Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1902, Page 14

THE OMAHA DAILY ¥ Amusements week was, In the way of theatrical attractions, an average one—that is to say, there were no very high spots and the depressions were not so deep, but one could to the bottom. Gertrude Coghlan's engagement was the only thing above the level of the ordinary, and much of the pleasure of seeing her was dimmed by the fact that she Is not cauipped with an adequate play. “Allce of Old Vincennes" may be all right, but it fsn't worth while for a really capable actress. This week promises a variety that ought to meet the | tastes of all. We to have farm drama farce comedy, melodrama, tramp drama and grand opera at the Boyd. If that doesn't | afford ample opportunity for the exercise of selection, then the case 1s beyond hope. | At the Creighton-Orpheum the excellent business of the carlier part of the season | still keeps up. The promise of the Or-| pheum management to give only the best and to afford at least one novelty a week | 1s being literally redeemed. Locally last see are Boyd's theater s golng to be remodeled. This beautiful house, of which all Omaha ' people are so proud, is possessed by the | fatal defect, which was discovered shortly | after the opening of the present season, | and which has so far defied all ordinary | ,means In the attempt to remedy it, and | \mow the herofe is to be adopted. Right in the busiest time of the year Manager | Burgess will 'be compelled to shut the doors of his theater and turn the house | over to a force of workmen In order that | the changes may be made and a difficulty overcome which, so far as known, exists o no other theater in the world. Now, don’t get excited. This is only the yellow journal way of tclling you that when Governor Boyd lald the foundations of the theater that bears his name he did it with the end in view of giving Omahans & theater that would stand for ages and be | safe all the time. This very effort to se- cure the safety of the people who patronize the house, as well as of those who are employed there, has proved a' stumbling block which all but put to rout the modern stage mechanic and nearly deprived Omaha of the greatest of modern spectacular per- formances. In putting on the play of “Ben Hur” it is absolutely necessary to have the mechanism of the great charlot race solidly set, and at the same time out of the way of the rest of the spectacular features of the plece. To do this it has been found necessary to reconstruct the stage In every theater in which the play has been given. This reconstruction fs not an ordinary alteration, but means the rebullding of the entire stage, with all its traps and appurtenances. Sixteen feet wide and the full length of the stage across, | just at the back wall, is the space re. quired to eet the machinery on which the horses run in the closing course of the great race between Ben Hur and Messala. To accommodate this machinery a special floor must be built, although the motive power be set outside the stage itself. ‘When the preliminary survey of the stage at the Boyd was mede some weeks ago, it was found that the girders through which the mechanics were expected to cut were 80l1d steel and set in cement, so that the eternal rocks do not offer more resistance to attack. This placed the ordinary ex. pedient entirely out of the question, and it was up to Manager Durgess to devise a new means of getting the machinery placed, or to give up the show. Much Investigation | by the mechanics who do the work for the company has resulted in tlie adoption of an idea suggested by Mr. Burgess, that | of building an entire new stage on top of | the one now In use. Careful measurements have shown that it is possible to put a stage fourteen Inches high on top of the one now In use withbut interfering with the handling of the scenery. And for this reason the Boyd stage is to be rebuilt. “Ben Hur” will be here during January, and one week before its appearance the Boyd will be closed while the mechanics are preparing for the production. Much cause for gratification exists in the fact that all over the country the papers that carry weight with their expressions of | opinion are coming out