The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-06

Observation-Disclosures
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Miss Percy Haswell and the Fawcett
Company are playing to "standtng room
only" audiences at every performance.
The bill was changed yesterday afternoon
to East 4 Lynne and in consequence
Of the great demand for seats this play
viii be given at special matinee this
afternoon. E$,s M it III
The version that Miss Haswell presents
was prepared b for the stage by Mr.
Jacques Futrelle, formerly OF this city
The new version is superior to the old
one, being round compact and pointed.
The acting Of Miss HasWell In the char
acter Of the repentant wife and heart
broken mother presented the spectacle
OF d human being absorbed and enthralled
with agony. The individuality Of the
! actress seemed swallowed UP In the tden-3
tity which her imaginatlon-actln
through the heart-made real. The COM
pnny was seen to better advantage on
the whole than in , dora,' with which
4 the enga cement OF this popular organiza.S
ton opened the week.
Hoyt's "a Texas Steer said to be 4 a.
continuation of wit and humor placed
before the people by a coterie Of COM
petent fln-mnl1ers, who understand their,
! business, and at no time overdo what
has been assigned them, comes to the
i Academy on Saturday afternoon n and
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i Getty and politics, q story told In pro-
logue and three acts. The three acts
are laid in the Arlington Hotel in Wash
! tlngton, where the statesman from Texas,
his wife and daughter are introduced into
the awful mystery OF politics and society
OF this gay city. The story deals with
4 characters that are seen in the Capital
City every day, the Jud ge," "ttle Ma
jor" ''the Colonel,''5 and with the white
i and colored politicians from Texas, helps
to mako the fun fast and furious.
Lovers Of musical comedy have treat
!, in store for them in the coming Of "Dusy
4 Izzy,"@ the now vehicle which will In
troduce George Sidney as a star in this
q class Of theatricals at the Bijou Theatre
week beginning Monday, March 9Th.
4 BUSY Izzy,'55tis one Of those entertain
3 ments which are not written, but grow.
7 when a lot 81 clever people, under a good
FL stage director. are gathered together.
I In Busy Izzy' there are moro than
4 twenty musical and dancing speclalties,
Z besides all the laughter creating antics
Z Of the comedians, SO that It can be seen
that a master hand in this kind Of work
4 lis required. g 53 Ell
3 One Of New Yorks old booksellers, in
averaging up his sales week before last,
I says that he found Julius Caesar
among his "six best selling books. XXX This
is a state of affairs. It had not been sup
Il posed that tho bard was altogether a
4 neglected factor even In commercial book
4 land, but it is something Of a go to find
a Shakespea rian play classed In brackets
I with the novels and stories OF Tarklng-
ton, Davis, Hope. Mark Twain and the
4 lady ECorelli. Such a fact must be gratl-
4 flying to Mansfield. It is literal evidence
& OF the potency for education and the
4 spreading of literary delights in q great
!. production Of Shakespeare when the actor
can make his production a vogue. f& The
4 aforesaid bookseller says that all his
odd numbers Of Julius Caesar" in all
sorts of paper and cloth covers, nave
been bought out, and he has orders
ahead which the publishers seem unable
to fll Such Is the prophetic dscernment
Of the book makers who cannot foresee a
popular demand for Shakespeare. Two
i new editions are on the press. One is
to be called ..The Richard Mansfield
Acting Version Of Julius Caesar"
Lulu CHASER, the only light opera prima
will be seen for the first time In this city
at the Academy next Wednesday. Miss
CHASER will present her great success Of
the last two seasons, dolly Warden"
tho work Of Stanisaus STANCE and Ju-
lian Edwards. It Is said that dolly
i Warden" is the most satisfactory exam
4 pie Of light opera On the stage to-day,
and that there Is not a discordant note
i in the perfect harmony Of music and
color. It tells a story It Is asserted.
that has a plot-an exception to the usual
rule that applies to comic opera-and 1t
presents q comedienne who has, we are
4 told, many Of the charms Of the great
Lolita, the idol Of q generation ago, with
s the added charm OF q voice Of rare sweet
ness
'tFlorodora," which has proved the SEN
sational success Of the past two years in
this country and Is now we'll along In the
4 third year Of continuous presentation, Will
be seen here next Thursday and Friday.
4 interpreted by Fisher and Ryley's big
company of 100 people, There is nothing
in musical comedy to compare with this
tuneful creation Of Owen Hall and Les
lie Stuart, Tho two acts are literally
crowded with music Of the catchiest kind
Imaginable. and there is not n single
number in the we'll filled score that has
4 not achieved widespread success. The
features arc 'Tact," meath the Shade
4 of the Palms" Queen OF the Philip
pines" Were Both on the Stage" "The
| NIlIlionaire" and the renowned double
sextette, 'Srell me- Pretty Maiden" The
latter became the craze when 1t was first
4 heard In America. and its popularity thus
far has not diminished In the least