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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07

| the accommodation OF families OF
men who have come into this section
/ within the last few months might
bring as soon as the opportunity pre-
sents. Every house in the city is oc-
cupied at this time. Much building
/ is underway Hotels. apartment
houses. dwellings, tcnements are
under construction. All are being
| hurried to completion. Many houses
are rented before the actual WORK OF
! construction Is begun. Rents have
doubled, and more, within recent
months.
An investment in houses paying a
! return Of % per cent Was pointed out
/ by w Reynolds, of the Reynolds
White Company, developing Colonial
Heights. a most attractive suburb i'm
metfistely across the river in Ches-
terfield County, overlooking the city
OF Petersburg and within five minutes
walk from the union depot of the \.
q W and the 4. G. l., Railroads.
4 splendid Investment.
Here two houses built at n cost of
s2.501. are renting for $40 each per
month return OF $3.50 year. These
buildings can be duplicated on CO.
Ionial Heights for $4,000, and this IN
vestment is regarded as one or the
best that are offered Contractors
nave RrsI ~ tbbii~ ~ D. ttti HbAtE bS
Mr. Reynolds and these are ready to
do the work required on short no
tice Local contractors are busy on
construction work row under way and
many Of those who have recently
come TO the city are also doing much
work
Transportation facilities have been
extended to meet the requirements OF
increased business. A hundred and
fifty foot addition has been built to
the Norfolk and Western freight
sheds and additions are being made to
other freight terminals, Warehouse
capacities In Petersburg also have
been enlarged The Norfolk and
Western Railway IS rapidly pushing
the laying of double track on the CITY
Point branch. and the enlargement of
yard space at Petersburg and the
James River terminus Approximate
iy 1000 600 is being expended by
this railroad company.
Health Conditions Good
Petersburg 10 soon TO have a new
bridge over the Appomattox. replGc
ing Bishops Bridge. which has be-
come inadequate for traftic The Fur
man line Of ean1boats has added an
other boat and trips are made to
Richmond daily, instead OF every
other day. AZ formerly. The line also
operates daily boats 10 CITY Point
in addition to the boats 10 Richmond
The health record Of Petersburg IL
a remarkable ona. The death rate is
now lower than ever before in history
The sanitation In OF the best The
milk and food inspectors are rigid
and the water supply is ample and
wholesome. There has not been a
resident death from typhoid fever in
more than a year.
Petersburg Ia busy. Is growing
rapidly and is becoming one OF the
strongest and greatest cities IN the
South. The industry and activity of
its people and of the people who have
become residents OF the city ar It's i'm
mediate outlying territory In recent
months are counting heavily in the
city's development and progress. and
a future far greater than the preso NJ
In Petersburgs.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07

Texas, will build IN oil refinery, win
daily capacity OF 1900 barrels. and
also fourteen miles Of pipe lines ant
a pumping -statiun. with capacfty
OF 5000 barrels. Great activity ia re-
ported In oil interests in Okla homa
Texas, and nearby sections In the bor-
ing OF wells and the uilding OF new
reflneries. A refinery. with a daily
CAPACITY OF ] .ooc barr,es. il projected
Tor Wichita Falls, Texas, and another
refining plant is to be constructos ~
Austin, Texas. A new refining plant
has been completed at 15aiflesyiIie.
Texas. with a reported ca pacity IL
10000 barrels per day.
The American Agricultural ana
Chemical Company of New York has
purchased at Greensboro. N. c., a site
on which to build a fertilizer factory
at a cost OF about 100000.
The Sunflower Milling Companv.
Ruleville. Miss. will build flour ana
cornmeal mill, with daily capacity OF
fifty barrels.
There is very marked improves.
ment In lumber conditions through
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
FOR week IN SOUTH
French Controlled North Carolina
Aluminium Company IL Taken Over
BY Pittsburg Corporation.
LUMBER CONDITIONS IMPROVE
First Textile Exhibit Ever Held IN
South is Attracting Much Attention
at Green<{llc. s. C.--Many Conn
panics Are Increasing Their E.-
cilitics