for the expurgation | of the stage. It is not the desire of any | that the theater be turned into a nursery | for prudes, nor that the stage be reduced to the condition of a vehicle for the trans- mission of colorless and inane discussions of such phases of human existence as do | not impinge on the great motives and fm- pulses that actuate mankind. It is only | against the tide of turbid, morbid, unspeak- able rot that the “moderns” have insisted | on pouring out that the healthy mind of | p the American people revolts. Buropeans, accustomed by calm contemplation for cen- turles of conditions that can never exist in | this country, may reconcile themselves to the morbid and often revolting debates car- ried on by D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck, Ibsen and others under any one of the numerous | polite names they give to the writings they | put out, but the “serious drama™ s mot | lkely to gain a foothold in America, even | though it come through the medium of the | acknowledged greatest of actors. ‘How do | you suppose the thinking people of Wash- | ington felt, after hearing Duse in “La Citta | Morta,” when they read this comment in the Evening Star of that eity: o1 y 101 of the people who at- b‘:d:l‘luIl‘?‘::g‘("ol‘\‘l‘nll:\‘m Yh!llP: lhpll week did not understand Itallan thusiastic auditors ;-uuld (h‘ly\l:‘ *l‘(‘n'r::\:!') ; Do ppiauding they would have subsided into sllent dismay. But, thanks to thelr| unintelligibility, the plays were listened to with complacency by young women who | were out so late hy a special dispensation of parental authority, granted on the theory | that they were improving their minds and could listen withe lugh to some of the | foulest {deas that eve aminated human speech. Duse will play thing but D'An. nunzlo. This is ¢ for ner own cou- | sclenc he undertake to give them in \for the police. “Sapho’ | was an b pursery rhyme compared | t0 her pry pertotre —_— | Mr. Richard Mansfield made his appear- | ance as Brutus in “Julius Caesar” at the Herald Square theater in New York last Monday night, and contipued the triumph | be has wom since his opening performance at Chicago. Mr. Willlam Winter, tha veteran critie of the Tribune, declares in hie review that Mansfield's production is the only adequate one ever given the play in New York In comparing Mr. Mansfield with the great actors who have played the part of Brutus in the past, Mr. Winter| says: “The stage method customarily pur- sued in the treatment of this play has been that of statuafy and declamation; not invariably pursued vested Brutus with melancholy dignity, and Lawrence Barrett, as Cassius, was incarnate passion touched with pathos; but, as a custom, the representation of this tragedy has been somewhat stately and frigid. In Mr. Mansficld’'s presentment of it, and largely because of the method and quality of acting of Brutus, the supreme and pervasive note is that of feeling. An effort bas been made to depart from tradition, to be flexible rather than classical, and thus to soften and lighten an august themo with the warmth of human sympathy, * * ¢ Mr. Mansfield has given to the play a ma nificent investiture, the like of which it never had before—at least on the local age—and his impersonation of Brutus shows an ideal of that character in some ways original and in every way effective. It 1s an Imaginative fdeal and it was expressed in an image of intense vitality. Mr, Winter reviews the play and perform- ance at considerable length, apalytical as | from his diary: | Brutus in the tor Edwin Booth in- | well as eritical in his course, and in con- clusion points out the great advantage to the public in having so adequate an in- terpretation of such a great play given at a time when the interest in the classfcal 18 reviying In connection with the presentation of Brutus by Mr. Mansfleld, it 18 of Interest to read of other great actors who have played the pe The following is takey from the New York Times: Richard Munsfield's revival of Shake- speare’s tragedy of “Julius Caesar” recalls some of the other notable essays in_tha direction. It is Afteen vears since Edwin Booth appeared as Hrutus ‘The chroniclers of the drama record many Interesting representations