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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1907)
V THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAftCII 31. 1007. n 10 1 ritnMIioNRioMlVf Our Splendid "Phone Service Gets You in Touch OUR CORSET DEPARTMENT CONTAINS ALL THE NEw MODELS Expcric nccd.Corsctlcrc in Attendance ith Any Department in One Minute. 981 Douglas lOth HOWARD : f b . 1 Monday's 7r$vft MAN h lWmri knows IN "5 II Kf ....... IN 1 t.-rmiiifcf -i , Greed Clothing VaJues The Man Who Knows Wears Princeton Clothes. Do You? GET THE BEST lliis doesn't mean the most costly in Clothing; if you will come here and whatever price you want to pay for a Buit you will get as good a Hsmt as can be made the same perfect cut, style and service you will Unci in all our different lines regardlessof price. Specials for Monday, as am introductory offer, are several lines of suits that we are going to sell at $10, $12.50 and $15.00, and you will he surprised to see how "much value you get in these suits for your money our suits range from $10 to $30. But these suits at $10, $12.50 and $15.00 are just a little the best values you ever saw for the money and they are as stylish as they are good. They are Miller Made. Nothing better to be had. ' Too Good for the Price This may not sound reasonable, but judging from other ready-to-wear Clothes it is true enough of these splendid suits. GrcaJ Sale Monday of Silk Eton Monday we put on sale a special purchase of BO Silk Eton Suits, a manufacturer's . samples, delivered on the spot at 60 off the regular wholesale price. Plain tailored Gibson Effects, fancy braid trimmings, satin and ellk linings. Tery tasty garments in many different styles. No two alike and Monday we give you the choice of this assort ment at a phenomenal reduction. - ' Coats worth from $8.50 to $25.00 now from $4.95 to S12.50 Voile Skirt Special Silk Embroidered Voiles In new pleated models, fine quality, neat designs, embroidered . at head of each cluster of pleats, made to eell at $11.60. Special price for Monday at, each $8.05 Ml'SMX UNDERWEAR Four large cases Just opened and marked for Monday's special selling, an e'egant assortment of gowns, drawers and corset covers, that are worth up to $1.60. Monday the entire lot at, each 08 , HEATHERI5LOOM UNDERSKIRTS AT 1.23 Light weight as silk, rustles like ellk, wears better than silk. The Ideal Bummer petticoat, hemstitched and ruined nounc.es. A $1.75 quality for only $1.25 Samples 29c Tremendous Cut Price Sale Dress Goods Monday 29c Seasonable Drew Goods, worth Ooc and 75c, Monday for only 20c. 76c Mohairs, all shades, 64-ln. wide. 75c English Mohairs, 40-ln. wide. . 76c Cream Brllllantlnes, 40-ln. wide. 65c Fancy Suitings, 8 8-ln. wide. All go Monday at only 29c a yard. $1.00 and 9123 Dress Goods 60c. 50 pieces of this season's prettiest Suitings, In all the fashionable shades and com binations, worth every yard $1.00 and $1.25, for Monday, only, yard 69 Black Goods Greatly Reduced. Here are some Black Dress Ooods values that should be very Interesting: Monday only. $1.00 quality of all wool Poplins, yd. 5S $1.00 quality of our English Mohairs, 52 $1.25 quality of our Crepe de Paris, per ard 67 $2.00 Waterproof Suitings for 91.21. Every piece of our Imported Waterproof . Suitings, 64-in. wide, In all the new spring shades, all very practical for pretty suits, and every yard worth $2.00, on sale Mon day for, per yard $1.21 Pretty Silks at Bargain Prices Monday we place on special sale 50 pieces of the season's latest styles of beautiful silks in the popular plaids, stripes and check effects. The best one dollar qual ity obtainable for, yard 75J A Great PIark Taffeta Offer You have never been offered such a superb quality of Black Dress Taffeta as we place 'be fore you Monday. A fine, soft finished, 27-in. Black Taffeta that Is our best 85c quality for only 58J Great Reductions in Laces and Embroideries Monday will find our counters and tables filled with marvelous values, one great lot of Embroideries, Deep Flounclngs, Corset Covers, Wide and Narrow Edges, Wide Bands, Insertions and Beading, sold everywhere at 39c, 60c and 75c per yard, Monday, per yard 25 Monday, 10 a. m. to 12 m. 39 and 60c Allover Embroideries, per yard 15 Big Lot fine wash Laces, neat trimming laces for fine spring dresses In Oriental Net Top, Narrow Maltese, Torchons and pretty Normandy Val Edges and Inser tions, worth to 25c, divided Into two lots. Lot 1, 8c to 16c values, Monday 44 c Lot 2, 15c to 25c values, Monday 9 Great Bargain Square heaped with fine Ger man Vala, Laces and Insertions to match, big assortment, 10c and 20c