Especial TO The Richmond Nirginian.l
Baltimore. Md, Nov. 6.--The South
ern Aluminium Company of Badin. n.
G. controlled by French capitalists.
who, prior to the war, were building
as rapidly as possible a plant 20 cost
$40. coo. 000, but upon which work has
been stopped since the war. Will he
taken over by the Aluminium Com
pany of America. Pittsburg. Pa. and
a much larger plant built than even
the French capitalists had under con-
struction This viii be one of the
most important Industrial enterprises
in the entire South. requiring several
thousand skilled laborers and putting
the South to the forefront In the pro-
duCtion OF aluminium.
This deaf is typical of the increas.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07

out the South, IN well ~ In naval
stores and other interests. which have
been depressed. The iron and steel
interests are crowded to their utmost
capacity. and efforts are being made
to l.ut into shape For operation some
Of the long-idie furnaces in various
parts of the South, in order to take
advantage ofPthe increasing demand
at steadily rising prices for pig iron.
The first textile exhibit ever held
In the South. which Is now in prog
TESS at Greenville, g. c., Is attracting
very great attention from textile-ma-
chinery people in New England, who
are leading exhibitors and who are
attending in large numbers. and from,
cotton manufacturers OF all sections
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07
THE RICHMOND v1RaINIAN-sUNDAH NovEMBER y. 1913

! ing activity which Ii seen In every
part OF the South IN Industrial, rail-
road and general business conditions,
and Ia indicative of the renewed atten-
ton which is being given to Southern
investments by outside capitalists.
The Durham steel Products Com
pany has been organized by strong
capitalists of Durham, ". c., for tho
purpose OF building a plant to manu-
facture war munitions. and It ID re-
ported that the company has an Initial
contract to furnish 10000 shells for
shipment to Europe.
The ConsumereS Portland Cement
Company OF Chicago has let contract
for the construction at Foreman. ARK.
OF plant 10 have n daily capacity
OF 2, 900 barrels OF cement.
The Hess Steel Company has been
incorporated at Baltimore. with capt
facture OF hirh-grade steel. the plant
TO include two electric furnaces. roll
ing mills, etc. driven by electric
power.
Miami. Fla. is having plans pro-
pared for a proposed ship canal. for
which the city has voted $4,000 o:
bonds
The Avondale Mills. Birmingham.
Ala. will enlarge "a cotton mill ",
Sylacauga, Ala. at cost OF over
100000. and add 1000 spindles.
The Alabama Company OF Bfrming
ham will spend about $4,000 improg-
ing one OF its furnaces and enlarging
its coal-mininE operations
The Developers OIL and Refiners
Company of Shreveport. Ala. capt.
talized at $4,000. will build an oil
refinery and may increase Its capital
stock to 100000 The Panhandle
Refining Company, Wichita Falls.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07

forward with Che greatest expeCt41
again goes to show the STEADY ~
vAncement ard the spreading out Of
the mushroom city, and gives great
evidence OF the rapid growth OF the
youngest-largest city in the world.
It further proves the condolences real
estate men and big investors have
In the opportunities Of a town which
five months ago vas but cornfields
and farmland. X
With electricity, railways, school
buildings, churches, telephone service
superior railroad facilities, news
paper plant and every other accessory
which would make a large city, Hope
well Is deserving Of the confidence
bestowed upon It by men who are
making heavy financial Investments.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07
Yorks Bring Good Prices.

Front Royal, Va, Nov. s.~~-R l..
Mauck. general manager of the Shen-
andoah Produce Company. Is well
satisfied with returns from large con-
signments OF "Yorks" to Glasgow.
that Melted the company IN New
York s4.50 for firsts and $325 for
seconds
The trouble with exporting apples
at present, Mr. Mauck SAYS Is the
great increase In ocean rates, thay
having advanced from s1.37 per bar
rel to Sl15 within the past week
Apples are still coming tn tn large
quantities for shipment.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07
Production Of Coke.

During the year 1914 there was pro.
duced in the United States 34.555.91/
short tons OF coke, valued at $S8,334.-
at. according to the annual state
ment on the manufacture of coke now
available for distribution by the
Geological Survey
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07

oucement for the building Of such
homes
This land sale. to which many look
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07

Homes - Petersbnrss greatest
need. The Petersburg Chamber Of
Commerce il urging investors seeking
safe and substantial returns to pia ce
their money In city or suburban realty
on which they may build houses for
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07
H0PEWEll PRESENTING

tContinues From FIRST Rage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-02
Chauncey Olcott Towns

