TTIEOMIIA 8UNDAY BEK: JANUARY 23, 191. ' - -i - : ' ' v A - ''A V i y ' 1 ( . .... -r .: . .. '7 . aaaa;-- ' iv- 1 . Jv ',cvx. v-V ' if 7& ;W"2W "A-V' BillieLox. J i wJL AL2s" y 1 1 ; : , . . t J V , s -v I . r Hot of fun on lh U(r, bt irhen rlr ciimtanora tK thrm twhlnj thr inw, th chnroa la prwnt to lend a klelJ ooplo dh of color to th ttiM( p(etur. and to King (b latKt metropolitan hl'a or whirl and ulida In new dancea. A production of beauty bus bon provided, with an excellent rompanjr beaded by 1w H Hon and lister Allen, wnoae nfitnea are familiar to devotaea of bur Iodine. ( In ttie aitpiirtlng company aro Bob F.vunn. Ianrea fit. Clair, Bale Venow. iR.iney A Olbnon, and Pavo. Today matinee aliria at 1 o'clock. . The American dfwut of Clccolinl, the. ! gfnl Ital.an trnoi. marka one of th) meet Important hiunlcal event of the acaon. lie comes to the Orntietrm thla week aa th alHIar attraction. The atory of t'lcollnl a career la very unllka that of moat aitl.ta. for the ratet obetar-le In h a path waft wealth. Il had a hard airufigle to Overcome the con arvatlv tradltiona of MR old Roman pMilrl.tn family when h decided to be come alnaer. Harry Gren la present In a character farce by Aaron Hoffman, "The Cherry Tree." The. one-act play U a inorai diFxulaed In - comic attfre. "Nlftj noneenae" 1.1 tha name of the iik It to he offered by Jamea Diamond and Klbl Brennnn. "The Call of tha Bix tlca," a musical, lnelant offered by ajdlut and Lillian iH' t, cuuabie banjolsts. One of the boat dramatlo p:oodea aeen on the vaudeville stage l the tale of a crook, a play called Btralght." It will be given by Arthur Sullivan, who la supported by a capable company. Valentine and BiJl have an act called "The Fumltura Removers.' The team la made up of a man and a woman who are bicycllsta of an unusual aort. With an offering that la original, Stevens and Kalka will make their local bow. For the exclusive feature of mo tion pictures the Orphaura Travel Weekly la to show horse breeding farina at Perche, In the valley of the Orne, France, and will also give vlewa tt tha narrow passes of the Tarn river in France. ' Fhone Dooflae 494. TIIK IlICST OF VAl IKVILI,K. J 1 , ; WEEEiSTARTINGSUN., JAN. 23 FIRST AMERICAN TOUR JNJ FAMOUS EUROPEAN GRAND OPERA STAR Leading Tenor of the Royal Grand Opera Parle. London, Milan, Brnaaela, t'etrcgrad, Warsaw and Odessa JAMBS CIBTIi la "Iriftrnoaeenae.,, v ARiiiuiTsiiLivXcT In "Straight" A Comedy Dramatic Ta'e of a Crook steWsITfalk D'y Froteaa Kovelty DANS LILLIAN CLAUDIUS & SCARLET Presenting- a Mnaloal Melange, "THB CALL OP TaTB BIXTTX8'' VALEHTIHE & DELL The larnltnre Bemorers OHI'HKIM TItAYKL wilEKLY Around the World with the Orpheum Circuit's Motion l'icturo 11iot:rnih-rs, HARE..Y' GREEN St CO. la th Wovelt j Bkit, VTHE CKES1RY TREE" PBICESt MnticGiilJtry I0ot tt Befit. 25c (xopt Saturday and Vtutw mm ' " wvvi iUOt tfUOs OUO taa YOUi VXSSSmryrsamx jrfLVVSxm. mm.mKj-w IMSW.J iiitiyjii'jaeiL'arg!mT Hike PdSUnS ofth Tkltd floor Blch' . PPROACIUNO Is one of the rt-any Important episodes In Omt'ia'i annals of the theater the engagement of Blr John at on Forbes-Robertson, who will aDDear at tha Pnvt thea ter next week for ao engagement of four performances. On Monday night, Janu ary . be will play "Hamlet;" on Tuea day evening, "The Light That Felled." with Blr Johnaian aa Dick Heldar; at the matinee on Wednesday. "Hamlet" again, and for Wvdnofidny evening, "The Pass ing of the Third Floor Hack." The natu ral importance of thla engagement U en hanced by the positive assurance that thla la really Forbes-Robertson's farewell tour. He has already aatd goodbye to h stage In England, and last aeaaea made a partial tour of America, playing In aome of the larger cltlea. In each with, the firm announcement It waa lila last appearance there. His tour waa continue