Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1909, Page 14

What is G HEN tHis week has past, the 1908-9 season at the Omaha theaters will have closed, A woek more of the Burwood ftock deason will follow, and that theater will join the Krug in the &Xploitation of the blograph. The Orpheum will be locked up mostly, and will, according to present plans, undergo #ome general changes during the summer, smong other things, new seats being prom- ised. The Boyd will shelter the Woodward Btock company during the summer months, and with the players under engagement and the list of plays announced, promises # season of unusual excellence. While in Bome ways the season has not been all that might be desired by the ambitious, it has been notable in several of Its aspects Omaha people have had the pleasure of lstening to the leaders of the American ptage; Sothern has been here, and Viola Allen; Henry Miller, and Frank Keenan; David Warfleld, Florence Roberts, Robert Edesop, John Drew, Ethel Barrymore and some othérs of lesser degree but worthy ot hearing, and now for the final blaze Mrs. Fiske i3 to give us four performances of her success of the season. Among the plays we have some of the best and some that leads one to express the hope that they are the poorest. The thoughtful drama has been showered on us In the way of “The Bervant tn the Hous: ‘The Great Divide," “The Witching Hour,” “The Devil,” “Paid in Full’ and the never-falling “The Lion Bnd the Mouse.” We have had the classics by Sothern #nd Hanford; the light and frivolbus by Dréw and Barrymore, Figman mnd gthers; the romantlc by Warfleld and Keenhn, Bdeson arid Roberts and Standing the Wpectactiar In “The Round Up,” and the Inconsequental by several who need not here be emumerated; at least one dip into the sensational was afforded by “Salome’ st the Burwood, and the airy, whimsical “musical comedy” has come to us in va- Tious gulses, some of which were almost Impenetrable. All in all, it has been & good Weason of its kind, and some little measure ©f satintaction is felt In retrospect. ¢ e Alas, for those wtudious persons who look 10 the theater as an educational \adjunct, trusting to its influence to turn the ‘thoughts of man upward to higher and Detter thifigs. The. coming and golng of John Drew and Ethel Barrymore In suc- ‘cosslon leaves an unmistakable impression {that much is yet to be accomplished be- {fore the theater will take a front rank as ‘& disseminator of ethical or moral nstruc- tlon. For, and it is set forth with some littlo regret, several times during the sea- #on plays with a purpose, earnestly pre- sented by capable actors, were to be seen @&t the Boyd, and during their stay only a Tew, yometimes painfully few, persons gave thelr attention to the' drama of thought land ntellectual appeal. These few may be the little that leaven the whole, but they are not in sufficlent number as yet to warrant the managers in bullding thea- ters to accommodate them. But, along {comes John Drew, able exponent of polite [but smpty nothingness, and immediately the house Js packed by an assemblage jeager. to laugh at the vapidity of the play [resented—smart to the very minute, but vold. of thought of any kind;. offering absurdities only, and depending for its dra- matie action of crass stupidity. gl ¢ Mr. Dfew s a man of charming manner: he has s0 accustomed himself to certain conditions that walking onte the stage is yery much to him as if he were walkjng nto the drawing room of & friend's fine house, or the cosy corner of his own club; 1Andhe carries, himself in public much lll ihe does In private. A well bred, well fed man, enjoying life to its utmost in his own way, and showing te those of us who are !less favorably placed just how much regl fun a fellow may have when he is. basking In the brightest of Fortune's smiles while | located on the sunniest place on the right #ide of Basy street. In this nothing is to /Be construed as reflecling of Mr. Drew's abllity as an actor, for he has talent and capacity, but he has been set aside for a long, long time to play a round of char- acters whose delineation restricts his ac- tivity to the use of certain well known and exactly formulated gostures, includ- ing the stroking of his mustache—almost the only one that still survives on the stage—and the laughing of laughter that I8 rich and musical and never bolisterous, cortalfi of being echoed from among the ghted auditors seated In front, and sure to prove that Mr. Drew is our leading light comedian. Sometimes he preaches, 48 In “The Liars” or “His House in Or- der," and again he is romantic and melan- choly, heroic and misanthroplc by turns, # in “The Second in Command,” but al- Ways he {s John Drew. And as such he is tremendously popular, and will be to the very end. it Miss Barrymore may possess the talent that