Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 16

{ | AHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, ¥ ABOUT PLAYS PLAYERS AND PLAYHOUSES aha’s theatrical week is bright only that it had something that was not | positively bad; not because it had anything that 1s surpassingly gcol. “Our New Min- fster,” which opened the week, is deserv- ing of a more attractive name, for it is better than it looks on the bill boards. It is especlally good In the hands of the present company, because the competent actors give such satisfactory interpretation to the character parts with which it abounds. “The Strollers” is neither good bad, just indifferent Sally in Our lley” Is one of the smartest of smart plays, and was thoroughly enjoyed by people who keep up to date. To those who have lagged behind the theatrical procession it might as well have been in Greek, for the jests end sallies with which it abounds are up to the minute. The coming week has in it much of promise, Koclan and Mrs. Campbell, with Pinky-Panky-Poo, being on the list at the Boyd. At the vaudeville house an excellent bill had good patronage throughout the week Blanche Walsh has been the provocation for a recrudescence of the Tolstoy debate, her success in “Resurrection” having led to a general breaking out of the endless argument as to the Infrinsic merits of the | Tolstoy methods, coupled miore or less in- timately with the interminable effort to answer that question, older than any of us, and which will likely outlive us all— “What's the use™” In “Resurrection’ the | great Russian—for, whether we agree with | him or not, we must admit his greatnesa— | has furnished an answer to one of his own questions. He does not make it clear, | ultimately, that Maslova is to be raised to | the estate from which she bas fallen through the awakening of her own con- sclence and that of the prince to whom her downfall was originally due. In tho beginning, Maslova sinned from love, the prince for pleasure. She continued to dwell in sin through sheer force of cir- cumstances; he because it pleased him to. After years their paths cross again, this time with the woman in the dock, charged with a brutal murder, and the prince in the jury box, sitting in judgment on her, whose fall he knew to be due to his de- ception of a girl whose fnnocence he had destroyed. Into this crucible the lives of the twn are thrown. They have drained to the very lees the wine of life, and they find the lces bitter tadeed. The woman meets her fate with the calmness of despair; the roan, self-impaled, writhes in agony until ne has awakened in her at least a remorse akin to his own, and out of the ghost of their past they cxtract a hope for the gature. Unfortunately, the pray clings too | Aloscly to conventionallty, and instead of | \llowing the prince to follow his vietim Aud his atoncment info her exile, it sends her to Siberia and him to marry a second girl for whom he has professed love. Out of the fire of the ordeal they emerge with little mare than the smell of the singeing of their gurments, but each has felt the purifylng effects of the flame, and each is resolved to do better. This is the “resur- vection,” not of the body, but of the soul. You will notice that it comes after death, ven, even after decomposition. And you are left at its conclusion asking yourself again, “What's the use?” p— Tolstoy has taught us no new lesson, in this or in any of his parables or preach- ments, He has merely addeC his testi- mony to the accumulated mass of evi- dence In support of the axiomatic postu- late that “The wages of sin is death.” That Maslova, when she receives her pay in her hand, should suddenly confess what she has all along known, is not a moveity, nor is the anguish of the prince an atone- ment for his part in the transaction. He, 00, merely draws his wage, and the spec- tacle the. palr presents on payday offers no suggestion as to the remedy, nor is it likely to be any move eficacious as a pre- ventive or deterrent than any of the other like instances with which history teems. Nor Is the conclusion at all original with Tolstoy. Tomlinson of Groevenor Square brought it back with him, direct from the keeper of the bottomless pit, who refused to waste his “good pit coal” on a soul that had in it not ome trace of original sin. His parting words to Tomlinson were: Go back te earth with an unsealed lip, Go back with an unclosed eye, And give my words to the sons of men Or ever (hey come to die: “The sin (hat ye do by two and two And ',';.