The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-07
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Average Citizen
Prefers Good Old
Songs He Knows

The announcement that Nine. Alma
Gluck win sing the old songs OF
Stephen Foster, at the Academy, next
Wednesday night, has simply delighted
her Richmond admirers.
There are a lot of folk who will go
TO hear any great singer. no matter
what the program may be. They will
sit through an evening OF Brahma,
Strauss, Huga Wolf and Debussy. APP
walls. but they really do not enjoy the
music. They may say that they do
for as rule they think II is the cor
rect thing. but deep down in their
hears they are yearning for THE Last
Rose of Summer" Annie Laurie" and
the odd Folks at Home"
Many a music lover has sat thor
oughly bored through an evening.
wearied with Arditti and the vocal
pyrotechnics the other Italian COM
posers loved, merely to hear patti sing
Home Sweet Home at the close. And
there they would sit with tears stream
ing down their cheeks. some of them.
their hearts fairly bursting with SEN
timent that betrayed itself openly,
while the diva sang the simple old
mournfuf melody to which John How
ard Payne set his yearning. heartfelt
words.
When all is said and done that Is the
sort of music the average citizen asks.
There may be few who will so into
ecstasy over THE Earl King or some
thing that sounds like "Gessellscheff-
gashundingtiedt Aufderlibenwas" by
some writer whose Lame ends like a
bad cold, but when all is said and done
it is "Old Black Joe" MY Old Ken
lucky Home" or the ''Old Folks at
Home" that brings the big burst OF APP
plause. and has the audience sitting up
and stamping, and two at least Of
these last three songs win be sung
by Alma Gluck next Wednesday night.
Miss Nobody From Stariand.
Generously filed with effective fea-
lures. startling novelties and tunefui
musical numbers. Miss Nobody from
Stariand," the much talked of Mort II.
Singer musical comedy. should arouse
unusual interest when it In presented
here at the Academy today, matinee
and night. When at the close of the
first act. which presents view OF the
main deck of the steamer Lusitania,
the gangpiank is lowered over the
foot-iighss, across the orchestra pit.
and into the center aisle, the audience
begins TO realize that there is 10 be
departure from the usual Then prin-
eipals ahd chorus "trip merrfiy across
the footiights down into the body of
the house. waving and smiling at the
astonished audience as they dash I'M
the aisle aad back 10 tha.stage hy way
of the boxes. The invasion OF the
upper deck by the steerage passen-
gers, italian emigrants. Is also dis
tineiive novelty.
How Mort ii. Singer hates to see
k,s name in print He Is almost as
modest as Werha and Luescher.
The Perpiesed Husband.
In the suffragette play. The Per-
x'exed Husband John Drew has
achieved the most real success either
he-or any of his plays have had in
TIE last ten years "A evidence Of this.
fer the past three months enormous
audiences have been thronginE the
Empire theater. New York. And in
convruous as ii may seem, the gallant
John Drew. while cast as the hero,
will seem to many ladies the villain In
THE Perplexed Husband for the
play is suffrage. Alfred Sutro. its
author, has tarbed his pen with the
deftest satire. and II will not be his
fault IL votes for women is not laugh
ed out - many an American household
before the theatrical season is over,
So timely is the ropic OF the day that
not sally or sharp rebuke to the
turbulent cause of votes for women
ever misses fire. MI. Drews COM
pany includes Miss Mary Bofand, as
leading woman. Miss Nina Seyening.
Miss Alice John and Miss Margaret
Watson. THE perplexed Husband
comes 10 the Academy Monday and