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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 11, 19 What is Going on in the Stage World Briefly Told OLY week in Omaha was marked if at all by a lack of tivity at the theaters. The Boyd hat one attraction that was valuable | by naty chilefly for the purpose | ample ing those who attended that they | ability had not seen the worst; the Krug observed | Mrs. Shaw, Fanny Wallack, Mrs By presenting Its last attractions of the |ham, Susan Denin senson, its boards being now given over | mired actress of old th the uses of the blograph, while at the few years ago: Mrs. Burwood the feature was the closing week | Jullan Seaman were for Mr. Grew and Mr. and Mrs. Bacon. |actresses who took The Orpheum continued its money-108INg | Denmark annually business, due to the fact that the lower | ihat they > floor hasn't about 300 more seats. At least|faet that the public enjoyed the plays that many more could be sold each time |enough to come and see them and even the house opens its @oors. But the real|talked seriously about their conceptions of feature of the week was the commence- ment of final work on the excavation for the new Brandeils theater. The graders are now busily at work putting down the hole in the ground needea .or the founda- tion and the underneath workings, and it Is hoped that by the time they have finished the contracts for the superstructure will | have been let and the bullders will be | ready Messrs. Brandels and Woodward & Burgess are eager to have the house | open on January 1 next, and attractions are now being booked In New York for the house. Hamlet, which of the day fact that to judge from blographers seems to have been due to the looked worried and e and thus offered an of the doctrine’ of physical as Opposed to art she nervous of show suit- P Broug- who later was an ad- women parts until F. B. Conway and some of the women a try at the Prince of It is not so surprising had the courage to do It as the v a | | | ISCRIMINATING who both enjoy and appreciate light acting of a high order at present indulge comedy have opportunity to taste in this direction than for some time. In fact, the theatrical season Is waning with considerably more dignity than it has exhibited at any time it opened last September. In addition now playing in this city with those of players of quality the public has an op- portunity to compare the results in the case of two experienced women sturs now playing in this city with those of more youthful but far less weil qualified actresses who been selzed upon and exploited managers who think that the public prefers vouth to brains and beauty to skill, says the New York Sun. more thelr -y Plans for the theater call for something | #inos that is just a little ahead of anything in the west, not excepting Chicago. Whether the diream of the architect will be fully realiged in steel, marble, mosaic and tap- | estry is not yet fully determined, but the prospectus is wonderfully attractive Be- ginning on Beventeenth street, the first three stories of the new building will be designed especially for the front of a theater. A port cochere will extend almost | the entire length of the front of the build- | ing, bullt of iron and glass, with the new- est ideas In light effects. A deep vestibule | will give entrance to the lobby of the theater, | where the box office will be located, and from the lobby progress will attain the | the foyer, which s to be one of the features of the theater. It is spacious in design, with high vaulted celllng and fin- hed {m marble and mosalc. On one side | will be the ladies' parlor and on the other a smoking room for men. A roomy prome- nade inside runs back of the seats and provides accommodations for visiting be- | tween acts. Six boxes flank the prosce- | nlum on either side, roomy and elegant in design. The feature of the construction | inside will be the immense marble pillars | rising at elther side of the proscenium | trom floor to celling. These will be the anly columns, as the balcony and gallery will be supported on the cantilever princi- | ple. The walls are to be hung In tapestry and other interior finishing Is in keeping. | The mural decorations contemplate an | elaborately simple display, which will make the general effect of the auditorium | richly beautiful. All the appointments are | to be on a similar scale and the whole will | make the Brandels the handsomest theater in the west and one of the most beautiful in the country. The final acceptance of the | plans awaits the coming of Mr. Bmll | Brandels, who (s now In the east, but is | expected home shortly. When the plans are fully determined the work of prepar- | ing the specifications will be taken up and it is hoped that bids can be invited carly | in