The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-06


hCoIonial-Grayce Scott Company In
"At Co.y Corners" matinee and night.
In .The Ghost Breaker" matinee md
night.
Iyric---Popular vaudeville. matinee
B,jou--1rhe Tempters,' burlesque,
matinee and night.
THRILLING MELODRAMA
~ After you have seen The Yellow
can't be true; it's Just meiodrama; it
cant possibly be true" That is. you
Wi, say y, unless you have grown IA
vivid, IL crude. realism OF many Yiddish
plays; or. better still. unless your ears
ton halted by the bare recital OF facts
from the lips OF informed men
For the story of Michael Morton's
ton OF conditions that are almost in
credible. yet are existent in Russia to-
'pean war led the Car to issue sound
ing phrases to his beloved Jews"
m w the particular incidents OF this
the playwright. they are based upon
facts, upon, the very truth. and 1t is
This mis- truth truth bensath,he, lines business
Yellow Ticket" one, OF the few dramas
OF the day that Justly deserve the
It isn't a pratfy storyEhow could
story that reveals SO fearful phase
OF nnssin's centuries Of Persecution OF
or = word lis used. that is commonly
confined to reports of various .investi-
not be told, the revelation could not
and and, the very frankness OF its anpiica'
ness. Further. the excuse for the pre-
sentation OF this drama lies in the fact
that that an awakened public opinion-even
the alienation OF the cruel burden i'm
posed upon 'others-even~ there in
OF course, The yellow Ticket" is
melodrama;, so ore most or the grand
@psras a Of h Sla The the big
Tosca." while the Resemblance to the
SnrdSu- puecini Tragedy Is heightened
the progress of the second act. But IL
is melodrama with n dozen thrills, and
talmly in its, essentials: -
The story is too good. too well told.
TO spoil by relation here. save I'm bare
English family in {St.%Petersbnrg Under un Hr
the name of Mafya varepka. is tracked
s sS the s r sssrs' P0Ise ara is expossd
Eirl.twToae home is. Kiev. a. town with:
~ ths Pale Of Settlement. in the
southwestern st1s part of Russia. where her
they are without the pale. And. when
her father was dying in ST. Petersburg
found that She could obtain s only the the
yellow ticket'-a symbol that she be-
longed outside the pale of everything,
Nevertheless. she accepted il in order
TO reach her fathers bedside. but TIE
ticket remains symbol of what is not
hound her. She is driven from her
home. and Baron Audrey. the head of
the secret poiiee. Offers her his sprotec-
to his rooms, and there follows tho
candles are placed about the baron's
after he has-with hideous irony
dressed himself piously.
another nce. this time in the bureau
than suggested by the officer In charge,
ana inc pay f comes to an end--with
can lover. who is merely incidental. ex-
cent for the purpose of saving her.
Gilbert looks the part OF Niarya,N or
Anna, and won last nights audience.
But that was due to the strength of her
ar mss Sne o Its
English girl. Is quite out of the pic;
word that means nothing, and the man
is Simply funny. while Edward Foley
thelminor parts are we'll handled, SER
wants, moujlIss andspolice gents. and
the,,principal role. next to Miss GIL
superbly played byyWarner GLAND.
sIr. Glands work5fisf utterly beyond
caWil;, he Is smooth, suave. graceful and
quite the man of the world, and he is
a Drunken, leering beast-such a per-
formance rs we see, all too rarely : Z.
The yellow Ticket. Is "a gripping
playys well worth seeing9provided one
fuHN understands the mature or the
s - Douglas Gordon,
Ccr1sSin Hit at Coloniai. tI !.
ttA Cozy Corners as Presented by
thSst5Tayce Scott Company at the Grace
Scott Colonial last. rlni& htg please I'd. 3 a
TYPICAL fair week audi n Every body
i on Trend was appayeflt Tvs out fora good
RtirrStSSand, Undergraduates or play, or play 81
ersss6r production, Had a good tiihe !:
bat the play itselfswa All ghtS hui
iacNlbg, or that the sStlns twas below