Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 15

AMUSEMENTS, Telephone 1531, Week Commencing Sun. Mat., April 20 Today 2:30—Tonight 8:15 Les Troubadours Toulousains Renowned Vocalists. Lew Bloom Original Tramp Comedian. Dooley and Fowey Comedians, Vocalists and Dancers. Harmony Four Musical Quartet Terpsichorean Wonders. Loney Haskell Such a Rascal Brothers Gloss Gladiatorial Gymnasts. Kinodrome Showing Great Mexican Bull Fight In presence of President Dinz and Cabinet and scenes from Omaha Transmississinol Expositiom, including President McKinley visiting exposition and others. Prices, IOc. 25¢, 50c. lllacos Trocadero W 2809 TODAY—10c AND 20, MATINEE Bntire week, Including Saturday, Bpectally Re-engaged, MADISON SQUARE CY( evening. WHIR| The only spectaclo of lts kind. = THREE RIDERS. will be more exciting this week. In conjunction with the CITY CLUB BURLESQUERS, Always the leader. Hand- some burlesque queens. 10 Amateur comedians. choristers, Presenting two new bur- Night lesques, entitled, Every “FROM BROADWAY TO Friday. PEKIN,” and “THE SOUSA GIRLS. 0OLI0: Marion Delmore, EVENING PRICES tte Evan Devoe, Musical Bixby a pman, 10, Comical Blunderers, Leslie and Allen, 20 Away from the Others. Empire Quartette, 30¢ The Best Ever. SMOKE IF Jennette Dupree, YOU LIKE The Girl with the Sweet Voice Two shows dal 8:15. Telephone the Cycle Whirl, t Woodward & Burgess, BOYD S— Managers. Tomght. Last Performance of The Climbers” Bargain Prices—25c, §0c, T5c, $1.00. STIIB.EEA.IQR Bflll.llflm HOME OF IGH CUSS OPERA DERN SATIRE N) flfm% eff -SULTAN c'flaw COURT GF SULUZ= _ CONCEDED TO BE THE MOST PRODUCTION OF # YHE YEAR, WITH A RECORD OF & 60000 k40P Wekks chol} :xdl acsk: Chicago 45 £5 matinee, 2:15; evening, $00 for your seats to see » season’s blggest hit. IH SI.A ..“.“m““..mw Mrs. Thomas J. Kelly, Soprano. Miss Nora McCabe, Contralfo. Mr. McCreary, Tenor. Mr. Stein, Basso. D T e . THE MADRIGAL QUARTETTE R e L D Engagements Masonle ply to THOMAS J. KELLY. Davidge Block. .““.......mw HERBERT H. ELLIOTT Meacher of Ma Guitar & Danjo. 15th and Harney Streets. Studio hours, 10 a. m. limited to funerals, rituals and musicales. Ap- 812 Ramge Blk. to § p. m., except Tuesdays and Fridays. Telephone BIG HOTELS. me MILLARD ***% a3 Doshis ™~ FirsT cLABS cutsIv LUNCHEON, F1FTY ChNs > ll'NDAY §:30 P glNN‘R 1s 6 special Miliara fea ture. Soes Amusements THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1902 As the end of the 1601-02 theatrical season of draws near enthuslasm seems to be on the wane and there is a noticeable falling off in the attendance at the local playhouses. It is true that there was little last week to attract theater goers aside from tho engagement of Amelia Bingham's company In ““The Climbers’ at the Boyd the latter balt of the week, yet the patronage, accorded this excellent attraction was no- where near in keeping with its merits as an entertainment, all of which is to sav that other things are claiming the attention of theater-goers to such an extent that only a star or play of extraordinary repu- tatlon will take them to the theaters in any great numbers. Maude Adams, who comes the latter half of this week. will un- doubtedly play to audiences which will test the seating capacity of the theater at each performance, in fact, Manager Burgess an- nounces that he has already booked more orders for seats for this engagement than for any other attraction that has visited Omaha this season. Richard Mansfield. with his new play, “Beaucaire,” will of course turn hundreds away, but for the other com- ing attractions there seems to be little in store. It the company which appeared here last week under Amella Bingham's direction in “The Climbers” is a falr example of the dramatic organizations, women who step into managerial harness in the future may be expected to put on the road, may many more speedily follow the example of Miss Bingham. Less than half a dozen such well-balanced and uniformly excellent com- panies as this one have been seen here dur- Ing the present season, and with the possi- ble exception of the two Frohman stock companles, none better. So successful has Miss Bingham been as a manager that it Is announced she will put five companies on the road next season, all of which will be rehearsed In New York under her personal direction before the opening of the season. This woman entered the managerial field a year ago, when she directed the business affairs of the company, at the head of which she appeared as a star. Recently she se- cured a new play, “The Modern Magda- lene,” to appear in herself, and organized another company to take “The Climbers" on the road to play in territory which she had been unable to cover. So careful was she in selecting people for her road com- pany that wherever they have appeared they have been almost, if not quite, as well received as the one with Miss Bingham at its head, which originally produced