May. have by The two stars who are at present en- forcing this comparison are Miss Henri- etta Crosman and Miss Grace George. Both of these actresses have achleved stardom only after a long period of ap- prenticeship and years of hard work and intelligent study and exercise. They furnish an instructive contrast to tho hand made stars with which theater- goers have become rather more familiar of late than seems necessary. Take the case of Miss Cri since she Is the elder actres young girl she studicd for grand opera in Parls until lllness obliged her to abandon her ambitions ‘in connection with the lyric drama. Then she came back determined to take up work on the stage of her native country. She was some time In getting a hearing, making her firgt appearance In “The White Slave” fn 1889—which, it will be noticed, comes pretty near being twenty years ago, and was cleven years before she became a star. man first, As a Her next appearance was a brief en- gagement in what was then called “‘varl- ety;" In 18% she plaved subordinate parts in Augustin Daly's company, then still_prosperous; the following year she joined Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Thea- ter Stock company, following that with two years of miscellaneous parts with the role. In later years -the number of these gifted women grows ever smaller. Charlotte Cushman will ever remain the most notable of the American actresses who played seriously the parts of men, for NBW YORK, April 10.—Sarah Bernhardt |in that category are not to be included the is certainly the Grand Old Woman of the | list that appeared in “The French Spy, drama. She is now well in the 60s, but no | “Jack Sheppard” and other plays to which less difficult a task than playing the title [it had become a theatrical convention to role in Rostand's “Cyrano de Bergarac' s [assign women. to be her next underteking. Constant Co- | Adele Belgrade used to play Hamlet, and quelin, with whom she had played the |that was not more than a score of years part of Roxine so frequently, is dead, and | ago. Her mpst successful predecessor by probably no actor In France is courageous | only a few years was Mrs. Daniel Band- enough just now to take up the part. He ; mann, who played the same character all played Cyrano more than forty times this|over England untll a comparatively re- year during the weeks preceding his sick- | cent period. Mrs. Emma Waller used to ness and his trlumphs are freshly remem- | act that role, as well as lago to the bered in Paris. Sarah s going to act the | opposite characters pluyed by her husband role, however, and it is fairly certain that | Mrs. Waller, who was a survival of the the public will want to see her. tragedy queens, lived for years after her It was only a short time ago that Mme. | retirement over in West Thirtieth street Bernhardt wrote to her representative, | and taught the young theatrical idea to ‘Willlam C. Connor, who has been her friend | shoot In a direction that there Is not the and adviser ever since the death of Maurice | least demand for today. Guuk; lhn(‘lh‘a h‘uped lhia| ‘:‘r‘“m;lo“: ’::m another role to her repertoire, Mephisto- 4 2 pheles, In & version of “Faust” that Henri | Marie “‘"wl whs the last of the Iwomoln Bataille was writing for her. There was a | 18809 In this city. She acted the yole with delay about hor acauisition of ‘his new | NeT husband when he came here from his masculine character because Mme. Bern- | V!'EIna farm to give a serles of Shake hardt and the dramatist fell out and uhcfl’“‘”“‘ plays. Soveral years ago Helene wanted him to get out and let her finish Mora, whp was popular then as a singer The play herselt. Just how M. Bataille re. | Of sentimental mother dittics in the music celved the sugsestion is not known here; | R8lls decided that she wanted to attempt but Mme, Bernhardt has not yet played | the melancholy one and her music hall B T ihe Gah: 80 thate Ate | public in those days was large enough to her way with the grounds | for bellevirig that may have objected | enable her to have B ety 2 ks orusiat managers, So she acted the closet scene point. i " a ‘The desire to play Cyrano marks the ex- | 8 Hydo & Behman's so acceptably that treme of the Frenchwoman's ambition to | It Was scarcely possible to sit through it. Those who went to sooff remained to yawn, play men's roles. She acted here as the {ngenuous hero of “Le Passant” as long | 1488 than two years ago Adelaide Keim stock company @g0 as her first visit to New York; but | tested the loyalty of her B ciner B 5t Sl clientele In Harlem by appearing there for R e tawn hare a week as Hamlet and escaped violence— the hero of “L'Alglon,” the little duke of | Which may that friends had Relchstadt. Abroad she has played the to her or that, like Heleno hero of De Musset's “Lorenzacclo” and | MOra, she was competent. These later began her recent cycle of men's parts in | €ffOFts It will be secn, or presenved for that play. Her tendency to gather as many | the outlying theaters. They never pene- such roles as possible into her repertoire | trate the heart of the theatrical district. { was also shown by her ambition to act | Romeo whenever an appropriate Jullet who | also spoke French could be found. Mnie. Bernhardt is not an exception. disposition of women to play masculine roles undoubtedly grows stronger. Maude Adams, who made the fame of “L'Aiglon"” in this country, has since that time gained even great vogue for Peter Pan, although she could not do the same for the he o “The Jesters.”” which s the latest mascu- line figure she added to her repertolr is sald that she would appear only rol if there were plays enough kind to Interest and occupy the desire of two actresses to get lon" that led to the parting of the ways between Charles Frohman and Ju Maur. lowe, who was then under his management Miss Marlowe was 80 anxious to represent | the young hero that she never forgave Mr Frohman for handing the play to Miss Adams. Her own rights to the part she considered proved by the b had made In “Chatterton,” a that she now rarely performs short time ago Annie Russell made her greatest successes In gently genuous roles, decided that she wanted to get nto line and act & masculine role. She elected one that has always been a'lotted to & woman, however, and acted Puck in “A Midsummer Night's Dream." —— Thero 1s of course In this tendency noth- | ing lke a return to those palmy days o ! which the woman Hamlet was only a little | scarcer than the woman lago. Old records of the drama anpounce as many women Hamleis i s tle'e are Nors toda; As back as 819 both Mrs. Bartley and Mrs Barnes made sucoessful appearances in th rolo and were taken seriously by large sudiences. It was significant of the taste of the times that some years later Char e { g 2 1otte Barnes, who had titied n every other | (e o o) o | i Fhe Man role in spite of the talent and popularity | G Wield Greater Mm"m'l‘n' ';"_ of ber parents, was (inally accepied &8 | theater during the engagement of WOMEN WHO'D PLAY THE MAN Actresses More and More Seek to En- act Male Roles. he male has were Hamlet and show love her | learnea LY. The desire of appearing in a man's role led Miss Barrymore (wo years ago to at- tempt the part of the boy hero of “Car- rots,” which did no more than add another modest success to her large number. She like other popular acresses of the day is searching for the play that contains attractive male character that they are anxious to play. If there arc ot I¢ | Liese impersonations within the tew it will be seasons 1n mals |, fatled to supply have of that tain them It was | L' Ag- | The i) | not more next because the plays that con- her COMING TO THE OMAHA THEATERS Attracti ised for the Week at ayhouses. There have been many delineators of comedy the stuge during has been before the y of them, the position in this line K of the Al G. Fleld Entirely original In n characterization of part The Man From Onionville, Indlan Ter- Billy Clark jumped at a bound from & comparatively unknc m of the greatest thie what might be called a quiet His work is as smooth ofl laughs without effort and they laughs, come from is sucl in our over centric time © ple. but proached Billy ¢ | My cept of * itry, on the instrel peo- success for one-act have held by, Greater his con- play Only had who strels and his n comedian to one Clark s comedian. Ho gets are hearty on stag A the heart touch the because decper foelings wture. Billy Clark I8 seen in th part in which he sings his great hits There's Always Something Wrong," which Is a quaint negro plaint, and “I'd Rather | | Be a Little Too S8oon Than Just a Little Bt Too Late.” wit as tc as Behind the Al Boyd two early nx-‘ Two Real Feminine Stars theatergoers the | the dramatists | performances Sunday ing. afternoon and even- [ pus of the Columbus university. Here it is that Mac, the time a certain who has naver in all her life spoken to a man. She Is entirely unsophisticated, Mac looks good to her. Lady I has come to this country to marry a man she has never seen, having been bethrothed to him during her childhood. The action of the plece hangs on the love affairs of these young people. Many brilllant song numbers run throughout the plece, some of them being decided hits. One of the best num- bers Is entitled “When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love,” with other good ones like “Love Me Just Because,” “What's the hero, meets for the first Lady Leslte from Scotland The success of “The Cla | will be seen at the Boyd Thursday and Saturdas with the originul New York company and groduction, continues