Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-23
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Academy-AThirty Leagues Under
the Sea-" motion picture, Inntiaee and
night.
Cofoniai-Gfayce Scott Company In
1.-THE College Widow
Enipfre-Lucille La Verne Company
in "Ann lloyd"
Lyric-Popuiar vaudeville. matinee
and night.
Bijou-isThe Gay widows" burlesque.
At the Theatres To-Day.
Richmond theatregoers have five
widely varying forms OF dramatic en-
tertainment from which to choose to-
days amusement, including one mo-
tion picture, which is essentially dra-
matte in some OF Its incidents.
Thirty Leagues Under tho Sea-"
which will be seen at the Academy Of
Music to-day, tomorrow and Wed
nesday; with daily matinees. has been
more widely discussed IN scientific
journals and thosa devoted to the rec
osnltion of RESEARCH work than any mo-
tion picture ever made. The pictures
were literally taken at n considerable
distance below the level of the sea. and
hence show Views that only deep-sea
divers have heretofore witnessed. Re-
sides-and here enters the dramatic
the operator of the machine managed to
catch a series OF pictures In which one
OF the men connected with the party Is
shown battling for his life with man
eating shark.
At the Colonial Theatre, the Grayce
Scott Company offers George AIDES
clcverest comedy, 'sThe College Widow"
which will serve to introduce to the
public Mr.. Newing's new Juvenile, Rob-
ert Adams, to whom Is assigned role
that will try out his ability as q light
comedian.
To, 90 ~
Empire Theatre. "Ann Boyd" an adap-
tation by her of Will n. Harben's story
OF the same namc- The play was put
on here two seasone ago by Miss La
Verne, and Is, therefore, well known to
the public.
Tor the fret half OF r,e week at the
Lyric Theatre a bill OF smuch variety !s
dancing arc conspicuous, though plen-
ty OF comedy is promised also.
1.-The Gay>Widows," the weeks offer.
ing OF burlesque at tho Bijou Theatre.
is somewhat shrinkingly described by
it's modest press agent as "a whirl-
wind Of merry musical nbsurdities, en-
tirely new throughout, sent on the
company OF uniform excellence"
PavIovsa.
Many persons who see Anna Paw
iowa for the first time when she ap-
pears with her wonderful organisa-
ton of Russian dancers st the Acad-
envy Thanksgiving. matinee and even
ing, will discover that the ballet dane
ing they have heretofore seen and that
as exhibited by this premiere danseuse
and her associates are totally different.
To the average person who had never
attended a Pavlowa performance,
stage dancing was merely the exhibit
tion Of exceptional skill In u given d.
rection. 1t consisted OF pirouetting
and a few other fancy hits which
every dancer couldn't do.
But Pavlown and her Imperial Rus
sian ballet, when they made their first
Am erican tour. three years ago, pre-
sentcd the Russian dance art. IT had
never been presented. and was there
fore something new.
Tho difference between the Russian
and other schools Of ballet is that the
former unites tho lyric, tho dramatic,
the terpsich Dream, the musical and the
scenic arts Into q single unified whole.
To dance, a Russian premiere must
have exceptional ability as an actress
as we'll as dancer. Grace and technic
arc essential, but -expressiveness of
gesture and countenance are equally
And that liz why Mile. Paw
Iowa observation-disclosures sha and her
colleagues havo something moro to OF
fer than others. +