this season, cities not Included In last year itlnerry being visited. When he completes "hia -trip he will have pretty well covered the country, and will have hown his grent roles to a vast multitude f people, all of whom will have regret at the thought that he has determined, to withdraw rroin the stage au4 ait no more. Forbi s-Iiubertson gives as a reason hla rtonlre-to -Quit" the play before hla pow era Imve waned. He has a drad of the lime when he may "linger auperfluoug on the stase," and rather Intends to fol low tho-areut fialvlnl Into retirement than to accept the example of our own be loved Juffi ieon. and plaj on till the end. In some ways be ha taken a page from It. book t.t art In which Richard Mans field wrote -his name ao large, but t not following It to finality. Mr. Mans field took his art to the people; he might easily have, employed his time In one or two of the targe rltlee or Hie country; but nwny, many thousands or Americans rherish memories f that aplrr.dld actor who would not have Been him had he sought the luxurious life of a pampered fsvorlte ,rttt her" than the less attractive xistenre. of .the strolling player. Rut Mr. Mansfield, felt ha had a mission, to alve his best to the people, who could be readied only at the sacrifice of some peraonal comfort. So he made hie annual tour.aiid even when he felt the touch of death on Ills shoulder, he persisted in his devotion to bis self-appointed taak, and, alt.iouRh he thereby hastened hli end. !e' wetit on with a thought of duty that simtKlntd him through It ell. And In this verr quality renldes much of the siestrsa of Richard Mansfield. William If. Crane Is another eminent American who baa earned the great talent he pew ses Into all the corners of the country, and who hss persisted to the utmost of bis stienirtli In his Joyous errand. It Is not Medd to recall here the end that aiise to lireuce Barrett, to Edwin tinoth's dfvollon to his art. to Frank I iiyo, to I'Imv Clement, to Kyrle Dellew. r to ey others of the host who have praotl.sily njet Axrael with the grease paint j a oil tneir faces. In any one of tl.em nu.y b?' found an Inspiration to work till the -nd. And among the llv lng. ht better example could be cited tl,n cf l: i -i.hardt. who. deprived of one leg. yet contemplates a tour? TVs an't Intended to be a necrologl '! rc .Td. though; It was merely to re i.niti ti, j.sdcrs of this department that tiie an Luiuiukl drairtatlc menu la being pruand for them. Forbes-Robertaon haa a -..! irter that la about as far away friTi the phiUsujhio Dill! priaoa a ou!d wrll Us found la polite literature, eod f r trui tt.ird play, fee gtvea us aaln t ,e r-rt!e lv.'avBy tn that eurloua eon-f'i-':- n. "ne rasatng of the Third Floor luck." moral la ao plainly eeen and n r ;::y rjo'ecled. T?:e ' Te. loar Jarket." whh h Mr. arid Vr. r, .( n !.l preaent at the Brandris n i . ".ruary 3, and a. Is a play by .f-ij r. ;f,.titn and l'enrluio, dene ,n ' ' manner. When It was ' "I ' ' i "! years ft-o in New York . w fe ( " i.g a iiunli to the ao-j J f p f j Hiss Edna 2barie phlstlcated band of first -ntghtera of Man hattan as It atnee haa proved to audiences In other centers. For "The Yellow Jacket" la wholly unlike anything the Occidental stage, haa ever seen. There never waa any doubt of Its tr tuitlo success. It waa immediately pro claimed by the critics a work of great artlatlo worth, and when the publtn did not flock to eee It. following the first impassioned outburst of the reviewers, a number of literary men of New Tork constituted) themselves a flrst-ald band and Issued a round-robin, urging all In terested In the uplift of the stage to see It. The Drama league, too, bulletined the play. Then the publto rushed to see It and these unuaual reoommendatlona resulted In productions of the play In