This post, ladies and gentlemen, is simply an exercise to prove that I would have been a DAMNED good copywriter for the Times-Dispatch in 1923.

Richmonders!

Perhaps you have heard its plaintive strains from your neighbor's windows.

Perhaps you were there when the COLUMBIA records were played for demonstration at the WALTER MOSES COMPANY.

Perhaps, a few years ago, you discovered it through sheet music, and wondered...when you might hear it performed?

Richmonders, "Perhaps" is no longer. "Perhaps" is TO-DAY and ALL THIS WEEK-END.
For it is this Week-End that the
COLONIAL

is proud to present to You, our Loyal Patrons and Fellow Richmonders...

Alexandre Luiguini's
Ballet Egyptien.


Of course, we all know our City's Broad Street, but--imagine, if you will... the change in moods, as you step from the central City's bustle...into, first, the cool and majestic marble of the Colonial's reception room. Imagine, if you will... as an exotic Girl of the Harem, or a dashing Arab Cavalier guides you to your seat.
Imagine... as, instead of the COLONIAL you have known for two years now, you see before you a world of ancient wonder. A dreamland of the Orient--brought to Richmond.

You are, of course, familiar with the COLONIAL'S famed marble lobbies, its soaring ramps, its gracious tea-garden. BUT--neighbors, are you prepared to see our City's premiere Theatre, decked as though for the wedding of a Pharaoh of Egypt?

THIS WILL BE YOURS---RICHMONDERS!!!! THIS WEEKEND ONLY AT THE COLONIAL.

FOR THIS WEEKEND---
AN EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT---
ESPECIALLY FOR THE COLONIAL ----

THE ORCHESTRA OF THE AUSTRIAN IMPERIAL OPERA
PERFORMS...........

BALLET EGYPTIEN.