The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-24
NEW LYRIC THEATER TO THROW OPENHS DOORS TO PUBLIC
TOMORROW NIGHT WITH BRILLIANT BILL OF VAUDEVILLE
Academy of Music VIII Open
for Season at Same lime
With Merry Princess---Pic-
lures at Bijou and Vaudeville
at Colonial.

Tomorrow is the day set for the
opening OF the new Lyric thcater at
Ninth and Capitol streets. There will
be n matinee at 2;30, for which the ad-
vance sale is already large. but 1t is
probable the grand and suspicious
opening will lodge in the Monday night
performance for which the sale has
been extremely heavy all week, and
which quite assures one OF the largest
and most representative audiences seen
Mt a local theater in many, many years.
The opening Of the new, beautiful
and weil-nigh perfect theater will also
mark the rc-advent in this city of the
Keith vaudeville style of entertainments.
which superior class OF amusement has
not been available in this city for
full quintet of years. In addition 10
the beauty and Rttractiveness of the
theater itself, probably there is nothing
more likely to presage the success OF
the new palace of amusement than the
assurance that vaudeville OF the Keith
kind will he the exclusive Offering. II
In undeniable that no class or enter
tatnrnent throughout the United States
will bear comparison with the success
established BY Keith vaudeville during
the last decade Of years. That success
has been SO great and 20 thorough that
the artists aiding In IL have risen TO
nIT4oGaI popularity &S SHltI laAfIFFs anu
the monetary figures demanded by them
are beyond those ever dreamed of by
men and women whose theatrical fame
will live on for years.
Not 10 mention the tonmost quality
of tho entertainments and entertainers
having to do with that success,
fundamental reason for II resides in the
comparatively low prices of admission
charged wherever Keith vaudeville is
ba Far Not "a
Keith vaudeville hill will outstrip IN
cost that attaching TO the biggest and
best Of travelling musical and dramatic
offerings the scale of admission prices
to the former seldom approaches by
half that exacted for attendance NJ the
latter. CapRcious audftoriums. with
nicely graduated list OF seat prices has
served 80 erect immense cltenteles enah-'
ling the vaudeville managers to spend
heavily for attractions and to learn
that IT pays
In the entertainment 10 usher iu
the new theater and style of amuse-
mcnt Will be seen seven vaudeville
acts, a specially engaged photo play
and a selected orchestra Of six pieces
made up of musicians knowing vaude-
VILE and its requirements OF the
seven vaudeville acts. each one seem
ine to be of the featureful kind. one
will he offered by Willard Simms and
company, four people in it. Mr.. Simms
ia one of the leading comedians of
vaudeville. and his offering. FLINDERS
Furnished Flat" Is a laugh maker
from curtain To curtain. Portraytng
"a papcrhanger engaged In papcring
an elegant parlor Mr. Simms is re
peatedly interrupted in his work by
the mistress Miss LHcier). so that in
the end the hefuddled paperhanger is
swathcd in layers of paste and the
paper remains unattached.
As special feature OF the perform
Ance there has been engaged AleXan-
der and Scott, a brilliant pair of en-