What the Theaters Offer CECIL. CUNNINGHAM, singing comedienne whose work as the star of the Greenwich Village Tollies attracted much attention dur ing the New York and Chicago engage ments of that musical comedy, is the headliner in the new bill at the (World theater. Miss Cunningham presents a series of special song num bers giving impressions of different people she has met! Introducing a lyrical history of the United States, travesties upon popular ballads and so on through o repertoire of original melodies. The Bryon Brothers Moanula Sex tette, offers a fast program of melody, harmony and jazs syncopation with song and dance trimmings. Les Mor gan and Beryl Gray introduce Willard Mack's farce “Bungalow Love," showing the trials and tribulations of a married couple. In "Furs and Feathers” Kaufman and Lillian pre sent and chatter with a finale that is a certain surprise. The Learh Wallin Trio offer their iron jaw wire sensa tion said to be a nrost remarkable ex hibition of whirlwing gymnastics. "You Know You Belong to Somebody Else" Is the caption of the original novelty which Arthur Hays will pre sent upon the great World organ. The picture feature is a swiftly moving mystery story, filled with ex citing moments and suspense entitl -od "Ono Wonderful Night." It stars Jlerbert Rawlinson and an excellent 'supporting cast. As a special added cinema feature at all performances is .the first presentation of Charlie Mur ray's latest comedy “The Fatal Photo." With a record of ha\ ing played for an entire season in the vaudeville theaters of New York, the sliding and dancing comedian, Roscoe Ails, is to appear among the prominent features for the current week at the Orpheuni, beginning with the matinee this af ternoon. The clever vocalist and dancer, Kate Pullman, Is his assistant. He brings with him his orchestra of | syncopation for the presentation of the elaborately staged act called “A Conglomeration of Melody and Jazz" Another of the chief atractiong w ill lie the airy comedy of aviation, “An Ace in the Hole,” to lie presented by Thomas Dugan and Balndte Raymond. “A Lesson in Golf," is the title of the skit to bo contributed liy Ed. Flagan fiild Alex Morrison. The act is parti cularly entertaining. Among the i other prominents acts will be that of the popular comedy vaudevillians, Paul Gordon and Anie Rica. In ad dition to providing lively fun they are bicyclists, dancers, singers and musi cians. The Italian baritone, Count Per onne. Is to appear with Miss Trlx Oliver, soprano, In a concert program. Late of the Zicgfeld Midnight Frolics, the extraordinary danseuse, Adelaide Bell, Is to present a program of charm ing numbers. An entertaining act Is to bo contributed by the piano accor dionist, Pietro, who la making this bis first appearance In Omaha. Once again the cartoon comic, Aesop's Fables, will be shown on the screen. Other film features will be Topics of the Day and the Patho Weekly. -—*> Said to be one of the prettiest song, dance and music productions seen on local stages, "A Timely Revue of Class," Is to be included among the incoming attractions at the Empress. Tn its cast will be Ilenry Catalano, ; Mildred Davies, Three Sturin Misterr and Billy Carr. The costuming and staging of the act is said to be ex- ' ceptionally beautiful. One of the most ; Interesting ronjedy skits of the season "Back to Summerville,” Is to be pre sented by Drisko and Earl. It tells how a drummer for musical instru- ; ments and a female drummer repre senting a lingerie house, after missing their train enter Into a conversation ! and, the girl discovers the man is the j one she lias been searching for in or der to get him to go bark home. I Kay McKay and Blanche Earle will j offer their comedy “A Dog’s Life In i Two Parts.” Both hall direct from musical comedy. A new kind of sur prise act will be noted when Deny!,, Dofc and Everett offer their “Up For Air.’ The personalities of Don and Everett will constitute on of the sur prises. A Novelty fox trot written by Jack Snyder and entitled “Novem ber Rose” will be rendered by Sutton's All Star Empress orchestra. “Town Scandals" with Harry (Hn key) LeVan will provide the musical burlesque ofered for this week at the Gayety theater with the customary ] two dally performances. Numerous i indoor circus features constitute ono of the many striking novelties. Maude ' Baxter will sing the prlma donna ! roles as a featured member of the “Town Scandals” company. With j La Van alio will also enter Into a vaudeville interlude, introducing piano playing. vocalisms and IyeVan’s coinedy. Another high spot In the v ftudeville section will lie the Sistera 1-aPlerre, right from Pails, who will ■ing French mutsic hall songs In their natlva tongue as well as in English. Batty Belles still eing. dance and lead chorus ensembles. Rosa Chevalier -"■—AT THE THEATERS' — Tfrre SVurm S'lfff&rs - ^mp’izes's ' 'TZby'momi Curmr/i*/fom TZA?aco X&dP'PuW/rTGrr-oePHZuM will also present s dancing specialty. In keeping with the circus features there will be souvenirs for all and peanuts for the kiddies. "Town Scandals" promises to fairly bristle with novelties in its widely varying details. Ladles’ matinee at 2:15 daily all week. Today's bargain matinee begins at 3:00. The success of Ruth Draper Is one of the most remarkable in concert annats. She first gave her character Impersonations in the drawing rooms of society. This winter she returned from her success in London and Paris at tlie very top of her profession and to play to packed houses in New York. She is undoubtedly amusing. "Life" says of ber, “A young woman with a remarkable power of mimicry”. Thus those of use who are weary of prob lem plays will enjoy the relaxation of an afternoon of Ruth Draper. The Observer, London, gives further assurance to the sceptical. "Miss Draper can make us cry when she wants to; for the most part she makes us laugh. She is as witty as she is charming; she is a fine artist in fine shades of character." Miss Draper has written little studies of the various types of people that she has encountered in her world wanderings. Her observation is al most wickedly keen! Then she enacts these character slices without the aid of stage settings, having enlisted the aid of her audience by rousing their imaginations by inflection of voice and her every gesture. She has an expressive voice and face. She seems to be able to comprehend all elasses of people. There is the Scotch immigrant and the French dressmaker; the hard somewhat cynical young English deb utante who lived so much ’’Realism" out in France but who reveals her really fine self w hioh she has so care fully learned to mask in the blase post war era; in fact all manner of inter esting people. It Is a Joy to meet these humans in Ruth Draper's clever por trayals. New York almost presents her new characters because they are so devot ed to their old friends that they can not bear to miss any one of them. It Is an achievement to make lasting friendships In that city so she can well be prou>f of these creatures of her brain. They have become through her skill very real characters. She comes to the Brandeis March 9. N?xt week the notable character ac tor and playwright, John B. Ilynier, will be seen at the Orpheum In Ids fantastic comedy, "Tom Walker In Dixie." The play requires a cast of ten carefully chosen players. In the comedy the chief character is an old negro, a role admirably interpreted by Mr. Hytner himself. The play is presented In four well staged scenes. With a company of eight cowboys and cowgirls, "Cheyenne Days” at the World theater starting next Saturday Is an Interesting bit of tho far west. Bucking bronchos and a funny mule go through their pares with roping, The Gabbiest, the Laughieet, the I jM 33H Talkiest, the Funniest, the Sau- L|MUpB|i3U|jLH cieat, the Most Gosaippy of All P^e^JilliuKISUiUUlUiUul Musical Revues— Ladies’ Matinee at 2:15 Dally All Week TOWN SCANDALS INDOOR CIRCUS With HARRY (HICKEY) LeVAN as the Principal Tattle-Tale COLUMBIA BURLESK’S OUTSTANDING NOVELTY BEAUTY CHORUS OF SCANDAL MONGERS Today's Bargain Matinee at 3:00, Any Main Flow Seat 50c [The Tuesday Musical Club Presents FRITZ KREISLER VIOLINIST Auditorium, March 23, 8:15 P. M. PRICES-—$1.00 to $2.50 (no war tax). Membership seat sale Monday, March 15. Public sale March 19. Tommy Met Bab ff hen Both Were Working for a Living In private life, "Tommy” Dugan didn't meet Babette Raymond by bringing any airplane down upon her father's pretentious estate and en gaging in a flirtation that subsequent ly entitled him to a seat at the fam ily table.