has been assoclated by tradition with the families whose union she so happily typifies, but, like her distinguished uncle, she has accumulated a following that will have nothing to do with the serlous things Mge at the theater. She I8 the actor polite females; standing or sitting in postures suggested by the artist most in Yogue, talking always: in eplgrams, never dull, and never getting far from the plane on which soclety folks live in smart novels #nd similarly smart plays. Here and there Some dramatist has let us see a glimpse of the sordidness of the existence of these ultra-fashionable folks into whose charmed gircle men with only rplllions back of them Sigh In vain to break! But neither uncle OF nlece is ever “presented” in a play iike “Irls” or “The Walls of Jericho,” and bably It 1§ as well. Mr. Drew might Impressive in such a drama, but one frembles to think of the fair Ethel getting very far from shore on such a sea. In her nature there 1s no booming of great waves rolling In from the deep waters of life to break on the shores of experience. Hers is the placidity of the pond, whose shallow waters are easily stirred by the passing breeses, but « productive only ®pples. Just to amuse, she fills missich admirably, but she offers no eouragement to those who -persist In {ributing thoughtful achievement as slement in success on the stage. The closing week at the Orpheum was @ttended by the presence of a collection of “supper acts" such as suggests that General Manager Bedk really wanted to teconclle his patrons to the closing of the vaudevilie house for the summer. It is @oubttul It a more mediocre bill was ever sented in Omaha, or anywhere else, for it matter. Omaha does not deserve that Sort of treatment, for during the last winter it has been a most liberal patron of the Orpheum. The Lalance sheet for the season shows it to have been the most profitable of the company's history in Omaha, and 80 well satisfied are the direc- tors of the Orpheum eircuit after eleven @onsecutive seasons that they have bought the Crelghton theater bullding, and now propose to remodel it to make it even more pomfortable and better adapted to the Bses of vaudeville. A hope is here ecx- E-.a that with the changes on the terior of the house will come a change In some other directions. Having perma- pently located Omaha on the Orpheum map, it is perheps ot asking too mueh o suggest that Mr. Beck acquaint the man who Toutes the acts across the continent Wwith the fact, and see If he cannot oc- Casionally send hitherward some of the beadiingrs who appesr in Denver, ~San Francisco, Beattle, Kansas City and Min- heapolls, but are not seen here. Other managers are not afrald to come here with their top attractions; why should Mr Beck continue to slight us Locally, the real interest of the week developed at Its close, In the announce- ment that the Shuberts had concluded an arrangement with Manager Johnson of the Burwood whereby that theater will have the many Shubert attractions during the coming season. The season will open at the Burwood on September 12 and run for forty weeks. During that time the best companies under direction of Sam 8. and Lee Shubert (Inc.) will be offered there. Shuberts control or direct seventy-five stars or companies, among them E. H. Sothern, Maxine Eiliott, Mary Mannering, Willlam Faversham, Mme. Nazimova, Mme, Kallsch, Julla Marlowe, Forbes Robert- son, Charles Richman, Lew Field, Lulu Glaser, - Minnfe Dupree, Sam Bernard, James T. Powers, Marguerite Clarke, Jet- ferson De Angells, Blanche Ring and oth- ers. From New York came the further announcement that the Lieblers have broken with the Klaw & Brlanger combi- nation, and during the next season at least will book at the Shubert theaters exclu- sively. Liebler & Co. control twenty-six first-class attractions, their list for the coming season comprising: Efeanor Rob- son I “The Dawn of a Tomorrow,” Viola Allen In ‘“The White BSister;" Wilam Hodge fn “The Man From Home,” Wilton Lackays in “The Battle,” Dustin Farnum in “Cameo Kirby,” Walker Whiteside in “The Melting Pot,” Willlam Farnum in a new play, ‘Ezra Kendall in “The Vinegar Buyer,” Madge Carr Cook In a new play by Booth Tarkington, and H. L. Wilson “In the Blood,” with H. B. Warner, a new play by B, H. Royle; “Miss Philura,” with Chrystal Herne, a new play by Henry Blossom: /The Lady of Dream by Bdmund Rostand; “Foreign Bxchange, by Booth Tarkington and Harry L. Wil- son; “The Deliverer,” by Louls N. Parker; “For Better, For Worse,” by Cleveland Moffett; “A Little Brother to the Rivh,” a new play by Joseph M. Patterson; “Eether Frear,” by Cleveland Motfett; “Vera, the Medium,” by Richard Harding “The Ordeal,” a new play by John Loughran; “The Renegade,” by Paul Armstrong; & new play by “O. Henry," (Sydney Porter); “The Squaw Man," Com- Townsend and Frank