The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-14
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NJ Be FASHION
rwo OF MODERN VARIETY
AVN nEEN SEEN FROM
TINE TO TIME.
OF THE WEEK
reNs Is DUE. CORRESPONDENT
~ rs COMING AND THURS
ROY AND VAUDEVILLE
N I1AyE THEIR pi.AtE.

aemy Monday. Tuesday, We'd
~ and "Wednesday matinee--ktr-
Saturday matinee and night,
Robertson in The Passing OF
&srd Floor Back"
Thurston, the Magician.
pire-yaudeville.
puial aud moving
es.
nin--vaudeville and moving pic
III ii the stage keeps working to
Sad style mystery plays the spasn.
Abtedly. will he brief. They will
their season OF popularity and
sthcy will wane, for the popular
" play Is as subject TO change
- style Of the best,seller, the lat
"a most popular song of the day,
EDreyailing society disease or the
nount issue in politics.
Richmond woman says II T. just
eh1ldren with the measles. FIRST
8ds slight rash. then the measles
cut violently and the medical
1T In the house is sure 1t is small
Ehe probably has just boon read
- Emall-pox--but the run Is soon
knd the little. patient RECEIVERS
Nv and is perfectly Indifferent to
Nct that measles exist,
1ia IL is with the public and plays
Dy particular type. whether it be
ny Anthony Hope Hawkins type,
Eeyman-Stephens-Castie type. the
Armstrong or the Charles Ram
aey type.
y latter gentleman Is taking him
IN seriously that New York re-
he Is sending out trumpet blasts
his latest play THE Terrible
4 which he apparently believes
"a sermon fully as great,
Rpt greater. than the sermon
- mount. He has sent pamphlets
~ Kings Of the earth. Emperors,
necrs OF state and ministers of the
. Socialists of eminence and f.
III dictators, bidding them read
~, behold In Ii the lesson of life
Eprofit by the warning. AS MIR.
~ Ram Kennedy has used
Ia the most pathetic tragedy in
history. sacred and profane. IL is
Durprisiug that his play has at
"a some attention. BY men of
In the literary world his latest
Is dismissed with scant eere-
almost contempt Those who
#Ot charge him with laying
ne hands on sacred thing critt-
II mawkish sentlmentality and
9 him of trying TO invent "a
I'm style mystery play.
ID al very well TO use the truths
scriptures In writing plays. or
pe4t the lessons from the con-
wisdom Of the ages, which may
N same thing, but to illustrate on
ln8e the story of the cross jars
0n men and women who may not
14t Is generally termed religious.
ntiee Ram Kennedy was applaud
Ia his 1.-THE Servant Ia the House"
~ condemned for his "The Terri
oek." quite severity by many. But
HI really no need Of becoming
Sfked over Charles Ram Kennedy.
Terrible Meek" or any other mod
$Snystery play As stated In the
ming they have their little hour
- the measles, appendicitis. the
~ novel and kindred Ills. And
meantime there Is George Conan
lillian Shakespeare-but there!
nention Shakespeare?
Ehaps the coming OF Forbes Rob
~ 10 the Academy In the Jerome
rome play. THE RAISING OF the
Floor Back" brought about the
o1ng. The Jerome play is a sort
ousin 10 THE Servant In the
~" IT has been heralded az a
= play and Forbes Robertson is a
actor. perhaps the foremost En-
j speaking actor Of today.
1t Jerome play held New York
n0und and all over the country
oarRobcrtson and ''The Passing OF
kAird Floor Back" have been ac-
Ad rs wonderful, marvellous, un-
dented.
the play Forbes-R Robertson him
Sayes; It'd. ...s -....., ...
I'D Passing OF the Third Floor
y IL both simple and symbolical
e I spiritual significance which /
k1elighted to find appealed to the
- and minds OF our audiences over
Feo m amazing degree. as shown
MIR beautiful silence as much as
1eir generous applause and the
neFAble letters OF appreciation