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    THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 7. 1900.
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Gossip About Plays, Players and Playhouses
n. SOTHERN encountered dur
ing his engsarinent at the Boyd
theater the same difficulty that
muet be met by nil actors who
undertake to present them
selves In clsssle roles. Thin Is
M
the opposition of pre-drtrrm!ned notions of
how the pert, should be presented, more or
!- flrrsly fixed In the minds of all who
wltr.rs the performance. Especially In
thin true of -HamVt." So many great
ttnrs have prrsnted thla part with such
widely varying Illustration, especially of
the detail, and o .many commentator
have dflt upon It at length and written
Into It much that does not appear on the
surfsce and a great deal that seems un
warranted, that the ttudent of tha drama
hesitates In con f union amidst the multltuda
of embodiments that hav been given them.
This, Iti effect, ha reduced "Hamlet" to
the condition of a drama for the library
tatl.er than for the stage, and whenever
Mr. Pothcrn. or any othr grt actor,
essays tho role he la merely pitting' hi
perai nsl judgment against hat of a ma
jority, at lesst, of those who witness It.
It la quite llknlv that within certain nebu
lous bounds "Mi-mlrl" Is i a ruble of uni
form present at inn. but the seneral develop
ment x'i the rhaiaittr depends to so large
an extent on tiic ti nitx-fs-rient and mental
brit of the nctor that e;h sii'ceo,tng per
formance must necessarily amount almost
fo a new crnceptinn of the role.. (
No cine realises thlslfflrulty more fully
than does Mr. Hot hern and he says, him
Sflf, that ha has aeldom played the part
twice eliUe Ks moods and attitudes seem
1o continually shift and he Is left per
pitualiy In doubt as to J ist what expression
shoulj be given to Its varying phases. So,
If lie attains any degree of success In the
role, rt Is because of his personality. Mr.
Kutlirrn a efforts hava been made In the
direction of developing a natural Hamlet
one whnse perplexity of mind can be In
some measure grasped by the ordinary
f.liKerver. devoid of subtlety, and without
proceeding to any extremity of metaphysl
cal analysis. In this respect the ereatloi la
sunn what unique and la altogether to the
credit of the actor. It is this grace of
sound common sense that has savad Mr.
Sot In rn from mistakes that one whose mind
was less roundly developed might eaally fall
Into. If hla Hamlet lacka In profundity,
It pMiis because It la a Hamlet that ran
be understood. For this much, thanks la
due lo Mr. Bothern.
Ills nil helleu Is caat on more formal
lines. He seldom departs (mm th tradi
tions of the part, probably In thla regard
compensating for his abandonment of the
tradttlcna that surround the major role.
He createa the great French minister as a
scholarly, dignified and patriotic old gen
tli'hish. beneath whose hard surface of
wnrldly wisdom and statecraft rune a cur
int of WHnn sympathy for those about
him, .ami a deep and abiding love
for those wlo tire close lo him.
This has always been the accepted
view of the character as embodied1 In rhe
Hulwer Iytton drama, and in .preserving
it. the actor has merely bowed to the
canons of his craft. He la not to b cen
sured for this, for In other wsys tie has
undertaken enough that la new to keep
him busy and he will be eaally eicneed
for the conventionality of hla Richelieu.
Urd. Dundreary la merely a aurvlval
rnlhcr than a revival. No other actor on
the American stage would undertake the
part for chylous reasons. Yet it Is pecu
llar'y fitting that the son of the man whose
nnme Is so familiar, because of the hold
tho pint took on the public should again
bring to visual attention the eccentricities
nd fonprrlea of the quaint conceit that
ii'inle our fathers and mothers and grand
fathers ii ml grandmothers laugh so many
jcits . The rolo Iihs no extrinsic value
h;itcver. depending entirely on Itself and
Us fixator for any lntereat that may flow
f.cm t. Toe plsy, "Our American Cousin,"
Is of Interest merely aa allowing what sort
of sluff could get on the stage fifty years
S(,o end be accepted. In adding tills to his
rcreitolre. Mr. Snthern Is moved by a de
sire to prevent himself from developing
along narrow lines. Ills natural gift of
expression Is more for comedy than for
ths serious work of the drama, and yet
he 1 as turned himself aside both from the
light comedy, In which he first became
prominent, and from the romantic. In
which he- gained even greater prominence,
and undertaken the heavy work of the
.classic. He did this after mature dtllber
atkn, proving himself to be a studious and
scholarly actor, aa well aa ambitious; but
with the experience of many who have
gone before to guide him he haa wisely
determined that his development should
not be solely In the direction of the classic,
but hus determined to keep himself In
touch with the lighter phases of the stag-)
ao that hla work will appeal to a more
numroui public. The contrast between
Han. let and Dundreary, for example, ia a
sharp and In some ways harah one. The
two parte seem to be almost ttt opposite
o'f s and yet the effort Is Justified.