O'Malley; Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” Company A; “Mrs. Wiges of the Cabbage Patch,” Company B: “The Man from Home." by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, (special company). Mr. George C. Tyler, the cxecutive head of Liebler & Co., who 1s at present in Burope, has cabled his office that he has secured a number of foreign attractions and plays which will be added to this lst. RS All of this means that Omaha will see the very best of all the American stage has to offer during the next season. Competi- tion means that both sides to the contro- versy will have to play strong for public favor, and the very best will be offered in the cities where rival theaters are located. The public will not be expécted to deter- mine anything as to thé merits of the row; it will be permitted to content iteelf with deciding which theater to patronize and then ‘The settlement of the long- standing grievances between Klaw & Er- langer and David Belasco and Harrison Grey Fiske means that the list of attrac- tions to be offered by the ‘syndicate” is greatly enhanced, and a lvely season is certain. No more “Knight for a Day" companfes with twelve chorus girls trylng to fiil the stage will be paraded for public inspection at a first:Class theater In Omaha next season. Whatever caused the rumpus among the managers doesn't much matte The public in these parts will gain because it is under way. REALISM OF “SALVATION NELL” Mrs. Fiske is Supported by Actors Who Know Their Parts, “Salvation Nell,” Mrs. Fiske's play this season, establishes a novel precedent in the matter of stage reallsm. Not only are the stage settings the last word in the development of modern stage craft, cos- tumes and scenery, all being modelled after photographs taken In the very districts represénted, but many of the actors in the plece are merely playing upon the stage the parts which they have played in real life. So indigenous to the very life that they represent are many of the characters In the play that Harrison Grey Fiske con- cluded that the only way to secure the illusion of reality desired was to choose MRS. FISKE A8 “SALVATION NELL." (BuFwocd Tomorrow Night.) the players for these parts from among men and women born and raiseéd in the huddle centers. of New York, in which the author, Sheldon, placed the locals of his drama. Of course the princlpal players supporting Mrs. Fiske are actors of high ability and wide achlevement.' But for the sake of reality, most of the players of the smaller parts, of which the plece contaips more than forty, are residents of New York's East Side. During the first days of rehearsals actors were tried In these very parts, or “bits" as they are known, but as a rule they possessed neither the skill or the experi- ence necessary to create the desired illu- slon. Then recourse was taken to the East Side itsel!. In the play was the part of a prizetighter who had only a single line to speak. A real ex-prizefighter was found bearing & broken hand and A broken jaw him the part w: 8o excellent @d he prove that the part was expanded 0 some dosen lines that he might bave more opportunity to distinguish himsel, for Mrs. Filske always has had & watchrul and generous eye to the development of a lateht histrionic abllity that comes to her notice. Hohe one to play the part of & Bowery policenan was needed for the first act. Down in the muasic hall district of the East Side was found & man who had seen Just sueh’ service on “the police force and 'HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 16, 1909 he was induced to become an actor on Broadway. For the barroom musiclans, necessary to the absolute ‘realism” of the first act, a typical Bast Side saloon was robbed of its two musiclans—a violinist and 4 harpist—that they might become a fea- tite of “Salvation Nell.” 8o It went all down through the long list of characters. Remarkable as all this may seem, per- haps the most remarkable fact is still to be mentioned. A noted saloon keoper of the East 8ide was selling out at just the time “Salvation Nell" was being produced. His name was Bid McGovern and his place was famous throughout the district. Mr. Fiske purchased the fixtures, including the huge twenty-foot mahogany bar, for the first act set of “Salvation Nell,” and nightly now 814 McGovern's bar still flourishes. COMING T0 THE OMAHA THEATERS Mrs, Fiske in “Saivation Nell” Event of the Week. Mrs. Fiske will bring her ' play, “Salva- tion Nell,” to the Burwood theater for three nights, commencing Monday, May 17, with & Wednesday matinee. This wase written by Bdward Sheldom, 2 years old, and a graduate of Harvard college last year. It was sent to Harrison Grey Fiske through a play agency. After a two hours’ reading before Mrs. Fiske she accepted it The play has been welcomed as the most remarkable