Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 13

ABOUT PLAYS PLAYERS AND PLAYHOUSES Last week was an of pleasure for the “plain people” at the Boyd. Beginning with “Ole Olson” on Sunday night and ending with “The Fatal Wedding” on Saturday night, the seven days comprised, through means of extra matinees, twelve performances, and the list included “Happy Hooligan,” “The Irish Pawnbrokers” and ““The Two Orphans,” a well a8 the opening and closing attractions. This is certainly a busy time, and an “Irresistible” lot of plays. And, as an evidence of what The Bee sald about pros. perity last week, all of them 4ld good business, except Kate Claxton, who for some reason was neglected by the public either of the five presented anything worthy of remembrance. - At the Orphedm an uncommonly well-balanced bill, which had several decided novelties, drew the liberal patronage that has been the rule at that bouse this season uninterrupted round In a recent interview Joseph Jeflerson 1d: “The theater 1s a place where, of recent years, you are invited to take pleas- ure in witnessing the writhings and gasps and all the tumid, explosive ugliness of hysteria. A woman with swollen face and diskeveled hair is seized with spasms ot erotomania or violent grief. She grovels &t a man's feet or hugs him to her breast ke a wild beast And when the actress has thus wallowed and bellowed and panged and almost worked herself into the actual throes of the frenzy she depicts the pit ‘rises’ at her and the gallery cheers until 1t 1s hoarse. * * * The be-all and end-all ® ® o 15 hysteric frenzy. * * * As Schiller said, and I agree with him, the aim of all art, even of the most poignant tragedy, 1s joy. But for all this I belleve the theater is steadily improving. FErotic plays are not so popular as they once were and the public Is turning to the best that there 1s in the drama.” Mr. Jefferson puts the case a strongly, but if the good old man, life bas been of late stream of delight for himself and his ad- mirers, many of whom regret exceedingly that advancing age has necessitated a con- traction of his orbit until it now encircles but a small portion of the fair expanse that was once his, and only a few of the thousands who still take pleasure fn sound- ing his praise, if he is moved to such an outburst of protest, how do those of us who have had to endure the affliction of which he complains, but which he ha: happily, escaped, feel about it? Has not our patience been sorely tried, too, and have we not been denied the solace that we might have found in the somnolent philosophy of the vagabond hunter of Fall- ing Waters, or the bumptious pusillanimity (it that expression may be permitted) ot one Robert Acres, sometimes referred to as “Fighting Bob,” or the pedantic lucubra- tions of the eminent Dr. Pangloss, whose little whose years an unruffied titular Initials when arrayed on his card | #0 aptly described his condition in relation to soclety? of him any more to go around. But there are good comedies on the stage and good comedians to act them, both male and female, and candog inclines one 1o dispute the gloomy view Mr. Jefferson takes of the situation. It is true that certaln actresses have made thelr way to fame by pursuing methods that resembled in many particulars the exaggerated de- seription he gives of the ‘“‘emotional” ac- tress. These are only a few, though, and for the most part the women who have 1n recent years succeeded on the stage have been those who were as adept at com- pelling laughters as tears, and who sought rather to bring émliles than sorrow to the heart. Neatly all of the problem plays, the earlier ones at least, were tinged with a veln of ironical humor that nearly de- feated the end for which they were written ~4hat {s, the end the author always pa- raded when called on for a defense of his work—by turning info ridicule some themes that less gifted people than the authors referred to might have considered worthy of serlous treatment. This eame cynicism, which Is a feature of our twentieth cen- tury enlightenment; tinctures comedy and tragedy alike, so that we have been taught to laugh at situations that would in earlier times of Mr. Jefferson's experience have moved people to tears. It is not at all im- probable that Mr. Jefferson's triumph of pathos, “Und are we den so soon forgotten when we are gone,” would elicit a guffaw were he to reduce his admission prices so that the theater might be filled with any but the elect. The condition is not a permanent one, but rather a manifestation