the play in New York. The reason is quite apparent, since there is an air of polish and refine- ment about the individual members of the organization that marks them as being above the average, Speaking of Miss Bingham's success as a manager, her business representative, George Blumenthal, sald: “Miss Bingham's venture is something of an innovation in the dramatic line, yet there is really no g0od reason why any woman with intelli- gence and money should not succeed as a director of theatrical organizations. They do In other business and professional un- dertakings. As a matter of fact, there are many reasons why women should excel men as play producers. For Instance, Mfss Bingham has Introduced ideas In the stag- ing of ‘The Climbers' that would never have occurred to a man. Men know so little about the harmony of feminine costume, coloring and less about the interior ar- rangement of a home. A playwright will write a clever play, but when it comes to the detalls of staging and costuming he must call in = half dozen a ants, al- ways Including a woman or two. Men un- derstand the tout ensemble of stagecraft, perhaps, better than women, but when it comes to all of the sympathetic details of staging a play I belleve the woman is su- perfor. I have been convinced of this only after having been assoclated with Mies Bingham long enough to have had an op- portunity of carefully studying her meth- ods. She Is her own stage director, and while she is not with this company, as you know, and has not been with it since it left New York, her ideas are carried out and her Instructions followed minutely. For instance, whenever the manager or stage manager of the average theatrical company sees something done by a member of his company on the stage that he does not liko the person is told of it the minute he comes off of the stage. This often makes a player nervous or rattles him, 8o to speak, and the result is the rest of his per- formance that evening ls more often made worse rather than improved. Miss Bingham avolds this by stationing her stage manager on one side of the stage during a per- formance and his assistant on the other. During the progress of the play they make note of anything done on the stage that affects the performance in other than a beneficlal way. This is done night after night until the end of the week, Saturday morning, when a rehearsal is called and the players told of thelr faulta.” This interview took place during the Saturday morning rehearsal, which was held at the Boyd theater. Mr. Blumenthal and his stage manager were conducting it and as the notes were referred to, each player who has been guilty of a misdeed was called upon for an explanation. Mr. Blumenthal occupled a seat well down in front of the parquet, from which he directed the rehearsal, somewhat after the following manner: “Miss S—, you have been allowing your volce to rise to too high a pitch in this scene. Will you kindly modify it a trifle? Try it now. Too loud and high yet; soften it a bit. Ah, that's better. Miss B—, you let your voice drop on that speech last night and thereby lost your round of applause. Try it for me now and hold it up. That's good. Don't forget to do it so hereafter. Mr. K—, I notice you have been wearing & pair of evening trousers with a frock coat in this scene. Why do you do this? were not pressed. This is not tory excuse and if it occurs again will be fined for the offense. By the way, Miss G—, you lost two laughs that you have been getting all season In this scene Can you give me some good reason for it? No, you cannot. Well, I will tell you; you were not in the scene from the time you came onto the stage. Your mind was somewhere else than on your work. You were speaking your lines mechanically. Your others a satisfac- you | Don't ever let this occur again under penalty of your two weeks' notice,” and 80 on the reheasal went for nearly two hours, each scene in all of the four differ- ent acts being taken up separately. The players were not the only ones called upon | tor explanations, but the property man, the | electrician and all of the other attaches came in for criticism on some one point or other. After it was over, although some harsh words had been spoken, Mr. Blumen- thal called the company together and thanked them for their attendance and at- tention, thereby showing that nothing but the most pleasant harmony existed in the organization. “Behind the scenes during a performance the utmost precision prevails from the time the players are In their dressing rooms at 7:30 until the final curtain drops, con- tinued Mr. Blumenthal in his interesting conversation. “No one is allowed to leave his or her dressing room until the act is | called by the stage manager. No one is allowed to have visitors in their dressing rooms, neither s anyone outside the mem- bers of the company and the attaches of the stage allowed behind the scenes durlng a performance. Of course, these are gen- eral rules followed in almoest every well regulated company, but I have never seen them so rigidly enforced or generally re- epected as they are in Miss Bingham's com- panies. These things may seem trifilng de- talls, but they all help to make an ensemble that ls as nearly perfect as it can be, and thereln lies the success of this remarkable woman, whom I feel sure will win an en- viable position in the managerial world before much more time passes.’ Marian Garioux, whose character study of the wealthy social aspirant, Miss Godesby. was one of the most pleasing features of the performance of “The Climbers,” {s mak- 1ng preparations to head a company of her cwn in a starring venture during the season of 1903-4. Miss Garloux is remembered by Omaha theater-goers as having appeared in leading parts here with Nat Goodwin. Wil- lie Colligr in “The Man from Mexico” and “Why Smith Left Home.” She was also with De Wolfe Hopper for a time in comlio opera and {s the possessor of a splendid volce as well as ability as a legitimate actress. 8o successful was she in comio opera that Mr. Hopper made every effort to induce her to continue in that line of work, but as her aspirations were higher she abandoned it for the drama. in which she had a broader fleld to dlsplay her ver- satility. She was {ll for more thafi a vear and after her recovery left the stage to take up the study of surgery, which she fol- lowed for some time. Finally overcome by her desire to become a famous actress she returned to the stage again, entering Miss Bingham's company to play the part in which she is at present gaining additional fame and high tribute from the press throughout the country. Miss Garloux Is possessed of a personality that together with her abllity can hardly fall to win success for her and an enviable position in the stellar ranks of the theatrical profession. Coming Events. At the Boyd this evening Amella Bing- kam's excellent company will glve another performance of Clyde Fitch's successtul play, “The Climbers.” This is one of the best companies that has visited Omaha dur- ing the present season, and the plece is Clyde Fitch's strongest. No more interest- ing story has ever been unfolded from the stage than that told by this play, and no play ever fell into more competent hands. At Boyd's theater on Friday and Sat- urday nights and Saturday matinee Maude Adams will appear In J. M. Barrie's new comedy, “Quality Street,” which has re- celved the highest approval in every city in which it has been played. It is declared a distinct and admirable addition to the dramatic literature of the day, a play cast upon a high plane, as fragrant in its sweet- ness and purity as summer zephyrs wafted through flower-flecked meadows, with its poetry, dainty In its conceits and thelr ex- pression, full of sentiment that is true and genuine and spiced with the gentle wit that never stings and a wholesome humor that never palls. It is a simple little story of a woman's heart which fluttered first at what proves love's false alarm, but which in the end beats steadily in the realization of its half-frightened desire. The soldier who goes thoughtlessly to the wars, leaving a bleeding heart behind, re- turns to claim it in the end. It is just such a love comedy at Barrie might have been expected to write, filled with soft shades, gentle In its progress and happy in its ending. As a work of its kind it is without a blemish. The play is in four acts and the action takes place in a qulet little community in England about the time of the Napoleonic wars. It deals with the fortunes of Phoebe Throssell and her sis- ter Susan, who live on Quality street. As the heroine, Phoebe Throssell, Miss Adams has added to her gallery of stage pictures & portraiture which has all the daintiness and finer touches of art. “Phoebe of the Ringlets,” as she s called, is the winsome creation of a poet's brain. She Is an in- tensely sympathetic creature, graclously feminine, tender, buoyant—in fact, she pos- sesses those delightful womanly qualities of which Miss Adams may truthfully be sald to be the most gifted exponent on the stage today. Miss Adams has, as usual, a Chas. Frohman Presents MAUDE BOYD’S ik Saturday Matinee. ADAMS| STREET Prices—Matinee, 50c to $2.00, Night, 50¢ to $2.00. BEATS ON SALE TUESDAY. AMUSE MENTS. Friday nd § Sat ur ay In J. M. Barrie’s Unique Comedy, QUALITY Lecture Omaha Public School’ Teachers Course. LAST GHANGE, MONDAY, APRIL 21, BOYD'S LIQUID AIR Reserved seats 60c, 55¢, 60c, 65c. Reserved seats Monday, at ,508 City HAll. large and splendid supporting company. In the cast are: Sydney Brough, Joseph Francoeur, Arthur Barry, William Lewers, George Irving, Frederick Spencer, Fred Santley, Miss Ida Waterman, Miss Marion Abbott, Miss Helen Howell, Miss Sara Perry, Mias Sarah Converse. The produc- tion is a_ most perfect one, and one of the prettiest