The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-22
COLONIAL THEATRE.
THE LITTLE THEATRE.
Psetnres and sonxS
sThe Quaker Girl"

SThe Quaker Girl
w. story Of The Quaker Giri.
IN. wonderfully lyrical musical com
esy which the Henry T. harms I'm
many. of New York, Is senolhs 10 tHe
- for presentation at the Academy
p,Istc tomorrow. Tuesday ana
1vedn.soay, with a matinee on WEI
,.s6sv is built around quaker siFi'
,,ho when cast of By her peoFie'
%ni,s an exiled Bonapartist princess
"a roes to Paris, where she oot"Ai''
= u,os,tion in a dressHakeF esta"iis
Snent and incidentally learns some
thing of the ways OF the "orio i'o..'
-htch she has been so careiGAiy heH"
she finds It good deal TO he' hhtns.
ard a certain young American ~no -
styled IN one of the lyrics as y.
from America, establishing
.s he- p.eceptor, insvructs her In II.
--o,,S,v arts OF dancing. singing ana
skirp love She impresses her per-
~onalitv upon a prince and minister
e state. bat she CT ngs to lopy' ioiu
America" although she goes "
0ancy bail as the guest OF the pttnce
md does q few other Things hot
actly to Tony's liking The part Q,
pr,Scence, the Quaker girl, is pia Gu
INV Natalie Alt, and Victor Morley mas
Hhe role Of Tony Chute ineS
1wo OF the best light coInediahs On
the musical comedy stage, S''s..n
s1y Morley. who needs no in,i Nv
TO the public either in Europe u
HAnerica
Tn Madame Blum's dressmakins
i~alo, IN the second act. there Is
sdtsplay OF Eodish feminine apparei
.uhich records the very latest thias
~ avery article OF womens outer
.rssr and Is as good as q trip TO the
EPar.sian fsshionmaksrs' shops Tor Tue
udeas 1, gives Of up-to-the-ln minute
dresses and millinery ehects. In ING
Hast act also. there IS gorgeous ois-
nnraiy of fashions and styles, Tor the
@csne represented Is a fancy BAH, anu
Nhe gowns are all Of elaborate Gu.
land show the many new SHADES anu
stones used in evening dresses' cor
b-s which have never been deemed az .
E!sabIe for evenini; wear, but SO 'ohe'
down and shaded by overdraperies
hha, .bev seem to be new effects en- !
rirely. The draperies themselves are
swor,hy of note, for in their arrange !
Gment rests the key to the solution Oh
Converting last seasons party gowns
unto this seasons approved stSie
IN fact, The Quaker Girl! Is as soou
as the best Partisan fashion Sheets
and much more reliable. "hlch tea
4ure Of the production VIII -oNot-eSs
be of as great an interest as the
%tory Of the play and the twenty
new and wonderfully beautiful songs.
"a Fool There Was"
A play of thrills and tears winch
rAns the gamut of human emotions
fror, grave to gay, from light 70
dark and from the most tense nerve
tracking tension to flppant discourse
ron modern conditions of everyday life
is Robert billiards world famous
drama, "a Fool There Was" suggested
ay Rudyard Kipiing's poem. me
1Vampire,' and its story developed
from the ideas of the poem No big
Eyer drama, from the breadth OF us
sviewpoint the realism of its situa-
nion and the truth of its les>A1ns, was
lever written than this marvellous
Dlay, which brought Porter Emerson
Browne at one leap into the fore
most ranks Of dramatic authors For
-four years Robert HilIiard has played
An this piece. repeating engagements
Again and again in the formost thea