Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-14
ADJUSTMENTS
ude Adams ana Barrie,s PLAYS.

Great interest Is being manifested by
! theatre Gocrs. both chronic and merely
occasional. in the appearance at the
| Academy OF Music. on Friday and Sat
urday. OF Maude Adams. in an all Bar
rle program. composed OF three of the
Scottish dramatists comedies.
ON Friday night, Miss Adams will
! present "rhe Legend OF Leonora," a
fnnciful play in three acts. the first
long work by Barrie since what Every
Woman Knows" and Tho Ladies.
Shakespeare" burlesque in delicate
form of The Tanning of the Shrow."
shown in three elaborate scenes The
author describes The. Ladies' Shakes
! pearc' as being ono woman's reading
| of notorious work, edited by ]. NJ.
Barrie"
Some idea of the character Of Leo
nora may be gathered from the speech
put into the mouth of the English judge
in Diminishing Leonora after her acuuit-
tai of the charge of murder:
You are one of those round whom
legends grow even In their lifetime
This Is the sort of thing you might
have done had your little girl had a
cold. And this is how we might have
acted had you done it, You are not OF
scious, communicative Leonora. The
ladies OF to-day are difercnt-and
wiser. But as we look longingly at
YOU we see again. in their habit as they
lived, those out-of-date. unreasoning
womnnish creatures. our mothers and
grandmothcrs and other dear ones long
ago loved and lost. And, rs If you
were the last woman, Lconora, we bid
you hail and farewen!"
ON Saturday afternoon and night,
Miss Adams will be seen in her revival
of Quality Street" the second of Bar
yes plays to be seen in this country.
ana one of the most charming Of them
all.
The Appeal of "SnIOmy jane"
constantly increasing audiences at
the Bijou Theatre establish both the
good taste and the business sense. OF
Manager De witt Ncwing, Of the
Grayce Scott Company, in selecting
Salomy Jane" for presentation by his
popular star and company. Not only
is nearly every member of the COM
pany happily cast. and thus enabled to
add to his, or her. crown Of popularity
and approval. but the play itsclr-a
veritable idyll OF early California
contains almost every element OF ro-
nance. excitement anu adventure to
contribute to It's extraordinary appeal.
Next week the company Will present
"Brewster's Millions" as clean, bright
comedy, which will provide striking
contrast to "Salomy Jane"
Two Old NIinstreIH Mt Lyric.
W. ACTS Oh WnlCn mOCn may
be expected are on the new bill to
be seen at the Lyric for the rest OF
the week, beginning with this after
Moons performance. Joe Norcross and
Sam Holdsworth. the oldest living min
strels before the publlc--since the re-
tiremcnt OF Dan Emmett--are to be
seen in noval act. Old Joe Norcross
was the star of the NoCross Minstrels
nifty years ago. He is now I'm his
eighty sixth year. Sam Holdsworth, the
other rising young minstrel, was fea-
tured about half centory ago with
the Birch and Backus Minstrels. Later
he held down an end chair In ST.
James's Music Hall, London, with the
Pony Moore M!nstrels He Is the old
est living end-man. Another feature
will be supplied by Harry Adler and
Anna Airline. in what they call The
New Idea" II is n comedy act differ
ent in character from anything offered
here this season. Wills and Hasson.
European equilibrists; Louise Bates and
Company, in Il comedy skit entitled The
Mother" and Ed and Minnie Foster, in
the musical oddly. Who's Right?" are
other promising numbers. besides new
IIearst-Selg pictures and fresh
comedy film.
Strands Famous Picture Player.
AS Its principal Paramount picture
feature for the rest of the week be-