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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21. 1004.
ABOUT FLAYS PLAYERS AND PLAYHOUSES
Contracts that urn new coming In are
gladdening the hearts of the omnha
tnanaa-cm, for thoy Indicate that the dark
Bend and drmrlnt-KS of the hist few weeks
t the playhouses will be more than com
pensated for by the brilliance of the dot
ing month of the iwion; tmd It la alto
gether likely that the Omaha theatrlr.nl
season will last longer this yoar than It
ha for many years. It Is certain thut It
will continue until the end of May, and
It may last over Into June, making full
forty or forty-two weeks of the amuse
ment year. And. a usual of late years,
the beat thin will come last. Among the
new bookings at the Hoyd, contract for
which were received during the week are
Frltzl Soheff In Jlabette." Anna Held In
"Mam'selle Napoleon," and Marie Cahlll
In "Nancy Drown." At the Krug Manager
Gonden got the contracts for the epprnr
ance of Mrs. Flske, who will be here
for one night only, ffcdni mlay, March 2.
On Thursday, March 2. the Weter &
Fields Block company will le at the Krug,
too. It Is not sure yet if this organization
will be here for more than one night, but
they ate trying to arrange fur two nights.
On the 10th Isahell Irving will come In
"The C'rlols." Other attractions are com
ing to bojh houses, so that the next few
weeks will be reully worth while at both
the theaters.
Mr. Burns Mantle of the Chicago Inter
Ocean ceases his frlvoling long enough to
express his sincere belli f In the future of
the drama, but Insixts that It must be
based on common sense and a broad de
parture from tho somewhat stilted tradi
tions of the now, absolutely abjuring the
past, and present people Just as they are
In real life. Speed the day. In. Its humble
way The Hee has InylstcJ on Just this for
wsrd step for the drama for a long time,
and has, In spite of ever present discour
agement, persisted In Its contention that
the stage should be a redox of contem
poraneous manners and customs, as well
as Costumes. Many of the best writers on
the subjoct, men whose Judgment Is ripe
and whose experience Is broad and erudi
tion deep, have argued with weight and
force for the preservation of the classic,
but without apparent avail. It has been
proven, even as set forth In tho article
from John Corbln, reproduced last Sunday,
that the public will not accept a diet qf the
classic, nor will they even take tho dose
absolutely undiluted. This is not In itself
an evidence of deterioration of public taste
or a decadence in the way of culture; for
there never was a time when culture was
so general, when good breeding was more
usual, or when education had opened the
doors of knowledge to a greater number
than at the present, and thla condition la
growing day by day. May It not be that
this very fact answers the question so
often put In regard to Shakespeare and
others of the great writers of .the past?
People are familiar with them from read
ing and study and are content with an oc
casional Illumination of their Immortal
lines on' the stage. In every other division
of-art an earnest, and to a greater or less
degree, successful effort,, has teen made
to keep abreast the current of thought and
K general activity of advancing civilization.
Why not In the drama?
'' Just as the costumes of the Elizabethan
period have given way before the varied
and divers changes that have marked the
course of sartorial evolution since that
time, so other phases of social life have
changed, and men no longer talk in the
orotund and sonorous periods of blank
verse; nor, for that matter, do they ordi
narily converse in the terse and pithy epi
grams set forth In many of our modern
plays. It was onoe held that In arder to
appear natural on the stage on must ao
tually be 'unnatural; the voice, the ges-
turea, the- carriage, the face, tha walk,
everything w"aa distorted, with the end In
view that the. actor should appear to be
"natural." Now we know that he may
walk oft the street onto the stage without
changing his costume or his carriage, with
out altering his garb or his gait, and ap
pear natural, the only addition, probably,
being a dab of 'rouge on his face to offset
the effect of the strong light he is called
on to face a trial that actors of a former
' generation knew little or nothing of. And
If a man may walk correctly, and stand
correctly, and sit correctly on the stage,
why can't ha talk correctly?