Among theatrical business men there
has grown up a very expressive term
'the Olcott route" For a score of sea-
sons, since Chauncey Olcott first returned
to this country after his two years in
London with Sir Charles Wyndom, Olcott
has played certain route each season.
a year in advance and is always the
same.
Each season Mr.. Olcott rehearses his
company at his beautiful "Inniscarra
Cottage" home at Saratoga, and plays a
night there at the town hail." the name
which still clings to the old theatre at
the Springs From Saratoga he jumps
West for a fortnight in St. Paul and
Minneapolis for the State fair weeks
Then he goes to Milwaukee for the Wis
consin State Fair. Omaha and Kansas
City come next, and Thanksgiving week
finds him at Detroit, where he has played
the same week for many years. Roches-
ter and Syracuse and the larger cities in
Northern New York see him always be-
fore Christmas, and for the holidays he
goes to the Walnut Street Theatre in
Philadelphia.
Opera House in New York before Lent
and an after Easter engagement of four
weeks in Chicago are regular features of
the tour. Usually Mr.. Olcott gives his
company a couple of weeks rest after
Chicago and then goes directly from
Chicago to Salt Lake City, where he
starts tour of the Pacific coast, which
lasts we'll into July.
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| thing i'm operetta these two years. bar
| ring the last act set of "Sari" The effect
| is OF a spacious arbor relieved and
! lightened by glimpses of fresh bright walls
between greenery. Right behind the arch
at the back. however, comes a terrible
botching-a fiat drop painted In impos-
| sible perspective with those blue and
white pillars and writhlng cornlces that
are supposed to adorn bathrooms. A
! simple fiat green wall would be a thou
sand times better.
Songs Without Tunes
Where are the tunes of yesteryear? The
operettas haven't got them-"The Peasant
Girl" for example. And yet these pieces
are just as delightful for all that.
Perhaps they are much more interest
ing because of the fact that the score
isn't fiingng itself at the audiences heads
with handmade melodies The beauty
of such Orchestration as Mr. NedbaRs
in "The Peasant Girl" is instantly gp-
parent. Its richness takes quick hold of
the ear. The luNuriant variety of measure
and voice satisfies n craving for move
ment and feeling that one-finger tunes
never touch.
Sometimes these continental composers
give us melodies as well-"The Merry
Widow" and "Sari." for example Not
even, of course, in "The Peasant Girl"
are they quite lacking But the emphasis
is mainly on something else, and on some
thing just as interesting. The crowd at
the Lyric isn't whistling-not for a day
or two when the melodies sink in-but
they are enjoying themselves Just the
same.
Clifton Crawford's Lost Opportunity
Clifton Crawford confesses to dead
past. very dead past. In fact, 1t never
was. He almost achieved it a year or
two ago. but fate foiled him.
In other words, Mr.. Crawford ought to
have been member of that rare company
that made Weber q Fields Music Hall
what 1t was; and the nearest he got to
1t was as a stop-gap in that ill-fated re-
vival two seasons ago when he replaced
Jack Norworth (and Nora Bayes) at the
theatre that Weber & Fields tried to
make another music hall.
Among Willie Collier, De Wolf Hop
per. David Warheld. Pete Daley and
Fay Templeton he would have shone for
just that quality of the lmpromptu which
modern comedians so often lack. Lillian
Russell was always on the edge of a
nervous collapse when she found herself
on the stage alone with Pete Daley, the
possible victim of any question mot in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-02