of “Julius Cae- sar.” Often the casts have been notal ) sometimes amusingly curious. In England it was always a part of the repertoire of the two patented theaters royal, Drury Lane and Covent Garden. However, it was seldom, in the early days, distinguished b any attempt at archaeological or spectac- ular effect, Bamuel Phelps first gave it pictorlal bfeadth and color at his Sadlers vells theater A production of “Julius Caesar” which attracted the eyes of all England and will focus the interest of dramatic students as long as the history of the stage is studied, was that made at Windsor Castle before Queen Victoria and her court February 1, 180. On that occasion, for the only time in the notable career of the two great men, Macready and Kean appeared in the samé cast on the same stage. The former played Brutus, of course, the latter, Antony. Macready did rot love Kean. It s re- vorted that on this occasion, after the play was over, Kean sent some message of courtesy to Macready In his dressing room, which was met by the gruff re- joinder: “If Mr. Kean has anything to say to me, let him say It through my so- licitor!” Kean's share in this presentation of “Jullus Caesar” was rewarded by the gift of a dlamond ring, which he afterward lost; whereupon a wit rejoined that It had' been found “sticking in Macready's glzzard.” On the fon_of his farewell benefit at Sadlers Wells, November 6, 182, Samuel Phelps revived ‘Jull aesar”’ and played Brutus. It is a curious fact that Henr: Irving has never in the whole course of h long career played in “Jullus Caesar.” The latest English revival of the play was that glven last year by Beerbohm Tree, wherein the spectacular features were aul studlously accentuated. It ran month after month at Her Majesty's, though the acting was not notable, through sheer force of the inspir- ing and popular character of this play whenever glven an even remotely adequate representation. ireland, who is the Genest of the Amerl- can etage, records that “Jullus Caesar was first performed on this side of the At- lantic ocean, March 14, 17, at the John Street theater, New York. = On the pro- gram it was referred to as “A Tragedy, written by Shakespeare, called ‘Jullus Caesar,’ with the death of Brutus and Cas- slus at Philippi, and the remarkable ora tlons of Brutus ‘and Antony over the body of Caesar.” On this notable occasion the Brutus was Mr. Hallam, a son of Hallam, who was the first English actor who came to America. Fine indeed must have been the Brutus of Willlam Augustus Conway, the elder of the two who have graced our stage, seen at the Chatham theater in 1526 This able but unfortunate character must have possessed a singularly apt disposition for the great Roman The first of the celebrated but unfortu- nately now extinct line of Hamblins was Brutus to the favored playgoers of the next succeeding years. The Old Bowery theater was the scene of his triumphs and Forrest and Cooper must have given him adm ble support. Later on Edwin Forrest made Shakespeare's Brutus one of his admired characters, but it is the Luclus Brutus of John HowardsPayne's tragedy which is in- delibly written with this actor's name. Wallack Ja recorded as the next great Brutus to rise over the dramatic He headed the revival at the Park thea- ter, New York, November 13, 1843, Macready was in America at the time, and his Brutus was recognized as one of the finest the stage had seen. Macready's attitude to- ward the rolc as well as his self-apprecia- tion are reflected in the following excerpts “Acted Brutus. 1t is one of those characters that requires pecullar care, which only repetition can give.” * . ed Brutus in a masterly manner. ® ¢ ¢ “Acted Brutus in my opinion far beyond any performance I ever gave of the character.” { do not think the audlence in the aggregate were equal to the perform- ance, Thzr applauded the silent passages, but they did not seem to watch the gentle, loving, self-subdued mind of Brutus which 1 tried to make manifest before them John McCullough sometimes played Bru- tus, but in America the next great expo- nent of the noble Roman was Edwin Booth. It was one of his favorite roles, and his public loved him for it. One of his first appearances