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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1917)
TJIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 11, 1917. & B Music, Art and Drama AUkJrheater.s IWI :;f) V" - 1 ' Al Boyd'-5 - ; . 'ijFoNZTTE W I j NJ?e l A V , V sill ' FjRANCeS in'DaJJ Unj-Lep .UST beiore the opening performance of Miss Kob on s engagement here in 'The Making Over of Mrs. Matt," Miss Mane l'avev, who is playing one of the principal roles, in the comedy, received a letter from William A. Brady that brought her most welcome news. Mr. Brady is organizing a special company for a revival of "Little Women," pro posing an opening in New York in April and a twenty-weeks' tour of the country after a run on Broad way. Moreover, he proposes to "star" Miss 1'avey in her original role of Jo. As far as possible, he wiil have the original company, which played all season at the l'layhouse five years ago. Miss I'avey created the part ot Jo in that production, and won a high place in the esteem of the public by her fine acting in the part. Mr. Brady now plans that she shall lake to the middle west and the Pacific roast the joy she gave New Yorkers during that winter run. This will be good news to her friends in Omaha, who are many, and who still recall how hard she worked during the days when she was playing leading roles with the 1'erns stock company at the Boyd theater. Since leaving Omaha Miss Pavey has worked as hard, but to a little better purpose, perhaps; at any rate, she has made advance in her art, and through seasons in stock, with road companies and on Broad way has redeemed 'the . (iromise she gave when she came to Omaha, an untried girl, yet in her teens, but full of the eager enthusiasm of yoifth and bent on conquering for herself a place on the stage. To her natural equipment she now adds experience, and a complete understanding of what is required of the woman who acts, and fully deserves the recognition she has received. Miss Pavey will remain with Miss Kobson for a little while, but expects to report in New York to begin rehearsals early in March. Two headline attractions will top the bill this week at the Orphcum theater. One will be a musical act contributed by Cecil Cunningham, a prima donna, well established as a national favorite. The other feature is to be presented by the Seven Honey Boys, a minstrel sketch of diverting quality. "Lots and Lots of It," a one act comedy, is also featured, and will be offered by Phil White and com pany. Nonette, the violinist who sings, will be another of the special features. The famous march of "Babes in Toyland" is one of the features of Leonard Gautier's "Ani mated Toyshop," an act in which all the toys come to life, being imper sonated by a well-trained pony, dog or other animal. Palfrey, Hall and Brown do a diverting act in which they sing, dance, joke, ride a wheel and do some humorous pantomime. Hirchel Hendler, the poet ot tlie piano," plays a popular ragtime air as it would be interpreted by the different masters. Motion pictures of the Orpheum Travel Weekly are to be particularly interesting this week, since they will show the Royal Gorge in the Grand Canyon, Colorado and the River Fuji, Janan. Three companies presented "Daddy Long-Legs" last year and for the cast that is to be seen here at the Brandeis again, starting tonight, Mr. Miller has selected the best players from those organizations. No "Daddy Long Legs" cast has been made up of so fine an ensemble of players. In three seasons over 500,000 playgoers have seen Miss Webster's sparkling little love story, and this year it will be presented at the same time on three continents, America, England and Australia. In the cast will be Frances Carson, who will play the saucy Judy; George Alison, again the bachelor philanthropist; Bessie Lea Lestina, Nina Saville, Gertrude Rivers. Eva von Buelow, Donald Foster, Gladys Wilson, Ruth Tomlinson, Fred Beane and a dozen others. The engagement will continue until Wednesday even ing, with a matinee also on Wednes day. Birth control is the basis of the story of a drama in four acts, called "Her Unborn Child" (Howard Mc Kent Barnes, the author,), which will be played at the Boyd six nights and seven matinees, beginning with the matinee today. Only women will be admitted afternoons. At all other per formances the audience will be muted. In "Her Unborn Child" the author has not striven for sensation alism. It is said he has written a human interest story, with birth con trol as the basis for his plot, in which he shows that by education of the masses the slaughter of innocent un born babes will stop. While there is nothing in "Her Unborn Child" that U1 startle or offend any thinking At- the Oi-pheum Cecil CmwmQHAn W K. if EVA WORTH If EMPRESS person, no one under 18 years of age will be admitted to witness the per formance. "Women" is the title of the head liner at the Empress today and for the first half of the week. The story has to do with three women who live in the same house but in different apartments. All three are seeking divorces. When they get together they discover they are all married to the same man and he is away in another state preparing to wed the fourth. Shirley Sisters are singers and dancers. Hazel Heston and com pany in a comedy sketch "There's One Born Every Minute," produce fun. Mason and Flynn are billed as "The Cork and the Corker." In addi tion the usual photoplay program. A new twist has been given to the presentation of burlesque in the pro duction that will be seen at the popu lar Gayety theater twice daily all this week, when the "Maids of America" will appear in an original two-act travesty called "The Girl from No where. The principals embrace sev eral popular and talented burlesque players, among them Al K. Hall, Bobby Harry, Harvey Brooks, Joseph Weston, the Nelly Henry Trio and Misses Norma Bell, Alfarretta Sy monds and Mary Mack. A chorus of good looking, active girls, assisted by a double quartet of male voices, is announced as one of the most attrac