Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1910, Page 39

¥ » for such a place for some time 1 )’, ’ THE LL Intere locally t the orening Brand: night n things of the stage rns on the one topic T en talked of it seems emfwmfwy be sald ng to be places of § nothing new the “theater put off newspaper praise 1t s going forwajr | for Omah evined tha soclal de nunity as does the t vance in material pre intellectual atiainmer atlsfying the esthet material longings ere is this ne the theater, and atitution outlines the community and culture. Very re lished an article that de 1" the atgfr of Omaha from the public * formance, given In the fror t fifty years ago, throug tons, up to the now to be opened to the men whose « venture money provid of their fellow citizens, and James E. Boyd, who gave Or really first class theater, a later bullt another one of the best and most cony way in any western commur comes the Brandels, again the catlon of clvie pride on part of ample means and of bont that they are moved pleasure and comfort zens. The spirit in wi enters the Brandels o review the manifold Wllurements of the theater wiil be on. admiring appreciation for the quality citizenship that finds its manifesta such ways, ati has bee beautif jus with veople ad d expand {1 means to | a8 the more provided of that | progres ref Bee m a th along en on pub p hous grada Brandeis the magnif Due ¢ ¥ 13 glven 18 led them n th ally ok pe ha a ten | stands And v exempliti with mind to contribute to the of thelr fellow eiti- ch the throng that Thursday mtight will beauties and chaste vars which as W .of of | ms in | snld elsewhere word need in the be all been r much has been | nBw theater that here. It Iu the of theaters, and grateful because of t added building the no be last word it wiit Omaha mora ad 1t ofters | \' that which has presented in a local theater, and that is an opportunity for more soclability among friends and ac- |, quaintances who attend The alsles are omy, the seats are so spaced that occu- pants may get in and out without ously disturbing others, and In foyer, lobby ‘@and vestibule are spaclous vistas whose ofly service will be to the prom- | enaders between acts. Tt is proposed that the audlence, instead of remaining rigidly | fixed in chalrs, shall rise and walk about | while the curtain is down. This should | | conduce to the grester enjoyment of the! pley; it will give plenty of scope for per- sonal intercourse and permit much visit- Ing that has hitherto been impossible be- cayse of lack of convenlence, It will be| L feature” of golng to the play in OmaWa, and, while it Is not likely to be-l come the vogue all of a sudden, it is sure| to be popular and to be taken up as folks | get accustomed to the idea. | it - | A pecullar colncidence brings “The Cli- max” to be the climax of the season at the Boyd. With Wednesday nlght the| firat-class bookings will all be transferred | to the Brandels, and with the transfer has never been seri- § | i Other Theater Openings in Omaha Notable Casts that Performed When the First Boyd, the New Boyd and the Creighton Theaters Wel Time to Come Within and Enjoy the Beauties and Comforts Offered ANY in the brilllant audience of | the first night at the new Bran- dels theater will be able to call other Omaha theater open- ings. Of recent memory—com- paratively speaking—there are two, the first plays at the Burwood, now the Gayety, and at the Krug. When ono tuens to the first night at the Orpheum, then called the Crelghton, one begins to | dip into older Omaha theatrical history and Into the history of the American stage for that matter. Of the twenty-two play- ers on the stago at the Creighton in the drama, “The Masqueraders,” no less than sixteen subsequently became stars and are today among the most brilliant lights in the theatrical firmament, This, withal, was not so long ago, the exact date being August 18%. Four ye#rs before that there had been another