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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 19. 100$. 3 Gossip About Plays, Players and Playhouses HI AH the day of the "t n rt"n" plav' dawned? Are we n.iw to have drama that depends on the Inherent InUrest It pnise aside from the opportunity It affords srme unlntielv sifted person to exploit hi or her peculiar talent? la the play really to be the thing' Certain Indication are noted that almost seem to rive affirmative answers to each of these queries. It la Just barely Dosslhle that the time Is near at hand when the manager will present a drama enacted by a capable company of actors, and not a "star" sup ported by an Indifferent collection of per sons In a composition that gives he star a chance to exhibit aome IndlvldJal accom plishment. Four playa loom bin among the many presented In New York last season. Each of the quarteit la success, writ In the largest letters, and neither has a rote lhat could even be twisted Into a "tar" part. In one an effort was made to writ a one part for a star, and an actor win em ployed to Interpret that role who might be said to look a little bigger on the hills than any of the others In the company; but, wIwmi the time to present the play came; the public had a chance to Judge, and, with a strange perversity, the produc tion developed that the real Interest In the action centered around another character, and the "star" part was brought down to no mora than ordinary Importance. The play was saved by reason of the fact that It had neither star nor part for a star. In the other three examples actors of Intelli gence are required, but the dramas are so constructed that the uniform and symmetrl cal development of each part la essential to the success of the whole. In thla thought lies much of comfort for those who have wished only good for the stage and have mi In the logical growth of the "star" system only evil. It la a sign that Intelli gence la again swaying the minds of the patron of the theater, thus assuring that to a greater extent than for many seasons the managers will undertake to appeal to the Intellect rather than to the surface emotions of their patrons. Augustus Thomas may liave thought of a star when he began to write "The Witching Hour," but the development of the drama outgrew the Idea, and the star part vanished long before th play was finished1. The fact that what ha had In tended lor a 'subsidiary character now holds the chief claim on the internet of the audience Is accepted as proof that the natural order of things Is In a large measure opposed to the one-sided method of building plays for stars. Another of the quartet la "The Servant In the House," which Mr. Kennedy built as a logical and sequential procession of Inci dents from the conception of the Idea to the fulfillment of Its purpose. The proper portrayal of either of the characters In this remarkable allogory for It Is more of an allegory than a drama calls for Intelligent effort of the highest order on the part of the player, and It was for tunately produced by a company of ex ceptional ability. The effect of a per fectly balanced organisation working in harmony to the end that the play should be given in Ita best light was never more forcibly shown. Mr. Walter had no star In ' mind when he wrote "Paid in Full," and thought only of illuminating the Idea that- possessed him. He developed his characters and rounded off his play as a whole, rather than a medium for some one person. " It was rejected by a long list of producing managers, obsessed with the "star" Idea, but. finally fell Into the hands of one bolder than the rest, who thought ha saw In It possibilities. The possibilities consisted In the opportunity It offered for a company composed of quality, and Its success has more than jusUfed tha experiment. "The Thief," the last of the Quartet, is the only one that afforded any reasonable opportunity for ths exalting of one character above an other along the lines of the proceeding that results In "star" importance, and this was seised upon to exploit the personality of an actress whose chief claim to prom inence Is the fact that she Is wife to bne of the men who control the drama In America. In this statement nothing la (contained that denies the actress the abil ity she does possess, yet. even that might "without a candle go dark to bed." The play Itself to one that properly presented by a competent company would even gain In force, and thus Is an argument against the effort to give prominence to the actress rather than to the play. "I ard-tallrred" play is nesrly done. And 1 1. lit is good tor the .