The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-13
AT the Academy.

Wednesday. "charcs HsWtrey, In "a
Message from, Mars. -.
t-rdsy and Saturday WITH Matinee sax
* urday: Sergeant Kitty"
At the Bijou.
Louise Heaton In "Rachae Goldsteln,"
II THURSDAY and Saturday.
No one learns tho sad lesson that the
rublic is tickle more thoroughly than the
Il actor On the road travelled by the play
CT nre found many wayfarers who arc
footsore and weary. but who still con-
d tinue on the journey. which to them Is
Very near its end.
They live only in the memory OF the
days that are gonc--the days when they
trod the primrose path that ever led
then, upward. But for the memory or
4 tho good old days" ns they like to call
them, these veterans OF the stage would
& find little to cheer them as they near
their final curtain.
Message From Mars.
While many OF Charles Hawtrey's sue
cesscs have been won IN those sEmw-
thetlc light-comed parts OF which
Charles Matthews and Charles Wyndham
have been such admirable opponents, and
which nrc so grateful to the player ana
j 70 agreeable to his audience. he elected to
mako his American debut in q character
in IA Message from Mars, = In which he
! IS MT first repellant and only wins re-
gard as the development slowly proceeds.
There was. unquestionaby, much self
dental in such q course, but the artistic
purpose fully Justified it, and the New
York public was prompt IN CONFIRMING
& the Judgment Of London. How Mr.. Haw-
arey's engagement at the Garrick Theatre.
81 New York, was extended time after time
Till he originally intended eight weeks
Al spread over the entire season Is now well
known.
Mr. Hawtrey was educated at Elton and
r Rugby, two of the most famous of Eng
lish publlc-schoois and passed from the
Z latter to Oxford University to go direct
10 his first THEATRICAL experience.
The history OF "a Message from Mars
4 IS somewhat peculiar. Written by m
American. Richard Ganthony. ke was Of
5ered In vain to native managers. Then
the author took 1t to London, where 1t
was read and rejected by Mr. Hawtrey
who though recognizing many merits
I; found 1t In many places far too melodra-
] matte Two years later, when the author
had recast the story in It's present comedy
1on,r, It was again submitted to Mr.. Haw-
trey. and accepted though not without
many misgivings. The actor-manager felt
that on account of the ,,nconventonalty
fof the story and the absolute simplicity
Of the treatment that here was no medium
course possible beween great success and
dire failure. That the former was the
daring managers reward Is now known
81 to all who follow the fortunes Of the
stage
Tho play Will be seen at the Academy
Tuesday ard Wednesday. with matinee
Wedncsday,
Sergeant Kitty"
Sergeant Kitty the comic opera sue
cess of New York Will be presented at
the Academy on Friday and Saturday.
win Saturday matinee.
5s ,Se-geant Kitty WIS pronounced, dur
iug F5s rero-d rl,a al Daly's Theatre and
sz tfs= Casino View York 10 be the best
Il sssg-z.S1. tr7+sza o1s-=5 rs many years. 1t has
q -s5gy siz.a. ran ~ discovered without the
s91 81 g. r-is5[a TIE r-asic Is Hight. RpHght-
m zs1t3 -,ssas1SQEss al - q high class
r:s-1I.x=,.s1s re p,cs is excellent the
slersaizstst-as s-s .5:;55-laE and follow in a
;-afs7=-z.z tE.sSS-r.-ss,es E-p-n The rise OF the
m ar,s E-~r zct TO the drip OF the
>,tz-ztzSr 81 tas <t-t1 Hrerae, the comic
<rra.-T ,stss7s5.as NFts1 -E5aei I'm and mel
srsr 7Esse sr=s a-5 !s-r3cs are the york
- ~. Sr-9astde ard ste music is by
u Eae5aw-es St-tzrss -5Elose tunet:! Mock
f,$r y5-esf p,5t --1,ssca. treat
r'tar rs4n-r y. -:..e pizy is st,f.ct4sitlv com
s,ft-sTf,5 a pe--rft ~ 2 erca1 number OF
s,rrsurH-l,; E9t+s2tspar that n, into each 9TH
-, FIR ,t2f E=ss-!2s :c,, a Taech Kitty IS
sFt-:No--ss sSr.rSrty ari'pre.ty girl who.
srA ~ 1are -ras;g J. lssiieqsnt in the Franch.
sEarsg-v
5tlrtr gets ter name % .sergcan. Kitty
rst1e-l sag 6-eseeF IN the costume OF the
s3rSa.lr 70 AID her in her plans 10 get
-rss--3ss z-st rcach her lover from whom
Ftss IF seEsara'ed by military orders. While
81 he soldiers costume she IS forced to
thif Ttia she 81 and she says that he Is
en o.icer. and when pressed says she Is a
49,
i!issne " kitty and the soldiers have a lot
srt Inn Win the supposed boyish officer
g nd duh MIN Sergeant Kitty"
IN 1he end Of course, as in the end OF
I'll good comic operas, the complications
3 are all straightened out and the various
lovers arc duly married to their sweet
hearts.
Miss Helen Byron is the wlnsome. mis-
inflievous Kitty: Edith Blair is the tail
beautiful prlna donna: Charles Wayne is
the chief funmaker and Miss VIrginis
Palmer IS the eccentric old aunt. Others
sn tfe long list of principals arc Myrtle
1.orimer, Clara IAllan serville, Clara
$ftcring, Sylvan I.anrlois Frederick
EKnights, Wheeler Earl, George J'earce.
Tom IIadaway George Lloyd, James
'F'urcy and Joseph Chaillce.
"Rachel Goldstein."
* This week at the Biiou Theatre A. II.
Moods will present IN this city his latest
" I&uccess ''Raehe Goldstein" with Miss
s. Louise Beaton as Rachel, supported by a
x competent cast This new play Is from,
III 1he pen OF Theodore liremer, md IS said
TO be n well written, interesting and thrill.
ing comedy drama 1t has been produced
without regard To cost and the novel and
58 beautiful scenic effects add much To the
ettracttvenesh of tic production,
r TINS story Of "Rnchel Gndstein'' Is tina,
of a young and charming Ylddlsh girl Of
Russian extraction who while on hol
!. way 10 America, meets the man Of hei
hearts fancy, and also in"lrs the enmits
81 n bad woman and her paramonr, Il VII
Y lain IF the iirst water Tho villain Per
y SHADES The woman 10 enter into a po
to XII her husband is pushing him over
hoard during a storm a- sea, Rachel sees
the hGrrftae crime committed, but I!
shocked by n bolt Of lightning and lose,
her memory as 10 the identity OF the par
s5cipants After landing lin New York
rl,e Villains plot 10 throw suspicion o.
1tachel's lover, bnt she recognizes tina rea
snrirderer's voice and dhnounccs him. Th
<.onspiratOrs then make an effort TO dis