! TT is very easy thing to make fun oI
i Billie Burke. II is criminally easy
Even the management can do 1t. Vide
three excerpts from the theatrical die
1ionary with which her press department
has honored the EVENING LEDGER;
Biilieburke. Noun. A girl on tho
stage or off, who has reddish hair
and gets herself UP to look as much
like the actress as nature viii let her.
To bilIIeburke. Verb. To display the
cute little mannerisms and kittenish
ways that the actress has made famil
Gar to playgoers.
Billieburkish. Adjective. "blllie-
burlkish" part is one that the average
theatre-goer will recognize at once as
being admirably suited to MISS Burke
one that she would 'simply eat up,
as a user of slang would express it,
OF course, II is all this "blllieburkish-
ness which tempts the critic to "lay for
n young lady who really does her own
Job very we'll indeed and pleases the
public quite extravagantly. Perhaps, as
he tips his pen with vitriol. he thinks of
actresses like Dorothy Donnelly, denied
stardom even after years of sterling
work.
The Charm of Billie Burke
All this is vastly unfair to Miss Burke.
she is not beautiful woman numbering
serious drama, but carried to success by
her beauty. She is not content to be an
insipidly pretty little ingenue star. The
condemnation that falls on her head Is
the result of her very earnset young ef-
forts to be amusing, to give the public
as rich personality as she can
And the public responds, They are
getting what they want. In Jerry for
Instance. they are seeing riotous Kid
ok Is and every one likes a riotous Kid
Of Is. especially with the footlights as
protection. Miss Burke has youth ana
viKor and freshness. If her gurgle is an
afectation, 1t Is at any rate novel and
amusing. II there are no depths, no
touches OF ''the God in the child" at
least there are no siclily, feeble pre-
tences at 1t. Miss Burke succeeds be-
cause she gives the public sense of
lrittenish vigor that they like and that
no one else has at her command.
The pity of it is that Miss Burke's
amusing little talents should make her
a star In a touring system Instead of a
yseil-liked player in a well-dlscplined
resident company.
Scenery Of Various Sorts
Charles Frohmans scenery Is always
ruod, illusory stun, the usual thing we'll
handled. 1t is very seldom, indeed, that
one Of his rooms is done In that style
OF isthmian architecture that fiournishes
In the drawing room of Jerry" at the
Broad. There at the back is great
French window. In the left wall is
another and smaller window. Between
the two at one corner is stairway lead
ing above and at the opposite door to
tho front OF the house. The drawing
room Is one of those missing links in
the architectural world which make
theatrical life so hard.
IN 'arhe Peasant Girl at the Lyric tht
scenery OF the hrst act has one con-
spicuous virtue and one conspicuous fault.
The side walls. roof and arch at the back
are as distinctive q conception as any
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TTLE THEATRE. KITTY G0RDoN AT lF3