theater opening, that of the mew Boyd, which fs now eclipsed in splendor and pres tige by the new Brandels. Thursday, Sep- tember 3, “Alabama,” the first famous play of Augustus Thomas, was given by the A. M. Palmer Stock company, and al- most as many famous names are to be found in the dramatis personae of this as I%\‘lm cast of “The Masqueraders.” fore the new Boyd opened, the chief Oljaha playhouse was the old theater of | the same name, and this had its first per- formance Monday evening, October 24, 1851 | Fay Templeton and her company givin “The Mascotte. | S The programs of these thres perform anegs are Interesting documents. Others may have coples of them, but for this ar t hey were obtained from the collec- | i Mr. Milton Darling, who has a re markably complete array of dramatic souvenirs of the sort. The program for the Crelghton opening ennounces “Charles Frohman's Empire | pan {his ventures Stock company from the Empire theater, New York, presenting a New and Original | modern play in four acts by Henry Arthur Jones, entitled The Masqueraders.' " The cast iy glven as follows | David_Lemon o.......Henry Miller | Sir Drice Skene L William Faversham Montague Lushington ot B Il()\lluu‘ Eddje Remon Charles Miles | Lord Crandov Joseph Degnan Hon, Percy Blanchflower Robert Kdeson Sir Winchmore Wills, M. I)..George Bryant | George Copeland R, Weed | 1ancourt. . . on Lee Finney | Carter..... P. Flannsbersy Randall.... ¥. Harvey Rodney.. .. Tidgar Morton Sharland....... P. Sorentz Jimmy Stokes Crompton | Brinkler, proprie Sta . . Y. Backus James Whitman Henry Damon | Viola Allen Emma B. Kemp halford May Robson 1da Conquest | i | tor of “The Thomson | A servant o Dulele Larondje, elen Larondie rley Wishanger, Lady arence Reindean Lady Cradover Genevieve Reynolds Guests, Dancers, Fox Hunters, Hotel Servants and Waiters. Here are names which the most »a scquaintange With the stage will recognize | es now famous. Willlam Faversham, for instance, whose production of “Hered" is one of the most notable events of this sea ®on. From the position of leading man With the Empire Theater company, My Faversham became a star and played the Tomantic drama until his soul grew w of jt. The matinee girl 4 ha ek, said his managers, and Mr i Sh was forced to become his own | producer to get away from tho sort of | drama dear to the caramel contingent. | This he dia successtully In “El Gran Gal- | ato,! and again this year in the Stephen Philips play Henr¥ Miller's rise to fame is of course Aiso tamiliar, and se with J. B Do wor Faver- on, Perp:tiia) Youth ; | All Comment Locally Turns on Dedication of Omaha's wy | New Theater Beautifu); Lillian Russell a Fine Figure of William H. Crane on Domination of Intellec:; Passing of Clay Clement; Neil Burgess' Fame forces. - M ur- 1 activity as ma and Frank L ® business manager Conrad Hecker will the new theater #et back into har Ernest Nordin, Burgees for many Omaha theaters of the orchestra bee N of and s as who " irer years 1 will b accompanted including And opened these inside stage the Boyd | the drums o has for all clean the Cooper stage get oW house mfortably street Warren losed the . ars, will mar b at where located ins'de At the manager of the will be the S Parnell Mangan be treasurer, with Parker Halght for assistant. Mr. Warren has been in Omaha for several days, and the members of the Woodward company will s sembled during woek, ready for t opening .on night Dougla Willlam Audit ng rium Kaneas a City man a Stock the urday be he The week at the Boyd was g to two of the most delightful of comedies one frankly farcical and the other verging At times, but saved from the the deft handling of the situa most feature of the the com- | to be en-! the audi-| for the ven over on farce plunge tions. by The was that enact it and able instance seemed daid In o list of years that girihcod, for she scenes with the Yes, and the de- two n e t thoroughly that was thoroughl