Those of the modern dramatists who are
really worthy of attention have devoted
their time chiefly to the debate of hypo
thetical questions or situations. Certain
abstract, and not Infrequently abstruse,
propositions have presented themselves, to
thm solution of which much effort has been
devoted, and out of this undertaking has
grown the stage conversation of the mod
ern "problem" play, metaphysical, exact,
polished and frequently perfect as to the
WHERE THE SILVERY COLORADO WENDS ITS WAY.
Wash by C. H. SCOGQIN&
Uodenlo.
Charlotte Guyer Gtouce
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Tnhm to 1imi a Uf. U. IM
Th sutuf which baa recently bevn the subject of whole pages of newspaper
Stories fruta the AtUntlc to tb PacUIo ocean because Juin L. Rockefeller, Jr.,
whiUed It, is to be rung at the Orpheum. theater In Omaha this week by Charlotte
uyT Geurge. This Is the first time that the song bus been sung In public In this city,
ana unices Omaha proves an exception to the rule. Where the Silvery
Colorado Wands Its Way" wilt be hummed and whuvUed all over town before Mis
Qeerae complete tier engagement at Uie Orpheum.
When John P. Rockefeller wn In Colorado last August he heard th song tn
th mining camps. Men whistled it as tluy worked down tn th earth, women
hummed It as Uwy went about their household duties and newsboys sung It on th
tiMti, Even a few brasi bands helped pound tt in the air. Then along rarae th
on ot th richest man In the world. He hmr-d the song. It went to bis heart and h
gwT the two letter carrier who wrote tt tr.uu with which to make It popular. In
mi of two months tt becun a national bit. and It Is said that over 7,000 coptaa wera
sold In Nw York, city alone tn die ek early In this month, whil tt U bvuc sung
rt arrwh to th country.
bum Oeorg will wcuf it erh awning during her iuraatnnt at th Orphsma. Bh
la reuoml4 as one it roarloit's leading roatraitos, sol th fact that ah Is fa.tur
buj the lauef earner rung la a big ovwpum al to tit xuartta at th aomyoattlaB
lis of words and the expression of Ideas;
always a source of keen delight to those
who love the language 'for Its own'salce,
but as unsubstantial as air and aa unsatis
fying, when the real dramatic appetite is
considered. At other times The Ilee has
voiced Its dissent to the discussion of rsy
etiological or sociological problems on the
stage; these are matters with which the
lecture, room should deal, and, although
tho chief function of the stage, artde from
Its primary purpose of affording amuse
ment and divertlsement, should be educa
tional, it should lw free from the purely
polemical. Topics that are calculated
tu solely engender disputes without offering
a rational or reasonable solution lose their
didactic value and should be carefully
avjl'lod by the dramailst. Such a course
Is cully possible. Shakespeare, the great
cut of nil KnBllsh writers for the stage,
while he rung the changes on every note of
human passion, tguched on every pulse of
life and sounded every hidden depth of
human emotion, did It without undertaking
to preM-tit any new thought or to decide
any old questions. He gave to his char
acters life ns he found It, not as he con
ceived It to be or as it might be. This
assertion may have the earmarks of heresy
In tho light of various, pedantic efforts to
reud into Shakespeare's noble lines mysti
cal meanings that are not apparent to the
wavfarlng man. It has been established
beyond a doubt that Shakespeare was situ
ated Just as the dramatist of today; he
hail his rivals, his keen competitors, and
ho had to write plays that would bring
people to his theater, or he could not pros
per, and so he wrote plays he thought
would plea.se the people; and this doesn't
include alone the learned bigwigs of that
remote time, but the same sort of a public
that Is catered to by the theater today,
with the exception that the modern public
has the advantage of education and a gen
eral dissemination of knowledge that was
denied to Shakespeare's public. The bard
of Avon had to write for "the low fore
heads" at tho same time be was writing
for the cultivated members of the society
of that day. It Is not Irreverent, there
fore, to conclude that he gave himself little
concern as to the weight or cogency of the
argument he put forth In support of any
given proposition; In fact, it doesn't often
appear In any of his plays that ho took any
pains to debate an assertion of fact. lie
confined himself largely to generalities, ex
pressed In most beautiful terms, and let It
go at that, and it doesn't require much of
an Imagination to conceive him sitting In
his corner in the Cluh-HouJe-on-tho-Styx
"cracking" with Kit Marlowe or some of
his contemporaries about the fuss the
sc holars of today are making over the con
coalnd suggestions In his dramas, and
laughing huge Hadeslan guffaws at the
spectacle.