to be the sensation and surprise of the theatri- and | eal world. The play has been the subject of newspaper comment and public and pri- va ¢ mosslp everywhere. Ministers have preached about it; politiclans, big and lit- le, h've ben mightily concerned and worked up. In the larger towns the box- office scenes have been almost riotous, so eager has the public been to get its money iin ard obtain the first reservations. Au- | | Charles Frohman's company, which period she spent much time on the road. A year In stock ensued. Her first striking success in a part of predominance was perhaps in “Glor- lana” at the Madison Square theater, but after a few porformances she was taken il and did not play for a year. For some obscure reason the road claimed her after that until 1%00, when she began her career as a star, Since then she has played with conspicuous success in many productions, the best known being “Mistress Nell,” “One of Our Girls,” “Nance Oldfield,” “The Sword of the King” and “Madeline.” Miss George's career has not been quite %o extensive. She is one of the few stars who are graduates of a dra- matic school, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts being her sponsor. She made her debut fifteen years ago In “The New B a farce popular at that time. She was the Lucy in “The Girl T Left Behind Me' played an ingenue In “Charley's Aunt,” Madeline in “Frederic Lemaitre,” and then went into vaudeville with Charles Dickson. She returned to the legitimate stage In a Freneh farce called “The Turtie,” then appeared in “Mile. Fifl,” and was first starred in “The Countess Chiffon.” She was scarcely ripe for that honor at the time, but persevered, her first real success In a star part being achleved in “Her Majesty Then followed “Pretty Poggy,” “Frou Frou," ‘The Marriage of Willlam Ashe,” “Clothes” "Divorcons” -and now “A Woman's Way." It is not pretended here to enumerate during for the most part far our superlors. Miss Crosman, to be sure, las personal limitations, which in the present In- stance prevent her from giving a thor- ough impersonation. She scarcely seems the member of an old, aristocratie, tashionable Knickerbocker family. But this weakness in her representation Is more than atoned for by the deftness and flexibility with which she indicates the various moods that take possession of the character which she plays. The manner in which she reads a letter in the last act of the comedy is in t a liberal education In the art comedy acting, and no young actress who has aspirations in the same field ought to miss seeing it. Bhe is mistrcss of mirth that rises above tears of tears that just peep through mirth. Her art is as strong and flexible as the arm of a skilltul fencer. Miss George's art, while it in the same fleld of light comedy, a less overwhelming character. The lightning of light comedy Is just yet not for her, but she Is mistress of the zephyrs and the sunshine. She gives moreover, a more genuine impersona- tion than does Miss Crosman. She is nearer being the woman that the pl wright drew. She makes her character in “A Woman's Way" a very real and humanly delightful person, and in her serener manner she is quite as flexible as the older actress. She has, more- over, the assistance of that extraordi- narlly facile light comedian Frank Worthing, who s probably today the best male exemplar of that style of ac ing on the American stage. Students of the art of acting, if there of light is exerted 1s of | aay, ) ceurs | “When | by a | Interesting Bits late Bronson Howard ard of Its kind for first having been City at the Star 1889, nty vears, it in New York adway on Sep 1 Henry Mil- when In presen big given initlal ap- of the Bur leading and Lea Re is belleved jump into matinees to. Saturds “Shenan- will offer title roles by wer tw produced ater on Broi Allen ors in the tember 9, Viola ler sharing he play has not early In the theatric 1 at the addition the drama, Omaha Guards, battle interest this of the pearance of three new members Thaddeus Gray comedian ¢ " Tea een seen in season of 1 Burwood t ded to was given to the big that erack organizat will participa Adaitional x cast 1 on, * In the scene. Is production bec wood company man; Hugh Gibson monde, character that all three will immediately popular favor. There will be Tuesday, Thursday and follow the big revival loah,” the Burwood theater “The Cowboy and the Lady,” the in which will be played, respectively, the ading Mr. Gray, and woman, It new man, Leone James Thornton this week Sweet Sixteen” and Man In the Moon,” popularity. Mr. ing with conspleuous logue. Another engagement of reputation will His songs. be at the Orpheum “When You Were My Sweetheart's the long ago hornton has been appear- in number Murray success a mono- is the whose musical tlizabeth M