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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1P21.
Memories Are
Revived in Good
Old"Erminie9
rllAT the Dkky-Birdt
My and oni Mem
once' it me style in
wiikh the p!ay bill of "Erminie"
calls the attentiou ol tlie audience
to an interesting Uk of disinter
tnent undertaken in the second act
of the Union operetta by Francis
Wilton, De Won Hopper and their
atociatet in the revival, "what the
Dicky-Birdt, Say" is, 1 no theater-
scer with a memory tor xrminie
needt to be told, part of the original
text and tcore of the operetta a
long devised to meet the tastes ol a
day when no comedian in operetta
dared to lace the public without i
tonic ion a and a nrver failing enter
prise in keeping the verses themed
with the first page news in the daily
papers.
Mot of the topic songs of the
80s and early 90 were built on easy,
obvious frameworks usually, a line,
the catch line; a second line, rhymed
with the firt, and then repetition
of the catch line; then three rhymed
lines, and again the catch line. The
librettist or adapter of an operetta
generally undertook the task of pro
viding down-to-the-miiiute verges
for t lie comedians, charging $6 a
verse apart from the fee or royalty
(aid by the management for the play
itself. Some comedians rolled their
own verses from day to day, and the
late Richard Mansfield, when play
ing Koko in "The Mikado," added
' topical verses every night to Gil
bert's famous song, "I've Got a -Little
List." and also, helped out th
singer of the title role with newsy
erses for "My Object AH Sublime."
It is not generally known, by the
way, that Mansfield, when in oper
etta, invaded the field of the com
poser, also, and that the pattering
accompaniment to the major gen-
eral s famous song in the first act
of "The Pirates of Penzance" is
Mansfield's work, and not Sir Ar
thur Sullivan's. Mansfield "created"
the role of major general in a minor
Kifglish town in an emergency cre
ated by the desire to obtain simul
taneous British and American copy
right on the work in a day when the
United States was sadly lacking in
laws for the protection of what is
called in the state's "literary and in
tellectual property." Sullivan had
not worked out a tune for the dazz
ling verses of Gilbert, and Mansfield,
a trained musician and for a time
in his career, a professional pianist,
furnished one in time for the pre
miere. Sullivan liked it so well that
lie retained it, although he orches
trated it in his own Mendelssohnian
fashion.
Alt 'Mm? theaters
Wars in Ermine
2?TtJott
7opper
However, few comedians in oper
etta or out of it were so versatile as
Richard Mansfield. As to the
"Dicky-Birds" song in "Ermine," its
form was more ambitious than
tnat or most iodic amies, anu m.
Wilson's task in obtaining fresh
verses was, therefore, none too easy;
we had not in those days developed -a
school of witty song writers. Marc
Connelly, "a taste of whose quality
as a writer of comedy we had last
spring in "Dulcy," has furnished fresh
stanzas for the song in this revival.
As the "business" of the song is now
arranged, Mr. Hooper breaks m on
a rhvme from the wings with a la
ment that he did not revive "Wang,"
so that he might again sing the well
remembered 4'An Elephant on His
Hands." Mr. Wilson begs his co
star to help himself; and Hopper re
sponds with the rhythmic refrain of
Cheever Goodwin's once-popular
lyric. Then comes "memories" of
other songs in the halls of light opera
"Joseph, James and John," which
Madge Lessing and Mr. Wilson used
to sing and dance in "The Monks of
Malabar," "The Omniscient Ostrich,"
another Cheever Goodwin triumph,
from "The Merry Monarch;" "Baby!
Baby!" from "Wang." and "A Lit
tle Peach in the Orchard Grew,"
verses by Eugene! Field set to music
by Hubbard Smith.
Field wrote the verses for his
"colyum" in Chicago one evening
when, he afterward explained, he
was "hard up to fill the space," and
then proceeded to forget all about
them, as is the wont of men who
write day after day for the papers.