!
' Orson George bas again scored In a new
play Mr. Thompson i Buchanan's "A
Woman's Way." This comedy Is described
as being "Dlvorcons ' the other way round.
In this it Is the wife who Is given provoca
tion for divorce, bur wtt.j wins back her
husband by a HllU tact. The subterfuge
tidopted Is not a novel one, but lis working
out presents element ot comedy that prove
greatly successful. When the wife discov
ers that her husband haa been comprom
ised In connection with a widow and di
vorce la suggested she proves herself more
lesourceful, and Instead of hurrying away
- to her lawyer ahe consult her chef. A
dinner party Is arranged to which are In
vited to widow and the aeveral men with
whom she haa been flirting, and during the
progress of the meal the husband Is given
an excellent chance to find out Juat where
b stands with the widow, how ahallow hr
pretensions are and how inferior ahe la to
his wife. Before the meal ta closed be U
ready to ronfess his error and renew his
allegiance. The current of the play turns
on the battle of wits between ' the rwo
women. Miss (lecrac playing the part of
the wife and Dorothy Ten runt the part of
the widow. The New York critics raise
their voices for once. In a single chorus uf
praise, not only for the drama, but for the
star and her aasoclates. The plsy Is the
work of a member of the reportorlal staff
of the New York American.
THRKR IT4RI FROM
ABROAD
Nor
Oettisa Reasy
to
Play la
tCsslUh.
NEW YORK. March l -Theatrical man
agers r Imitative, and mayb for that
easoi there I to be' a fresh sunply of
fortlgn sctrease for the American stage.
The success of Alia Naslmova end Brtha
Ka'Uii may expla n the p-cnt '.ndua'.ry
of Marietta Oily, Ilcdwig Relclier and Mlml
Aguglla la acquiring the English language.
The three are next year to be put forward
aa star In th vernacular.
Or there may be snother reaaon why
lloee recruits from ths foreign stage have
Iwn brought Into th field of ths Ameri
can sUterboo. Maragsi bellev that Urs
t
are necessary to the success of a play.
They hesitate to "end out from New lork
playa without a wrman star at the head
of the company, and even here they prefer
to supply this element of attraction to all
their productions. '
The public will take to an unknown
personality more eagerly than It will to a
play that may not be known. While the
play Is In reality more Important thsn the
actor or the actress the presence of a atar
at the head of a company helps greatly.
Ensemble, for Instance, as represented by
a stock company, has no drawing power of
Its own to help out the play, whereas Miss
Blaeque Eyyees will Inert aae the Interest
of the public In the play In which she Is
the star or the war star.
This theory, as everybody acquainted
with the theater haa known for sevenal
years, Is responsible for the presence ot
the many fair Incompetents at the heads
of various companies traveling through 'the
country and for the many tail young wen
with broad shculders and good profiles who
have suddenly become atars because there
Is supposed to lie in their personality some
thing that appeala to the taste of the
public
Personally that ia the overworked sub
stantive that explains the making of many
stara. Have all the types of American per
sonality been exhsuSted In the. search for
stars? Have big, black eyes, . long necks,
red, hair, a tear In the voire, a bright
smile, whit teeth, a' rpputatSon for exem
plary life-have all these pecullartle beun
to pall on the American pubtlo, until the
managers believe that something- exotic
is needed to create Interest! That may be
one reason for th transplanting: of act
resses from the foreign atage to make them
Into stars Instead of pursuing, the homo
methods of manufacture that have been
in vogue for several seasons. '
Alia Nasimovo showed the value of th
exotic note In an actress. Trmt waa the
great novelty In her performance to the
American public, which waa not In the
habit of seeing such art In control of so
interesting and natural a temperament.