‘::‘,};:’.h“ Yo took from printed o Bo with you, Tomiinson.” In Tolstoy's behalt one must admit that he has gome one step farther than the host of others who have followed the same | path. He has undertaken to practice what he preaches. No ome will question the honesty of his purpose nor the sincerity of | hie cndeavors. One must admit that he has earnestly tried to do himself that which he nas urged that others do; omly, | one must always feel a little skeptical as | to the wisdom of his course, a doubt that is certain to be enhanced by a contempla- tion of the result. Tolstoy forsook the comforts and privileges that go with the position of & wealthy Russian noble—not until he had drank deeply of the cup of life, however, and has become as one of the people, In order to exemplify his theory of man's oneness. He has declined to de- fend himself when assailed by the Greek church and excommunicated, because of his doctrine of non-resistance. He has preached a doctrine of celibacy more austere than any ever lald down by monasterial ascetic or puritanical bigot, and without the sav- ing grace of Paul the Apostle’s charity for the bent of other men. He has lived his new life with probably more zest than he lived the lite he forsook, but he hasn't | answered the question, “What's the use?” | Tolstoy, Ibsen, Suderman, D'Annunzio, | Pinero, Chambers, Wilde, Maeterlinck, all | the list of “moderns,” have poluted un- erringly to the disease, some have even un- | dertaken to locate the seat of the disease; all bave lald it bave, and given any who wished an opportunity to view it in its | hideousnoss; and some attempt to! diagnose its extent and progress, but | none have offered the remedy, uniess | it be the Russian nobleman who lives like a moujik. Alas, his remedy, as exempli- fled in his own case, {s merely retrogre slon. He has shown how easy it is for a nobleman to live like'a peasant; at no time has he undertaken to show how a peasant can live like a nobleman, and that is where the trouble lies. Mankind's strug. glo has always been for betterment, and the effort ought to be to get all on the | \ghest possible plane. If some there be “ho cam not reach this pl the others should pot be made to suffer on that ac- count, and if others have such souls as soar above it, they should not have thelr wings clipped merely because they are capable of flights beyond the pinions of the ma- jority. If the latter process were resortgd 1o, Leo Tolstoy would now be wearing the partatorial triumphs of St. Petersburg in- Jtead of the blue blouse and coarse trous- irs of & Volga moujik. Human misery is ooted deep, and out of it has sprung the iman desire to have and enjoy better hings. Maukind's upward course has been sarked by much stressful effort ageinst the ons in the road, by many struggles with he unoumbered Giants Despair who bave pset his path, and with mach wrestling ith the Apollyons of untoward clrcum- ance be bas encouatered on the way. And | | heart disease. | worth the praise given it can be seen in yet his course has been upward, stead.ly advancihg to a higher plane of thought and living, But, sluce the days the sons of gods looked on the daughters of men and saw they were fair there have been Mas- lovas and Princes Nekhtuwoff; and who shall say there will not be, world without end? Again, the moujiks do not read Tolstoy and only know him as a harmless old dod- derer who s foolishly free with his money, who tolls where he might loaf, who wears coarse clothes when he could have fine, and who lives on sour bread and pottage at a table where others dine in Luculllan luxury. And these moujiks do not sym- pathize with tne man who doesn't value the things they value most. Therefore, in respect to the sacrifice of Tolstoy, “What's | the use?" Coming Events, Tho veteran actor, Daniel Sully, will be seen at the Boyd this afterncon and to- night in a new play said to be the best | Yehicle he has bad since the days of “The Corner Grocery.” The scenes of the play | are laid in a small village In central New York state. It is knowa as “The Old Mill Stream,” but the story the play tells deals with the litigation two farmers become | involved In over the ownership of the lit- | tle