in this character was at the Winter Garden, New York, in June, 1863, on an occasion’ of singular’ interest. The three leading. roles were played by the three brothers—Edwin as Brutus, Junius Brutus as C: and John Wilkes as Marc Antony. Edwin Booth plaved Brutus continuously from December 25 to March 16 in the winter of 1§71-72 at Booth's theater. Later on it was the chief feature of the tours of the Booth-Barrett combination. The next of the great American actors to play Brutus was E. L. Davenport. He had seen the zenith of his career and had relapsed into retirement, when in Decem- ber of 1875 he was brought forward ,as revival of “Jullus Caesdr” at Booth's theater. He played the role 101 consecutive times in New York, and then repeated it exclusively on a_triumph ant_tour. How well he loved the nobl earted Brutus and the superb quality of thig great play may be gathered from his | reply when, after his tour, he was asked if he was weary of the role: *No, I never enjoved Brutus more nor felt more in the spirit of it than the last night I played it. 1 was accustomed when not on the stage | to leave the door of my dressing room ope 80 that I might hear the noble words of th play. There fs something about the play er tire of.” It only remains to record the visit of thé Meiningen players. The company from the ducal theater of Baxe-Meiningen came Amerfea fn 1891 and appeared first on N yember 17 at the Thalla theater, New York. They made an abnormal success, for it was not “the tragedy nor vet the actors who made the impression, but the supernumer- arles. Coming E bave another opportunity nts, Omaha will Bast, afternoon for an engagement that includes tonight and tomorrow night. The play Is promised with the same cast, with but few minor exceptions, that gave it last sea- son. The scenic dress Is sald to be new and more effective than last season. The barnyard 'scene is given a color of real- ness by the introduction of a cow and some sheep and chickens. As all know, the story of “Way Down East” is & simple tale of New England rural life simply wrought out Its naturalness and wholesomences are its salient features Elmer Walters and his “A_Thoroughbred Tramp,” & comedytdrama, will be the at- traction at the Boyd Wednesday matinee and night. The scenes of the play are laid in & Colorado mining camp. The prinei- pal characters are: A particularly active villaln, a tramp, whose principal occupa- tion is to fofl this villain and make heroie rescues of the heroine; the customary pa- rents and the Indispensable negro servant. One real movelty act is the rescue from & burning building of the beroine by the tramp, who swings to her position on an ordinary child’s swing, end she jumps into his arms before it goes back. An- other secne {s the race between the heroine on a horse and an express train, the heroine, of course, beating the train. The Gordon-Shay Grand Opera company, the only organization entour singing grand operas in English, will be seen at the Boyd Thursday and Friday nights. Two operas will be sung. On Thursday night “Faust” will be given and on Friday “Car- wen.”" The company Includes Rose Ce- cilia Shay, soprano, late of La Scala thea- ter, Milan; Achille Albert, well known here s the baritone with Nordica and the Grau Grand Opera company; Helen Noldl aud Pauline Johpson, also late with the Grau company; John Dupsmure, the basso. late with the Bostonlans. Other singers are: Elolse Bishop, Lena Walters. Jo- seph Fredericks, James Stevens, Anthdny Gwinton and Walter Wheatly. In “Faust" Miss Shay will sing the role of guerite and Mr. Dunsmure that of Mephisto. horizon. | 1f Some of the en- | Of passing on the merits of “Way Down | which will open at the Boyd this| | gree The company numbers seventy people. From Kansas City, where the company ap- peared all of last week, Manager Burgess recelved several messages complimentary to both company ané productions. An or chestra of ten pleces is carried by the company. This will be merged with ten pleces of the theater orchestra. The last farce comedy and recognized as the best of the late Charles Hoyt is “A Stranger in New York.” It will be seen at the Boyd Saturday matinee and night. An excellent company, headed-by