Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 146, 4 April 1909 — Page 3

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THE THEATER

THEATRICAL CALENDAR. GENNETT. Thursday, April 8. "The Holy City." Saturday, April 10 "Paid in Full." Week of April 12 North Bros. Tuesday, April 20 "A Broken Idol." Wednesday, . April 21 "The Great Divide." NEW PHILLIPS. AM Week High Class Vaudeville. North Bros., Comedians. This popular attraction will open a 'week engagement at the Gennett theater with matinees daily, April, 12, and during their engagement the patrons of the Gennett will be treated to high class comedy and drama never before seen here, at popular prices. The company is a stron gone this season. The company is headed by Mr. Harry Chapln North, and Miss Virginia Goodwin, two of the best repertoire people In the business, and they have played here several times and are great favorites here. The company carries, five big vaudeville acts. Their opening .play Monday night is Jon Jasper's Wife, and ladies will be admitted free if tickets are purchased before 6 p." m., Monday.'

dances which are real pleasing as the opening number tomorrow.

"A Broken Idol." Those who believe that success on the stage comes through favoriteism, and that the people who follow the theatrical, profession are ready , at all times to take 'advantage of influential friends to help them on their road to ucce88; would find their theories shattered in the history of achievements of Miss Alice Yorke. the dainty prima donna of "A Broken Idol" company, which comes to the Gennett theater 'April 20, after a phenomenally successful engagement of nine months at the Whitney Opera House in Chicago. Miss Yorke is the daughter of the late H. J. Hill, for many years manager of the Toronto exhibition and numbered her acquaintances in places of influence in theatrical affairs, by the hundreds before she decided to take up the stage as a profession. Yet, when she started out a miss of little more than sixteen, she went to a manager fwho knew nothing of her and secured a position in the chorus of "The Isle of Spice." She worked as one of the dancers until the musical comedy had been well started on its run in Boston and familiarized herself with the various roles so that when the young lady doing the ''Mother Witch" was taken 111, ten minutes before the curtain was scheduled to go up on a matinee, she volunteered to go on. As it was necessary to either let her on or cut the part out of the performance, Mr. B. C. Whitney, who is still her manager, consented. She was such a success in the role, that a starring engagement in the role of Theresa in the same piece followed.

"The Holy City. No play has ever won for itself so much human love and so much of true friendshop from the whole public as Clarence Bernett's "The Holy City." It takes hold of the heart of the auditor at once. It bears that magic spell of genius that makes it real to an auditor. He at once forgets that it is a play and Is carried away with its realism. Having once seen it, It ever after takes on n sort of personality. It becomes to as like some person whom we have known and loved. We remember it not as a play, but as an old friend, and on its return, hasten to grasp it by the Itarfd and say "Welcome." It is the only play that pleases everybody. This is the one true mark of real genius in a dream. Another is. that every time you see it-again, you find new and beautiful things that you have never Been in it before. This Is one of the few plays that will live to delight our grandchildren and their children after them.

The New Phiilip. SUU the comedy foils on. Laughter and light words are not barriers nvhen they are rich enough to please. If this were a supposed tragedy which the Phillips promises, then they would do away with the laughter and light word and trot out the ghost, likewise company, in which Harvey Hayward is a distinguished star, are not pretending to be the beef-eating tragedians. They are staging "The King of Blackwellis," which 1 one of the most laughable productions on the modern stage. It has been a long time since Richmond saw any shadowgraph pictures. That Is mostly the reason why there rill be a large crowd at the opening performance tomorrow. Then the reason for the large crowds at the ether performances will be that the Vaudeville lovers realize that the AI-

Enzo Cox company have the art down preciseness. ' Stella Biaehart promises to give the

"Paid In Full." Writing in the New York American, Alan Dale, the world-famed critic, said: "The photographic power displayed in the characterization of the men and women in 'Paid In Full is the most commanding thing I have ever seen. It is a revelation and Eugene Walter, its author, and Wagenhals and Kemper, the managers, are to. be congratulated for giving the American stage so valuable a property." With a superb cast and a magnificent production, "Paid In Full" will be presented at the Gennett theatre on April 10, matinee and night. It will be given here as perfectly as at the Astor theatre, New York, where it played two seasons. The play also has a record of five months' run at the Grand Opero House, Chicago. The The cast that will present "Paid In Full" here is a brilliant one and -local theatre-goers can look for a real'treat. The indications are that 'a packed

house will greet the play on its local debut.

"The Great Divide." Few plays ever attain the recordbreaking popularity that has marked the two years' run of "The Great Divide" in New York. This play was produced by Henry Miller two years ago at the Princess and transferred to the historic Daly's theater last season, playing in aii over six hundred performances to the largest receipts in the hitsory of either house. This greatest American play comes to the Gennett theater in the near future.

The owners of grain godowns and warehouses in Calcutta are compelled by municipal regulation to pave with concrete to prevent the Ingress of rats, which, it is believed, will aid materially in the extermination of this active distributor of the plague germ.

British capital is to start a steel foundry at San Diego, Cal., using British Columbian ore.

How Houses Become Haunted. Nothing is easier than for a house to acquire the reputation of being haunted, even in the absence of uncanny manifestations. Dickens shows us the; children of the street clustering round the keyhole of the Old Curiosity Shop to look for "the ghost" within a few hours of Quilp's removal of the goods and the desertion of the house. And a correspondent used to live in a house near the center of a provincial town one room of which was believed by some to be haunted solely because the Iron shutter that closed its window o the street side was never raised. The simple explanation was that this window was bricked up behind the shutter to secure privacy for the grouad floor room in question a drawing room lighted from the garden, on the other side. London Chronicle.

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"Yes, sir, 1 once lost over $80,000 In less than two weeks." "Whew! That was going some. How did you do itr "By not buying about 10,000 shares of a certain stock that went up $8 a share without a single setback." Chicago Record-Herald.

VAUDEVILLE. Dalf Week, April 5 FIRST THREE DAYS DAYWARD'S PISTEL CO. Presenting Harry R. Hayward's Comedy Success : "The King of Dteckwellis" 7 OTHER BIG ACTS 7 Admission 10 cents to all parts of the house. Entire change of pragram Moaday Thursday

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By Clarence Bennett , With Pauline Harice as "Salome"; Princess of Galilee The most sublime play ever written. Endorsed by the clergy, press and public. Sale at box off ice, Tuesday morning, 10 a. m. Special prices, 25, 35, 50, 75.

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