Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-19
EIDDLE-DEE-DEE.
UD- tc-Dntc Performances Please at
the Rtiou Theatre.

This is the week of the 'Rosey Posey
girls" at the Biiou, and Dorothey Drew
| and her merry and pretty chorus are max
| ing the audience holer for more at every
performance.
| The "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" seen here last
| year is now an ancient and retired pot
| pourr Of melody and fun. This years
| company has vehicle right UP to the
minute, and the travesty on THE Royal
Family is making the original produc-
ton of that beautiful piece look like a
row of old-feshjoned two-cent pieces.
The opening Of the week Monday night
brought out a crowded house with stand
ing room only" plastered in the lobby.
There are other travesties. and all %
them interviewer with new and catchy
music and colored with a dancing and
| handsomely costumed chorus that easily
ranks in the forefront of such organiZa-
tons seen here.
John G. Sparks, Dorothy Drew, and
Henrietta, as the principals in the piece,
are engaged for a season of most pro-
pitious and profitable work, for they are
well supported and in Washington re-
ceived welcome that was little short OF
Historically glad. In Richmond the per-
| Torrance Of ''Fiddle-Dee-Dee'' has already
made its second hit, and at the end OF
the week it will show a record break
ing week for the Bijou.
The local Importance of the first pro-
duction of Audrey" made satisfactory
review Of the Bijou attraction an impossi-
bility.
Miss Harriet Ford, dramatist of Kyrle
Of France. and Audrey has scored
strongly in her dramatic work during the
past three or four years, The producing
slight dependence upon her for some of
their more pronounced successes.
Miss Ford was an actress before she
a few of the well-informed will readily
recall her capabe work as leading lady
with Sol Smith Russell Robert Mantell.
and Clara Morris.
matist was the play in which Mrs. Sarah
coiGel LeNoyne was STARRED red by L Lie
hn Ge in two the yS7fa This work MSs
Ford did in llabora ton with Mrs. H. G.
DeMille, wife of David Belasco's late
ng Of II this sy NJ sgr g. Ry
Of the firm of Liebler & Co. fancied that
he discovered in Miss Ford peculiar
talent which he had long and unsuc-
cessfully- sought, and a talent which he
conceived to be Indispensable to success
in playwriting-the talent for hard work.
Mr.. Tyler. therefore. gave her the order
of France
Miss Ford's most successful playa
Gentleman of France"-(dramatized from
Stanley Weyman's famous story, will
be seen here tonight and tomorrow
matinee and night.
William A. Brady. under whose direc-
ton Grace George is to appear on Fri
day and Saturday at the Academy in
Peggy Is authority for the statement
that the production will be the most
elaborate ever seen in Richmond. The
scenery. which is from the studio Of
Moses g. Hamilton: is described as being
full OF the atmosphere and spirit of the
time when King George II. 1reigned and
the London coffee-houses were frequent
ed by such wits at Addison, Steele, John
son, Goldsmith. and. Colley Cibber. Much
stress also Is laid on the beauty Of the
costumes. several Of which have como
down from that period.
DEATHS.
DILLON-Died, at Keysville. Va. Mo-
vcrnher is. 1909, at $40 A. NJ, AEL1NE
DILLON
Funeral at Hollywood this C1Vednesdayl
Morning. Friends are requested to be
at the Southern railway depot at s: 40 "A.
. .