Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1909, Page 14

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 18 1909 AMUSEMENTS. What is Going on in the Stage World Briefly Told BOYD'S % = i Presents, Under Direction of Mort. H. Sicger, THE QUALITY MUSICAL PLAY A STUBBORN CINDERELLA HINGS are moving In the the- ] given it judicial review It was found to be atrica] world at a rate that|not unfit or immoral in the least. And “suggests something of interest | wonderful to relate, immediately the pub- for another season. While as | lic lost interest in it. If Mrs. Warren and yet the upheaval is not of the Fanny Le Grand can get by the New York nature of a cataclysm, the | courts, one wonders why a hullabaloo is symptoms of a storm of tornadic violence | ruised over Salome. More especially When Are present. The atmosphere has beon |t |y admitted that prurience subsists turgid, sultry and surcharged With | rather 1n what Is suggested that what is ominous heat. And now comes a tlash be permitted, But Towa prohibited & number of other things a long time ago, some of' which. are still indulged in by the citizens of the Hawkeye state. It may be that the new law will set them to iIn- vestigating; up to date no record is had of any effort to invade the state on the part of any of the Salomes yet known to tame, and If any considerable number of racé track scene at Longchamps on Grand | west, includifig Omaha, Des Moines and Prix dAy. The lawn of the race track is|others, “The Family" will be moved back tilled. with handsome men and beauteous |to Chicago to continue the run, Interrupted women, garbed In the extreme of fashion [ by a booking for Ethel Barrymore, maide at and parading to show ‘themselves to the the beginning of the season. “The Family,” world at large. Another scene shows the|unlike Mr. Miller's other success, “The Pontifex Bridge club, where the London |Bervant in the House." is purely an Amer- world of soclety plays for high stakes and |ican play. It was written for Mr. Miller plans its soclal campaign of favor or ostra- | by Robert H. Davis, editor of Munsey's revealed. All the defense that has been | the citizens of that great common- | .um @il another of the scenes, and one | magazine. It s, eays the Chicago Dally : ©of lightning that {s perhaps the overtdre | pieq up in support of the nude in art ought [ wealth make wup their minds that| ypien made a veritable sensation tonight, | Neéws, “a beautiful homespun, genuine HOMER B. MASON, and Notable Cast of 100—Sixty Singing and to the overturning at last of the condl- |y, 4pply here to the salvation of Salome | “Salome” s essential to happiness, | oy the dog breakfast at the Park Lane|drama. Henry Miller has introduced his Dancing Girls—The Biggest Musical Comedy Success in tions that have, prevailed and the clear- | gnq the confusion of the others. the _much discussed maiden, dead mansion of the duchess of Danebury. Here | fine play to a sympathetic and enthusiastic some dosen or so women bring their pet|public. A more Intensely moved, emotion- dogs to be pampered and petted anew. A |ally absorbed and delighted audience could ing, maybe, of the air of the theater—so far 1ts businbss aspects are concerned. The Shuberts have withdrawn from the Omaha This Season. | Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Daily Mati these twenty centuries, may find herself suddenly become a political issue In a section where politica Is never lukewarm. —— Ineldentally, David Bel to take the matter so very seriously. co doesn't seem The den table and speclally made ‘chalrs of | scarcely have been bullt to order. The ) ‘ AR :"'I' Y;"“ Manage: "'°‘l““°’]"' i This | (niy new play offered in New York at the | If the Hawkeyes do take her up seriously, ::llt ':'"“me“. 'h',:c the most expensive | Tribune says: “It gripped and moved the PHOTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION OF B i f';e"‘"’:"c'af:;";t:"‘_";“l’:: end of the Lenten period wan a German | Salome will find that the court of Herod | ¥1¢ §r¢ JIOr WL (L Ut o mis. | audience Iast evening as an audience at comedy at the Irving Place. It is a sweet little thing, of the light and dainty order. A noble countess has kept up a home for Magdalenes, and has made quite a show of e :0;;1-:;:::- of quiet in comparison BURNS o524 JOHNSON v Heavyweight Championship Contest, Which Took Place at Sidney, Aus- tralia, Docember 26, 1908, Popular Prices. | “syndicate” In outside towns. But the Shuberts have formed a new New York Managers' association—perhaps that fsn't Power's has not been gripped and moved in a long time, and tears and laughter were blended throughout the whole performance. tieeses, who walt on them. Still another is that of the falls in the river, where Sir - Dorian makes a leap over the falls and all is peaceful outside the great center of American theatrical business and that neither party has any notion of entering nto competition or adopting disturbing tactics. But the Shuberts have already to Inspect, induces two maldens who have never gone astray to enter and assume the character for the time only. Just then along comes a real one, and when his au- will stretch between now and the opening of the summer stock season. It 1s not the practice of this department to com- mend in advance a coming attraction, but fan Beaumont. of Lady Marian, gets her rers and 8ir Dorian both