stream. The play was taken from real lite, it is said In brief the story is this: An old Irishman named Ryan owns @ mill on’the stream. He seeks to dam up the stream and change its course and | otherwise convert the water to his own | use. The farmers along the waterway ob- jected and thereupon the war in the rural courts began. The fight was rapidly | breakicg up the families of those con- | cerned and the case was becoming like the tamous hog case, when two 6f the young people of the rival factions fell In love and were married. This act caused a ces- sation of hostilities and the burylng of the hatchet. Sully enacts the role of the bard-headed mill owner. Robert Blaylock, who was with Sully last season and later with the Ferrls Stock company at the Boyd, 1s leading juvenlle man with Mr Sully. it Tomorrow night Koclan, the vielin vir- tuoso, will be heard in a singie concert at the Boyd. He will be assisted by Miss Julla Geyer, planiste, and Franz Spindler, accompanist. The young musiclan wasg originally booked at the soyd for a con- cort February 23, but owing to lllness in the south he was compelled to cancel all his bookings in the middle west and jump | to Los Angeles, Cal. The San Francisco, | Los Angeles and in fact the united Pacific | coast press, was loud In his praise. In | San Francisco, where he gave seven con- certs, It is said the towa went music mad. | Everybody knows the sensation he created in the east, especially in New York. Koclan fs but 18 years old, four years younger than Kubellk, and is said to be the latter's equal. He was a pupll of the femous Sevcik of Prague, Bohemia, as was Kubellk, so thelr methods are a great deal similar. Kocian arrived in Omaha yesterday to remain until after his concert. He was taken in hand by prominent Bo- hemlan residents and entertained. He will be thelr guest while In the ecity. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the distinguished English actress, and her full London com- pany, will be seen at the Boyd Wednesday and Thursday matinee and night. She will be scen in three powerful plays. O.n Wednesday night Herman Hudermann's “The Joys of Living” will be given. At the special matinee Thursday “The Secord Mrs. Tanquerry” will be the offering lng Thursday night Sudermann's ‘‘Magde. Both these two latter named plays are known and need little comment in ad- vance. “The Joys of Living” l» new. was produced in Berlin one year ago and made a tremendous sensation. Mrs. Camp- bell gave It its first production in English. It created no less a sensation when pro- duced in England. A synopsis of the play follows: Some fifteen years before the action of the story opens Countess Beata, wife of Count Michael, has had a love affalr with Baron Richard, who is a friend or her husband. Through regard for their family associa- tions the attachment is broken off, but they remain friends. The spirit of thelr love still exists and the countess uses all her influence to advance Richard's political ambition. She induces her husband to ign his seat in the Reichstag and Rich- 1s elected to fill it. During the cam- palgn_the soclalist opponent of Richard, who has several of Beata's old letters in his_possessior, discloses their old relations and it is printed In the newspaper. The disclosure Anally comes to the ears of the husband. To preserve the happiness of their daughter and the honor of the family a council is held. Nelther a duel or a divorce suit is expedient as that would confirm * the scandal. Richard Intimates that he is prepared to commit suicide, but the countese opposes the sacrifice. At a gathering of high officlal notabilities at her home she triumphantly toasts “The Joys of Living," the right to live her life us whe mees it. drinks a glass of poisoned wine and _expires explating for her creed | of life and eaving the honor and happiness | of her family. Everyone except Michael and Richard thinks she is & vietim of | On Friday and Saturday next Frank L. Perley's company of singing comedians will | be heard in “The Chaperons,” by Frederic Ranken and TIsidore Witmark, and staged under the personal supervision of George W. Lederer. The production is sald to be unusually pretentious from a scenic stand- point. It is In two acts; the first one being laid In the Latin quarter of P: and the second in the courtyard of the Alexandria hotel, at Alexandria, Egypt. One