It must not be Inferred from this that
The Bee has In any sense abated Its often
expressed attitude toward the Shakes
perean or classic drama. Its loyallty to
the master works of the great minds who
have so gloriously endowed our dramatic
literature is In no wise affected by Its
desire for something better, more rational,
more nearly representative of the age,
than the artificial and unsubstantial things
we have been called upon to deal with at
the theaters during the last few years.
Put this Is wide of the mark. The Idea
Is to have the stage give us things that are
real. AVe have real water, real fire, real
animals, real hay, real everything else on
the stage; why not real men and women?
Some little success has attended the spora
dic! efforts to satisfy this craving. One of
the most successful. In every point, of the
present season's plays la "The Virginian,"
now running at the Manhattan In New
York. In this Mr. Owen Wister has given
to the Gothamltes the real men and women
of the west. We know Owen Wister out
here; we haven't seen his play, but we have
read his stories, and we know Llh McLean,
and Trampas, and the1 Virginian, and the
bishop and the bows, and all the rest of the
bunch, because they are our neighbors and
companions In our dally walk. And we
know that when he says "chaps" he means
chaps; at.d when he talks of the range and
the trail and all the mlnutae of life In the
"cow country," we know that he knows
what he is talking about. And when the
Virginian says to Trampas, "Smile when
you call me that!" we know that he means
It, for all over the west unnamed and for
gotten graves testify to the danger of using
that epithet without the accompanying
grin of good-nature. Owen Wister knows
his west from the Shoshone to the Mis
souri, and he has not only done Its people
a favor, but he has really enriched the lit
erature of the stage by writing and dram
atizing "The Virginian."
What Wister has don for the west
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others might do for the fast. Many plays
have been offered us aa Illustrative of cer
tain phases of life In the older and more
settled portions of our country, but the
have been so palpably superficial that
thy have had no permanence. A very
few, such as "The H-iiirletta," have com
near enough to the re;4 thing to de
serve the success they have enjoyed.
"Qulncy Adams Sawyer" Is a reallstlo
bit from life In modern New Kng
land, but Its artistic value Is marred
by- certain melodramatic expedients to
which the author felt Impelled to resort In
order to hasten tho action of the play.
Qther putative pictures of rural New Eng
land life, such ns "Way Down East,"
"Shoreacres" and the like, are not to .be
considered seriously, as they are palpably
fiction. It la not Insisted that the play be
picturesque; everybody cannot have the
materials Wister found waiting for him,
and the qualities of the early life In Amer
ica that trade our first melodramas seem
so Improbable, while thry were really quite
true to life, have all but gone with the
buffalo and the frontier, that no longer
exist. Cut tho actual tragedy of life we
still have with us; the sordid, iconoclastic
facts, and these in such plenty that the
dramatist has only to look out of his win
dow to secure an ample supply. He need
only recall the last plea of Othello, "noth
ing extenuate, nor set down aught In
malice," and he can touch the modern
fancy without tiring the moderri mind or
shocking the modern morals. Indeed, it
would be a feat If he accomplished the lat
ter. Give us a play as Zola gave us a
novel, deellng with facts, not. theories.
Mrs. Langtry's visit during th week
broupht excellent proof that the sort of
play proposed Is rosslhle, and not only
that, but that It can be made profitable.