example of modern stage reallsm yet developed. The charm of it seems to be that while dealing with the soamy side of New Yotk life, it 18 yet re- plete with the quaint humor of the streets, and reflects truly the wholesomeness of the lowly life of the great east side, no matter how humble the surroundings. In laying the scene In the Cherry Hill distriot, both the playwright' and Mrs. Fiske have been true to nature by making love of Nell and Jim Pratt an ideal story, and thus de- monstrating what anyone familiar with the side-street life of New York knows, that love in tatters is an genuine and pure as any and, In most casos, probably su- perior. The Manhattan company will support Mrs. Fiske during the engagement here. This is the most widely known regular or- Sanization In the country. Originally formed by Mr. Fiske to support his famous star, it has alwa; been kept up to the standard. There have been no changes made in the company since the run of the ploca at the Hackett theater, New York. The original cast of fifty members has not been reduced. The production has not been aitered in the least detall and it is at the heaviest expense that Mrs. Fiske will make her western tour this season. The settings, particularly of Cherry Hill In the third act, are so massive that it takes all day to prepare the stage. For this reason the company has often to be hauled on special trains. A woman of less genius than Mrs. Fiske might fear such a part, but with the con- tldence which her unerring art must give her, she has triumphed. She has taken the lowly scrub woman of Sheldon's play and brought her through the viclsitudes which surrounded her truly pure nature into the mystic happiness of a real and satistying love. ~Nell Sanders gave her life's love to Jiml Pratt and, under its re- generating influence the ex-convict rose to the man- that was in him and gave back love for love. ——— The summer stock on at the Boyd theater will begin this afternoon, when the Woodward Btock company will present The Hosé of the Rancho,” with Miss Bva Lang in the leading role. This announce- ment means much to the Omaha patrons of the Boyd, for the Woodward Stock com- pany has come to be a fixture here, and its followers know that it means a season of good plays, perfectly produced, and enacted by capable players. In the present Instance it means the return of Miss Lang, a favorite beyond question, with another well established actor as leading man, Albert Morrison s probably the most nopular man that ever played in Omaha, and he and Miss Lang are a pair the people like to see work together. In the company are others equally well known and liked, among them Will Davis, Frank Denithorne, Frank Dudley, Marle Hudson, Henrletta Vadlers and others. Mr. Woodward will direct the first production personally, and will glve much of his attention to the other plays during the season. Matinces will be glven on Sundays, Wednesdays and Satur- days. As one of the last attractions of the regular season the management of the Boya offers to its patrons one of the most popular, as well as youngest, of English speaking stars in a play that has stood the test of a long run In New York City and brilllant engagements in many pf the biggest cities of the United States. On Tuesday evening, May 25, Charles Froh- man will present Miss Marle Doro in W. J. Locke's four-act comedy, “The Morals of Marcus.” It was in “The Morals of Murcus” that Miss Doro, who had jumped Into fame by her splendid and beautiful portrayal of the) title role in “Clarice” as leading woman with Willlam Gillette, and been rewarded by promotion to stardom, made her first appearance at the actual head of a company. A® the winning, dainty, Ingenuous lttle fugitive from the harem who utterly upsets all the learned theories of life of .8ir Marcus Ordeyne, Miss Doro fairly startled her friends and admirers by the witchery and subtlety of her Interpretation. Although at first glance the role seemed to call only for superlative daintiness of personality, the fact was quickly recognized that it also called for the greatest intelligence and thought, and Miss Doro was hailed as an actress of rare power as well as unusual attractive- ness. Before fhat season was ended Miss Doro was firmly established as one of the most brilllant women of the American stage and her appearance at the Boyd on May %-2 promises to be an event of unusual importance. Miss Dom will come here with a supporting company, Including many prominent artists, among them Ed- win Arden, Marle Wainwright, Marion Ab- bott, Willima Postance, Mildred Beverly; Fred Tiden and Anne Meredith. For two performaices today only the Burwood company 1s to revive its greatest success, “The Devil,” which the company prumlufl t0 enormous attendance for thirty-nine consecutive performances last fall. Lioyd