of ths attractive features of “The Chaperons,’” it is claimed, is the abundance of light and catchy melodies. Among the songs which are reported to hits, are: “In My Of- ficlal Capacity,” “The Modern Chaperon, “The Little Girl Who Couldn't Say No, “Talk, Talk, Talk,” “We're All Good Fel- Love in a Palace,” “Billie's Very ,”* “My Sambo” and “He Winked at Me.' That the attraction s really the fact that its cast contains some of the best comedians in the professions. Here are a few of its members: Walter Jones, Eva Tanguay, B4 Redway, May Boley, B4 Metealf, Albert Farrington Kathryn Pearl, Jessica Duncan and Mae Stebbins. Yola Yberri, who comes to the Orpheum for a week, commencing with a matinee this afternoon, is boomed as the star queen of the art terpsichore. As far as vaude- ville is concerned this season this sort of distinetion has been won by Yberri, pre- ceding whom glowing accounts bave been sent out. She will present an Egyptian, Japanese, Spanish, French Empire, English and Twentieth Century dance. Her ward. robe and lighting effects are sald to be most beautiful and gorgeous. Acrobatics of the fast, daring and dificult sort co #itute the specialty of the Martinettis who, lke Yberri and the majority of the artists on the program, have never been seen here before. Prevost and Prevost will be seen in a skit called “Fun in a Turkish Bath,” which, as the title implies, is a wehicle for their laugh-making ant in addition to which they perform some acro- batics. A sketch entitled “A Skin Game" will be the offering of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, who are already well known to local patrons, Mr. Barry will have a revised version of “Mr. Dooley” and his topical hits. Arthur Deming, the old-time minstrel, sobriqueted the “Empe.or,” will do a mono- logue in black face. Auman, styled “Auman the Great,” will bave sz athletie *"twa" | York, with J. T. | able music of the St. Louis fair. #ald to be novel, while the kino- drome pictures will be entirely new The Knlghts of Ak-Sar-Ben Musical Fes- tival, May 7, 8, 9 and 15, promises to be the greatest musical treat ever oftered the Omaha people. Arrangements have beea completed for three evening and two mati- nee concerts by the Chicago Symphony or- chestra, and a chorus of 160 volces under the direction of T. J. Kelly, May 7, 8 and 8. This chorus bas been under the direction of Mr. Kelly for the last eight weeks and will be one of the largest choruses ever heard in Omaha. Then on May 15 ome concert will be given by .the full Metro- politan Opera House orchestra of New Duss, the millionaire, as conductor. At this concert both Noidica and DeReszke will appear, so that the Omaha musical patrons will have the full New York company as It has been appear- ing the last season in that city to packed houscs. That the Board of Governors are not trying to make money out of thess musical events s evidenced by the price of season tickets, which have been placed at $8.50 for all six of the concerts. This entitles each purchaser to a reserved seat, which can be reserved at the H. J. Penfold company on and after March 30. Letters sent to Mr, Penfold from out of town patrons containing checks will be num- bored as received and tickets will be re- served and sent to the purchasers after that date Gowaip of Stageland. Cameron Is to have the leading ‘Sergeant Kittle,” a new mus cal that is to be ment out next sea- 1s announced that E. H. to produce Percy Mackaye's dramatiza- ton of “A Canterbury Piigrimage. Mr. Sothern will be Chaucer and Miss Loftus the wife of Bath mes K_ Haskett's managerial venture, e Blshop's Move,” ended last night & f and certaln career in New York. W. Thompson, who was the star, will be glven a_new place next season Sam_Bear, the Oscar Hammerste'n of Grace role in comedy son 1t Sothern s | 81 ux Falls, was in Omaha during the week, looking around. Sam says he expects to rest and fish next summer and let some- one elee run the stock companies. Friends of Hamlet wiil be pleased to know that the jun.or law class of the state University of lowa was oniy able to find him gullty of manslaughter Instead of mur der in the first degree for Kiling h's uncle, Claudfus. The plea of insanity avalled the Prince of Denmark nothing. Maurice Campbell's ‘press agent an- nounces that his principal s afier the ieases on the Broadway and Tabor Grand