Charles Frohman doubtless realised that
there. Is no actress more marked with this
quality of art than Mlml Aguglla. She had
temperament enough to throw several fit
In one act and come smiling before the
curtain while the audience sits with the
sensation of having been in a hospital
clinic. If Mlml Aguglla could thrill her
hearers aa she did In. a language they
could not understand she will supply all
the temperament necessary when they are
able to comprehend her.
It Is Interesting to note that two of the
candidates for success In the vernacular
are Italians. These are Mme. As-uglla and
Mme. Oily, who Is a nstlve of Italy, al
though she haa always acted In Oerman.
Hedwlg Relcher. on the other hand. Is a
thorough German In training and appear
ance. The services of those three rccmlta
are equally divided among the managers.
Minil Aguglla goes to Charles Frohman.
Marietta Oily to the Shuherts and Hedwlg
Relcher to Henry Harris.
Miss Ylelrher Is the only one of the three
who knows up to date In what she Is to
appear before the American public. It will
be a translation of topold , Kampf's "On
the Eve," which haa been adapted Into
English by Martha Morton. 8he speaks
English now with slight trace of accent
and ia atudying as diligently as the two
others.
Her adaptability In questions of language
was shown two year ago when the Esper
anto congress held It session In Dresden,
at whoso Court theater she waa the leading
lady.- She was anxious to take part 1n
the performance given In honor of the con
gress and learned In six week the title
role In "Iphlgenla.
Miss Relcher waa brought here by Dr.
Bhumfeld last year to act at hi German
theater. She soon decided that It was the
English stage that would give her the right
aort of opportunities here and not the Ger
man, so she began to exercise her llnguistlo
talents on the English language.
She made her first appearance abroad In
the role of Nora at the Deutsche theater
In Berlin, where he father was a well
known performer of Ibsen role. She was
only 16 at that time, and her mother, Lena
Hsrf, was at th same, time the leading
actress at the leasing theater In Oldenburg.
Her next success waa at Lelpalc, where
she created the leading part In Suder
mann'a dreary, "The Fires of St. John."
The next year she played In "FToq-Frou" at
the Hamburg Stadt theater. The following
seaaon ahe was at Frankfort and afterward
followed the engagement at the Dresden
Court theater and wlthv Dr. Baurnfeld her.
One ot her popular performance In Ger
many used to be Salome, which she played
to the Herod of her father, which gave a
domestic touch to the play that might even
reconcile Philadelphia to It. Mlsa Relcher
haa also played abroad the part in "On the
Eve." In which she Is to make her first
appearance her.
Marietta Oily, who is now in the twenties,
looks like Mrs. Flske and talks with some
of th same tnctstveness. Her volos plac
ing would be the despair of any vocal
atudent. for she speaks by nature, with
every word formed on tn edge of her
lower teeth, and It shoot Into the air with
worderful distinctness.
At th Irving Place theater, to which
Otto Well brought her. there Is never a
wcrd lost even though th listener stand
st the back of a theater supplied with
rather tricky acoustic qualities. This gift
Is all the more remarkable In view of th
fact that she began her career as a ballet
dancer am) pnntomlmlst.
Mme. Oily Is studying parts at th very
outset, for she feels that by next Octobfr
she must know how to enunciate English
dlbtinctly, as she can acquire th compre
hension and facility needed in ordinary
conversation soon enough. As soon a th
Shuberts decld in what play sh 1 to
star Mm. Oily will begin to learn th text
of that in order that her flj-at New York
audience may understand, what she sr.ys
She could appear In Italian as well aa
German, and la hoping that the accent
ahe may speak with for a while shall b
Italian and not German.
German I th tongue that It Is most
difficult for American sudlences to take
seriously. Broken English served with bis
of fractured German will not Impress an
aucikence that hears It from th "pa of a
beautiful woman or a aeriou actor, so
Mme. Relchsr snd Mm. Oily ar trying
to rid themselves of sny trace of scent.
s)
Slgnora Aguglla need not hsv the ssme
apprehension. Her great compatriot. Ade
laide Riatorl. came here to act In th
vernacular at the end of her career "ni
was not understood by on person out of
trn who gathered to hear her. and iier
were not many of them at that. Th
Italian accent is. Uke tl..- Fn nrh and
Polish, much more musical la Amor lean
eara than Oerman. Signora Aguglla will
therefor have tha advantage of not having
o struggls against a language that fall
tn accents on the ears of American audi
ence with a tendency to mak them laugh
rather than weep.
