Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1909, Page 39

TH OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 9, 1 What is Going on in the Stage World Briefly Told | ENTION might have been made [ of the matter last week, but it is not too late to call attentio to the fact that one effect of the second Shubert declaration of Independence was the bring- ing about of a working understanding be- tween Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger on the one #ide and Messrs, Belasco and Fiske on the other. Under this agreement, which is simply verbal, the parties will play attrac- tions In each other's theaters Whenever ‘“it is mitually agreeable.” This means that for the first time in many years the “syndicate” houses will be open to Mrs. Fiske after this season, and that for the first time In at least six years the Belasco stars may twinkle over boards that have hitherto been sacred to such as came under the gulding hands of “K. & E.' Messrs. Shubert having already declared for the open door policy, It is quite likely that business methods are finally to prevail in the world of the stage, and that managers will work in barmony. At all events, it opens the Boyd theater in Omaha and the Brandels, when it is ready, to the presence of a number of very desirable actors who have been prevented from appearing in the first-class houses of the west for a long time. If the managers can only keep thelr understanding In working order, the public will profit to some extent at least. And one thought offers some support to the hope that the agreement will be kept:. It 1s just barely possible that alleged “inde- pendence” is no longer potent as’an ad- vertising factor. Whatever the reason, any change that will operate to bring to the people of the west the great players of the American stage during the time of year that Is ge lly designated as “the season,” and not pack them in at either the front or the back end of that time, will be welcome. TIL, AS VESTA Y CHANGES Rapid Fire Dres w NEW YORK, May 8.—~One of the popu lar actresses on the stagepat present in a comedy of modern manners in moments of excltement arranges the evening tle of every man in sight. The act, trival as it seems, strikes a responsive chord in the ‘womea who attend the theater. That the average man's evening tie is apt to be a badly bungled arrangement, done In haste with an accompaniment of curses, 18 a fact which does not need to be elaborated upon. That there is rellef in sight for the wounded by the fray is fur- ther attested by Miss Vesta Tilley, the vaudeville singer, who is known in private life as Mrs. Walter De Frece. In Miss Tilley's wonderful equipment of tallor mades and male paraphernalia, which has caused her to be known as “the best dressed man In London,” is the very latest in evening ties, which 15 sold across the pond under her name. It 1s not the tie itself, but the way she has of manipulating it that Is Important. 8he takes half a dozen from the box and experiments for the benefit of the spec- tators and when she gets through instead of the double loops and two ends she has only one loop and one end, the other end of the finished bow having been tucked under the edge of her collar on the left band side and pulled down under the shirt, & process which keeps the visible part from moving and at the same time glves a but- tertly effect. “You see how taut it is,"* and she moves her head and neck to show its hard and fast position. “Nothing I can do on the stago loorens it and naturally that is a tremendous benefit. I should feel fright- fully self-conscious If I felt the tle riding up, untying or bothering be in any way. Lots of Englishmen, and I suppose your men too, wear gold fasteners at the sides of the evening ties to keep them in place, but that would not do for me, as I must have my clothes so arranged that I can | got into them with the maximum of effect and the minimum of effort. The tle has taken wonderfully well, for it seems to answer all the problems along that line that have bothered ‘us.’ ** Miss Tilley's wig it less noticeable to the lay profession is the wonder and ad- | miration of the theatrical, who understand the difficulties of wearing an article of this kind without making the head look bunchy. Her bair is neatly and tightly braided on eiher side of her head in schoolgirl fashion and wound back of her ears, so that it does not interfers with the formation of the skull; then the wig of short chestnut hair is piuned tightly with scores of hairpins, 80 that no accident insurance has to be taken In its favor. With this on and the usual makeup she Is transformed trom a very chic little woman to a good looking youth; completed by a complete set of masculine underwear and a method of breathing and | holding herself. by which every vestige of | the feminine contour is lost and the chest becomes as flat as that of a boy of 16, The sual criticlsm of Vesta Tilley's work | hat of course she can dress like & man for she has a man's chest line rather loses #ts point when you witness this bit of technique. An order is given and the nearest mald brings two coats from the wardrobe. They are evening coats, both of which reach to | the knee, the first one designed by Miss Tilley herself. It is full and obviates the necessity of & man having to check it in | the theater or opera, as he can slip out of | 1t egslly without rising from his chair and put Himself Into it again without any of | the usual dentortions. 