The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-13
Season of Musical
Comedy Brings
Vanity Fair to Lyric

The Lyric is to have a brief season
of musical comedy. beginning with the
matinee performance tomorrow ~ner-
noon. Manager Rex is springing
pleasant surprise on the patrons of
the vaudeville thestsr He has Sc
cured for Monday Tuesday and We'd
uesday Boyle Woolfolk's big produc-
ton OF VANITY Fair" with it's pre-
EeTr-T7TE crTTr1 FHrrv- Of twenty-five Come
dams singers, dancers and specially
artists. To say nothing Of the largest
bevy OF pretty and shapeiy showgirls
GFanad- ths-po pular-p rlce
stage in Richmond.
The engagement OF Vanity Fair"
does not denote change in the policy
Of the I.yric. The brief season of mu-
steal comedy is merely By way of va
riety. Vaudeville will be reinstated at
the end of the engagement of the
Boyle Voolfolk production. There
Will be three performances each day.
as usual and the same scale of prices
will obtain.
Vanity Fair" Is the most elaborate
~ staged girl and song show ever
brought 70 Richmond ut popular
prices The big cast Is headed by
Jack Trainor. principal comedian last
season with Watch Your step" one
of the most pronounced hits on
Broadway
s'even-Act Comedy.
q VANITY Fair is n revue in seven
scenes and fifteen musical numbers
and specialties, The setting of the
last scene ia a Moorish villa, and is
said to he he most elaborate and
artistic stage setting ever seen in
10 or n
duction alone costs small fortune.
and the costumes. designed by Madam
Verona, of New York, will be posi-
tive treat to theatergoers,
The Melting Pot number. origi-
mated by Mr.. Al Eaughiin and written
BY Mr. Felix Rice, is the big feature
in Woolfolk's Vanity Fair A large
melting pot is shown. with girls OF
dafferen: nations entering Same to
stirring martial music. After they dis
appear the melting pot opens up and
shows the entire ensemble in L. S. A.
costumes gathered on the White
House stairs. In Theses days OF in
tense patriotism this big novelty is
very apropos and a deserve6ly huge
success.
VANITY Fair is the most expen-
sive production ever produced for
vaudeville. representing an outlay of
nearly $4,000.
The return of vaudeville next Thurs
Gay will be s!gnaiized by the presen-
tation of an ail-feature-act bill. In
quality and variety the list OF attrac-
tions is notable one. Opening the
new show will be Louis Granat, the
worlds champion whistling comedian,
widely known in the realm of variety
as The Human Parrot" Granafs
limitations are excruciatlngiy funny
and startlinely realistic, His act is
one long laugh
Another novelty with a high record
as a laugh producer is the odd team
OF funmakers billed as 81. Hi and
Mar. They are three eccentric come
dy players Or remarkable versatility,
and they have an act that Is bristling
with laughing surprises.
II is really remarkable how many
innumera BILE ways the same thing can
be done. The reference apples to
men and women in vaudeville VINO
3, sing little, dance a little and talk
little. This is the groundwork on
which SO many acts are constructed.
and yet no two of them are alike.
Wiilial De Marest and Estelle Col
lette further demonstrate how entire
Il ~ different these things can be done
than they have been done before.
They label their brand OF amusement
z "A Mirthful Rhapsody of Vaudeville
It'd Bits and further explain
that it is trifing talk. fancy adding
and a careless cello
Josie F1ynn's Minstrel Maids.
In the language % tk> interlocutor,
Bones will sing Love Me or Leave
Ne Alone Bones In this specific
casa ..apfsei.s TO he OF the feminine
variety, and is Miss Josie Flynn. who
hwads q minstrel organization bearing
her name, and composed entirely OF
young women. The personnel of the
MINISTRIES Includes an interlocutor. two
end women and quartet OF vocalists
In the circle II is said that Miss
Flynn on one OF the ends manages
TO give ss good an account of herself
as did or do any OF the end men who
have donned burnt cork. Miss Lillian
Mills is the Tambo. and holds down
the end opposite Miss Flynn most
credtably. The four young women
IN the circle sing well and help to
contribute a minstrel first part that
liz ex ,eedinglv praiseworthy.
Shadows IRA pms In the hands of Mr..
and Mrs Gordon Wilde Is an art.
These two makers of shadow crea
tons who hail from London. not only
produce on sheet animated pictures,
bat show in Silhouette various celebr.-
ties. MIR. Wiide's hands are truly
wonderful and with them and those
Of his wife's he is able to depict ac-
curateiV various fafnnyArd scenes and
: Inhabitants OF the jungle and many
other interesting and novel features.
Mr.. and Mrs Gordon Wilde scored
an emphatic hit at the London Coli
scum, and their american engage
ment will probably be equally as in
teresting.
Motion picture exhibits will accom-
pany the vaudeville bills and each
e performance OF Vanity Fair" The
movies include the latest war films
= nAW faYcpg and the ilSf1al screen
cellany.