- age in all lis branclu s. The closing of Krug park will reduce stilt further the possible places for amusement In Omaha, and when the Boyd theater winds up Its summer season on Saturday night next, the choice will lie between the Burwood picture show and Manawa. This condition will prevail for at least four weeks. Manager Breed says the Krug the ater will open about the third week In August. The Burwood opens on August 2, the Boyd on September 1 and the Orpheum a little later, Cntll the end of August, then, the amusement seeker may have dur. Ing the day base ball, when the team Is In town, and moving pictures, or a ride to the lake after the sun goes down. Or he may ait on the front porch and count the days till the Bill Cody show conies to town, and wish there was some place to go. Krug Park will be sadly missed. It was growing each year In popularity, and had fairly won for Itself a place In the summer life of Omaha. It had been planned and equipped on a most liberal basis, and was the gainer because of the personal pride Mr. William Krug took In Its welfare. The desire to make It a place that should be popular and should deserve the support of all because of Its attractiveness was up permost In his mind, and led to the expend lture of more money on the grounds for the purpose of rendering them beautiful than an ordinary amusement promoter would have done. The fight made against the park by the prohibitionists may have been based on "law and order," but the victory Is a costly one to Omaha, for It haa ended the only place of Its kind about the city. No question was raised as to the orderly character of the park, the respec tability of Ita patrons or the desirability of the amusements It offered the public. The management made all reasonable ef forts to comply with the Nebraska law reg ulating the sale of liquors, but the case turned on a technical point and was de cided in favor of the protestanta. Mr. Krug did not feel warranted in carrying on the controversy and preferred closing the park and stopping what had always been an ex pense to him to keeping up a fight with the element opposed to him. So there will be no more beer sold at Krug Park, nor will there be any more band concerts to delight the music lovers, nor any more al fresco dinners served In the bowers, nor any more picnics, nor rides on the roller coaster, nor shooting of the chutes, nor trips around the old mill, or the flying swing, or any of the many advantages the park offered to tired folks who liked to get away from the heat and dust of the city and spend a few hours In the fresh. pure air of the hilltop. A technical point of law has been decided by a judge of the district court, and Krug Park has been closed. Wherein lies the victory? for the theatergoers who spend very lit- tie money. The patrons of the flrst-cla.is vaudeville theaters are not affected by this economy. The struggle with the first-class vaudeville managers is to find ( nough good talent to flit out a program. There were too many vaudeville theaters In New York, as the Introduction of the stock companies proved. Now the fact that no new vaudeville theaters have come Into existence to take the places of the houses given over to the moving pic tures shows that thoe houses were su perfluous. There Is as much enthusiasm among audiences for good vaudeville as thure ever waa. But it has got to be good. The standard now Is high. There are so many more vaudeville theaters than there are good artists and the competition Is so great that these actors get wlut they ask. That has sent up salaries, but the managers have to pay them. Oo and ask Hammersteln. for instance, at the Vic toria why he pays a man or a woman 11.000 a week. Do you suppose th.it he would do that if he could get for half the price somebody who would draw the same money? "Any vaudeville manager who was truth ful would tell you that his receipts va ried according to the nature of his pro gram. When he has a weak bill he feels it by Tuesday night." 4 "The moving picture shows," said on of the agents, who has Just returned from his annual trip to Europe, "are much more conspicuous In amusements on the conti nent than they are here. In Paris some of the houses especially put up to hold them charge as much as S francs or $1 for the best seats. Of course that price is the maximum and It tapers down to j a figure approximately the same as ours. . All the theaters are given over to these amusements. "When 'The Thief finished its great run at the Gymnase on a Sunday nlgiit the cinematograph began promptly the next afternoon. When there la a vacancy of several days at Sarah Bernhardt's the. In writing the books of various musical comedies and who will be seen In New York this fall In "Fluffy Ruffles." In speaking of the play. Charles Frohman says: " "The Lollar Princess' has much humor that arises from the situations. Its story Is rare for America, because It Is about Americans.' and touches on the American penchant for titles. The chief character Is that of an American million aire In business In New York, and his daughter, although enormously wealthy, works for the firm. Only penurious aris tocrats are employed as clerks and so on. This American story, all about America, Is written by two Germans, whose Idea of Americans is quaint. When I saw this play produced In Hamburg, the only thing about It cast, production!, scenes was a roll-top desk. 1 venture to say that Americans will go wild over the music that there will be three numbers that will carry the town. There is an opportunity for a young actress again to make a great success, and the difficulty will be that this will not be the leading part. It will be terrible to cast It." formance will be continuous dally, from 1 to 6 snd 7 to 11 p. in. Msrgaret Anglln, who Is now appearing In Australia, will come to London soon after Christmas .and will probably be seen In the English production of "The UreHl Divide," In which play she and Henry Miller made so btg a hit In the I'nlted States. Another American production which Is scheduled for London next spring Is "The Servant In the House." Miss Wynne Matthtson will appear in the lead as she did In the New York production. aier ana me nuuwe ib nui nwucu lor re- hearsals the