Miss Lilllan thrown away the long separates her from her fairly romped through her vivacity of a debutante mure naivete of one, too. ler scene with | Digby Bell in second act was one of the most laughable she ever took part } in, and perfectly carried by them No one need fear the passage of days with | such examples of perpetual youth as Digby | Bell and Lilltan Russell afford. By that| same token, Digby Bell never worked bet- ter than in this comedy. It i a pity he cannot secure a comedy of his own, one that 1s worthy of his ability, and resume his proper position among the stars of the country. | i a8 | Willlam H. Crane, whose humor is perennial and never-failing, came again | with “Father and the Boys," the Ade com- edy that wears so well because it has in it the “human” note, and was given such welcome as he deserves. Not that actly, for If Mr. Crane got all he deserves from the public no one theater ever bullt would hold all the people who would be crowding In to see him play. It is just| because he does understand the human | side of things that Mr. Crane can present a character such as that of Lemuel More- wood and make it loveable. He so neatly contrasts the comedy with the serfous that he preserves the balance perfectly, A less gifted or less experienced actor g ay Joyi ! each | tirst | have or is saying muc appreciated ssell appea the was ex- comed the Public for the First Robert Edeson and others of this brilllant cast. The women, too—there are Viola Allen, May Robson and Ida Conquest, names {llustrious now in theaterdom. —— Only little less brilliant Is the cast which appears four years before this at the open- Ing of the new Boyd. And If it contains fewer famous names, it Is. because the cast is smaller. It was the A. H. Palmer Home Stock company which opened this theater In “Alabama,” the cast belng as follows: Colonel Preston, an old planter...... J. H. Stoddart of the Con- M. Holland (a Coosa eounty” justice .Charles L. Harrls a northern raliroad e+ e el .Maurice Barrymore Mr. Armsirong, his agent..... . Edward Bell Lathrop Page, a southern boy... ol i .Edward _Abeles .‘Walden Ramsey servant...... _Reuben Fax Miss May Brooklyn Miss Emily Seward Carey Preston .. Agnes er Atlanta Moberly. . Nannle Craddock Heére, too, are famous names. Maurlce Barrymore, famous wit and reconteur, as well as finished actor, is dead, but three of his talented children, headed by Fithel Barrymore, are carrying on the famlly fame. J. I Stoddart attained his great distinction, of course, in the Ian Mnclaren play, “Beside the Bonnle Brier Bush.” E. M. Holland has risen to be called by many critics “the best character actor in Amer- fea.” Mr. Holland'has become & star, hut have not met with great s cens. erthel even it he has not made a great deal of money for his man- ager, his reputation as a great actor is secure. Edward Abeles is a younger man. His fame came when he assumed the title role In “Brewster's Millions.” Another brilliant actor in this company was Reuben Fax, Few know of him compared to the many who know Stoddart, but Mr. Fax as Pasty, was, perhaps, as deserving of fame as the man who played the dour old Scot's father. Colonei Moberly, federacy Squire Tucker, a relic Captain Davenport Raymond Page. Decatur, an ante-bellum Page...... Mrs. Stockton.... i It was an even decade before this ‘when Fay Templeton opened the first Boyd thea- ter with “The Mgscotte.” Her program | printed with the names of the players fivst, as follows: FA «.;..the Greatest of the Mascottes Seth ‘M. 'Crane... ..as Pippo Alice Vane........ sseee a8 Flametta John Templeion. Prince Lorenzo XVII Allee Coleman.... s the Pet of the Ages (with her celebrated cornet solo, for which she Is valled) Alfa Perry vessen sevssien @8 Ricardo Edith Weaver..as the Pet of the Reriment Tsabel Fuller.. . as Paoloa Cora Crane...... as Marco Amy Haryoy.. as Luigl Jeanne Vincent . viaen A8 Alfonso Josef Handel'....