THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 28, 1913.
AMt'SUMENTS.
AKUBEHrKrCTS.
OOn irlriO Theat
' UATO Wed. I
wi,jn3iieii Tonight
innioi
Sat.
ENTIRE CARNIVAL WEEK
KLKWam ERLAKGEFl Paesent
TMLJOYOUS MUSICAL ROMANCE
JTildred Shine i7lc
,ECSHiEMAN of ripened ex-
pcr.enc end clcemlng Juds
mgnt, who Is rroreriy fitted
t tlKak authoritatively on anv
slaS&V... manifestations may be con
cerned, has written to this apartment
ot The Bos a )16te which very fairly
touches on one of the cpndUlofts at
the theater against which ..he., patror
has no adequate, Tflefeiise; He" "wrrltes,
under date of. Sepieniner ?, arieht'the
"Or. DeLuxe- pr'lorniance wh'ch 'haa
been Blven at; thai.randel on. "iton4fty
evening: '
..'It is about time that the American j
audience at a theater1 .should'h&vjs' the
privilege of expressing 'It disapproval'
as well a3 approval or ;a tptrformance
Wo are graciously- permltte4 to.applaud
when we are please butophen 'wijiare
.fllsplcaied we are HmkekH.to pf&xcil
which' cannot expresitie of-
pj)uai many a ysr(3iw;Bv.t5i(
to hlis a perf ormance f Jf'U rotted T
(ihou'd suggest the pra.ctl5of al4&
cno's. nose between the thufap!,hniT!forn-
tlngef would convey to the 'nahagiraent
and to the actors that they are'offend
tn. "This method of expressing disapproval i
would have the further advantage of
bot disturbing theperformerV by .any
andua noise. -
"Take, for Instance tthe . barelegged
ihorus in latt nights .performance of pt
Deluxe." I have, never Ip. all my. theater
coins experience seen anything rottener
Thorp old broilers attethjjllng to rep
resent chickens by the transparent dls?.
guise of talking" in 6. falsetto ivoice with
their disgusting, dirty bare legs "certainly
I4served some, mt)rlcl,o dliapproval from
those who paid $1.60 a ticket to see
them,
"Legs have tHelr proper place In the
wpport of a person, and with chorus
im generally the jitrdrigest support they
have, but In this case they did not even
have the merit of drawing the .attention
from the ugly faces ot the ch.orV. "uch
thicken legs are enough to make a .vtg.
Karlan of anybody, ' ,
"Of course, torn bnneheads .applauded
ven this chorus. It left the intelligent
sndltor without any means of expressing
Me dlsgutt It would have been a- relief
to one's feelings to. have b4on able to, h'ola
hie nose as a sign of disgust with the
ertormance And as an avenue of relief
tor one's tndlgriatlon. ' t
"Why should "not Omaha inaugurate
tills practice and give this , country e
stetbpd for showing disapproval, which
nay result In giving- Jhcr audience, some
Ihtng of merit:"
It quite possible that a! majority, of
the spectators felt as does the. writer of
the foregoing, so far as the exhibition,
foferred to U concerned, and quite prob
tbly a good many of them "would liked
kx some way to have expressed their dis
approval of the scene, Holding one's
tose as Indicative of displeasure sug
restlns the presence of an offensive
thing, might reach through the man
agerial epidermis, and It might not
Exhibitions far more reprehensible In
their nature than the one complained of
have been persisted In until the might
f the law has been Invoked in order that
tecency should be observed. The sltua.
Bon ts one that has gone beyond the
possibility of cure by mild methods?
Something drastic Is required. And. just
h-hat It may be, and how It shall be ap
plied, and by whom,. Is not easily to be,
letermined upon. The discussion has
tot recently keen, begun, nor has It been
lontlned In Its progress to the few who
habitually or professionally debate in
Print the affalra of the theater. Men
wd women who are Interested In the
Wltural growth of the nation have noted
snd descanted upon the deterioration of
public manners as shown upon the stage,
and have sought with patience for a
remedy, for something that would turn
(he public. On whose patronage the the
iter depends for Its existence, back to
the better things, or at feast to those
things that are not intrinsically irrfl, and
with such little encouragement that so
fmr every concrete effort to establish a
theater at which art shall be the first
Mnslderatlon has proven a flat and die
teal failure.
lamentable as the conclusion ts,. one
Is almost 'forced to It that vtt reapers
at the theater simply because It is WU;
that as coon as It is established that a
p!7 or a dance or a song Is Improper
Ks popularity Is assured, and its vogue
and. "prosperity" li In direct ratio to Its
A
I
B '
ft Att ill
of
impropriety. Where does the rcsponsl.