picture show lights up and there Is an all-day performance until something else Is ready. So there Is a possibility that the moving picture show, provided that companies continue to Im prove It, may some day take on a larger Importance In the amusement business here even than it does today when only the cheaper priced enterprises have been affected by it." HALF MILLION LOST 1ST If EW PLAYS Yvette Oullbert, who has just completed "farewell" vaudeville engagement In London writes me that she lias temporally given up the Idea of becoming a London manageress herself, but, that during the fall, she will appear here under the direc tion of Joseph Brooks, of the firm of Klaw and Erlamger. "It haa not yet been settled at which theater" she continues,, "but the play will be an English version . ! of 'Le Marlage de l'Ktolle' (The Star's Marriage) by Blsson, which was recently produced with great success at the Theater du Vaudeville In Paris." The letter, which bears astonishing witness to the present perfection of the French comedienne's Eng lish, ends up with the assurance that "this la news." Brooks Is now In Karlsbad and when he returns to London will make the necessary arrangement for the French woman' first appearance not only In rama but in English. JOHN AVA CARPENTER. Tl argument, then, 1 for a drama that will permit of the formation of capable and clever companies of artist, who snail be a nearly as possible matched In ability, and whose talent uall be used to give life and meaning to the thought contained In the drama, rather than to exploit the personal achievement of aome one or another of the company. A well balanced company In fact as well as name. 1 The actor pre-eminent need not be banished; In very truth could not be banished. Fot sver sines acting was and theaters were built, men and women have by the native force and fire of the genius that burned within them placed themselves far -a front of their kind and acnleved that prom inence that is understood when on speaks of a "star." These gifted Individuals will till be among us, but they will not re- Quire that . especial plays be made for them. It is their divine ability to portray any sort of a character, to take any role and elevate It. "Wherever Campbell sits" Is still the head of the table, and the actor of real ability will not be denied by reason of not getting the "star" part In drama. Actor will not be expected to "piny themselves" as they now are. Maybe It were better to say a they have been, for not a great many of then are making mucn of a success in presenting their personal peculiarities nowaday. VOGl'B OF THE PICTURE SHOW Variety Theaters of Gotham Are) OIt 1ns; Way to Them, NEW YORK. July 18. The mayor's office he issued more than 120 license for the moving picture show In Manhattan and The Bronx, and that does not Include all these resort in the two borough. Some of them ere still showing under concert or theater license not yet expired and others, to open up again a soon a the summer la passed, are now closed. More significant than mere numbers I the character of the theaters now used permanently for such exhibitions. Among them are the old Keith's In Fourteenth street, the former Proctor theater In Twenty-third and Fifty-eighth street and the Harlem opera house. Then there are the - Dewey and the Gotham, which were considered gold mine until It waa dis covered that the moving picture people could afford better to pay the rents and make a profit. In addition to these two Pastor' old house goes Into the moving picture business In the fall. Some of the regular theater have gone Into the moving picture business merely as a summer snap. In this number are the Grand opera house, the Bijou and the Fourteenth Street. In addition to the supply thu catalogued In Manhattan and the Bronx every resort near ths city ha it picture shows. $ "The most mysterious thing about these movlnc picture show," said William Ham mersteln of the Victoria, "I that the man ager who rented the theater for say S3O.OU0 a year could not make the rent. If he had a second or third rate vaudeville shew, on of the kind that travel the country and come Into the second rate New York theaters to play for a week, hi running expense for the show alone could never be less than from $3,000 to 13,000 a week. In order to get that back he could give a mat Inee every day, evening show and two concerts on Sunday which he helped out with talent outside his company. Even then It was difficult for the manager to come out all right when everything was not favorable, "Yet the manager of the picture shows do not hesitate to pay the same rent and they are certainly making money on all sides or there would not be the increase In these place. Till man has practl tally one expense his rent,' He doe not even have bills for lighting because the theatre is dark, except the intermix slons between shows. A man or woman to sell tickets, perhaps two usher and an electrician to operate the films and there Is hi entire personnel The managers who stiow only pictures Install their own ma' chines permanently, so they have only to rent the films. In many of these places they are not particular about having brand new films. "Whatever their bualness may be during the week, these more pretentious pictjre shows can count on having from five to six thousand persons on Saturdays and Sundays. On these day they can give thirty shows from noon to midnight. That bualness on