The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-06
ACADEMY OF MusIc-Tuesday, Lyceum

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-Tuesday, Lyceum
Lecture.
The Academy will be dark all the week.
with the exception OF a Lyceum lecture
Tuesday night. Manager sLeath decided to
cancel all attractions for the week, as his
entire time will be needed in looking after
the amusement features Of the Carnival.
The Bjou Theater will be open and an at
tractive bill will be presented at this pop
ular house OF vaudeville.
At the Biiou.
Carnival week at the Bijou will be
happy one. Mr. Wells is arranging Tor
vaudeville bill, and there will be two per-
formances every day, commencing Win
the matinee tomorrow afternoon. II is
to be the kind of bill that one can go
into the theatre at most any time during
the show and see something worth see
ing. It is to be made up of well-selected
comedy acts and mirth and music VIII
reign supreme.
There will be no feature acts Every
number on the programme is TO stand on
its own footing There will be comedy
sketches without conflicting, and comedy
singers who will sing the latest selec-
tons. There will be dancers and pretty
women, and there will be comedians who
will tell the newest STORIES.
Richmon0ers know that the BlJou is
tile homo OF refined entertainment, The
natinees at this theatre are always
crowded with ladies and children, and
finer looking audience than that which
assemblies at night is not to be found.
One scale of prices governs the adnlls-
sIons to the theatre, and this scale IS
never advanced. Seats for any entertain
ment can be engaged by mail or tele-
phone, and will be held TO the last poo-
s:ble moment
THEATRICAL TOPICS.
The chorus, otherwise known as the
merry-rnerry of comic opera, seems to be
doomed. Harry 3. Smith has written a
musical comedy entitled The Liberty
Bellies" and with generalization and mai
ice aforethought he has eliminated the
chorus. This will probably prove a death
blow. for Mr.. Smith seems to have a mo-
rlopoly of making the books OF muslcai
comedies and so-called operas. lie mas
not, however, cut out the chorus Slrl. IN
deed he has placed her on higher Pc
destal She is now one Of the principals,
and were it not for her Ihe Liberty
Bclles'' would have fallen fiat. There was
no Prinla. donna and there was no tenor
There were good comedians and there
were good vaudeville artists, but ",rhe
Liberty Bellies of the erstwfile chorus
were the chief attraction. The new chorus
girl Is now the real thing.
William Ingersol has been playing the
part of Gavin Dishart in .'The Little Min
ister' with much success in Pittsburg.
Jerome Sykes, in .'Foxy CUTLER" has
been playing to standing-room audiences
on the road. He Will be at the Academy
Christmas week.
Ever sirco the season OF 1.-TWO Little
Migrants began at Boston. on August
10th, it has enjoyed greater prosperity
than ever. Manager Edward c. White is.
therefore. contemplating n continuous
tour Of two years. presenting this inter
esting drama on the Pacific coast and in
the great Northwest during the summer
months. and in the eastern and southern
territory during The regular fall! and Win
ter season
ThcusHtrcal tmenen's.
Stockholm is to have a $1,250,000 thea
Wilton Laclaye will play the chief role
in Augustus Thomas Colorado"
In Rome Duse and Gustevo Salvini will
appear in Francesca Ga Rimini-"
a play by Victor Hugo is 10 be acted
soon for the first time IN any st: ge.
Louise Cunning has replaced Marie
Cleste in Frank Perley's production Of
'.The chaperons.
A manager in Rome wants IN sctless
to accept a cut in salary since she has
become q bride.
Sibyl Sanderson will he = member OF
the Grau Company this season. I'sr
chief role will be .I1non.
Wilson Barrett's he" Alfred the Greet
play, 1.-THE Christian King" has scored
a hit in Melbourne. Australia.
Captain Basil Hood has contra ctad to
supply four operas for the Savoy Thea
tire and will call the next "Narc!e Ing
land"
'.Where the Laugh COMES In The
laugh cidn't come in, So the company
n
Grau's Verdi cycle .yill embrace "Ctel-
lo.' Aida" "Rigolctto. "Jl II ,vatole,'
La Traviata,' 'Ernani,' and I'm Pal
10 in Masclera."
John T. Leonard, formerly Of Gilmore
& Leonard, and Barney l'a.:an will short
ly produce in Engl ln;. the American prs
duction. Paradise Alley.
Sada Tacco and Ii Fuller have taken
the Athenee, i'll Paris, ana IT is SAID that
Loie will mount the famous; d.::.!es Of me
Bible with superb scenery
Thirteen-year-olt; MaJoTie hurry fas
now played Cissie. IN al English pre-
duction of 1.-The Silver Ling, close tton
1000 nights, without !ei.lg cnt Of the bill
once.
Sarah Bernhard has signed a con-
tract to produce at her theatre in Paris
a drama which Marian Crawford has
written on the subject of Francesca da
Ri1nini.
Puccini, the Italian composer. has ac-
copied a libretto by the poet Glacosa,
which he will set to music. The story
Ccals with an episode i'll the history Of
the United States.
In New York, during his initial week
this season, which begins October 21st.
Henry Irving will produce King Charles
t. Merchant Of Venice" and Louis
NJ
American shows now in London in
clude. Gilette's Sherlock Holmes"
When We Were Twenty0ne," Kitty
Grey, The Wfirl of the Town." and
Are Yo; Mason?"
The rustic theatre at Royvre-en- Kahn
tots. France, where all the villagers took
part in a play written by the Bishop of
Saint-Die. recording the life OF Joan OF
Arc. has been burned down.
Thomas Mast, Jr., son OF the famous
cartoonst, made his debut in vaudeville
last week, doing a trial turn as a light
ming sketch artist. One OF his stunts
was to draw pictures with both hands at
once.
In several of the London music halls
they are running cycle races as parts of