\.......a8 Prince Fredrelo Wiillam H. Fulier.."...\".,l.........a5_Roeco Herr D, Byers. i ‘as Matteo Fugene Harvey as F fonte Edwon Van Vechtens as the Alevander MeKirby Lady Lee. Court Physician ....a8 ‘Angelo as the Drummer Boy The leading woman remained a star on the American stage a long time after she sang in this opera. It is not so very long azo when was delighting an entirely new generation of theatergoers as Mary in “Farty-five Minutes from Broadway.” She could be still charming thousands, It she would. but quiet domesticity has been her cholce for the last two or thres years. Mr. Willam Courtenay and Dorls Keane she | the moderns, end their, assoclates {n “*Arsane Lupin" are clever playeis, whose repute Is not bullded entirely on a foundation of sand. But they Wil have to travel a rapld gait to eclipse some of thelr predecessors who opened Omaha theaters of bygone days. easlly e or the ot accent, and thus d s the personal f the his pathos with a G fun and ping his comedy hand Mr. Cr does wonders terlal that might not afford nother uech for worthy worl: But this Is his acting, developed by an experience none other on the stags to America may ay to him 1 have more, and therefore know more." would the p wtrong stro: that \aracter modicum well in th ma ererve By tempering ke scope gift for ripe that day in tudted During a chat on Iriday, in the course of whieh many toples and individuals con- nected with the stage and the press were touched on lightly, Mr. Crane paid his re- spects to the thoughtless of the present generation, who proceed on the assumption that we have assimiiated all that is to be nown, are iIntellectually superior to our forbears, and that the and others of a bygone day would be hopelessly out of It nowadays. “Such a position Is ab. surd,” sald Mr. Crane o speak of the of a g the light ot met assume that they fol- unworthy. was actors actors ration ago in hods, und ey were bad actors because ways s unfair and mental for ch to dominate in his own day dominating per ity today , dead and gone before the Chrls- a, wopld be a power today, it allve, he had brains of the swed other an of ila Julius w one tian he were beca and 8o of any are gone. It they would in their dia' rise, because of their The fact that Mr. ( connecting link between the so-calied *old” and “new" schools of acting gives him permis slon to speak with authority on this point He has personally with the great actors of both days, and without de- crying the efforts and achlevements of he insists that the giants of who have passed on are not character who great actors alive today art just as they natural ability s a were iy rise associated the stage OMAHA SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS, OMANA'S LEADING THDATERS Performances Starting Matinee Wednesday TONIGHT JOSEPH M. WEBER OFFERS THE CLIMAX By EDWARD LOCKE |l Coming Direet From a Run of Ona Y ar at Weber's N. Y. Playhouse With the Same Cast and Production MATINEES - Sunday, Tus Boyd's Season of Stock Dpens Satur ay Thur y Evening, MARCH 7 #1d Siturday 5th WOODWARD STOCK COMPANY IN GEQ. ADE'S GREATEST COLLEGE PLAY § The Colieg e Widow THE COMPANY INCLUDSI Albert Morrison Heury Dugran. Mr, Colin Camphell, Frank Dudl-v. Miss Anna Dthel Inea lance lower floor, perform THEATRE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THEATER IN Cnroline Gates. .. Marle Hudson, Elville Alderson. Baldwin Phelps. Willlam T. Hoys. and 20 others. 6¢; balcony, 8 rows, 3 March 8$d. Reservations now Bat Valentine. Porrester. bal- Thursday EIS AME (ICA--ABSOLUTZLY FINSPRIOF WILL OPEN on THURSDAY MARCH 3 3 HIGHTS AKD A SATURDAY MATINEE Charles Frohman Presents the given their proper due by the world of to- day. Mr. amother the Boys. him about Crane expects to continue for season at least In “Father and " Mr. Frohman has written to the future, but nothing has | been determined beyond the fact that the | present play next season. 