Show AMUSEMENTS The Grand theatre beautiful with its new nw decorations opened last lust night to tb a capacity house The Time gory gor melodrama usually seen at this theatre was replaced by a pretty southern ro mance in which all of the members of oC the time new Grand stock company had excellent opportunities to show their ability I IThe The Belle Bell of Richmond is a delight delightful I ful Cut drama with just the necessary touches I of pathos and humor to make it appeal to the average a crage playgoer The story is not nota a new one but its handling is original and I entertaining It Is the th romance of a south southern ern em belle who has two lovers loers One sends her imer a bouquet of oC red roses rosea and the other othera a bunch of white ones Through the theer er error error of a colored servant the young lady lad ladIs Is led to believe that the time man she loves most has I nt her the white ones She wears them and of course the necessary complications ensue A bank robbery In which lover No o 2 Is implicated aids in the time thickening of or the plot Lover Loer No 1 tries to shield his rival whom he believes the heroine loves and the prospects of a happy termination of the love affair appear remote Then comes the confession the discovery of oC the time error of the servant and finally the happy happ de denouement denouement denouement Miss ss Virginia Keating in time the title role gives an excellent portrayal p of the char character character character acter Her manner Is decidedly pleasing and the time difficulties of the time part are over overcome overcome overcome come by her easy cas graceful acting Wil William 11 liam Jossey Josse as Gerald Gordon the hero of or the drama is not too unselfish not too courageous and not too unreal He is an actor of ability and his selection to head the stock company com pan insures for it a suc sue successful successful season John Dvorak is an or ordinary ordinary sort of villain not a vil villain villain villain lain but just the lifelike kind He bite his nails nor pursue the heroine with witha a blacksnake and a Ii bottle of chloroform but is content with robbing his employer that he may be able to meet the obliga obligations obligations his recklessness has occasioned The Theother Theother Theother other parts are well cast castOne castOne castOne One of o the features of oC the opening is the excellent scenery The exterior scene In the time first act Is that of a southern man mansion mansion mansion sion The scene was painted by b C L Mc McFarland McFarland Ic Farland the scenic artist who took as a model a beautiful Brigham street home Time The scenery seener for the other acts is all new The Time of ot Boston are still the headliners at the Orpheum but this week they the share honors with several other ex cx extra extra tra good acts making the bill an espe especially especial daily cial attractive one The program of oC the time ladles ladies orchestra last evening was a very er pleasing one Among the time good numbers were Die Glathe by Von Yon The Time Flatterer a caprice by b and The Jolly Musicians humoresque by Muscat Redford Bedford and Winchester inch ester opened the bill last night with exceptionally clever and amusing juggling balancing and hoop roll rolling rolling ling ing The two Pucks in 11 character songs are a clever team of oC Juvenile entertain entertainers ers era Winning a Queen Is 1 a novel fantasie In which Frank Prank Gardner and Miss Lottie Vincent appear to advantage A t unique feature of the sketch Is the time grotesque scenic effect Fred Warren and Al AI Blanchard are not new in vaudeville neither is their act but theY were given hen givena hena a good reception by the audience Some of ot their jokes are getting old but the time I mannerisms of Fred Warren are always pleasing The three Mosher brothers have havea a novel noel and clever bicycle turn Mr tr and Mrs George Gorge A Beane with their delightful youngster Doering Deering Bean Beane who made a hit last week with the Or Orpheum audiences In the time clever let UA A Womans Way occupied a box at last evenings Orpheum performance |