Jack Camp- bell, is eald to be interpreting the plece. Scenically it is promised with the same de- of excellence that has invariably marked the Hoyt productions. Some of the Hoytlan farceurs well known here—J T. Doyle, T. W. Sturgeon, Percy Walling, W. Keller Mack, F. E. Beamish, Arthur Dean, Molly Saylor, Katherine Wells, Nellie Sennett Miller—are in Mr. Campbell's sup- port. A number of specialties will be given throughout the comedy. One of the most seneational, unique and the first “stunt’ of the kind ever billed at the Orpheum will be presented by Sparrow, who 1s known as the mad juggler, his en- gagement being for a week, commencing with the matinee today. During each per- formance enough chinaware is destroyed to stock a cupboard. Among the prominent ones on the bill who came and amused us in a stellar role before high-class vaudeville was established in Omaha is Eddie Girard of “Natural Gas” fame, who gives an imita tion of an Irish policeman in such an amus- ing manner that he seems to have become inseparably attached to it. He and his plump and pretty partner, Jessie Gardner, who sings and dances, will present their sketch entitled “The Soubrette and the Cop.” George H. Wood, styled “the some- what different comedian,” will have a mon- ologue. Thomas J. Leo and Jessie F. Chap- man appear in a comical acrobatic turn called “Wanted, a Donkey.” Leo's spe- clalty 18 the horizontal bar, while Miss Chapman has some songs. For the first time Belle Willlams will let us sample her ability with a number of ‘‘coon” songs. Another vocal feature will be Miss Edith O'Rellly from the ranks of the light opera singers and Miss Kathryn Manning from the concert stage. The Standard quartet, musi- cal comedians, have been here before, but will have some new things to offer. The Kinodrome pictures will be entirely new. The Creighton university undergraduates will present their annual play next Wednes- day evening, December 10, in the University Hall. Great work is expected, as the stu- dents who have been forunate enough to make the dramatic *“team’ this year. prom- ise to surpass every effort made before the footlights in former years. The play, en- titled “For the House of St. Quentin.” is of a nature to inspire confidence in these boasts of the buskined tyros, for it abounds in those qualities of climax and plot, which indidhte a snappy st plece. It dramatization of the thrilling story ‘““The Helmet of Navarre,” which held such a conspicuous place among the new works of fietion last year. It is Bertha Runkle's novel, and readers of the work will ver- cefve at once its pecullar fitness for adap- tation as a college play. Its vivid pictures of French court life of 1593, and its soul stirring events have lost mnone of their sparkle and vigor in the drama. The dram- atizer is Frof. Johnson, formerly of Creigh- ton, who Is now engaged at St. Louls uni- versity in dramatic and literary work. The actors are proud of thelr play and realize the greatness of the task of exactly por- traying the characters as concelved by the novelist, and worked out on dramatic lines by the playwright. But the work is ren- dered easier, by the fact that the characters of the play are with little variation the same as those of the book. All the per- sonages of the novel are retained in the play and those who do not appear before the audience are mentioned In the lines and remain factors in the development of the plot. Even the scencs have been pre- served as far as the dramatist's art would allow, though they do mnot follow one an- other in the samessequence as those of the story. Plays and Players. . yMre Fiske in “Mary of Magdala® con- nues to draw well at the Manhattan in New York. .Eleanor Robson has made a hit in “Audrey,” but the New York press is in- clined o poke fun at the play itself. Viola Allen is still struggling to m Hall Caine play, “The Eternal City,” a go. but the papers ‘refuse to look on it as a thing to reverence. . Mrs. Carter will make a short tour in “La Du Barry,” but will hardly get as far west as Omaha. She will have a new play when ‘she gets back to the Belasco in New is singing at her old York Grace Cameron home In Cedar Rapids, la., and the people over there are making