singer of by present ond little se to Julle troupe of far- Room,” a situations, Winslow. of character Ring, songs none supported \ will id to abov pen of ‘aesar C He Cleopat d will b Wrong eal Hall a plece from d in cor th n Herbert C is a travesty B James “Caesar and a," by George presented b Richard Anderson The Sisters Gasch European gymnasts, but have appeared in this country for short tours, having been featured at the Victoria Roof Garden and other prominent music halls. A third but one in which music comedy of th type, Is contributed the Vindobonas. A light an humorous number will be that of “Mack’ and “Ma- rius,” both former newspaper cartoonists, who have joined forces and are presenting | little skit entitled “Evolution,” in which they give play to their talent and fancy. ard Shaw and Sadile Leonard and Aumiber with musical is combined most grotesqu f LATE GOSSIP FROM STAGELAND of About Theater Folk: are any, will find food for reflection in the careers and success of these two actresses. It may be that the managers | | who pin their faith on youth, as against experlence and skill are right. It may || be that the public will pay more dollars || to look at a pretty girl making motions | | that a stage manager has taught her | than to see a skillful actress doing things intelligently and uttering lines beautifully, but if so it's a pity, and one prefers to belleve that it's a condi- tion that will not endure. every part played by these two ac- tresses, but only to name enough of those parts to indicate that these two players have arrived at thelr present eminence legitimately, in the only way in fact, save In the case of prodigies, by which such eminence can be justly attained and securely maintained. Miss Crosman in “Sham" and Miss George In “A Woman's Way" are now glving exhibitions of ‘skillful work in a field of histrionic endeavor in Wwhich American ectresses have of late seldom excelled and In which the English are Use,” “Adlos, Senorita,” and “Don't Be Anybody's Moon but Mine.” The c 1s headed by Homer B. Mason, who preyious to his engagement with “A Stubborn Cin- derella” was a headliner in vaudeville on the Orpheum circult. Miss Grace Edmund has the party of Lady Leslie, and besides her many other charms has a beautiful so- prano voice, which she uses effectively in a number of songs. will b the truly diences are worked up to-a pitch of fren- zled enthusiasm that campaign managers of Taft and Bryan might well envy. Leading all other native plays in point of popularity, it is eagerly demanded in for- elgn lands and productions in Japan and Australla are now on the tapis. those big, breezy musical shows from the metropolls of the west comes to Boyd's April 18, 19 and 20. This is one of the latest Chicago productions, bearing the title of “A Stubborn Cinder- ella.”” The opening scenes shows the cam- Another of “Shenandoah” wood theater for afternoon. This glven at week starting great play by the Bur- this the | theater an elderly, David a dinner vacation hard year Mr. “Belasco, in the course review of barefoot dancing, and such-like outcroppings tory, smiled and said “It may be true, as some have claimed, that Imnioral plays are due to the immoral > of woman. Yes, that may be true gentlemen, did you ever watch at the staid, perhaps somewhat unprepossessing wife, brooding over a hus band a little younger than herself? These wives, surely, are no supporters of the im- moral stage spectacle. “Such u wife sat in during the production heroine, a beautiful girl, moment: ferciful heavens, I am undone!’ 'he wife rose hurriedly. “'Come, Clarence,’ she murmured sternly, ‘we've had enough of this. I'm mot going to have you drinkin’ in any Salome dance or dlsrobin’ act!’ Bel was in his best mood at at St. Regis preceding his his first vacation in twenty long, 1 lear of stage his- one of my theaters of a drama. The sald at a dramatic Word from Miss Florence Gerald is to the effect that she has just closed her season and will spend Easter at her_home, West Forty-sixth street, New York Mrs. Manning of the team Carl and Manning has returned to her home in Omaha after a seven months’ season on the Keith & Proctor circuit. Mrs. Manning will | About Music, Musicians and Mu sepulcher that entombs the good, or to break the seal which bears the Impress of ignorance in high places, and let us sclze the key which will unlock the ‘“padlocks of our prejudices and superstitions.” What a little key it is! In the realm of music confronted wtih that very statement don't know anything about that; I only know what I like and what I den't.”” Or, to be more accurate, in musical matters we more often hear the latter part only “I know what I like and what I don't In the realm of art we don't even hear the frank admission, “I don't know anything about