1 “But you see,” says Miss Tilley, ‘“the tallors improved upon my original model, making this second, Which you note, In- | stead of the velvet collar has a longer one of corded silk and I must confess a much | better neck line on that ao aunt, The greatest improvement is In the shouider seam and you could not see that one was any more modish than the other, until I show you both and you get that very graceful effect of fulness and ease.” | Mias Tilley shoos the nearest mald aside | while she talks, leans over and buttons her boots and then fastens her suspenders to some dark blue broadcloth trousers with silk stripes at the side. Miss Tilley has in her wardrobe of mas culine togs two complete evening suits and thres evening coats. The second sult of black s & little more conservative of cut. | She has taken a gencrous allowance of time to prepare for this first appearance, and when the call boy gives the final rap and signal she takes her stick, with | straight handle at right angles, of dark ‘wood, silver-mounted, and asks that atten- | tion be given to the point that the silk hat is set rakishly, never adjusted in a straight line. Her dressing room for this song s on the right of the stage as you face the house and she makes the detour behind the | scepes to enter from the left, where the second dressing room, one improvised of scresns, is established. She rushes Into the screened enclosure and sllently, expe- aitiously, betore the last handclaps of the audlence are stilled, she 1s divested of her outer ralment and is leaning over button- ing on Tommy Atkin's duli black shoes, while one maid gets the shirt with red stripes that Tommy is to sport and another the duck trousers. In less than the minute ng in the Theator's | that advance for Aesignated is the as time allowance Miss Tilley finished product of the English army. Her scarlet coat, with Its faring skirts; the broad white belt and collar, the white gloves,. the rakish cap, are there ney is he of the ribbon counter and the sofla water fountaln, who In summer times does the swell thing at the races and the smart thing at the tracks, but you soon know his real occupation it you notice the curve In his back. Sidney, according to the song, ‘is In the city, works @ hard and more's the pity Sidney holidays are in Beptem-bar. He's been saving up since last Novem-bar.” - And he finda it hard on fifty pounds a year. It takes but a moment to make a Sidney out of a Tomm§ Atkins. The song says Sidney's getup 1s a sight, and you don't dispute it or feel inclined to. When com- plete he is dressed In white flannels, turned far up his canvas shoes and showing a band of bright blue sock which matches exactly the color of his short coat and his necktle, A soft felt hat of white, crushed into a carefully arranged abandon, is set tar out on his héad. Tommy's little swagger stick is replaced by a large one which can support his weight, and the swagger itself is as distinct from Tommy's as Is the costume. Sidney goes to the pier end to hear the band play, he saunters into the smartest, highest priced hotel in the place and asks the time; he stops a woman of fashion and is told that it was not at Sir Thomas Lipton's that they met, but that she bought ribbon of him at White- ley's, and he recovers with difficulty. Sidney has four suits in his repertoire. Anothery equally effective one has duck trousers, lavender coat, waistcoat, tle and socks; another has tan coat, a green hat with tiny feather at the back in Alpine style, green socks and tan shoes. He wears a large pink rose in his buttonhole, for Sidney llkes the finishing touch that a single blossom lends tp his striking beauty and modishness. This change is made so quickly that Miss Tilley has time to call attention to the fact that Sidney's coats are partioularly well made and represent in colors, cut and flare the regular sea- side of the Londoner pn his vacation. It is a transformation so quickly accome plished that you feel as if you had been looking at a moving picture. Tommy Atkins is peeled pff, all his glory of pipeclay and- smartness gome in the wink of an eye, and Sidney takes his place. Sidney is the hero of Miss Tilley's most popular