of the evolution of the theater. Modern thought has turned into broader channels in all directions, and the theater has profited thereby. At no other time in his- tory have the men and women who make up the army of actors enjoyed the soclal position they now not only hold but come mand. At no time has the profession been looked upon so favorably by all classes of people, and at no time has it been eo worthy In its personnel. That it still contains some “objectionable members is not to be wondered at, for each element of soclety suffers in the same regard, sim- ply because humanity has not yet attained perfection. Mr. Jefferson has brought much credit to the guild by his ability as an actor, and the probity and simplicity of hn private life, but he is not the only actor who has thus honored his profession. And that this Is so Is due to the actors them- selves. Mr. Willlam Winter 1n the New York Tribune prints the tollowing, which ought to hold the Ibsenites for a little while According to Aubrey, the antiquary, whom Oldbuck mentions as an experienced eer, the spectral custom is to vanish curious perfume and a melodioas twang.”" In the disappearance of the Ibsen ghosts, which occurred vesterday afternoon at the Ma. hattan theater, before a small and sad as- semblage, chiefly female, the melodious twang was duly furnished by Miss Mary Shaw, and the curlous perfume—as of a de- caying rat in a dark cellar—was liberally provided by Father Tbsen's play. Mi ary Shaw, who has long been known an actrees of some talent and much vige takes a more serious view anybody else is Mkely ever to take, and in the presence of a theme so tremendous the merely mortal observer pauses with natural awe. The purpose of this disciple of Ibsen. according to her published proc- lamation, is “to educate the public palate up to an appreciation of mankind's real in consistency,” and to make the drama “an engrossing form of instruction In the vita truths of life"—those vital truths bein that “‘the world I3 a sordid. narrow-minde pinchbeck little world;" that “a grinnimg mask’ cover a state of seethfng corruption: that the weakness of humanity has never, til the arrival of Miss Shaw, been fully comorehended; tha under the surfece of things there are “awful facts;” and that “truth,” when “naked” (as,’ of course. it mever is, and never was. except In the plavs of Ihsen), is horrible, distorted Hyde, which re- flects perfectly the immutable course of nature.” Such a purpose of instructive be- nevo'ence—so fresh, £o original and likely, when prosperous, to diffuse o much com: fort—can only be viewed with the homage nteous acceptance. “Damn every- sald Charles Mathews. to the Eng lish humorist, Arthur Sketchiey—who was blessed with ‘th ate hablt of uni versal _conde everythin d everybody: have dome with it, and let's £0 to breakfast Unon Mi < Shaw's reformatory crusade— which, pr@ably, wili occupy at least two or three weeks of her attention—further re- mark might only disturb an appropriate mood of sympathetic and submissive con- | currence. With Miss Shaw as “the wifely woman” laboring “to educate the public Mankind suffers much becanse | there 1s but one Jefferson, and not enough | | novelty. ubrfous appearance and | of herselt than | oclety wears | palate.”” and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, as “the false wife’ “striving after a harmoni- | ous whole,” dramatic results are likely to ensue, In the course of time. Meanwhile, since ‘this world, with all its faults best world that the human race and the only one of which It be whispered that these moral iconociasts will advance with a mercifal moderation, In thelr great task of smashing it to set it right. Even Father Ibsen might object to the precipitate arrival of that heaven upon body else as a foul contamination, and the ofice of the censor destroved. For the thing in which this Norweglan bard reve is dizease. The “ghosts” about which has trigd to make a play are the taints, ph j and moral, of hereditary scrofula {or something worte), and the design he has harbored, In portraying them, Is one of admonition as to marriage. Aimost all of this writer's productions, ~Indeed, dre clintcal; and it is not dificult to see that when the whole human race takes to the butiness of rearching for microbes the bard of bacteria will find his occupation gone Dorothy Morton, who plays the part of Mrs. Crocker, the breezy widow in “‘The Prince of Pilsen,” is nothing if not prac- tical. During the engagement of the coms pany in Kansas City, after finishing a lot of