that" But, matter. That will come. Is it not a remarkably encouraging thing. however, to think that even those who know best and most about a subject, hav at scme time or other, stopped think “Why?" The aforesald monkeys not to be blamed for their edge. They know nothing perhaps about anything! Perhaps! Did you ever notice that pecullarly qulzzical expression an old ape will wear, in looking at the beings outside the cage? But the tribe knows what it likes and what doesn’t. The first “Why?" A recent number of Every- body's Magazine there was an article on books by J. B. Kei foot, and In the course of his remarks the following para- graph appeared: “A great deal of fun has been poked, first and last, at the man who, brought face to face with any form of art expression, says, ‘I don't know anything about that; I only know what I ltke and what I don't.’ The fun is legitimate enough. Its legiti- macy is made manifest and its essence ex- | pressea in the famous retort that ‘the monkeys in the zoo know that' And yet | there is no man, though he be now critic | or connolsseur, who has not, in the begin- ning, found himself thus limited in knowl- edge. The Qifference lles In one's attitude toward the discovery and in one's recogni- tlon of two facts, namely, that the begin- nings of understanding as well as its re- wards, come from within us, and that the first step from the simian toward the human aestheticlsm is the If-propounded question, ‘Why do I like this and not that?' " we are so often e no to in the moo are limited knowl- Sy This Is the festival of Baster. Today the thought of resurrection will be empha- sized from pulpit and chancel. Immortality and eternal life will be held forth, and the old, old story will be told, in varlous ways, and sung by choirs, while the tongues of the organs which were silent during the last days of “holy week' will peal forth, mighty In power, and noble In volume. In the da of our childhood we heard, many times, of the necessity of being pre- pared for death, but somehow that has been changed The thought of eternal ilife 1= more often presented than the thought of death. “Prepare to meect thy | God" has given place to “Prepare for eternal life.” Eternal life means eternal progress. The way one d to think of it, It seemed more Ik eternal stagnation, or eternal human simian it step is the upward question If, In the matter of music our fellow men and fellow themselves why they like music and not another, we started a thought process bear fruit One of the most prevalent excuses which hear, for a gross mistake or for a | cruel deed, is, “It's too bad, hut he didn't | mean to do It; he just didn’t think." It is a great question whether the fac of “not thinking” is not the gravest of all we could get women to ask kind of would hav which would we ap- | his | idleness. It was like the poor old Irish servant who wanted to go to heaven where “thank God there would be no more dishes to wash.." is wrought from thought | as want of heart." salth the P But is ne —_—— sald In excuse, for r palllation of, the | And so, the paragraph which opened this | i1 of 1 | [ A . thought | | column today serves perhaps for an Easter- e g e K A g T R tide reflection as well as any othe Gethsemane, but the superstitious prejudice It the “Kingdom of Heaven" is “within | o¢ paople who would not stop to ask them- you, ' then it followsathat eternal Nfe be- [ vec”the question, “Why?" When gins here: If eternal life begins here, 1t | oeq the lite of Riohard Wagner and real begine with & question mark. ize what he passed through it makes your | | And that little question, “Why do I like | poo s because some of those old [this and not that?" is the beginning of | ool piarisecs, who should o 5 the development of one's eternal powers. [ yron™ wouia™y o thomanives, "Wy This little question,” says Mr. g et s Why — Vs the pass-key to an unknown world. | ¢nis that we have, and not that which It opens all doors, even the padlocks of | provonil” oo ygo | our prejudices and superstitions Read the lives of most of the | Af there is anything in the world that we | posers and you will find | really need today, it is the opening of the | tne yvictims of padiocked padlocks of our prejudices and supersti- | ;o 1 oung superstith "Those tions." Bvermoré the Pharisees are sceing e & e thet the sepulcher s ing sure, wad that the stone is sealed. | Evermore the spirit of ignorance and superstition and prejudice and resistance to & mew truth, or to the better presentment [of an ola truth. is ready to crucity bearer of the good news. Let us then grasp, With the most fervent hope, any aid to roll the stone from the want of | that | | you nus! have Ik he Kerfoot At at com we hey 1 wh the that ] our ns. w not messages we P wh musical seats of authority and set a guard