values, all go at only, per yard 5 Monday, 2 to 5 p. m. 50c Allover Laces, per yard 18 Allover Embroideries Allovers in neat waist patterns, eyelet and button hole embroidery, worth $1.00 and $1.50 per yard, to be sold at less than cost, Monday 98t and 50 Big Bargain Table filled with exceptionally fine Nainsook and Cambric Embroidery Edges and Insertions to match, and worth 20c to 30c per yard, Monday 12 H Hosiery for Ladles Ask to see our No. 701 Ladies' Hose, finest cotton, mecca fast black 6tocklngs with elastic tops and double soles, a splendid 25c stocking, we are going to sell for, pair 19 Linen Inducements for Thrifty Housekeepers 25 pieces of high grade German Table Damask, heavy and very durable, silver bleached, and worth 66c, Monday, per yard 43 150 yards Fancy and Turkey Red Damask, CO-ln. wide, absolutely fast colors, im ported Scotch material, worth 75c, Mon day 43 1BO dozen high grade double mercerized Napkins, good size, fine satin finish, fast edges and beautiful range of patterns, a snap for the restaurant keeper, a crack ing good value at $1.45, but Monday, per dozen $1.00 Latest Wash Goods Fancies at prices way below the market value. 15c Swisses and Dimities, Oc 1,000 yards of Swisses In all size dots, fancy waistings, - striped Dimities and open Madras effects, that never sold for less than 15c a yard, Monday, per yard ) 750 yards choice white mercerized Waist lng Novelties, checked and striped Nain sooks, 36-in. English Longcloths and 40 ln. Victoria Lawns, regular 25c quality, at under manufacturer's cost, yard. . . . 15 25c yard At twenty-five cents we shall place on sale an elaborate assortment of White Goods, Fancy Figured Swisses, Sheer Cross Bar Muslins and other high grade fabrics,- regular 39c to 45c values, per yard : 25 Trimming Braids Special Bargain Table filled with a magnificent collection of fancy Silk Braids, Persian Bands. Pulley Braids and Fancy Appliques, that sell regularly from 25c to 75c, at this great offer, Monday, per yard 15 Great Basement Bargains Monday Silk Remnants, 23c Big lot Silk Rem- nants. Chinas, Taffetas and Fancies, and qualities that are worth up to $1.00. Monday 23 Challifs, 4c New arrivals of Kimono and Comfort Challles, Monday 44 75c, 91.00 and 91-25 Dress Goods Rem nants Monday, 28c yard; these are the seaeon's newest fabrics, Panamas, Suit ings, etc., In plaids and plain and fancy, good lengths, 2 to 6 yards, 75c, $1 and $1.25 values for, per yard 28 85c White AVaistings, 15c A great bnitp, short pieces, but long enough for waists, per yard Iaces, 2Hc Ecru and White Applique Laces worth up to 25c, Monday, per ard 2i 15c Hose, 8c Ladles' 15c lose or plain 12'jc Stockings Monday..,' 8H(t 10c Ginghams, 5c Our great Gingham sale of Saturday will continue Monday. Hun dreds of beautiful patterns of Zephyr uiu&uuuiH, per jaru er. Values to be found In Our New House- keeping Depart ment Basement. O-lnch Dec-orated Salad Bowl, 25c value at. . 10J 100 piece Dinner Seta,, thin seml porcelaln with gold decoration per set $7.50 Drinking Tumblers Drinking Tumblers Nice clear glass, 6 for ....13 40c Granite Stew Kettles, Preserving Ket tles, Pudding Pans, white lined, Monday at only 19 Garden Rakes. 35c, and 25c 5C 15 Steel Hoes at 88c and 15 roultry Netting, per square' foot 94 t Decorated Tin Bread Boxes, like, cut, 13$ x9 inches, special Monday at....49 Wall Paper This new department in our Daylight Base ment is attracting more than ordinary at tention. The grand display of new ideas and colorings and designs are almost be wildering, everything though is right up to the times and the values cannot be duplicated. 15c and 20c Bed Room patterns, roll 10 Morie Celling, all shades, per roll....) Parlor and Dining Room papers in beauti ful styles and colors, per roll, from 10c to 20 Fancy Kitchen and Bath Room blocks In white, green, blue, brown and yellow, spe cial for Monday, per roll g Pure. New, Clean Groceries O. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables' Butter and Eggs direct from otir country customers, cornea to the Daylight Grocery where glorious sun light predominates. Specials for Monday EO lbs. Daylight Peerless Flour. . .$1.30 With one can of Blended Tea free. 25 12 bars of Laundry Soap esi oaa or oyster Crackers, lb (JJ Ginger Snaps, fresh and crisp, lb 5 iuc pugs, ice cream Powder. .... 