western one night stands, Miss Morton hit upon a novel idea. Calling the female members of the company together, she sald, “Girls, T am going to have a cleaning dav, and I fnvite you all to join me in a Turkish bath.”" Miss Morton sald she had the time of her life. A well known hotel proprietor had arranged to turn the bath | over to the women’ at 11 o'clock. Sure enough, at 11 the American girls filed: into the hotel, and at 1 o'clock luncheon was served. “I had the cots all numbered and little signs painted over each one with a stanza of comedy poetry, some read as | tollows Here rests Diamond Donner, Nice and clean and new, After Jots of soap and water She sparkles just like she used to do Here's to Polly Cuzman, With her hot-time revery; 1 am from gay old 'Frisco, Turn on the steam, make it hot for me, Who's that resting on number four? Mable Spencer, can it be; 1 don't know how you girls feel But {t's taken ten pounds off me. Why, Jeanette, I wouldn't know you; What's that you say? Keep It dark, don't tell the manager; I feel so fine I could faint away Who's that away over in the corner? Little Lillian Coleman, you say, Writing a letter to Mr. Pixley, Please put a Turkish bath in the play. ‘“These are only a few of the verses. Well,” sald Miss Morton, “we had a de- lightful time. We decided to sing the lullaby from ‘Erminie’ about 2 o'clock and £0 to sleep, but when I called ‘ready’ I found most of the girls had joined Morph- cus and were snoring the ‘Weepy, Creepy Widow' to ragtime. Thus ended one of the jolliest and cleanest nights of my life."” Coming Eventas. Willard Simms, the comedian, dancer and singer, who enacted the funny role of the polite lunatic in ““The Belle of New York" & season or so ago, will be seen as the leading comedian in the pot pourri of farce comedy known as “Pickings from Puck” at the Boyd this afternoon and tonight. The comedy s a reproduction of the funny characters that have been printed from time to time in Puck. Besides the dozen or more characters, a chorus of fifteen young women s carried and introduced in singing and dancing epecialties and all sorts of intricate marches. Thelr ping pong dance is sald to be very much of a Miss Katherine Lingard, the sing- ing and dancing comedienne, is a valuable member of the company. ' “The Princess Chic,” a comlc opera that bas many friends and admirers in Omah: will be séen at the Boyd Monday and Tues- day nights. A special matinee will be given Tuesday. A majority of its original cotpany is in the cast. Joseph Miron, the origina} vagabond with the big basso voice, 1s in bfs old role, as are the two comedians who formerly worked with him. Vera Michelena, a daughter of the celebrated | grand opera singer of that name, will sing the prima donna role. Beautiful Edna Floyd, well known with “The Bostonians’ and later as the star with “The Cadet Girl,”" replacing Adele Richle, the role of Estelle. Miss Floyd has the prettiest duet in the opera, the “Story Book" song. Manager Slocum of the com- pany announces that he has the youngest and freshest voiced chorus fn the profe sion. Kyrle Bellew, the eminent English actor, will present his much-talked-of romantic drama, “A Gentleman of France,” at ths Boyd Wednesday and Thursday nights. In this drama, which follows the book very closely, occurs the most thrilling eword duel ever concelved on the stage. In this duel Mr. Bellew appears with six men and bests them In the fifth scene “the great fight on the stalrcase” occurs, wherein De Marsac re- takes Mlle. de la Vire from the clutches of the king's enemies. This is one of the most dangerous scenes ever played on the stage and was accounted in New York the greatest stage fight ever seen In this coun- try. In the sixth scene De Marsac takes Mile. de la Vire to the meeting with Heary 10I, to whom she tells her story and ex- presses the policy of Navarre for the salva- tion of_France. Gaston Teappears at the court of Navarre with Mile. de la Vire, whose love he has finally won, as well as having accomplished his original mission. Through the death of Valols, Henry of Navarre has now be- come king of France. He loads the poor adventurer with riches and honors and be- stows the hand of Mile. de la Vire on him Le Roy, Talma and Basco, sensational and much talked about magiclans, will head the list of eight diversified acts embraced {in the Orpheum bill for the week begin- ning with a matinee this afternoon Re ports of their appearances elsewhere de scribe their illusions in terms of praise Winona and Frank, the rifie experts, who made