song this tour, entitled “Sidney's Vacation,” running ‘“Plocadilly Johnny With His Little Glass Eye” and “Follow- owing in Father's Footsteps” pretty close. Sidney's graceful monchalance on the stage is replaced by a second’s exhaustion in the wings and then a third and last rush to the screened enclosure, from .whence after the usual imterval a trig Eton boy emerges to sing the popular “Following in Father's Footsteps.” Bhe has put on for this a boy's short bosomed shirt, gray and black striped trousers, the pointed Bton jacket, turn- down collar and Eton necktie, the top hat, shoes with patten leather vamps, black walstcoat and dark red gloves with black embroldery. She has received permission from the college authorities to use a spe- clal kind of cloth of which the Bton boys' suits are always made, and the perfection of the costume is shown even in the fraglle £0ld chain, facsimile of the kind worn by the students, which holds an open faced watch, repoussed and enamelled, which looks like an heirloom given to son and helr on & birthday. “It's an expensive little watch and I'm always dropping it," says Miss Tilley, “but I simply could not wear any other kind—1 would feel that it wasn't the real thing. I bought this of an Bton boy, and It 1 should lose it T would try to get an- other the same way. There is a great deal In that mental satistaction one has in knowing that everything is absolutely cor- rect. I cannot do my best work when any detall of my costume ls wrong. I wear absolutely no ‘trick' articles, as some quick change artists do. They often have thelr shoes with clastic bands at the side, 80 that while they look genuine all cne has to do is to slip them on and off with- out buttoning or lacing. They seem all right, I belleve, but it lsn't the looking entirely that is important; it is just that indefinable knowing that you are ternally ‘fit.’ “Lots of male impersonators don't change thelr shirts or If they do have fronts or dickeys. My shirts are genuine articles, the only alteration from the original being that T have them all button In the back, otherwiso I would run the risk of cramb- ling the linen and tles in my haste. The shirt of Tommy Atkins was bought where the real Tommies buy theirs, and for the Eton boy, I go to ‘Our Boys,' where you can get everything of that kind. I always buy my gloves at that shop and when I ask for boys gloves, the salesmen always says, “What age boy? Then I hesitate and answer, ‘His hand s about the size of mine. I'm sure if it fitted me it would fit him.' “All my tles are really tles except the Bton boys, which is ready made and genu- inely like the sort those chapples have to wear; they couldn't tle any loose tie, you know, properly. See, there's a kind of pin underneath that holds the under end in place and allows the boy to wiggle all he wants to—you knbw hoys will wiggle, es- pecially the kind that— “Yes, coming.” Bhe takes the littls crooked stick from Annfe and in a trice is ‘Following Father's Footsteps® at very close range. She glves a boylsh wink to the audience in the wings at the line, ‘T don’t know where he's going; when he gets there I'll be glad, and shortly after says, In a very tired voice, as one of the dressers winds her head in a pink shawl to keep her from catching cold, and she starts slowly back to the original dressing room. “I'm a bit of & wreck, am I not? People think it is very easy to do my work, but did you ever witaess a more strenuous half hour?" You willingly allow that you never did. ex- COMING TO THE OMAHA THEATERS Attractions for the Week Offers a Wide Range of Cholce, Fow English speaking companies on the American stage today can compare with the visible art and dramatic expression of the Yiddish players comprising the Edwin A. Relkin's All-Star Yiddish company headed by the most celebrated aatress of the Yiddish stage, Mme. Kenny Lipain, which will appear at the Boyd tonight and Monday evening In two of the best Yid- dish repertoire, depicting several phases of Yiddish life and called “Ihr Fergangen- helt” (Her Past), and “The Power of Love," written by the well known Ylddish playwrights, Mr. Z Libin and Mr. Leon Kobrin, Mme. Kenny Lipzsin and her as- soclate players are very much In earnest in thelr message of truth telling as the acme of stage art, The art of these play- ers reaches deeper than words and touches the springs of the primitive passions and emotions common to all human nature, older than words and out of which came into belng. Faces, shoulders, bodles, gait and gesture, all eloquent hands that speak mutually, inflections of the volce, inar- tlculate accents of feeling, more sponta- neous than shaped sentences, mere parts of | speech, are witnesses to the eyes of the roles theso actors portray in thelr own strange tongue.. “Her Past” will be given tonight and “The Power of