theaters at Denver. Maybe; but it {s not likely that he will get either until Peter McCourt Is ready to let g0, and that will likely be some time far In the future. Millle James has so impressed Lotta Crabtree by her performance in the Bunett play of “The Little Princess” that ihe anclent Lotta has coneented to allow her to_use some of the old-time plays, such as “Bob," "Muse sittle Nell and the Marchioness,* “Zip" and others In which Lotta made her fame MUSIC AND MUSICIANS The series of “Poems One Ought to For- get” still goes on and this is N& 8, I belleve. It is from a book of songs re- cently published by the Jchn Church com- pany and edited by no less an authority than Mr. H. E. Krehblel, musical ecritic of the New York Tribune. I will not at- tempt to criticise the typography of the French, misplaced accents, etc., which 1 had .pointed out to me some days ago by Madame Borglum, herself a Parisian, and incidentally, I may mention, a musician and artiste of the first rank, a woman full of the *‘feu sacre’” and a French scholar and teacher par excellence. Madame Boaglum tonished me by showing me the numerous imperfections in the plain primting of the French text and she agreed with me in saying that the translation was preposter- ous. Yet Mr. Krehbiel allowed his name to appear editor of such a thing! But to the translation, as a bit of English verse. The translation was made by H. F. Chorley. The song is “Le Vallon,” by Gounod: I. Mfi heart in need of rest, 0 longer hopes or gathers ‘Without will, without pow'r— Further to strive or fly. Take me home to thy breast, O valley of my fathers, For one hour of repose, Before lonely I dle. 1L T look upon the past As on a haunt forsaken, Shadow'd with heavy clouds, Like vapors o'er a stream. 1 bellev'd love could last, Now I no more can waken, A _throb or a glow, That belong'd to my dream! 111 Reat, weary heart of mine. ywi 1 tlent rover, Like one arriv'd from fa . _Without burden or care, Who pauses at the gate, When his journey {s over, To breathe for awhile The balmy twilight air Only to breathe for awhile, The balmy twilight air. Bte, etc., ad nauseam. 0 Chronicle has an editorial He writes occaslonally on musical He wrote an article on the prob- And now he is out with an article on the “Decline of Wagner” in a recent issue. And he ought to change either his beverage or his doctor. Commenting upon the “Decline of W mer,” he says some startling things in an editorial, in that otherwise strong paper, the Chronicle, and they are things which amuse and entertain, to a degree, some readers of the paper who are living west of Chicago. The Bee commented extensively In this column upon the article of the Chronicle which favored the doing away with good music of an accepted high grade nature at the St. Louis exposition and It assumes the privilege of saying something about the recent utterance, The erudite scribe begins with the start- ling_statement that “During the lifetime of Wagner influences apart from music promoted the production of his works. The chief of these Influences was, naturally, their novelty. 1 must confess to an utter inability to distinguish the meaning of these sentences. I can understand how music, influenced by novelty of dramatic conception or incident, could exist, but how “influences apart from music” could by their sheer “novelty” in- spire a composer is a riddle. Why has not some great composer written a fantasie on a folding bed? Why did not Brabms write about the telephone? Or Saint-Saens the phonograph? Or Gounod tbe locomotive? Or Richard Strauss the automobile? So far from writing on influences of novelty, Mr. Wagner wrote upon the old traditions. He rummaged through the cob- webbed aisles of allegory and through the musty corridors of hythology and brought thence gods for his heroes and goddesses for his heroines. The Ghle ‘writer. matters. The gentleman proceeds: “It did not re- quire acumen to discover that there was inherent weakness in Wagnerism. It re- celved, for & time, loyal advocacy by Ger- man patriotism because it German." Now, any student of history knows of a surety that Wagner met with more opposition from his own countrymen than might have been expected and today one can easlly find among German musicians many who do not worship at the Wagner shrine. - In Germany Wagner had many prominent musical antagonists. But this is