MUty for the condition rest? With the
people thomselves, jtrlmartly. They want
It. they are willing to pay their money
for It, and sonje one will be found who
will furnish It to them 'for the price.
This Is pot especially pleasant to con
template, when one Is dealing with what
should bo an agency fir the dissemination
of ueelul. knowledge ahd for the advance
of culture' and' (he..scneral elevation of
publlo tanto end understanding In the
matter of " refinement. Yet It ts truej
cbarsariess has come' to b'e a marketable
commodity at -the theater,, and Is pur
veyed because -of the 'demand for It.
To be sure, this tendency lias Its mani
festations in 'other vways: for example,
.the ''tii.rjtey .trot1' wns'-the; special dance
,!btAift&,.of ihe. toUfhest dance halls In
wan .- Fancisco's notorious "Baroary
cpasW district, ar-.d'ihe" Texas tommy"
wa'ae.v?loiit ano'fffer similar resort;
thryuffli thi is3lUrticf' the stage the
'Were 'brought tnPpubllc notice, and now
tfa Several years tho- Tsubllo authorities
hav .been driven to 'extremest measures
td banish these admittedly disreputable
exhibitions from: ddnclng places whero
the young and presumably Innocent are
jnet to Indulge in what ought to be a
harmless divertismont. Moving pictures
are rigidly .eenioreft and any that deal
with or seeni to glorify crime are for.
blddeni, .because such exhibitions have a
tendency to mislead the youthful spec
tator and set film inlo the way of doing
wrong. liut so far nq effort haa been
put forward to censor the drama that,
by reason of Its palpable Inversion' of
ethics. Is capable of exceedingly greater
potential harm, because of the grea'ter
force a'nd' directness with which It pre
sents Its arguments. An example of this
sort of play is "Within the. Law," novf
well Into Its second year In New York,
and. still drawing Immense audiences. It
Wa eeen In Omaha last season. The dl
rect argument In this" play Is that the
heroine, who ha been wrongfully pun-,
lshed'for, a crime of which another was
guilty, l iusttOed In whatever of re
prisal la, kind she tnay make upon
Society, s long, as she- keep "within the
law." In the end she Is brought ou
Of all her troubles as the wife of, the
on ot the man who persecuted her,
anS received Into the family as worthy
of -the place. The falsity of this pseudo
logio need not 6e argued( tor It mua be
apparent to any; but the possibility f
harm, to flow from such exhibitions Is
beyond calculation..
The Bee has never, faltered in Its de
mand tpr a high standard for the theater,
anymore than It has ever even tentatively
approved unwortbnes In any other der
partment of life; It realizes that the
theater Is not 'a kindergarten, that plays
are supposed. .to deal with vital things,
and that 'discussion must be direct to
be forceful, and that to continue patron
age must be attracted. These points are
elemental. Eo alrd ts the proposition that
what s merely vulgar, or what Is In
herently wrong, lias no place upon the
stage. "That "the people want it" Is
not sufficient reason for Its being pre
sented. The people are not always the
'best qualified to ,Judge on these points.
It has been proven they will not only
tokrate. .but. will enthusiastically pay to
see exhibitions that are bad from every
standpoint Indecency has no standing
when It cornea to publlo exhibitions, at
the theater or elsewhere. Clean plays
will prosper, for they always hate, where
they have sufficient of merit But risrht
here The JJee wants to go on record,
as being profoundly sceptical as to'
whether the Tiojdlpg of one's nose to
Indicate offense at a vulgar exhibition Is
the 'remedy indicated.
There Is every Indication of a brilliant
carnival engagement at the Branded
theater, beginning thjs evenlpg, when
Klaw & Erlanger will present for the
first time In Omaha "The Count of .Lux
embourg, a musical romance by Frans
i-ehar, composer of "The Merry Widow,"
which has been the reigning musical suc-e
cess, of all Europe for nearly two years.
The American libretto Is by Olen Mac
Donougn, staged by Herbert Oreshem,
wun tne girl and enaemoles numbers con
ceived and directed by Julian Mitchell,
The twp acta of "The Count of Luxem
bourg" are Uld In rail and offer the pic
turesque contrast of Bohemia and so
ciety. In the first tne life of t,he Im
pecunious painters, poets .and models of
the Latin Quarter are shown. There Is
the swift transition to the wealth and
fashion of tho gay French capital, with
in
at ?n fxrug
men of title and beautiful women su
perbly gowned and Jewelled. With such
fascinating backgrounds, the romance ot
the principal characters Is seen to the
continuous dellolotla strains provided by
that wizard of melody, Frans Lobar, The
story is of how two oung hearts, oddly
enough, come together. But there's
witchery In the telling, -and the Wonder
fully melQdtouo accompaniment Is said
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
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