a propounced “hit” at this theater | last season, will be another of the cards of the not overdone kind. Their act is com- paratively free trom tricks and, probably more than any other seen here, rests on merit. the vehicle for Arnim and Wagner, which furnishes them an opportunity for the dis- ay of thelr vocal talents. Melville and “onway will furnish a bit of their unique fun-making. Formerly Melville was prin- cipal clown in “Superba” and other suc- cesstul spectacles. The popular character vocalist, Maud Meintyre, is among those | requiring little introduction, as most vau- doville patrons are familiar with her work | Singing and danciog are the sallent fea- tures of the speclalty of Hedrix and Pres. cott Miss Prescott is a very preity young woman with & wealth of hair vielng with that of the Sutherland sisters. Kartelli the noted wire pertormer, will contribute a varied lot of dificult equilibristic feats The kinodrome pictures will be entifely | new. For the succeeding week, begin- | ning Sunday, February 8, the “Orpheum Road Show™ will be the attraction. The Chinese-English musical “San Toy," comedy. which enjoyed a long run at | Daly's theater, London, and later at Daly’s theater, New York, will be the offering | Friday and Saturday matines and might erately weil assured, an humble hope might | earth in which everybody would see every- | will sing | In the last scone of all | “Opera In the Kitchen” wil be | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY The story of “San Toy" has to do with the | troubles that befell a rich mandarin, who, | in order to prevent his daughter from be coming a member of the emperor's house hold guarde, brings her up as a boy and makes a public statement to the effect that | he has no daughter. Through the opera- ( tions of comic opera license only the daugh- 'v-n of the nobles are drawn upon to Al | up the rauks of these guards, and San Toy | 18 easily passed off as a boy, no ome su pecting the deception except Captain Bobby" Preston, the son of the English | consul at that place. This young army officer s In love with the Chinese poy-girl and Is just about to elope with her when a summons comes from Pekin commanding | the attendance of the mandarin and his sulte before the emperor. The fact that he had decefved his emperor in regard to | San Toy is revealed and summary methods are about to be resorted to when the em. peror suddenly relents and permits her to marry the Englishman, who has, of course, | followed her to the capital. The company ; presenting “San Toy" remains much the same as when it was last seen at Daly's In New York, among Its members being Samuel Collins, George K. Fortescue, Ho- bart Smock, Sarony Lambert, Nagle Barry, | Joseph Cauto, Isabel Hall, Nellle Lynch, Noreh Lambert and a large chorus. The costuming of “San Toy" will be found as belng particularly effective, many of the costumes having been imported from China. p from Stageland. Minnie Tittle Brune has recovered from her attack of tvphold fever and is again on the road with “Unorna.” She was to| have appeared In Omaha In November, but will not now be ecen here until near the end of the season A benefit_for Clara Morris ls being ar- ranged to relleve her from the threatened foreclosure of a mortgage on her home. | Miss Morris has been very ill of late, but iast reports were that she was showing great improvement Ada Rehan has announced her intention of selling the Daly collection of scenery costumes and the like, used in many of the productions that wade the fame of Augustin Daly. She will retaln some of | the more costly relics and bric-a-brac. Martin Beck, secretary and general man- ager of the Orpheum Circult company, was in Omaha a short time Friday, going on to Fremont, where he joined the Orpheum road show. He will' visit Kansas City with the attraction, it playing there this week. The recent benefit performance of the Eagles, held at the New York theater, | broke ‘all records of sich affairs, netung over $14,000. Gallery seats brought as high as $30. and $00 was paid for a box. Al- most without cxception the most prominent theatrical people in New York either par- ticipated or attended A bill to regulate the size of dressing rooms was last week introduced in the ! New York legisiature at Albany by Assem- | blyman Hinson. The meusure provides that | the rooms shal' each be eight feet wide, ten feet long and nine feet high, and that the gas jeis shall be properly’ screened The bill provides that factory inspectors are to see that the ldw is enforced. Blanche