But the verses, reprinted here and
there in "exchanges," caught the
fancy of three or four composers,
who saw in them a text for some
thing effective in the way of "close'
harmonizations" for male or mixed
quartet. By this process they reached
the stage: Corinne, then 'a popular
star, is recalled as, perhaps, the first
to use a setting of "A Little Peach"
in the theater. Tim Murphy; then
a mimic in the variety theaters, gave
to the verses a considerable circula
tion by reciting them in the manner
of Sir Henry Irving, then the target
for every mimic and "impersonator"
on the American stage. "Of course,"
Murphy would say to.the audience,
it is doubtful it Air. Irving ever
heard of the verses; but I'm sure
Cm
ORPHEUM,
Rosamond
wmfeside
that, if he tried to recite them, he
would do so this way."
- While playinj in Washington, D.
C, in "Ermine," the late Marie
Jansen and Mr. Wilson were asked
to pass judgment on a setting of
"A Little Pech," by Hubbard
Smith, a government employe, who
was of local note as an amateur
musician. The two players liked the
setting so well that they asked for
the right to use it, and, about a
year later, put it into a "weak spot"
(i. e., a place where the librettist
had failed to provide fun) in the
third act of "Nadjy." Although the
locale was Hungary and Chas
saigne's music fairly dripped Mag
yar coloring, the public paid no heed
to the anachronism, and took A
Little Peach" to its collective heart.
So popular, indeed, was the ditty and
its incidental dance (Miss Jansen
and Mr. Wilson were In those days
the best dancers in operetta) that it
was interpolated in Mr. Wilson s
first starring vehicle, "The Oolab,"
and was frequently used as an encore
piece m other operettas in' which
the two took part. For a time, in
deed, "A Little Peach" wasli to Wil
son what "Casey" has for gener
ation or more been to Hopper.
An outcome of this success! lul and
popular footlighting of Field'i vers
es was that the Chicago pot t and
wit and Mr. Wilson became, .jwanri
friends, and the latter's library1 con
tains autographed copies of at the
Field collections. '
It may be added here that, the
song used by Miss Rosanj jpnd
Whiteside as Javotte in the first act
cf this revival of "Ermine," "0 lie,
Mama!" is older than the opera, tta
itself. Sidna Rosenfield; who iW
many years held a virtual monopol y
of the work of adapting continents '
libretti for tlje American stage, t,
wrote the song for the use of Missj
Jansen in "The Beggar Student," ai
work by Carl Milloecker, in which)
first Mr. Wilson and then Mr. Hojj-V
per won early honors as General 01-
iendorf, a comic opera prototype of V
any one of 10 or more of the Prus
sian officers who won unenviable
repute in the world war. This song,
too, has been outfitted by Mr. Con'
nelly with 1921 verses.
Messers. wuson ana Hopper in
"Erminie" will be on view at the
Brandeis theater for three nights,
beginning November 14.
Couple Married Twice to
Satisfy Bride's Mother
Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 5. Floyd
Fancctt, 21, and Miss Marian Hal
lock, 18, of this city, were married
one recent afternoon. Mrs. Hallock,
mother of Marian, objected, but, be
coming reconciled and apparently
doubtful of the first ceremony, de
manded that another marriage ser
vice be performed. This was con
formed to the same evening, thus
satisfying all concerned.
What the Theaters Offer
T
HAT ntsrel sf perpetual drawing
patter, "Ths 01,4 ( raradiee," Rich
ard Walton Tully'e "The Bird of
raradiaa." la aaala due for Ha annual volt
at th HraHdeia theater fur aa weee
commenting tonight.
Initrul la Ha presentation thta aaaaoa,
la lha appearance of Ann Reader, a re
cent Tolly 'find' who haa b-en animated
wlln Ilia colorful rola or t.uaaa, lha Mile
Hawaiian princeaa, who allee Header will
appaar vary reliable company of naw
playera which' In.ludra Herbert t'harlee,
Frederick rorreeter. fcUlen Mahar, Joeeph
floblaon. Roee Wataon, rrank U loolay.
Jemee K. Appal Baa, Haba Uardan, Douglas
Coagrove and the nailva qainteUe f
newanea emgert ana players.
