Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1916, Page 9

THE ] Drama - Music | Will Play Role of Hera in “Ball of the Gods" BEE: OMAHA ~ Household Topics }Normal Man Will Fight for‘Wka,t 18 Righi 1., DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST. on indicates that it was quite in accord | It any reader of this article double it - with his ingrained impulses to gather |let Lim single out some evil tendency, it People are born with a fighting pro- | himself together and project himself ‘hl‘ has one, Iin his own character, that | pensity. It is part of our mature, as it [against whatever he felt had no right to [he has cherished for years past tili it is with the 16wer animals, to gather our-| axist. He was the man who sald that [has thrust its roots down Into the very selves into an attitude of resistance. We ATTRACTIONS IN OMARA. | clothes a voice of remarkable range and | richneas, containing some of the loveliest, warmest and seem'ngly lowest tones that one ever Nears even in true contraltos such as she.' Her volop is beautifully Boyd's: Photoplays. Brandeis: "onnsy." ey, YEhe Globe Frotteseh T 1 “The m“‘m" 1 Vandeville, Strand: Photoplays. “Grumpy"” st the Brandeis. Mr. tones containing the same opulent full. ness that is so delightful in the lower portions of the scale. 8he seems to trans- " compa P mit a maximum of expression with a Cyr ny, in O o aedy i fomPany:. uh | minimum ot eftort, Horace Hodges and T. Wygney Percy- val. The cast: Mr. Anarew Bullivant, Rippt | even throughout its wide range, the high Maude and presenting her dra- matic numbers with fervor and intensity | yet without sacrificing beauty of tone in so doing Samson Thy Sweet Dok The two arias trom the opera and Delilah, My Heart at Vole' and the one, T think called “Samson Viens Aider,” which is sung in the third act and whith Mme. Homer sang as on extra number, were Interpreted in a most masterrul and sat- " s¥is o ...Cyril Maude ck, his valet........John Hardwood J Alexander Onalow Isaac Wolfe. Alexander Calvert Maclaren...... Leonard r. ..Miss Elsie Mackay irs. Maclaren.. M Jouise Van Wagenen Susan.. ..Miss Maude Andrew Mr. Ernst. Heron, his nephew Herbert Marshall | And now It's good old Grumpy who is to be framed in the gallery of cherished delights. Mr. Maude's visit, coming in the midst of a season singularly barren in artistic effort, is doubly welcome—for the break it has brought In the monotony of noth ing worth while, and for the splendid presentation of 'an actor's power “Grumpy” tells a very simple tale, in a very simple way. Nothing especially in- volved in the plot, although It is rather an improvement on the thieves and de- tectives we have been made familiar with by Messrs. Doyle and Hornung, and vastly beyond the sordid sort of crooks shown us by certain American authors, who mistake photographic reproduction | for artistic realism. While the tale in- terests, its working out concerning the future of two charming young persons, and one who is not quité so engaging. it could even be dull and still be fas- cinating when its lines shine in the luminosity of art as provided by Mr. Maude and the excellent actors who ac- company him on his present tour of America. Of gourse Grumpy overshadows all the others, and rightly, too. Mr. Maude has refully’ studied and with infinite pa- lence put together a characterization that will have its place among the best creations traditionally cherished by those who keep alive the sagas of the stage. It is a perfect conception of an old man, irascible, testy, domineering, but tender, courteous, full of kindly interest in thoss who are close to him, and in whose busy brain stil lurks the fire that had made him a great man in his time. All little crochets and fancles, queer mnotions of the octogenarian are intermingled by wonderful skill with the shrewdness and fire of a clever lawyer in his prime, and to no violence of the | verities. And though It all runs a stream of humor so clear and unrestrained as to | challenge admiration, completing a char- acterization as well rounded and as finely played as ever was witnessed. Consum- mate in his artistry, sure in his skijl, and perfect in his effects, Mr. Maude is properly - listed -ameng - the truly preat actors of his time. The company is worthy of the star, its several members quletly and effectively playing their roles with a finish even to the smallest detal] that renders the whole | one of the most remarkable performances ever witnessed here. It s extremely rare that this happy condition exists, and it is therefore the greater pleasure to be able to testify to it on this occasion. An audience scarcely so large as the impartance of the event warranted. gave a welécome whose warmth must have banished from the actor's thoughts any notion of the lingering effects of the storm. “Grumpy” remains for the week- end, with matinee on Saturday. me. Homer in Reeital. The Tuesday Morning Musical club, In presenting Mme. Loulse Homer, con- traits, as one of its visiting artists this season, gave local music lovers the privilege of attending a rvarely beautiful song recital last evening. were brave enough to face the cold a rived at the Boyd theater sometime be- tween 8 and 9 o'clock, and it was grat- itying after