The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-30

Tip y Passed Around and Managers
Get Ready - RegnnAe Season
InteErupecd ~ 'Tlu."

Richmond theatre and moviegoers
who have besa chAtng under tbs RS
straint imposed some three weeks and
more aSo by the local health authcri-
tie have cAuDe 70 rsjoics. It 10 not
only possible. hat extremely probable,
ted to reopen. next Monday. In fact.
this can ~ taken n Z tip from ons
who II Fin the know
So aAnguine are tne several theatre
managers that already 'paper'--that
ID, huge. glaring posters announcing
Ma Marsh and RiA Hart and Doug
Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin and
wallace Reid and Mary Piclxford and
ho0t OF other screen entertainers are
being got ont Of the various stock
rooms and busted on preparatory to
being pasted in the frames just out
s4de Of the theatres. Yes, sir. you can
bet your bottom dollar that Mary and
Charlie and Doug ard Bill and ali the
raDt Of the aim heroes and heroines
win b cutting mp their animated
cApers IN the screens Of Richmond
half score or more OF movie houses
next week.
Manager Harry McNiven, Of the
Bfjou and lists, wore . pleased smile
Yesterday. He had thought for the
church9oers. too. He rid that the
V00ACA1ND WV0lQ 4OOk open 88Aln, AS
everything has been closed 20 long.
Manager Leo Wise, OF the Academy
said that the theatre would reopen
Wednesday with lou Teilegen in
Blind Youth This play had long
and s10caanful Yun on Broadway in
New York. Added interest attaches
to the engagement Of Mr.. Teliegen by
the fact that he IL the husband of
Geraldine Farrar. grand opera star
ana screen actress. Blind Youth"
Will remain over fer Thursday.
The Lyric. where Charles Rex and
Mert Wilbsr hold forth. also " getting
ready with an unusually attractive bill
for bo<h the opening and closing
halves Of next week.
Several Of the movie houses
notably tho Colonial and victor-have
been treated to paint inade and out
and viii prevent 4 sptc-and span ap-
pearancs when the reopening takes
place.
Attractions 1t the Academy that
have been ompelieA to cancel on ao-
count Of the infiuen1a Epidemic were
THE Boomerang. Fair an d
Seven Dayy Leave" "Pollyanna."
Gus Hire Cslebrafed Female Min
st~A. The Score of guxanne"--the
laDt named An opera. Manager Wise
aid yesterday that it h possible that
several u them may book In later
One Of the biggest New York sue
ceGDeg that had been booked for the
AeeAemy was Al Woods Friendly
Enemfea." In which L0uis Mann and
SAm barnard have been playing to
capacity houses in New York since
late summer. the show being the FIRST
to open the season, ahead OF time, in
the metropolis
Beginning Monday and continuing
all week David Wark Griffiths super
picture. Hearts OF the World" a love
story of the great war. will be the at
traction at the City Auditorium This
picture has had a long and success
fui run in New York and is pro-
nounced ore Of the greatest pictures
Of the conflict ever shown
The gross receipts Of all Of the
Richmond theatres being corn puted Mt
between $S5.oo0 and sac. 900 weekIy.
It In estimated that the houses have
been deprived Of bVtween sac. 900
AID $lSe,eoo during the four weeks
tins hid has been on. Most OF the
houses. II IL said. have been paying
sixty per cent or more Of their accus-
tened payroll during the period Of
enforced idleness.