The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-02

Booth. George u. Mack, Ben Turbett,
Susanne Wcstford, Milllcont Evans,
who played "rhe Blue Mouse" in
Richmond; Lconora Oakford and Saidce
Williams.
OF course. lillian Russell will wear
some stunning gowns as she Is sure
to look after this important detail in
her best style.
Trnvc1oEues Begin with Hawaii.
"our Own Hawaii" IL tho tito of
the first .trayeloguc to be given hero
by Wright Kramer, Burton Holiness
fellow-travcler and associate lecturer,
this week. In company with Mr.
Holmes. Mr.. Kramer visited tho
Hawaiian Islands last summer Mr..
Holmes was there the year before. and
also ten years before that. and the
travclogue to be given here will be
perpetual contrasting of the islands
before and after annexation. BY means
OF the finely colorcd lantern slides
and motion pictures, the old life in
its old setting of seml-barbarc and
tropical quaintness and beauty viii
be shown. Especial stress will be laid,
of course. upon the islands as they
arc to-day. with their up-to-datc troll
| ley cars, hotels, electric lighting and
I telephone service. showing in marked
contrast tho conditions which existed
at the time OF Mt. Holmess earlier
visit. when the native hut. the tsro
patch and the simply clad native had
as vet been undisturbcd by annexation
| and cable communication.
! Hawaii Will be given by Mr.
Kramer at the Academy OF Music on
Wednesday evening.
"Paid In FULL
! Tho intereat-that has been awakened
by the announcement that Eugene
| walter's celebrated play, paid in
Full" will be at tho Academy on
Saturday matinee and night shows
! that the local public Is appreciativc OF
| the foremost American drama of this
! generation PAID in Eur will be
welcomed here with all the enthusiasm
that so notable theatrical offering
merits. Its coming has aroused un-
| woHted attention, even among those
| az on the part of those who look to
the theatre for large share of their
entertainment. It Is a live, vital.
throhbing story of modern America,
and though it's scenes arc in New York,
they might with equal fitness be laid
in any American city. The realism of
| the play Is startling It all seems SO
natural that 1t liz hard TO feel It Is
play. In producing this effect Mr..
Walter has shown himself the most
skilful dramatiEt of the day.
The cast the Wagenhals & komper
/ Co. is now sending hero In Paid in
Fuil' comes with New York repu-
taticn. where the play ran for two
/ years.
irArilonar MT the Bijou.
Augustus Thomas's Arizona" which
viii appear at the Bijou all this week.
has made a career of uninterrupted
success In almost every large city In
the East. I. has played in New York
at the Herald Square Theatre and the
Academy OF Music for over $50 con-
secutive nights, and each and all
critics have agreed that ~ has achieved
the distinction of being the only Amer
team drama by an American author
which has ever reached this remark
able record in theatrical history
aIr. Thomas has, more than any
other writer laid the foundation and
lower courses of the American drama
which will one day develop into a
most imposing institution. ARIZONA
as the name implies, Is a play which
has its genes. characters and Incl.
dents located in the Far West. The
people of the play comprise the sturdy
ranchmen and cowboys. the brisk, alert
women of the pioneer generation, and
their dainty, graceful. yet strong and
self-reliant daughters. types Of the
American girl over which the whole
world has come to wonder and admire
oficers and soldiers. fair samples OF
the heterogeneous community which
Mr.. Thomas has chosen to utilize II
4 the way of literary material. The piece
4 is full of bright color contrasts as the
4 changing combination of a kaleido-
scope. 1t fairly pulsates with the
fresh. vigorous life Of the young West
z 1t has a love story as tender and al
most as tragic as that OF Romeo anc
Juliet and it has relief work o
l humor as ripe and unctuous as tina
4 which Mr.. Thomas has previousl.
4 shown us in Alabama" and TN Mis-
souri," When the critics have said o
1 Arizona" that 1t is better than ALA
4 bams" they have said all that the,
4 we'll could say in praise of an Amer
lean play.
a At the Lubip.
Tho Lubin will offer as its first bill
q for the new year several excellen
4 vaudeville numbers, together with sew
Il eral films OF the best product
4 of the worlds leading life-motio
photographers.
The vaudeville roster will be heade
. by Sprague and McNecce. introducin
u their fancy and trick ro!ler-skatin
q many now feats on rollers.
Harry Taylor will be seen in
4 character comedy offering which
Il said to be very clever. He is an en-
a tcrtaining story-toller, and has sew
eral song hits.
h The Mccain Duo will offer an en-
n PERTAINING singing, dancing and talk
y ing number. which comes with flat
y terng notices from other amusemer
Il centres. They are sister and brothe
a fourteen and sixteen years old, an
3 their work Is said to be of kin
y that stamps them as a pair of I'm
I. usually talented Juvenile entertain
81 ers
"a Newest Music.
n Whether 1T may be instrumental c
Is vocal music. operate arias or #popula
R songs--whatever an audience may de
III sire TO listen to can be supplied froi
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