love Lady Gwen- dolen Ashley, the fair sister of Lady Mar- Terrers, who fs the adviser inté trouble theater on Tuesday, May 11, for two nights’ engagement In “Lady Frederick,” the com- edy in three acts by W. Somerset Maugham, in which she hae recently completed a long THE FAMILY ‘what it will be called, but that will be its It is a pleasure to reflect that the | into the boilin surging m ot water 'Of such plays we cannot have too many.” k effect—members of which are to Le Da- | !t but no Magdalenes have mought refuge | «gcfentific” booking agency in New York | heicw, and o escapes arrest for a sus- | The Chicago company and production which s n M T w u April 25, s eclal Mat wad Y | vid Belasco and Harrison Grey IMske. | there. A still "‘"h"'", high and well born | cannot affliet us with another “Traitor" | pected burglary of which he is innocent. h::x”: to make the play sich a big hit U hy Ull., lIUS., (] Wy 26, 27,28 p . o “ Al but one thing, the breach | Prince person, who Is enamored of the|or “Clansman” this season. The end is - w e kent to Omaha absolutely une e twaen "the Shuberts and | countess, calmly ignoring her husband, | mo near at hand that only the good things | Sir Dorian la the deus ex machina of the | changed. / Direct From Power’s Theater, Chicago . Kiaw & Erlanger. The “syndicate” sup- | COmes to Inspect the home, and thé count- | can have a show; and these are coming [story, the evil genius being a certain soclal HENRY MILLER PRESENTS HIS LATEST SUCCESS ; porters say there is to be no war, that|ess, in order that he may have something | jn sufficlent number to fill the time that | adventurer known as Noel Ferrers. Fer-| MNies Ethel Barrymore comes to Boyd's gust highness arrives, behold the home has three inmates. His experlenced eye leads him readily to detect the fraud that two of the young women are practicing on him, and they are incontinently ousted because of not being fully qualified to Infest a home for the rescue of those who have this rule 18 now to be broken in favor of “The Family.” This Henry Miller production will be offered at the Boyd shortly, and it is suggested that all who llke a simple story, told in a dramatic way, in which the interest is sustained to the drop of the final curtain, and which BY ROBERT N. DAVIS, WEAT TREE OXICAGO CRITIOS SAY ABOUT “THEE FAMILY:" “‘The Family, is a beautiful, homesupn, genuine drama. Henry Miller has introduced his fine play to a sympathetic and enthusiastic public. A more intensely moved, emotionally absorbed and delighted audience could scarcely have been bullt to ofder.—Amy L Chicago Dafly News. “It gripped and moved the aud evening as an audience at Powers' has not been gripped and moved in a long time, and tears and laughter were mingled and Mended {hroughout the whole performance. Of run at the Hudson theater In New York and scored her greatest success. Mies Barrymore will be seen here with the original New York cowpany and produc- tien. Mr. Maughem in hie comedy has told an exceptionally engaging story of life at Monte Carlo, and in the central character, Lady Frederick, has supplied through his desire to have her in his power and so force Lady Gwendolen to marry kim. Lady Marian is a bridge whist player and her stakes are heavy. Bhe loses and loses and to recoup she borrows from a morey lender; plunges on the favorite at Longchamps and again loses. Then comes the step that leads to her ruin. She steals given theater room to Willlam Faver- sham, who was put on the index of ex- communication by Mr. Erlanger just be- fore he sailed for Europe”lately on his “vacation” tour. This may mean much or it may mean little. It is possible that “K. & E." will pocket the atfront and proceed as If they meant nothing when Faversham was put under the ban, but in all human probablility they won't, for they are men who love power and are not averse to a fight. So the Weisenheimers of the amusement world are looking for as pretty a little row ever stirred up the animals, and this time you can write your own ticket on the result. e It has been an open secret for some time R. DIXEY with his exquisite art enjoys telling “Mary Jane" in the last act the fol- lowing fable in which “Pa” is Fable of the Doldubs New Nest and feed Dollle and Dottle and Work ever so hard until One Day a Lawgatitis Bird came along and Sang to her. Yappy was beginning to Like a packet which would ruin her soclal she induces her sister to accept Ferrers rather than take the consequences of her own foolish crimes. But 8ir Dorin, after almost incredible hardships, clear Lady Marian and wedding bells are dolen when the curtain falls. ringing for his marriage with Lady Gwen- career; she almost commits murder and manages to Mise Barrymore with a part that suits her admirably. Lady Frederick s an at- tractive Irish widow. She is hopelessly in debt, but has a host of suitors. How she succeds in dismissing all save one is de- lightfully told in the play. The capable company surrounding Miss Barrymore In- cludes Bruce McRae, again Miss Barry- more's leading man; Norman Tharp, Arthur such plays we cannot have too many. L. Hubbard, Chicago Tribune. “Humor easy to the point of topicalness guides and guards against the commonplace. And it also saves the little tragedy from striking too hard. Women won't stay away from ‘The Family,' and that will make it gne of the biggest family affairs the clean stage has known in & long season.”