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Show Amusements The Thatcher Stock Company opens here Monday night In a double bill "Fennel" and "David Gar rick." The latter is much talked of as being exceedingly ex-ceedingly good and, no doubt, big houses will greet this popular com-pay. com-pay. "Fennel" is a beautiful little one act play filled with purest sentiment and Is used as a curtain raiser. Miss Due takes tho leading part In this, and does not appear In "David Gar-rick." Gar-rick." "DAVID OAHKICK" This comedy Is founded upon an apocryphal anecdoto of tho great English actor. Ida Ingot, the daughter daught-er of a wealthy East Indian director, having fallen in love with David Gar-rick, Gar-rick, while witnessing his performance, perform-ance, her father entices the player to his house and there proposes to pay him a large sum of money to leave the stage if not tho country. Ingot desires de-sires his daughter to marry Chivy, a horse-racing, wine-drlnklng squire, whom she heartily despises. Garrlck suggests to the merchant to extend to him an Invitation to dinner, promising promis-ing that he would so behave as to Induce In-duce Ida to accept for husband tho man of Ingot's selection. After dinner din-ner and during the evening, the actor simulates incbrlcy and conducts himself him-self In such a manner as to Insult the company and to disgust the young lady. After his retirement, Chivy besotted with wine, reveals to Ingot, in the presence of ills daughter, that, having casually met with Garrlck later In the evening, at a Covcnt Garden club, the actor had confessed the trick he had played, and had accepted ac-cepted a challenge to fight a duel with a buck, who had spoken disrespectfully disrespect-fully of the merchant and of Ada. Convinced of Garrick's love for her, Miss Ingot hurries to his lodgings, at an early hour, to avert the duel, where she Is surprised by tho unexpected unex-pected arrival of her father and cousin. Garrlck appears, and illustrates illus-trates the nobility of his true character charac-ter to such a degree that the merchant discards Chivy as a son-in-law, and entreats the actor to accept the hand of his daughter, in this wise verlylng the correctness of his promise that Ada should marry the man of her father's choice. Arrangements aro now being made for Miss Ida Adair to appear with tlie Thatcher Stock Co., and it all depends on Miss Adair's stay here. She is in receipt of a telegram telling her to be ready to start cast at a moment's notice, and providing the call is delayed de-layed long enough she will most certainly cer-tainly appear. A special piece Isbe-lig Isbe-lig worked up for the occasion as It Is :slgncd to glvo tills talented actress fcry opportunity to display her ipaclty. |