THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 21, 1909.
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"What is Going on in the Stage World Briefly Told
MAHA folk rtfuurd to b
f tempted away from their Lr
J I ten abstemiousness during th
in ii-n -I week, r though offered two
'') ,1 cf the best thing that have ap
iii mil rear1 at th Boyd theater thl
eason. It ta aom occasion for wonder
that neither Max Flgman nor Flor
ence Roberta can obtain a hearing
here, for they are both clever
actor; yea, even mora than clever,
they are uncommonly good actors, one a
Comedian, the other serlju. and each
landing la the very front rank among
Americana. Those who did ae them, and
among the few were persons of ripe Judg
ment and discriminating taste, say the
playa and trie player were exeellcnt. Tet
Mr. Flgman and Miss Roberts each feels
discouraged at the Indifference of the
local public Thla la Inexplicable: It can
not be tat Omaha folks do not care for
what la good at the theater, for In the
earn of other actors the patronage has been
large. It must, therefore, be ascribed o
Ignorance, and thla latter hypothesis Is not
at all creditable to the revlewera of the
local press, wbo bave united In a chorus of
praise of the performances. Not only this,
but during all the aeaaona these star have
been coming to Omaha the newspapers haVe
been telling the people of their ability and
Cf the excellence of their companlea, and
without avail. All of which moves to the
Inquiry, "Wlwt'i the user The man who
an guesg what th public want oen ac
cumulate a fortune.
Craze) for Movura mcTunas
AH Cmwntry Hit by the Boxed IP
Drama.
NEW YORK, March 20.-If you happen
to come loafing down a broad, quiet street
In the oulaltlrU of Morrtstown. N. J., or
Garden City. 1 I., or some other not too
exciting village not far from the "gay
Rtalto of Noo Yaw," and see a group of
men, women and pefhapa children, with
dng or two Juat for luck., performing
entice that would create a riot in any
metropolitan community, do not hastily
leap to the conclusion that the Inmate of
m neighboring aaylum for the Insane have
risen against their keepers aa one man
and made their Individual and collective
escapes. The chance are that the per-
eons doing queer 'things are merely em
ployes of some concern that manufactures
moving picture and that If you visit one
Of the olograph theater within the next
lew week you will e their wtld antic
reproduced upon the white, screen' that
blocks the stage, opening where vaudeville
used to be performed.
And If you chance to stand on a railroad
t3tlvn platform waiting for a train and
cast your eye upon a box perhaps three
Or four feet aquare addressed to the man
. ager of some theater In Meridian, Miss., or
Leadvllle, Colo., do not gaze upon It con
teptuoualy. For all ypu know Mike Donlln
and Mabel lilt or Harry Lauder or Vesta
Victoria may be packed up inside that box.
presently to delight tha simple Inhabitants
of Leadvlll or Meridian with their amus
ing doing upon the jnovtng picture screen.
The moving picture wave that has with
in th tast two r thre year hit the
United State I one of the moat wkle
Dread development In the hlatory of
amusement that thla country ha to show.
A Now York man wa coming down town
en th rear platform of a Broadway trolley
oar pnA evening recently. At . Fourteenth
treet tl.'e oar made its usual atop before
rounding what used to be known In the
cable car day a Dead Man' Curve.
Crowd were pushing their way Into en
trance on Fourteenth atreat on either aide
of Broadway. , ,
"They're all golr In t' see th movln'
pltohers," ' remarked -, th conductor, who
was one of the few human beings employed
In New York by the street railway conv
panic.
"Funny thing, too," he went on. "It ain't
so long ago but what I can remember it
without any trouble that folka used to
grab for their hat when they turned on
the movln' pitchers at the end of the show."
The conductor wa right. Any patron of
vaudeville recalls the fact that not more
than three year ago th moving picture
exhibition occupied the last place on the
bill of all vaudeville theatera and were
humorously but truthfully known as
chaser.
What has brought about th change? A
variety of circumstance.
One I that th big vaudeville managers
have put ao much money into the game,
they hare hired such expensive performer
nd mad such heavy production that peo
ple am no longer content with the cheap
vaudeville that used to satisfy them. Thla
ha worked a hardship on th little man
ager of vaudeville who used to put on a
modestly entertaining show for X cent
or so.
People have bean spoiled. They get ao
much for half a dollar at the bouses run
by the bigger managers that they won't
put up with anything lea elaborate in the
form of vaudeville even for half th money.
Driven to th wall In thl faahion. the
smaller managers had to do aomethlng with
their bousea or go out of the entertainment i
business. In their extremity they took up
the moving picture machine, dropped the
price of admission to I cents or 10 cents at
the outside, and lot their houses were
crowded seven day In th week twelve
month In the year.