licndon,. Berlin, Munich, Vienna. Buda ptsth, Moscow and other European cities. - - The atory of "The Tellow Jacket- la a world-old tale of young love thwarted and then triumphant. It is simple, naive, mboUo and touched vrlth the charm and poetry of authentlo legend. It la beautifully acted, too. It tells us more about China then a thousand missionary rr porta or learned books by vtelttng sav ant. It teaches us, by its manner of presentation, what an utterly conven tional thing our present-day aoenery after all U. Finally, and beat. It lives tit genutne theatrical pleasure, the pleas ure of novelty, of good acting, of un folding story. It to a production nobody can afford to ml. Bldney Davies, light corasdlan who plays the humorous valet In the famous music comedy "Adele." which cornea to the Brandeia on February for an en gagement of four days, la a mining en gineer, has Iwen In every country on the face of the globe, is a remarkable mtmle. can reproduce the sound of any animal from the singing of the canary to the roar of the Hon. la a lecturer of no mean order, a soldier, a carpenter, a seaman, A.B.; a singer with a splendid voice, a humorist of the first order. At .the Boyd for two ulguts and mat. Inee, February 11 and 11. May Irwin will present her latest play. No. S3. Washing ton square. Mr. George Clark, an Omaha boy, la her leading Juvenile. A Cohan and Harris7 farce. "It Pays to Advertise," will be presented early next month at the Rrandcla theater. Lew Hilton -Mm Gdfefy east In one of the Important part. Others are Mlgnon McQlbeny. Helen Clarke, Charlea Judols, George Lydecker and Carl Lylo. An occasion of nfoment In local the atrical hlfttory will be the aooompUsh ment today at the Empress of Its third year of consecutive performance under the present management. Three years ago today tbe present policy was brought forth and carried on successfully to the present day. To commemorate the day the tnprosa theater will give Its patrons one of the beat vaudeville bills obtainable. In addition to tha vaudeville the first episode of "The Strange Case of Mary Page," will be shown with Kdna Mayo and Henry B. Waithal, late star of "the Birth of- a ' Nation." Harry Hayward and company, in "Tho Firefly," will be the feature gut. It la a little playlet of a working man and two girls and foil of real Incidents. - Prince and Dearie, )he college boy and the maid, a eomedy talking and singing act. Alice Hamilton, all by herself, deplots a pep pery old lady with such lifelike colors and such unctuous humor, that the audienoe Is for her unanimously. The Harms trio or clever entertainers In their peculiar weya. The photo pictures will be "A nrklegraphlo Tangle," a (Sidney Drew eomedy and full of life; "A Freniled Finance," a broker's story; closing with Sellr-Trlbuna Weekly No. . "Mary Page" will be shown after each vaude ville show. With the "Million Dollar Dolls." that noted burlesque organisation, which la considered one of the beat attractions of the season, at the popular Oaycty, this week, admirers of musical burlesque have an opportunity to enjoy burlesque de luxe, aa. exemplified In a musical eomedy, "Hotel do Gink." Crlapneaa, snap, and go are emphasised . by the producers and the company. Most of the time tha comedians are furnishing a The repertory from whloh Clccolinl will select his program at each of his four teen recitals at the Orpheum, starting Sunday, January S3, Is ' as follows: Voleete Aida" ("Alda"), "Clelo mar" ("Oloconda"). "L Donna mobile" (Rigoletto"), "Flower Bong" (Carmen"), "Aria" ("Masked. Ball"), "Romania" ("Traviata"),. "L Reve," "The Dream" ("Manon"). in French; "Elegls," by Maaaenet, in French; "Claire de lune," by Sxule, In French; "Romance," by Debussy, In French; "Serenade," by Schubert, tn German; "Mamma mla" and Marecchlara," Neapolitan songs; "Un