Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 346, 20 October 1911 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PAIXADIITM AND SUN-TIXEGKAM, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1911.

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The Theaters

COUNTRY CLUBS ARE HERE TO STAY

"THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE." A play that runs its course through to the finale and amuses with its genuine humour rather than through paradoxes and suggestlvnesB, is an unusual spectacle nowadays but that was een at the Gennett last night in the presentation of "Thy Neighbor's Wife" by one of the Daniel Frohman companies. Here is a charming little comedy that can box in the light-weight class and never once hit under the belt. The play does not need to be sustained by players nor bolstered up by artificial theatrical devices. It can stand alone. It has for its basis one of those farcical situations which, according to the things you read in the newspapers, might easily obtain in "real life," but which people think could only be evolved through the medium of a playwright's fancy and the stage. It concerns the doings of two sets of young married people living side by aide in the suburbs a domestic man nd a frivolous woman, on the one hand, a domestic woman and a frivolous man on the other; of their mutual realization of their seeming mis-

Vnatedness and of their agreement to trade round if, after a "trial engagement" of a week in each other's houses, all still continue "of the same anind." The men enter into this semi-Beri-ously. The women played them off J against each ot her in order to retain their respective husbands whom they Teally cared about. The resultant complications were, naturally, ludicrous nd abounding in absurdities. The charm of the play lay, however, In its really comic spirit. In that the 'taction was the result of the situations, tot the latter of the former; that the Jcomedy was Involved in the fabric of the story and was not lugged in by Itbose working out the story's details. 'A play with this technical merit is ifare in this day of conglomeration of anomalies and a little of everything thrown In to"ralse a laugh" or get an ; effect. The laughs and effects in a comedy should follow just as logically as the arguments In a premise. The play as seen here was admirably presented, with Mr. Arthur Byron, iNan agreeable and well known Ameri'can actor, and Miss Pamela Gayrthorne, an English actress, first brought to this country by the New Theater Company, in the leading roles.

Mr. and Mrs. John itobmns. lhey were 'ably complemented by Miss Alice John and Mr. Frederick Tiden as Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller. Mr. Byron is an actor who is funny In a natural way seemingly natural. Its the perfect illusion of naturalness and that is, of course, perfect theatric art. Both Mr. Byron and Mr. Tiden are delightful comedians and interpret the American spirit. Miss Pamela Gaythorne is a versatile young woman of much histrionic and physical charm and gave her role a theatric elat it might easily have lacked with a less experienced player, her clear enunciation being not the least attractive aspect of her presentation. Miss Gaythorne was run a close second by Miss Alice John, whose personal charms are compelling to a very insistent degree. Miss John, in short, is a beautiful young woman and can really act, a gift possessed by very few of her alleged confreres. Both Miss Gaythorne and Miss John betrayed their nationality in their quality of voice and Inflection and while their -enunciation was clear and distinct in conspicuous contrast to the slovenly nd affected manner of speech of many American actresses there was rjust a shade of monotony in the reading of their lines. Miss Kathryn Keys took the small part of a newspaper woman very well although newspaper people on the stage are rarely convincing and , Richard Klein and Frank Elton as the Chinese laundryman and the baker's ,l)oy sustained minor roles well. However, what's the matter with 'this town. It is known among theatrical peo,ple as a "rotten show town" and with reason. Mr. Murray says, and well, that he tlsn't out to "educate the people" fthat he's in it for business. Mr. Som.irers' experience during the past three (.years when especially last he 'brought leading plays and players there at a continued loss has convinced Mr. Murray that only an occasional ''good thing" will be patronized. This was illustrated last evening iwhen a small theater the size of the Oennett was only fairly filled. Nothing better this or any other 'season will be seen in Richmond than Thy Neighbor's Wife" and its a pity

the town can't get out to only one of

the two decent plays we've seen so far

this year. R. G. W.

Ideal of This Social Institution, While a Delightful One, Seldom Realized Career of Former Residents of Richmond Romantic.