Following this development the managers
of even some of th big vaudeville houses
began to alt up and take notice. A good
many of them figured out that while the
receipts from cheap moving picture audi
ences were vastly smaller than from reg
ular vaudeville audience at 10 and Tt cents
apiece, yet the' producing expenses of the
picture show were so muoh leaa than tor
vaudeville ohv its present elaborate basts
that th margin of profit at the end of the
week not Infrequently made the picture bua
tneaa much th better proposition.
From that time on came . occasional
announcements that such anud such a
theater previously devoted to vaudeville
would be devoted to moving picture in
future. , On cf th moat surprising an
nouncement of thl character came only
1 last week when It wa made known that
KeKh Proctor' On Hundred and Twen.
ty-fifth street theater, long devoted to the
exhibition of .the moat expenalve vaude
ville act before the public and aeoond In
importance. only to the big downtown
vaudeville house in New York, would go
out of the vaudeville business and take up
th moUoi .picture. . .
-
But vaudeville on a large scale I by no
mean down and out. and there la no pros
pect that It ever will be. There will al
ways be a good many parse ns who like real
vaudeville and are willing to pay for tt.
Another das of entertainment long popu
lar with the people who are now making
moving picture so profitable has, on the
contrary, suffered a blow that bids fair to
be mortal.
Tbi form of entertainment 1 th cheap
melodrama, th old time Bowery thriller.
So badly have th melodrama suffered
from th moving pictur eras that at th
praaent time wher there used to be many
downtown theater devoted to the Blaney,
Woods, Theodora Krecner. Owea Davia sort
of talc Uwsra U euly on to which tay
have access at the present time. That la '
the Grand street theater, long th home of
the Yiddish drama.
The rhespieM of the n w form of enter
tainment ,a. of course, one of the causes
and probably the compelling cause of th
present attte of thins. But It Is hy no
means the only cause. The moving pict
ure has been vastly Improved In several
ways sine th days when Its principal us
was aa a chaser.
The pictures are better, more varied.
more amusing, and the machine have
been ao perfected that the fixtures are
no longer so trying to the eyes of the spec
tators, though vn the picture men them
selves admit that there Is still room for
much Improvement In this respect. But
the Improvement does not stop her.
One big concern, noting the perfection of
development which the various phonograph
companies have reached and the popularity
attained by their records of songs by fa
mous aingers. Inntrvmental selection by
famous players and monologues by cele
brated vaudeville performers, hit upon the
Idea of combining the phonograph and th
motion picture. And this is how it hap.
pen that in many cf the cheap theater
you oan for 10 cents or even a nickel see
and hear what this combination has don
in the way of putting such thing on and
behind the white screen.
Thl sort of thing la yet In its Infancy.
Th difficulties of synchronising tha visible
element of such a show with the audible
jCaotnra are considerable and h)sve not
yet been fully mastered, but even now th
thing la well done at times, and passably
even at the worst
machine is stopped once more while an
actor smaller than the first, but made up
with a curious contrivance to look as !f
his body ended at his shoulders Is substi
tuted for the dummy. Then the machine
atarta and the headless man pleads for
his head and the girt replaces It on his
shoulders.
Again the machine stop while the orig
inal actor geta back Into the scene. Then
the machine gets busy again and the pair
walk away hand in hand. When the pic
ture la exhibited all these Section are
run off as a whole, and there you are.
Then there' the pfcture about the man
who ha his leg cut off by an automobile
and still sittlpg in th road seises his am
putated leg and wavea It in the air angrily
after the disappearing automobile. The
manufacture of thla film la accomplished
in this manner.
The camera la taken out to some quiet
country road. A normal man made up s a
beggar alts by the roadside and goes to
sleep. Along comes an automobile. Just as
it Is about to hit him tha camera is stopped,
also the automobile. Then .Is substituted
for th normal man a dummy made up ex
actly Ilka him.
Then the camera Mart again and the
automobile runs over the dummy. The
camera is stopped and a real cripple who)
ha aotually loat his leg takes the dummy'a
plbute having the dummy' leg (n his
hand. Th camera la started again and
th cripple waves the dummy'a leg after
the disappearing automotoile. Pill these
different sections together and there you
have tha amusing picture on th screen.
Aside from the reproduction of Jhe act
of gret vaudeville performers perhaps the
most popular of all the moving picture at
the present time sre the trick pictures.
These are varied and multitudinous and
so Ingenious that unless you have had a
peek on the Inside of things it 1 hard to
sea how they could be aohleved.
The success of them depends on the abso
lute control which the operator of the
moving picture machine la able to maintain
while the pictures are being manufac
tured, in the first place, hi ability to start
and stop It at will, to terminate its process
of recording Instantly and to resume it at
any desired moment.
Take, for example, that highly popular
picture about the man who falls asleep on
a park bench and haa a horrible dream.