It was managerial hell( only a tsw
t
years ago that the Importation of foretgn
actresses for our slage wa over forever.
It wss customary tVr managers to Bay
that the day of Helena Modjeska and
Fanny Janauschek, her predecessor, had
come to an end, and that no manager
would conceive again such an Idea as that
of Maurice, Grau, who once thought rf
baring" Jams HarMng learn Rngliah that
she might fill the vacancy paused by the
abssnoe of a first-class emotional actress
here. But It only took the appeanwnos of
Alia Naslmova and Bertha Kullch to show
again the fallibility of managerial Judg
ments. And these actresses had not the ad
vantage of their predecessors of a score
or more years sgo. Then ths school of
the emotional French drama was In its
bloom. "Camllle" and "Frou-Frou."
which It Is difficult to make the public
listen to now, were then In their bloom,
and there was the entire school of French
playa bf the kind that Included "Article
47." "Adrlenne Iecouvreur" and "Allxe."
Mme. Naslmova has It to her credit
that she was able to win out with Ibsen,
but for the lest of this Important talent It
will be necessary to have playa written to
order. There could be no more eloquent
tribute to the exotic charm of the Rus
sian actress' personality than (her success
In the threadbare repertoire wtiloh ha.s so
far Introduced her to American audiences.
Slgnoia Aguglla cam mto notice first
last autumn In London with the company
of Sicilian players who were afterward
Imported for the entertainment of New
Yorker by Charles Frohman. She moved
on to Berlin In the Interval, and her sue
cess In the peculiarly Intense style of act-
Compliments of
T HAS been some time
since anything from tha
pen of Mr. William Winter
has been presented here, so
Just to show that 'the dean
of American crltlca Is still
on the Job and that his year have not
in the least abated his ability or his
seal for what he thinks is right, this
"brief, but comprehensive, writing of
his snent "This Woman and This
Man," In which Carlotta Nillson Re
cently opened a metropolitan engage
ment at the Maxlne Elliott theater. Is
given:
The quality of mercy would have
to be very considerably strained be
fore Intelligent Judgment could com
mend or patience tolerate such a
spectacle of folly and such a tissue
of prattle and gabble as was divulged
yesterday at the Maxlne Klilott thea
ter, under the absurd title of "Thla
Woman and This Man." where Miss
Carlotta Nillson, a clever woman,
with a moral bee In her bonnet, began
an engagement and waa received with
kindness by a tnuch-endurlng audi
ence. This new bore proceeds from
the pen of Mr. Avery Hopwood. and.
liko Caessr's All Gaul, is divided into
three parts. Part first makes known
that Norrls Townsend. a long man
with an active jaw and a blaring
voice, has seduced his father's gov
erness, and that the unfortunate
woman is about to become a mother.
Also It exhibits Townxend and his
father as a pair of unmitigated black
guards, since they propose to send
the girl Into seclusion till her child
Ing that she represents was as great there
as In London.
The play she has acted In here are not
of a character to stand transfer to ths
American stage and her promised appear
ance as Zasa Is evidence . of the Una -ot
work into which Mr. Frohman itray put
her. Sb Is by no means the unskilled
peasant, actress thait some wrttlc have
coma to believe or at all events to pro
claim. 8h has never appeared perhaps on
the most -conspicuous stages of the con
tinental theaters, but that la no reflection
on her natural ability. Her father was an
actor and her mother had been an ama
teur in Catania, where Mlml Aguglla was
born. She began to act at the age of 6
and In thia particular her life was not
unlike that of her greater contemporary,
Eleonora Duse, who traveled about for
years as a child with her father's modest
company.
Sli played children' parts until she
was 12, then began to pine under the
strain of her dramatic effort and took
to singing couplet In a music hail where
her father put her to avoid the strain of
travelling and acting In the humble man
ner he and her, mother and their colleaa
gue were compelled to do. At 17 she Joined
Slgnor Ferrau's company of 8lcllian actors
and three day' later played the same
ptrt In "Malta" that Introduced her to
New Tork audience.