"Mrs. Deering's Plvorce" doesn't exploit
any theory, it has no question for debate,
and it offers no scintillating effects in the
way of epigrams or other forms of smart
speech. It is merely the natural and to
be expected conversation of well bred peo
ple in tho ordinary way of social Inter
course, but it shows that the reality of
life contains all the essential elements
of successful comedy, and that no exag
geration of conduct Is required to make
a play intensely Interesting and delight
fully amusing. What is true of comedy
is equally true of tragedy, or any other
form of the drama, and It Isn't at all un
reasonable that it be asked for.
Coming Errnti,
Charlotte Tittell will open at the Boyd
this afternoon In the Oeorge W. Cable
war drama "The Cavalier." Miss Tittell's
engagement Includes Monday and Tuesday
nights and a special matinee Washington's
birthday. The play has never been seen
In the west. Wallace Numro, Miss Titt
ell's manager promises that the full and
original Marlowe production will be given
here aa well as a number of Miss Marlow's
former support. Its scenes are laid In
Louisiana during the civil war.
Although the scenes and climaxes are
thrilling It Is said they never descend to
the commonplace.
Manager F. P. Whitney, who gave to
Boyd patrons dainty Lulu G laser In "Dolly
Varden," will present his latest musical
comedy, "The Isle of Spice," for four per
formances opening Thursday night. "The
Isle of Spire" Is said to possess a certain
Individuality and charm lacking In the
usual run of musical shows. .There Is
nothing reminiscent In Its music, story, or
manner of handling, It is said. The muslo
Is catchy and melodious. Because of the
locale of the piece It gives the opportunity
for elaborato costuming, rich scenlo In
vestiture. A very large company presents
it. Of the musical numbers "Peggy Brady,"
"The Star of Fate," "Mercenary," "Mary
Ann," "The Qoo-Qoo Man," and "Always
Talking In his Sleep." "The Isle of Spice"
ran for several months In Chicago and was
only closed because of the Iroquois fire
holocaust. Among the prominent people
with the company are, Hary Kelly, W. H.
Armstrong, Ben Grlmmell, Toby Lyons,
Florence Hayward and Leslie Leigh.
"The Pride of Jennlco" will be given at
tho Krug theater this afternoon and to
night, with tho well known actor, E. R
Man-son, In ?t9 star part The play Is one
of the most successful romantlo dramas
which has seen the light for years, and it
will be presented here with all the elaborate
scenery, costuming and aqcessorles which,
have accompanied it during Its lata pros
perous run In New York at Frohman's
theater, tho Criterion.
Sullivan, Harris & Woods company, pre
senting Theodore Kremer's melodrama.
"For Her Children's Sake," will be the bill
at the Krug Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day nights and Wednesday matinee. The
play is a companion piece to the cele
brated "The Fatal Wedding," and Is
evolved from the them (if filial duty and
affection and mother love. There Is a love
affair letween a rector's motherless daugh
ter, Edna, and a man which is violently
opposed by her father. She forsakes the
parental home and become known to fame
ss Madam Ashton, a daring equestrienne.
The persecuted heroine, now the mother of
two beautiful children and the victim of
brutal husband, suddenly overcome by
emotion after meeting the one man she
gave the best of her life and love, falls
from her horse while performing a difficult
hurdle feat. The husband Is about to strike
her prostrate form with a loaded whip,
when their oldest boy shoots the father
fatally and the mother and children go
home to a forgiving father.
'Tor Mother's Sake," a story of New
England life, will be seen st the Krug next
Thursday, Frldsy and Saturday. Marie
Heath will head the company, which Is said
to be a thoroughly good one In every par
ticular, able to do the play full and com
plete Juatlce. There ax a number of pretty
children engaged who will glv natural
ness to the scenes.
Among the acts on the vaoderff! ' pro
gram at the Orpheum for th week be
sinning with the matinee today, ere the
late European Importations by the Or,
rheum company. One of the established
headline , features will he the Hallen ft
Fuller. Both have been prime favorites
since the days of the farce comedy crsze
and both have transferred their field to
vaudeville without detracting from their
popularity. They will present "My Wife's
Hero." a farcical sketch described as a
pngni. mirthful vehicle of fun. Among
th new comers will he Wallno ft Mar
ietta, styled Viennese caricature dancers.