they al! were finally seated to see but few empty seats in spite of the weather. The late comers caused more than their usual interruption last evening: in fact, they almost assumed a star role, such as it was, causing Mme. Homer not only.to wait several minutes after reaching the stage, but also to break off after the first few measures of her opening number, and after an- other pause to finally ask the ushers (since no one else seemed to have done it) to please not seat the rest until after the first song, when she would again wait and give them an opportunity. After it was 'safely launched, however, the evening was one of unalloyed delight. Mme. Homer's absolute refinement of interpretation and consummate art the | whims and | Those who | isfying manner, and will long be remem- bered by the listeners. » program opcned with an arla, “Che Faro Senza Buridice,” from the opera “Orpheus and Euridice,” by Gluck., This quaint bears the test of time The g followed old classic well, and was ubly presented man ongs which acceptable both for contrast and content. Mme. Homer's legato work is a delight, and in the sus- tained numbers some of the finest of interpretation are found. ‘‘Botschaft,” by Brahms, was one of these, and ‘“‘Mit Deinen Blauen Augen,” by Strauss, which the singer graciously repeated. ‘'Eifen- of Gel was ighly selection, for lied" by Wolf, which closed the group, | was a fairylike gem. A group of songs by Sidney full of meat, was presented a wide va- riety of music and sentiment. Mr. Homer is well known es a composer of the high- est rank, both for the character and beauty of his songs, and those presented last night, exquisitely sung by his wife, are among his choicest compositions Mme. Homer's program proved that two groups of English songs are not too much upon any program. In fact, it is one of | the few programs where they have heen | 8o greatly in the majority. The last group contained “A Ballad of the Trees ! and the Master,” by Chadwick: “When I Bring You Colored Toys,” by John A Carpenter, the words by Tagore, an un- usual number full of charm and was repested: “Don't Care," also by Carpenter, a lialect song, in which much of the life and characters in the song were portrayed; "' I Know a Malden.” by Blanche Goode: “Bendemeer's Stream, always acceptable when sung with the repose expressad by Mme. Homer, and “The Milkmaid's Song,” by Horatio | Parker, also unusual Mme. Homer repeated many of the songs and the enthuslastic applause of the au- dience won @ancores after each group and a double encore at the close. Edwin Laphem, who accompanied, is also an artist and wove the accom- paniments deftly into her songs, to the | added enjoyment of the listeners H. M. R Promises of the Press Agents. [ Murial Worth the dainty little terp- |elchorean artist. and Lew Brice, her nimble partner, and Genevieve CIiff and |her company in the absorbing romance, A Breath of Old Virginia,® and the |other current features of the current bill |at the Orpheum will again on Saturdey. The suce aude- viile"wfil ‘that obens Sunday: wiibe vo lined by Dorothy Jardon, tne singer, and handsome Julle' Ring, who was leading v:’)r;:;\!i'n in “Get RE‘h Quick Walling- “Kick In," is coming back t Brandels, ‘Chick” towos this (mé to' be played by Norman Hackett. The engage- jaent in this city starts Sunday, January 6, and is for four days, with ular |pricea matince Wednexday, — © PoPUAT | - < ‘orU.n“:r Pl::gmu'n, the jot of ‘Sixes" company, which opens at the Boyd next Sunday was a member of the original productions of Madame Sherry” and A Pair of Sixes," both under the management of H. H. Frazee, and participated in the remark- ably successful runs in New York and | Chicago In the film version of ‘‘Excuse Me," the situations are unusually well and the transcintinental trip upon the lim- ited train “that doesn’t stop until noon to- | morrow” is told in the most pleasing | tashion. Direction and phot raphy are of the usual Pathe standard. "Excase |Me" s showing at the Boyd from 1 to |11 p. m. continuously today and tomor- | row, featured member | Favorably comparing him to the high- est salaried black face artist, Al Jolson, Is as great a compliment as can be paid |to Frank Hunter, whose “Sam" in ' the second act of “The Globe Trotters” at the popular Gayety this week is one of that show’'s many big hits. Mr. Hunters |methods are not only utely which is more than can be sai tenths of the performers who draw the |topnotch salaries. The finale of his acro. batic speclaity i mothing short of |laughing riot. Ladies’ matinee today and | Saturday. Stevens will be seen at Strand ,and Baturday in “The House of | another wonderful five-part pho- |todrama produced by Rolfe Photo Plays, ITne., for release in the Metro program. Peace Gray and as High as Milady Can Wear, if for Spring Wouldst know the first word of early spring millinery modes, milady? In shape, the spring hats are small close-fitting and reach skyward as high as milady can stand, the higher the better. As to color, no longer is the war note sounded in such terms as ‘“battleship” gray, but “peace” is the word, “peace gray” being the color for spring millinery, African brown is a close second. - The distinctive feature of the coming season's style will be the Cire or glazed effect given to spring bonnets, & very new mote, indeed, and the straw orna- ments, flowers, folijage and bands used to enhance the beauty of the spring toques. Sipper, a Russian straw, will be most populal One of the smartest chapeaux shown by Don Amsden of the Brandels stores, who has’ just returned from the east, ia & chie little straw hat with a band of fur outline the hat where it sets upon milady’s fair tresaes. Can anything more fetching be conjured up as a climax to the vogue of fuf trimming? Large flat sallors in Georgette crepes oceasions are to be worn for more formal than street wear. Fur Buyers from All Over World at 8T. LOUIS, Mo., dred thousand muskrat furs were to be Jan. 14.