two day of the week alone pay thetr expenses, and what comes in for the rest of th time Is velvet. Hage dim Damped la London Thea ters fer Simmer Season. LONDON, July 8. (Special Correspond ence.) Theater managers have mostly had cause to weep over the season now draw ing to a close, for It la estimated that the total losses on new plays here has been something like 1500,000 much of It in plays rnported from the United States. The London production of "Way Down East" at the Aldwych came perilously near to establishing a record for brevity of run for the season. As It is, with Its eight per formances, it 1 third on the list, the two place of "honor" being occupied by Eng lish plays. "The College Widow" and The Marriage of William Ashe," Mar garet Mayo' dramatisation of Mr. Humphry Ward' novel of the same name, fight for tenth place with thirty perfor mance each. "The New York Idea," with forty-seven to its credit, is seventeenth. Among the successes "Brewster's Millions" Is second, having been "presented" no less than S23 times. "The Earl of Pawtucket" Is fifth, with 223 performance to boast of, while "A White Man," which 1 the Eng lish version of "The Squaw Man," reached Its 170th performance before a previous contract compelled Lewi Waller to with draw It while Us success was still green. William Courtlelgh. who presides over the destinies of the Actor' Society of America, ha been engaged to play at the Coliseum shortly and will appear In his sketch, "Peaches," which you have ' al ready seen In the vaudeville houses In the United State. Several year ago Court lelgh told me that there waa nothing In mo worm ne enjoyea so mucn a canoeing and that nowhere else In the world could his favorite recreation be enjoyed so fully as on th Thames. Now he is having his fill of It on the upper reaches of the beau tiful English river. Coming; Events. For the fourteenth and closing week of the season of the Woodward Stock com pany at the Boyd theater a merry comedy has been selected as, the bill. "A Stranger In Town" Is one ' of those plays made solely for the purpose of exciting laugh ter, and not a dull moment exists In its three acts. It la being offered under the personal direction of Mr. J. Francis Kirk, the director of the company, who will have an important part in the cast as well and who promise that it will be up to the standard in every particular. Mr. Morrison will have one of those roles in which he delights, that of a retired broker who Is inclined to be a little sporty, arid Miss Fleming la also well located in good girl part. The others in the cast are well, provided for, and the whole bill is on that promises much In the way of entertainment. The first performance will be given this afternoon. And the drama will be benefited, too. In stead of having to make a study of the tin. nations of a certain "star," and ex rente all care not to exceed them In pie- paring hi play for the stage, the author will be permitted to work out his thought I On great saving for these shows Is that In a logical way, and feel sure that It will i they never advertise except by means of be presented with sympathetic understand ing. ' This will have a tendency to develop th drama of th day along legitimate lines, and within its proper scope it will take on more and more of It aspect as a meeu ef educating and directing public thought. It la too much to say that the stage will fceiom a hading influent. e, but it will become, properly administered, a guiding Influence. The tfiect of the plays men tioned here is d recti y in line. Each haa a thought, and by the forceful and con vincing presentation of that thought each ha wrought upon the public haul of thinking. Neither offeis an oiiginal Idea, nor preaumesto take a step in advance of humanity' progress, but eat a Is resumptive in it natuie, aid by th correlation of certain episode gives to a central Idea a lighting effect tnat bring It out into high and clear relief, and pre sents a port it n of moral truth In a way tha'. Is impressive and l.kely to be kept In mind for a long time by the listener. As a general proposition, the function uf tin. theater ia rather to reflect than to formu late the manner and moial uf th time, and th success of the drama of direc An elaborate revival of Lord Lytton' Richelieu" will be the offering at the Air Dome this week. This is perhaps the best known of this writer's works, and the popularity of the piece is attested in the fact that It Is nearly a century since it was written. The personality of Car dinal Richelieu stands out In the his tory of Franc much as Cromwell's does In England. An aged man, besieged by rival for his office, continually watched by spies, the intended victim of many plots, he continued to be the power be hind the throne of France until his death. Mr. Htllman is thoroughly familiar with the title role, having played It for three year in reportolre. Special scenery will be used and the piece will be costumed elaborately. Manawa has had a patronage during the last week that has been one of the largest In Its history, the torrid day driving thousand of pleasure seekers daily to the cool resort Bathing Is proving so popular that a third Installment of new suits had to be ordered from Chicago to meet the rapidly increasing demand. Never be fore was this attraction so patronized by the girl as It has been this season, and th hundreds of dainty maids who take a plunge every afternoon in their