You see- htm wandering into the park, sit-J,
ting down to rest and falling asleep.
You see a pretty girl arrive oarrrylng a
sharp axe. She pauses before the sleeping
figure, raises the axe, takes a good hard
swing with it and cuts off the man's held.
You are about to be horrified when you
observe that the man Isn't killed. Far
from it. Ho Is, however, considerably an
noyed at losing his head. He implores the
pretty girl to give it back to him. She re
fuses, clasping the head to her breast.
The headless man falls upon his knees.
stretches out his arms In supplication and
you see that hla entreaties are at last be
ginning to melt the hard heart of the
woman with the axe. Ultimately ahe ca
pitulates and gives the man'a head back
to him, whereupon he rises from his knees,
give her a warm embrace and they wan
der off down the path hand In hand like
a couple of lovers.
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Now If you don't know anything about
the mechanism of the moving picture ma
chine you may cudgel your brains for a
week and never get any nearer knowing
how th thing I dona This, in brief, I
the process :
Two actor are employed to play the early
part of the scene. It Is perfectly simple at
first, up to the time the woman gets ready
to swing the axe. At that moment the ma
chine is stopped.
Then a dummy figure made up exactly
like the actor who has gone to sleep on
the park bench la substituted In his place.
Then the machine is started again and
the girl cuts off the dummy' head. The
One of the biggest of 'be moving picture
companies is a foreign organisation. Its
headquarter is In Parts, but it ha agen
cies In nearly every civilized quarter of
the globe, and In Paris It maintains a
staff of something like fifty actors whose
sole duty consists In posing and performing
for the camera for moving pictures which
are ultimately reproduced on theater
screens. This one company Is said to do
something like $7,000,000 of busine an
nually.
The moving picture companies that are
American In origin and ownership are
legion. One of them which I in the fore
front when It come to combining th mov
ing picture with th phonograph ha a six
story building over in Eleventh avenue
which is devoted entirely to it uses. Here
the moving picture Is made from its first
to Ha last stage and combine with singing
and apeaklng, until It Is near a real ahow
as an Imitation can ever hop to be.
The taking of records for speaking and
singing ia easy. The monologues and songs
of well recognised vaudeville performers
are perhaps the simplest part of the whole
business. These acts come to the moving
picture people already well put together
and needing only to be pruned and con
densed for the purposes of the screen.
But the thousand and one subjects, the
control of the dramatic page of th Chi
cago Tribune to become Sunday editor of
that sheet. Burns Mantle wrote tnusly con
cerning Mlsa Barry more:
It Is ensv ennuah to twit our promi
nent actresses for marrying not wisely, but
too otten, but a a JoRe it is ratner in tne
mother-in-law class. It has been worked
and overworked until it has lost Its tang,
though tha point of, It w shall have wltn
us alwaya. '
Therefor we owe sometning to r-inri
Barrymor for replacing It with her own
oriKlnal engas"ement Joke. She has disap
pointed a score of young men, but she hn
enlivened the spirits ot the press and given
the "In a vein of humor" chaps something
to work for. Maude Adams did what she
could aa a promoter of the engagement ru
mor, out she wa unfortunate m one re
spect. 1'eoplo insisted on engaging her to
Charles Frohman and no other, occasion
ally tbey switched to Richard Harding
Davis, but not for long.
Miss Ethel, howsver. ha been consistent.
She haa lieoome engaged whenever she wa
n the .nood. and she has broken ner en
gagements when the mood changed. Once,
o the story goes, durtng the Laurence Irv
ing episode, she cabled her father, th
quick-witted Maurice Barrymore, a definite
announcement reading:
"Dear father: Am engaged to Iaurenc
Irving."
Dear father cabled back, putting all hie
sentiment, and perhaps all the money he
thought necessary, in the one wordi
'Congratulations."
A few weeks later there cam another
cablegram. It read:
"Dear father: Have broken engagement
to Laurence Irving,"
And again the one word was flashed un
der the wavea to the Lyceum theater in
London:
"Congratulations."
It haa remained for th alert Mr. Ham
mond of the Post, however, to add a new
gem to the collection of ante-marriage
qulpa as they relate to the attractive niece
of the Drews.
According to his report a grop of Mis
Rthel'a Chicago friends were disc ttsslng her
reported engagement to young Mr. Colt of
Massachusetts at a luncheon.
"Do you really believe she will marry
hlniY'" asked one.
"it Is possible," replied another; "but it
isn't customary."
COMING TO
OMAHA
s Xarenta
THEATERS
multifarious stories that are told on the
screens and never are heard of anywhere
elae are manufactured especially for the
motion picture people.
For this purpose a regular staff of em
ployes is maintained. There are, for ex
ample, several men who do nothing but
concoct humorous Ideas which lend them
selves to expression in the form of panto
mime. These men are, , in fact, th play
wrights of the moving picture.