BAD HOB OF TUB ACTOR'S JOB
Macs, rasa Id For Work and Msay
Minor Bxpesaei,
NEW YORK, March 1 In a newly im
ported musical comedy th chief comedian
soliloquise for a time on the advantage
of a stag career and concludes:
"I'v always thought I'd Ilk to be an
actor, but it must cut In on ono's evenings
frightfully."
That isn't ths only disadvantage. Take
the questtrn of rehearsals and go the
round of half a dozen actors of the medio
cre but necassary kind and listen to the
hard luck stories. Any show means el
j least three week of rehearsing -In most
cases very much more.
For these weeks there Is no pay and it
may b that after the four, six or eight
weeks of unpaid work the production will
fall In a week, fall perhaps it the mana
ger is untrustworthy, without salaries for
ven that week being forthcoming.
This fate doesn't always affect only ths
actors of lesser class. One ot the best
known of American character actors, a
man wbo has had prominent parts In a
number of successes, spent practically an
entire winter in unpaid rehearsing some twi
or three years ago. H appeared in four
successive productions, each elaborate, but
each destined to a run of not more than
two weeks. If his salary were 1150 a week,
he could not have earned much more than
VKO or (7(0 for that season's work and
thrs ar fifty-two weeks of board to be
paid In the actor's year as well a In th.-.t
of the humble persons who pay $2 to watch
him.
Another young English actor who cams
to this country some years ago rehearsed
In on so son some fourteen weeks with
thres plays, each of which was a complete
failure. He got something Ilk three week
pay for this winter. In addition he had
the extra good luck to so a play of hi
own. In which, however, he did not ap
pesr, open In Monday and closs In Wed
nesday of the same week.
In fact an actur getting, say, &0 a week,
which stems a good salary to the clerk
at IS a week, counts himself very lucky
If he works forty weeks a year. Indeed If
h works thirty h Is well oft and ths SCO
shrivels when It is spread over a year.
Clothes ars another problem. Ths gen
eral custom of ths business I that th
manager shall provide only costumes ; that
ia, anythlug that la not modni dress.
Snppoee a production calls, as Is not un
common, for a business suit, a frock coal
and a suit of evening c'othes. All or part
of these may have to be purchased new
for shahblness Is a cardinal offence. It
one' musical play produced not long ego
th Juvenile I called on to appear in the
first art In a suit of white flannels, useful
garment for a Sometimes needy actor.
Nevertheless they're not costumes and h
muat buy them hlmeelf.
COMIXO TO TH IB OMAHA THKATKR9
What the Press Attest Promises to ths
Pa bit.
The only changes which have been made
In "A Knight for a Day" sine it waa
last seen at the Boyd are likely to prove
decidedly for the better. Eugene Moulan
has succeeded Bobby Barry as Jonathan
Joy, the nervy waiter, who masquerades
as a nobleman, and Rennold Cameron has
Mr. Moulan's old part of Marcellne. the
Inventor of th meat sauce which figures
prominently in the merry play. Elsie
Herbert, Gertrude HutcheBon, Eleanor
Irving, lsabelle Wlnlocke and that Amer
ican beauty chorua are tlll prominent
In what has been declared to be one of
the best musical comedies of recent
years. It will return to the Boyd this
evening for two performances, the en
gagement closing Monday night.
"Mrs. Wlggs oftheCabba-e Patch," a
play which may be said to be a fit ex
ample of the simple lite, lived humor
ously, comes to the Boyd Tuesday,
Wednesday and Wednesday matinee and
will be presorted by a special cast direct
from a most auccessful Australian en
gagement. It has been said that "Mrs.
Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch" as a play
Mr. Wm. Winter
Is born and then arrange to have the
child adopted, and so be quit of both.
Still further it shows the governess.