Love" Monday | evening. —yi Charles Frohman will present Miss Bthel Barrymore at Boyd's theater on Tuesday, May 11, and, Wednesday, May 12, in her new play, “Lady Frederick,” a comedy in threo acts by W. Somerset Maugham, the author of “Jack Straw,” “‘Penelopd,” “Mrs. Dot and other plays. This promises to be an event of exceptional interest. In “Lady Frederick” Miss Barrymore has achleved a brilliant success. It s doubtful if she has even been seen to better advantage than as Lady Frederick Berolles, tho at- tractive Irish widow, who s the heroine of the play. Lady Frederick is one of those irresistible, pretty women who, through the force of their own personality, make the people about them obey their every wish. She is the widow of an Irish noble- man and s living far beyond her means. Lady Frederick occupies the most expensive suite of rooms at the fashionable Hotel Splendide In Monte Carlo and her gowns are the latest word from Rue de la Paix, but her creditors are Importunate and will not be put off. A certain young nobleman, with 50,00 pounds a year to his name, is infatuated with Lady Frederick. She, how- ever, has a fondness for his uncle, Para- dine Fouldes, a man of the world. Through her art Lady Frederick succeeds in dis- fMusionizing the young man and in the end accepts the hand of his uncle. The creditors are pald, her brother is married oft to a charming girl, several suitors are dis- missed and all ends happily for those chiefly concerned. Mr. Maugham, who is easlly the most successful English drama- tist of the day, has done his best work in “Lady Frederick” and has supplied Miss Barrymore with a role that suits her admirably. The three acts of the play are lald at Monte Carlo at the pres- ent day. Charles Frohman makes an ex- ceptionally beautiful production of “Lady Frederick,” and has surrounded Miss Barrymore with a company of rare merit and in this role n to as excellent advan- any bill yet presented at the Of comedy there s a bounteous this play, that element of the story being in the hands of Mr. Gibson, who will play Ben Cooke, a lone fisher- man who keeps flshing for a wife until at the conclusion of his thirty-fourth pro- posal he becomes disgusted and walts for the object of his affections to propose to him, which she eventually does. ‘“Cousin Simonson,”” the man-hating spinster be- loved by- fisherman Ben, will be played by Miss Remonde. Mr. Gray will be seen as the city chap and Mr. Ingraham as the old light kecper. The balance of the com- pany has been happily cast. Scenically the play \will be given a mounting thor- oughly In keeping with the picturesque spoty selected for the telling of the story. Matinees will be given today, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. From the great interest manifest in the coming to the Burwood on May 17, 18 and 19 of Mrs. Fiske and the original cast which obtained such great prominence and attention for the presentation of “‘Salv tion Nell” at the Hackett theater, New York, for many weeks this present season, airl from she will tage as Burwood supply in out be in Yonder," that includes Bruce McRae, Norman Tharp, Charles Hammond, Arthur Elliot, Orlando Daly, James Kearney, J. Cross- ney Davidson, L. C. Howard, Jessle Mill- ward, Vira Stowe, Anita Rothe and Marianna Thurber. Manager Woodward's selection of “The Rose of the Rancho” for the opening bill of the Woodward Stock company season at the Boyd theater on Sunday afternoon, May 16, 1s an indication of the line of plays that will be presented by that ex- cellent organization during the summer season. “The Rose of the Rancho” is by David Belasco, and was used with much effect by Blanche Bates after she had played many months in “The Girl of the Golden West” and other Belasco successes. It has never been seen In Omaha, and will be offered here with the care and precision as to detail that has marked the Wood- ward productions always. At the head of the company that will produce the play 1s Eva Lang, so popular here as a leading woman; Albert Morrison, the most popular leadlng man ever in Omaha, and with them are such players as Hal Davis, Frank Dudley, Marle Hudson, Henrfetta Vaders and others, making it the strongest company that has ever been here in stock. Other plays of equal Importance will be presented in succession. The Burwood company has chosen a de- lightful comedy drama for the week start- ing this afternoon in the material of *“The Girl from Out Yonder,” from the gifted pens of Pauline Phelps and Marion Short. M Leone will be seen as Flotsam, “The About Music, Musicians and Musical Events T WAS with much satistaction that the musical editor of The Bee read an article from the pen of his friend and colleague Mr. Max Baumeister in a recent copy of the Council Bluffs Nonparell. The editor of the Nonparell evi- dently thought the