THE dlallngu
rranria Wil
In ihalr r
ulahad ata'e of liaht apart.
II... I I - W.I, 11-...
migration to lha alaaa at
what la. In all raapacta. lha mat popular
romlo opara avr aaan In tha Unltrd
Stataa, "Krmlnla," will ba lha attraction
at lha Rraadala Ihaatar. for lha flrat Ihraa
daya of not week, Novambcr It, II and
I Thai Maaara. Wllann and Moppar will ba
anan aa lha tu tUlavaa. t'adaaui and
Ra,vannra, hardly naada to ba aaplalnad.
alr. Wllaon orlnlnatod tha rola of. t'a.
daux on -lha Amarlrao alaaa. and h
mill, of tha charaotar vhat Jaffaraon
mada of Hip. what Warflnld haa inula of
tna oia JHuaia Maatar, what Mlaa Mauia
Aoama . naa maaa or . rntar fan. Mr,
Hoppor aa Ravannea will ba naw la
Omaha; but It aaania aafa to aaaart that
tlioaa who know Ihla varaatlla comrdlaa
era movad by lha aipactatloo of hla ba
tnr no laaa aurca(ul In tha rola of lha
wtll-polaad and uury-lovln( anoundral
than ha haa bran In "Want," "HI I'apl-
tan." "Tha Mikado." and 'Tha Battor
UIa.'
a, hv a
ROPSON In a naw comasy
ma, 'It I'ayi to timlla," adaptaa
by Bthrl Walla Mumford from Nina
Wllrox Putnam a atorlaa. publlahad In tha
Saturday Kvanlnr Poat. will ba lha attrac
tion at tha Brandala theater for Thanka
KlvlnaT waak, alartlna Hunday, Novam-
bar zo. "It laa to rtmua," givaa Mlaa
Robaon ft quaint comady part, tha brat
ah haa had alnoa "Aunt Mary," and all
wilt lova tha daar awaat character of
Freedom Talbot an arlatocrat of Boatnn.
Maaa., whoaa blua-blooded anceatora hava
laft much nama and pride, but lima
money, and her antranca Into the bual-
neaa world, la ao pathetically humoroua
that Mlaa Robaon feela aafa in (uarantre
ln her hoat of local frlenda an afternoon,
or avenloc, of real enjoyment.
a I HP HE
I hart
A XVm
BAT." by Mary Roberta nine-
hart and Avery Hopwood, which
Waienhala Kemper will preaent
at tha Brandela theater on December l,
2 and S, la maklnc ona of tha moat apee-
lacular toura or tha country ever acnievea
hv a. nlav. Waaenhata & Kemper nave
aparea notninv 10 make mie lour vi iua
Bat" a triumph. It la proaucea in apien-
dld fashion and tha caat la a notable one.
Including aa It doea, Lizzie Evans, Wil
liam L. Thorn, Lucille Morrla, Josephine
Mora. Joseph M. Hollaky, Arthur Hufhea,
Edward Pawlev. Paul Huber. George A.
Wllaon and Bernard Thornton.
T,HR atellar act of th new vaudeville
Xanow wniciw upeiia nil ifivi,
today is to be the Billy Do.n Re
vue, a minstrel organisation headed by
the black-faced fun-maker, Billy Dos.
Corinne, a dainty dansueae, la to appear
In a new act, "Coquettish Fancies," In
"OMAHA'S F-UN CENTER"
Good Kea'v'd Seat 50e
Mat. and Nit Today
,k. Di.k,i.i aMatanr tn "Peek-a-Boo."
