The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-30
ADJUSTMENTS.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC-May Irwin
BJIOu TIlEATRE-TEe Ten Ichi
Troupe and Vaudeville all the week.
The regular dramatic season at the
Academy is fast drawing to a close. The
engagement Of Grace George has been
cancelled by her manager William A.
Brady, so there will be but two more at
fractions at the Academy. May Irwin,
April list, and Joseph jefferson, April 18th.
There is but one May Irwin and a better
entertainer never stepped upon the stage.
She has recently written an article in
which she says that it is very hard for
her to be funny. This statement must,
of course, be accented, but It seems to
The onlookcr that it would be very diff
cult for her not to be funny. AT any rate,
She can make an audience laugh more
than any woman i ever saw. Several
pleasing amateur entertainments are also
on the bills. The thcatre-goers of Rich
,nond will learn with regret that the Bijou
Musical Comedy Company will soon leave
for an extended tour. Next week OtiS
Harlan and his popular associates VIII
appear in What Happened to Jones.
and then the company goes direct to At
lanta for a season OF six weeks. Alter
that other cities will be visited, and 1t
will be several months before the COM
pany returns 10 Richmond.
Much interest is being manifested in the
coming engagements of the Glffen COM
pany at tho Academy and of the Percy
ldaswell Company at the Bijou The Gil
fen Company is really a Richmond lnsti-
tuition, and it will only have to maintain
popularity Won by TWO seasons OF
araiseworthy accomplishment The Has
well Company will only be here Tor Two
weeks, but it will produce four plays OF
ensrossing interest, and this brief enSa &C.
mcnt promises a rare treat TO 1healre-
Eoers.
In .The Widow JONES' the play which
NAV Irwin has selected for her forth
coming appearance, She has vehicle
which is said to give her every chance
for the display of her talents IN Iuii-
making and also affords excellent op-
portunities for the Introduction or her
famous songs. The story hinges on the
adventures of Beatrice, PLAYED by MISS
Irwin, who is suInmering at village
IN Maine and is being annoyed by seNe-
raj admirers who have followed her
there She learns from the Irish land
lord OF the board;ng-horse that the sum
mer before he mad an impecunious 1noi-
vidual named Jones stopping with him,
and that one Gay his clothes were found
oh the banks OF the river and Jones had
disappeared. OF course he had been
supposed to have been drowned. Bea-
frice decides 10 palm herself off as his
widow and pretcnds to great grief. thus
thinking to escape from her persccu-=
tors. She IS very much surprised when
she is presented With board bill Tor
i $50 which Jones had carelessly left un-
paid. and Is still further nonplussed
when she discovers that he had also
left a child. a young girl of sixteen or
Whereabouts, who is untidy and has been
allowed 10 grow UP wild. However, she
makes herself responsible for both the
debt and the offspring OF Jones, and
then goes to Paris. She is followed there
by her fond admirers. and worst OF all.
zones turns up and claims her as his
wife. He was not dead .sftcr AL. but
had only adopted the subterfuEe ID order
10 escape his creditors. Jones tries @
t,lackmail the widow. but she is@too
clever for him and outwits him at every
point. Any number of amusing COM
elications occur. which finally cuiHls
aets In tho widow being finally non By