Ingraham, who achleved a veritable triumph by his rendition of the title role during the phenomenal run, will again be seen In the same role. Miss Leone will be seen as “Olga,” the bankej wite. She essayed the same part during a stock engagement in Minneapolls. Mr. Gibson also played “Old Helnrich,” the valet of the artist, in Cleveland. The pro- duction will be complete In every detall, notwithstanding that only two perfor- mances are to be given. The Burwood company leaves Monday morning for a | week's trip to nearby citles, In which the ‘The Girl From | success of the last week, | Out Yonder,” will be presented. The com- pany will re-open on BSunday, May 23, for its farewell week. e “The Blue Mouse,” that much-talked-of comedy, which is an adaptation from the German, by Clyde Fiteh, and which has created something of a sensation all over the country, will come to the Burwood (hedter the list half' of the week, with Saturday matihes. The plece was first produced in this country at the Lyri¢ theater, New York, last November and it was 80 well llked In that city that it wil remadn there indefinitely, and this happy clrcumstance has prompted the Mess: Shubert to send on tour a duplicate com- pany to play the large citles that amuse- ment-seekers outside of New York may be able to foin the laughing wave that Mr. Fiteh's latest work has created. “The Blue Mouse” is called a farce com- edy, and yet it boasts of a story: The secretary to the president of the Interstate raliroad, In order to expedite his promo- tlon to a superintendency that he may bet- ter provide for his bride, introduces ‘“The Blue Mouse,” a stage danseuse, to the president as his wife, and she cajoles and teases him into signing the promotion after a giqdy fiirtution with the frisky old fellow. The old man's jealous wite, the secretary’s real wife and the danseuee's “steady” are drawn Into the complications and deceptions that are necessitated by little tete-a-tetes, which are interrupted by the sudden entry of one of the other parties to the tangle of deception that fol- low the main plot. The character of “The Blue Mouse" is portrayed by Miss Millicent Bvans. She and lives her life according to her own ideas. The cast is a large one and includes Elsa Ryan, Geoffrey Stein, Wilton Taylor, Inda Palmer, Mable Trunnell, Caroline Pearse, G. D. MaecIntyre, John Dunn, Harry Millarde and some twenty others. The production is spoken of as belng the most elaborate the Messrs. Shubert have sent on tour and is an exact reproduction of the one used in the eastern metropolis, where the plece 1s now in its elghth month of great success. Announcement 1s made of the coming to the Burwood on Tuesday, May %, of Mr. and Mrs. Borls Thomashefsky, who are ]cunceded to be the greatest exponents of dramatic art on the Ylddish: stage. Mr. Thomashefsky is an actor of much re- nown all over Burope and his wife is aften called “the Leslle Carter of the Yiddish stage.” They will be supported by the entire Yiddish company from the People's theater, New York City, where they have been appearing all season. They are un- under the same management as Madame Kenny Lipain. Harold MoGrath's and Grace Livingston Turness' story of Washington lite, “The Man on the Box," has been selected as the closing bill for this season's stock com- pany at the Burwood, starting with Sun- day matinee, May 23. The usual perform- ances will be given with the exception of Tuesday, May 2%, when the theater will be occupled by an outside attraction. This brings the closing of the stock company on the same week as last season, when It closed on Sunday, May 8l The Alr Dome theater at the corner of Eighteenth and Douglas streets will be opened Sunday evening, May 2, by the Hillman Ideal Btock company. A number of the old members are included in the cast this season, among them F.. P. Hill- man, Frank Manning, R. D. Sacray, Frank Dale, D. McDermid, Earl G. Hicks, M. D. Newton, Lucy Hayes, Nona Lee, Rena Biblmalr, Bva Miller, Forence Newton and others. The opening offering will be Just Plain Folks,” a drama of simple Jife among the New England hills. The pllly will be interspersed with vaudeville fo tures between cts. The grounds and theater' are being entir¢ly remodeled, and when completed will be ‘efuipped with a heavy canvas roof, so Arraj as to roll up dufing pleasant eveningsand let down when weather s inclement. The reserve section will be made more comfortable. Mr. Hillman returned from New York a short time ago, where he made arrange- ments for some of the very best dramatic productlons. LATE GOSSIP FROM STAGELAND Chat About Actors, Some Intimate Authors and Drama. Peter Donald, the jovial young Scotch- man who was at the Orpheum with his wife during the last week in March and who was on the opening bill of the Or- Eheum at San Francisco, had to go to a 0spital