Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 230, 16 September 1906 — Page 9

The Kichmond Palladium, Sunday, September lb', 1SU6.

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A Mil' 5 Week at - the Riclim

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A FAVORITE COMING.

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own version of Victor Hugo's epochmaking masterpiece "Les Miserables," at the Gennett on Friday evening, September 21st. Mr. Lackaye calls his play "The Law and the Man", which will strike theatre-goers familiar with the work of the great French noveUst as being particularly appropriate. In his work of adaption, the actor-

playwright has followed with remarka

ton, Martha Habelman, Marion & Thompson a.nd others will be found amongst the native contingent.

'A Thoroughbred Trarrp" Gennett. Elmer Walters ever popular com-

edy drama "A Thoroughbred Tramp"

will be seen at the Gennett Monday night. The piece deals with Colorado folks and is cot lacking in actipn

ble fidelity and skill the story as told aEc!. , though the central figure is that in the five novels which are aggregat- of a vagabond, is none the less intered under the one title. In many in- esting as the part has been so .constances and really as far as practical ; structed so as to lend both comedy fo- stage use the dialogue is that ofjand pathos. T. Rush Thompson, the

Hugo himself. The piece is in a prologue and four acts and opens with Fantine and her girl companion and their lovers in a village near Pari3. It is hare that the poor Fantine is deserted by Felix; and that wonderful man of iron deter

mination and who follows his course

tramp, prior to nis uowntaii, was a college graduate and successful Easterner who invades the Colorado atmosphere with a view of hunting down those responsible for his present position in life. In the play is depicted naturally the humorous sides of the vagabond as well as the pathe-

fls t.rulv as the comcass points to mag-! tic the Plav fairly bubbles over with

v-rrtH Tnv-ort rrsnkps his annpar. rich fun and great care has been taken

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Wilton Lackaye Will be Seen at the Gennett Friday Night in "The Law , and the Man."

THEATRICAL CALENDAR. NEW PHILLIPS. Week of September 17 Vaudeville. Thursday-Bryant's Extravaganza Company. THE GENNETT. Mondny-r-"A Thoroughbred Tramp." Wednesday Pete Baker in "A Race for a Widow."... Friday Wilton Lackaye in "The Law and the Man." Saturday Stetson's "Uncle Tom'3 Cabin."

Richmond begins another week of her fall and winter theatrical season ;Wlth the promise of a good line of entertainment. At He Phillips the customary high class of vaudeville will be found with a break Thursday night for ann extravaganza. At the Gennett the week's bill contains four chows. Wilton Lackaye is, of course, .the big attraction and the other shows are all well known and come with god casts.

. A large crowd saw "SL Plunkard put on at the Gennett last night as It had never been seen before. J. C. Lewis was in the title role and he showed that he was sincerely carrying out his announcement that he intended to make more than a mere rube production out of the paly. The cast was strong and the specialties good.

VAUDEVILLE AT THE PHILLIPS. Monday afternoon vaudeville will be resumed at the New Philips and it will no doubt be varmly welcomed, as reperture has occupied the past week. There will be one break in the week, on -Monday nightshrldutaoiooo week, on Thursday night, to allow the Bryant Extravaganza Comedy to

appear. Friday nignt tne amateurs

will be given a chance. Manager

Murray announces a special matinee for each Saturday and. souvenirs at the Wednesday matinees. The program for this week is believed to be especially pleasing. In full it Is as follows: Miss Ruby Cohn, Piano Overture. John Murtha, Instrumental, Singing and Story-Telling Comedian. The Two Feather Weight Kids, John Waller and Alice Magill in a refined Comedy Kid Act entitled, "A Pistol Card." Miss Ruby Cohn;' Illustrated Songs. Harbach and Harris, Novelty 'Singing Sketch. ) Miss Howell, Singing and Talking Comedienne. Ester Barr and Co.,. Presenting the Comedy Drama, "The Third Generation." The Philoscope ! "Wet Paint" "Motor Car for Sale." "Rival Brothers."

role Mr. Lackaye is portraying this season. After being driven from the inns

cf the place, Jean approaches the home of the bishop of Diton, and is taken in .given food and shelter. The robbery occurs, the ex-convict is captured by Javert and brought back to the house of Bishop Wedcome. Then comes that famous scene where the gentle man of God presents the miserable wretch with the silver candlesticks, saying, "I have brought your soul and given it to God." In selecting the large and well balancen supporting company, Win. A. Brady has been fortunate in securing the service of Melbourne MacDowell, who used to star with his wife, the late Fanny Davenport In the Sardou dramas. Mr. MacDowell plays the role of Javert, that blood-hound of the police. It is a far cry from society plays like "La Belle Russe" to the part of Madame Thenardier and yet this is the role Jeffreys Lewis will be seen in this season. Another startling actor is George W. Denham, a comedian of unquestionable power, will play Thenardier, the rat. Wil-

j liam Lamp who was last seen in

"Mrs. Temple's Telegram '. as Marius.

not to overdraw the dramatic situations. Considerable special scenery is carried by the company and it is said the company considerably above the average.