-—Ashton Stevens, Chicago Examiner. “Simple, tender and true—these are the inevitable adjectives for “The Family.' It is in the right line of the American drama—native in every stroke of its simplicity; close to the hearts of the people with its alternating moods of sorrow and mirth."—Charles W. Collins, Chicago Inter-Ocean. C g , the mq g ¢ father and every child shouid Raomiihon 20 Elliot, Charles Hammond, Orlando Daly, T s e e age Jourt : Generous, Lawga ] aly, seo it. They need it."—O. L. Hall, Chicago Journal. that the Bhuberts were looking for a re Once up:::: .t:r:‘c::n llvv‘l]:x.[mln a Wobly ts'\’:aa.nl';.:.vmr bl::n": gon:soull:;nnwt‘r":,: COMING TO THE OMAHA THEATERS | Jessie Millward, Vira Stowe and Anita 44 T April g4th, and sonab gain. r , Rothe. » oloses its ohicago run Ba 24th, an BEENIRI % Brean oun AguES. Do Nest in an OId Tree, was a Family of Dollle and Dottio didn't even Remem- all the surface showing of friendship and #004 teeling has rankled the bitterness of having had to surrender at a time when | victory seemed to be theirs. The tight money of ‘07 put the Shuberts to the nece sity of making peace on terms not quite 80 favorable as otherwise might have been | had. While the “K. & E." folks did not publicly rub it in on the Shuberts, they did not privately omit to keep in full view of the late rebels the fact that they had Strange Birds called Doldubs. First there were only Dippy Doldub and his mate Yappy Doldub. Then two little Baby Birds, Dollle Doldub and Dottie Doldub, were born. The O'd Nest was crowded and the little birds needed a Lot of Things, but Dippy Doldub was a sort of Yellow bird and one day he Flew Away and left Yappy to look after the Whole Family. Things went hard ber him, old Dippy Doldub came back. Yappy didn't Like it a Bit and teld him 80, bub Dippy was Hungry. so she gave him Some Worms and put him to Work. When she saw he grew to like the little Doldubs she treated him Better. This made Dippy Sorry for Everything and he Started to Fly Away again, 80 Yappy could be Happy with the Lawgatitis bird, but Yappy Discovered she Loved Attractions of Real Interest Prom- ised for the Week. “A Stubborn Cinderella” will be the at- traction at the Boyd tonight Monday and Tuesday, with a speclal Tuesday matinee. Messrs. Adam: Hough and Howard, authors of those big successes, “The Time, tion," The patrons of the Burwood who like plays in which there is something of consedy and enough of the dramatic to give the Place and the Girl,” “The Girl Ques-|and the Lady,” which will be played this “Honey Moon Trail," are responsi- | Week, beginning with the matinee perform- ble for the book and music of A Stubborn [ 8nce today. The usual lav Cinderella,” and the show itself was pro- | has made the Burwood productions famous the play a tinge -of excitement, cannot fail to be pleased with Clyde Fitch's “Cowboy h etaging that natural modern life, with much of the| S opens in Omabha the next night, Sunday, April Omaha, St. Panl and Minnos) the run interrupted by & York for & season’'s run. Al e b engagements in lis, the piay will return to Ohicago to continue or booking at Powers' and then move into New RPAn AWSP wid had oome Dick. ' And ans || YR Fepy Devause ahe lind 1o Bulld &' Dipey 4ad Thel Rim hack Apatn. Guced by Mort H. Singer at the opening [in the realms of stockdom all over the || The Matinee Girls T ODAY ::E WE EK thing has followed another since that time. - of the beautiful Princess theater in Chi-|country will be given “The Cowboy and T Matiness Today, Tues., Thurs., Sat. The easy way In which the vaudeville cago & year ago. “A Stubborn Cincerella” |the Lady." In appearance the Burwood's AEOME WRBOKER : L rebels put it onto “K. & E.” made the |fallen. But he realises with equal factlityis played so well that it is almost per-|j, quite different from the regular order |new leading man, Thaddeus Gray, should || jThe apswer 1s that the The Comedy-Drama With Wflnl":'lll")lh" written by Shuberts wish they had stuck, dnd the | the genuineness of the third, and she is|fect, should not miss seeing “The Family” |of musical plays from Chicago, the char-|make a very picturesque cowboy; that the || is'the right chap on the Job. | NAT. ©. °°°nwc| e e WAXINE ELLIOTT, sourse of the “syndicate” since then has | Permitted to remain. Also to recelve some (when it comes to the Boyd. acters being on a much higher social plane. [ part will be given a fine portrayal there [ an » not furthered the thought of peace. It was |attention from his high and well born & Bhubert play, as well as a Belasco play and a Fiske play, that drew from Pre augustness, which fact pleases the countess to the extent that the young person, Who e The new Orpheum theater in San Fran- clsco, erected at a cost of over $1,000,- No slang artist and no “brollers’” are seen in this plece, but a beautiful chorus of can be no question, as witness his excel- lent work during his inaugural appearance “The Cowboy and The Lady” y at-|in “Shenandoah” 1 1 dent Burnham of the New York Managers' | I8 not so tearfully repentant as she ought :Ioo un‘llheb site otflzhe one aenroy‘:«: by :‘r'.';:x:‘:l:; t:o;:o:lfl:\::lw“:'(‘:: ;d:uncl\ i b.e ":;&:m :-nt T:::.y.fl;':‘:":.!l; m-‘}. I=Lu.¢‘x.lfl'-. 