18 booked for twenty weeks i s The death of Clay Clement .at City early in the week brought a deep sense of personal loss to many Omahans, who had made close friendship with him during the years he has been coming here In different plays, Mr. Clement was, per- haps, better known for his Baron von Ho- henstaufen, In “The New Dominion,” a splendid character part in which he did excellent work, but his best efforts from a purely dramatic standpoint had given to the “The Servant in the House.” In this char- acter Mr. Clement very nearly realized the Ideal of Mr. Kennedy; he gave it an im- pressiveness that sent home the lesson with were those he @ directness and force that was irresist- | ible, and yet did it with so little apparent effort that he appeared at all times to be merely reciting a chapter from actual ex- periences and not to be exercising his Imagination to conjure up a situation on which to rest his assumption of a role that rested only In fiction. He was to have played at the Brandeis next week. DA “Miost of the biographers, career of the late Nell Burgess, rested his clalm to greatness and ) .emory on his creatlon of the role of Aunt Prue In “The County Fair Which emphasizes what Mr. Crane sald of people forgetting. Mr. Burgess really made his name known as reviewing the Widow Bedott in the dramatization by the | late D. R. Locke (“Petroleum V. Nashy'') of the “Widow Bedott Papers” by Mrs, Whichen. 1In this character Mr. Burgess achleved a fame es distinctive as that of John T. Raymond in his role of Mulberry Sellers, Joseph Jefferson in “Rip Van Winkle,” or Willlam H. Crane as the Sen- ator. Yet It has been so many years since the Widow Bedott was heard of that she is no longer known. This simply verifies her own pessimistic conclusions, immortal- ized (temporarily) In her poem on “K. K." Kansas | part of The Drainman In | Prices: Lower Floor, $2; START- ING.. 4 DAYS THE | And a Great Compan: Night Ohicago Grace Von Original New York Company in [ARSENE LUPIN | With William Courtney, Dorls Keane, Sidney Herbert and 30 Others.. Seat Sale Opens Tomorrow at 8 A, M., at 1 Millinery Dept., Brandeis & Sons’ Store Balcony, $2, $1.50 and $1; Second Balcony, 75¢ and 50c; Sat. Mat. $1.50 to 25¢ SUNDAY, MARCH Mart Singer Presents The Greatest Musical Sucoces GODDESS OF LIBERTY | BY HOUGH, ADAMS AND HOWARD . MAT. =WED. ' Wih GEORGE PARSONS nl SALLIE FISHER of 100 hog;:l&a#:x Orchestra Direct from a 300 Princess, SEATS TEURSDAY—PRICES 25c to $1.50 LAST HALF WEEK MARCH 6th--Mat. Saturday Studdiford In Her Greatest Light Opera Bucces | THE GOLDEN BUTTERFLY By Reginald De Xoven, (Kain't Kalkulate”) in the course of one verse of which she philosophizes thusly What poor short-sighted worms we be, For we kaln't kalkulate With any degree of Sartainty What's goin' to be- our At the Omaha Theaters “Arsene Lupin” Will Open the New Brandeis on Thursday—*The Climax" is Coming to the Boyd with the Original Cast—Krug Has Two Good Plays—Vaudeville at Orpheum, Burlesque at the Gay XT Thursday night, Brandels, Charles will present, for the first time in this city, “Arsene Lupls the detective-thief play, one of the best discussed pleces of the seaxon and evidently one of its genulne successes. Originally produced in Paris, where It ran for over a year, it has since achieved remarkable success in London, at the Frohman and it has been given at the Lyceum the- | ater, New York, for nearly six months, It Is the work of Francls de Croisset and Maurice Le Blanc and is based on a serfes of stories written by thé latter. Arsene Lupin Is & brilllant, charming, uncannily clever person, who never falls to win sym- pathy in spite of his peccadilloes. The characters surrounding him are cleverly drawn, notably Guerchard, the detective, who stands out prominently. The play will presented here with the complete original cast and scenic equipment. Wil llam Courtenay heads the company In the title role. Other players in the large cast are Herbert, Charles