Pete Baker Gennett. There is a man svia "A Race For a Widow" Company, which comes to the Gennett next Wednesday night; who traveled 50,000 miles, equivalent to a journey twice around the world, to get the material for one little song with which he makes one good hit at each appearance. The man is Pete Baker, the famous comedian of Chris and Lena Fame, and the song is one of ten nations- and ten verses, each voice being devoted to exploiting the oddities of a national type. "When the actor gets tired of see-

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In "A Race for a Widow" at the Gennett Next Wednesday Evening.

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about the third season, he begins to study types", said Mr. Baker. "Then he begins to gether material. My little song was developed through years of travel, during which I almost unconsciously assimilated some of the material which in its present form appears to please- my audience so much.

A GREAT COMEDY PAIR.

BRYANT'S

EXTRAVAGANZA.

WILTON LACKAYE Gennett. Wilton Lackaye will be seen in his

When the stars of the legitimate drama sought the vaudeville stage, many of the leading vaudeville lights

entered the ranks of burlesque and naturally this influx of talent had a healthy effect upon that sort of entertainment. The penimal equipment, stage and scienic effects, have been elaborated and in its refined form it is now known as extravaganza: It is a lively construction of merry and sunny nonsense deftly and acutely arranged, keeping the pace from start to finish. And from the box office standard Harry Bryant's Extravaganza, which will be seen Thursday, September 20th, at, the New Phillips, is the real article." His present production is built on the fun theory and furnishes enough laughter to transform any case of blues into a joyous hysterical carmine. A number of high class artists furnish the interlude, two of the acts being direct importations by Mr. Bryant from the other side Los Rossignols, a quintette of high class lady vocalists from Berlin, and the Sisters Albert, a due of singing comediennes from the London Theatres. This will be the ini

tial appearance of both acts in this country. Hatch Bros., George Wilson,

Darmody, Edna Berri, Banks & New-

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COAL QUESTION WILL J PROBED Railroad Commissioners Announce Important Meeting This Week.

SOURCE OF THE TROUBLE

CONGESTION OF COAL AT TERRE HAUTE HAS DISTURBED MANUFACTURERS FOR SEVERAL YEARS EXTENT OF INQUIRY. .

Publishers' Frsj Indianapolis, Tnd., September 15. The railroad commissioners have set next Friday., September 21, as the date, for a three-cornered conference to be held at Terre Haute, Ind , between the members of the coivmission, the traffic men of the Southern Indiana, Vandalia, E. & T. H., C. H. & D., and the Big Four railroad companies and the leading coal operators of the Southern Indiana field. The purpose of this conference, as stated by Union B. Hunt, chairman of the commission, is to take up the rroblem of the congestion of Indiana coal at Terre Haute and to see if

some method of relieving the situation can not be devised. The conference will be informal, and the notices requesting the presence of the different men were to have been sent out from the offices of the commission to-day. It seems that there are now over 500 cars of Indiana coal tied up in the yards at Terre Haute, and the shipping season has just well begun. The Railroad Commission took up

the matter early in order to have it adjusted before the cold weather sets in. The complaints that have come to the commission have been conflicting. Coal operators, manufacturers and dealers, the latter two classes, in central and eastern Indiana and the gas ,belt towns, have made complaint to the effect that the coal is tied up at ;Terre Haute. i So far ' as -can- be -ascertained - the

Big Four seems to be getting the brunt of the blame for the trouble. The excuse that its officials offer is that it does not have equipment enough ot carry the traffic turned over

over to it at Terre Haute. It is alleged that in accepting cars for northern and eastern points it discriminates against the Southern Indiana, too, and in favor of the people feeding roads. The Vandalia does not seem to be much' involved in the trouble, presumably because it is able to handle all the business that the ' organizating roads' turn over to it. This' is naturally a much less amount than the Big Four, for the Vandalia charge 10 cents more on the ton than the Big Four, 60 and 50-cent rates respective

ly, prevailing.

Source of Trouble. The Big Four-Southern difficulty

some time ago, with reference to the place of switching cars, is thought by

some to be the source of the present trouble. By others it is suggested that the big roads are trying to hammer down the value of the Walsh road, believing that this is a good time for such action. At any rate, the coal is tied up

there, and the Railroad Commission is working out a line of investigation that it hopes will result in a sohition of the problem. Informally, also, the members of the commission have learned of a pe

culiar statement with reference to the Pennsylvania railroad and the Indianapolis Columbus & Southern Traction Company. About four miles south of the city the railroad officials contend that the coming is very - dangerous. They insist that the traction company use an overhead, crossing and say that the Pennsylvania will pay for the construction of the crossing if the company will put it up. But the Indianapolis Columbus & Southern refuses to accept this proposition, and, contending that it is a traction company, says that the Railroad Commission has no jurisdiction over .it and can not force the erection of the overhead crossing. Situation Reversed. While the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern is an electric line, it is chartered under the old railroad law, in this case, therefore, the Pennsylvania is insisting that the line is a railroad within the law, and hence amenable to the Railroad Commission. - The peculiar circumstance, however. Is that at the present time, there is -a case pending " in the ; Supreme

Court of the State between the same two companies, in which the situation is exactly reversed. The Pennsylvania is contending that the Columbus line is a traction company, and

the Columbus line contending that it

is a railroad. The case involving the crossing south of the city will probably come before the commission, which will first have to decide whether or not it can take jurisdiction. That will involve the question as to whether the Columbus line is a railroad or a traction line within the law.