a'to do over the fact that she is a Hawkeye girl, One Cedar Rapids paper gives her age at “not yet 23." Virginia Harned closed her season “Irfs” at the Criterion in New York last night, and will make a short tour before the holidays. Julla Marlowe opens at the Criterion tomorrow night in “The Cava- lier,” a dramatization of George W..Cable's story. Nat Goodwin and Maxine Ellfott well received in New York in thelr new . “The Altar of Friendship.”" Mrs, yiey has given in this better evidence of her ability ‘as a dramatist, and has pro- vided the Goodwins with better parts than they have had for years. Blanche Bates opened her New York season at the Belasco in ““The Darling of the Gods" on Wednesday night. The plece is a sort of Japanese problem play, the matter being viewed rather from an Anglo- Baxon notlon of honor thun the accepted Japanese standard of morality. It is a decldedly spectacular affair, too, and gives Miss Bates an excellent chance. Louls Mann has closed his season in “Hoch der Consul.” and is said to be under the doctor's care for throat trouble. Which reminds one that Julla Marlowe *‘collapsed’ a few weeks ago when “La Flamenta' proved a frost. Her Nebraska friends will think that Eugenia Hayden was in luck when she discovered that she couldn't get along with the eccentric Mr. Mann. Annie Oakley making a hit among ‘‘the tal kK with her play, Western Girl introduces, of course, her mark: anship, and this goes like wildfire. In a_note the dramatic editor of The Bee, she sa “No more circus or wild west for Annie. Her Nebraska friends will be glad to know she is prospering in her new line of e the in were work. Helen Grantly had the time of her life at Burlington, la.. on Thanksgiving. She suffered the humillation of not being al- lowed to finish her performance. The Bu lington Gasz tells of the affalr thus “Miss Helen Grantly, With her company. who_appeared last evening in ‘Her Lord and Master' at the Grand opera house, were ciplents of hoots and hisses from v throughout the performance and sults reached a climax in the middle e last act, at which time the curtain was rung down' and an announ a rantly was unable to er the nolsy conditions which pre company was not up to the and the gallery, left to manage it the absence of the regular poll who was {ll, took advantage of tlon and became an unruly lot, hooting, hissing and yelling until those in the bal- cony and on the first floor were at times as visibly affected as those on the stage. The whole affair was a_disappointment to se who visited the theater. anticipating @ pleasant evening.’ . The extraordinary vitality shown by Sarah Bernhurdt, a woman far past the mer of life. excites the surprise of all who v her. Her attack upon her audience in Ber- lin was conducted with all the ardor and audacity of a young conquering woman That she met with a chilly reception from the critics was to have been expected, for, apart from her political views. her style of acting and the plays she presented are old-fashioned to Berlin audiences, accus- tomed 1o the novelties of Hauptmann, Sudermann and the rest. And, then, Duse. with he# repressed, anti-theatric method: has given the Germans something more to thetr liking. It was in the uitra. alone that Sarah really pleased in ““Ph As an example of her tirelessness it is recorded that last year while at Roue France, Baturday night she played. on The Woman’s Club Gave the women of Omaha just three nights before Christmas. good counsel when it advised trading early. Won't you help us? We wish to avoid keeping open evenings, And in doing so, help our help—and help yourselves except On Monday Some Notable Attractions I'irst, the great china sale. DINNER SETS will be offered on Monda decorated Austrian dinner set, $19.50, on Monday. More new goods opened up, and some things brought forward which were overlooked. y—fine flower decoration, 100 pic Finer still at $20.00 and $22,50. per set—every one a great bargain. Immense Book Business The trade in this section promises to be greater than ever before. s—$14.95 for complete et on Monday. Finely Game and Fish sets, from $6.00 up to $18.00 Books never were so handsome and never 8o cheap. We have many exclusive novelties in