Billy Clifford, the versatile comedian, re
turns with a brand new act. He has Just
finished a long engagement In London
wher h studied th character of the peo
ple and will have a budget of their style
or stories told with their methods. He
also brings their lateet hits In song. The
Kronau trio of International slngtrs will
be one of the vocal feature. Loney Hss
knl, the story teller and mimic, promises
a fresh crop of stories snd varied Imlta
Hone. ; W. Asra, . the European Juggler
does a number of things of his own origins
Hon snd enlivens his "stunt" with an In
termixture of comedy. Charlotte Guyer
George, a noted contralto, will make her
first locsj sppearance, and an entirely new
series of klnodrom p'ctures completes th
program.
Gosafn from gtalaa4.
Richard Mansfield Is to have a play made
out or me rsrsnaj story, and Dopes to put
11 im iirxi hhbuh.
Three of six New Tork theaters closed
by Mayor McCle'lan for nonconformance to
th building ordlnajic hav been reopened
Mllll James was married last Sunday at
New Tork to Edgar Stachelberg; tb son
of th millionaire cigar manufacturer. Sh
will leave tn stage.
Ksra Kendall in "Th Wierar Buyer'
will begin kui Bostoa angaaemsul en Wfcah-
Ington's birthday. He made a tremendous!
hit there last season.
Israel 7.anwlll hns delivered the maim
,r' . , i rt KIm I.I..I nnma.lv "A fin f ,1.1 ' f!T ( t
Ooverness," to Charles r"rohman. Miss
Loftus will appear in the play next week.
Richard Mansfield will Plsv "Ivan the
Terrible" for only two weeks at the New
Amsterdam theater. Afterward he will re
ive "UeHu Bmmmell and the other Dlays
of his repeTtolre.
The Orpheum road show did a record
week at the Orpheum last week. The reg
ular bill the week before did almost as
well. All of which Is respectfully referred
to Martin liecK as evidence of th fact that
Omaha Is Worth while.
A dai v tiewsDaner. nrlnted In a tints
house, so that all the process of its making
may be witnessed from the outside, is to
be one of tho features at Luna rark dur
ing the forthcoming season at that stupen
dous amusement resort. The contents of
this periodical will not be confined to the
psrk Itself, but special wires will bring in
the news of the day from all parts of the
country, ana visitors will be enablea to see
how the Information Is put together, placed
In typ and reeled off the presaea for th
public eye.
George Winters was 1a nmaha for a few
hours on Fridny. on his way from Denver
to South Bend, Ind., where he resumes the
management of the Orace Hayward com
pany. He says Marie Pavey, Miss Car-
monteue ana uell Henderson will lie oacK
In Omaha with the Ferris Summer Stock
company this season.
Miss Elizabeth Murrav. who was in
Omaha during the week with the Orpheum
show, told some of her friends here that
sue will be with Richard Car e next season
as lending woman in hia new musical
comedy. Miss Murray has been In vaude
ville for the last five years, and while she
jibs ueen very succesrriu sne is somewnat
tired of the life, and Is now anxious for
tne more extended field opened by her
prospective engagement.
Robert E. Rell. actor, manager, conduc
tor of a school of acting, promoter of the
enterprise to establish a sanltorlum for
consumptive actors and one of the best
reiiows who ever lived, riled from con
Sumption last week In Denver, where he
has made his home for the last ten vears.
Boh Bell was a hard worker In his pro
fession, was known to many people out-
sloe or stagelana and was esteemed ny all
who knew him sa a genial gentleman and
one who awaited the Inevitable end of a
dieease no human skill could combat with
a resignation and fortitude seldom seen.
Bven during his later days, when he should
have- been at rest, he was pursuing with
tireless energy his protect for the actors
sanltorlum. which should now be erected
as a monument to him. The stage has lost
an ornament and the world a man In the
death of Robert E. Bell.