to see that the stone was sealed at door of the sepulchre in which the Spirit of Music was entombed | a Larise 0 made the s When the student begins to ssk this all-important lttle question he has begun to study the eternal things. * e beginning | | laws, not made | ing? | under | has begun, sical Events fri d, ¢ awakens timid and of understanding,” come from within with that thought, doubtful, t there I8 & to answer will depend on the the asking. When the and truth, vs our When when the at resurrection an must | soul, question, answer. And the very honesty of asks 8 be is asked in sincerity and that, connecting with the | sources of development without, will de- question Miss | attained great | Irish and negro | problem plays | AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, BOYD’S THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT 1 1AL. G. AMERICA'S FAVORITE INDOOR ROwW FIELD ‘ GREATER MINSTRELS SIXTY MERRY BOYD’'S™" MINSTREL MEN, URSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY SATURDAY MATINE ! GEORGE H. BRENNAN, PRESENTS THOMAS DIXON, JRSS WONDERFUL PLAY | PRING | | | HOMER B. mo- PHONES — Bell. WAR [ ESHE MATS. TODAY, TUES., THURS., SAT *|EVE. play the leading part in the I. G, Mourer Dramatic company next season. Ben Teal, the famous stage director, and Charles Fronman have parted coinp LNer COMTact Das eXpireu ana Wil not o renewed. For years ical was Bene Blage wreclor of tne Fronman productions. IN A& 101AIENL he Wil gO a0ipad o as- sume courge of & New producton, and wiil relurn to tois country in the fail. that We are told twitted J. M way in which over and over an American Barrie recenuy on tne thrituy he uses jokes and ep again, exploding in | Bvery Woman hnows,” 1or instance | same witticism that nas ligurea in “The Admirable Crictiton,” in "My Laay Nicotine” and in “Sentimental Tommy. Mr. Barrie replied, with a laugh, that his nationality was to blame. “I am @ Scot,” he said, “and we Scots | abhor waste. Did you never hear ot aged Saunders Cariyle, who always drank otf his whisky to the last drop the instant it was poured put for him? “‘Why do you drink down in that quick, greedy way? to Saundexs ih & raproach I once liad man explained.” woman Wi ne wireauy « | your liquor s stranger said 1 tone. ne khocked over,' the old Forbes Robertson and will tour this country next season Jerome K. Jerome's ‘“ihe Passing of Third Floor Back' '—a play which lias sor similarity to “The Servant in the House They i start with_an engagement Sister Maxine's New York theater. Gertrude Elliott at Mus. ously Carter-Payne is consldering the advisability of casting In fortu with the Shuber “Kassa romantic drama by John Luiher Long, which she appeared lately, has been s for the present, but may be seen on in & few weeks. For the summer the tress will head a St. Louls stock comp. in revivals of her own successes— Heart of Maryland,” “Zaza,” “Du Barry and La Tosca seri her the in ved ts, is writing an Way," which he Way The play will as & vehicle for his wife, Charlotte Walker. He has just iy a melodrama of the bu undisg kind, which will be called “The Last ter,” and which will probably late in the spring or carly in the antithesis will call probably Miss sed Mus Walter Eastest Euge to ““Th “Anoth: be used fall. According to reports from James K. Hackett has found markably well suited to him in a play r “A Son velop one's mind and enlarge one's being, so that life will be abundant” and the “rules”’ of man rsaken for the “laws” of art man-made rules | are temporal and are changing every day and in every plac a pet exercise for this and another for that; one has a | notk has a nostrum. But the They are of them “more will The ; one has other art by ) and a a laws” of are eternal man, but been discovered yet to be discover some have him, and others | are matter of ordinary Why must In the it not this question, not that?" which awakens to a sense And thereir the understanding, the life, the dawn of When the ignorant the spell of turned his f himse wickedness 1s do 1 like this be asked, be of wrong-d beginning of | into eternal resurrecticn morning. and fore one lies entrance the | | and - untutored youth, other some who stops Why his resurrection youth b has e from and asks the do 1 like question, this and not that his s beginning to under- meaning of the word Easter music student who been the popular hablt, who nothing but vaudeville begins to ask, “Why music of the life has begun world,” Mr has been found, and who shall say new world not the eternal which stitutes 4 part, at and stand the When the addicted to | has | | | song heard the shouter not dawn of key to & new it this earth of the do 1 ke masters? “the Kerfoot this, the and the new pass puts | that s ‘ne least, “Kingdom Heaven This is the E m This Resurrection. This