Thekla Miller by name, to be a young
woman of resource, and that she
sends for a parson, and, at the point
of her pistol, compels Townsend to
marry her. Part second displays her
as a school teacher St Shlloh with
her child, a -year-old boy one of
those precocious children whose pres
ence Inspires a feeling of reverence
for the memory of good King Herod,
and It presents Tow nsend as a newly
awakened parent In search of his off
spring, and. Incidentally. it de
lineates, at an awful length, the
capability of boredom that Is pos
sessed by a loquacious hayseed. In
no way connected with the proceed
ings, whose name Is Johnson. Patt
third, after almost interminable talk,
unites Thekla and Townsend In the
imminent prospect of matrimonial
bliss, precipitated by the aforesatd
gifted child. In short, the fabric is
a diffuse conversation sboiit love,
seduction, propagation, treachery, re
sentment and bucolic biles. Miss
Nillson, Indulging herself, freely In
sobs and gurgitation, staring and
sniveling. Imitated very well the phvs
ical condition of a woman bearing the
burden of maternity, hut beyond that
did nothing worthy of her well-known
talents; and the sooner she awakens
from her dream of reforming this
world the better It will be for her
professional achievement In the
future. The sttempt at acting made
by Mr. Milton Sills was abortive and
afflicting. Mr. Howard Kyle af
forded momentary nmusentent but
there Is altogether "too much John
son." The whole affair 1 melan
choly,' has sufficient;. heart itntrst and a suf
ficient number of distinct type to up
ply half a dosn comedy dramas and
make ths fame and fortune of sach.
Messrs. Llebler & Co. have certainly dons
their part In giving It an slaborats and
realistic production and hava provided a
cast of exceptional merit, Inoludlng
Blanch s Chapman for the title role, Helen
Lowell for Miss Hasy and John F. Web
ber for Hiram 8tubblnsv These three
characters srs reckoned the most promi
nent, but they sre by no means the only
interesting and entertaining personalities
of the play, which, from the first to last,
Is crowded with humoroua Incidents, sen
timental episodes snd side-splitting sit
uations. Max Flgman's new play, "Th Substi
tute." which Is announced for the Boyd
Sunday, Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday
nd matinee Wednesday of next week. Is
an entertainment pure and simple. There
are no Abstruse social problems with
which to vex th brain. The authors
seem to have to hav purposely avoided
this mistake, yet there Is much mors to
that little story that Flgman relates In
the act apropos of dlvorc than appears
on the surface and sets mors than one
person thinking. It is a palpable hit on
bigotry snd I cleverly Introduced.
"When We Were Twenty-one," formerly
played with such wonderful success by Nat
Goodwin and Maxlne Elliott, will receive
production at the Burwood theater the
coming week, starting with matlne to
day. The tory Is written around the life of
one Richard Carewe. who live in apart
ments In London with hla ward. Rlshard
Audalne, known aa "The Imp.",
Dick Carewe (to be played by Mr. Grew),
is one ot the most lovable charactera In
dramatic fiction noble, unselfish and sac
rificing willing to protect Phyllis from the
results of the Imp Indiscretions even at
the cost of his own .happiness. He forms
a splendid background for the friendship
of "The Trinity." These three men, his old
school mates, have the hearts that never
grow old. Mlas Leone will have In "Phyl
lis Erlcson," a most delightful role. She
betroths herself to the Imp, because It
would pleas her benefactor, but . when she
learns the Imp docs not care for her ahe
bi Intra about her own happiness and Car
ewe's by showing htm that he loves her.
The final love scene between Phyllis and
Dick is one of the pretties Incident In the
play. "The Trinity," will be exemplified
by Messrs. Bacon, CUsbee and Ingraham
and "The Imp" will be protrayed by
Georg Fitch, a new comer, who ha been
engaged to play Juvenile parte tn Burwood
productlona. There will be matinees Sun
day, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Henrietta Crosmen famous vehicle of
former seasons. "Mistress Nell." will be
produced following "When We Were
Twenty-one," Miss l-eone will be seen In
the title role. The original version in which
Mlas Crosmsa scored so notably one entire
season In New York, has been ' secured.
This production will be one of ths most
pleasing of the Burwood season. ,
The Orpheum Show, under tht personal
direction of Martin Beck, corns to the
Orpheum for the week commencing with
a matinee today. "The Van Dyck," a one
act play adapted by Coame Gordon Lennox,
from the French of Eugene Fournler Per
Inque. will be presented by Harrison Hun
ter and company. Th piece waa used by
Beer bo hn Tree a a curtain raiaer and tn
New York,' Arnold Daly played It with
great aucceas. Of equal Importance I the
engagement f tbe Papt-me dansei e Mile.