article worth serious consideration, for he gave it a most prom- inent top-of-column place in the paper and sot the heading In large and attentlon- compelling type. The title was “Wha the Matter with Musical Council Blutfs? Mr. Baumelster has always been known to the writer as a violinst and teacher of pronounced standing, but judging from his literary effort, his talents along that line are belng hidden. He should be writing regularly for the cause of music. He ls logical, analytical, comprehensive In his style, and his words glow with the warmth of life. Speaking of the musical depart- ment of the Woman's olub of Councll Bluffs he alludes to the fact that Its leader recently “imparted the sad news that at their last musical offering, after securing the services of good talent, they were re- warded with an attendance of elght per- sons! ‘“These recitals,” saith Mr. Bau- melster, “are free to club members!" e Baumelster then excuse can an Mr. ““What proceeds organt its existence? to ask ation like Does an cause of musio?" He states that he Is of the opinion that “the influence of an In- stitution, when it has so little virility within itself that it cannot create more | earnest enthustasm for classic music than our Woman's Musical club appears to be able to effect, it loses Its very right to an existence.” He continues with the remark “That this musical club, In its present condition, acts, as before stated in a demoralizing manner tnsofar that it cheapens good musie. It has drifted to where good things must go begging for an audlence. People pay dearly every day in the week for trashy, mean- Ingless music, and music that requires talent and brains to interpret is offered gratultously to empty chalrs. The next thing that will be in order s to present a souvenir to all patrons of art who kindly condescend to grace the performance with thelr presence. It s & human trait that things which can be had for the asking are not appreciated.” ——— The above remarks deserve very earnest consideration, as do also the following For Mr. Baumeister lays the blame on others as well as on the afore-mentioned club. He says: “Right here I would like to ask, why do artists who have spent years in attaining their proficiency per- | form at all under any circumstances (un- less it be for & humane purpose) without remunerati Certainly, there are many mediocre playirs who are always anxlous to spring into publicity, and who like to see their names In print, who will play and sing for a dish of lee cream and eake but why do musicians of ability ever in- eriminats themselves with this class of mountebanks? it How do you Jike that? That sounds like the musical editor of The Bee in one of his energetic moods, does it not—horns, boofs, brimstone, sulphur and all? He is so thank- ful to Mr. Max Baumeister—would there were more Baumelsters to cry aloud on the mountain tops. His trumpet hus no uncertain sound. It does not suggest the upsetting of the mplasses jar, nor the charming exudation of attar of roses, nor the stolid statsments of a tobacconist's wood-graven Indian! It is a rebuke and a well merited one. There is altogether tov mueh of this gratultous work going on in public affairs. Allogether too much. But, of course, it is the only way in whioh some musical persons and musical events will be able to secure a hearing. It has often occurred to the writer that the churches are to blame somewhat in this mfatter. They announce great musical ser- vices and the people come, and when the offertory plate is passed, hundreds will look as though It were a most surprising pro- cedure; as though to say: “Can you not see? 1am here—I? It has cost me already 10 cents for myself and friend for car fare, and it will cost me yet another 10 cents t0 got home, unless the oar is so crowded that I can ‘beat’ the company, as I often do, because the cars are always crowded. I have taken much trouble to come here and patronize your church and its music, and now you have the audacity to put a plate before my very nostrils and expect me to contribute money. Away with such monstrous ingratitude. Go away, naughty | plate, Shame on you!" organization of this character further the | et A, O for the day when a Protestant church will be far-seeing enough to place an usher at each door with the contribution box in his hand, and a sign on the wall beside him, to the effect that “A Silver Collection Will Be Taken at the Door." Of course, to suggest such a thing nowa- days to a body of ministers would be awful, for fs it not “God's house,” and “‘there must be ng restriction to religious services,” and “it has never been done,” and “it would offend the poor people who cannot afford It," and so on. Competent ushers = whose words rellable have often told the write: these “poor’’ people usually wear $50 suits, up-to-date haberdashery, and