varied colored suits has caused consider able comment. The new feature, dancing at the Kursaal, Is scoring a great hit and the floor is crwoded nightly, many of Omaha' society set being noticeable the last week. The popular music by the orchestra, th merriment among the dancer and the cool lake breese make a great Inducement for all to take a trip across to Manhattan beach. The casino will offer a new bill. Including a vaude ville sketch and several of the latest mo tion pictures. The Manawa Concert band, under the direction of Prof. Charles Jones, will render a program today that will be a treat for all lover of good music, all the latest operas being among their se lections. As one of the largest crowds of the season is expected at Manawa to day, the street car company ha promised a two-minute service. No form of summer amusement has combatted the heated term so well as the Burwood' superior moving pictures. Thla Is attributed to three good reasons, vU. : brand new pictures, the Immense size of the pictures and last, but not leant, the fact that the Burwood. during the periods when the thermometer Is soaring its high est. Is aa cool as a cavern. The moving picture programs invariably contain Uoaals) from Staseland. Critic Walkley of the Lincoln Times is again moved to ecstatic utterance by the nam ing of tlcnee. The little rianseuse who stored so heavily In "The Soul Kl-s' has returned to the scenes of her English tri umphs, but will come back to us in the full. "We should tike to collet t all the nl est words we know and lay them at In r feet at the feet of Mile. U. nee," YVa kl -y writes "Hut the suierlatlves have been thrown away b now on much less de serving things, and who would state wltii ordinary oallis of love of the art of M'lo. (Stiiee? Even If we elaborated Jewels five words long in her pra:e, our own art most seem clumsy by the side of hers. l'er haps the bent way, nfi.tr all, I that of the tanner In the story who returned thanks for a good meal thus: 'I puts down my knife and mv fork, and I says. "There!' ' "There! Mile. One has come back, bhe 1ms n .t changed except for the belter. And she is dancing Coppelia, Hut "the analogy dors not hold together. To see Mile, Conee dunce Is not to take a full meal; It Is to tame some rare, myriad-laughing wine of txqulsite bouquet. And to do that, of tourse. is to want more. The effect of Mile. Oenee's art is like nothing so much us that of si.ch a wine. It sparkles with l.ht and nlr and gayety, with headed Lobbies winking at the brim. And It : :re from the faintest suspicions of any thing raw, untempt red, or Incomplete. He hind all that mischief, that spontun -ous grace and fun, lies a technical perfection of which only Mile. Oenee, perhaps, in this imperfect world, can beast.' Tt Is accepied as significant thst George Alexander has decided to bring the run of 1 lnero's latest piny, "The Thunderbolt," to an earlv conclusion at his theater 'n London. He liimttelf will not bveln his prov neia! tour until the end of August, when he will depend entirely upon "Th.! Thl. f " During h i absence his theater w 11 be occupied by Forbes-Kobertson and llertrmto Iilliott D iris Mitchell has been engaged by Jules Murry as hading woman for Norman Hackett In "Classmates." Joe Howard, composer of the music in "The Flower of the Ranch" and a half dozen other plays, does not know one noie from another when it comes to reading or writing music. He has a tein all his own. lie sits down to a piano when ho gets an inspiration and plays the melody over. At his r giit hand he has a phono graph, which makes a record of the tun-, and In this way ho improvises and retains the melody, which Is later transcribed bv pome one who is well up In that sort of tiling. Mmo. Modjeska. now retired from the stage, lias sent Jules Murry, a New York manager, a four-act comedy by Panford Treadwell of California, entitled "The Right M m," which may be produced next sen son. The scenes are laid In California at tne time of the earthquake. Sarah I'.ernhardt 1 anxious for still an other Am Titan tour. Her ceming Is con ditional upon one thing, and that is the consent of William Connor of the Siude bakcr to act again as her manager. For several months Hernhardt has been trying to prevail upon Mr. Connor to turn from other business Interests long enough to take her around the circuit she covered with so mucli glory and profit two years ago, and It Is significant that in his lengthy correspondent e with her he haa net hinted at a flat refusal. Mrs. Leslie Carter l'ayne's next vehicle will be a new play by John Luther Long, who. In collaboration with Belasco, wrote "The Darling of the Clods." The locale of the piece is Hungary. Mrs. t arter will have tne role of a young woman, fresh irom a convent. The plot hinges upon the meeting of the convent bred girl with a poet, who makes love to her and succeed tventuall) In enticing her away Into the niountans with him. Of course, it is in the mountain retreat where tne plot begins to curuie. Among the old pieces which Klaw & Erlanger "will offer are "Ben Hur." "The Hound Up" and "Th Right of Way.' Their new attractions Include "In Time of Peace," written by Paul Armstrong, a play of the American colonial period by Langdon Mitchell, a melodrama oy Ldmund Day and also a comedy by the same author, entitled "The Widow's Mite," In which Annie Russell may be seen: a play by John J. McNally en-titled "From Harlem to the