36e, nd 16¢c. Noxt week:—The Richard Mansfield version of tasoclation his noteworthy interview on |t0 be, le made managing dircctress of the e e o aae it tha aemot. | of folly college chaps and a pretty girl|and Saturday. EXTRA: My 17, 18, 10, Mr the Wzahattan Co. in ation Nel ome. the purity of the drama, and it was Man- ager Burnham who finally afforded the #xcuse for the Shubert withdrawal from the association that is dominated by Klaw & Erlanger. The pretext was slight enough, but it was also big enough, and And then the intrigue of the count- ess and the prince continues, till the last act, where the managing directress of the home 1Is found presenting to the authorities the fact that the home is without Inmates, save herself, and asking for permission to ishment of the former house. It is one of the most complete and best-equippcd theaters in the country and no expense has been spared to raake it complete In every detail. The stage has the finest from Secotland furnish the story, while numercus songs that are distinctive hits made the show go with a dash and swing from the very start. Homer B. Mason heads the cast and is supported by a most Once more has the Burwood management arranged with the executors of the estate of the late Richard Mansfield for the use of his own original version of the student play, ““Old Heldelberg.” Some innovations { « '... Moy 13 appear under the direction of his old man- agers. Hs initial vehicle under the new contract will _consist of an_entir:y new CREIGETON PHONES o switchboard of any theater in the west |capable company, Including Grace Edmund |are promised in the production. e CotE op e Bt N, oA the prelude to the general disturbance i |3eVote it to the uses of “the oldest pro-(and everywhere electricity and hydraulic |and Marguerite Keeler. The striking song With this play Mr. Kendall will start & et I? el pr it RS SR P AT T b e now being playe: ion in the world."” to be And this Is declared smartly written, and the young pressure is made to simplify the work. numbers of the show are “When You First it General Manager Beck has provided a tour that will take him across the conti- U The auditorium s decorated in & scheme | Kiss the Last Girl You Love,” “Love Me | Pro§Tam for Orpheum patrons this weok, |nent to the Pacitic const and back again.\} ANUANCED VAUDEVILLE This time the Shuberts are far stronger | WOman who assumes the role of the|of old rose and ivory which gives it an | Just Because,” “If They'd Only Let Poor|®Very number of which has met with a| wyyam Colller reached the end of his ) than before, they have the theaters al- |&enuine Magdalene is sald to be uncom- |air of refinement. Adam's Rib Alone" ~I'm in Love witn|COrdial reception in other cities. *The|lonk engagement at the Garrick theater, - ready in operation; then they had to ac- —_—— All the Girls I Know,”" “What's the Use,” | Naked Truth” is a one-act comic opera, in| New York recently, For nearly six |} Daily Mat. 3:18. Every Nizht 8:l5 Quire them, sven. to bulld tham, and they | New York managers who were impreased | Brooks & Dingwall made a “ten strike” | ana many others help to make the show | Which, George Leslle, a well known come- | miCCiieion’ of *crowded houses. . Now. he Week Starting Matinee Zoday. ] will be able to secure much more extensive | With the quality of the play by reason of | Wednesday night at McVicker's theater, dlan, has the role of a fortune hunting |wlill proceed to acquire an English accent |} — the big success it i 0 tinaneial support this time. They also have | the 1aughter it occasioned, sought the next | Chicago, with their production of the Scotch tar. Several capable people assist |Preparatory to his invasion of London in & more notable iist of stars and general at- monly clever. It developes that when the day to secure rights for its adaptation to Amerfcan Drury Lane melodrama, “The Sins of So- clety,” a play One of the most extensive productions Mr. Leslie and there s a chorus of eight the same farce. be At the Garrick he will followed by the Clyde Fitch comedy, The Naked Truth tractions, and with the combination of uses, they found that Mr. tirizing the folbles of the |that Charles B. Hanford has made in|falr maldens. Sewell Collins, a New York| ‘The Happy Marriage,” in which the lead- An Original Comlc Opera in One Act 5 et gk .",,,:'l',bo,, o 4 18 | Belasco had secured them the night be. | %0cial World and pointing a salutery les- | years is that of “The Winter's Tale,” which |artist, has written a little play of the e sole Lt by WISy Dorls' ek pdi g g PR able to give the “syndicate” a real bat- the thrifty David having seized the |07 ©n the evils of gambling. The trl-|wi) pe presented at Boyd's theater on|race track and the studio, entitled, “Thirty 3 Jekithani: tle. Omaha is interested this time | OPPOFtunity soon after the fall of the last | UMPhS of the night were many, the great- | prigay, April ®. Mr. Hanford has a par- | Dollars.” It will be presented by Frank| Two of Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggins' a8 it was not before. Then Omahs|curtain. Mr. Belasco ought to embelligh |3t APPlause going to the great scene cf|yicylar affection for “The Winter's Tale Frank Nelson & Co. had but one first class theater, and, while | the Bhuberts talked of building one here, | the prospect was not sufticlently attractive | this wonderfully well. He has done some- | thing of the kind before, but he has not yet had quite the opportunity that