Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1915, Page 19

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE NOVEMBE eyl g R 14 1915, What Omaha Theaters Offer for the Week (Continued from Page Six.) feature of this entertainmen known Russ‘an dancer Sam Raskin, at the head of his famous ballet troupe, direct from the Imperisl theater in St Petersburg, whose first American ap- pearance is with this attraction. Today's matinee starts at 3 o'clock—just after dinner., Beginning tomorrow there will be a ladies’ dime matinee dally. A big sonz and I revue 1s otfered at the Empress as the feature attraction for Sunday and the ' first half of the week tabiold musical comedy, New York Roof Garden,” in which every thing is new except the title. comedy played here last winter to th entire satisfaction of every one who witnessed the performance. pany embrances fifteen people and render sixteen blg song successes and all in two acts. Delmar's llons are also offered on the sameq bill. This is not one of the biggest, but is one of the best trained fon acts in the bus'ness. Fern and Zell, complete the bill with a bunch of laughs, in black and tan comedy. On the call board for the last half of the week 18 found ‘Ruth and Kitty Henry, two clever girls in song and patter—Michael Emmett & Co., in a “Glimpse of Ireland.” This is real Irish talent direct from Ireland. Eid Lewis who is better known as the Wonder, in a nut-skit, “Let Him Rave." The Midora family of Japanese acrobats and Riseley artists, complete the vaude- wville for the last half of the week “The Lighthouse by the Sea,” is the photo offering for the first half and features Darwin Kagr, the coming photo- | play favorite. This play is in three parts and deals heavily with the love of an irresnonsible man. “The Coquette” with Rea Martin is the photo play for the last half of the week A big assorted progrd&m Is offered in connection ‘with each change of vaude- ville. For four days at the shown “‘Sweet Alyssum,” five-reel photoplay in which the well known stars, Tyrone Powers, Kathlyn Willlams, Edith Johnson and Wheeler Oakman take fmportant roles. This story tells of a beautiful girl, who, though robbed of a mother's guiding hand, still enters her maturity a pure, mild creature of the out-of-doors. For the latter half of the week, Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday, Viola Allen, the famous emotional actress, assisted by Richard Travers, will be scen in “The White Sister,” written by F. Marfon Crawford. The crities who saw the play before its release predicted a wonderful run. It has surpassed all thelr expectations Boyd will be the BRautiful ATV Strand patrons will be offered a varied as well as pleasing program this week. Sunday and Monday Maurice Costello is featured in the novel melodrama, “The Man Who Couldn't Beat Ged,”” while Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday comes the ‘sensational film “Damaged Goods," interpreted by Richard Beunett and co- workers. During the engagement of this pleture no children will be admitted, and the performances will start promptly at noon. Friday and Saturday Bthel Barrymore makes her film debut in “The Final Judgment,” a photoplay written espe- clally for her ‘and which is now being done into dramatic form for her use on the legitimate stage. Mary Pickford, wgo is pald a bigger salary and is more widely known than any other film star, will be the Hipp theater’s attraction Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in an elaborate Paramount picture of the opera classic, ‘‘Madame Butterfly.” The usual dime admission will prevail. Typlcal Japanese settings, rich costumes and a strong supporting company were used in making this film feature. For today only, the Hipp's feature will be “Hearts of Men,” a tarilling photo- drama of vengeance sought for a great wrong, but supplanted by happiness in a childish romance. Charles Cherry, one of the last of the Frohman stage stars to enter the “mov- fes,” appears in a Paramount plcture of “The Mummy and the ..umming-Bird," to be shown at the Hipp Toursday, Fri- day and Baturday. Another engagement both unique and important ‘s announced for the Orpheum this week. Through the popular medium of vaudeville Omaha theater-goers are going to be privileged to see Miss Mary Shaw, who is America’s most prominent exponent of Ibsen and who 1is most prominent of all our women stars in working to promote and sustain the in- tellectual drama. For years Miss Shaw was a member of the Augustin Daly company. Then followed engagements in suppoft of Julla Marlow, Mrs. Fiske, Joseph