til." by Sanderson. In English. Stgnor Ciocollnl will endeavor to comply with the desires of hi audlenoes in arrang ing his program. The orchestra .will be under direction of Carol Edwards, who -was th first American grand opera con ductor In Italy. - - .... - . . . Homer J. Kenyon s dramatisation of Bertha M. Clay's story. "Thorns ana Orange Blossoms," will be the offering of the North Bros, stock company, at the Krug theater, for the week starting matinee today.' It Is generally know that the atory teems with human Interest. Mr. Kenyon'a adaptation for th stag brings out the strong situations la a striking tnaanar. Th usual scale of movie price will obtain for th weak and re- sorved seats for entre weea win te on sal today. Family matinees will be given bn Thursday and Saturday. Th poatay of politeness goea on forever at th Krug and . each succeeding; week finds the North players stronger In the hearts of Omahans. Th Chicago Ladles' or chestra will have another program of zonular- musio. Ann Henderson, will make her debut with th company today In , a leading role. . Miss , Henderson comes well reoommended to Omaha, having been a member of several well known stock companies. She will be a strong addition to the company. B0YD--3 DAYS, SMo JAIL 31 KATSNCE WEDNESDAY AT 2 P. M. SHARP SEATS NOW ON SALE FAREWELL OF rOBBES- BOBERTSOEI (Positively His last Vialt to Omaha,) m LONDON COMPANY Rights tow.r Moor, $3.00 and I1.SO. : BaJoony 1.60, $1.00, 75o; OaUery. 60c Mattn r.ower Floor, gl.90 and $1.00. Balcoy--S1.00, 76c, too. Oallery, 60c ' KOVDAY, 8 P. M. Wednesday Matin H A M LET TtTESDAT WIGHT THE LIGHT THAT FAILED WXOKESOAT WIGHT PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Appreciation by England's "Nobody Home." that successful niu slceJ farce direct from a run of six month la New Tork and four montha in Hoaton and Chtrago. will be presented by 1". Ray Comctock and Elisabeth Mar bury at th Boyd theater for three nlgbu, ttirtiiBJng Sunday, February a, tth the original company headed by I.ewreuce GroJwmlth. wMl-known Kngllnh comedian, kllldred Klalne will play the leading femi r.hie role ami Maude Udiili for a num ber cf years a faovrlte iu tui vtty, U By r.KUH(.U BERNARD I1IAW. Forbes-Iiobertoon Is essentially a clas sical actor. ' What I -mean by classical Is that he can present a dramatic hero aa a man whose passions are those whloh hav produced the philosophy, the poetry, the art, and the statecraft of the world, and not merely thoae which hav pro duced Its weddings, coroner's Inquests and executions. And that Is just the sort of an actor Ilamlot requires. A Hamlet who only understands his love for Ophe lia, his grief for his father, bis vlndloa ttve hatred of his uncle, his fear ef ghoat. his Impulse to snub Rosenorants and Uulldenstern, and th sportsman's ercltment with which he lays th "mouse trap" for Claudius, can, with sufficient force of virtuosity of. execution get a great reputation In the part, even though the very Intensity of his obsession by the sentiments (which are common not only to men but to many animals), shows th chat-act erlst to side of Hamlet, tha sld that differentiates him from Fortin braa, la absolutely outside the actor' consciousness, Buch a reputation Is th aotor's not Hamlet's. Hamlet Is not a man In whom "common humanity" la raised by great vital energy to a herolo pitch, like Coriolanua or Othello. On th contrary, he la a man In whom the com mon personal paiislons are ao superseded by wider and rarer Interests, and so discouraged by a degree of critical self consciousness which makes the .practical efficiency of the Instinctive man on the lower plane impossible to him, that he finds the duties dictated by con ventional revenge and ambition as dis agreeable a burden as commerce Is to a poet. Kven hla instinctive sexual im