ETHEL AND HER ENGAGEMENTS
Mlsa Barrymore Wa at Least Con
sistent In Her Floklenea.
When Miss Ethel Barrymore slipped away
from her company last Sunday and, by vir
tue of "several church dispensations, re
turned with a husband, much congratula
tory approval was heard throughout tho
land. The story of her engagement has
been bruited abroad, and, like that of
many another In hor profession and situ
ation, waa discounted as being a bit of ad
vertising, possibly; at any rate, Ethel had
been engaged so often that a waiting pub
lic adopted something of a Missouri atti
tude. It has been shown, already, yet, and
glad of It. Just before he gave up his
What the Press Aarenta Promise for
the Week's Attractions.
The coming of "The Hon and the Mouse"
to the Boyd tonight means more than a
mere announcement of an attraction to fill
an engagement. The cast, almost as a unit,
may be said to have created "The Lion and
the Mouse," after Charles Klein, Its author,
had sketched the characters and con
structed the cycle (the play) In which they
were to move.
Here Is a list of the folk that enjoyed
the long metropolitan run and who are still
happy in their respective parts: Frailer
Coulter, Ella Craven, Charles Sturgis, Elis
abeth De Witt, Dora Allen, Margaret
Shayne, E. A. Eberle, Walter Allen, J a me
McDonald, Martin Sabine, Marlon Pollock,
Johnson, Grace .Thome and Beatrice
Craven. Oliver Doud Byron, Malcolm
Duncan and Miss Edith Barker are th
only ones of the company not of the orig
inal fold. As for charming Edith Barker,
what need ahe more to recommend her
than her signal achievement right here In
Omaha aa leading lady with Francis Wil
son In "Cousin .Billy," and also with th
lata Richard Mansfield. Mr. Malcom Dun
can, the third of th new member of th
original cast, also enjoys the distinction
of having served as principal juvenile for
Manfield.
Friday evening ana Saturday afternoon,
March 26 and 27,' Ben Oreet' Players, with
tha Russian Symphony orchestra, will pre
sent with Mendelssohn muslo "A Midsum
mer Night' Dream" at th Boyd theater,
ten Greet, who will appear as Bottom,
wlil manage the players, and the great
orchestra will be conducted by Modist Alt
schultr. There will be seventy-five people
In the production. The vision of fairyland,
love and mirth Incorporated by Bhakus
peare' gei.tus In "A Midsummer Night's
Dream" inspired tha gifted Mendelssohn to
compose music so melodious and so in
harmony with thr romantic, poetlo and
fancifully humorous contents ot the play
that when it la heard in connection with
th latter, It seem to bo on Integral part
of th master dramatist's work. Since the
About Music, Musicians and Musical Events
M
ARCH a, 1909. -That Is the date'
which we find at the head of
our paper thl morning,
March 21. 185. That la a date
which take us back 221 years.
It was an Important date in th
history of music, for on that date waa
born Johann Sebastian Bach,
The name of Bach takes one back to
the foundation of our present system of
music. There were no leas than twenty
four musical Bachs, all of the same family,
ranging from 15M until IMS. Johann Se
bastian Bach Is, of course, the most lHus
trlous by far. Schumann said of him that
mi-tlc owed htm almost as great a debt
aa a religion owea to Its founder.
The constellation "Bach" rose In Hans
Bach about lfl. biased forth In its fullest
splendor and radiance In Johnrn Sebastian
(16SE-17E(, and set In Wllhelm Bach (1758-
1848). Ihls covered a period of 2S5 year,
rather a remarkable Instance cf hereditary
talent.
And, again, a strange f.tct cornea to ono'a
mliid that Bach and Handel were born
within a month of each other In tho same
year. llandul waa bcrn on February 23
and Bach on March ft. j
A hint of tho possibility of economy I
displayed In the fact that when Bach was
already famed aa an organist his yearly
Hilary was about $4.75 a month! Some
thing Ilk (57 per year! For this he played
th organ three tlrrvs a week, gave singing
lessons to a email choir, saved money
to go on a trip and assisted a needy
relative!
At the age of 10, after th death of his
parents, Bach went to live with hla brother
Johann Chrlstonh, and developed ao won
derfully that Johann Christoph did not
find lilroaelf entirely free from a feeling
cf what might be termed aeml -Jealousy.
This brother It is said, withheld from
Bach a ft no MS3. volume of organ compo
ltlcii which th latter was very anxious
to study. But the budding genius was not
to be thwarted and he managed to squeese
the volume through the lattice door of
the cupboard in which It waa kept, and se
cretly copied the work by moonlight, tak
ing six month to do It.
Hard fate the elder brother discovered
It . and took It away.