~Three hun- s0ld here today at the fur auction, which has attracted buyers from all over the world, Seventy thousand opposum skins | and 61,00 skunk skins also were to be auctioned off. Six thousand skins were sold for a total of ahout $300,000 here yesterday at the second session of the fur auction. at whigh approximately 800,000 pelts, includ ing every known variety and coming from eevry part of the globe, are to be disposed of. Wednesday about 200,000 smaller and faferior skins brought ap- proximately $260,000, Yesterday's sales were at varying ad- vances over last year's prices, with the single exception of silver fox furs, which #old at a decline of from 10 to 25 per cent over the record prices of last October. One pair of silver fox brought $2,360, while the highest price for these skina in October was $2.600 a pair. In all, 3% silver fox pelts were sold, some as low as §5 & pair, Three hundred Russian sables brought $35 to 860 each, 3,500 white foxes, $8, to $20 each; 566 blue foxes, ¥ to §10; 725 cross foxes, $10 to $190, and 287 chinchillas, % to $60. | Homer, | and attractive. | . be seen only four | |more times, matinee and night today and | done | clean, | d of nine- | ‘ St. Louis Auction | bits | 1 | which | NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Preparations for the gorgeous “Ball of the Gods,” which is to be held at the Hotel Astor on the evening of February 11, under the auspices of the New York society of Beaux Arts Architects, are rapidly pro- gressing and very great interest is being taken by a large number of prominent people in the artistic and social world. The invitations are now out, and it ia expected that this would be even more beautiful than the wonderful Venetian fete held two years ago. A large number of prominent architectures, painters and sculptors are in charge of all the arrange- ments for the pageant, and 100 soclety women will take part in the pageant and Act as patronesses. The cast of characters is now being | tilled. Mrs, John Jacob Astor will be MRS JOHN JACOB ASTOR. know it is discoverable In The possession of dicates the kind of world born equipment into, it is part of our nature because a very little child such an instinct in that we are come here with an what we are going for we fitted to to find here on arriving. Pugnacity is a constitutional adjust- ment of environment. Hostllities are the order of the day. In this is no implication of enmity in the sense of bitterness or animosity. Envenomed hostilities belong only to the brute, and the fighting we do when we are mad degrades us to the of the brute do only with fighting that Is human, and | This article has to the product of impluses such that we can stand up with them before God and not be ashamed James said gives an idea of the high grade of pumil- proud rather than ashamed Fight the devil That ism that we are just now contemplating. Another & good fight.” he was rather given athletics while a little boy trotting around | Tarsus ine Hera, Mrs. Alexander D. B, Pratt will be the Goddess Isis, The pageant will represent an aban- doned temple on the Island of Cyprus, to which the Sibyl will summon by incanta- tion, in their turn the Gods of FEgypt, Hindustan and, finally, Greece, As the Egyptian gods disappear the great Triad of Brahma will appear, and before them will be played an eplsode from the Ramayna. Then the Spirits of the Night will waft the Hindu gods from | the stage, and, heralded by Aurora, the nine Muses will then appear, escorting Apallo; the twelve Olympic gods will fol- | low, each one escorted by its attributes and votaries, the peacock maldens of | Hera, the huntresses of Artems, the sea nymphs of Posedion and all the long list of Pagan mythology. | | ‘ Things There are two kinds of thievery. One | is the open and above board dishonesty | of the robber, and the other is the dis- honesty of the dead beat. And of the | two the dishonesty of the dead beat is the more contemptible. The porch climber and the burglar risk | their liberty and their necks in their | profession, also they are avowed enemies | to society and give you a chance to pro- test yourself against their depredations. And they do mot prey upon their friends. | The dead beat, on the other hand, is a | |sneakthief who trades on the fact that | his thievery 1s so smoothly done that he cannot be punished for it, and that he | keeps always within the law. He is an | inside worker against whom you cannot defend yourself, and his vicms are his | friends and his family and ac quaintnces, those