JEAM J... la lira" "H.s.5t
BEDINI'S VHi r BUttttsa
TTnnmial anaemblMe of clever artists and a bouquet
of pretty slrls eiqulrttely gowned. Billions of bub
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Ladles' Tickets, 15C-3UC every ne ay
40th and
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ROBERT WARWICK
IN
"Jack Straw"
Rube Band
Nov. 8th
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Onp. Fontenelle Hotel
ADMISSION 40c
Special Attractions
Audito
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usa
and fits band
Sunday, November 27th
matinee and night
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Brilliant Musical Burluk
Twice Daily WAELELK Mat. Today
Final Performance Friday Nile
YOUR EYES
Will isarkle and eratetollv thank van far
this oeaortunlty to witness this suocenor to
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Teachers' Week
DSDINI
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ONLY MUSICAL SHOW IN TOWN
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Richard Walton Tullv
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m fe-T wmiANN READER anoNew cast,
-a jmAjn TME.
POl 9ll lvt rACT AS TO Inb WHT IHI
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M A 4 pA Dai Amusement LoTert to Tears
i 1 lv I Humanity- to Ponder and Reflect
f . " m People Hare Paid Admission to see this
Richard! 'Walton Tully'a American Masterpiece Than Any Play
Erer Prodi ced Within the Same Period. ,
It haa aucce ided because it ia tha moat fascinating play of all time becauso
ita faacinatia U appeala to tha romantic ima inatioo that throbs within all
mankind ita, glamour and charm rich color and pulsating motion
combined wi4 all new electrical equipment and perfection in production,
makes this "t, (awaiian Master Drama"
MORE ALLURING THAN EVER
Its Big C Srion Note Has Been Heard Around the World
THE ONL1 1 AMERICAN PLAY EVER PRESENTED IN
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!?Sfa"JSra MONDAY, NOV. 14
AY ' '
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tlie World o(
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Different
LEDOUX'S
Amusement Place
Not a
Dance Hall
HE EMPRESS GARDEN is one of Omaha's larg et amusement
enterprises. It looks like a Paris Garden Cafe- fi zee Boule
vard. An outdoor Flower Garden, combining: ffc ycenic Prome
nade, dance pavilion, a cabaret, light lunch ca fe and soda
fountain service, all under one roof. Ju3t the p lace for the
business and professional ' man and his family t 9 enjoy an
You cn bring- the children. Open every night. A ccommoda-
HARRY WHIlE, JWgT.
evening.
tion for 1,500 jruests.
Mon. Night Coco Cola Bollling Co., and Satin Ice Cream Or. V. Party and Dance
K
alch aha la ani4 by M. a lllmlr
and Marrx Walaa. r.ru.al l'u,llla. 'Tha
'l aranilais Caniurir Cumadian," w I eftar
a aariaa of timely iiirieiue om4 awtss
of bla cn wrlllug Valanlllia and It'll
ara to offer a novelty a.-t hia lhay
call "The fyralluie Keutovara."
AWKALT of Wsudarful ateulo af.
faia, faalutea autal In ary da.
talL, a c-aat of aaaalleuro and lha
"Cuddle I'p" horua af to baauuaa,
to make lha coming wetf at it.e (iayaly
one of aparlal Inlaraet lo Iboaa who da.
ntand tha beat In burleauue. aa "fuddle
t'p'' la ronalderad ona of lha aaaaun'a
leading attrarunue. Tha ''at auniains
Arthur rasa, Tad lleala, (laorga Mn..r,
Nat Morlan, Ban ha Halinunie. Jane May,
Yvatto vjulnn and Romania and I'lunh
all, and tha eure of praiiy girla who
make lha "i.'udille Up" ihutue a U-llhl
and Joy forever. Today's inatinv alaria
at I o'clock.
WOT. I, rem
her appaai
grea'' and
memhered In Omaha fnr
aaraiKia lit "I'h Third I 'a.
d In "Tha Clod,'1 Sarah
Padden comae to the Orrtbeum tbla k
to eharc h'adllua hanura with Wilbur
alack, who la lo appaar In hla lalrat of
fering. Tha best wurk of Mlaa ra1dro r.aa
baan dona In rbererter rolna. Hha la now
preaentlng "harwolllan. a ma-a t play ,
by af. H. Uroppr. Uratuatlo Intanaliy, !
wllh a vain of comedy, ara lha eleinania
of bar new play. Mr, ttark'a nw offar.