It wa In 1723 that Bach became cantor
at th Thomas-gchule in Lelpiig. and or
ganist and director of the music in the
two princ!ia! churches. He retained hla
Leipzig pcsltlm until th end ot hi life,
url ther he wrote hi eruat l'asloo
Music, hi Cantata, an.1 the celebrated
B-minor Maaa, which at thla very day hi
th great test of the great choral ooietle.
Toward th close ot hi lit Bach became
entirely blind, and he died on July SSth,
1760, through a fit of apoplexy.
Bach waa married twice. Through hi
, flrat . suurlko &a &4 . ovea . oUdxeo.
Through hi second marriage he had
thirteen more. He waa nothing; if not con-
slstently musical, for he had children by
the "score." Tach was a very devout and
God-fearing man, he was very industrious,
Indofatlgably so, and In addition to his
wonderful fruits in the field ot composi
tion, he wa known to have been able to
engrave on copper, and he Invented a
musical Irstrument between a viola and a
violoncello, and also a piano with catgut
strings.
To enumerate the works and discuss the
genius of this great man would be entirely
beyond th limit of thla column for many
moons, but thla brief notice is simply
taken of the birthday of the master, In c
spirit of respect.
For those who are obliged to keep work
ing in spite of handicaps and for those who
are trying to keep the light burning there
Is much food for reflection In the fact that
when Bach waa doing his beat work he
begged the authorities at Leipzig to allow
him three voices to each part, so that he
could always rely upon having two on
each. Think of it! Aitklng for twelve
voices only, to sing his 300 cantatas. Surely
there could be twelve Bach singers in
Omaha. The writer stands ready to form
a Baeh oholr.
The approaching visit of the Russian
Symphony orchestra of New York under
the baton of Mr. Modest Altschuler, and In
connection with the Ben Greet player la
creating much attention, and musical peo
ple are taking a great Interest in the pro
duction, or rather presentation of "A Mid
summer Night's Dream by Mr. Greet and
hia players. The music to this Shakes
perean play was written by Mendelssohn
expressly at the request of the king of
Prussia, and waa performed on the Mage
of the Neue Palais (New Palace) at Pots
dam on October 14. 1843. But the Overture
was written as far back aa 183 the score
Is aigned, Berlin, August t. 1826 and it
should b remembered that Mendelssohn
waa then only 17 year and month old.
Prof. Dr. Macfarren, who stood at the
head of the profeaslon, wrote ta the Phil
harmonic program book concerning tt as
follows: "No one piece of muslo contains
so many potnta of harmony and orchestra
tion that had never been written before,
and yet none of them have the air of ex
periment, but seem all to have been writ
ten with certainty of their auoeeas."
The celebrated writer and musical lexico
grapher. Sir George Grove, says of this
wonderful overture: "The airy fairy llght
tir and th peculiar youthful grace, are
not leaa remarkable than the etrength of
construction and solidity of work ma nl tip
whlrh rnderlie and sitrrt hm. Not the
Uast (.nguier thing tiout It Is the exact
manner in which It is found to fit into the
muslo for the whole play when that music
wa composed seventeen year later. The
motive of. th overtur all turn out to
bav their natlv placa In th drama."
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Th overtur was first presented In public
at Suttla. la 1&.T and. latr la London, on
Midsummer night, June 84, 1829. In con
nection with the lattter event a most In
teresting episode showing one side of Men
delssohn's genius has been related. In
returning from the concert in a hackney
coach, the score of the overture was loft
In the coach by Mr. Atwood, (occasional
conductor of the Philharmonic society) and
waa Irrecoverably lost. When Mendelssohn
heard of the loss, he said, "Never mind,
I will make another." Ho did ao, and
when compared with the orchestral parts,
it waa found to be exactly the same as
the original.
The "Midsummer Night's Dream" muslo
apart from the overture consists of the
following twelve numbers: (1). Scherso.
(2). Fairy March. (3). "You Spotted
Snakes," for two sopranos and chorus.
(t). Melodrama. (5). Intermezzo. (8)
Melodrama. (7). Notturno. (8). Andante.
(9). Wedding March. (10). Allegro Com
modo. (11). Bergomask Dance. 03)
Finale. This music will be heard on Fri
day night and on Saturday afternoon,
when the Ben Greet players present "Mid
summer Night's Dream," and in order that
the audience may be able to receive the
full beauty and benefit of the overture
Mr. Monaghan, manager of the Boyd
theater haa Issued Instructions to his
ushers that positively no one will be al
lowed to go to a seat during the number.
Mr. Monaghan Is taking pains to announce
th requeat tfiat the audience will co
operate with him and will be early in
order to avoid having to stand while the
overture is being played. In thla place it
la not necessary to request silence during
thl wonderful fairy muslo, but It Is to be
fervently hoped that a spirit of alienee may
prevail.
