The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-02-13
WARRENS OF VIRGINIA
The David BelaScO Success To Be At the
Shubert Theatre, Kansas City.
All Next Week.

All NCAt NSSk.
One of the most Important theat-
rical events of the year will take
place at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre,
Kansas City, next week, when, be-
ginning Sunday Night, February Il,
David Belasco win present for the
first time in this section of the
country, his highly successful produce
tion of William c. de Miles Civil
War play, The Warrens of Vir-
ginia AS offered in Kansas City, it
will be exactly down to the smallest
detail of stage investiture, as it was
seen at MIR. Belasco's theatres in
New York for 300 consecutive nights,
and Frank keenan,, whose perform
ance of Jack Rance, the gambler
sheriff in THE Girl of the Golden
West" is still wildly remembered,
will be seen in his original role of
General "Buck" Warren, supported
by the other members OF the Belasco
Theatre New York. company.
David Belasco is, without question.
the pre-eminent American producer
and no presentation made in his
nam has ever visited Kansas City
without arousing the interest,
and admiration of all classes OF
playgoers. The engagement there
of Blanche ga .es and David War.
field were made memorable by the So
cial brilllance as well as the size of
the audiences which attended every
performance, and there is no doubt
that The Warrens of Virginia"
with its magnificent production, and
what is virtually an "all STAR cast,
will duplicate the triumphs of these
other Belasco offerings.
The Warrens of Virginia" is quite
unlike any other wal play that has
been produced within the last decade.
Though its action is romatic and high
ly dramatic, it lacks those appeals to
the sense of the sensational which
have disfigured the majority of dra-
matte efforts with their scenes laid
in that time. Truly, the action is
accompanied by the distant roar and
rumble of fraternal strife, but the
climatic situations are those in which
the domestic phase of the struggle
as it appeared in the South, are
shown.
Frank keenan,, n of the country's
most distinguished character actors,
was never given a role more congo
NAL to his temperament and methods
than that of General "Ruck" Warren
In IT he has scored a personal success
fully the equal of that which came to
him through his delineation of Jack
Rance. And he is supported by an
organization that for general and in
dividual excellence of ability has
rarely been excelled Tne company
includes such well known players as
William McVey, Christine Norman,
Violet Rand, Mrs. Charles G. Craig,
Charles d. Waldron and a dozen
others of like prominence.
As a production it is doubtful if
David Belasco himself e did any,
thing better than "The Warrens of
Virginia" Its scenes are laid In the
beautiful Rappahannock Valley of
Virginia, and in transporting the
natural picturesqueness of this re.
gion to the stage in a way that is i'm
pressive because of the illusion of
actually effected, the Belasco
genius "a allowed to Il a riot.
THE Warrens of Virginia" will
remain at the Shubert Theatre all
the week, and there will be mat
mess on Thursday and Saturday. In
connection with this engagement it
may be noted that the scale of prices
is lower than has ever before been Oh
tanned during the presentation of a
Belasco attraction, the price of the
best seats next week being Sl.5O at
and for the Saturday matinee,
while for the Thursday matinee the
best seats will be sold for 81. The
regular seat sale begins Thursday,
February 18th, but in the meantime
reservations may be made BY
mail if the communications are ac-
compaDied by checks or money or
iers to cover the cost.