Do Dlo; who will offer her latest oreation
TarDstcbor' Dream," It U In four
sosnes. "Ths Golden Butterfly," "Th
Birth of a Pearl." "She in the Fir of
Life," and "The Carnival Dane.' Th
plender of the electrical effects is said
to far surpass anything heretofore attempt
ed, thoas of Lola Fuller. Merina'a Canine
Actors, are to prnt th Dutch-Chin
drama. "The Elopement" of Ralome." Mer
lan'e latest effort employes thirty animals
whose training haa taken no less than two
t"rar. An Si t combining music with brosd
omedy Is that of Hymin Meyer, known as
"the man at the piano " He Is en Id to be
a brllllanrYartlst and an lirlalstabls come
dian. Another number which should prove
amusing Is that of Charles and Fanny
Van. who. wilt appear In their latest skit.
"A Case of Emergency." Work and Over,
comedy acrohntes. have been seen hers
before, as this Is the second occsslon up
on which they have formed part of the
Orpheum show. The hill Is rounded out
by Eddl Mack nd Dot William, singers
and dancer. Miss Williams Is said to be
petite and chic to a degree. The advance
sale has already been large and the week
promlaes to be one of packed houses.
Len E. Parker-rTtimajice of a phase of
life In the idle rich class, entitled "Mar
ried for Money." cornea to the Krug for
four days. starting matinee today.
The climaxes and situations are
startling and spontaneoi'ia and the
lory well told and consistent. The com
rany( headed by W. A. Wliltecar, is said
to be one of unusual excellence and Mana
ger Clay T. Vance promises a firat-nis
production in ever detail.
That delightful comedy-drama. "A Mes
saga From Mars," f the offering at the
Krug theater for three days starting next
Thursday night. The play 1, clean-cut
and beautiful In Its simplicity. Its humor
of a refined quality, always pleasing,
dignified, yet very funny. It Is conceded to
ba logical In Its conclusion and at no point
are either Ks characters or situations over
drawn. Its scenlo embellishments are re
membered with distinct vividness. The In
troduction of an Inhabitant from the planet
Mats is conceded to be something out of
the ordinary. A notable special comp.inv.
including the EnKlsh comedian. Beresford
Li.vett, who Is making hi fjrf,t American
tour, will present this great comedy.
The Camcraphone tr.mter orfers an un
usual attraction in cameraphone talking
Pictures for Sunday. It ia none other than
the debut appearance of the most popular
comedienne and base ball player. Mablo
Illte and Mike Donlln. In their great musi
cal comedy hit, "Stealing Home." The
Cameraphone theater guarantees Its pro
gram to be absolutely exclusive and tlck
ts are sold to the public under this guar
antee. "The Apache War Path," with which Mr.
Brig ha in opens his course of illustrated
lectures tomorrow right in the First Con
gregational church, is the thrilling story
of the wars with the Apaches, In which
Grr.erai George Crook, so well known to
Omahans, played an Important part. The
series is a notable one In points of enter
tainment and educational value. Rare ami
beautlflul plctutea accompany each Icc
turo. Silence.
Silence la a language understood In every
country.
Were silence to be enforced on all of us
for a single day the fools would go mad.
The wise would talk lesa thereafter.
Silence, In the shallow man. means thst
he Is out of breatn.
A man Is known by the silence he keeps,
w nt min ma" not thinking, but
th bu.rden of pf not on him-..Si-i"".u
1 J" company Is to Invrts the
suspicion that "you have something on
your mind." Th reason is obvlops.-Brook-
ANtHEHEVTI.
Nat M. Brigham
TOMORROW NIGHT
In His Illustrated lectures on
American' Subjects
J&7 Ths Apaobe Warpattb.
Tnes. rrora Colorado to Kit Carson
Thurs. Ths Orand Canyon of Arlsona
Mnslo Motion Pictures
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Presenting for Three Days
Seglunlng Sunday
MA BLK H1TK and .MIKE DOXL1N"
In Their Original Sketch
"STEALING HOME"
Admission loo) Children so.
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First Appearance here of
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