Harbury, Arthur Elllott, J. Palmer Col- lins, Harry Dodd, Doris Keane, Virginla Hammond, Adeline Stanhope Wheateroft and May Galyer. The play cpens at the Gournay-Martin, a pleb immeunsely rich. be notable Sldney country home of an who has grown He owns a great gallery of paintings. of these are in the castle at Charmerace and the remalnder In his town house in Paris. Gournay-Mar- tin has purchased the chateau from the duke of Charmerace, who Is engaged to Germaine Gournay-Martin ermaine's companion Is a charming little Russian, named Sonla. Her melancholy air at tracts the duke and he falls in love with her. Gournay-Martin letter from Arsene Lupin, who ded appropriate some of the Martin collect on of paintings, also other articles of value that he thinks Martin can well spar o latter would speed to Paris to protect his treasures, but accomplices of the thief have stolen the three automobilis from the chateau. When Martin reaches his Paris house the next morning he finds the place wrecked. Lupin has kept his word and has written his autograph all over the walls. Guerchard arrives—the crack detective of the Paris secret police. He has trafled Lupin for years, and he suspects Sonia of belng implicated in several thefts from Germaine, including a valuable brooch, He finds In ber coat pocket the tissue paper Some recelves a has dec! ' | pocket In order to shiela her. ety which might but the duke, has previously have contained the brooch, now madly in love with her, taken the Jewel from | orders the arrest of the glirl, purioins one of the officer With it she passes the police cordon at the gates, When Guerchard discovers that the duke has aided the &irl to escape an ldea strikes him—are not the duke and Arsene Lupin one person? From this point on the authors have woven a brilllantly | dramatic series of situations, in which the duke .baffles the detective untll, in g powerfully tense scene, he Is brought to bay, but manages to escape arrest. In the final act he 1s again well in the tolls, | but once more, with a last bit of strategy he disappears, leaving in the minds of the audience a promise of reform, cards and Joseph M. Weber's much talked of nlay, he Climax vhich comes to the Boyd theater tonight, is sald to the most |original type of play that will be seen here this season. In fac It is »0 very [',M“”.“ and life-like in the telling of the |Btory and the actions of the people that :IV can scarcely be called a play. it is the living out of a novel and dramatl. story of how a young siwger's ambition f|s nearly thwarted by a selfish and higoted young doctor, who loves the girl, but does not wish her to take |Feer. A slight operation is necessary her thromt in order to remove a ¢ :huukln(rn‘ of tone in the middle re A friend of the young doctor the operation, | disastrous uses his (L he on ain glster. performs and there is no danger of a result, but the young doctor leory of mental suggestion upon the patient to such an extent that she Is practieally paralyzed with nervous appre- hension when she attempts to sing apd |her vocal chords fall to respond. She be- leves that her hopes are crushed forever, and Is on the point of committing sulclde. but is stopped by her old music master |In the last act she 1s seen happy once more, having put aside her thoughts or a theatrical career and belug about (o wed the young doctor. She has not attempted to use her voice in the Interval, feel ng that it is gone forever, but in the great flood of happiness ch overwhelms her at | the hour of her marriage she does sing— and sings better than ever before The | 01d music master, and Pletro, his son, are both overjoyed, but not so the doctor, who confesses the method he 1 10 keep her from her stage career. She (urns from him in righteous anger at his ter rible trick and looks ahead to a glorlous w pgOrt | the | the first cities outside of New York and The sleuth | Chicago that will see “The Climax" pre- but the duke | sented by the original company. up an operatic ca- | | | career as one of the gr | the world | leona Watson, who originated the part | of Adelina von, Hagen, the young &irl around whom revolved the pretty story, s & petite woman, With a mass of blue- | black halr and a bright winsome face, | | which reflects her every mood. She is a | most temperamental ingenue and sings like | @ bird. Pletro Golfanti, the music mas- | ter's son, is played by Walter Dale, How- | | ard Lange will be seen in the role of the | old music master and Thomas Fallon takes | | the part of John Raymond, the doctor lover. “The Clmax" comes direct from | a run of almost a year at Weber's theater, | |New York, with the entire original cast |ana production. Omaha will be one of at song birds Sallle Fisher, under the personal dire |tlon of Mort H. Singer, in *“The Goddess of Liberty,” comes to the Brandels theater lon the first half of next week. | Reginald de Koven and Harry B. Smith's big romantic comic opera, “The Golden | Butterfly,” comes to the Brandeis theater | the last half of next week, with Grace | Van Studdiford and the same company of clever artists that assisted her during her New York, Boston and Philadelphla en- Bagement. Matinee Saturday. R The opening blll for the season of the | Woodward Stock company at the Boya theater, which comunences on Saturday evening, next, was chosen because of fts clever comedy character, George Ade fs lpl'nhuhl) the most keen and at the same | time most kindly of all American satirists, and In “The College Widow” he hit al |number of American foibles some good- | | natured but well directed blows. Mr. Mor-| rison will play the role of Billy Bolton, | the husky young athlete who boldly kidnaped from one school by other, because of his usefulness on foot ball fleld, and Miss Gates will play | the role of Jane Witherspoon, ‘the col- | lege widow,” who I8 a good pal with all| the boys, and who does what she knows is & mean trick to help out her school in love with the young man she was expeeted to dupe, and this sets all straight enough. Colln Campbell will cellent comedy role in the | W. Bolton, the rich and po r'of the rival schoal, graham will play the part of Hiram| Witherspoon, the deddering old prexy of the school that wins, Miss Hudson will be seen agaln as the athletic girl, the char- acter in which made a distine personal hit last season, and the others In the company will be well placed. number of extra people will be used, and | the plece will be produced on a most lavish scale The opening performance | will be on Baturday night, and the bill | will run all week, with Tuesday, Thursday was so an- the own | have an ex- part of Peter ignorant sup- and Lloyd In- she such matinees on and Saturda Sun day Watch | be eent for the up from bi the balloons roof of which will the uo_m‘- AMUSEMENT KRUG 4 DAY START- (LI} THEATER MATINEES Wed. and Sat. 10e, 2B¢, 80c I 15¢--25¢--50¢--75¢ Matinee Today SPECIAL MATINEE MONDAY AND TUESDAY AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFERING Production of Augusta J. Evans’ Famous Rhove! "ST. ELM0” Dramatized by Grace Hayward (Author of “Graustark’) Mr. Harold Salter--As ‘‘ST. ELMO”’ Miss Ernestine Morhle -- As “‘EDNA"’ GREATEST BO.K PLAY OF THE DECADE, GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS 6 START- ING.. ;': 3 DAY H [ Ne | R L ) 6 | R L THURS., MARCH 3 | g S MATI EE SATURDAY MILLION LAUGHE MUSIC SHOW SUCCESS veeee THE WLYWED AND THEIR BABY (Founded on Geo. McManus' Oartoons Per N. ¥. World.) 