25 16-ojs. pkg. Seeded Raisins for 10& Sliced Pineapple, can 10 Toasted Corn Flakes, 3 pkgs. for....25 Shredded Wheat Biscuit, pkg iq Rumford'a Baking Powder, 1-lb. can 25 ana uaue uuuer rree. three f J 23t? Haarmann a Assorted Pickles, 9c thr Ior : 23H Carnation Cream, can 10 Fresh Every Morning Lettuce, Radishes, Cucumbers, Strawberries, Onions and New Potatoes, etc., etc. Stewart's Garden and Vegetable Seeds, 8 packages for 10J Stewart's Dahlia Assorted Bulbs, 3 for 25 Lawn Grass, Blue Grass, Corn, Peas and Beans, all new and well selected. Hams, Lard, Bacon, Summer Sausage and Cooked Hams from leading packers. SSedSta,mon Ha,lbt. Salt Mackerel, Holland Herring, etc. i . - ELECTRIC STAGE EFFECTS Juliai Mitchell Tells of an Art Btill in Iti Infanor. ALL THEATERS NOW ARE PERVADED BY IT Eleetrteltr pplle All Kinds f Weather, Bealdaa Ugtkt Pnw La ra;e Bams Sprat far Morel EaTaeta. NEW YORK, March 80. Aocordr.g to Julian Mitchell, standing In tla tpot liKht li not all that a fevered fancy sometlmea paints It. "It has Ita drawbacks," ay he, al though he does not deny that tt would be too much a labor of Hercules to con vince the average utar of that fact. Julian Mitchell la a recognised authority on all sorts and kinds of stage drtices. He knows whether the wings of a chorus girl are upnlde down and whether a would-be comedian has a head level enough to stand on. He can make anything dis appear on a stage or a' dinner table with a wave of hla hand. - When he begins to talk about, the apot light he Is perfectly at homo. He admits that he has stood In It several times him self, not for publication purposes, but Just as a guarantee of good faith, and that he waa very glad to run to cover. "I have heard," says he, "that Joe Jeffer son attributed the falling eyesight of his later life to the great concentration of the spot light in which he stood for ao many years, and It Is no unusual thing for an actor to complain of trouble of that kind immediately after a prolonged tarry with the rays falling upon him during repeated encores. "Notwithstanding the fact that the spot light never gets any vacation, summer or winter, and that thousands of men are patenting all sorts of improvements for stage equipment, there la still a certain artless crudity displayed when the electric light expert desires to get the spot down to the smallest possible compass in order to plok out a black eye or a cupld's bow jnouth. In order to do that he resorts to a piece of cardboard In which he cuts a hole and placing that before the light as a shield, the entire power may be con centrated on a pinpoint of space. "The greatest recent Improvement In stage setting and in everything pertaining to the theater," he goes on, "is, of course, the electrical equipment, a fact which Is so evident that It hardly needs emphaalz lua; but when you think how few years It Is since Its Introduction, it does one good to stop and take breath while you wonder just how far and into what fairyland science and art are going hand In hand. "Twenty years ago, at a little town In Texas, I remember the theater was lighted by kerosene lttnipa and when the stage had to be darkened a man In the orchestra leaned over and turned down the footlights. "It waa In the early eighties that, aa I recall,' I waa first Introduced to electric lighting in the theater. That was at the Gaiety in Boston, which stood as a pioneer In those matters. ! "From that day to thia what enormous advances have been made I There la no I'll! THE HEROINE SINGINU TO THE SPOT LIGHT. JX'faUN MITCHELL-PRAWN FROM PHOTO BT FALK. part of a theater from the fly gallery to the cellar where the electric light Is not found, hardly a piece of stage mechanism which does not owe ita working power to that force. People said at Its introduction, 'Oh, it Is going to take away from the drama all its mystory and all its allurement.' In stead, it has created mysteries never dreamed of in the old days. "One of the moat practical inventions of this kind that I think of at the moment would not seem, perhaps, to the average theatergoer of any special Importance, but it adds much to the safety and convenience of the people who spend the major part of their lives behind the scenes. This Is a new light recently Installed at the Criterion theater in Frank Daniels' play, 'The Tat tooed Man," wh(ch might, I suppose, be termed a bunch fight. "It consists of a doxen lights whose com bined candle power is equal If not greater than the average are. It is used for lighting up the back drop between the set pieces, trees, houses, rocks, etc., the border lights not being sufficient to destroy the dark spaces left in the different entrances. This bunch light is very simple and effective and seems to do away with ail the objectionable features of the old system, for the light from the border la practically used for little' more than brightening the upper portions of the scenery. "The arc light gives a strong, unnatural, white