out there to be operated on for appendicitis. A lot of friends he made while in Omaha are wondering if he told the doctor to “cut it oot.” Lloyd Ingraham and wife will leave Omaha Immediately on the closing of the Burwood season and open at St. Joseph, where Mr. Ingraham wil] be stage di- rector for a summer stock company and Mrs. Ingraham will play Ingenue roles. The working force of the Orpheum will start Monday for a_ten-day camping trip near Plattsmouth. In the bunch will be Manager Byrne, Blu%fi Director Charley Gore, Louls 8t. Cyr, Charley Kosters, Otto Bchnelderwind, H. Howland, A. Allen. Art Weatherbee, G. Smith, M. Ryan, C. Clary, H. Walker, J. G. Btubbs, Willlam Kilgore, H. Hoover, Dave Hoover and Amos Bostic, Wwho will cook. This Is an annual func- tion with the Orpheum folks. Maclyn Arbuckle, whose tour in “The Round Up," Klaw & Erlanger and Joseph Brooks' big play of the Arizona desert, | ends shortly, is delighted with his new | play, “The Circus Man," by Eugene Pres- | brey. The playwright read the play to him |In Cleveland. He feels that Mr. Presbrey, in dramatizing Holman Day's book, “Squire Phin," has given him the best op- portunity of his life for the creation of & stage character of importance ‘Fighting Hime Look' is a New Englander,” sa; | Mr. Presbrey. “As a boy he was the v lage scapegoat, and was finally kicked {cut into the world In disgrace. Twenty | years later he returns, after having been | the proprietor of a circus in Texas. He | ecmes back with $0,000, the remnants of | his menagerie and a_determination to con- | auer the village. The town s still an- | tagonistic. = It resents his return. The warmth of his welcome Is shown by the | village constable, still in office, who holds | @ warrant for the arrest of Look, fssued twenty years before. This warrant Is promptly served, as a means of showing how the community feels toward the black | eheep. During the year ‘Fighting Hime' #perds in the town he bends every effort toward subdulng the community. It has been his custom to rule his beasts by forcing them to submit. By the end of the year he not only conquers the village, but himself as well. His charaster urdergocs psychological —transformation, and from the bully he is changed into a big, lovable chap, to whom it is a pleasure to surpender. The character, as drawn by Mr. Day, will glve Mr. Arbuckle an op- portunity fcr a creation of & big Amerlcan type of human interests that will be loved by everybody.” Bert Walker of Willlams and Walker, is to go into vaudeville May | management of Willlam Morris. This will { be the first appearance alone of this clever colored comedian. Frohman now has in his poses- plays for Amerlcan production next season written by the following play- wrights, a group that, taken all in all, hail rom almost the four corners of the world: Henry Arthur Jones, Henry Bernstein, Henry Battallle, 'W. Somerset Maugham (author of “Jack Btraw" and of . Lady Frederick,”), Alfred Sutro (author of “The Bullder of ‘Bridges,”), Tohn Calsworthy (who ~ wrote ‘“The ' Siiver _Bo: and Calllovet and De Fiers '), and, In America, Augus- Clyde Fitch, George Hobart, not to forget the newest comer in the ramks of playwrights, Willlam Colller. Klaw & Brlanger and Jose have accepted ene W. Pr brey's dramatization of Rex Beach's latest novel, “The Barrie: The play will be prcduced next seaon with Guy Standing In Is supposed to be pretty, dresses gorgeously | 10 under the | oing on in the Stage World Briefly Told the role of Lieutenant Meade Burrell and Theodore Roberts as John Gale, a charace ter which will give Mr. Roburts the o portunity to create another role of the dis- tinct American type. The scencs of Mr. Beach’s novel are laid in Alaska. Its love | story is his best. The environment of his characters and the action of the plot de- mand big scenic effects, which the firm will provide. Padie Redway is rehearsing a musical kit called “The Man in 4," which he will present in vaudeville early this mun}h The plece Is the joint contribution of Wil- bur D, Nesbit and Arthur Weld. The scenc is the women's reception room In a hotel. and Redway will appear successively as & bell boy and an eccentrlc millionalre The will of the late Mme. Helena Mod- Wwas executed on August $4,000 to a sister in and and $1,60 to each of the children of Ludwig Opid of Los Angeles, a nephew. The balance is left to her husband, Count Bogzente. The value of the estate evidently has dwindled since the will was made, as the other day It was placed at $5,000, consisting of three acres of Jand at Tustin, Orange county; silverware, and a note for §1,000. 