—nothing like that. But that' is how they are enacting their first meeting In their vaudeville playlet at the Orpheum theater this week. There was no butler, who looked like "the jack of spades." or any lovely gardens with rolling terraces. Dugan an A Raymond met In a department store in Philadelphia. Be fore he began this white-collar-Job he ‘had been a Irammotlve fireman, a paper hanger, a musician and a type setter, among other things. Miss Raymond had Just graduated from elementary schools when she chose the department store as a nice place to work, and "an ideal place to meet good looking traveling men.” Instead of paying attention to the traveling type, she found it difficult to give at tentlon to any one except ''Tommy” Dugan, who was also good looking, clever and very attentive sa well. While they walked home together singing and rollicking comedy as a portion o fthe entertainment. The at- j traction is the featured act in a six act bill. An impending headliner at the World is Haveman's "Kings of tlie Forest and Desert,” Including lions, leopards nnd tigers. Working inside a j huge steel arena these wild beasts are I said to perform a host of amazing tricks. Vaudeville patrons have only one more week to wait for the appearance of George Lovett A Co., the act which created a sensation when It was pre sented at the Empress during Christ mas week. Mr. Lovett's art la en titled "Concentration” and he is as sisted by the "Wonderfijt Georgia. Tcmpletlon, The Psychic Wonder and Ills Incomparable Mysterious orches tra. "Concentration" Is without ex ception the greateet act of Its kind ever presented and one that \v(ll rn tertaln. mystify and amuse an audl ence ^s no other ran or will. Mr. I Ijovett and his company will be at the 1 Empress for the entire week of March 11 together wltji three more acta j of sterling worth. The most absurd travesty on auto .mobillng ever conceived is to be pre sented at the Empress next Thursday by Immy Russel and Co. It Is entitled "Johnny's New Car." and Introduces an automobile which exhibits human tendencies and a sense of humor, livery automoblllst or pedestraln will appreciate the humor In this "Vehi cle," It Is said, for It Is rated as one of vaudeville's most meritorious comedies. after working hours, Dugan confided In her that lie had stage ambitions. He found a ready listener, for she. too, loved the stage and thought It must be perfectly grand to wear pretty Mothes and be stage-wooed by stal wart leading men. They talked stage during their evenings and dreamed It while customers In the store were asking questions. Dugan took no chances here, for be had once before confided In a rum ’chewlng resident of "de Bronx" and she kidded him along and afterwards married a fish salesman from Wil liamsburg. So, when the department store's latest attractive blonde acquisition lent him a sympathetic ear, reveled In the romance of a stage career and visualized her first suitor and she doing a "merry, merry" together, he forthwith proposed and was accepted. There was no apple tree around to drop luscious fruit whenever he fibbed, as the stage playlet provides, and he made the grade and was hap pily married, and Is still married, hap pily. also. Their first stage efforts were con fined to straight talking acts, suc cessful In a way. but lacking original ity. Dugan conceived the Idea of building an act nround some mechani cal contrivance, and with bis trick Ford, which waltzed, coughed, severed its own connections and died light on the stage, he and Mlsa Raymond made thetr first big hit In vaudeville a few years ago. They retained that bit of mechanism for several seasons nnd changed the situations of their acts each year, thus presenting a new act, almost, every time they toured the Orphcum circuit. PADEREWSKI March 20: Auditorium $4.00, $3.50, $3.00, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00 PLUS WAR TAX Mail Ordara Promptly Filled Checks Payable Paderewski Concert Seats on Sale Now MICKEL MUSIC HOUSE 15th and Harney Sts., Omaha MONDAY and TUESDAY AFTERNOON March 12 and 13, at 2:30 o'Clock Sharp | Free for Ladies Only T wo Scientific Lectures en Beauty Culture The Hair, Facial Blemishes, now to Look Young, by tha World Famous Facial and Hair Scientist By Dr. Falis Cristion Fx-President of the Colies• of Beeuty Culture. Pari*, who reveals the thlncs every woman should know. Assisted by Mm*. Mays. ene ef the most beautiful women for her age. who will appear In the