s the stion, “Why do I not about thee, without ifillest thy ' doom Making him broken gleams, plendor and gloom Him thou with Spirft He than t hands and wit rn the Day of ask | the Gl 1s day to ry ce, and thou and a stifled Speals for can thing t 0 and | it oser s thar cars, nearer fe ! it truth cl m; dead ph him i st to sings Ing-5 in Ives rise »nes things. Resurrection Spirit | Hallelujuh! is in the air hosts sing | t Nat and ug he Chureb T Feast Joy ¢ . wmed that | forth is pre is 80 exuberant 1ds light ing ve blades burst s 1 MAS t Souls KELLY Musical Notes. Max Landow wiil give a plano recital First Baptist church Thursday even April 15. Mr. Landow will play Fan tasie in ninor, op. 49, nocturne, Etude. and ¥ le op. 8 by Chopin, and th following . Lisst: Harmonies | do Solr, Sonette de Petrarca, Second Bal lade, Deux Legendes, Cantique d'Amour and ' Polonalse or. Mr at the ing | ar numb |r | | e | plays | prei the South,” by C. T. Dazey. A formance was given during the Plttsbu engagement wrked favor grected offering. Mr. Hackett will not present tix play again this season, but will hold it in erve and use it as his medium next fall trial pe Parls cluded itinerary, She “Cyrano de appear as be beyond 1as returned tour which urg in L"Alglo Sarah Bernhardt | after a five months Cairo and St. Peter nd is now playing ntemplating & production of Bergerac,” in_which will the on. Nothing seems to this amazl artist rec'gnize the asked at the Amsterdam th ntell's “Lear.” what branch of the profession do ng to, uncle?’ the affiable ticket wked. se on Mr. Frank McKee's fo' uncle. “I got full charge out his offices."” He got by to 3 Do you e old darky of the Now of Mr. M “Why perfession?’ an box office window ater on the nigit red, sah cleanin’ John Strife, Galsworthy's new three-act which deals with the Intern: problem of labor and capital, and which has just been produced with marked su. s in London, is to be given an Amerlcan aring next season play nal Porter Emerson In the “Playwrigh contest. His entr evening when his ne Was" brought Kobert A star actor at the Liberty theater, New York. Mr. Browne's remurks were brief und pointed and his example might he fol lowed with profit by other members of his profession. His s follows in full Playwrights siould seen and not heard.” Hear! Hear! Erowne takes the prize Opening Night Bpeech' was tlled the G play, “A Fool Ther Hiillard forward as One of for oifices of that Henry present-day dom cra to conquer act scenes the t announcements of next season comes lrom Lieber & Cc It m Blossom, the king of L librettists, has found his king ed and has sought aew worlas In short, e has writien a four lay, entitled '*“Miss Pnilura 1 are set in New England, author's promise that will 1 cessively rural remc all cause nsion from that source, It | inted that the play will take a pla the ever-increasing number plays blg theme d timely idea indications are that M Chrystal who has scored so hecavily as Whitesido's lady In ““The Melila Pot" all season, will be featured In the title role, | ne t w but w it of ) 5 “Herne Walke “The markable tenement Lackay theater distir attraction rman Battle land play on brains, quesifon i1 W ing Moffett's r business and the which Wilto At the Sav New York, has been accorded the f being mede an internationa Dr. Mersbach, the fam s arranged { Mr. M articular interest Germans today, and he also states that the play s more like the characteristically | German play In structure and method than | most of our American plays iteside. He His first t of his opinion ' deals with are Walker W a star at 17 Hamlet. He scored heavily as the * 15 role nly 3. was Ho w that of’ Boy Hamlet, the | Pittsburg | Sunday, Monday. Tuesday—Tuesday Matinee — Dousg. new members of the company— Thaddeus Gray, Hugh Glbson, Lea Remonde. the | in | tour be produced | | ana Sword in of | the little wwas of the m | der | when t \ RECORD-BREAKING SEASON..... CLANSMAN COMPANY OF CARLOADS OF SCENERY AND ELEC AND TROOPS OF CAVALRY HORSES, 75 PEOPLE RICAL EFFECTS, April 18, 19, 20 88 AMUSEMENT COMPANY OFFER The Quality Musical £ STUBBORN CINDERELLA h, Adams and Howord. D COMPANY OF SEVENTY.FIVE, Show ISO6 1ind. A-ISAR TODAY and all week A PLAY FOR RED BLOODED AMERICANS Bronson Moward's Big Mili- tary Spectacle. B “SHENANDOAH"” RIDAN’S RIDE—THE OMAHA GUARDS IN THE BIG BATTLE SCENE IVERY NEXT WEEK: “The Cowboy aa d the Lady’ 15, 25, 35 & 50¢|. CREIGHTON PHONES @UR RN BSERS INDAMge ADVANCED VAIIIJEVILI.E Daily Mat. 2:15. 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Bu praise lavished on the ) more enthusiastic than the act of Whiteside, more mature and fine drew New York and ittertlon 10 a youthful Hamlet. Whiteside has ‘taken a place In foremost rank of modern players. how w han v ' t Chicago's ‘Walker the very