Walsh has temporarily given up *"The Daughter of Hamllcar” and will cre- ate the role of Masiova in Tolstol’'s ‘‘Res- urrection,” the new Wagenhals & Kemper roduction, which {s to_be put on at the Victorfa theater, New York, on February 16. At the end of the “Resurrection” per- formance “The Daughter of Hamllcar" will be put on for an uniimited run in New | York. | E. H. Sothern gave on Tuesday a special matinee of “Hamlet" at which many promi- nent people were present. Among these were Julla Marlowe, Blanche Bates, Bijou Fernandez, Lotta Linthicum, Hyperta Pryme, Mrs. Kirk La Shelle, Mrs. F K | MciKee, May Robson, Charles Richman, ¥ M. Holland, Robert Harries, Paul Kester, tz Willlams and several members of the Twelfth Night elub. Daby Josephine, a winsome 7-year-old ac- trese, the only child of the eldest of the Fayton sisters, who was frightfully burned | on January 12 while the company was play- | finf at Chattanooga, Tenn., and d on the following morning, was a clever and dainty ittle actress and was well known through- the country, for she had played in Canad Mexico, nearly every state in the union, £nd had made seven trips along the Pacidc coast. Word from Salt Like is to the effect that the second production of “Corlanton’ closed there to business almost as success- ful as the first. A new star was developed by the play, Miss Vigoreux, who was to have taken the part of Zoan Ze Isobel, hav- | ing been taken {ll and the work failing un expectedly to Miss Helen Boyer, who had | been cast for Rella. Miss Boyer's work in the leading roll was so good that the man- | ager allowed her to continue in it to the end of the Salt Lake engagement Howard Kyle, Who presented the Clyde Fitch play of “Nathan Hale” at the Boyd last seagon, had an unpleasant experience recently when he was refused permission to present his plece in Guelph, Ont. It ecems that the Canadians, too, have | | patriotic feelings, and they felt that the | | plece does not do the British justice, so | they refused to let it be put on. Mr. Kyle | returned immediately with his company | to the United States, and in the fiture will not undertake to enlighten John Bull on American history from a Yankee stand- point. ECHOES OF THE ANTE ROOM Masons of the Scottish Rite are looking | forward to one of the largest reunlons jin | the history of the order in Nebraska this spring, when the degrees from the fourth to the thirty-second will be conferred upon | candidates, During the winter the blue | lodges have been very active n all parts of the state and the number of persons eligible for the advanced degrees is greater | than ever before. Many have already sig- nified thelr intention of making applica- tion, so that a large leunion is assured, | | while 1 the number which usually comes | in at a later time ls received this year in proportion to former years, the number | of candidates will be beyond the former | hopes of the members. At a reunion res cently held at Hastings a number of can- didates were advanced to the fourteenth degree and a number of them will take | the higher degrees at the Omaha reunion. Ezra Millard canton, Patriarchs Militant | gave a ball last weck, which was attended | | by a large number of the members of the { order and their triends | A new camp of the Woodmen of the | World is being organized and probably will | be chartered during the mouth ! | ehea by G. { will prove interesting. | 1t was written by Lewis Carroll at an even- | | thing once in a while, lest the wicked make | | loists, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS In pursuance of the theme last week, let us read together, Ing, the following translation mous Heine song, “Am Meer" (by the sea), music by Schubert, which is found pub Schirmer, New York, publ. No s “Poems One Ought to For announced this morn of the fa- This zet. No. 2 1 Before us glanc'd the wide-spread sea, With eve's last rays invested, We set in the desolate fishing-hut Alone and silently reste 1. waters heav'd, gull fiying The mist arose, the Around us the se I gaz'd upon thy bea Sweet one, 1 saw thee ¢ 11 The tears fell fast on thy And low beside thee kne m that white hand 1 The tear-drops o'er it v ging consum'd tarling hand, ing ipp'd away tealing. With fatal hour, My soul and body wasted ey had, alas! u pols'nous pow'r, Those feverish tears I tasted In view of the fact that has been published since by other firms, and also, I believe by Schirmer, to an ex quisite translation beginning, *Beneath the | evening's last sweet smile,” the foregoing 1 from that the