Buttery," and an adaptation of Rex Beach's "The Barrier." At Chrlstmasf they are to furnish a spectacular piece on the story of Cinderella, who will be impersonated by Mabel Taualerro. AMI K.IKT. MI'RK1T. ' I B OYDMS TH E AT E R ! FAREWELL WEEK TODAY AT 8:30, TOaTIGXT AT 8:15, AND ALL WEEK A i Thn ras-aasi l-a nfftAI " s B I Favorite WUUUWAKU blUUV UU. H II THE SUCCESSFUL FARCE COMEDY I B A Stranger in Town j Ll PHONES- Bell, Doug. I506;ind. A-1506 TODAY and until next Wednesday Evening "THE LITTLE COX SWAIN OF THE 'VARSITY EIGHT" and a baker's half dosen other moving picture subjects. Continuous Performance Daily 1 to 5; 7 to 11. THEATER COOLED BY COOLINE WHEN HOT TIRED TAKE BUS WOOD MOVING PICTURES TWICE DAILY lOOO m-:at a r IOC PROGRAM UNEXCELLED. BOMXXHINO WORTH HEARING ALL THE TIME July 23 to Aug. 2 BELLEVUE CHAUTAUQUA July 23 to Aug. 2 Special Provision for Camping;, Plonlc and Athletics. Beautiful Scenery. Omaha Headquarters, Room 330 T. M. O. A. Bnildlug-. Telephone, Douglas 84t. The many shade trees, beauti ful lawns and the large lake makes this an ideal spot to escape the terrible heat. BATHING, BOATING, CONCERT BAND, BALLOON JUMP, DAHCH1G AT THE KURSAAL. THEATER, ROLLER COASTER, MINIATURE RAILROAD, AND A SCORE OF OTHER FEATURES NO GATE ADMISSION A IK DO MP: 18th and Douglas sis. Tonlfrht All Week HILLMAH'S IDEAL STOCK CO. In tin- Flv-.ct lU'tiinit HICHELIEU SPECIALTIES BETWEEN ACTS. t'ui't.itn at Ki.'io ITKinpl. Prioea 10c and 20o. IONA BARNHART TEACHER Or SINGIHG Pupil of Thomas J. Kelly. 203 BOTD THEATER. Saturday afternoons and by appolutmmant. Resident phone, llainey 203 The liorglum Siudios 1810 Cnpltol Avenue. M:sciii:tizkv mktiiod. Jean (J. .lonos in ("hnrRe Dtirini; Summer, Pupil of Viikt Sunyiie, Piirl. Mrs. Mary Harris Armae State President of .he Georgia V. C. T. V. will speak Frldity afternoon, July 24th, at the BELLEVUE CHAUTAUQUA EIlL VINTON STKICKT PARK OMAHA vs Rose Btahl passed through London a few day ao on her way to Pari. 8 he will lay in the French capital juat Ions enough to order some new "creation" for the second act of 'The Chorus Lady." and then is off to Brussels and Bruges for a holiday. She return to the United States in September. She declare that she will stick to the character of "Patricia O'Brien" until she has "store teeth and commercial hair." At any rate, she will be seen In It next Easter In London at the Hicks theater. London placed the "hall mark" on the vaudeville sketch from which James Forbes built up the present version of "The Chorus Lady," and so Miss Stahl and her managers are treading- on pretty sare ground. Hattle William Is also in Paris, but on quite a different errand. That buxom young woman Is trying to absorb some of me uy raree atmosphere for use In the tnira act of "Fluffy Ruffles." the scene of which la laid in France. Hattle Is dressing the part short, pleated skirt and big hat and 1 doing everything else to set herself Into trim for the opening of the Frohman production at the Criterion the ater. New Tork, on August 28. Truly Shattuck. who is In London and has appeared recently at both the Coliseum and the Empire, has been engaged for the Christmas pantomime at Drury Lan. Na ture was very kind to Truly, and she do-s not hide her undoubted physical chatms under a bushel basket, so to speak. In fact, her appearance In tights ha set the InhnnL. t . 1 1. . 1 - 1 . , . .... r V" " "' ",,u "'"""" not among Its many numbers a reel of pictures brinw 4 1 1 srt uihol x ..111 am i . . . ' " ...7.. V .7 7. - i'kk depicting travel In some foreign land wuirn is ine name of the "I presented Mme. Naiimova In the Ibsen plays to clarify her KiiKUsli, boldly as serted ilenry Miller in a talk he hud with Colgate baker In Sun Francisco, where he is playing. "She could not speak distinctly and 1 thought that tills would be an ad- vantage In tlie Ibsen drama, for It would give the audience something more to puzzle over, and that is what the members ol the cult delight in. Mme. Naiimova was great success, however, aha is a splendid artist, liut 1 must say a good word foi Ibsen as long aa we are on the subject. 1 really believe that we need the iNoi wcgiar. dramatist sometimes. Just aa we occasion ally need a doctor. He has served an ex cellent medicinal purpose; lie has prevented fatly degeneration of the drama, and as a tonic and corrective of ullra-thuatricaUsm lie has been of great service, tie sounded the death knell of banality on the stage, and we owe him a great debt, but Uie patient, having had his dose of physic, bas had enough for the present." Dorothy Morton, who was Libble Mc Carthy of St. Louis, ha been engaged as prima donna of the Aborn opera company in Baltimore. Sue created the title rule li "Jacinla," the first musical oomedy com posed by Alfred U. Kooyn of "Yankee Con sul" prominence. In "The Drums of Doom," a one-act thriller produced recently in London, the wife of Jim Fitzgerald Is awaiting lus re lease from prison, and Lawyer Delaney ail his friend billy iiuckstone know that the governor's pardon has already beeu igned. In Joyful anticipation u( hi re lease. Mis. r tizgerald is ordering a supper and is waiting patiently until lit o'clock strikes, when she expects a message from her husband on the telephone, but the governor has tuurd that public opinion is too strong for him, and a howling muu round the prison has determined to pivent the official pardon from reaching the crun Inal. So when i o'clock