Ing, "Two Is Company." la a lllllo imu
alral comedy cunialnlng the etory of a
country club flirtation. A hiah-flaae dan. a
offering la to pa cnninnutmi ny iuin
rterl, aaalaied by till Snulrea and William
MeLeod. Musla and lyrics ror tha ai't
war written by la David, t.'lauda tlold
en. card expert, will offer una nf lha
ahow'a most affeollva aula, lie baa Jut
raiuraad ta An, an. a afiar niiaiir,ln(
a'kr aailona whs l.ia aaioniahmg nak,
Aa attMiaing akil mailed ''Lusha Caiad
Muk .i..1loe ' la lo ba viaaanlad ay
n.uiae Malta and Italia llewlay. Art
Hamr and I -a a Maeta who appear la
fca.orla Supplied." I,a,a a dlvatllng
pi,e of ata,taiiiinant. Sunsa and brlahl
dialngue daielua) an amualng ,laa. A ver.
aatila spatially will ba lite offaru.g af
Uaibella. A skillful aia.-k-v.Ue paifurtn
ante la rung.,ua ta the a.'t. rinra asam
taa railtaui ,,m !.-. Aaaopa Kahiaa all
ba artaanad. a l. a lha I elite Weakly einl
luolta bf l Urn I ta.
Nlneireii vor rent uf (lie M4K4
earners in Mjailnirtts sr now
out cf eiiipluyiiirnt. Normally about
8 fr rent sre unrnipluycil.
frnmbnesst
igaaaae f wCm ia- aW n iftia (ft
NEW SHOW TODAY
irtLLY DOSS REVUE
Praaenting Billy Dosa and Hla
Minstrel Organization.
CORRINE A CO.
Offering "Coquettish Fancies"
ERNEST DUP1LLE
"Timely Wllticisma and Songs
of Hla Own Writing."
VALENTINE A BELL.
Tha Furniture Removere."
Photoplay Feature)
"THE JOURNEY'S END."
I
Week Starting Sunday, November 6
M.tinss Esory Day, 2ilS Every Nlfht, 0il5
SARAH
PADDEN
And Company In tha
"CHARWOMAN"
By M. H. Cropper
Staged by Harry Morvil
WILBUR
MACK & CO.
Including Else) Roaa
la
TWO IS COMPANY"
CEO. WATTS & BELLE HAWLEY
In Laugha Coated With Melodlea
Return After Five Succeaslul Years Abroad
CLAUDZ GOLDEN
"PREMIER CARD EXPERT"
HENRY at MOORE
"Escorta Supplied"
la a
BARBETTE
Versatile Specialty
"Tha East Finds a Naw Dancer from tie West"
BETH BERI
Aaaisled by Gil Squires and William McLeod
Topics of tha Day J Aeeop's Fables Path News
Matlnaa ISc to S0c soma at 75 c and $1 Sat. and Sun.
Nighta ISc la Sl.OO; aama 1JS Saturday and Sunday.
ratrena ray u. a. war l ax.
Picture
Shown
at
11:30,
1:00,
4:15,
5:45,
and
10 p. m.
nn fg)io)
uvulrlM
Also
Our
Double
Show
Program
of
Many
Features.
PRESENTS
Masterpiece
Hugo Damns
"Tl Jena's
mum
IVyndham Standing
with distinguished support. .- " ''
Dramatic Thunderbolt That Has Electrified
All America
The Greatest Achievement of Cinema Art
Picture Without
A Single Saolbtitle
Yqu will sit spellbound during the unfolding of this mighty story of deep, underlying
human emotions, right up to its amazing climax. .
MISS IT AND BE SORRY
SEE IT AND BE GLAD
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- A SIGH OR TWO
A CRY OR TWO
A SMILE OR TWO
AND TEARS
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
Yhe New York Morning Telegraph Says:
Journey's End" i a masterpiece, no matter
which angle it is viewed. There is not a si:
subtitle in itand yet the action is crystal clear.
It can be listed as a photo-dramatic triumph
all concerned.
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