same song | Incidentally, the latter mentioned lation can be improved last line to read, “My heart from peace doth sever,” Instead of “dissevered.” It then rhymes with “never” in a preceding line This hint is given, eerfully and gratuit ously, to those who love as I do: that dear 0ld song of Helne and Schubert, the David and Jonathan, if you wish, of modern psalmody. trana- by changing the It s refreshing in these days of turtle- dove criticiem to read occasional bit, | like this, which I have clipped from a leading New York paper. I commend it to Chicago ecritics, and others all over the country. Speaking of a production of “Slegtried” | at the Metropolitan recently, Mr. Elmblad, as Fafner, the giant-dragon, received this little touching tribute The big basso sang through his megaphone in a voice of megaphonfous character. He was a burly dragon and he dled full of days and honors. The property monster which appeared to the eye was not a very terrifying ‘beast,’ but a somewhat disconsolate and way-worn ‘worm.' His steam was so low as to sug- gest that his engineering department had been affected by the coal famin an I suppose every writer on musical or other matters has ‘met with that class of readers who try to read everything but what was written, who try to distort a man's text and refuse to believe that he wrote exactly what he wanted to write. A very recent example of this occurred in connection with this column, which was | too abeurd to motice further. But this column has ofttimes been seriously miscon- strued, and harmtully so, to the local cause of music at times, for interest anent band concert programs, etc., by persons who are #o infinitely better able to judge my inten- tions than I am. So ou, my brother, may be bored by the same smart ones who help you to express yourself, I want share with you a sentence, for your com- fort, from “Nonsense Anthology,” by Caro- Iyn Wells, a new book just out. , You remember the Edward Lear wrote “The Owl and the Pussy Cat” aml hosts of others, and Leéwis Carroll, with his “Jabberwocky” absurdest of absurdi- ties and his “She’s all my fancy painted him.” Here Is what Carolyn Wells says in her preface: “Both Lear and Carroll sut- tered from the undiscerning critics who persisted in seelng in their nonsense a hid- den meaning, a cynical, political, or other intent, veiled under the apparent foolery. Lear takes occasion to deny this in the preface to one of his books and asserts not | only that his rhymes and plctures have no | symbolical meaning, but that he ‘took more care than might be supposed to make the subjects incapable of such misinterpre- | tation.’ Likewise ‘Jabberwocky' was de- clared by one critic to be translation from the German, and by others its originality was doubted. The truth fs that | who | ing party; it was quite impfomptu and no | ulterior meaning was intended.” | erily, it is unsafe to say a nonsensical | it a snare unto themselves to catch the righteous. Let him who would indulge fn & printed | jest furnish detailed plan and specifica- tions therewith. Meanwhile a little nonsense once in a | while seasons things. Truly “there is a time to laugh,” salth the wise man. Tor- mented be he who stoppeth to analyze @ | laught The first of the Lenten musicales will be glven on Saturday, February 28, at 4 p. m. Mrs. Genevieve Clark Wilson will be the at- | traction. The course Is a very strong one | and will prove Interesting. The fair sex | has been well represented amongst the so- two gentlemen, however, being in- cluded. At the closing concert the Monday before Palm Sunday the May Festival Choir will sing. In conjunction with this program two soloists will appear who are the joint | selection of the Lenten musicale committee | and the director of the M Festival. As the cholr will occupy the rear gallery and | most of the side galleries of the Kountze | Memorial church, subscribers using the | downstalrs seats, thercby leaving little lnf‘ sale, and as all the other programs will be | | in the hands of eminent artists (I have the list before me, but not for publication), it FEBRUARY to | 1 = |[KE A KNIFE THRUST = Jabbing you in the back Impossible to move or bend without pain Only those who have suffered it know what backache really is— And yet there is no need to suffer Rick kidneys are the trouble Are being cured right here in Oms and ha every day-— | Doan’s Kidney Pills give the kidneys just the help they need— Make them well and strong Cure the backache by taking away its cause. Mr. C. G. 