sink. -a the man Is electrocutes!, and the horrible message reaches his distracted wife at the telepiione "It all-went off nicely. What are we to do with the body? placards In front of the theatres. Now if you can show me a single point on which these picture show people have not got the cheai er vaudivi le people stung to death I'd like to know where it la" One of the vaudeville agents In the St. James building does not believe tha' the present rage for the picture show mean that vaudeville will suffer. "People who have be. n In the habit of attend ng the cheaper variety of 'shows and mtlodramas," he said, "think now of the greHt difference between 10 and Ju cents much more than they l't a year ug.' The man In this class ha always to pay for two. If he ran get some en (erta nmtnt by spending half an hour in one of these places tt takes tha place if tha vtru to the theater that he would have made a yvar ago. To see any kind of a show for only f.ve cents is something to him, even If It does not lat half a long us what he used to go (o see. Then the picluie shows Invite the man In the street. They are open wherever he goes, and lie can walk In without the prepara tion of going to the theater and find the appeal to the Inullect, presented by i.Uyei . audience of a kind lhat doe not care of Intelligent capacity is a most encourag- . whether he Is dressed or not. That has Ing one, .and tends to foaur the hope tha. j be n another great factor in their auctess. the day v (ha "svar-nighl" lUr aad the "Yet all of tha attractions ax only big pantomime, I am tolerably certain that the management will not put her In skirt. Thl week Isadora Duncan, who, of course, I an American, is giving a aerie of her dances. Lately not only London, but the whole continent, has gone mad over bare-back, bare-chest, bare-feet and bare arm dancers that copy In varying degrees the art to which Mis Duncan Introduced us eight years ago. Of late years the San Fruncisco woman ha been teaching dan cing to children In Berlin and more lately in Paris. She has been coaxed to London by Charles Frohman and the extraordinary vogue of her imitators. Incidentally It Is a notable fact that the three dancer who have created real sensations of late years should all be Americana. I refer, of course, to Miss Duncan, Maud Allan and Ruth St. Denis. Charles Froraan expect to sail for New Tork on July Is. He has so many plan that he cannot remember them all. One of th moat Interesting. I believe. I hi com ing production of "The Dollar Princess." a musical play written by two Germans. The adaptation for American la being made by George Grossmlth, Jr., a young comed ian, who baa had considerable xperleac The course adopted 1 generally up among the perpetual snows In the mountains or along some rocky coast, where one may not only see, but actually hear the in viting waves dash themselves into a seething mas of foam and spray against the rugged shore. Thl in Itself Is a cooling thought for heated heads, and In V'onjunctlon with the welcome breezes created by the myriad of electric fans, It surely makes the Burwood a most en joyable place In which to retreat U escape the torrid heal waves, from which there is no other relief than the Burwood' cooling conditions. As its feature picture In the program, starting tills afternoon and continuing. Inclusive of Wednesday evening, the burwood will offer a subject most apropos to the summer season. It Is entitled "The Little Coxswain of the 'Yaxsiy Eight." and It tells an absorbing story of love. Intrigue and college sport. The race scene Is said to be particularly Interesting. All of Omaha's student body and the alumni of any college will find this series of motion photography exceed ingly entertaining. It is considered as among the best films ever prepared by the Edison company. The synchroscope will offer another of th moving pictures that talk, th Burwood being the only picture display In Omaha presenting this rmarkabl ftaturs. As usaal Lb pr- V Business Men's Lunch SPECIAL EVERT DAT 0,JV WALTER'S CAFE. 1415 PARNAM ST. LINCOLN SUNDAY. JULY 19 OAMES CALLED, 3:46. READ THE BEST PAPER The Omaha Ixiily Itee. COFFEE FREE From July 19 to July 25 we will serve one cup of coffee free with every lunch order amounting to ten centa or over. We are bound to convince you that we serve the bent coffee In Omulia. THE BOSTON LUNCH 1012 KAK.NAM STHEET afraid of facing the problem. Bernhardt played to crowded houses at lncras.d prices everywhere she went on her last engagement In this country; she rth d In every play she presented: einht to ten times a week she died, and still she rame and went without our dramatists, our min,iiTs or our prominent 'Mars' piofnlnp by Hie otij'-ct le.HHon. Should she return asaln stu; will die Just as often us she noi s before an audience, and the audience will applaud and the dramatist, the inuiin(j;::r .ind the '.ttar' will turn away to iiisy thenifelvcs with the fiction that death ha no place In the modern drama." Ellen Terry concludes what would se'-m to be the last uf her breezy series of m moira with: Hie tour or ivui was chielly moiiien tous to me because at Pittsburg 1 was mar ried for the third lime, and niiiriied to an American, Jumes 1 sselman of liill;ina, who acts under the name of James Carcw." Observations of an old playgoer In tha St. Louis Post-Dlspalch: That twenty-flve-minute vaudeville "Hamlet" 1 merely obeying Shakespeare's "If 'twere done when