pulses offend hla intellect; so that when h meets the woman who exoltes them he Invites her to Join him In a bitter and aoornful criticism of their joint absurd ity, demanding "What ahould such fel lows as I do crawling between heaven and earth?" "Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners?" and so forth, ail of which Is so completely beyond the poor girl she naturally thlnka him mad. And, lnJoed, there la a sens in which Ilumlet Is Insane; for he trip over the mistake which lies on the threshold of iutellectual aelf-oonsctoutneaa; that of bringing to utiiaiian o Hendonlstlo tests, thus treating It as a means Instead of an end. Hecauae Polonlous is a "foolish prating knave," beoaus Itoaenorans and Uulldenstern are snobs, he kills them aa remorselessly as he might kill a flea, showing that he haa no real belief la th superfluous reason which be give for mot killing himself, and. la faot, eatk-1-patlng exactly tbe whole course of the Intellect ual history of western Europe until Schopenhauer found th clue that Shakreptara niUaed. But to call Hamlet mad bot ause lie did not anticipate Bchop enhauer is like railing atart-ctlvia mad be rkun) ke did not rrltr the Ghoet to tbe l'hyclii'til eoMvty. It U, In fvl, not p e slble for and actor to represent Hamlet as mad. He may (and generally does) combine some notion of his own of a man who Is the creature of affectionate sen timent with th figure drawn by th line of Shakespeare; but th result Is not a madman, but simply one of thoae mon stem produced by th Imaginary com bination of two normal species, suoh as sphinxes, mermaids, or oentaura. And thl U th lnTartabl resource of th In stinctive Imaginative, romentla actor. Too will see him weeping buckets-full of tears over Ophelia, and treating th players, th gravedlgger, Horatio, Rosen orants and Oulldenstern as If they were mute at hla own funeral. But go and watch ' Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet, selling delightedly en every op portunity for a bit of philosophic dis cussion or artlatlo recreation to escape from th "cursed spite" of revenge and lov and other common troubles; see how h brightens up when the players came; how he tries to talk philosophy with Rosenorants and Oulldenstern the moment they come Into the room; how he stop on hi country walk with Horatio to lean over th church yard wail and draw out th grave digger who he sees singing at hla trade; how even his fits of excitement find expression In declaim ing scrap of poetry; how the shock of Ophelia's death relieves Itself In the fiercest intellectual contempt for Laertes' ranting whilet an hour afterwards when lAertea sabs him, he bear no malice for that at all, but embraces him gallantly and comradely, and how he dies as w forgive everything to Charlea II for dying, and makes "the rest Is silence' a touchlngly humorous apology for not being able to finish hi bualnesa. Be all that, and you hay seen a true and clas sical Hamlet. Nothing half so charming has been see by this generation. It will bear seeing again and again. And please observe that is not a cold Hamle-t. lie la none of your logicians who reason their way through the world beoaus they cannot feel their way through It; hla intellect la the organ of hla paaalon; hi eternal self-crltlclam is aa alive and thrilling as it can possible be. The great soliloquy not I do not mean "To be or not to be;" I mean the dramatic one. "Oh. what a rogue and peasant slave am II" la as passionate In Its scorn of brute paaalon as th most bull necked affirmation or sentimental dilution of It could be. It eotne out so without violence; Forbes-Robertson takes the part quits easily and apontaneoualy. The lines help Forbes-Robertson Instead of getting In his way at every turn, be cause he wants to play Hamlet, and not to slip Into his Inky