history, and one can easily investigate it and ascertain the truth of the foregoing very modest statement of the facis. To quote again: “As time passes one truth remains a survivor of all the power- ful accidents and truths which propagated cult, It fs that music| melody alone.” | Is it the “melody” of the “Hallelujah | Chorus” from the “‘Messiah” which makes it famous? Is it the “melody’” of the “An dante” from the Fth Symphony of Bee thoven which makes it immortal? Is it the “melody” of the chorus, “The Heavens a Telling” from Haydn's “Creation” that makes it perennially young? ‘lIs it the| “melody” of the ““Vorspeil” to “Lohengrin which awes the listener, however untut- ored he may be? Coming down to modern composers, is it the “melody” of the “Sex- tef"" from “Lucia” which makes audiences thHI1? Is it the “melody” of “Sweet and Low" that makes Barnaby's composition an always welcome concert number, hack- neyed though it be Is it tfe melody | of Sullivan's “Lost Chord” that makes | people ponder on things outside of com- | merce? Think of these things! (Is it not | the harmony?) | Another statement from the adjustable | mind e the gifted penner of the editorial | in question is this: ““Walter Damrosch, | Wagner's most skillful and most ardent | disciple In this country, finds it necessary year after year, in spite of the expansion of musical culture, especially in the larger citles, to give literary explanations of the | Wagner operas in order to keep alive their flickering flame." There is a blow at interpretation for you! | The Wagner operas are psually sung in German, and Mr. Damrosch has done a no- | ble work in giving lectures to incite more interest in the text and music of the Wag- | ner music-dramas by explaining the text | in English and drawing out, by illustrating | the leading themes, or leit-motit system, | the meaning of the works. But the Chron icle editorial writer would explain this ac tion by the sentence that he is doing so “to keep allve the flickering flame of the Wag- ner operas.” | In other words, to come down to a prac- | tical {llustration, the man who teaches hie { triend to use the “linotype” machine is en- | | deavoring to “keep alive the flickering | | flame of typographical invention.” H | Ministers are preaching the “old gospel” | { every Sunday in every city in the United | States, but the flame of religion s not flick- :N‘Inu‘ by+any means. Because a man ex- plains and illustrates a master does not | indicate that the master is losing hold on | the people. Quite the contrary. Mr. Dam- rosch's lectures on Wagner are well at- | tended, as are Wagner Jectu everywhere delivered by lesser lights than Damrosch The people want to know, and they pay for the information. the Wagnerian lives by Just one more statement before we leave | | the Wagner side of the discussion: ‘‘The } more flowing and the lovelier of Wagner's tuneful inventions insure his permanency | in musical art. All else that he did con- tains fatal germs." Any man or woman who would thinkingly pen these lines should be compelled to lis- ten to the ““Tale of a Bumblebee or “Just as the Sun Went Down” for nine hundred | and ninety-nine years nine months and nineteen days, ninety times an hour, Sun- days mot excepted. It is the acme of mu- sical ignorance, and how a Chicago paper could print such—but then, Chicago papers | —some of them—would print anything! The next paragraph is what astonishes | one. Read it carefully. I have not courage enough to print all of it. One paragraph will be enough: “One of the reasons why Theodore Thomas has failed as an orches- tral director,” ete. A Chicago paper informs us editorially— mind you—editorially, that Mr. Thomas has “falled” as an orchestral director! Well, thank the good Lord, the name of Theodore Thomas will be held in reverence by music lovers, the world over, when the Chicago Chronicle writer will be “stopping a hole to keep the wind away. Theodore Thomas needs no advocate. He needs no eulogist. He is & master, a teacher, an exponent, and his name, above all others, has brought the name of Chi- cago into prominence in those circles where moth and rust do mot corrupt, even if thieves break through and steal, and when packers, and corn pits and speculators are forgotten, future generations will look back and mention the name of Theodore Thomas with a respect which ought to be