ever made under Mr. Charles Frohman's direction But four more weeks remain of the cur- rent theatrical seasom at the Bovd. The theater closea its doors Sunday, May 18, so far as traveling companies are concerned. The Ferris Stock company will occupy the theater for the greater part of the summer season. [Eight more companies will be seen at the theater before its close. They are: Maude Adams in “Quality Street,” Ferris Stock company for & week's engage- ment, John Drew in “The Second in Com- mand,” Kathryn Kidder in ““The Country Girl,” Blanche Walsh in “La Madeline™ and “Janice Meredith,” Richard Mansfield in “Beaucaire,” ““When Reuben Comes to Town" and May Irwin in “The Widow Jones.” Miss Irwin closes the house. Les Troubadours Toulousians, a com- pany of French vocalists from the Folles Bergeres, Paris, will head the new and varied program that opens at the Orpheum matinee today. They are the latest musical feature imported by the Orpheum Circult company and have played in the Orpheum theaters at New Orleans, San Francisco, Kansas City and Los Angeles, a success in each. After an absence.of several years an old favorite, Lew Bloom, returns, this time in monologue. Dooley and Fowey will be seen here for the first time in a stunt In which comedy, vocalism and dancing will constitute the entertalnment. Another musical feature will be the Harmony Four, who may be identified by their railway sta- tion ekit in which they last appeared here. They will sing new popular airs and con- tribute to the fun-making with unique comedy. The terpsichorean feature of the program will be provided by the dancing Daweons, of whom there are three, a man, woman and a child. Loney Haskal, the young monologuist, will have some new quips, while the Gloss brothers are gladia~ torial gymnasts who give a series of classic poses. The moving plctures will attract more than ordinary interest, being scenes at the Transmississippl Exposition by F. A. Rinehart, the photographer. Among the views are ““The Indlan Parade,” “Indian Sham Battle,” “Indlan Dance,” “Live Sav- ing at Omaha"—this picture shows a crew of the United States marine life saving corps glving an exhibition in the lagoon, and the fifth plcture shows President Mc- Kinley visiting the exposition. At the Trocadero this week, commencing with the matinee today, Manager Rosen- thal presents the Madison Square cycle whirl and the City Club burlesquers, the former having been retained on account of the immense success which has attended this attraction the last week. Instead of two cyclists, another will be added, which will make the riding more sensational and dangerous, especlally when the three rid- ers enter into the pursuit race, finishing with the three riders going at a breakneck speed, the top and lower ones racing fin opposite directions to the central one. The City Club burlesquers contribute their share to the evening entertainment, producing two new burlesques entitled, “From Broad- way to Pekin,” and “The Sousa Girls,” in- cluding a good chorus of excellent volces and capable comedians. In the olio are Marion Delmore Chansonette, Evans and Devoe, musical entertainers; Bixby and Chapman, comical blunderers; Leslle and Allen, away from the others; the Empire quartet, and Jeanette Dupree, the girl with the sweet voice. The Cycle whirl and City Club burlesquers remain the entire week, with daily matinee On Friday evening there will be another amateur night. Plays and Players. Chauncey Olcott has decided to spend his summer vacation in Europe. May Irwin is making her farewell tour of America in “The Widow Jones." John Oliver Hobbes has written a new comedy entitled “The Flute of Pan."” Frances Burkhardt, at one time prima donna of Frank Danlels' company, recently died in Boston. Thomas Seabrooke has signed a contract with Benjamin Harris to play his old part in_“The Rounders.” Walter E. Perkins will soon produce a dramatization of Mary E. Wilkins' novel, “Jerome, a Poor Man. A report comes from New, York that Olga Nethersole Is to produce *“‘Sapho” at the Adelphi theater in London. Reports_from Cape Town, South Africa, say that Nance O'Nell has met with grea success there in “La Tosca™ and "Camiile. A drama that may soon be produced s built upon incidents in the life of Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV of Eng- land. The new theater being erected by the Lambs' club in New York will be the permanent liome in that city of Henrletta Crosman Mrs. Richard Mansfleld sailed for Europe last week, in company with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Palmer. Mr. Mansfield will go abroad at the end of his season. Bronson Howard s now able to be out of doors a few hours each day, although his condition still causes anxiety. He is shortly 10 go to Palermo from Nice. Gilbert Parker has sold the American rights of “The Right of Way" to Charles Frohman. The latter intends to star Wil- liam