German composer made known his
"Dream" music, it has become familiar to
audiences the world over by frequent per
formances in concert rmm; Us freshness
and charm are perennial. In connection
with the presentation of the Shakespearian
fantasy, several compositions by Mendels
sohn in addition to the strictly "Dream"
music will be interpolated, and by Just ao
much will add to tho enjoyment of the
production. Th number will Include the
famous overture, the brilliant Soherio, the
march and tho song of the fairies, the In-
termexso, the nocturne, the woddlng march,
the spring song and the finale with its
chorus of fairies. Such passages In th
play as "Ye Spotted Snake" and "Through
This House" will be given by the full
chorus.
Miss Grace Kahler, a talented soprano,
will be the soloist, and there I also a
ballet of young girls and children from
the Dorothy Dlx Horn for the children
actor in Boston. The productkm of the
play la thoroughly Ben Greetran; deco
rative drapery Is used, aa a background for
the action, and there la no shifting of
scenes, no curtain divisions of the move
ment, to interfere with enjoyment of th
progressive action. The whole la as un
broken aa a truo dream of th night.
At the Saturday evening performance
Shakespeare' "Romeo and Juliet" I to
b given with th Incidental muslo by
Gounod and Tsohaikowsky.
"Th Thief," Charles Frohman' produc
tion of Henri Bernateln's great play, onme
to tha Boyd March 28, 21, 80, 1 and April
1. First produced at th Renaissance
theater in Paris, "The Thief" had not been
on tha boards two months before transla
tion were being made of It for the Eng
lish, American, German, Russian, Spanish
and Swedish stages, and thla' summer It
waa produced In Australia. In all these
lands it has since had a prosperous career
which is still only in its infancy. For the
performance of "The Thief" In thla city
Charles Frohman haa selocted the follow
ing finely balanced cast: Charles Dalton
Edward R. Mawson, Margaret Wycherly,
Leonard Ide, Arthur Lawrence and Mra
Hlllxry BelL
The offering at the Boyd for April 3 and
9 ia viola Alien in "The White sister," a
big, broad, healthy play of intense Interest
and powerful grip, by F. Marlon Crawford
and Walter Hackett. Messrs. I,lebler &
Co., the producers of "The Whlre Sister,
have acquired an enviable reputation for
wonderful scenic mounting, but their in
vestiture of Miss Allen's play Is a revela
tion In the art of picture building on the
stage. The four acts are laid In I.aly and
tile various representations of Italian
scenes are admirable bits of faithful scenic
reproduction. Miss Allen Is assisted by
William Farnum and the supporting com
pany contains, among others, Minna Gale,
Charles A. Stevenson, Fanny Addison Pitt,
Ritchie Ling and Alfred Fisher,
For the week starting thl a'.'ternoon, the
Burwood theater will offer "Mlzpah, or the
Story of Esther." The play Is by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, the music being by Lus
combe Searelle. The flrBt performance of
this play waa given at the Majestic theater,
San Francisco, on January 9, iyo&. its suc
cess from the very opening waa such aa
had never been scored before in the theat
rical annals of San Francisco. For the
Burwood production the scenic representa
tion will be exact . reproductions of the
elaborate mounting given this remarkable
play In San Francisco, photograph of the
original having been procured for refer
ence. "Migpab" s written in blank verse,
and those who know the fervldness of the
poetess, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, can imagine
the dramatic Intensity of the speeches given
to the characters of the play. Miss Leone
will be eer as the good Esther, beloved
of the Jewish race and worshiped by the
Persian king, Ahasut-rus, The cast neces
sary for the intelligent interpretation of the
play is an unusually large pne and to
gether with the auxiliary forces, the pro
duction will be In appearance of a gorgeous
spectacle. There will be matinees today
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
TheMiurwood management haa arranged
for the production of "Because She Loved
Him So." The honors In the play will be
about equally divided between MIbs Leone
and Mr. Bacon. The play has not been
seen In Omaha since In September, 1906,
It Is to be staged the week following
"Mlzpah."
Clarence Bennett's "The Holy City" will
be the attraction at the Krug theater for
four days, starting matinee today. ThU
piece will be presented with the same
sterling cast and production as when last
seen here. Special mention might be made
of Miss Luella Morey, who will Interpret
the slren-Uke Salome. There will be the
usual matinee on Wednesday.
At the Krug theater" for three nights
and Saturday matinee starting next Thurs
day night, "Shadows of a Great City" will
again be seen.
diy editor. W. !.. H ibbsr.1 will temporarily
combine the departments of muslo and
drama.