1906, and leaves within a_fortnight B. H, For the second time President Taft has witnessed an Bothern performance. The first occasion was in the New York engagement of “If I Were King." Last Monday night, accom- panied by Mrs. Taft, he saw the first Washington presentation of Bulwe:-Lyt- ton's “‘Richelien.” In an adjacent Lox sat Miss Marlowe, who has = rejoined M= Bothern and will appear with him in the Bhakespearean portion of his repertoire. Klaw & Erlanger have entered into con- tracts with Maud Raymond and Max Rog- ers, whereby the firm is to feature them in a new play by Aaron Hoffman, with music by Max Hoffman, entitied *The Young Turk.” The scenes are laid in Constantinople. The Rogers brothers have never been under any other management than Klaw & Erlanger since they em- barked in the “legitimate.”” When not under the immediate direction of Klaw & Erlanger, the boys managed themselves and booked in the Klaw & Erlanger thea- ters until the death of Gus Rogers last December. Miss May Robson has played for elghty consecutive weeks in “The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary,” and has made a comfortable fortune out of the play on the road, despite the fact that when the production was disclosed originally in New York the critics to a man deemed it a hopeless failure. Henry Miller is passing the recess term at his farm in the east. In September he will take ‘“The Great Divide' to London, where Miss Edith Wynne Matthison will play opposite to him in the role of Ruth Jordan. Mr. Miller's other plans for next keason Include the presentation of ‘‘The Servant in the House” in London and the tntroduction of “The Family” and the new Moody play, “The Faith Healer,” to New York audiences. All these enterprises are to be put forward under the joint di- rection of Mr. Miller and Charles Frohman, James Lackaye, whose portrayal of the gambler In ‘“Cameo Kirby' was a vivid Characterization, has signed a five-year confract to play under the direction of Willlam_ A. . His first role will be that of Senator Langdon in the special com- pany being organized to play A Gentle- Bin from Missiasippi” in Boston and Phila- delphia. *“The Boy and the Girl" will be the sum- mer show at the Aerial Gardens, top of the New Amsterdam theater. The season will open the first week in June. Marle Dressler will be featured in the produc- tion, which will be on the usual elaborate scale of a Klaw & Erlanger offering. Among the members of the big company will be Harriet Standon, Marle Gerson, Madeline Marshall, Barney Bernard, Tobey Lycns, Bddle Heron and Robert Fantus. Burr Mclntosh, after a virtual absence trom the stage of nine years, reappeared as an actor recently in the Grand opera house at Chicago, In the title Tole of “A Gentleman From Mississippl.” Apart from & New York City appedrance of a fow weeks, in his original role of Taffy, in the New Amsterdam theater revival of “Prilby in the spring of 1006, this is the first time MclIntosh has been seen on the stage since. He recelved a warm weleome from a theater filled with play-goers, who recalled his acting in ‘“Alabama," = “John Need ham's Double,” ““The Governor of Ken- tucky”” and a member of the Augustin Daly company. The final epring production to be made by the Shuberts will be “The Revelers” a new comedy by Charles Richman, ' the actor, It deals with modern city life. In the early summer the same managers will bring out a new musical plece in which Cecll Lean and Miss Florence Holbrook will be featured jointly. Thus does the course of true domestic felicity continue to run smoothly with this model stage couple. Adeline Genee has salled for London Miss Genee will give four special matinee performances at His Majesty's theater in Lordon this month, She will spend the balance of her vacation visiting Denmark, returning to New York late in Auvgust to begin rehearsals for a new Klaw & Er- langer musical production. Samuel H. Harrls, partner of George M. Cohan, has gone to Purope to pick up a number of plays and actors. He expects to book George M. Cohan for a special per- formance in Paris and other things. When he finished talking Mr. Harrls' look showed that he was only “kidding." Rose_Stahl is making good in London, and “The Chorus Lady" has captured the British capital just as she captured New York. Patricia O'Brien is one of those wholesome, hearty girls who are bound to be popular anywhere. Lilllan Russell and her company In “Wildfire” are headed eastward after a remarkable tour of the Pacific coast. Klaw & FErlanger and Joseph Brooks will give her a splendid production and a fine cast in her next comedy, “The Widow's Might,” by Edmund Day, Marie Doro, the petite comedienne who JUS haic piiving “Eme BODNE GRH' I8 New York, Is to lay aside that plece when #he hegins_her tour to the Pacific coast shortly. It has not been a pronounced success and she will fall back on her pl of last season, “The Morals of Marcus.” 