BRYAN IS lii VIRGINIA

STILL BUSY SPEAKING

If the People of the South Object to His V iews, They Do Not Show It In Their Warm Welcome Is the Guest of Governor Tyler.

YOUNG CHINESE

ENTERS

PURDUE

Pulyung Sah, Son of Admiral of Chinese, Navy to be Engineer.

IS TALENTED YOUNG MAN

MOST INTERESTING OF A GROUP OF FOREIGN STUDENTS WHO ARE IN INDIANA COLLEGES THIS YEAR.

Publishers PressJ

Braa, &rivt here frilra ClSelaaati, was.lvli,a nsy weleesse by th ts'stfts?;ilia lisd eegsaisioa at the stat3U5 glifet him., ll Is the house ghiSiF&fhsfeme? Tyisf, II? delivered, sjitsaOVsia'' In t afCfertissa A deEea-eSEyiHe'atfs-ins carried thSusands S iigf id Radford, vrfcUe large . w numrs arrlrcd from tho cauntryY MrY Bryaii; received a delegation frdia th "Chamber . of Com

merce and Democratic executive com,

mittee of Roanoke, Vrlia Invited hi

10 visu mat city, tie accepted jr.e

Invitation and arrived at Reano'Jp in

the eveningi when hs delivered an

other address.

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'Phone or write a card to the Palladium of the little piece of news your neighbor told you and get your name in the news "tip" . &nts for this week.

Publishers Pres' Lafayette, Tnd., September 16.

fulyung Sah, son of Admiral Sah, one of the principal figure in the Chinese imperial navy, has entered Purdue as a freshman in the department of civil engineering. He is not the most interesting personality in the present freshman class, which numbers among its numbers several foreign students and numbers of prominent families in this country. Young Sah, however, is the most ineresting celebrity in the group. He comes from one of the leading families of the Chinese nob il-

ty and shows in his dress and man

ner that he is of the best oriental stock. With Lim to America and Purdue came Lee Ching Yen, another fine specimen of Chinese young manhood, perfectly groomed and a gentleman in every way. The two young Chinamen came to America from their home in Shanghai where both attended St. John's college, an English institution of learning. They "graduated last February from St. John's, both attending for four yWrs and taking a complete course of study in Englisa and technical branches. They have been comrades, since early boyhood. , Yen Son cf Widow. Young Sah's father, Admiral Sah, is one of the Chinese government's most famous naval authorities. He vas in command of the Chinese Seet at Chee Foo at the time of the Japanese fleet entered the harbor and took

possession of Russian war vessels sheltered there. Admiral Sah proved equal to the occasion and insisted on the enforcement of international law. His son has been with him on several cruises and naturally thinks Admiral Sah is the greatest navigator in the world. Young Yen, who is taller and more communicative than his companion, is the son of the widow of a former president of the mission cyllege in Shanghai. The father died when young Yen was a baby. He has one sister living in Shanghai. Both the Yen and Sah families are leaders in the social affairs of Shanghai. The two lads left the port of Shanghai June 16 and went first to Japan. They spent little time there, however, and proceeded on to Seattle, where

they landed July 13. They then went to Indianapolis, where they studied under Prof. George W. Hufford, formerely principal of Shortridge high school. Was With Commissioner. The young Chinamen had no trouble in securing admission to the freshman class. Beta have had preliminary instruction in engineering and are prepared to take up the work at Purdue and keep up with the class. Both

can speak English fluently and are

friendly. It is Yen's first visit to America, but young Sah had been here before. He was a member of the party accompaning Wong Kai Kah, the imperial Chinese commissioner to the Louisiana Purchase exposition, who made his home in Indianapolis during his stay in America. Sah returned to China last winter and made preparations to come back. They had heard much of Purdue in China and picked this school out, although Yen has a brother attending Yale. Prof. Clarence B. Robertson, the former Purdue professor and foot ball player, is spreading Purdue doctrine liberally in China. The two Chinese students are the first from the imperial empire to attend Purdue. China sends few students to America universities and on this occasion the young Chinamen are attracting much attention.

Warsaw, Sept.. IS. Everything i qaiet here in s; ite of the fact that t: authorities are actively engaged Lr

searching the Jewish quarters H'l

making hundreds cf arrestsnt L generally feared that a JewjR attack here is unavoidable and tblews predict an attack for the year.

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Sing and Talking Comedians.

C ESTHER BARR & CO.,

Presenting the Comedy Drama, The Third Generation. . - H THE PHILOSCOPE "Wet Paint." "Motor Car For Sale." "Rival Brothers."

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