The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-17
TRIANGLE DRAMAS TO
Be SHOWN At D|J0U
Sennetts Efforts Displayed at
Popular Broad Street Theatcr.

Beginning next Monday night the
Bijou Theater will become the home
of the Triangle Film Plays. The en-
gagement OF the Dorothy Mortimer
Company at the popular Broad-Street
playhouse Will come to an end with
the performance Saturday night.
Not many people are familiar with
the magnitude of this new venture on
the part of Jake Wells. The $1,000
600 corporation organized by the
three foremost producers of motion
pictures in the world, David Griffith,
Of The Birth OF Nation fame
Thomas H. Ince. whose efforts are
household words in the mouths of
literally millions. and Mack Sennett.
who made Charlie Chaplin, until then
just an ordinary acrobat, the most
talked of comedian of the world
this corporation stands for the very
last word in dramatic Photographic
art.
Playing to capacity houses at the
larger theaters in New York. Phila-
delphia. Chicago and Boston. and
commanding 50 prices from capacity
audiences. the Triangle Film Plays
have not only been pronounced by
critics who know as worth every
penny charged, but even offering more
than was promised. Yet these self
same pictures. with all the effects that
made them masterpieces on Broad
way. with an orchestra of fifteen
especially engaged artists. and with
all the drapings and trappings that
they have received where the greater
price is charged, will be exhibited at
the Bijou at prices-Matinee 10. is,
25 cents. and night at night at 10.
IS. 90 and a few at so cents,
On each program there will be pre-
scented a Griffith production. an Ince
AID a Sennett. For the opening bill
At the Bijou the new home of the
Triangle dramas. Mr. Wells has
secured Raymond Hitchcock and
Mabel Normand. in MY Valet" a
laughing farce: Dustin Farnum and
enid Markey, In 1.-The Iron Strain" a
drama of vital Intensity, and Dougles
Fairbanks. In THE Lamb" another
revei Of fun. In all, fourteen reels
will be shown.
In addition to the attractiveness Of
the picture program, the innovation
Of a fifteen piece orchestra playing
selections entirely in accord with the
moods of tie pictures shown. Is sure
to attract pleased audiences to the
Bijou. 1t will prove not only a
novelty. but will be something that a
united Richmond public has craved
FOR years.
Two performances will be given
daily, the matinee beginning at ans
clock and the night performance at
S o'clock. Among the stars who will
be seen at the Bijou on the Triangle
program throughout the season are:
Billie Burke. Dustin Farnun. Ray
mond Hitchcock, Marie Doro. Eddie
Foy, Sir Herbert Tree. the great
English actor: Weber and Fields,
Douglas Fairbanks. Dorothy Gish,
Lillian Gish, Frank keenan,. w. s.
Hart, Tullie Marshall. Ford Sterling.
Roscoe Arbuckie, Mabel Normand,
Julia Deane and Hale Hamilton.
Richmond will unouestionably APP
precjate the thoughtfulness and enter
prise Of Mr. Wells in making Rich
mond the sixth city in the United
States In which the Triangle dramas
are to be presented, and Richmond
will likewise appreciate the fore
thought Of Mr.. Wells In supplying an
orchestra such as has never been
heard in any Richmond theater be-
fore, and such as is heard IN few even
OF the metropolitan theaters.