The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-25
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AeaAe.y-willi.. HeA.e. .. "T.s
D1an from Home" Tonight and Sat.
uraay. naatinee and night.
Biloo-'rhe Winning WIDOW"
CSlonial-yaudevi
EmpiRe-v aude VILE.
Lubfn-Saudevflle.
Little Theatre-Pietures and sen8s.
Loui. Mann and a Fi.e Company.
Little more than half house greet
hicle which bore Louis Mann INTO tue
Academy of Music last night Tor the
first time since ne discarded the Ger
man dialect. which we had grown 10
from the enthusiasm Of those VINO
formed the audience. II the COMEDY
were TO appear again tonight tneie
mere mouth to mouth, aavsriisihs
woul3 fill the house to Its capacity.
Whether due to the piay-written py
Clara LipmaE. Mr.. Manns wite, ana
Samuel Shipman-to Mr.. Mann n1mseit,
to the excellent COMPANY Win WIZ
Werba & Luescher have surrouhoeo
him. or to the combination OK tne
three. certainly no performance at tne
Academy in many day has been weI-
coined with more laughter ana ap
AS TO the play. it deals in no extra
ordinary manner with the enorts OF =
loving and ambitious wife 70 ntt neA
workaday. practical. uneuhnred NUS vi.
manner. the sound practically OF MS
scheme OF life, and the whoiesomenees
of his amusenents into the r.rn,si
atmosphere of the artistic. afunS@s:
she IA. drifted. There are two sioes
TO the struggle. His manners are ats TO.
cious: he never reads aayinins uas
the sporting page" and ne uoes -.
der the Kings Eng.sa An unknown
tongue to him. On the other hano. ne
in clean and high in his personal a
business life and he hates the yos
teachings OF the meretrlcious S IA
nhers by WHOM she IS SURROUNDED;
~ 70 robbed by trusted employe'
and i. led TO believe that his wire pre-
Sers the thief to him and Is about 70
desert him Then comes the s
80 false prophets, the false friend
and the foolish wife. Later All ssss.,t
with the world again. put; wt hosn
this cataclysm, there wou!o n LIT
no story, AZ It IL; the d p'S ~. develop
ment permits of the construction ana
me- of many amusing lines ana situa
fione as well as OF several sciGS
which held the audience IN tenS
Fsrst Philharmo,ic Concert:
Ia.t night the City Auditorium 80
well filled with those VINO nae .he
tn renew their dCIuo't .NNA
Tha orchestra as a whole acquatteu
itself admirably. both In ns cono Tor
numbers and as accompanie
Quincy Cole in the Greg III
hrin e-ine out the composer losas -
ali the daintiness ana precisio"
quired. .or,>.,u,e" which
began and ended with a Slonn .,, Hytv;
the orchestra had a great oppO
FOR taste and expression, anu ~ pss-oc-
the audisnse so much that tns III ~. ha
tor repeated It, MI. Na os of
-eaiiv artistic novelty. Another Another
a nos.fson Hgzzsoresque. called
sSohn schinamany fdi.se.or. was was
oJeo encored: its Oft3 ha
exsdently appreciated. The orcne
was also heard In Gorh e Queen Of
The .Andante con Moto." from
SS1nnSs,.sohn.s italian symphony.
ma two dances from the "Nutcracke'
Suite" ,oco,;s, engaged
for this concert. but as me - WeTv
posed. his place was as. hii Il. blanche
short notice by A'S' -
s2s.a THOMAS is the latest recruit
t5e ranks of the local Hnelns
ia hers She possesses swse. 80
~ good range. admirably uno 20 ..
troI She sang the aria. "Dss' Ar,
s s Puccsni:s La Tosca," and re-
annded TO the encore. In the secono
SpYt - the program Miss Thomas sdns
IT,! IT, summer wind" by Bischon: ana
.sI,he birthday" by Woodman. arar
.ro numbers were charminsE Nj.
I'D resu!ted in another recall us, sass
THOMAS responding "iun
Tp ssature of this first concert was