Paris latest styles of Dreet end Hat. WOMEN •f «vstt ags and rvrry nsttoa apyrMlata prnontl beauty. This Eminent Sciantist Has Baaa Graatad by Larga Audiancas Hear Dr. Cristion It will profit you. Do not miss these Hetiires. Mondays Lecture i KKK. Tuesday Afternoon Admission 60c plus tsx. Dean of Theater Men of Middle West _Leaves Monument in Heart of Omaha WRITING about one's close friends is not an easy task; It Is always a grateful privilege to testify to the good qualities of one we knew and loved, but a privilege ttiat is tinctured with regret because of the fact that death has drawn a curtain over the Scene. As one who knew "Will” Burgess long before he came to Omaha, and who was on terms of closest intimacy with him during his long residence in the city, i It may be permitted me to say a more or less personal word concern ing him. The story of how he employed "Bat" Masterson to be bis doorkeeper at a little "honky-tonk" theater in Dodge (,’ity, Kan., has often been told in these columns, it was there we first met, two boys, full of tin- spirit of adven ture, with no definite outlook on life, only the urge that led us both wan ] tiering in search of what the world might hold. Next we encountered at Denver, where I handed him a ticket admitting me to the gallery of the I Tabor Grand, on the occasion of the | opening of that wonderful temple of ! Thespis, In 1882. Eight years later I we met again In Omaha, where ho had | come from Salt I.ake, with E. M. j Crawford, the Topeka magnate. Craw | ford had a string of little theaters I throughout the west, the "Death (Circuit,' it was called among the traveling managers. The Grand theater, at Fifteenth and Capitol avenue, was added to the Crawford string and Mr. Burgess was installed as manager. The Grand theater burned, but the new Boyd had been opened, and Crawford had taken over the old Boyd at Fifteenth and Farnam, with Bur gess as its manager. A few months later this theater also burned, and Burgess and Crawford tried to estab lish Interest in the old Academy of Music, on Douglas street, but with out success. Things were at a low ebb for the futurtf theatrical magnate, and he took on with W. V. Morse as clerk in the shoo store at Fourteenth and Farnam. W hile here he made a connection with the Paxtons and Creightons, end when the Creighton theater was opened In 1834, 'William J. Burgess was Its manager. A few years later the Woodward A Burgers Amusement company was formed, and in 1*38 this firm took over the Bo>d, selling its lease on the Creigh ton to the Orpheum circuit. Woodward A Burgess prospered wondrously. At one time they con trolled theaters in Denver, Kansas City, St. Joseph. Springfield, Mo., 1 Sedalia. Joplin, Topeka, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Mankato and St. Peter. | In Kansas City they had three houses i at one time and two in Omaha. Af ter the Brand* is theater had been built In Omaha, Mr. Burgess retired < from Woodward A Burgess to man age the new houtecause 1 have had the help and good will of the newspapers. And as long as I have a theater open, any news paper man who wants to ran go through my .door without paying." When he took over the management of the Tabor Grand theater In Den i ver, after the Metropole at Colfax [and Cleveland Place had burned, he [found that his predecessor had shut off access of Senator Tabor to his box. Mr. Burgess’ first act was to write a note to Senator Tabor, telling him the box would always be kept at his dis posal, and it was often occupied by the man whose millions made the beautiful theater possible. The first Woodward & Burgess stock company, at the Creighton, was one of the most popular ever shown here. With Jennie Kennark. Lester Lornegan, and other well remembered actors. It was something of a family affair, and its -disbanding when the French Actress / ells About American l amps No one has yet arisen to dispute the assertion of Mr. Kipling that‘ the female of the species is more deadly than the male.'* but the question now cornea up as to just what type of fe male is the most deadly. Mme. Jetta Goudal. who ts making her screen debut as the adventuress in "The Bright Shawl,” says It Is the blue-eyed bobbed-haired, baby-doll type which makes the alluring—and there fore more succeasful—\ imp. ’ When 1 vwis east for the role of the adventuress In a stag# produc tion, 1 wanted to bring to the stage the real honest to goodness vamp. Hence, I visited places where I wail told I would see her at her best. At first I didn't recognize her, for 1 sought some such type as fiction and a popular belief had led me to think would have seductive black eyes and long dntk lashes. Instead, what did I find'.’ I found a host of little blue eyed, appealing blondes working so artistically that their victims didn't realize that they were l>eing vainped until they had fallen—hard and ex pensively. The vamps were not at ill the kind that the stage-goer or movie fan would expect to find.” I Added Attraction "The Three Must Get The I r#*’ Funnier than any comedy you have aeon In yeare. Made In the aame marveloua a a t a D o u g I a a Fair banka uaed In "The Three Mue keteera.” theater was turned over to the Or pheum company was a matter for real regret. At the Burwood. which the firm built (now the Gayety), they in stalled another company, headed by Eva Bang and Albert Morrison, which also bccamo wonderfully popular. Perhaps a good way to close this I will he to tell an anecdote Mr. Bur gess loved to repeat: Joseph Jefferson was coming to the Boyd to play “Rip i Van Winkle," and Mr. Burgess thought ! it would help to insert a line in the advertisement announcing that it was the great comedian's last appearance. On the day the engagement opened, Mr. Jefferson appeared at the office j of the theater, demanding to see the manager. When Mr. Burgess appear ed. the actor demanded to know who Inserted that advertisement. “I did,’ | said Burgess, smiling. “Well, who in hell authorized you to say this is my ! last appearance?" demanded the irate star. And he was here several times afterwards. A simple man, a constant friend, a .yenerous competitor. "Will” Burgess was ail of these. He was more, too, i'or lie did mafty deeds of kindness i that w-ere not seen of men. McC. Omahan Writer of Movies. Terry Ramsey, former reporter for ! The Omaha Bee, starts a series of j articles on the romance of motion Pictures in the Photoplay Magazine | for March. Film of “The Bright Shawl” Will Be Released Shortly Richard Rarthclm»«a' plcturlsation of Joseph Hegetheimer's novel, "Th* Bright Hhawl," In which he has two leading ladi»e, will shortly he releaved. Mary Astor, who hae been added to the cast, will find herself very much of a leading woman In the end, for the picture closes on her In Rarthel mess' arms, while Dorothy Gish, who has been vamping her way through the earlier scenes, will have "died." Miss Gish admits It Is the first tima she has ever passed out In a picture. It Is also her Initial appearance as a "vamp." Hhe has the role of a Span ish dancer. Cast Is Assembled. Three members of the cast who produced "Within the Daw" In 3912 will support Norma Talmadge in her screen version of the play, to be started Immediately. Dewitt Jen nings. who played Inspector Burke, has the role again, and Lincoln Blum rner, the Cassidy of stage fame, will rc enact the character for the screen. Led Cody, formerly Dick Gilder of the stage, will be Joe Garson, th* forger, this time. M iglit Celebrate Together. June Mathis and Walter Hieri could celebrate together. The same week that announced Mias Mathla ea editorial director for Goldwyn, heard of Walter's ’new star contract for Paramount. A few years ago they both had their first Job in motion pic tures In the same slapstick comedy. | Standard Vaudeville-Exclusive Photoplay* | j Now Playing — Ends Friday Performances continuous from lp.m. Vaudeville today, 2-4:20-6:45-9:10 Other days at 3:20-6:45-9:10 INTRODUCING TO OMAHA THE FAMOUS MUSICAL COMEDY COMEDIENNE MISS CECIL CUNNINGHAM Broadway’s favorite and late star of the Greenwich Village Follies Morgan Kaufman and and Gray Lillian “Bungalow Loto" “Furs an4 Fealbora” Leach-Wall in 3 Arthur Hays Iron Jaw Sensation Organ Noveltf Here is something new in JAZZ SYNCOPATION As introduced by six clever artists BYRON BROS. Present their original scenic musical melange, MOANALUA SEXTETTE Another laughing success at all performances, CHARLEY MURRAY in his new and riotous screen farce, “The Fatal Photo” The feature photoplay introduces the fastest 12 hours ever filmed EXCITING THRILLING A mystery play of an extraordinary adven ture that happened between 6 o’clock one evening and 5 o'clock the next morning. I