their “escorted” are not In rags. But some day it will be remembered that It was once sald, “The laborer is worthy of his hire,” and “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's aud unto God the things that are God's. ‘hen & church lets a congregation in to hear a beautiful musice) service without collecting the small contribution to the cause, at the door, they sre openly aiding and abetting disobedience to the great com- mand and they are refusing to enforee the law that one should “render unto God the things that are God's." Perhaps this 1s a new view. But the writer Is hopelessly heterodox along some lnes, and hopelessly orthodox on some others, So much for both those who give, and those who receive, for nothing. pebhesn e to Mr. Baumeister, "When a company of artists like Maude Powell and her associastes come here and must play to & handful of people, it has come to a point when peorle ought to arouse themselves from their lethargy and forget business for a little while, and begin to appreciate some of the better things of this world. Maude Powell is one of the greatest American violenists, has 'scored most flattering triumphs abroad, and comes To_return he says | to Counell Bluffs and is obliged to play to an almost empty house. Think of it!" i Mr. Baumeister, we have thought of it. Not this case only, but many others. In the still watches of the night we have thought of it/ We have sor- rowed over it. We have had heartaches over it. And something tells us to re- member that “when the strife s flerce, the battle long, Comes on our ears the distant triumph song, And hearts are brave again and arms are stron Allelulia.” We have thought over it, yes, and we are thinking over it now, and we hear the words Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle, face God's gift. Be strong! Be strong! Sa; Who's to bl fold the hands and acqulesce—O, shame! Stand up, speak out, God's name. Ye not the days are evil— ame? Ana and bravely, in Be strong! For the encouragement of Mrs. Mary Learned, president of the Tuesday Morn- ing Musical club of Omaha, Mr. Baumels- ter's allusion thereto is given: ‘*Before I conclude, T would further llke to say that such wealthy organizations as the Elks club of this city and the Tuesday Morning Musical club of Omaha ought to begin to realize that it is not proper to ask professional people to take part In thelr programs without compensation. I read with much satisfaction in last Sun- day's Bee that the moving spirits ol the Tuesday Morning Musical have de- cided that the club must be reorganized in order to ralse more funds, so that artlsts can be engaged and pald in a commensurate manner.” The musical editor of The Bee with Mr. Baumelster that there is an awakening. He himself has suffered | from this attitude of people towards pro- fessionals. While his writings have been always con- sistent with Mr. Baumelster's position, it Is also true that his professional attitude has been a constant protest against the musiclan running into all places where there was a platform and an audience merely to ‘“get before the public,"” For this he has recelved his share of | calumny, abuse and misrepresentation, publicly and privately, but he has stood firm. Those who “know," have stood with him, the “Glorlous God-Given Noble Few," and he who cares for the opinions of others is a gullelcss, but none the less ef- fectual fool Mr. Baumeister closes with a tribute to those who have “held out and refused degrade themselves and their art.” ‘These muglclans,” he says, “have done & notable service In raising the standard of art and a rising vote of thanks is due them." THOMAS J. KELLY, rejoices | eal Notes. Mr. Jean P. Duffield announces a pu- pil’s recital of planoforte music to be | given In the Assembly hall of the Edward | ‘relghton institute (opposite eity hall, west), on Thursday evening, May 20. Mr.' Duffield will _present the following puplis; Mi Edna Boysen, Miss Catherine Cajorl, Miss Edith Beckman and Master Ernest Wahl, Mrs, O'Connor of Woodbine, Ia., (pupll of Mr. Kelly, voice, and of Mr Duffieid, plano) will sing two groups of son The recital will be given by invitation, and any others' who Wish to secure ad- [iasion can receive tickets by applying to Mr. Duffield any afternoon at in ‘the Boyd theater b the theater lobby, { Max Hoffman, MRS, FISKE In_ “Salvation Nell,” at May 17. the Burwood it 1s obvious that capacity wil rule throughout the four performatices arranged for. The story of the play is so absolutely different from what theater-goers have ever seen that despite the consummate art of Mrs. Fiske, they will be drawn to see it through curlosity to witness the play that has been treated so extensively by the magazines of the whole country. “Driven from Home" s a fact that the Burwood Stock company will have to face the week