The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-22

Little TAeatre-PSet11eS aAo bSA81.
Here's Yeur ~Pank LaAyS
To the proverbial tired business
man." whom that which Is BIT WICK
ed has long since ceased TO n,,a tr s"ncS
anyhow. Klaw 4 Erlanger's far-famed
musical comedy. THE Pink LADY,.
which opened an engagement OF four
performances at the academy Oh music usrc
tainly rest For neither the story nor
the music requires much cerebratioa
for its proper understanding, ana
neither h apt to create even distant
muttering Of brainstorm-
I THE Pink Lady, herself Is supposed
| to be a very fair and suspiciously ods-
| ceptible Parisienne. who joyousiy At
+, taches to the trait of her pink gown
T! the fieeting fancy of perfectly nice
young girls fance. In Q careless mo-
ment the facile one IN PINK ana '1 nc
be discovered lunching together IN an
IRRESPONSIBLE Inn known as The Jouy
Cuckoo by the jealous maiden and
two Of her hopeless swains Inen
! follows a binding rain OF nes' .s sna:
| energies q story TO the effect that the
pink trifier along the primrose pain an
| is the wife Of good friend OF tne
fiance, one N Dond1dier. VINO. tney
say, has been prevented from S-
ing, by a severe attack OF iumbaeo.
/ Stiil suspicious. the maiden rushes to
] Paris to verify the Ingenious explains
/ ton. But, before she reaches M Don-
T older, the intliguers have won MS
ear and his assistance In oruer 20
Dondidier is compelled to assume the
methods OF an exceedingly gay ol1
man-whepce came the French tstie o!
/ the play. lie SAtyre"-end seve1Aa
scenes Of q nature decidedly appro-
pirate to the original title follow.
Dondidier's wife objects: the nance
grows remorsefu': the roe coiored one
does not care to be shunfed to one
side: tho maiden becomes complex'
Dondsdier ceases to pose and oegans g
act: his ancient wife fcis e sc s sMu
gether fast. when the scene IL trans.
ferred to the ball Of the nymphs ana
satyrs.
Altogether q farce and altcgether
Frenchy, but the music IL. IT times
exceedingly pretty, and. once or Twice,
| a genuinely good chorus number
shines out resplendently. while the
lyrics are clever and witty, containing
words that mean something. instead
! Of words that merely rhyme.
/ OF the principals in last nights per-
formance, two were admirable. several
were good. and the rest were only
flair to middling."
! r.... vo.,a ., An~ele ma maiden.
.ssSS an1w .scon6 vnmsn ~stoIe the
show" from Olga De Baugh. who sang
/, the title role Miss Kosta's voice 10 OF
a lovely aiiver-iike quality. and she
,e w,th rnnch srt vhtIe her per-
oons,,tx 20 maenetic ana charminx. In
- at nnwher a duef "When Love
Goes Astraying." she attracted the
sndienca to her. ana. lone before the
Anal curtain fell she had completely
Vcn n
Jonn =. ioune. VINO nappIy re
memoereo mere a one VI S VII
Iens s,as @ -, -. ms ms. az" VI
nusac@. e.oo., 1891 :" s1'e '"1 ~
.or"anSe "a tne seoouo ~ a.
aier-tne nIst 1St 49, amos. nope-
.Io e' o%e on sIe nio.e
anu m",e anu ."e '"~n ga"
familiar down by the saskatchewan
and was recalled several times after
| his modern St. Anthony scene. In which
he resisted the wiles Of q bunch Of
turkey-trottinG chorus girls; Lucie
Carter sang extremely well the rrin-