Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-18
ACADEMY STOCK COMPANY
WILL GO TO SAVANNAH
Booked for Six Weeks Engagement
at Liberty Theatre in Georgia
City.
WILL RETURN TO RICHMOND
Road Productions Invade Academy
Time and Render Impract icablc,
for the Present, Attempt to Main
tain Stock Company Here.

After the performance on Saturday
night. the stock company now playing
at the Academy OF Music under the
name OF the La Verne Company, will
leave Richmond Tor several weeks dur
ing which IL will occupy III" Liberty
Theatre. in Savamuah. ia. II is under
stood that the company has in no sense
closed. but has been forced to make
way temporarily for the many road
productions recently booked for appear
hnCc at the Academy.
When the La Verne Company moved
from the Empire Theatre, now the
Strand. to the Academy. very few at
fractions wer" playing the one night
stands. so that the members of the
company felt safe in agreeing to play
only the open time" at that theatre.
Within tho last few weeks however.
the increasing business ON tho road
has induced a number Of producing
managers I" send out productions OF
the better class. many OF which will
no seen at the Academy during tn" next
two months.
FREE TIME cur DOWN
Ii ROAD pRODICrIONS
Since most OF these road shows Will
occupy tn" theatre for at least two
days Of every week. and. in a number
of cases, two have been booked for the
same week there would remain free
for the stock company only a day or
two in each week. Under these cir
culnstanccS. the members of the COM
pany reached the conclusion that it
would hc the height OF folly for them
to attempt to remain in Richmond at
the present time. and began to study
the situation in the cities farther South.
Upon Investigation they found that
In savannah only Il vaudeville house
was open. and they decided to spend
the next eight weeks there. At the
end OF that time the season in Rich
mond will be over, and they expect to
return to the Academy for n spring and
summer season. The company will be
under tho direction Of Alexander Left
wich. who points out that the time
thus spent in Savannah will enable
him and his associates TO perfect thcm-
selves in Il number of plays. so that
when they return to Richmond they
will be able To present to Richmond
theatregoers some seven or eight
thoroughly rchearscd pieces
1t is understood that the departure
of Miss La Verne did not. and does
not. affect the situation. Mr. Left
wich will simply engage another char
acter actress. and tho rest OF tho COM
pany. with the exception Of Miss Har-
rison, who has left To accept another
part for which she was already en-
gagged, Will proceed TO Savannah next
week
Mr.. Leftwich has had great deal
oil experience as stock director, and
the members OF the company feel con
iident that. under his DIRECTION, they
VIII be able to give the playgocrs of
savannah better performances than
any stock company has cvert offered
mere But they look upon the Sa-
Vahhah engagement as something in
the nature OF tour. by means of
which they will prepare themselves to
return to Richmond. under another
name. and undertake n season of stock
AT the Academy OF Music, free from
interruption and disturbance of any