who trust him. | The dead beat does not use a jimmy and a dark lantern when he starts out to rob. Nor does he put a pistol to the head of the individual he proposes hold- ing up. His methods are much more | subtle. He gets your money by borrow. |ing and by means of bills that he makes without any means or the remotest in- |tention of ever paying. When it comes down to a matter of real honesty no man or woman convicted |of thievery and serving their term in a | penitentiary s one whit more guilty {than those men and women who are al- ways “touching” us for a little loan, or who buy things that they cannot afford | and for which they never pay. What is the difference botween the i ““dip” who lifts & ten-dollar bill out of | our pocket on a crowded car when we are not looking and the friend who rushes hurriedly in and says, “Old man, won't you let me have five or ten dol- lars until pay day? well knowing that }th:-re will never be and pay day 1nri | you | What is the difference between the | shoplifter who sneaks a lace scarf or a palr of gloves off of a counter and the woman who buys the lace scarf and the | gloves, knowing that the merchant will never get his money for them? Yet there are thousands of supposedly reputable people who live by their wits In-Shoots 1 iy | | Of course the fool never listens to the | | word to the wise i The olive branches that many persons | pretend to extend look more like fly| swatters. | The wife of a henpecked man u.uuly,) wears the look of & martyr when away | from home. | When we look &t the owners of some dogs we wonder how the animals can be ®o intelligent. Extravagance in Ordinary Tder how certain people can live in the | thievery as a side line. 1s Wadespread who would be furiously angry if anybody told them the truth and that their photographs and finger prints ought to be adorning the rogues' gallery. To many of us it is a perpetual won- that way and style they do. We know the man makes a moderate salary, yet he and his wife live as if they were rich. The answer to the puzzle is that they are practicing The difference between their income and thelr expendi- ture they pilfer from the various mer- chants with whom they deal. The woman has stolen her clothes from dressmakers and milliners. ‘The man has robbed the tailor of his, and they've held up the butcher and grocer for their food. It's mot a petty thought, is it? And to one with old-fashioned ideals of honor and honesty it seems a pity that they cannot be made to pay the penalty of thelr crimes. Certainly there is no dishonesty that has so little excuse as the dishonesty of extravagance, and there is none so comzon. apostle wrote: “I have fought there was nothing in the world so fine as love, and yet he was a warrior from the ground up I say it advisedly that it is & hopeful symptom in a boy that he shows a dis position to fight: not that there is any thing beautiful In the act of mauling his comrade, but something very promising In his possession of surplus tnergy that he wants to exercise in producing outside effects. And not only outside effe but inside ones as well, for the toughest enemy we any of us have to contend with s the one we carry within us in the shape of bad habits, evil passions, ugly or solfish’ disposition are all of them so many ninepin are set up for us to bowl down, It takes herolsm, of the chivalrous kind to hose that more pugilism batter down more | an ingrowing disposition than it does for a Frenchman to hide behind a tree and sharpshoot a Teuton. Tndeed, there are men by the scores and hundreds that | substance of his belng, and let him fling |against it the surplus energy that it would be comparative play for' him to expend in firing intg the ranks of ihe |enemy, and then let him discover {himself whether it {s inside or outside battlefields that make the heaviest draft on chivalry, Braves in one; cowards in the other. But it is the outalde battlegrounds that |are the most alluring, bloodless fields, but full of collision. All'the men that the world calls great have fought on {hem, Fighters are the agents of progress. Christmas Bve opened to the world a marn whom we call the Prince of Peace and yeot who safd to-himeel: “I corme nét to | bring peace But a wword. . War that i €enducted withopt: bloai- shed Is ngné the less wAr, and the Men erals In such war, and the captalns and privates, are those who Have in. them just that oveérflowing excess of niilitant |vitality thmt “the ~“boy has- when he Did we have a 66% increase in our December business over the same period last year? Because-- We belleve that quality rather than price—Service rather than suiting our own convenience, are the requisites of a success- ful business JOHN H. BATH ““The Careful Florist” 1804 FARNAM STREET, Phone Douglas 3000, Paul wrote that. 1 Imag- to combative What we know of his life farther will face without a tremor the enemy that have not the courage to |same excess thrust forth not in the pak- challenge to mortal combat a foe that |#lon of destruction but in thé enthusiasm exists nowhere but in their own bosoms. ' of the guns of [thrashes his ¢huw, and yet with that saving, enlarging and upbullding Grand Prize, Panama-Pacific Expolifiol;. 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