602 PEOPLE--T5 % giRLS Gorgeous Wardrobe—Twenty Song Hite—Original Production. FIRST TIME AT POPULAR PRICES ': § GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GIRIS EGIRLS GIRLS GIRLS NEXT SUNDAY THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE THE BIG MATCH ZBYSZKO vs. WESTERGAARD Friday Night, March 4th. IN A CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN TO A FINISH e ———— e —————— Preliminaries: HOKUF and McCABE. TOLIVER and RUBY. T s A 7223 A TG RS Seat Sale Opens Tuesday Morning, March 1st. PRICES—Ring-Side (reserved), $1.50; Arena $1 .00; Balcony, 75¢, $1.00 and $1.50; General Admission 50c. * ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE Matines Every Day, 2:16—Night, 8118 WEEK STARTING TODAY JOE TINKER and SADIE SHERMAN In Charles S. Adelman's Base Ball A Great Catch. EDNA AUG JOHN B. HYMER and Company of Ten, Offering THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER A Fantastic Musical Travesty Book and Lyrics by John B, Music by Arthur Cohen. Twelfth Annual Tour, JAMES H. CULLEN “The Man ¥From the West.” STELLA H. MORRISINI And Her Wondrous Leaping Siberian ‘Wolf Hounds, MARSHALL MONTGOMERY The Unparalleled Ventriloguist THE ZANETTOS Original Eatertainers. KINODROME Always the Newest in Motion Plctures New Musical Feature Extraordinary ORPHEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA 15—Talented Artists—16 Prices 10¢, 25¢, 50c and 75c. Next Weok—8tarting March 6, THE GREAT Orpheum Show SEATS ON SALE MONDAY, FEB. 28, theafer on Thursday at 3 o'clock In afternoon. Fifteen of the big paper the bal- loons will be put into flight, each bearing | John W She pays the penalty by falling & Season ticket for the Woodward Stock |Midget, Is Napoleon Newlywed, the baby company, and the finder will be entitled to tickets for any performdnce he wishes to attend. Therefore, don't fail to be hand to catch yourself u season ticket, llowing closely the lines of Augusta J vans' successful novel of the same name, the play, “St. Elmo," presents a Ifttle wild- flower of & girl who hears almost the first unkind words in her lite from the lips of St. Elmo, the misanthrope. 'This attrac- tion will be at the Krug theater four days, starting next Sunday matinee with a mat ines dally. on . ““The Newlyweds and Their Baby,” a mu sical concoction founded on the cartoons of George McManus, opens at the Krug March for a three days' engagement and provides much fun, The book of th 1s by Aaron Hoffman and Paul West West and play the lyrics by Paul Seymou | | muste Devoted to Strictly High Grade Extravaganga and Vaudevill TWICE DAILY 5% MAT. TODA PHIL DAYS SHEDRIDAN'S M GIRLS In Jack Burnett's Musical Travesty, A’ N ‘Thay 60 Some | “A RUN FOR YOUR MONEY" SPECIAL DASKES INTO VAUDEVILLE That's New to Omahar— OCLAIR, EVANS & BABETTE, In & Comedy Sketoh, 6 — IRISH COLLEENS — @ Dancing Damsels from Dublin, ATHENS COMEDY KFOUR In ‘“Seeing Chinatown.” Frank—HAYES & SUITS—Anna h 3 e Sa B, Abenn Abue Hammad's 15 -\ AR Ao 15 —Genuine Bedouin Gymnast Evenings and Sunday Matin 150, 25¢, 80c and 76¢ Whelk YMMATS, 15¢ & 25¢ LADIES® loc TICKETS READER: DEAR b I saw the show {n Kausas Otty; and just how Phil Sheridan can offer o superb a performance for the Erleo—‘nu, tha his bus B Arab act alone is worth the price, without mentioning any- thing elss, E. L. JORNSON, Mgr. Gayety Theater. (Ma The WM. GREW C0, 3 MARIE In the Old Enelish Romano WYNNE “NBLL & Popular Prices A fow at 500 At any week Day Matinee, FOR ALL THE NEWS5 THE OMAHA BEE OEST IN THE WES) Brown, and the music Bratton. James by Nat B. Ayer Rosen, and the of cartoon fame. Leo Hayes and Countess Olga von Hatzfeldt have the Mr, and Mrs. Newlywed parts. The costuming s of su perior chaifacter and plentiful and tiwe is good at all times, The “Boogle “Teddy” “The Jungle Man," “My Black Love “Love Time" and ‘Every Baby is a Swcet Bouquet” are the song hits of the produetion. Goo" song, A bill of exceptional intergpt Is scheduled for the Orpheum theater this week. Charles 8. Adelman's base ball satire, “A Tucky Cateh,” is presented Joe Tinker and Sadie Sherman., With the former as bali- player and the latter as Wanette, & laugh- able and racy act is furnished Miss Edna Aug, s back from A limited tour of this eircuit Is & series of cha Hymer and company is Parls for Miss Aug's wcter studles of ten § Typer John B, [C inued on Page Eight)