The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-05
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With this week the summer season VIII
be inaugurated. The Academy, indeeu.
will close it's doors. and will not be ope i',
again until the regular season Wi'''o
the Bijou will open tomorrow night WIN
the Harrison-Ada Company. For IN. aie
first three days of the week al ap' ,ha
Racket VIII be the bill, and ipa ,,i ian
Nights Tho usual performances VIII az
be given every night with matinee OH
Tuesday, Thursday and SATURDAY. and
Tho house will be cooled with . ice n ,uiii
electric fans. while the exhaust iah isc VII
fans watt the cool breeze through the
theatre across large blocks OF ice.
Residents of this city will have an a,
oportunity of witnessing what can pc
seen in no city in America o-un az.
save in New York absolutely ely nP}a er-
Of OFT the day. This is what Mi NJ, ADAMS; Mdams.
manager or the Harrison Adams Ineatre
Company, has promised. any inorn is ne,
from his past past, psrl9rh pa Mii { ! What
no has set for himself to 90 ,,,o,
There IS little need of eNpaua!tiiiiiig upU,l
Ralph Cummings, who hea4s 6 ',,is from
pany, as an &C; actor. lie Is 10 18th" the other
IIo Is finished, artistic and above eVellS
thing versatile. No living aStor to,ua aa
has been successful in SO MIN MIN. i
r re- Iit 30 en1bariasted Lord chn ,,rnr
rharmingly, with an infnity OF ch ,hrin
and at the next performance MI ins.a ~ d,a.
his audience with TIE ,i,i. pi IN The Pa
,i.ian romance. lie is equally " h no1n,,
RI fare .e" and mclodrama. His Rudoihn
in the @PriS9ner Of hi ze paTe IL y seTal-
and as d IeIl' nere s be- ,ts Wider range rRe
na s,e G9'' F,n 1 gentleman and the
rough, uncoutli American. 1S5W et Icons
he IS one Of the very finest ! iS "Feace-
s s,,, TaIlnv" he has made a greater sas
cess than Sol Smith Russell lof
It was written. ,i,! Irarrlson and
Tho company Whgn IL. il the best
ti,n,, 'b.vn ever had under thelr con 80 %
Nv. Adams has engaged several Ne, nv, Tho
bic Who will materially stfehs'"s
en fse History Tory! Of the HaTsonAtdanm s.
stocr,t,Company Is OF great interest. ice, ee
cause It Is the father Of inc CO ,r,a uinr
numbers OF stock companies no" Pc 20 = t,,e
Throughout tho country. The nhis o. olde
old stock companies were ended; lied led
Tine actors. old-tim managers ocWai.su
the good old day of the sloch s - cir
,6rhe days when there were a ar zee
~ NJ . stock "' Companies. a few Of the New
York theatres had companies OF tneiI ~
which in courtesy were cailsu s,,ccass
But they were not. II q pay "as ~ ',,ed
fulj; was played until IT could oe go
no longer. This was not the s'oeH
TEN. rou,a
g tnn,- cn,nnanios play They were Old
{. si,ioned the people were tired OF them.
Aud INC publc reiterated what the mar
ayers said. and pencvcd 1t TO ne IT,
In the face, then, OF managerial oPTT,.
sltion OF public approval, slve., -, NJ
heller in himself, in his knowledge OF INC
public. Mr. Cummings. IN lSg ", st ie,tt,,,
= stock company in Omaha The BiJon
Thea fro was secured From the first per-
formance success awaited on the conf
many. FOR ten weeks the theatre was
crowded nj every performance. rms IN
a town technically known as n three
night stand. Such a thing had never pc
was brought TO an abrupt close by the
rS,truction OF 1.-THE Bljou Theatre by
',e Theatre Francas In Montreal, was
the next home of the company III MOT
treal week was considered. until lhs
Advent OF the Cummings Company, =
long run. The company played there for
twenty weeks. On no single night of the
was q seat TO be had after
s o. clock. The "standing-room-o only sign
was in use every night.
In Louisville. the conlpany's next home,
the theatres We're not large enough 10
hold the crowds. This is literally true.
The company opened It's season at ,he
lsijou. moved subsequently to the Tenn
pie for lack of room. and thence for the
same reason to Macauley's, the largest
playhouse In that city. IN order to make
this last move 1t was necessary for the
of AIacauley's Theatre to can
Gel the time held for $3.50 attractions.
This they did with great alacrity. The