A criticism, containing many excellent
thoughts, skillful descriptions. Intelligent
distinctions aud unusual terms, appeared
In the Excelsior last week, in connection
with the piano recital given by Mr. Malek
at the Boyd. .
I do not see the Excelsior myself unless
someone points out some special article to
me, and a few people asked me what I
thought of the Malek criticism, two friends
going so far as to send me copies of th
column, with an Interrogation mark.
I reaC It over then carefully and was
Immensely struck with some of the clever
Ideas therein contained. But, unfortu
nately, some things sounded slightly rem
iniscent you know how you sometimes feel
on meeting a friend for the first time that
you surely must have met him before.
Well, tbet was my feeling. And aa I
thought, I remembered.
And then I discovered that what was
good in the criticism was not original, and
what was original was not good.
Here are a few Interesting excerpts from
the criticism:
Sprhl.li.g of Malek, the pianist who vis
ited here recently, the Excelsior says:
Hla technical equipment is of todav. and
also of yesterday.
His fingers are most masterful, most In
dependent. He has wrists of tempered
steel. Clarity and strength are the quali
ties of his technical delivery that fores
themselves upon the attention.
His tone Is warm and full-blooded, m.inlv
and communicative.
Hit Peuallnif la beautiful, and always
show i a respect for the composer's har
mony His rhythm is clean and Just.
Speaking of Alfred Relaenauer, the New
York Sun aays In a January criticism:
His technical eoulnment Is of todav and
also of yesterday.
Hia fingers are most masterful, most In
dependent. He has wrists of tempered
steel. Clarity and strength are the qual
ities of his technical delivery that force
tnemseives upon tne attention.
But his tone is not cold. It Is warm and
full-blooded, manly and communicative.
tils pedaling is beautiful and nlwsvs
snows a respect for the composer's har
mony, ins rnyinm is clean and just.
Speaking of Malek, the Excelsior says:
Runs, trills, octaves, were executed with
an ease and elasticity that astonished, and
throughout his repose was of tho sort that
marks the master.
By a strange "coincidence," but two
weeks before th Excelsior said It, the
New York Press said of Alfred Riesenauer:
Runs, trills, octaves, were executed with
an ease and elasticity that astonished, and
tnronenout his renose was of the sort that
marks the master.
Alluding to Malek, th Excelsior musi
cal column contains these words;
He has dignity and breadth, he sneaks
HKe a propnet.
He won un unusual triumph and he de
served it and he shall be thrice welcome
when he ' returns to Omaha to discourse
in the language of such masters as Bach,
tseetnoven, itranma, Liszt, it he win.
And, oddly enough, the New York Trib
une says fourteen days previously of Mr.
Relsenauer:
He put dignity and breadth Into, etc.
etc. lie spoke like a prophet.
lie won an unusual triumph ana n de
served It, and he shall be thrice welcome
when he returns to the local concert plat
form to discourse In the language of Bach.
Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, It lie
win.
And th harmless young person who
thus hashed up Indiscriminately the criti
cisms of jthe various New York newspa
pers does not deserve even the credit for
the research that on would, at first
glance, consider him entitled to.
Neither does The Bee, but Th Bee does
not claim such.
We are Indebted to Mr. Wolfssohn, the
distinguished impresario of New York,
who has sent out to all th papers a single
sheet, on which he has very kindly had re
printed each of tha above quoted criti
cisms In full, so that one would not hav
to look up th New York papers. Mr.
Wolfssohn Is kind and considerate and I
have forwarded him a copy of this ar
ticle, to show him thst I hav given his
"star" good free advertising and that his
work was not In vain.
6 u rely this is th day of syndlcat work.
Her beglnnath an era of Newspaper
Syndicate Criticism. How much trouble
and expense will be saved.
I wish, while on this subject of criticism,
thst when local correspondents of Chicago
musical papers quote Be criticisms they
would try to quota enough of the criticism
to convey what th spirit of Th Bee's
criticism Implied, or els quota It In toto
It is not pleasant to read In a Chicago
paper enough of one's criticism to entirely
distort tha fact. This happened In the
current Issue of tha Chicago Musical
Leader.