that Mrs. Fiske and “The Blue Mouse," respectively, are to hold the boards at, the Burwood. Plattsmouth, Fairbury, York, Columbus, Norfolk and Fremont will have the opportunity in the order named of seeing *“The Girl from Out Yonder," the same piece the company Is to play at the Burwood all next week. “The Blue Mouse,” that roang farce comedy by Clyde Fitch which has proven the season's sensation, will have a presen- tation fof the first time in this city at the Burwood May 2, 2l and 2. The com- pany to be seen here is a Shubert organiza- tion and it has appeared In all the large cities in the south, St. Louls and Kansas City, and everywhere the critics have been unanimous in thelr praise and pronounce it not only & clean and wholesome comedy, but the best that has been presented in yeurs. “The Gibson Girl, will hold forth in long a favorite type, merry frolic at the Orpheum this week in “The Biectrified Girl Review,” and there are no less than six Gibsonesque beautles, the sextette be- ing headed by Clara Nelson. In addition Is Harry Turpin, said to be the embodiment of manly beauty, as seen by Mr. Gibson The act Is in fhree ‘scenes, the first an artist's studio, the second the seaside and the third a yachting effect. Music and lyrics for the number were composed by Alfred Solman and Paul Waest, Sol Gols- smith and Guy Hoppe, the latter formerly 80lo cornetist with Haley's band of Wash- ington, D. C., offer an act in which music and 'comedy are blended. ‘“The Boys From Toyland,” Oilie Young and his brothers indulge In hoop rolling, diabolo playing, boomerang throwing and other athletic feats requiring neatness and ad- dress. Another athletic number will be that offered by Frobel and Ruge, two aerialists recently imported by the Orpheum, Thelr work is characterized by an amusing eccentricity. Andy Rice bears a reputation second to none as a monologulst and as an impersonator of Yiddish types he is said to be Inimitable. The premier Japanese equili- brist, Tsuada, featuring his latest plece of apparatus, the revolving wheel, will offer an Interesting number. A touch of music and eccentric comedy is the contrfbution of Bam Surzall and Ada Razall, Thelr act is called ““The Music Publisher,” and in it Miss Razall appears as a musical comedy soubrete In quest of & position. LAT) GOSSIP FHROM STAGELAND Some Intimate Chat About Authors and Managers. Ten millons of dollars is being invested in new theaters In the United States this ear. Of this vast sum more than half of t Will be spent to provide New Yorkers with new amusement palaces, Of all the projects for new playhouses that are under way, or contemplate probably none has afforded so much ai cussion as the New Theater. No theatrical project in recent years has occasioned so much speculation,” and none is fraught with greater possibilities than this. The student of the drama Is already looking forward to the opening of the big new house with anticipation of seeing a great dramatic school set firmly going on the highway to success when ihe curtaln rolls up for the first performance. The New Theater, exclusive of the ground, is scheduled to cost $750,000, but this will run much nearer to $1,00,000 by the time the building is ready for the first night's performance. Devoted exciusively to the Interests of the drama, this bulldin will be one of the finest in the world, an nothing that is necessary to make it a most _complete will over- looked because Actors, playhouse be of expense. Klaw & Erlanger have ¢ contract with Max Rog firm is to star him next play by Asron Hoffman titled The scenes ave laid in C. ntered into a whereby the ason in a new with music by ne Young Turk \stantinople. Willlam Glllette, owl will not be able to play next when he appears again It wi brief farewell to the stage. tour will be followed by Mr manent retirement as an ture, it Is & will be rection of a theater in ciation with Mr. Frobm, of his present tour Mr Tyron, N. € to re there for a short time and o sall for Europe. Among the pla Mr. Gillette will be seen om hi tour will be “Becret Service,’ Holmes,” “Too Much Johns the Ememy" and “The Prive “The Happy Marriage,” by Clyde PFitch, was the twenty-fifth production made by Charles Frohman this season. Referring to this fact, Mr. Frohman sald in an in- g to poor health, season, and 1k s farewell Gillette's per- actor. His d In the di- ay § in which arewell Sherlock te Secretary.” AMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS, BOYD’S TONIGHT AND MONDAY NIGHT EDWIN A. RELKIN'S ALL STAR YIDDISK COMPANY, WITH IMME. KENNY LIPZIN || Tonight—mmm wAsT” Monday Night—“TEE POWER OF LOVE" Prices—ase, 600, 750 and $1.00. Tuesday and Wednesday Nights CHARLES FROHMAN PRESENTS ETHEL BARRYMORE In Her Most Successful Comedy Lady Frederick By W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, Author of ‘‘Jack Straw.’’ Special Announcement! Tha SUMMER ENGAGEMENT OF Te Woodward Stock Company IN A SERIES OF EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTIONS Albert NMorrison ana Eva Lang IN TITLE ROLES. MANY OTHER FAVORITES. WEEK STARTING SUNDAY MATINEE, MAY 16TH. First Time in Omala—The Big Dramatic and Soenic Success, *“The Rose of the Rancho” | Auditorium Electrical Show Every Afternoon and Evening, ALL THIS WEEK Beautifuli Illuminations Wonderful Electric Demonstratiens WIRELESS TELEGRAPH X-RAY MACHINES And all the latest Electrical Inventions Superb Music by Miss Blanche B. Mehaffey of Cincinnati and Green's Orchestra Sacred Concert, Sunday Afternoon May 9, at 3 o’clock By Miss Mehaffey and Green’s Concert Band Benefit Child Saving Institute General Admission 23c Reserved Seat 50c PHONES — Rall Naud 150R Ind A-I&~~ TODAY and All Weelk it wii nm vour neasr_ MATINEES TODAY, TUESDAY, TEURSDAY AND SATURDAY. THE GIRL FROM OUT YONDER A play filled with homely pathos, comedy and effective olimaxes. Evg's and Sun. Mat. 50c, 35¢, 25¢, 5¢ Weok9f May 33, Burwood Stook in , 18, 19—MRS. FISKE—"SALVATioN “NELL" May 17, 18, 19—MRS. FISKE— NELL" Prices— (Inclu ‘Wed. Mat.) 82, $1.50, §1.00 and 50c. Mail orders accompanied by check lod as received. Seats ready Thurs., May 13th, 10 A. M. May 20, 21, 83—The Shuberts Co. in “The Blue Mouse"—Prices $1.50, Mother’s Day Observance Y. M. C. A, BUNDAY. Orchestra Concert iz Lobby, 3 to 4 P, M. Address by Dr. ¥. L. Loveland, 4 o'clock. SPECIAL DINNER, 12:30 to 2 . 1,000 white carunations, the floral emblem on sale Chicago Film Exchamge America’s Foremost Film Renters Omaha Office 14th and Douglas St. ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE DAILY MATINEES .. 115 EVERY NIGHT 15 Week Starting Matinee Today. Our Bxclusive Film Service can be seen at the KRUG Theater every afternoon and evening, dally change of program, two thousand feet of films each day. Chas. Dlrm: Gibson's ELECTRIC GIRL REVIEW Muslc by Alfred Solman. Lyrics by Paul West. terview: *‘These twenty-five productions have been made by me in America within ix month hich 1 think you must admit s gotting over the ground pretty fast. By the end of the season they will have given from thirty to forty weeks' employment to exactly 1,102 persons, whose salaries aggre- gate more than $100,00. These twenty-five roductions have averaged an outlay of rom $20,000 to $75,000 aplece. In every case each production has ‘pald for itself. In every case my actors and authors have been made as happy as children at the successful season they have gone through The happiness of the actors and authors with whom | associate is the greatest hap- could possibly get out of the cate And so the lst of philanthro pists grows. So-—GOLDSMITH & HOPE—Guy Comedy and Melody OLLIE YOUNG AND BROTHERS “The Boys from Toyland" Diabolo Players, Hoop Rollers and Boomerang Throwers “The Narrow Path,” a new play by John TN Montague, has been' accepted for immedi- ate New York production ®y the Shuberts. The play will be put In rehearsal at once Direct from Europe FROBEL and RUDGE Eccentric Aerialists. ANDY RICE In Humorous Monologu TSUDA Premier Japanese Equilibrigt, Featuring the Revolving Wheel. Sam—Surzall and Razall—A The Man, The Pilano and The Girl, Presenting “‘The Music Publisher.” by J. R. Lazar, KINODRO ALWA Rumor says that Frank Keenan will shortly go into vaudeville, If he gets the right sort of a sketch he ought to make a big hit, as he is recognized as without a superlor as a character actor. When “Brewster's Milllons” closes its searon in June, it will have completed an | almost uninterrupted run of 136 weeks, of the most extraordinary engag ed by an American plece. out & bt “Brew r's Milllons most_successtul farce comedy eve , and it is finishing its third year with al- | most undiminished box-office receipts. It | has made famous two authors and three players, Bdward Abeles, Edith Taliaferro | and Mary R; and it was the first| theatrical venture, outside of the Hippo- drome and Luna park, made by Frederic Thompson. It has played in threg Buro- pean capitals, in Australia and by two companies I America. | w It said that DeWolf Hopper bas d & break with his manager, Danfel V Arthur, and has been captured by Klaw & Erlanger for next season. ME THE NEWEST IN MO. TION PICTURES, Prices 10¢, 25¢, 500 e — 0. Henry, Franklin P. Adams and A Baldwin Sloane have ehosen an odd title for the musical play on which they are engaged. It Is to be called “Lo.” and it |that a red man will be the principal ehar- has been suggested that the line from | acter. the sgnificance of the name has not Pope's Essay, “Lo, the poor Indian, whose | been disclosed. HAITy Askin is to male untutored mind,” "etc., “furnished the in- | the production and John . ‘will be spiration. Beyond the bare announcement | the featured playes.