Jefferson and Modjeska. For some years following these engagements, Miss Shaw devoted herself exclusively to Tbsen, Shaw, Strinberg and Ginoova, and it was during this period of her career that she created in America, the title role in Shaw's much discussed play, “Mrs. Warren's Profession.”” Miss Shaw has set a high purpose for her work, and while she never will be able to realize her ideal in vaudeville, her offering therein will be another “tabloid stimulus® for the better drama. it When W, W. (Billy) Cole returned to Omaha a few weeks ago and took charge of the Krug theater, which he opened thirteen years ago as the Trocadero, he remarked to a friend, “I made many friends here when I Had Krug park and also with the Trocadero, and it is my purpose to come back with a stock com- pany at the Krug, presenting the best dramas and comedies at prices which will pack the house. I intend to run the house 8o that any child or woman &ttending un- accompanied will rcel absolutely safe. I am golng to make the Krug theater the home of permanent stock productions. Mr. Cole has engaged the North Bros. stock company, which has been playing two seasons at Topeka and which or- ganization closed an engagement there last week. The players will be here during the early part of the week and will re- hearse “The Great John Ganton,” which will be the opening bill. The opening has been set for next Saturday evening. Mr. Cole wants his Omaha friends to attend this opening performance and see this strong play, which was written from a story which was run as a prize-winning story in the Saturday Evening Post. The story is woven around the life of P, D Armour, altartugh the mame of the Eveat packer is not Ased in the play. The play appeals to everybody. This play will be followed by an Interesting repertolre. The North players have been before Hodges and Tynea present their | “A Night on a|three encores. A The com-| Brainless | The fastest, most artistic and most wonderful xylophonist in the world—so pronounced by critics—is an Omaha boy and only 21 years old. He is Geoge Hamilton Green, a of George Green, the bandmaster, 2101 {Ohio street. In a career of only a few months in Chicago he has attracted the attention of critics, musicians, band {leaders and others In a position to judge | competently. The ‘‘Uniteq Musician,” in a front page article, says this of hir: ““To say that his work Is marvelous and wonderful would not fully express it; in fact one would have to see him in action to fully appreciate his work., He will |hold an audience in a state of suspense and hardly ever gets off without two or son “His repertoire consists of nearly 300 This | standard overtures, Hungarian raphxodies and Slavonic Hungarian raphsodies by Friedr fantasies, concert walts Slavonic dances, plano and violin con- |certos, popular and ragtime melodies, his variations, etc. being all of his own ideas “He arranges all of his own orchestra- {tions and has mahy stunts of thres, four, six and eight hamgers among them being the ‘‘Rosar: “Silver Threads Among the Gold” ete. In many of his arrangements of melodies he can be seen {to quickly grab up two extra hammers, |#0 as to complete all the chords ang har- mony. It is said that he has begun where every other xylophone player has left off, his, touch, attack, technique and in- terpretation in rendition of his solos and pleces being different from other per- formers. | “His entire work is completely mem- |arized. He can stand any length of time ang render one plece after the other. Five or six flats, or five or six sharps | tavorite keys, for Instance, the |ewski “Minuet” and then right into Dvorak's “Humoreske.” Young Green began playing on a xylo- phone that he made himself when he, was 11 years old and at the age of he played such pleces as “Poet d Peasant | Overture' with his father's band. Begin- ning at the age of 13 he took up the |study of plano with Prof. Sigmund 1Lundlher(. Mr. Landsberg often re- | marked on his talent and predicted a great future for him. In the summer of 1914 he played an en- Omaha Boy is Pronounced the | Greates? Xylophonist in World| | George Green gagement of three months in Fremont | and during that time worked up his| vaudeville act. On his way to Chicago he stopped off and gave a recital In Hayden Bros.' music rooms, In Chicago he played at a number of theaters, including the Great Northern and Hippodrome, and his playing was the talk of Chicago. One evening he played at the Dearborn hotel and a few days later was with Bert Brown, cornet soloist of Pryor's band, on a program at the