is here the wreck of a troop ship, which goes down with 200 men on board. The scene is the climax of the dramatic interest of for in the role of Leontes, some years ag he achieved one of the signal triumphs of his career. Neison and company. Max Witt's “Sing- ing Colleens” will ofer a repertolre of “songs from the old and new world,” In- novels, “Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm" and “The Chronicles of Rebecca,” are neing | dramatized by the authoress and Charlotte | Thompson, under the title of ‘“‘Rebecca.” | Pre-enuni} Sewell Collins' Character t udy in One A¢ D g At that time Louls James had |cluding such favorites as “The Glow|Klaw & Erlanger hope that the result will | FERSOTY DOLERARS to warrant the investment, or their re- | Offered: Maybe New York has delayed the [ iy ‘anout to he shackied as a thief and | the deliclouely comic part of Autolycus|Worm." “Casties in the Alr," “Come Back | X5,8* ki fice”stories, "Mrs. Wigs of | MaX WITT'S sources were/ too much engaged elsewhere | C¢NSOFing of the drama too long. murderer, the wireless telegraph having | ("¢ Which he especlally enjoyed playing) |to Erin." The Sisters De Fay, banjo play- | the Cabbage Patch” and “Lovey Mary. AX I to permit of thelr putting up the money | , . sy o tracked him to the ranks of the troop |8nd Katheryn Kidder that of Hermione.)ers, have but recently returned from. an needed here, This latter Is very likely the | S SAsreL homs s find:goor Salome explanation. Byt now Omaha is to have | another firet class theater, and the Boyd | being named right out in meeting, so no mistake as to who Is meant may pos- sibly exist. The Iowa legislature enacted ship in midocean, but just at the moment of his arrest the vessel goes on the rocks and the terrible confusion and horror of | In the present cast Mr. Hanford will af- ford an opportunity of observing his vers tility by assuming not only the sympa- extended London engagement. Jeannette Adler will appear In scngs and dances. Gray and Graham will present “The Musi- “Singing Colleens” In Songs of the 0ld and New World. A cable dispatch from Edinburg states | that the university of that city has be- stowed one of its highest honors on one of the best known living Scotchmen, SEILE e it i may pass from the contrel of the Klaw | the wreck begins. Women and children |thetic and declamatory role of Leontes,|cal Bell Boy and the Military Mald,” a|Matthew Barrle The author of “What : N DA otharst T A Niewe ‘""';n:;;n'."::-dd;‘: indacent or mmoral ex- |are saved in the lifeboats, but the sel-|but also by Interpreting the broad and |combination of music and fooling. In the B R T ke i The Sisters De‘.F”ay. several firms of managers have been Kok~ | naiey -Sarms by cld Sopecially desls- | tling of the big hulk makes it Imposslble | pervasive humor of Autolyus. At the|act of “The Three Bohemians” will be|university of SC.°Andrews, has now re- “TEE BANIO GIRLS. ing up the conditions on which the Boyd d 5 one against which the | for the soldiers to escape and they stand | matinee Saturday ‘‘The Merchant of |given songs by a trio of wandering sing- | ceived the more sought-after honor of L. CEEY g may be obtained, among them the Shubercs, | “T4thema of the law s pronounced. No [at “attention” and sing the national an- | Venice” will be Mr. Hanford's play, and |ers, who add so ploturesque a touch to the| D 0f Ediuburs. Jennette Adler ! 8 il - |attempt is made to draw the line between . Y 0 it Is not without probability that Omaha | may be at least a skirmish ground in the | eonflict that seems certaln. This would be of immense help in one way, for it the several sorts of “Salome” that have been offered. The Wilde drama and the Straus opera are equally blacklisted, and the Olive Fremstadt, the Mary Garden, them as the final plunge brings doath with the bursting of the ship's boilers. The sea rushes in and closes on the wreck and the triumph of scemic artist, pro- ducers and players was complete. at night “The Taming of the Shrew.” Henry Miller's Famil; latest now running at Power's theater, success, ““The life of the old world citles. The kinodrome plctures promise to be of more than com- mon interest. Rose Stahl and ““The Chorus Lady" com- pany salled down New' York bay one morn- irg not long ago, bound for the fogs of | London. It will not be Miss Stahl's first In Character Songs and Funny Dances. "NELLIE visit to the English metropolis, nor will it would send hitherward the strongest of [the Maude All . Chicago, will be presented in Omaha at|LATE GOSSIP FROM STAGELAND | Lo the first time that our British cousine GRAY and GRAHAM T o o Tongeat, of |the Maude Allan, the lsadore Duncen, —_—— Boyd's theater for four nights and a oy have made the acquaintanco of Miss Pat “The Musical Bell Boy” and “The it dowy the Gertrude Hofman, the Eva Tanguay | Among the other scenes—there are four- | matinee, starting Sunday, April 2, by the O'Brien. Several years ago, when “The Military Maid.” anagers. and all the other grades and variants of |teen altogether, and all of them big and full Forqanal Chat Ahent Astor Valks ang i Even if the Bhuberts are not immediately the- role are put down as things not to same company that scored so heavily in of beauty—the most enthralling are the |Chicago. After a brief tour of the north- Their Plans. Chorus Lady" was only a one-act sketch, Mies Stahl presented it for many months | The Tl;roé 7Bohemlnns b : | Charl ¥ , b ht H .