Faversham in the plece. Anna Held has practically decided to play a summer engagement in Chicago, and in September to sail for Paris. She will prob- ably remain abroad all of next season. May Irwin, who is one of the richest women in the acting business, recently wrote a magazine article with 'the head- ing: “A Stage Career Not Profitable.” David Belasco is to sall for Europe next month, and, it is reported, he will meet a noted foreign J‘lu)“l‘llh( with a view to & new stupendous production for next year. It s sald that New York soclety is now amusing itself at its own homes with the antics of small, select and specially en- aged ballets made up of professional ancers. Mrs. Patrick Campbell's tour of this country will probably net her a cool $40,000, Many of the critics have not been kind to her, but the financlal harvest Is drawing her back to the United States next season. Chicago is to have two new theaters In about another year. Both of them are to be syndicate houses, one of them to be located on Randolph street, just east of Dearborn, and to cost $400,00 present management of the D construct another theater near the site of that playhouse. Bertha Creighton will make a starrin tour next season under the management o present Jeitles & Co. The name of the pla which she will appear has not yet been made public. Miss Creighton was for some time the leading woman of the Woodward stock company and played with them dur- ing thelr Omaha engagement. If the Londoners fail to take to “Ben Hur" (the reports say the plece was hissed and the critics scored it badly) there will be a small fortune lost on the undertaking. Of all pleces selected for the English stage, the dramatization of General Wallace's masterplece looked to have the best chance for success. But there 18 No guessing the London play patrons. The custom of ndupl(n{ seems to be less commonly followed now than it used to be. A writer in a Brooklyn paper points out that in the olden days not one in a hundred stage performers appeared before the public under his own name. Of the three “Billys" of minstrelsy whose deaths were recorded recently, Billy Emerson, Bllly Rice and Billy West, Emer- son's real name was Willam Redmond, Rice's Willlam Pearl and West's John Mur stage names phy. Dead Iden SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 19.—Mrs. L. A Cox of Abilene, Tux has arrived in (h. city and further identified the mln lAIlod by Officer Pink Taylor Wednesd f as her son, Orland Camilio Hnnll lhe e’ed train robber. On the body of the Gead man was Tound between $400_and $500 in bank bills of the National Bank of Montana, which had been identified as money taken from the Great Northern ex- press train at Wagner, Mont., July §, 1901 Marie Swanson, Harpist, §29 8. 15th 8¢, Musical 1 suppose that everyone who has given a concert or made a public address had to grapple with the problem of the bables— God bless them. | We all have an Inherent love for chil- dren, or we ought to have, for there is scarcely a man or womaa alive today who, at some time or other in his life, has not been a child. (This, of course, does not apply to those who were born in Boston). Well, I write today in defense of bables. It it were not for bables there would be a dismal prospect for humanity. Bables are the hope of the race. But, to the, problem. What shall we do with regard to the bables who are brought to church, to concert room, to lecture hall, and, who, innocently enough, start a strain of plteous walling, at the Inopportune moment, and in a key which Is not ger- mane to that of the composition being sung or played. It is true that babies must have mothers, and mothers must not be deprived of the pleasure to be obtained from hearing a g0od lecture or a good musical service in church, or a good concert. But what of the grown up bables, who have come to hear the same feast of reason or flow of soul? And what of the persons who are ministering to the general enjoyment, who are, necessarily, tralned up to a high tenslon, and who have their hands full, it they do themselves justice, even with a quiet, attentive and undisturbed audience? The dear bables—I sometimes wonder if King Herod was a musician or a lecturer— and if a platform experience urged him to issue his famous decree about killing the dear children. If so he should not have done so, he should have ordered the par- ents to be deported. Then there would have been no one to take the chldren to the concert or the lecture and the- little ones would have been able to go to their cradles and get to the land of dreams, Nod island, Shadowtown, Sandmanville, or some of those famous resorts to which chil- dren are so partial, and which they doubt- less enjoy more than any concert. But there comes the old worn-out argu- ment, “Shall the poor hard working mother be compelled to take the blessed babe out of the auditorium and be unable to hear what she came to