Paul llorvlu, the French dramatist, has
entered suit annlnst the J. S. Ogllvle Pub
lishing rompany for publishing a book en
titled. "The Labyrinth, or a Case of IH
vorec," by tleorgo Morehead, which, the
title pjige claims. Is "a dramatic story based
on tho great piny of the sume name." Hcr
vieu ts tho author of tin, piny, known In
the original French as "La Dedale," which
Olga Nethersule produced in this country
several years ago. The French author
claims that his copyright protests the use
of the material In story or play form, and
the A me r Iran publisher's plea I that he haa
not complied with the law. It is a question
of technicality, and, on the surface. It would
seem that tho moral right belongs to Her
vteu. Say, Wilton," sait a fellow Lamb to
Lackaye, "do you wear that monocle to
annoy meT" "Not especially," replied Wil
ton. "1 find that It anger everybody."
"Yesterday we played Frankfort, lnd.,"
writes the manager of "The Lion and the
Mouse." "1 was on the front door taking
leknta and a fellow presented himself for
free admiaslon with nothing to show 'causn
except Ills statement that he was tho 'bell
man. 1 asked him where the bellman came
In. 'Well.' said he. next door to this opera
house w have a tower with a large bell,
and at t o'clock I rlna- the curfew. If 1
get in the show free I em going to give the
hen a couplo of light tape, ir l aon i rei
In free I ring It like for fifteen min-
In the evening (Saturday) th player
will present "Romeo and Juliet" with In
cidental music by Gounod and Tsohalkow-
ky. THOMAS J. KELLY.
Maatcal Note.
It ta very gratifying to know that an.
other vested choir has been added to thoae
already In the city. The choir of the First
Congmgatlonal church, under the direction
of Mr. Frtd Q. Ellis, appeared in their
vestments last Sunday for the first time.
The congretatlon was very greatly pleased
wnn iub cnaug.
A very interesting concert was given
Thuraday evening by the choir ot the Pearl
Memorial church, under the direction of
Mr. Clifford T. Daniels. Those aaslatlnK
were Misses Julia Nagl, Ollle Burnett, Essie
Aaron, Helen Crow; Mrs. T. C lilnkle.
Mr. J, J. Naven. Mr. H- E. Wallace and
tr. r . vviuiams.
Sir. Martin Bush will give an organ re
cital at the First Congregational church
Ih.a af emoon at 4:, lrs.cii of at 4:uo.
as formerly announced. Mr. Bust) will play
Gullmanfs "Fifth Sonata; "Blbllach
Lleder," by Dvorak; "Angellque D Flat,"
by Lemare; "Spring Song," by Hoittno:
Rive Ajigellqii," by iubnatln, and
"Pomp and Circumstance March," by Sir
Edward Elgard. Mr. Fred U. Ellis will
alng "Could V not Watch?" by Neldllnger,
and "A Ballad f Tree) and Th Mastee."
by CoadwWlf
utes. and It generally break tip tha ahow1
for a while.' I made Inquiry from th local
manager and ho assured ma It wa fact,
1 passed th fellow In."
Henrv It. Dlxoy, starring In "Mary Jane's
Pn." i Writing hi memoir. Bearing In
mind Mr. Dlxey' xpcrlenc of forty-ono
years on the stngo and tho fact that he haa
played a greater diversity of parta than
any living Amerlcnn actor, tho volume
should prove ot extraordinary Interest.
Tho New York Telegraph offers thl a a
"Piirntsge Note:' "In a typewritten story
entitled 'Th Real Kthel Barrymore.' Issued
by Charle Frohman'a press department,
thero appear the statement: 'Ethel Barry
more ia th mother of aurprlaea." "
It l reported that Henry W. Savldge haa
engaged Mrs. Campbell for the title role
of hla production In English of "La
Fomme," the Blsson piny which Is meeting
with uch pronounced suceos In Paris, It
is a play of stormy emotional powers. "Ia
Femme" ia the name of the woman who
Is an unknown person. She has been led
away from her husband and In later year
is defended before tho bar of Justice on
th charge of murder by her own son. The
two are unknown to each other. This Is
the great scene In the play. Berlin has
also recently fallen a victim to tho spell of
thla drama, even though tho critics pro
nounce it one of patent theatrlcallsm.
Hilda Pnong, In a new riny. "A Man
and Hbi Mate," Impersonates a female
doctor who falls in lovo with a horse-thief.
AMCSEMENTS.
AMVSRMBNTS.
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TOJIOIT, MO ITS AT, TTTXSDAY
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THE
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A PLAY YOU NEVER FORGET. THE GREATEST PI RK AMERICAN
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AN
RUSSIAN
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
UNIQUE: EVENT"
BOYD'S THEATER
MODEST AlfTBOHTJXES,
Conductor.
In a Magnificent Musical
100 PEOPLE
and Dramatic
BEN
GREET
PLAYERS
Personal Direction
BEX GREET.