tive elements of the show and the scenery and costumes and electric effects are described as fully in keep ing with the present day standards of advance burlesque. Today's matinee starts at 3 o'clock. Ladies' matinee daily, starting tomorrow. Harold Bell Wright's "The Win ning of Barbara Worth," will be pre sented at the Boyd theater next Sun day for four days. L. C. Yeomans, the producer, has given the play a beautiful scenic production and a strong cast of New York players. This is the original company. There are no other "Barbara Worth" com panies in existance. Edwin Arden comes to the Or pheum as a headline attraction for the week of February 18, sharing the distinction will be Ray Samuels, known as "the blue streak of vaude ville." Mr. Arden will present a play let by Oliver White, entitled "Close Quarters." Miss Samuels is an Or pheum favorite. Kenncy and Hollis, m "Freshy's Initiation," and Horace Wright, the tenor, and his pretty partner, Rene Dietrich, soprano, are also on the bill. Salem Tutt Whitney, J. Homer Tutt and Blanche Thompson return in a new preparedness musical comedy en- AZFARETZA SyMOKDS At tie Gayety titled "How Newton 'Prepared." Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt have written for the "Smarter Set" a show alonp; "preparedness" lines, with opportunity for barrels of fun. "The Smarter Set" is booked at the Brandeis theater Friday and Sat urday, February 16 and 17. In order that those who are not familiar with the Portmanteau theater, which comes to Omaha next week under the management of the Omaha section of the Drama League of America, The Bee here reproduces some comment by Percy Hammond, 'published in the Chicago Tribune of Wednesday last: Perhaps you do not know just wliat is meant by 'Stuart Walker's Port manteau.' Well, Mr. Walker himself is an audacious impresario (a grad uate from Mr. Belasco's academy of acting) who has hit upon the idea of taking his own stage with him when he goes out to play, some thing like that ancient historian who packed his works in a portmanteau and sought a public in Olympia. It is a commodious recticule carried by Mr. Walker, containing as it does a dozen dramas and twenty-five actors to act them. Since the playhouse has a stage with a proscenium and other accessories, the utility of the Port manteau there is not great. But as a stage within a stage it adds to the theater's intimacy, and its novelty provides a new emotion for the jaded clientele of that headquarters of en tertainment. "Mr. Relasco's influence is easily discernible in Mr. Walker's endeavors except in the repertory. The pre liminary chimes, the lightning, the rich accoutrement, the ritualistic at mosphere are all reminiscent of the Broadway master, and the acting, too, especially that of the distaff side, is adept and llelascoan. Miss Nancy Winston, for example, is a typical Belasco ingenue, full of tricky little airs and graces, almost kittenish enough to he classified as cute. It is going loo far, no doubt, to say that Mr. Belasco never contrived a picture more opulent than the gorgeous min iature in the second act of Lord Dun sany's 'King Argimenes and the Un known Warrior.' "Since the portmanteau's gonfalons flaunt the plays of Lord Dunsany as its chief attraction, something must be said about 'King Argimenes. It is one of those legends of the author's own invention, described by him as happening on the Rim of the World. j I shall have to see it again before I J acquire for it the enthusiasm of the pontiffs. However, its gaunt poeiry, its simple story, its Maeterlinck-with-suhstance manner and its happy ter minal proved most interesting to the audience. It is all about a captive king, who, rooting in the slave fields of his haughty captor, finds the sword of an unknown warrior, and with it dethrones the tyrant and his false god. Quite impressive are the pas sages about dead dog as a comestible which occur between the slaves as i they wait hungrily for the king's pet ' to die of an illness, so that they may I eat him. I believe we have not had this theme in a play since that other favorite of the cognoscenti, 'The Weavers." At the end of 'King Argi menes' a slave rushes into the throne room to announce the death of the dog. Whereupon the triumphant Argimenes, standing over the body of his predecessor, shouts, as the cur tain falls, 'Let him be buried with the late king!' "The other plays were 'The Birth day of the Infanta,' a dramatization of ine siory uy uscar wiiuc, ucrcii oi all its velvet language, but skillfully acted; and two charming and friv olous little interludes, 'Nevertheless' and 'The Very Naked Boy.' In 'Nev ertheless' Miss Winston and Mr. Kelly caught the manner of preco cious children beautifully, and Mr. Morris was amusing as a quizzical burglar. 'The Very Naked Boy,' the scene of which is 'half way in a pro posal,' was played engagingly by Miss Mary Coates and Mr. Freeman Wood." The plays to be offered by the Portmanteau players in Omaha are Dunsany's "Gods of the Mountain," Wilde's "The Birthday of the In fanta" and two interludes by Mr. Walker, "Nevertheless" and "The Very Naked Boy." Muiic (OonUiurd train Faco lUfht.t ing, February 12. "The principal litle role will be sung by Klorencio Con stantino, the Spanish tenor; Louise de la Vallier, by Kvclina Parnell, for merly of the Imperial Grand Opera company of Rome and Boston Grand Opera company. The principal bari tone role, Bragelonne, will be sung by Milo Picco, the Italian baritone. The production of Mr. Moore's opera has been made possible by a guaranty fund subscribed by representative citizens of St. Louis." Mr. Moore is well known in Omaha, where for several years he was a prominent singer and teacher and the musical editor of The Bee. For some time he has been the musical editor of the St. Louis Republic and he is also prominent in all musical affairs of our sister city. 4 Joseph Bonnet, French organist and composer of wide fame, is in America, where he will give a series of organ recitals. 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