light. It has not only revolutionized Che question of makeup but It has certain well denned effects that have had to be overcome by years of study and experi ment a "Left to Itself, It makes the stage look streaked and thia has to be guarded against by th use of the ftlina of gelatine which are placed In front of It to reduce thu (harpnesa of line and shadow. The new bunch light has a softer light and an equal amount of illumination with the arc and it does not causa this streaked appuaramre, there are no sharply defined line auu shadows. ' "The old fashioned, snowstorm," says Mx. Mitchell, appearing to take a longer mental Jump than he really does, "was made by the use of cut paper which was placed in a trough that ran across the stage from left to right between the borders, and when the cue was given for the anow to fall the man in the flies, by pulling ropes, shook the snow onto the stage. 'The snow and rain of the stage today are painted on a bit cf gelatine that i placed in a dink attached in front of a lens box. To this dlak is attached a set of clockworks When it revolve the light throws the shadow of the Uttlo marks on a gaux that la hung wherever clrciun stance require, sometimes behind the I thirty feet back of the footlights. "I Ufced U4h suow and rain In ta 'Wizard of Oz' and the same effect in the production of 'Omar Khayyam." At the end of one scene In the 'Wizard of Oz' the house was in total darkness and while so I lowered the gauze drop; back of that I lowered the opaque drop painted a sort of Indefinite blue. The lit; lit could rot penetrate through It and did not show what the people went doing back of It. . "The UiKk was started and the light in the lens box turned on. Immediately the lain or snow was thrown upon the gauze. While this was going on the other scene was being set up. Later I rained the opaque drop, turned on the red border lights and showed an enormous poppy Held. As the lights became brighter and brighter, nat urally the effect waa to do away with the rain effect, which seemed to stop naturally, as a shower' would paas. "Another improvement which adds much to the smoothness of stage equipment is the newest method of lifting drops. A drop is a strip of canvas reaching across the stage with a batting about four Inches wide at top and bottom. This is always the backing to your scene. "To get these drops out of sight quickly and quietly has always been a matter of great importance in stage management, and at present with the counterweight system the difficulties seem to be over come, liy pressing a button in the prompt entrance eight or ten of these drops rise out of sight without a hitch. This counter weight and electrical system are in use at the Amsterdam theater and the Metro politan and Manhattan opera houses, as well as many others that I do not happen to know about except by general in formation. "The enormous popularity of the flying ballet la The Sleeping Beauty' and 'Peter Pan' has brought to the attention of thou sands of people this device, and It is not unusual to credit the invention to one or the other of the productions named. The truth is that the flying device la one of the old timers in equipment matters. "Personally I saw It twenty-five or more years ago at Wallack'a theater, which was then at Thirteenth street and Broadway. So far aa I know the representation there was the first given in this country. It was done by a man named Conquest. "He made a great hit by flying right tlirough a kitchen celling. I use the word hit advisedly, for on that first appearance through some fault of the wiring when he attempted to return along the Sdine original pathway he full and broke his leg. "This flying device, known for years to stage patrons. Is not so easy as It looks. One has to hava careful training and a cautious eye for diaMer to employ it. But It Is to my mind one of the prettiest and most effective of all stbge operations. "There were to girls recenUf at the 4 ral a V VIM 0$h A' o THE STAGE ELECTRICIAN. Hippodrome who were most graceful and attractive In It When they put on their gauzy skirts over their regular acrobatic costumes and flew about the stage thoy were exactly like two great birds. They held the wires In their teeth, but usually the flyer wears a harness made like a corset with a number of straps, and to this the wires are fastened. "The opera of the 'Damnation of Faust,' as recently given here had, I think, the most beautiful and most complete equip ment of novel stage effects that I have ever seen. They began with a rainstorm, which developed rapidly Into a regular cyclone. There were wonderful cloud combinations. "After