Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-27

STRAND THEATRE.
All the week, continuous perfor-
dances from Ie o'clock until II o'clock
ft niEht-Featurc motion pictures.
OWING to the policy of impcnetrarIe
Hence inaugurRted and maintained at
he once OF the Academy OF Music. Il
Impossible to .Hny just what Will be
cen at that theatre this week. There
-. however, avery reason to believe
hat Yiddish company Will appear
hsre Thursday night, and that AL FL
Wilson will be seen and heard there on
Friday. afternoon and night. In When
Did Now York Was Dutch"
AS to the Lucille La Verne Company
md Its immediate or remote prospects,
lark mystery still prevails. Mr. Wise
Roesn't know, Miss La Verne doesn't
know, Nr. Neal doesn't knox and Mr.
Wells doesn't know. Still,' this is only
Bunday, and the theatrical week doesn't
Pegin until Tomorrow, 80 there Ia
plenty OF time.
Tho other theatres in town have es-
ablished no rigid censorship; on the
write rather freely. which brings us
o:
.LIT'TLE SNOW WYITEn AND
ITS RARE ENCIiANTMEST
What a world OF Imagery must un-
8old itself when the announcement Is
made that .snow White and the Seven
OwRrfs." conceived in the minds OF the
brothers Grimm and done into play
~ Jessie Braham White. will be the
ATTRACTION at the B!jou Theatre all this
week. With mattnees daily, excepting
a o. morrow.
The brothers Grimm wrote something
more than Nero fairy story whom
thoy wrote Snow white; they wrote
For more than a day. because they put
INTO the story all Of the impulses, that
sway humanity. BIO that humanity old
ah individual sense. Snow White and
her foster mother. the one beautiful.
fhe other beautiful. too, but jealous OF
8he more enhancing child-beauty of
fhe other; the witch and the seven
4iwarfs--tho witch helping the Jealous
Rand the dwarfs doing their duty Of love
In attend pg to foil the work OF the
witch tb> proud prince. who comes
.aHa resc the fair Princess Snow
white az. weds her, and they live
happily ever after"-these elements
fhe fabric OF our present-day novel Is
woven.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
9B something more than an idyl of
childish fantasies; It is more beautiful
than lullaby. for 1t not only soothes
aand entrances. but 1t furnishes very
{necessary mental diet. in that 1t sounds
1all the shoals and depths of human
ffallties. 1t is real: it Is VITAL 1t Is
Roompellins; Indeed. It Is life. even the
life OF to-day
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'
will be OF peculiar appeal to the long
'ttousered and longsklrted: 1t will be
|Yeritable bacchanalin OF delight to
1.-The little ones; 1t will be source OF
very real and very positive Joy to all.
And what wonderful play Miss
white has made from the story! There
lie thrill in every line. and joyous
bubble In every sentence. Queen
|Brangorhar becomes living, breathing
presentation OF jealousy. She typifea
the monster, while her enchanted mir
|ror, that always speaks truly, becomes
la very vital thing. When she breaks
1.-THE mirror. Just before the nnal cur
tain, because 1t has told her truly that
ISnow White is the more beautiful OF
the two, 1t is Indeed pathetic, but all
|who witness the scene will have little
|sympathy for the very jealous queen.
Snow White Is the antithesis OF the
queen; she Is az enchanting as the
|uhdriven snow from which she gets her
name. and her childish simplicity is SO
|yltally human that she Wins her. way