The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-14
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"Maytime'' Is Play
of Rarest Beauty

Merry and wistful tragic and gay,
warm with the life and laughter OF
three generations and more; play
that compcls absorbed attention.
music that one remembers gratefully
in the uakeful wee hours long after
the curtain has fallen, the crowd all
departed, the lights all out--thats
"Maytime." which opened three
davs engagement at the Academy last
night
It's an attraction that the most
conservative of theater-goers, the
chap who simply won't take a
chance" wouldn't think of missing
If he only knew what some of US
learned between $3.50 and II o'clock
/ on rainy night. The thing that
has lured us to many a. show, the
chance of finding something auperia-
lively fine which we had not expect
ed made good.
The story of the play deals with
the love OF petted girl of the hoop
skirt age and II magnificent lad, her
fathers apprentice, an honest and
abiding affection which never falls
I them. though destiny seems unkind.
In Vernal youth, in the fun summer
lido of maturity, In Lbs fading tWl-
/ light OF age, hove holds true and
/ in.the new sprinGtime OF a new cen
! fury. reincarnated In their grand
/ children, that love blossoms anew in
/ eternal beauty.
Eileen van Riene and Worthe
Faulkner, as the lovers, in them
selves present Il remarkable piece of
hstrionic art--each in four distinct
! character parts in AS many acts, bot h
/ CT, oh ,ty~St
! lyrics wichh touch deeply the tender
est emotions Scenes are laid in New
York in 1870, in 1865, In the SOS and
| in the present century. Costumes
follow the fashions prevailing in
those days, those of the present be-
/ ing exceedingly up-to-the minute.
| Every little detail of dress, speech
and social custom is faithfully shown
in series OF vivid pictures in which
| every member of the large company
! has n noticeable part
The members OF the cast, artists
every one, deserve indf<>lual men
ton for the weIl-nigh fiawless pre-
( sentation of most notable produc-
ton.
Three more performances--one to-
! night and two commemorative OPP
I portunity for those who were not
present last night to make amends
to themselves Nobody who really
cares for the best that the modern
stage offers viii miss the opportunity
I ttis sDLTNE BILL At TIiB LYRIC
Three screaming comedies. ciev-
! er singing act and pretty girls in
gymnastics were the headiiners at
! he Lyric last nigh. Manager Tex
( has not in several weeks gwen the
/ pa.ropc Of his PLAYHOUSE a more en-
| terta :TiGr Offering.
+ Rector, Weber md Lang pull
/ 4. Q ne clever topical songs and were
! ds.scrvodly rat9tt!ed. but thc fnr bar,
/ rel was opened with Charles and
! Adelaide Hf,lk enes IN An entirely
/ a;'g lral ret, "Ignotz." The title rs
meaningless. but II affords this ex-
{ t3Pgnely clever pair Of entertainers
y opportunity for immediate popular
ling themselves with Lyric patrons
, G'i patrons Of the house cannot re
can A more original sketch nor one
nhauN ding in more continuous hi
larity
The Strike Breaker" is another
3. X, o, bill when crowds who
laughed and applauded the comedy
7et NIGHT tell their friends about
tod7y
sam Lazar and Joe Dale staged
sketch Joining the Union" II is
IN Ethiopian traveSty, having moth
tnr whatever 10 do with a union,
+ hut affordinG both I>axar and Dale
plenty cf room for their oxterenr o.
I ~ entertaining comedy work. This
ls perhaps the star act Of the bin,
and aid much 10 detrsct from the
eStnnastic bed chamber acrobatics
Of two exceedingly pretty girls who
closed the evening performance
The same bin WIN be presented
this evening and Wednesday.