books, calendars and stationery, and we strongly urge you to buy early while the selection is complete. E We have doubled the size of our glove department, and the business is growing proportionately. golf gloves, all landed direct from the foreign makers—excellent in quality, perfect in fit and priced from We will honor orders on kid gloves at any time throughout the year—or you ¢ mas—if size or color should not please. Taffetas, Peau de Christmas Gifts. not be found elsewhere—usual Soie, Satin Black Silk Monday Duchesg, Peau de price $1.25—on sale now at 98¢ per yard. ngraving of all kinds and each and every day from now till Christmas. Some striking bargains will be offered. An enormous stock of 25 cents per pair up n select and we will exchange after Christ- Remember, we guarantee every pair of kid gloves sold by us—and the fitting is done by Cygne, Paillet de Soie, Royal, Panne Silks, all on special sale for A handsome and perhaps acceptable gift might be a waist of the elegant Persian Panne Velvet which can- Up till Christmas, and perhaps thereafter, if stock lasts, we will continue to sell the famous washable taffeta, 27 inches wide 25 .25, —worth $1 TUBABLE. We are ve sell at 10 cents a yard. , at $1.00 per yard. Always over 50 colors—we believe the best made for ras, white waistings, very special at 25 cents per yard. Through an error of the maker we were shipped a double quantity of gray wool blankets. good, large size—to force the sale instead of shipping them back, we will sell them on Monday at $3.95 per pair. An Extensive Show on Fancy Baskets Marked so low as to be very attractive. No use mentioning underwear—got all we can do now. longer. If yop think of buying ebony brushes, or sets, let us warn you to leave your orders soon—providing you desire silver init mounted on them. Always a ing small packages with you. wear y much erowded in the basement salesroom, owing to the neesssary consolidation of cotton stocks. room and in order to get it, will offer some very special bargains on Monday. A lot of fine sateens for comforters, worth 25 cents and note specially the We must have A lot of yard wide silkoline, best goods made, will —on Monday, 15 cents. A lot of cheviots and mad- Made to sell at $5.00 per pair, \ If present business continues, many good things will not last much 1ls eat rush at the last, and always difficult to get deliveries. S8peaking of deliveries, we have en- gaged extra force in shipping department, making every effort to give you prompt service. You can help by occasionally tak- MONDAY WILL BE FUR DAY IN THE CLOAK AND SUIT ROOM. But not so furry that we cannot attend to your other wants. Dress goods remnants have accumulated to such an extent that we must hold another remnant sale on Monday. gains await you. Great bar- Sunday morning at 8:30 she had break- fasted, and, with a bunch of violets in her hand, her face happy, wreathed in smiles, she left her hotel to catch the train for Paris, where she was announced for the Sunday matinee. She went down to Rouen Saturday, she returned Sunds Sunday night she played again. Three perform- ances and four hours of travel In twenty- four hours seemed child’s play to this active dame. Miss Paulson, piano, 416 McCague block. WILL OF MRS. GORE FILED Estate Goes to Aunt During Her Life« time and then to Three Brothers. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The will of Mrs. Nellie 8. Gore, who was shot and killed in Paris, France, on November 19, last, was filed for probate In the surrogate’s office today. It bears the date of December 19, 1901. Severo Mahlet-Prevost is named as executor. By the terms of the will the testatrix bequeaths all her wearing apparel, jewelry, books, etc., to her aunt, Mrs. Hester A. Dickinson, at Alameda, Cal. The residue of the estate is left in trust to the execu- tor of the will and he is instructed to sell the testatrix's property in Mexico and convert the proceeds into personal prop- erty. The income of the trust is to go to Mre. Dickinson and her husband as long as both or one of them lv At their death the principal is to be divided between the three brothers of the testatrix, Leslie Stogdill, Charles Stogdill and Edward B. Stogdill. The petition sets forh that there is no real property be- longing to the testatrix in this state and that her personal property here is worth not to exceed $1,000. Ping Pong is good exercise for office men. Tables are 30 cents an hour. Bee Building parlors, 214 South Seventeenth street. EARTHQUAKES ALARM PEOPLE | Shocks Are of Almost Daily Occur- rence in the Mountains of Southern Utah, SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. 