Interpretation of Shakespeare'
"A MIDSUMMER. NIGHT'S DREAM"
With the MENDELSSOHN MUSIC.
FRIDAT EVENING, MARCH Z8, and SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27.
Satnrday Evening, Maroh ST, Prices 83,00, 91. SO,
Homeo and .Juliet t nrk n(1 koc
with incidental MUBic by 81.00.7Bc ana ouc.
Gounod and Tschalkowaky. Mall Orders Received.
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AUDITORIUM
Championship Wrestling Match
Grlgaletti'a Aerial liatlut will come to the
Orpheum for the week commencing with a
matinee today. The aot waa Imported by
Klaw and Krlanger for their pantonine
such aa "Beauty and The Lkal" and
"Mother Goose." Julie Heme, the tal
ented daughter of tho law Junius A- Heine,
will appear in a llttl piece of Iut own
entitled "A Mountain Cinderella." Billy
Van, the well known minstrel iiXm, will
offer various parodies and comic songs, all
of which are reported to be full of rich
humor. Dancing of the American school
with numerous steps of their own invention
will be the offering of the Novelty Danc
ing four. Peter Donald and Meta Carson
WlH bring the wit of the canny Scot. The
sketch they present is called "Alex
McLean's Dream." Donald is a genuine
Scotch comedian and Miss Carson, a
"bonnie lassie" said to possess considerable
skill as a dancer. "Weary Wiggles, the
Dandy Dude Tramp" la tha way Boranl
and Nevaro announce their aot, whloh
consists of novelty acrobatic work mlnglod
with oomedy. Fonda, Dell and Fonda pr
ent an act In which Mia Mabelle Fonda,
"The Peerless Queen ot Clubs," Is featured.'
It eonaiata of club twirling of the moat
dexterous sort and for good measure the
Misses Fonda introduce some spirited
dancing.
LATH GOSSIP FROM STAGELAND
What Flayer s4 IMay Writer l
Siotm are llolag.
Bert Baker of th Prinoess company waa
a member of a western troupe under the
management of an Impresario who fre
quently found It necessary to discontinue
the payment of salariua temporarily. Una
night a committee of players hejjed by
Baker waited on the manager and delivered
an ultimatum: No salaries, no ahow. "The
ghost will walk the first thing in the morn
lug." waa the answer that prevented a re
volt. Baker and the committee sat up all
night watching a light In the manager'
room. At 4 a. m. thry met him walking out
ot the Uutbi tvllh the company's money In
bis grip, bound for the railroad ft at ion to
catch a train. "We thought the ghost
might be- rustles and up betlmua." said
Baker to the fleeing one, ao we decided to
walk with l.lui io keep him company." The
manager capitulated, paid th salaries, and
Baker took, hi place the reat cf th season.
Burn Mantle, dramatic editor of th
f-i.iM Tribune, ha hws atulBta4 dmw
C2AJCFXOX- OT THE WOBLD.
VS.
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CXAMPIOX Oy IT AIT.
FRIDAY MIGHT, JVaVRCH 2Gtil
Ora scavy.Wighi Preliminary Match Betwssn
CSAB&BS A. JVXBOX, th Olant Policeman, and JACK EMEKBXXGEX,
Heat sal opens at Auditorium March 23. Reserved Seat, ?Bo, 91.00 and
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Week Starting Matinee Today
Direct from the New Tork
Hippodrome
Grigolati's Famous Aerial Ballet
Introducing the Latest Flying
Novelty
Butterflies and Doves
Miss Julie Heme
and her Hlayerx in
"A Mountain Cinderella," hy Kiss
Sera aad Oo. St. rar.
That Burnt-Cork Delight
illy Van
Th Famous Mintrel Comedian.
BoumBi
Novelty Dancing Pour
With Johnny J. Xoghe.
I
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lso-aso-soe-yso
Matins Today
100-850-600
4 DAY Starting
Mat. Wnay
Matinee Today
The Holy City
-WITH
The Scotch Comedian and His
Bonnl Lassie
Peter Donald and Meta Carson
Presenting "Ales af clean's Drsam."
ABTXX7B AXXIB
Dorani and Nevaro
In their Combination of Twists and
Laughs. "Weary Wiggle, th Daady
Dad Tramp."
FONDA. DELL and FOXDA
Featuring
rBabelle Fonda
Th Peerless Que a of Club."
KINODROME
Always th aswsst U motloa picture
PXICEsV lOe. aao
Luella Morey as "Salome"
Th Original "Jobs Th Baptist" Play
3 Th"'. Mch. 25
The Great Reallatlc Melodrama
SHADOWS OF
A GREAT CITY
A Story of Life In the Metropolis.
Coming BHPXXB BUmEEBQUEBS
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WHEELER
WILCOX
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