The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-30
DAINTY BESSIE IS
STAR AT THE LYRIC
SHE CAME, SAW AND COMPLETELY
CAPTIvATED HER
AUDIENCE.
BUOU TO CAPACITY
PACKED TO DOORS BY CURIOUS
ONES ATTRACTED BY NAME
OF AUTHOR OF
"0NE DAY.

| of the bill but the stellar attraction
| of all those Manager Lyons has given
| his patrons UP to this writing.
The audience encored her until she
finally begged of, and did not let up
until the drop was lowered for the
succeeding act. She IL a vivacious
and temperamental artistic and am
| ply demonstrated her versatility in
a quintette OF vocal numbers tn
Producing her old favortte. You're My
| Baby" but her best number was
probably the children's song, by Low
Land" which was daintily and ex-
quisitely rendered. She has an ex-
cellent voice. remarkable, rather, for
range than volume. She Is also quite
statuesque. her last costumes, in par
ticular. afrording ample opportunity
of her physical proportions.
Nfolinsky a Misnoma.
Vioiinsky, an eccentric musical gen.
ius would be better named Pianow-
sky. as his best work was done on this
instrument, and his freak playing
made a big hit, the imitation OF a
pianist at the movies" being very
amusing.
The Ryan brothers. clever athletes,
excited admiration on the flying rings
and trapeze and particularly thrill
ing exhibition on the parallel ropes.
"
goes to Gordon and Rica. who did
sorne astounding work on bicycles,
working up to a. hairraasinE climax.
in WHICH the man riies an elongated
safety stood on end, while the woman
perches nonchalantly on his shoulders
as her partner explains that this Is
the most dangerous way to support
a wife"
wilfred Clarke and company extract
quite q little fun out OF ~farcical
skit. "A Wife for an Hour" Mr.
Clarke Is a brother, II is said. OF the
iamented Creston. Histrionic talent
was not cquaify- distributed the
family, but he did quite we'll. neverthe-
less.
Low Comedy Stunts
The Avon Comedy Four. In a school
room act. put over lot of low comedy.
the Hebrew comedian getting all thu
laughs. One song by the quartette
might very we'll and should be omitted,
its yulgarity being unQuestioned,
Hunting and Francis. conversation
alis,s. a good looking young woman
anS droll comedian, who also exc
cutes some good eccentric dancing
were well received.
The Pathe weekly Is timely and up
to-date and includes an excellent pic
ture Of the secretary of state oy his
chatauQua tour in an adjoining state
The program in Its entirety is more
than usually entertaining and Of its
we'll balanced numbers Bessie Wynn
is easily the star See her by all
means.
"One Day" Not saIacious.
If the audience Of fret nighters
that packed the Bitou last night 10
see the dramatization OF Cecil
Spooner's novel. "one Day" expected
to see something salacious II was dis
appointed. Instead the audience wit
messed the adequate presentation OF
drama thrilling. gripping and suffi-
GENTLY heroic to suit the taste for
melodrama. and the plot OF which
follows the book close enough ex-
cept for the suggestive lines. which
are expurgated. The dramatization is
too strong on the ''spoonins"to APP
peal to any, but the generation now
dwelling In that ethereal realm, and
one might guess the name of the
author of the story without having
been told. The vein Of comedy Is la
mentally weak In the story--so thin
that the dramatist has been put to the
necessity OF giving the Juvenile and
ingenue a couple of vaudeville stunts,
which. however. they do quite salts
factorily.
Differs From Glynn's Offense.
The story Is a sequel to Elinor
Glynn's Three Weeks" but--unllke
that offense--wfthin the bounds of de-
cency, and deals. with the love of an
heir apparent to a romantic Kingdom
for an American girl already sold"
by her father for title. The crown
prince ia also bethrothed to a princess
of the royal blood. Neither Of
course. In the nature of things, love
their fances, but each other, rather
than live apart, the girl surrenders
her count and the future king his
throne, the former taking poison. and
the latter stabs himself on her bier.
The leading roles of the unhappy
romance are In good hands. Victor
Switzerland Is a strikingly handsome
Paul-~the love-sick crown prince
and gives virile and vigorous inter-
probation Of an exacting part which
really fits him--to use a trtte express
sion--like glove. Nor a whit less
pleasing is Milton Bromley's work as
Sir Paul verdayne, which Is finished
and satisfying In every detail. AS
the Opal Ledeanx of the cast. Miss
Fay 'Cusick works hard and gives US
a fairly faithful protrayal Of the zone
woman" though she did not quite
measure up last night In some Of
the stronger emotional climaxes.
Miss Jessie May Hall is a cute in
genue. and she and Jack Lewis sing
well together and make the most OF
small comedy lines The story affords
some elaborate settings and is ade-
quately staged.