1t will be Miss Doro's first trip to the far west and her season will continue until August 1. “Ben Hur" will ¢lose its season In Ann Arbor. It has been one of t most siue- cessful years that Klaw & Erlanger have tad with this production. The tour opena early next foll. The big cities of the east and south will be played. Mise B'll'e Burke has almost accomplished the end of her present Amer'‘can scason in ‘Love Watches” ard will shortly sall for London, where, surround+d by hcr prosent company, she will be seen for the summer season In London in the same comedy. Burke's London engagement will be lowed by her return to America, where she will resume an extended tour to the Pacific coast in “Love Watches,”" eventually play- ing the pléce two years. Liil'an Ruesell fn “Wildfire" i« doing such phenomenal business on the Pacific coa: that her season will not close till the mid- dlo of June. She has chosen & new play by Edmund ,Day called “The Widow's Might,” and in it she will descend on Broadway next Sertember Wil Arch the diminutive comed an who has been play ing the stable boy, Is to have the honor of belng featured in “Wildfire” next season J. Wallingford Speed s the name of the principal character in “Going Some,” a new comedy of which Paul Armstrong and Rex Beach are the joint authors and which the Shuberts will produce on April 12 Lawrence Wheat of “Stub” Talmago and “Artie” memory wil be cast as Speed Yale ahtlete, who, while ing in New Mexico, gets Into many amusing complica tions with the cowbo: “Little Nemo" has closed fts tour Chicago. Klaw & Erlanger's blg car musical comedy, the biggest will make a tour of the south, beginning early in the fall n »on Klaw & Erlanger will put out Melntyre and Heath next season in “The Steeple- chasers,” by H. A. Du Souchet. The tour will open in New York Theodore Roberts will spend hi at Bayonne when be Is not erul boat. summer g on his Lilllan Russell will spend her vacation in Europe Jeska, which has been flled for probate, | ever staged, | ~\~ione TODAY ONLY! LLOYD INGRAMAM and the Burwood Stock ‘a & Revival of the Most Popular Sucoess of Stock Company History in Omaha, THE DEVIL As Prosented at this Theater 39 Consscutive Per- | formanoes Last Fall 'very American woman should see lrn'rn(hy Dix In NEW YORK JO Prices—b0c, 35¢, 25¢ and 15¢. Tussoay & MAY 17, 18 and 19--Wednesday TOMORROW, w-ou.M.pu,R S. FlSKE Harrison Gray and THE MANHATTAN COMPANY in SALVATION NELL by EDWARD EEELDON. “The Divine Comedy of the Slums.” PRICES—$2.00, $1.50, $1.00 and 500. Wednesday Matinee Same Prices. Seats reserved by 'phone will be held only until noon of the date they are for. 3 NIGHTS “EX]’ TH“RS“A' DULL CARE MAT. STARTING SATURDAY SAM 8. AND LEE SHUBERT [Inc.] Present THEE SEASON'S BIG SENSATION, 3 THE BLUE MOUSE By CLYDE FITCR A Laughing Hit Unporalleled in the History of Btagedom. Passged by the “PURE FUN" Laws of Two Continents. % INNOCENOE. 10% What you'd like done to the other fellow. 30% Cleverness. 88% Intoxioants, 100% PURE FUN. After one dose “The Blue Mouse” #aid: “T feel Ounnoodly. BREWED IN GERMANY! T'm called “The Blue Mouss,” but I really can't see ‘What envious rivals see swful in m Is it a crime to be clever? Or is it & sin, Adding innocent fun to the ‘World we live in? T can't help my tewperament, 30 lot me assure you If you've got the biues, lttle “ine Mouse"” will cure you. BVENING PRIOES, 50 to §1.50—SATURDAY MATINEE, 800, 760 and $1.00 Seat Sale Opens Tomorrow at 10:00 A. M. Wesk of May 93 (oxcept Tuesdny, May 35), Farewell production by the Burwood e SN ON THE BOXS e Stock Co. in * Tuesday, May 35, Mr. and Mrs. Boris Thomashefs and the People’s Theater Yiddish attraction of the Co. of New York City, in Yiddish drama, The greaf BOYD’S ontire soason. ———————= ALL SUMMER ENGAGEMENT OF —————— THE WOODWARD STOCK COMPANY THIS APFTERNOON, TONIGET AND ALL WEEK Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Satusday. The Great Soenic and itio Success ' The Rose of the Rancho EVA LANG, ALEERT MORRISON and Cast of Thirty, NEXT WELK--“TERE COLLEGE WIDOW."” Friday and Saturday, May 28 and 29 Charles Frohman Offers Winsome MARIE DORO in Her Gre t Success «“The Morals of Marcus” MATINEE SATURDAY AUDITORIUM Championship Match FRANK GOTCH vs. CHARLES OLSON MONDAY NIGHT, MAY 24TH Reserved Seats 76¢, $1.00 and $1.50. General Admission 50¢c SEAT SALE OPENS FRIDAY, MAY 21, Meodern Woodmen of American CLASS ADOPTION Tuesday, May 18, Creighton Hall Circus Day OMAHA Monday, May 24 CAMPBELL BROS. Circus & Menagerie Grand Street Parade Show Grounds-—21st & Paul Sts. MONDAY, AY 17th, LADIES' DAY GAMES CALLED 8:45. PIANO RECITAL By Puplls of Jean P. Duffield, Assisted by Mrs. W, E. O/Connor, Boprano, Pupll of Thomas J. Kelly. Assembly Hall, Bdward Creighton Insti- tute, Opposite City Mall, west. Thursday Bvening, May 20, Admission by Invitation or Apply at Mr. Duffield's Studlo In Boyd Theater. 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