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MONDAY-—-TUESDAY NICHTS SPECIAL MATINEE John P, Slocum Presents the Kirke L in the Elaborate Opera Comique “THE PRINGESS CHIC" With the brilliant and fascinating artists VERA MICHELENA in the title role, JOSEPH MIRON in his original creation of “Brevet,” and a superb singing organization of SIXTY——PEOPLE——SIXTY PRICES —Matinee, 25¢c to $1; Night, 25¢c to $1.50. TUBSDAY Shelle Comic Opera Company The Red Letter Dramatic the Sensational Presenting The original superb Ne NEW YORK CAST—70. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY Eve | KYRLE BELLEW New York Success—130 Night way—Stanley Weyman's Brilllant Romance A Gentleman of France w THE GREAT SENSATIONAL FIGHT ON THE STAIRS PRICES—25c, 50c, $1. $1.50. The Distinguished English Actor on Broad- York production. TO—GRE. | Spectal, AMUSEMENTS, ORRIGHTON Telepnone 1531, Week an;mehcing Sunday Mat, Feb, 1 TODAY 2:(5 — TONIGHT 8:15 LeRoy, Talma & Bosco Monarchs of Magie. Winona and Frank Champlon Rifle Shots of the World. Arnim and Wagner Presenting ““Opera in the Kitchen." Melville and Conway Original Maud Mclntyre Character Voealist, Hedrix and Prescott Vocallsts and Dancers. Albert Kartelli Phenomenal Equilibrist. Kinodrome w Entertainer: Moving Scenes. Prices, 10c, 25c, 50c. Week Commencing Sun., Feb. 8 The O ( fpheum Boad. Shgl“ PIANO BARGAINS 50 Pianos to Select From. Seats on sale. broken The mus all_records at al comedy of the season. York gle Original New ony Lambert Isabel Hall produc Harry e Lynch would be advisable to purchase the *'season ticket” at once, admitting to all five con- certs. Mr. Joseph Gahm has just sent me a copy With Dr. W. M. Dorward as chief, Mecca | court, Tribe of Ben Hur, which meete each | | Friday in The Bee building, has scarted out to break all previous records in in- ! creasing membership. At its last meeting | |a large number of candidates were in- | | ttiate i | Banner %odge, Fraternal Unlon of Amer- fca, gave a high five party Thursday One of the events of the season was a | dress ball given on Monday night at Wash- | tngton ball by the members of Omaha lodge | No. 1, Bankers' Unlon of the World, in | celebration of the fourth anniversary of | the lodge, with some 300 in attendance. | The notable feature of the evening was | the minuct in colonial costume danced by | Frank L. Weaver with Miss Leo Land- | messer, W. N. Giller with Mrs. Myrtle | Althouse, Mr, and Mrs. P. Besen, Mv. E Sytert with Miss Fannle Patterson, and Will O'Donnell with Miss Anna Dietz, Mas- tef Charles Althouse and little Miss Elsie Lomatch scting as pages. The grand march was led by the minuet dancers, followed by Supreme President Dr. E. C. Spinney with Mrs. Spinney, Dr. Albert Fensch, grand secretary of the state, witd Supreme Correspondent Miss M. Burdock, Supreme Physician Dr. R. S. Anglin and lady, and other notables of the order Fraternal lodge, Bankers' Unlon of the World, had a basquet at the Windsor hotel last week, at which sevinty-five people were present. L. C. Hopper was toastmaster and toasts were responded to by F. L. Weaver and L. H. Packard Dancing concluded the meeting. l | of his “Lullaby,” which was sung here by ;s( humann song, as Miss Mary Munchhoft. It is a beautiful | song for & bigh volce and Miss Munchhoft is winning praises through its agency. The Boston papers, of which I hive seen copies, have accorded {t unstintel commendation mentioning it together with a Schubert or ‘the gems,” etc Mr. Landsberg !s meeting with much en- couragement in his compositions. He I8 dally expecting further from his violin “Ele"le.“ which was accepted some weeks ago by the famous house of Breit- kopf and Haertel He has also had a charming song, “A Rose Lyric,” published by the Hatch Music company, Philadelphia. news of the St. Mary's Avenue Con- | gregational church have engaged Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Kelly, Mrs. Allen P. Ely and Mr. Charles Haverstock, for the pre- sentation of Arthur Whiting's song-cycle Floriana,” the words by Oliver Herreford, from “Overheard in a Garden.” The song cycle has been given in the musical centers of the east with great success. Miss Jes- sle Towne, a rare accompanist, will assist at the plano. So far ss I know this will be Omaba’s first hearing of the work The lad| It gives me great pleasure to wecord the success of Mrs. Ralph Henry Day, who made practically her finet" public appear- ance in Omaha, before the Woman's Club Musical department. Coming at a very Prices tn open DARE NOT. 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