The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-23
THINGS THEATRICAL
THIS WEEK

Academy of .Music-Monday ana
Tuesday, matinee Tuesaay' pr,as,,
Thayer in The Peasant Girl frlaay
and Saturday. matinee Saturday John
Drew in The Chief" tt.
CITY Auditorium--Wedne night
Nine Geraldine Farrar ana company
in operate recital ,,,
Observation-Disclosures; new program
Thursday: matinees daily at +. M
night, 7:3o and 7. NJ
Rifou-F'irst half of week. Let
KATY Do II. with Jane Grey and fully
Marshall and Sam Bernard In The
Great Pearl Tangie': last half OF week,
willard Mack and George Fawcett ~
THE Corner" and Fatty and Mabel
Adrift" with Roscoe Arouckle and
Mabel Normand.
Odeon-Richard Bennett in Dam
aged Goods" with a special augment
ed orchestra.
Colonial--~Monday and Tuesday
Alice Brady in THE Rack. Wednes-
dav and Thursday. Mime. Petrova in
What VIII People Say: Friday and
Saturday, Theda Bara in The Ser
pent"
Isis-Monday, The Man of the
Hour" With Robert Warwick; Tues
day. Clara Kimball Young in Hearts
an Exile; "Wednesday. Robert war
WICK IN Ine staten olFe AhNi Su es'
'Trilby" featuring Clara ktmbai
Young: Friday. ''Biue Ridge" with
Clara Kimball Young; Saturday, Will
liam Elliott in Woman and Wine,
Rex-Monday. Lillian l'ish and
Wallace Reid in "E.noch Arden.
Monday Florence Reed in
AT Bay
Theato-kotion pictures.
New~-Motion pictures
4F.ft ian
pictures
Bright spots eleam freely ia Rich
tnond's coming week of things the
atricaI The ou-rushing tide of pros
perity - being shown clearly in the
theaters- OF the cit" and 10 the delight
of playgoers Richmond will not be
lacking for variety of entertainments,
Moving picture houses will vie with
grand opera. musical comedy, a
famous stage star in eorking good
,oreay. which Is brand new. and with
psudeville for the approval of the pub
liz The competition Of the various
t4yancheS ~ entertainment features
ril1 Doubtless prove beneficial to
Richmond
THE and i should be written in
capital letters. real event Of the week
81 REGARDED bV many as the first APP
narrar Metropolitan Opera House star
s4n2er and known aH over the world,
nef only through fame gained through
a9nefnc hut hy her appearance in
,s4pt4n4- picture predictions Miss
Farrar will he al the City Auditorium
Wednesday night The seat sale TO
fhe operate recital has been UNI
prece Tented ard it is assured that
Miss rarrar viii ne ereeted by an audi
tacs. hat will TAX the CITY Auditorium
to its capacity.
Miss Farrar. had Il not been for
Tsnueaal ctrcumsta noes. would not he
an1,ear M m Richmond For some
reason she could not make satisfactory
financial arrangements with the Metro
noitau management last season and
r--rYrrf f>.f~ ~, t+ts izs tian at the
erl ~ last wear Stree that time she
l1aa been giving rrcitals all over the
country Tho strenuous work OF
travel wore down an Miss Fsrrsr ana
she was taken ~ in 81. Louis two
weeks ago. She has entirely recover
cd however, and will appear here
without fail. according TO AN an
nounccment made by her Richmond
manager last night,
Miss Farrar viii he assisted IN hef
recital by Reina'd werrenrath, one of
tho greatest of American baritone
Fingers, Ada Sossol. the well known
italian harpi=t. and Richard Epstein,
who has been heard several times in
Richmond before as accompanies for
celebrated artists.
Miss Farrar's program is exception
s1iv attractive. composers OF all no
tforalities having been given a place
In the repertoire Her final number.
the aria from Madame Bntterfly,"
written hv Puccinl will be anxiously
awaited b. tho immense audience.
Miss Farrar sang the leading part In
the onera when il was presented on
Broadway
John Drew In "Tbc Chief"
So many good things can be written
of the attractions here this week that
n In rather difficult TO enumerate
them ALI An announcement that Is
really stirring, though, is the one
bringing John Drew and Laura Hope
Crews OF screen fame. to Richmond
Friday night. Saturday night and sat
urday matinee In THE Chief" ster-
ing, successful comedy hy Horace An
nesley yacheli. Vachell's comedy
gained the unanimous approval of the
New York critics, although tho play
is one Of his first The company which
supports MIR. Drew is weil-known here.
Among the performers are That's Law
ton tcusneio Bailey. Catherine stew
art, Gorge Graham and Vaughan
Trevor
Manager Wise will begin the week
~ the Academy with n comic operetta,
the quality Of which undoubted.
Edith Thayer. former ar of The
Firefty," seen here eason, will
he at the head of q and COM
retent company in ''rht t'easa MT Gill"
When it Is mentioned here that Leo
Stein who wrote the lines for 1.-The
Merry Widow" and Oscar Nedbal.
who ranks with Vivian Caryll Victor
Herbert and Rudolf ffriml in the COM
position of enhancing music. are the
authors of the play. nothing more need
be said. As far as Miss Thayer is con-
rerned she has been seen here more
than once. and always by sarge audi
ences.
Wells Takes Over Little
An announcement of much impor-
lance to piaygoers will be made to-
morrow by Jake Wells, who controls
the majority of Richmonds play
houses. The Wells interests yesterday
acquired the Little Theater. one OF
the highest class moving picture en-
poriums in the city. from tn Hot
heimers. of Norfolk. Mr.. Wells VIII
not make any immediate change in