The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-03
Amusements Tonight,

Amusements Tonight.
Academy-Harry Lauder and com
Biiou-"Alma, Where Do You
Live?"
Empire-In Sunny Spain.
Colonial-"The Movies" and other
hits.
Lubin-yaudeville.
With Eddie Lyons announcing n
thousand dollar show for ten cents,
Manager Harry McNivin presenting
broadway musical attraction for fifty
cents. the Empire handing out con-
densed edition OF a comic opera for
ten cents Lubin giving high class
vaudeville at ten cents, and Harry
Lauder at the Academy for two dol
lars and a half. the theatregoer to-
day will be in "A quandary.
True. he may see the other at
fractions any other day in the week,
but Lauder is billed for but one day.
And that at $3.50, even when the
Lauder show was presented in New
York at 50. The lesson of the Weber
& Fields show has pleased the New
York magnates, They find that 1t
pays to give Richmond the high
prices, fer Richmond is a big show
town.
When vaudeville got above variety
and the old Bijou was the only house
in the city aside from the Academy
of Music, Manager Tom Leath put
on the higher" vaudeville at the
Academy at one dollar. He had Gus
williams, William Carleton and others
of that kind. The people went to
the show. it was Christmas night He
put on another for New Years night
but that was all. The people found
they were getting high class goods at
the Bijou for thirty-ive cents.
But the Lauder show. it is certain.
will prove good one. Besides
Lauder there are other performers.
with one exception, never heard OF in
Richmond before, but with interna-
tional regulations, The show should
be a good one. for. in addition to
Lauder, maybe found Mana, from the
Follies Bergere, Paris, aided and
abetted by Mons Alexis; Carl Resine.
from the Olympic, Paris, assisted by
Mile. Marguerite. The announcement
does not state what these two per-
formers and their assistants are sup
posed to do by way of diversion or
entertainment.
There will be a dog act. a whistler.
and Miss Whistler. besides the Must
cal Cuttys, who have been seen here
But It must be a good show, for II is
being run by William Morris, who,
in a press agents story, is compared
with p. T. Barnum. as a great show
man. Every one knows what Mr.
! Barnum gave the people.
/ Eddie Lyons, in his announcement,
/ says The Movies booked at the
4 Colonial, were intended TO be first
presented at the new Lyric, but owing
/ TO delay in the completion of that
theater was turned over to him.
Alma" at the Bijou, does not come
direct from New York. for it played
in Norfolk all last week, but II has
been seen in the metropolis, where
the musical show had a run. The
Norfolk papers gave the show fine
send off, calling upon 1t to come
again.
/ For those who like Dickens. and his
| famous character. "Pickwick," lit
tie trip to the Virginia today or to-
morrow might be worth the while.
! "AIma" at Bijou.
alma, Where Do You Live?" the
musical play which had an entire
seasons run at Webers TheateT. New
/ York. Will be seen at the Bijou all
/ this week with Miss May Latham,
! Jesse Wiliingham Avita Sanchez, Will
bur Cox and the original New York
company.
| From u French farce which had
/ been translated into German and first
produced in New York in that Ian
| guage, and which had been generally
| criticised for it's broadness, Mr..
/ George V Hobart, the we'll known
American humorist, at the instigauon
OF Mr. Joseph NJ. Weber. of the
famous firm of Weber & Fields con-
structed q play which tells a very
pretty story and transforms very
naughty heroine into very charming
creature Aside from Mr.. Hobart
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