And another thing, whil w ar talking
on criticism. ,
A letter to a local manager from th
Malek management contains these words
Am not sure thst Mr. MaioK will want to
play in Omaha again. I know Mr. Baker
such attracttona Th results from Monday
night s recital war certainly disappoint
ing.
Now, of all th Impertinent slams at
Omaha this one Is tha worst that I have
ever read. Parhapa If Mr. Malek knew th
facts ha would understand why ha raoaivad
such a poor house la Omaha
Fact 1. Mr. Moora, th prus scent of th
theater In which Mn Malek phvyed. wrot
Th Be a latter, la Whloh b said soma
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SULLIVAN, HARRIS & WOODS PRESENTS
Theodore Kremer's Powerful Melo-Drama '
t "For Her ?
Children's SaJce '
Companion I'lar to the lebratrd Fatal Wrddlnar.
A Dramatic Rlasterplere of li Anther's Most Serious Thonaht.
A Moral In Hvvry Sprreta.
THREE NICHTS BEGINNING TH URSD AY FEB 25
Only Matinee Saturday. 11 UrCOlH I TbDa SvJ
The Little Sunbeam MARIE HEATH
In a magnificent scenic production cf tho successful rural drama representing- New
Kno1and Life
"FOR MOTHER'S SAKE"
SPECIAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
IN
MRS.
FISE
Seat Sale opens WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24,
BOYD'S
Opening This Afternoon and Monday and Tuesday.
SrECIAL. MATINElfl WASIUNOTON'8 BIRTHDAY (TOMORROW.)
Wallace Munro Presents the Natural Actres9
Charlotte Tittell
In the Greatest Southern Romance Ever Written
"The Cavalier,"
A Southern
PRICRS-Matlnee, 25 and 60c. NIGHT 26c,
THREE NICHTS, COMMENCING THURSD AY-Mat. Saturday
MAGNIFICENT (30,000 PRODUCTION OP- THE QIXOM DISPELLING, LAUGHTER
COMPELLING, MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA
THE
ISLE
OF
SPICE
150 NIGHTS IN CHICAGO.
ALL STAR CAST ENSEMBLE OK 65.
HEAR THE GREATEST MUSICAL SENSATIONS OV TUB DECADH
"PEGGY BRADY" and "THE COO-COO MAN."
PEASE BROS. SPECIAL
$3.00 HAT.
SPRING STYLES 1904.
XT)
1417 FarnamSts,
"Good
strong things about managers and Mr.
Baksr, Malek's manager. In partlculur.
Fact i The cards with Mr. Malfk's por
trait, a tr of which were sent here for
distribution, were a disgrace to an artlet.
a manager or a show window, and an insult
to the people. I have a specimen copy and
will cheerfully exhibit. It has the dute
printed crookedly at una side ar.d the place
at another will you believe It In cheap
type as made with a rubber stamp Instead
ot being printed neatly ss were the beau
tiful Hlauvelt display cards.
Fact There has never been a failure In
thla town when the pianist hns been prop
erly presented. I summon In proi-f cf tti'.a
tha audlenoa which herd here Paderewskl.
Godowsky (twice), Hermann. Hloom-fttld-Zelsler.
Aus der Ohe. D'Albert. Rosen,
thai, Carreno. Not each appearance of
each, of these artists was greeted with
large audiences, but every one was that
wsa properly worked up beforehand, and
that la exactly the case In any other el'y.
Tha "morning after" Is a bsd time to ad
vertise a concert, from the box office stand
point. fact a U tt manager would use one-hua-
Patented)
Laundry
THE LAUNDRY BLUE
AMISRMFSTS.
Matinees
Rest Srst
25 Cents
MAWSON In the melodramatic Success
of Jennico"
with Mr. Daniel Frohman.
22
PAUL HEYSE'S DRAMA
MARY OF IUIAGDALA
8:30 a. m Prices, 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50, 52.