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BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Nearly every town of twenty thousand has a Country club. Richmond has had one for a number of years. Not long ago there appeared in an out-door issue of Collier's an article on "The Country Club," which was more or less amusing. It was evidently written by someone who did college settlement work

or had that ideal before him when j acquaintance with the resident of this

some amusing notions current in town about the Country club. Of wild orgies and bibulous gayety. The truth is that nothing more mild and harmless than the doings of this

i suburban club hostelry could be coni ceived of. Nothing worse than pop of various hues and degrees of tastelessness was ever served in liquid form and the eats to be obtained from

time to time are made up largely of fried chicken and hot biscuits. A dolorous dance now and then and an occasional bridge party make up the sum total of its social activities in the large. The house itself is an old brick one and has been changed within from a series of small rooms into a receptionroom, a long living-room, a dining-

officer of impeccable family, thus insuring her against the extradition suf

fered by a number of her compatriots

through the new and more rigid regime of King George and Queen Mary. It is said that when Mrs. Chauncey was having her portrait painted by a famous artist in New York, a Richmrmrl mnn whn knw the artist, was

in the latter's studio. Mrs. Chauncey j room and kitchens below; with abil-

could not, for some reason recall her

writing. This writer said that a Country club was a sort 'of social meeting ground for the young people of the community. That it embodied in itself all the advantages of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., with certain perquisites of an alluring character unknown to the entertainment repertoire of the latter admirable institutions. Not in so many words, to be sure, said the article, but to that effect. A Country club i, in theory, a delightful institution. Its ideal, combining the maximum of out-door liv-

city even after an introduction. She did not remember very much about Richmond. Indeed she had forgotten all about Indiana. However, this is rather far away from Country clubs. Whatever may or may not be their faults, it is through these institutions that the game of golf has been introduced and practiced in this country. Richmond, in instance, had the second golf club to be organized in this country west of the Alleghenies, and although no brilliant golf has ever been seen on the local links the club has consistently played the game ev-

liard and woman's dressing-room-

above and the quarters for the steward and his wife. The advantages of a club of this sort are manifest. The golf links are "sporty" and kept in good condition, there is much breathing space and a place to entertain out of town people. In the summer time meals can be

t served out-of-doors or on the veranda

and it isn't necessary to bother with anyone beside yourself. Altogether the local Country club is an excellent institution and one which the town should not be without.

ing with an admixture of social in-!er since its start.

tercourse is charming but it is seldom realized. "The home of snobbery," said some one referring to that of his own town. This is often the case. But every town is the home of snobbery. Snobbery is supposed not to exist in a democracy. But it is here found in its rankest luxuriance. There are no class distinctions in America, think foreigners. That is the reason that Miss Smith of Topeka, or Miss Jones of Omaha, has as much chance in Ijondon, say, for social recognition, as Miss Goldenrocks of New York. That is, if she has the necessary money and the introductions. This was illustrareo" by the career of the Miss Carrs who once lived in this town coming here from Kentucky and who are now, or were during King Edward's later days, among the socially conspicuous of London's exclusive social sets. The social history of the Carr girls reads like a romance. Of undistinguished family or ancestry, with no fortune, but with much beauty and an ambitious mother they now occupy a position in continental society, or,

rather English society, achieved by very few American women aside from the fabulously rich, of New York or one or two other cities. Mrs. Chauncey, who was before her firBt marriage, Alice Carr, and who has recently married an army officer of exalted birth, was the great beauty of the family, her sister, Grace, now Lady Newborough, being far from unusually pretty although now she equals her sister, it is said, in pulchritude. Going to Florida from Richmond at the height of the winter season, Mrs. Chauncey met and became engaged to her first husband, a man of wealth and a resident of Brooklyn. When he died, she took her mother and sister abroad and through the prestige of her first marriage and an entire confidence in her ability to storm the most impregnable social fortress, succeeded in becoming one of those American women making up "the King's set" during the later regime of Edward VII. marrying her sister off to a Welsh peer. In the social mixup that resulted after the "accession of the new king and queen, MrB. Chauncey showed her discretion in uniting with a British army

First on the Dougan farm south of town, the club enlarged its membership and links by removing to the Matti property east of the city on the National road, where it remained as a Coif club until it was evoluted into the present Country club which has, since its beginning, occupied the pres-

I ent site.

There have, at different times, been

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