6.—Since No- vember 17, when an carthquake occurred in southern Utah and as far morth as Salt | Lake, there have been daily shocks felt in the extrome southeastern portion of the state. According to advices received from Pine | Valley, & hamlet in the mountaius of Wash- | ington county, not a day has passed since | that day that at least one earthquake shock | bas not been felt, and serioys alarm 1is | bejng felt for the safety of the place. Every chimney in the town has been E badly cracked or eompletely tumbled over. | At Pinto the shocks have been so severe | that the public school has been abandoned | for several days. About fitteen miles south are five or six | old craters and the continuance of - the earthquake shocks has strengthened ' the | belief that there has been a fresh outbreak of voleanle activity in the mountaips of that region. What to Do? HEY! PING | PONG 30c an Hour Bee Bulldi 17th St. Front I 0 0 e . 8 e L RETNIEN % | Boyd's Theatre, Tuesday. Dec. 23| AMUSEMENTS. | | | b4 Woodward BOYD’S THEATRE " THIS AFTERNOON, TONIGHT, MONDAY NIGHT W. A. Brady’s Special Productica “WAY DOWN EAST” The Best Rural Drama Entour. PRICES—Iatinee, 25¢, 50c. Night, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. WEDNESDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT. Elmer Walter's Sensational Comedy Success The Blrmg of All Tramp Shows, p THE COLORA DO IMINING CAMP. S E F TRAIN WRECKERS' RENDEZVCUS. QGREAT TRAIN HOLDUP. «f RACE AGAINST EXPRESS TRAIN. PRICES—atinee, 25¢’ 50c. Night, 25c, 50c, 75c. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS. r. J, Saunders Gordon Presents The Gordon=-Shay Grand Opera Co. Gounod’s Immortal “Faust” Thursday The Majestic, Melodious “Carmen" Friday With America’s Leading Prima Donna ROSE CECILIA SHAY And an All Star Cast. SOPRANOS, '!'El?oll. . « 0 ‘!’I‘IIAI.TI)!. BN NOER son, WALTER WHEATLEY, LENA WINTERE, BASSOS, BARITONES, JOHN DUNSMURE. ACHILLE ALBERTL ANTHONY LEVINTON. JAS. VE h Especial Scenery, Costumes, Electrical Effects. Sixty People. Augumented Orchestra, PRICES—25c, 50c- 75¢, $1.00 and $1.50. SATURDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT. Charles Hoyt's Last and Best Comedy “A St in New York” ranger in INew yor The best cast ever seen in the plece, headed by JACK CAMPBELL in the title role. The cast includes J. T. Doyle, T. W. Sturgeon, Percy Walling, W. Kel- ler Mack, F . E. Beamish, Molly Sa ylor, Katherine Wells, May Ketcham, Nellie Scnpett Miller. Bigger and Better Production Than Ever, PRICES—Iatinee, 28¢. 50c. Night, 25¢, 50c, 75¢. L B e S S Plano Recital by Ir, S. Ernest Gibson Assisted by Mr. Robt. Cuscaden, violinist, and Miss Carlsop, Miss Cook, Mrs. Dr. Faas, Master Hobt. McCormack and Mr Robt. Temple At First Preshyterian Church Monday Evening, December 5, Commencing ¢ 8 0'clock. Admissic W e MORAND W OR TWO PRIVATE LESSONS THE LAT- Mary Munchhoff in comcert at s, L TEACH YOU I ONE Prices, 25¢, B9, T5c, $1.00, $1.50. | T WALTZ FAD, THE MOST GRACE- NOTE—Seats can be reserved in the usual INTRODUCED, FUL WALTZ YET manper by sending request accompanied by money to the box office at once. PHONE 1022 AMUSEMENTS, CRRIGHTON Telepnone 1531, Week Commencing Sunday Mat, Dec, 7, Today 2:30—Tonight 8:15 Sparrow The Mad Juggler. Girard and Gardner In “The Soubrette and the Cop." Geo, H. Wood . The Somewhat Different Comedian, I Leo & Chapman In “Wanted, a Donkey." Belle Williams Manning & O'Reilly Operatic Duetists, Standard Quartette Colored Vocallsts and Comedians. Kinodrome Prices, 10c, 25¢c, 50c. OM‘\HA COLLKGE OF MUSIC AND FINE ARTS (Incorporated.) VOICE, PIANO, PIPE ORGAN String Inetruments and Art. ‘Terms and Prospectus, ¥F. H. WRIGHT, Ramge Bld College 'Phone, 110l Res. 'Phone, A-2468, Mr. Kelly .... 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