it was over you saw through the gray eyed dawn tops of quaint old houses and flying over them the ballet, who finally disappeared. Of course," concludes Mr. Mitchell, with a professional, sigh, "they had to spoil It all by bringing tbera back. "Just at present the interest In trapa Is at a very low temperature, and I know of no big spectacle where they are em ployed. There is no reason for this exoept that the public Is always looking for novelty. Perhaps the device has been over done and It no longer has the mystery about it that it used to possess. But It Is safe to say that it will never disappear from the equipment, and at any time a play may be produced that will call for them. "In the 'Babes In Toyland' I employed more than thirty different electrical effects and the whole production cost over 175,000, Including costumes. Many of the devices, I am sure, were absolutely lost on the public "We had lightning bolts playing around the ship In which the children embarked and a special bolt which broke the ship In two. Then we had several aurora borealls effects, to produce which a number of men lay flat on their hacks behind set sheets of water, using disks In the same way that they are used for the snow and rain storms. "The expense of running this electrical equipment was enormous. Personally, however, I believe that there Is nothing too good for the public. It takes a long time to g't your money back Id such a produc tion,' but It comes; If it does not, then you know that you have failed, but, like writing a play, you cannot tell until the experi ment has been made and then the expense has been Incurred. "Irving was the greatest man In the line of stage management. Beerbom Tree Is following In his footsteps; In fact, we are all trying to carry out the task that he laid down. In New York well. If Belasco Is not the greatest he comes pretty near to being. I should have to think hard to find an un derstudy at a moment's notice." Mr. Mitchell speaks of himself as a pro ducer. "The old term stage manager Is not really as elastic aa It sems to be, for tha stag mjMier at preau ia one who runs the ta ga at night, crudely speaking. A pro ducer, on the contrary, has charge of a number of productions and whenever he gets them In running order he turns them over to the stage manager, so-called. "For Instance, tonight," ends Mr. Mitchell, taking out his watch, "I shall begin my rounds at the Casino; from there I drop over to 'The Parisian Model," then to The White Hen,' and am making plans to get out of town to superintend the" com ing summer production of Mr. Fields, 'The Girl Behind the Counter,' which will open on the road soon." Weddlas; Processloa In Cores. A magnificent bias of color was the 1m presslon which we first received of the pro cession of the bride-elect of the crown prince to the palace, relatea the Corea expected a lariror TMnSa . ! u than wa saw, but our dlsai)Dolntm.rr. more than alleviated by the splendor of the "a, 1 procession and the populace. Greens. yi.'VK lows. Dinks - - " i Binning con trast and likely to be bizarre, formed them, selves into a truly delicate harmony. The procession passed up the big street at about 4 o'clock. The first to come were a number of female servants of the bride. They were mostly old women and their march was something to be seen. Follow lug them came a number of palace "gl sang," each one clad gorgeously and every one carrying a pink parasol. Later cam the state chairs of the bride; there wr j two of them and the bride was In the second one. Meanwhile squads of soldiers were marching up either side of the streets, and as the chair of the future empress of Cores, passed through the crowd stood back to make room. Following the chair of the bride many officials all on horseback. The colors were glorious, but the proces sion could not have been more than . quarter of a mile long, which Is a disap pointment when we remember the Inter minablllty of a funeral procession. At I o'clock the foreign representatives) were received In audience. The Belgian consul general, M. Vlncart, the Doyen of the consular corps, delivered a congratu latory speech. General Hasegawa Ftood, near the emperor and looked fierce. Subse quently there waa a soiree at the smaller palace at which all the foreign representa-. tlves and their foreign subordinates a-nd'" general Hasegawa's coachman attended. Neither the emperor nor tha crown prince waa present. 5 i wero tV Tom Mamma, let'a more. Mamma What for, dear? Tom Oh, I've licked every kid ia block, an' there's no more fun hare," wvri c if JUlieJ M1TCILEXL sVNOV . fi . ' CHOfcaJ AFTER f i X I, ' f V i f - : -' i