dock a changeling of qvitt another rae. It la wonderful how easily everything come right when you have the right man with the right mind for It-how the story tells Itself, how ti e characters come to life. r'oi bts-ltuiei taon'a performance has a Hamlet: Greatest Critic continuous charm, Interest and variety, which are th result not only of hly well known familiar grace and accom plishment a an actor, but of a genuine delight the- rarest thing on our stag In Shakespeare's art and a natural fa miliarity with th plan of his Imagina tion. He does' not super stlUoualy wor ship William: fc enjoys him and un derstands his methods of expression. In stead of cutting every Itn that can pos sibly be spared he retains vary gem. tn his own part or anyone's els, that h oan make Urn for In a spiritedly brisk performance, lasting three hours and a half, with very abort Intervals. He does not utter Jialf a Una, and then stop to act again, with th clock running away with Bhakespeare'a chances all the time. He plays aa Shakespear should be played, on th line and to th line, with th utterano and acting simultaneous, inseparable and. In fact. Identical. Not for a moment la h solemnly conscious of Shakespeare's reputation or of Hamlet's momentouaness In literary history) on th contrary, he deliver us from all thes boredoms Instead of heapiag them on us. We forgive him th platitudes, so engagingly are they delivered. Hi novel and astonishingly effective and touchlhg treatment of the final scene Is an Inspiration, from th fencing match onward. If only Ftirtinbras could also be Inspired with sufficient force and brilliancy to rise to the warlike splendor of his helmet and make straight for that throne Ilk a man who intended to keep it agatnat all comers, he would leave nothing to be desired. How many gener ations of Hsmlets, all thirsting to out shine their competitors in effect and originality, hav regarded Fortlnbrae. and the clue he give to this kingly death of Hamlet, as a wildly unpresent able blunder of the poor, foolish old Swan, than whom thy ail knew so much better;" how sweetly they have died In that faith to alow mualo. Like Little Nell in "The Old Curiosity Shop." And now how completely Fobea-Robertson has bowled them all out by being clever enough to be simple. FOwAMCIS .NASH ....PIANIST.... E3GE HAR3LIW ...TENOR.... IN CONCERT AT BO YD ; THEATR E Sunday, Jan. 30, 4 P. M. TICKETS-$1.50, $1.00, 75c and 50c ' SALK START MONDAY - Bpandeis Theatre ... . T?B KOTIOJff PICTTTEB BCOOF OF THB Wll Week Beginning Tnrlau "ON THE FIRING LINE ltolT- lOaay WITH THE GERMANS" e.soo feet of rrt.wt tafbk by wtt.btjr k. pTntBomotroH THJtKK MlililS AND MA11NKK KfcB. a, 4, and o. Evsalng Prices, gl.BO to B5o Matinee, 91.00 to SSo. Mr. and Wrra. Cnbnm v.amm r '"HI U By Oeorg O. 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Clay's great Story Omaha's Best Theatrical Bargain Knt Week "THE WITCHING HOUR' ntaxxaisTuxoi psicsa Jleearved Seats gse. 4 Matinees I IB. ad a.t wC 10c Pmuil Ikura aa $1.50 for 10 C:nb "Pop" Concert AUDITORIUM This Afternoon it I O'clock eo-PTxca bhass bajts Al Pairbrother, Conduotog. Cbaa, It. Gardner, Fred Pnelp sjid Haurlee Castlamaa, Soloists. . "OMAHA'S nn CEWTO" iX2i1t txFTfl slats., 1S-S5.50 Sk Tha Olrla Mentioned In Th Son , SfILUON DOLLAR DOLLS Kg-.. an4 fry earn of thim looks th taooy. Com pm ivy lfteluir Lw Hilton I tfir AHa. BUot M d own, J 1 haoa Rann, Bsato, Fruols til. CUlr, iiob mn, B3auty Chorus of 10 Bby Dd1it Z.dla' Dim yatln WMk x4.yu WHEATLEY TOICB AMJ OratA XMBT&VOTIOat. Apply Thursdays BOOM 80S Z.YKIO BUXt. Phone It. B704. DeLONE :HARP 80S LTIUO BLXa, IMDUGLAS 8704 Harp lleoted to Students. Marie Swanson PIANO-HARP B3.1 South 27th 8iret. fbune Harney ll53. Turpin's School cf Danclni Twenly-etchth A rinun. w m. List our cam now. PriTat lessons any