Illinols Athletio olub. scoring a big hit. On May 16 he signed a contract with Edgar A. Benson, who handles most of the band and orchestra work in Chicago to become soloist. A curjous fact in regard to young Green is that he had a youthful ambition to be- come a prize fighter, which was headed off, not without a good deal of difficulty, by his father. the public for many years. Miss Genevieve Russell, leading woman, is known as & stock favorite and Spor North s the sort of an actor who wins many friends in every city he appea Many frienda of “Billy"" Cole have given him a warm welcome back to Omaha, which really is the city next to his heart. here will be a house-warming at the Krug next Saturday cvening. Mr. Cole will be there himself, ready to greet his old friends who remember him as the manager of Krug park and as a promoter |of entertainments cf the better class. Matinees will be given at the Krug on Sundays, Thursdays and Saturday A “Jitney" gallery will be a feature. The Chicago Ladies’ orchestra will be a permanent feature in connection with the stock company. Griffith Knows Of Mr. Griffith, the renowned producer of “The Birth of a Nation” which opens at the Brandels theater tonight, it s said [that he is an authority on the beat of {the human heart, that he feels to an atom what retards and what accelerates |the rhythm of that susceptible organ; moreover, that he is master of the means | by which its contractions and dflations in the theater are accomplished. He calculates with the uncanny in- tuition of a genius; he knows color and sound and motion to their ultimate de- tafl, and he has the nerve and the Lvl.lm\ to assemble them in a vast SECOND POPULAR PRICE MUNICIPAL CONCERT MONDAY NIGHT, Nov. 29 Revival of Adelaide” The FPowerful One-Act Beethoven Preceded by “The Rehearsal” A Modern Comedy with Musio. y Arvena 780 $1.50; Baloony 80¢ to $1.50. BEAT SALE NOW ON. De LONE -tHARP:=- 805 LYRIC BLDG. DOUGLAS 8704 Harps Rented to Students. CORINNE PAULSON CONCERT PIANIST AND TEACHER OF PIANO Residence Studio, 3315 Lafayette Ave. Phone Harney #765. | pH=ma0r | JAMES EDWARD GARNAL School of Voice Culture All Branches of Music Taught.' For information as to terms, etc, address James Edward Carnal, Lyric Bld, 19th and Farnam Sts. Phone Red 3854, WHEATLEY VOICE AND OFERA INSTRUCTION. Avply Saturda, ROOM 6 BALDRIDGE BLK. Phone D. 7837 The Human Heart| spectacle which is the peer of any his- torical pageant that has ever been at- tempted or presented. Soothe Your Cough and Cold. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey goes right to the spot. Checks the cough, eases throat, Kills the cold germs. Only %o, All drug- sists.—Advertisement. | you A “For Sale” ad will turn second-hand furniture into cash. “Birth of a Nation" - | Stripped Down to Fighting Strength| Some idea of the Intensity of the action contained in the 12000 feet of pletorial grandeur that go to make up D. W Griffith’'s “The Birth of a Nation™ may be gathered from the fact that 140,000 feet of living photograph was made of | the subject, from which to cull 12,000 feet | ~less than 10 per cent of the total, of the absolute punch and glory of the subject As tmmense battleships strip to “fight Ing strength In time of action,” so |m.i masterful pictorial realization was pruned down to nothing but sheer vital-| ity. It will make you love, it will make hate; it will charm and thrill you | beyond your belief to be either charged | or thrilled. It will stir your fire, pa- triotism and blood, and make you yell and cry and groan. It will force you to grasp the back of the seat in front of you until your fingers ache, and then relax them as some touching, tender | scene appears. You will e taken out of youreelf and become frantic and hoarse | from your shouts of enthus.asm or dis- may, but no one will notice your actions tor they are all doing the same, as eyes and ears and feelings are being borne along by the sight and sound before | you, : These are a fow of the never-to-be-for- | gotten sensations you will recelve for your money when the great show with its accompanying symphony orchestra setting, opens at the Branaels theater to- night HONEST ABE DID NOT TURN DEAF TO SOUTHERN MOTHER The appeal to the “Great Heart” by a| southern mother whose son is condemned | to dle as a spy s one of the touching features of “The Birth of a Nation™ spec- tacle which opens at the Brandels thea- ter tomorrow night, and characteristic, too, of Lincoln's experiences of those days. The Ford theater scene, including the assassination of the president, is of particular value, since