|in the London music halls. The Forbexv g x50 Sei Lo the sk A8 oo 18 (Sharles Frohmar. hag bought Honsl Ba- |11, the Lanion [ P o futng oom | singing and Masioal Strolling which they can operate independently, the rurning &t the Renaissance in Paris. The g‘,:tm,]:r:"‘,: :Ko:’: 3;;: "‘:;dh‘:‘;d“n&(mm‘: Ry fact that the city Is debatable ground will | American manager paid the playwright 5 o spur the Kis'w & Brianger faction to greater efforts to hald public favor, and the proba- bility is strong that Omaha will be lifted out of the dramatic doldrums and set Abou!: Music , Musicians and Musical Events $6,000 advance rovalty, thereby establishing e record for French dramatists. Thirly thousard dollars is a fortune to the average Frerch playwright, and yet it is sald that Batallle is far from satisfied with his latest every reasor: to hope that now eclaborated into a four-act play, the plece will meet vith a kindlier reception than that given to some of the other transported American plays, the names of which we need not| KINODROME Always the Newest in Motion Pictures bargain, for, aithough the American the- | mention. e e again into the fair track of the winds that T 18 NOT often that the musical [ _There is another side to the proposition. | the work. Now, If every member would | atrical syndiote has bought every play Prices—10¢, 25¢. 50¢ send the ship along at a spanking pace. So editor of The Bee gives his|Many local professionals have sung and|do a little, how easy to carry out any|which he has written, beglaning with “The | Rowlend Buckstone. who has been in . the approaching quarrel between the big entire column to someone else, | played for us for nothing. This is all | plans we choose to make. Returrection,” only the Tolstol dramatiza- :{Er?:gh:re';: f°m§;"gy g;r.yefi.o?fiern LN v B ead g gl at by s R Ve | but today he takes great plea- | wrong. Of all the musical organizations tion has been produced. The syndicate seas for the local public. And this, too, without any consideration of the merits of the Mrs. Herzog, president of the Matinee|them fall into the hands of riva ; 3 o | QuArTel or its causes. the one wkp for considerable time | have house rent to pay, food to buy; they | Musical, has presented The Musical Ccurie iy FRnos f;:;:":;lngw‘:z-gu‘gh\“fl bogua oivil | ruled over its destinies. The follow- | require clothes, and they certainly do not | SOTResPondent with the club's year book. Denying that he has made any arrange- 1 Next, the New $ork 1 an al - {ments to open the New theater In New - siature has | 1€ &rticle from Mrs. Mary Learned, sorpe- | get in to see & play or hear a concert for | tion brin "l:’L‘:.L:{,‘.". r’:.ye':‘ll", 0(;I‘:r:‘cll":[ York with a series of Shakespearean pro- |18 in 'gb:‘,!";je é“eE‘:i‘I:fl“? Mo T N’,’: taken Action along lines that would tempt | time musical critic of The Bes, will be | nothing. How are they going to live and | over the lst of the artists who have ap: |ductions, E. H. Sothern announces that he | Short Sty by © y one out this way to laugh, were not the sure in re-introducing, to the readers of this musical column, appreciated by all readers. Mr: Learned In the city we are best able to pay for what we hear. Musiclans must live. They have a little fun as they go along, It we Below I append a paragraph which ought to have the effect of rousing us: 8uch red hes in times past under the evidently prefers to hold these plays, await- ing a suitable opportunity, rather than let is working on his repertoire for next season, dramatizaticn of a Dickens novel. Charles H. Doscher, president of the Ro- Elks9 Fair AUDITORIUM April 10 to 24. Afternoon & Evening Belasco, claiming that “The Easlest W lished by the Re mance company. The com- P - 3 ke for an injunction restraining o which, am-ng other thirgs, Is to includa | plaint aske late unlamented Nebraska legisiature still | a8 recently been elected president of the | who are able to pay for thelr skill rofuse | by tonoming. Saver Snarmomk Hen s | Slavorate productions. of *Macbeth and | further production of the play ane fof REFINED VAUDEVILLE, 80 close o/ memory that its antics over- | TUesday Morning Musical ¢lub and she has [ to? This lsn't a problem just here in | Bloomfield Zel Edward MacDowell, the | “King Lear.” O S amriiat the muit 1a an wttempt 1 | VENDERINLA DANCERS. shadow thase Of any other. The New |SOmething to say which will be of interest. | Omaha. It reaches as far as music has an | Thomas orchestra, Schumann-Heink, Jo-| == = 0 TU. joniier plays a|take advantege of the success of the play B e s Pime Y Yorkers are proposing to enact a law that e influence. Read your Courler and ses how | hanne aadecl. Louise ~Homer, Harold| o posi = Mr. Kelly has very generously offeredme will bust any and all theatrical “trusts' Into smithereens at the first applicatton. It 18 referred to as the “open theater” law, and proposes to regulate things so that no manager can dhut a visiting manager out his column today for the purpose of setting down & few Ideas which I have had about the Tuesday Morning Musical club. Omaha is a city of 150,000 people, 1ts busi- the battle rages in London and New York. | Conditions are the same everywhere, There are the same obsacles to overcome. It is folly to expect much but discouragement, Bauer, Myrtle Elvyn, ete. “How