hear? Poor thing, it may be her one joy in life, etc., etc.” This is, of course, a hard argument to answer, because one's sympathles are undoubtedly with the mother and the baby. 1 heard a minister once say in a sermon, “Don't disturb the child. He does not bother me.” This was a grand stand play. If he had had anything to say that was worth saying, or that he had thought out, it would have disturbed him, and it is more than likely that the same self-sacrificing gentleman would have roundly scolded his own boy at home if he had called to an- other boy across the lawn, outside the study windows. And then—on the occaslon al- luded to, it certainly did disturb the con- gregation, While my sympathies are with the chil and mother every time, I must say most emphatically, that the audience should not be disturbed for the sake of the one, neither should he who has prepared at great trouble an offering of musical or oratorical worth, be compelled to jeopardize his line of thought, his presentation of the musie, or his reputation, which would re- celve no gentleness at the hands of the audience, if he failed to do his best, neither would the audience take into consideration that the artist or the speaker had been annoyed by clrcumstances over which he had no control. One forgets sometimes that the person in the seat immediately In front of or behind the singing infant, is also a tired, woru-out mother, seeking the inspiration of music or eloquence, who was compelléd to leave her infant at home in charge of a devéted hus- band who wanted to go with his \:l(& The people who go to hear concerts do not want to be disturbed, as is easily seen by the fact that in most well-regulated theaters the sign which reads “‘Children in arms, not admitted,” is very plainly visible When the church is graclous enough not to put any such restrictions upon its at- tendants, the attendants should show enough reciprocal courtesy to take a seat near an exit, in order that the child could be removed. Does the child enjoy the music? If so, why does It cry? If mot, why give it pain? Is it not cruel, parents, is it not inhuman? Why make the child suffer? Is it fair? Can it defend itself? Why be selfish? Why make it stay? Why not take it out? Then, of course, there is the fond and idlotic parent who says: “I have pald for my seat"—just as though he had pur- chased the right of annoying the audience and Inflicting the cute deeds of his progeny upon an audience which had assembled for another purpose. The dear youngster does not know that it is not the kindergarten; it sees the stralght rows of seats and the lights, it hears the music, and it is all like & great fairy tale to its dear little inno- cent and happy heart, but what do you think of the parent, who sits with a sim- pering and silly smile which says as plainly as words could express it, “I'm its papa, I am! What do you think of me (The Beo 1s a highly respectable paper so it will not say what it thinks). I love children, and I may modestly say that I know a few (under 2 years of age—after that they be- come discriminating), who llke mie, but when I go to a concert I love the children just the same, although my mind will re- call inevitably the old motto, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” At St. Philomena's cathedral this even- ing & concert will be given by the chotr of the church, assisted by J. H. Simms, or- ganist. The choir will sing in addition to | the other numbers on tbe program, pub- | lished in. yesterday evening's Bee, the great chorus from Haydn's ‘“Creation,” “The Heavens Are Telling." The attendance at the First Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday evening, which filled the largest church in Omaha to The standing room limit, was a most gratitylng acceptance of the presentation of the “Historical Cycle of Composers.” Tonight will be English Composers, and Mr. McCreary will do a good share of the solo work. Miss Caldwell, soprano, and Mrs. Martha Miller Kelly, contralto, will sing with Mr. McCreary the duet from Stalner's “Daughter of Jairus,” entitled “Love Divine.” The advanced puplls of Miss Boulter gave s recital at her piano studlo yesterday afternoon. Mr. Keck's puplls had a recital yester- day evening at,his studio in the Davidge block. Arrangements are belng made for secur- ing the famous ‘cellist, Bruno Steindel, for & concert in May. Mr. Steindel will be remembered as the bright particular star of the Thomas orchestra, at the exposition in 1898, when Omaba people gave him the same endorsement that he has had in Europe aud the rest of America. Miss Mary Munchoff will return from Europe next month, and will visit her parental home. Wil she be honored with- out a Frobman management? It is fer- vently to be hoped so. Omaha becomes forgetful sometimes, but she does not mean it. She s & very busy metropolls. -~ THOMAS J. 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