the reproduction of the interior of the old blayhouse la as near exact as art and money could make possible. City is Preparing to Work Prisoners Detall work in connection with the working of city prisoners has been started by the city commissioners, who expect to have everything ready in ten days. The old county jail is being fitted with proper sleeping and eating accommoda~ tions. THEATER WManaged Under W. W. COLE, Founder and of Omaha's Polite Re- PARK, 19011909, Ry Manager wort, KRUG announces Omaha's Best Theatricel Bargain NORTH BROS. PERPETUAL STOCK GO, AND TER Chicago Ladies' Orchestra Supporting Miss Genevieve Russell America's Most Versatile Stook Star Saturday, Nov. 20 and All of Week November 81 THE GREAT John Ganton The Saturday Evening Post's Prise Story. First Time Nere HIGH-CLASS DRAMATIC PLAYS PRICES AT “MOVIE' uCents A FEW AT 25¢ “Jitney" Gallery RESERVED SEATS IN ADVANCE the bargain that prevail. Ome wisit will prove this. THURSDAY AND GSATURDAY MATINEES, 40¢ ALL SEATS. CHANGE OF PLAY EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Week Nov. 87, “The Third Degres.” Marie Swanson PIANO--HARP 538 South 27th-Street. Phone Harhey 1955, TYRONE POWER 4 DAYS Sunday, Monday, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY The Beautiful and Acsomplished Emotional Actress Assisted by Richard Travers and A Large Cast of Essanay Stars V.L.S.E, Inc. PRESENTS “SWEET ALYSSUM A SELIG RED SEAL PHOTO PLAY A TALE Marvelous in the telling— of a beautiful girl, who, though robbed of a moth- er’s guiding hand, still en- ters her maturity, a pure wild creature of the out- of-doors and that most wonderful of God's crea- tions—A LOVE-WOMAN., THE STARS TYRONE POWER EKATHLYN WILLIAMS EDITH JOHNSON WHEELER OAKMAN KATHLYN WILLIAMS ADMISSION Afternoons, 10c Nights, 10¢c, 20c VIOLA ALLEN 3 Days-—-Thursday, Friday, Saturday--3 Days Attention Kiddies! IMPORTANT! Every Saturday Morning from 10:30 Till 12 The BOYD THEATRE will be the Children’s Play House A KIDDIES’ MORNING OF FUNNY FILMS 5 Special Feature Reels of Clean Comedy for 5 cts Grown-ups can come with you, but they must pay 10c The White Sister The Inmo;tal Story i A Hopeless Love F. Marion Crawford Produced by 0T Vi Essanay Film Mfg. Co. BOYD’'S THEATER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16—One Evening Only. HAROLD BAUVER IN PIANO RECITAL. Under Auspices of TUESDAY MORNING MUSICAL CLUB Prices, $1.50, $1.00, 75¢, 50c. Seats on Sale at Box Office, Maurice Costello Richard Bennett -And- Ethel Barrymore are the film dainties we offer you on the STRAND menu This Week. Everyone knows Costello—he's the fellow with curly hair who * has been in movies with the Vitagraph Company since Heck was a pup, while Bennott s one of those cusses who delights in playing In high-brow problem plays at two bucks a seat. Ethel Barrymore is ono of the most beloved women on the stage today, so we feel very proud of the personnel of our stars this week. Now let's look look a little further into the vehicles in which they appear. Costello is here Sunday and Monday in a feature entitled “The Man Who Couldn't Beat God." We admit this is a queer title, but we've had some very flattering reports on the picture, which is bullt along the lines of a novel melo-drama, and which is far from being tame. » Bennett comes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in ‘‘Damaged Goods." This is a story of the terrible consequences of vice and physical ruin that follow abuse of the moral law and should be seen by thousands. During the engagement of this picture no one under 18 years of age will be admitted, and the performances will start at 12 noon. We advice your coming down in the afternoon if possible to avoid the large night crowds. O e Ethel Barrymore will be seen in a new drama entitied “The Final Judgment.” 'Tis one of the best vehicles Miss Barrymore has ever had and will later be made into a drama for Miss Barry- more's use on the legitimate stage. This is a semi-problem play, lavishly produced and magnificently acted. Come Down and See Each Picture --You'll Like Them All. The UNIVER SAL Presents WARREN KERRIGAN InThe Most Novel Series Serial Ever Filmed KERRIGAN in the new “ Adventures of Terence Jack Warren Kerrigan Is the Acknowledged “Adonis” of the Screen And in securing a privilege to show these Great Photo- Plays YOU, as an exhibitor, are fortunate. Each Episode is a SMASHING BIG STORY. An opportunity for REAL GOLD PROFIT. Bookings now being reserved by the Laemmle Film Service 1122 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neh. HOME of the UNIVERSAL PROGRAM