WOODWARD & BURGESS,
MANAGERS '
" Arizona."
60c, 76c, tl-W..
Direction of
F. C. WHITNEY,
Proprietor of the
LULU GLASER
OPERA CO
Presenting
DOLLY VARDEN1.
Clothes."
dredth part of the common sense that any
promotci of any worthy project does, there
would be fower empty houses. Printer's
Ink and personal push are required whether
you want results from a concert, a reoltal,
a lecture, a play, a patent medicine or a
breakfast food. ;
With all of Mr. Paderewskl's phenomenal
ability, his sterling qualities as a player
and as a tone-poet, and as a muslolan, I
feel quite sure that he would never have
had the tremendous suocees, which ha met
with everywhere, had It not been for the
business end, which I understsnd was han
dled by Steinwsy & Bona
The choir of the First Congregational
church Is now engsged In rehearsing the
cactata "Joan of Arc," by Alfred R. Gaul.
This will be the fifth of Mr. Gaul's clever
snd Interesting works to be performed In
Omaha The story of the peaaant maiden
who. summoned .by angels' voices, left her
home to lead the French army In defense
of her country, la used ss the basis of ths
book, and ths musla la uncommonly tune
ful and Interesting to the chorus of twen-i-fle
voices, sayg Mr. Thlckstun, wke Is
1
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a At AH Crocer
I t I
DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
Wiggle -Stick around in
the water.
COMPANY, CHICAQO
.AMCAEMKNTS.
TELEPH05K 1531.
Week Commencing
Sun. Mat, Feb. 21
Today 2:15. Tonight 8: 1 5.
Modern
Vaudeville
Hallen & Fuller
. Presenting "My Wife's Hero."
Wallno & Marietta
Viennese Caricature Dancers. ,
Billy Clifford
The Versatile Comedian.
Kronau Trio
International SinaWSV
Loney Haskal
Such a Rascal.
W, Asra
European Juggler.
Charlotte Guyer George
The Distinguished Contralto.
Kinodrome
New Motion Pictures.
Prices, 10c, 25c, 50c.
THB SCIENCE AND ART
; OP SING1NO -.
H
O
M
A
s
Special Breathing
J.
K
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L.
STUDIO DA VIDGE BLK..
ISO! PARNAM STREET
We teach people now to Bowl
AT
Gate City Bowling Alleys
C D. BIIDENBECKEa, rrspr.
Tel. 2376 1312 Farnam St
WESTERN BOWLING
ALLEYS
Everything atw and up-to-date.
Special attention to private part lea.
TEL. L2C. 1610 HOWARD STREET.
VIENNA HOTEL
(European Plan.)
1011-13 Fartiam Street.
Ladles' Cafe, Private Dining Room. First
class Service, bar. Howling Alley. Fine
Rooms. Under New Management. C. E.
Wllklns & Co., Proys.
Hot.l Open Day and Night.
Tabic d'llotc Dinner
at tho
CALUMET
TODAY.
THB BEST ATTRACTION THIS WEEK
13 AT
Tha Nebraska Dress Circle,
where they will clean and press your
clothes for a dollar a month. Ask the
man. New management. 'Phone 14M.
We call for snd deliver.
1KH DOUGLAS ST., OMAHA.
preparing to present It. Mr. TtJckstoa
gives the work early In March, and he an
nounoea that It has never been given In
Omaha, although I waa under the impres
sion that Mr. Torrens gave It here onca
Mr. Thlckstun does well what he under
takes and bis concert will be looked for
ward to with much pleasure.
Mr. Borglura gave bis monthly pupils' re
cital on Thursday afternoon st hJs studio.
Mr. Borghim has a free acbolarshlp for
piano playing to offer a talented pupil pro
fessionally Inclined. Applicants will be re-v
quired to play Something frcMn memory,
must be between the sges of IS snd IS ar
may present themselves for examination oo
Wednesday or Thursday morning between
W and 11 o'clock. THOMAI J. KELLY.
Chas. It Keefer, pis so, U Barker fclgk.
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