long, O Lord, how long? MARY LEARNED. il g y Morning Musical club That the Tues role opposite a canine actor she will clothe herself in armor. She neglected this precaution at a_matiree the and in consequence Yip-Yip, the yellow dog in “Miss Innocence,”’ has retired from the cast. Yip-Yip used to make his appearance to take ther day ‘Admisaion 10 Cente. Margaret Anglin has purchased a sum- mer home in _ Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., and there she will remain from the time of her return from abroad next month until rehearsals of ‘The Awakening of Helena Ritchie” are begun in August. Miss Chicago Film ExchénEé but e: in L'Abbaye sce He was carried in by & R ol - o ica’, o€ his house 1n event the mouce 1o brott | ness interests are tremendous. Prosperity | Senime ot T 'dm" b the tide a little. | poy great possibilities in its makeup and | Miss Janvier and placed in a chair, where | Anglin's theatgjea) TOL, (42 WIARE KOF BECL America’s Foremost Film Renters is written in every line of its make-u eodore Thomas, working and | organization, has been patent for some|be had been coached to remain until Miss | P80 PG (e VCoeel one morning last | Omaha Office cupied and the visiting manager wants to | .. tad ’ P | giving his great brain and yenius for seven | That | h h Janvier sat upon him. Of course, it was 0'5 B e heen on its way from Aus 14th and Douglas 8t. come in. Just what might happen if two | \\° tme 18 arriving when the aesthetic | yeurs in New York, and yet no money | po o at its sphere of Influence should | onjy jn make belleve that she sat on him—| Wagk: I WG Sonlr 20, 1ast, Our Exclusive Film Service can be seen visitl p r- standards of the town should be keeping ‘ Y |be enlarged has been suggested In this|ae least it was prior to the matinee in|tralla sinc . . at the KRUG Theater every afternoon and ng mapagers wanted to use a resident torthcoming for his dream of a permanent o 3 g. y el ) v pace with Its material wealth, One of the P column . more than once. That it has| question. On that occasion she did sink & evening, dally change of program, two manager's theater on the same evening, | o & e . orchestra. In the end he left, physically | awakened to its biiitles 1 e into. the. chair than she had in-| It would seem that the aspirant for honor | {oU oty feet of filps each day. and the resident manager didn't want | VS 10 DEP ONE the ckuse I8 for he | dofeated, but bis work stood and had its o ok u.;"l:';:u;;e: Bavs Ui | UMET, a8 TIRY1 Fuiativiod. :2:1n'u«:‘.‘:";:.e‘“b‘;x}t‘irnlhr.::t.r.wxl- Yaber hn | AR Ll s e R elther, doesn't appesr from any published e Tuesday club to standq poggoming later in Chica o £ e = e ¢4 . - v Fiske will present theater- | theater. Abram Lincoln Erlanger (onc discussion of the law that has 80 far per- | 08Ether in the acceptance and maintenance | " Right here Is a good Mahler story, which | fber bod "'l SeniIga a8 WAs 1| Harrlaon Grey o Blay, “The Bridge.” by |was on usher jn the Euclid Avenue thed- | yoswell in “Forelgn BExchange” & play colated this far out west, but it must be | ©f NiEh standards in enthusiasm for great t * stri out on large lines, Is the hope of | S Hugher. within a few short weeks. | ter, in Cleveland. Jacob J. Shubert wore & | by that prolific pair of playwrights, Booth points a moral: tupert L4 - thea- thet the wisdom of the man who concelved | *t1#t8 Who visit Omaha and in financial many, whose names are not on its regls-|The play wili be given a short road ‘tour | uniform and seated people In varlous thea: | Tyrkington and Harry Leon Wilson support of great musical For the performance of Beethoven's |ter of members. to finish this season and get into thorough | ters in Syracuse. Harry J. Powers acted this schemd has provided for its operation, | *“P & sical enterprises. There | «Ninth" symphony last night (Tuesday) shape for next scason, when it will open In | in & similar capacity when his present | S— even to the most infinitesimal details, so | *10%/d De & epirit in the club which goes | at Carnegle hal, Mehler had five re- THOMAS J. KELLY. |Shapefor Bex) ite. Guy Bates Post. Who (theater was, kuown as Hooley's and | Who ls America’s most beautiful actress? Jet us not Pret about that. J beyond lstening with attention to our own | hearsals. He thereupon demanded six ad- ——— been playing the part of Joe Brooks i David Belasco used to find seats fr)'rk;lll' On the authority of Mr. Nathaniel ( tional rehearsal, Pal n ull,” wi ¥ la; eople when he 004 N e o it Lo 4 - b/ ey pragrams, We must' broaden out. Take | djtional rehcaraals for the cellos and basses | Musical Notes. [ Pald "ul;ml. i) rlay the lesding ' peopi rllyl hie was & boy in the Golden | Goodwin (and he ought lo kow), we an Another bill that is going through ~on | more artistic responsibility, and It is & | manager of the concert told Manironet | Mr. Martin Bush, assisted by Mr. Ellis, 'of “The Triangle “All for a Girl" and : —_— $0 ia the former “Florodora” sextettiste well greased ways at Albany and will | Guestion If the ime hasn't come to enlarge | Was impossible on' wccount of the expease, | ¥111, 1ve A% orean recita) next Sunday |“Alexander the Gizal And now Fleanor Robson has a griev, |billed on the New oricans wgn boseds v and. furth 0 atiol ‘el to do with the con! | e e e he b ANROURe won be set befors Governor Hughes for | the club and put it