WILLIAM PENN--Sammy Burns al
Alice Fulton dancers; Bert Levy, an,
t-entertalner; George w. Cooper AM
chris Smith in "ITotel Gossip; "a,
don Eldrld and Company In Won b
Leg: the Sully Trio and others
Cross Keys (Flrst half of week )--sss
I. Curtis in "Good-by, Boys" IA,
oxford -Four; John Hymafl a Co h
"Twice q Week.; Billy Harrison (.
blecltface; "visions de Art" posint
the Yokohama Japs and others.
sTOCE, TX
AHERICAN-"The Hunchback Of Not,
Dame" with the resident ooinpanl
Victor Hugo's famous old play OF q,
hunchback who fights with the hlsl.
placed villain for the heroine's purib
BURDgSoUE.
EMPIRE-Charles waldron's Trocadtr
Burlesuuers, with Frank Finney, Georrl
$. Banks, Minnie Burke and Dorothy
Clark in 1.-THE Legend of the Ring
by Mr.. Finney.
COMING
JANUARY N.
GARRICK-"The Miracle Man" wii
George Nash, Gall Kane and w u
THOMPSON. George NJ. Cohnn's en.
tirely serious dramatization of M.
Packard's novel of q faith healer VII,
converted band OF crooks bent o.
exploiting the public through him
Fresh from a New York run.
FORREST - "The Girl of Girls" wiN
Frank Pollock, Natchie Alt and AleS.
ander Clarke. A musical comedy ty
Edward Paulton and Oreste Vessel
with Novelis conducting.
ADELPHT-"The Belle of Bond Street
with Sam Bernard. The amusing of
'Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer' done over.
LYRIC-"The Lilac Domino" A visF
nese operetta, produced with consum
mate skill by Andreas Dippel
WALNUT-"A Fool, His Money and liz
Girl" with Hap Ward and Lucy Daly
A variegated musical comedy, glying
Mr.. Ward opportunity for travestN
as we'll as his tramp inpersonation.
KEITH'S-Mr. and Mrs. Carter de HaWn
Pat Rooney and Marion Bent and thu
marvellous Manchurians.
AMERICAN - "The Little Lost Sister
the familiar play of white slavery"
JANUARY rs.
BROAD-"The Legend of Leonora" an!
"The Ladies' Shakespeare" witt
Maude Adams Two typical Barrie
plays. The first and more substantil
deals with the amazing mock trial 81
lady who was supposed to have
thrown a passenger out OF a movinI
train because he threatened her chlldt
health with open windows The second
is a little burlesque of THE Tanning vi
the Shrew.''
FORREST-"rh Girl From Utah." with
Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian and
Joseph Cawthorne. Paul Rubens' Eng
lsh musical comedy of Mormons old
and young, in London. Well sung and
acted Produced in New York earb
this season,
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CONTINUING.
BRoAD-"Jerry," with Miss Billie Burke.
Recording the descent of an obstreper-
Gus young lady from Chicago upon
quiet Philadelphia suburb. BY various
wiles including pink pajamas and man
nish riding breeches, she wins BASH
full husbahd-from her aunt Amusing.
ADELPHT-"Suzi," with Jose Collins and
Tom McNaughton and an excellent
cast A musical comedy OF Viennese
origin. More tuneful than brilliant,
but we'll acted and pleasing, The story
concerns the counting OF a young prima
donna by the son OF colonel Of hus-
sars. Last week.
FORREST - "Ben-Hur." The familiar
spectacle OF the persecuted Jew, from
Lew Wallace's novel; The chariot race
remains It's big scene" Richard
Buhler leads in acting honors. Last
week.
Montague Glass popular stories of the
clothing trade made over into the sea-
sons most heartily amusing comedy.
Last week.
LYRIC-"The Peasant Girl" with Emma
Trentini and Clifton Crawford. A Con-
tlnental operettn recording the capture
of a "nillk-fed tenor" and Chicken
hawk" by Miss Trentlni. The music is
excellent and Mr.. Crawford most
amusing Last week.
WALNUT - "The Heart OF Paddy
Whaclk," with Chauncey Olcott. A
new Irish comedy by Rachel Crothers,
in which Mr.. Olcott plays a country
lawyer, who falls heir to young and
bewitching ward. Attempting to marry
her off to the proper young man, he
iy 1,i,,ealf tn r,tt,i1'e nat
week.
VAUDEVILLE.
Gordon In q comedy by
Jack Lait, "Alma's Return; Flo Ir-
win in "The Lady of the Press" by
Edgar Allen Woolf; Marie Nordstrom
In bits OF Acting; Richard Have
mann's Kings of the Forest" animal
act Harry Breen, singing comedian;
Angelo Patrlcolo, pianist; the Meyako
Sisters, Japanese acrobats and sing
ers; Corelli and Gillette, acrobats; Paul
Sundberg and Angela Renee, dancers,
and Hearst Sellg News.
the Movies" a trav-
tsty by the Van and Carrie Every
Players: Stravltz and Stratner, musi
clans; Val Trainor and Miss Helen in
BE Happy; Hazel Moran with the
lasso; Lewis and Norton: the La
France Brothers, equilibrsts, in THE
Upsidedown Family"
Rapf in "The Buyer
From Pittsburgh; Kaufman Brothers,
comedians; Dolly and Mack. the musi-
clans; Cooper and Ricardo in song
and comedy; Sutton, Mcintyre and Sut-
ton in "The Pumpkin Girl; Gibson
and Dyso; Robbins Elephants the
Velde Trio and the Loop the Loop
Dogs"
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CASINO arAnan astnss
Bu-Ef NsfsoN -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-02
GEORGE N-E5H N1Ko 0>zZ A1HINE
COf7INhG TO mr. GHRRcH1 nv
"Z17.E H7IRHCZE MrHW"

It Is little hard to understand the peril
naclty with which jokesmiths and writer's
OF so-caled lyrics" cling to the igno-
nlny of having their names on the pro-
gram. Charles Klein made the dramati-
zation of Potash and Perlmutter"-a
good piece of work, too-yet his name
doesn't decorate the first page OF the Gar
ricks program. over at the lyric, oh,
how different After the names of the
man who wrote the original libretto. the
man who translated 1t and the man who
did over the songs, comes the announce
inent that Harold Atterldge wrote the
verses for additional numbers. Who on
earth-besides Mr.. Atteridge-cares?
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the book" that he might take notion
to fling at her. In those circumstances
how Mr.. Crawford would have enjoyed
himself. No librettist to get in the way.
Nothing to do but be as funny as he
pleased.
These Strange Librettists
Librettists are curious breed. Vanity
walks with incompetence in most of
them. They can't turn out really anus
ing intrigue; IL they could they'd write
farce and make more money. All the
same great many OF them take them
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selves so seriously7Mr. Crawford has
found this true in America as well as
England-that comedian needs sworn
permit to change any of the verbiage for
something better.
In the light of the sort of thing that
makes the average musical comedy book.
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THE pLAYwR1CHTs PROBLEM

Last acts are troublesome things.
The history of playwritlng is a sue
cession of affecting pictures of drama
lists tearing their hair in their efforts
to evolve a finale both natural as a
product of the acts preceding and in
itself dramatically effective and in
teresting.-New York Times.
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