prevalent even now, and which is—outside of Chi- cago. The people of the west love the | name of Theodore Thomas, wherever a note of music is known, and the Chicago Chron- icle editorial writer is discreet in observ- | ing the truth of the old saying that “where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.” That the latter statement is true is pa ent, for the writer goes on to say that “Lack of judgment on the part of Mr. Thomas has made orchestral music in this part of the country a burden and a bore to the massgs of the music-loving people.” The tollowing lines from the same article will perhaps be interesting to people who have considered that they were “sincerely musical”: “An arrogant disdain of the basic property of music, melody, leads prig- gishness to insult sincerely musical people with the assertion or insinuation that those who do not profess to enjoy blare and bang in the name of music are illiterate or vulgar people.” Wanted, for the Chicago Chronicle read- ers—"Creatore and his frenzied fifty,” or the “Metropolitan Mosquito Minstrellists.” | “Read the Chicago Chronic IIL" Mr. Robert Cuscaden will give his third recital of the ason at the Kounize Memorial church on Tuesday evening, April 14, He will be assisted by Mr. Sigmund | Landsberg, planist, and Mrs. Hypes of Council Bluffs, soprano. At All Saints’ church this afternoon there. will be a musical service, when a Lenten | cantata, “Penitence, Pardon and Peace,” | by Maunder, will be sung by the choir, the solo parts being taken by Mrs. Jennison, soprano, and Mr. Haverstock, basso. Mrs.~Eleanor Kirkbam, contralto, of Chi- cago was the outside attraction at the Lenten musicale last week. She sang well, had a beautiful voice and won her auditors | by these accomplishments, as well as by her admirable presence. Mrs. Kirkham's program was & very interesting one. Madame Muentetering played several piano. forte numbers with consummate taste, and with that unfailing gentility and eloguence which is always a part of her work. I have recelved the program for the fourth recital, but it pas so obviously in- correct in the printing of some of the titles that 1 canuot give it here. Bre to Miss Ella Ethel Free gave a puplls' re- cltal yester THOMAS J. KELLY. Mr. 8. Kronberg, impressario, * | town" yesterday. Mr. Kelly .... 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It 00000ttt et ettt etettessetessssees eeeesooe AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, BOYD'S Woodward & Burgess’ Managers, This Afternoon--Tonight Mr. Daniel Sully IN A NEW PLAY, The Ol1d Mill Stream A Romance of the Catskills—Complete Pro duction. PRICES--latinee, 25¢c, 50c. Night, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50. One Concert Only--Monday Night, The Phenomenal Bohemian Violin Virtuos New York and San Francisco. KOCIAN Prices—25c, 50c, 75¢, $1.00, $1.50. Direct from His Success in In a Specially Selected Program. Weber Piano Used. Wednesday, Thursday, Special Mat. Thursday, Mrs. PATRICK CAMPBELL And Her London Company==Direction of Chai s Frohman. Wednesduy Night—“The Joy of Living" By Hermann Sudermann, Thur. Mat.—“The Second Mrs. Tanqueray” By A. W. Pincro, Thursday Night—¢“}{agda" By Hermann Sudermann. Prices —Matinee and Night, 50c, 75c¢, $1, $1.50. $2. Seats on sale. Friday, Saturday —Mat. Saturday. Engagement Extraordinary! Frank L. Perley’s Singing Comedians in the Smartest, Most Up-to-Date Operatic Comedy of the Period The Chaperons Produced Under the Stage Direction of Geo. W. Lederer. ORIGINAL PRODUCTION §3i"iu i fads ented at the New SAME GREAT CAST: WALTER JONES ) REDWA ALBERT FARRINGTON THOMAS BURTON GENEVIEVE DAY JESSICA DUNCAN MAE STEBBI Y KATHRYN PEARL AND SIXTY OTHERS. Prices —Natinee, 25¢ to $1.00; Night, 25¢ to $1.50. HOTELS, by Gafeagiaates JobnKelkeaneyProp An ideal place for ' & cosy after-the- theater party. Haif Broiled Lobster .. 50c Clubhouse Sandwiches, 25¢ 216 So. 17th, Bee Bld We will ;«\;n IorfisundlAy,r flln:l; 22 Roast Young Turkey With Oyster Drei CALUMET COFFEE_HOUSE AND LADIES' CAFE 11’ Douglas St. OMAHA'S G RESTAURANT L ‘IN THE LOBBY" Our guests are our friends. They go and come again. HOTEL DELLONE Absocutely Fireproof. “THE ONLY ONE™ R i1 Hoome and AMUSEMENTS. COREIGHTON Telephone 1531, Week Commencing Sun, Mat,, March 22 Today 2:15. ‘Tonight 8:15. 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