pn a basis with other | 20d. furthermore, they had fust rehearsed S50 D i This will Be ihe last recital of | Chatles Dilingham will producs *“The ance. and It hes 10 0 Wl ocond name. -1 | appearance of "Aferica's greatest come executive al i designed to prevent | typical women's musical clubs in the coun- | gronest Whereupon Mr. Mahier said, | ¢ season | oandy Shop,” an elabo a‘ely stagad mu- | dontt understand,” says the star of “The |ian, Mr. Nat C. Goodwin and most beau- indecent of immorsl dramas from being | try. “That is the very reason I want them Lo| An interesting music test siven Sat. |sical play, St the Garrick theatsr, Pofla- | Gl of a Tomorrow.” “why people persist | Uful actress, Miss Edna Goodrich enacted, and to prevent indecent or im-| In order to do better and finer things we | Fehearse six (imes with me." urday afternoon by the puplls who have | {fIRBIS, 10 :,";,‘},':f. fnd ot AP, Goos8: |in mispronouncing A A They slware — 0 moral exhibitions of any kind. This is aimed | need more money. Our dues, even with the | Then behold Walter Damrosch: He has | SpinPleted the elgmentary course No. L for ;5 composer-librettigt, will divide the roy- | Sut 1t FAERE oner ie elways ask me scross |, Mi48 Billle Burke has stolen BY e the at Salome, ‘poor daughter of Herodias, but | increase this year, are away below other | already engaged Carnegle hall for every | trated music. L4 - ‘The production 1z dedlen‘d for the | &, ‘guter about my father. Stuart Robaon. | Yyenty“uiree aramatic compositions * reg: 1t 18 likely'to hit & lot of folks along the | clubs of the same foundation and aims. 1f | Saturdsy 8fternoon next season, the hest| After & long silence, Mr. Joseph Gahm |iuer of Well Known' popls has ‘been en. and my sister, May Robson How 1 NEVes | tatered at tne bureau of o in way. If it.should become the law of New | we had more members and met In one(place in New York for orchestral con- | Will be heard again in Omaha on & Num'glfl' " Prominent among its members wiil | saw Btuprt RObeon SN0, (00, F Dropolnced | Washington the weeb . York, the censor {s going to be pretty busy | accustomed place we should have more to | cert recital Mr. Gehm will play a program of be Wiam Reck end ey a Yamn | the same—Rob-gon. They never have any { called “Wegtern Naty for & timé; but, who Is to answer the | do with, and a definiteness in our pians| The war of standards is precisely the ;’.:;’b;,?’:::L";ufim"}.ufifl‘fl.'."e.‘:'fi'fi‘,..t:'\.‘fie. Frank Lalor, Mrs. Annie Yeama. trouble, but 1 have to)\rv‘uvuh:n?‘l:«.lllllnf :'I*:’;-ur.uun the knowledge v question a8 to What constitutes an - im- | which is now impoasible. | same in all places. in Burope. The recital will be given at Lou s: Drea-er, Fidrence Morrison and £i- | say, ‘Me 1oc, [ SIEERSCC L, (R0 S LUE | prese represcatn v o yabiss Bucke s moral play? Ounce the New York World | Some members say, “Well, yowll get it| What shall we do? Shail we trot along | "' Owfl"n-x-unml c;_un‘h guits the | MU TAWIeRS. | L Eleanor. But they will have to do the best | fii" “‘w" ;;d;,m,“., list of would-be play- undertook to convince the public that|eo big that no one will dare to sing or | comfortably in the old track, or shall we | e’ Ala Asearlation of Omane The ats| Florence Bates terminated her long run |they can with Eleanor Robson If they want | wrights. Lester Lonergan 1s credited with “Sapho” wha sych, and only succeeded in [ play. It Is au ordeal now.” The answer to | march well up with the procession and do | will be May 6. of ® performances 'in “The Fighting |0 be correct P fstane, A o Wrednits Tebealah , creating & greater vogue for Olws Nether- | that is; “Are we going to grow, or are we |a few thinga? Chrisiine Brooks, an Omaha girl, has ust | Hope,, ut the Belasco, hedtels Jow, YOIK | giardom s in store for Harry B. Warner | hopes (0 collect royalties on “What Is Love wole and the unhealthy heroine of the tur- | Boing to stand sull?" It doesn't seem as If scason we have seven recitals—two | [eturned to America after a successtul | Ciii" [ sent Miss Bates in a few of the [next scason. He Is the handsome young | For?" bid drama. : Agan all the New York pepers | the screwing-up process was any harder recitals, one 0pso Bight and four | ILLCReal Jonoget Segson and study under | princ’pal eastern cities Engish actor who was leanor Robaon . the gre ‘'on Muehlin of Berlin, and Miss It man for several seasons. At pres “The Wizard of Oz" Is to have a London jolned in. § general aliegation, tha “Mrp. | before 100 people fhan before M. One can | programs—strictly Within the oiub. I can | Hopper ls arTauging for an OmANS reclial | Aquer soveral years of separation Eera |ent he 1s appearing with Willium Lackaye | season Hurtg and, Seamon have secured - Warren's Profession” was [mmoral and|do one's best and that is absolutely all, | see a way to fill our treasury. The trouble | the first week in May. The many friends | conduli and Licbler & Co. have decided to | in ““The Batts® As & preliminary to his | the priviieke making the venture and In- B uafit for production, but when & Judge tind | the' the wngels of heaven ‘sit in judgment. | has always been that & few people did all gf“gl:-‘.limok;:;mu torward to Azlm forces once more. Beginning next rall salier € ht thl;rmfl'czufl-n o Seer taag 1o U7 the Pritish Dublle some Ume ¢ s Uon wooular American coms I aruer Miss ol L