THE
Sheik, which is the literary sensation
of the year. will be seen at the Rich
-mond theatre all week, starting Sun
day. Agnes Ayres, Paramount star, and
Rudolph Valentino, who made such a
hit in The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse are the featured players
MURRAY
Raymond Hattons appearance ir
any picture means that everyone else
in it is going to do his or her very
hest actng-tO keep up with Hatton
His reputation for excellent character
work has assumed gigantic proper
tons since his work in the Rogers
picture, "Jes Call Me JIM" and il
"Bunty Pulls the Strings" also Gold