lis done, 'twere well 'twere done quickly." With Playwrights Ade und Thomas active in politics on opposing sides the camp.iiKn uutlook promises some thrilling plots and counterplots. William Faversham haa four new play for next seasiln, but one "bird'' in the hand Is worth more than lhat In the bush. Leslie Carter doubtless hopes lor a hit in her new play that'll land vmack on the David belasco-co. The Long beach music hall of Mont gomery and Stone's was probably bull wi'.h "rocka" taken from "Ihe lied Mili.' Now that Chicago has killed "Ihe Ludy from Lane's," lib stranded player hope to see the ghost walk. Doesn't "The Merry Widow's" move to the top of the Aerial theater in New York threaten a roof garden crop of weeds? Observes Kennuld Wolf: "lieiten. and perhaps Elinor Ulyn, alone kn mi nh.it a Three Weeks' dance may le, hut Valeaka Suratt has such a terpalchorean surprise In preparation and will offer it to th public early in the fall. Miss Huratt baa returned from Europe after scoring a per sonal success In the London halls. Robert Dalley, a brother of the late Peter F. Dalley, will be leading comedian In ''The (till Question" when that piece la presented in Wallack s theater. New York, in August. Dailey has been appearing wi;h bert Leslie in vaudeville, lie will have the part of Con Ryan the restaurant manager, played in the La Salle by Junle McOce and Joseph lilti head. The other day Mr. Connor was talking of the French actress. "The snbjei t of death Is not exactly pleasant; still, pleas ant or unpleasant, Rernhardt has found it her greatest aet." he asserted "And why not? There Is nothing in tins world ho certain aa death. Uernhardt recognizes that fact and all her life she ha guided herself by the belief theatergoer are nut "All for a Girl" In the name of a new comedy written hy Hubert Hughe. Th principal limit- chra lei- is ..del by Douglas Fairbanks, who l.iyed tuveniP-s here In "As Ye sow'' and "1 he Alan of the Hour.'' Cliarles Klein in happier than he ni tln niKlit "Tin- Music Master" scored Its bin success. It Is all due to tue birth of a baby boy. who arrived al Shirley Manor, lily summer home In Connecticut, a week ago. SkCsilaJ it is a tricky, vicious, partisan, fanatical, sectfilian organ." bigoted. BEATS THE LANE CUT-OFF Pellers Larg.y, former "angel" for Will J. l'l ck. has at last icivmnced the theatri cal game forever. He backed llloek's pro ductions of "Coming Thro' ihe live." "The Iand of Nod." "Told In the Hills," etc., and declares that he 1. st In this pleasant pastime. Iast summer he broke with Ulo k ai.d allied himself with another manaKer one Samuel (; Hoi k. which oper ated for a year with come kucc-k.h IjwKey it the president of 'he State Havings hank of Hutte. Mont , and the arguments of the directors of that Inst iti t ion were paitly r. spcnrlMe for his abdic ation from angelhood Stella Tracv made her first appearance as Kate Arniltage In "Three Twins'' at the Herald Huua'-e theater. New Yoik, lant week, replacing Alice YorKe, who la to have a vacation. Mabel Harrison of "The Flower of the Ranch " has been riiKHC'd by the Messrs. Bhubert for next seaixiK and will be starred In one of the musical shows put out by that company. Adeline Oet.ee danced befoie Kln-j Rd ward and J-.ie-n Alexandra at Winds. r castle recently. The dancer app.ai.-d In the ballet "The Dryad." which Klaw Ai Krlanger are to produce in New York next autumn. Her appearance befoie the king and queen was at a benefit fur the Que..u Alexandra hospital. Hecall the flood Old Days. It waa feared that the good old days of personal journalism were gone forever, but the country was gladdened recently by this historic touch from the Salt Lake Tribune. "Our esteemed conu-mitorary lb a unique riewspupi r. it is unique in. its ca pacity for unbounded, continuous and mal ignant lying and false pretenses, vol.ib.ll; y, and dciisei.ess of moral percept Inn in de aiMtt of criminals. I'pun its merits Savins; Kleven Miles of Distance at a Cost of Thirteen -Million Dollars. The fame of the Lane cut-nlf on ths I'nlon Pacific lino cut of Omaha will pres ently be dimmed both In cost and altitude of fills. The Lackawanna railroad is about to build a cut-off at a cost of 13oil,(i which will save eleven miles between Lake llfiputcong and Delaware Water (lap. The short cut will save half an huiir's t'me on the run, for which the company will pay about tlXi,i a minute. To save this ap parently small distance of eleven miles the company will spend for right-of-way M.ifK'.tmO, general construction 14.0iM, bridges, viaducts, culverts, crossings, e'e H.'xUJ0 and for a "fill," as the one.inocn term a construction that requires earth to bring a railroad up to grade, iiiOiitm The "fill" in question Is, according 'o F. L. Wheaton, engineer of construe! I in for the road, to be the largest in Aim-nca, It not in the world, the second in importance being the fill on the L'nlon I'acltu- raliroud went of Omaha, which has over 4," '), t) cubic yards of dirt. That on the luki wanna cut-off will have 6.7".'o culilc ya.V of filing. It will begin a mile east of An dover village and will extend two ami a half miles to the west, cutting through flue farms and causing the razing of buildings. Including a new brick school hou'i. The maximum height of the line above present level, al the pcquesl river, will be lUt fejt. A II loud- A Hair is lung hemmorrhaKe. 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