The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-12
PATRIOTIC SPIRIT
RUNS RAMPANT IN
LYRIC VAUDEVILLE

: The spirit of patriotism pervades
: each of the two shows Manager
!. Charles W. Rex is bringing to the
6 Lyric this week. Echoes from the
:. blood stained battlefields of Europe
blend with the hilarity of several OF
!. the acts of recent production. Mar
9 tai music and the jests and songs
|. or the soldier boys enliven two OF
u the features prominent in the list an
= nounced.
More than a thousand actors who
. were popular on the vaudeville stage
have enlisted or been drafted in Uncle
. SANS service in the last year, Many
4 Of these men were writer's for the
: stage. They are constantly contribu-
s ting songs, sketches and other ma
:. teral and vaudeville is consequently
: kept better abreast OF the times than
!" any other division of the amusement
: stage
= Among the feature acts for the first
81. half Of the week is the recent New
" York~hft, Children of France II is
- thrilling playlet. based upon an &C
= tual incident OF the war Colgate
D. Baker. of the field artillery. is the
= author. The story has to do with two
a. French children. held as spies by the
!. Germans. When the girl is searched
she is found with a map showing the
: position of the Boche guns IN her
shoes. The Hun captain demands TO
y know who made the map. The girl
~ heroica lily def1es the Hun, but the boy
=, aecretly tells the captain he will con
+" fess II the life of hts sister Is spared.
= The German off1cer is eventually out
= witted and slain by a. French soldier.
V incorporating as a Hun and the heroic
z girl and her brother escape.
A. The Human Gard Index.
~ Arthus Lloyd. the famous Human
~
" feature or the bill I.ioyd's perform
= ance is genuine novelty. He keeps
y. his audience hewildered and laugh
Ing. from the opening TO the close
OF his unusual exhibition.
On the bill also is Julian Hill. the
. eonicai Jazz Boy who Is bringing
:. Els Enthusiastically funny tass act and
4 dareeologue, wtiirl Of fun palpitant
{. with originality.
i Olive Brtscoe a talented singing and
!. talking Coincidence, is an uncommon
= artist. possessing talent OF y high order
which she uses in singing songs tina
- are original in matter and in delivery
and speaking lines that bear the same
- relation 10 her originality. She
$50 has been the recipient OF the hi CHEST
a praise from the critics and yaude-
:. Vile play goers
- Her Songs All Original.
- Miss Briscoe is one OF the few
:. vaude williams who declines TO present
y any matter in her act which has been
- done by other artists. Her present
/. offering ia by Herbert Moore with an
- especially written number. "A Rugg
!, by Al Rauh, who Is her accom- PIANIST.
=. There has seldom been seen on the
! stage q more delicious bit of trasesty
- than that Offered by Ceilings and Hart
!. This delightful huriesaue on the feats
. common among such athletic perform
4 ers, is excrutiatingiy funny. and is so
perfectly done. that at times the audi
- ence bursts into applause forgetting
= for the moment that the feat is -
= hoax and not an actual accomplish
ment-
:. Somewhere in France
So Four real soldiers. each OF whom
- received his "biighty" in the battle
=. Of Arre,s. will supply the feature act
=. of the show that comes the latter
half OF the week. The act has been
>. the hat OF the winter season in the
metropolitan cities.
!. The scene Is trench on the west
- crn front A Canadian. a Highlander.
:. an Irishman and a Cockney are hold
% ing an advanced observation post and
~ during the hull in the fighting they
amuve themselves in the manner
soldiers do,
The act consists of good natured
raillsry among themselves punctatcd
q" by the singing of songs dear TO the
+ hearts os the boys in the trenches, and
r. the poem, st Julien" will ever live
y IN the hearts of the Canadians as
The Charge OF the Light Brigade"
= lives in the hearts of the British
80 Frcsid Elliott the Boob.
Every small town has one~-the
-wiseacrs who believes he is too old
for the communicable chap who
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