Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, February 18, 1917, SOCIETY, Page 5, Image 21
THE OMAHA SUXDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 18. 1917. 5-8 fz::Jm (MwI MmRi Jttfe OroheuM i AN' actor of distinction Edwin Ardcn, is to be one of the stellar attractions tliis wcr-k a: ht Ornhcuir.. He will divide headline honors with the sons comedienne. Kav .Samuels. "Close Quarters." a uno-act play by Oliver White, is to be pre sented by Mr. Arden, assisted by Robert ayne. Of Miss Samuels it i to be said that she is a comedienne who sings units'jally well. One of the special features is to be contributed iiv Kcnney and Htllis in a skit called ' Frcsbv's Init'.itk i;." Collecc bov pranks are related iiv means of nne! and story. Hilled a "somewhat differ ent singers." Horace Wright and Rene Dietrich arc vocalist;- of attainment. Mr.. Wright is a tenor of pure tone, while his partner is a soprano equally well endowed. In addition to'traincd males, Mr. Fink has trained ponies and trained dogs in his act. Mis mule, "Jim Dump.'' is a laughable feature of the performance. A skit, ''Comin' Thro' the Rye," to be presented by (hirles Irwin and kitty Henry, is a hodge-podge of song and story, Mario and Duffy have gained a prominent position as eccentric gym nasts and this season arc especially diverting. A prairie dog village will be shown in motion pictures by the Orpheum Travel Weekly and other features will be a storm on the Welsh, coast and a town of north India. In the "Winning of Barbara Worth." which comes to the Kovd to day for four days, with matinees today and Wednesday, there is a most rea'us-i tic picture of the great American desert. Those who have -read the book will remember Moonj and Texas : Joe, stranded in this great wasfe of sand, baked by centuries of tropical heat. But a dipperful of water is left j betweent them; their discovery of j Barbara's mother buried beneath an j avalanche of drifting sand, holding ir her death grip her babe. I hey teed the feeble spark of its life with the last remaining water. They begin to bury the dead mother, and as Jeffer son Worth says a prayer for the soul of her who prized her little one more than her own life, the wind rises for the second time, and the sand drift ing in blinding clouds and relentless fnry ' makes the shroud that covers the body and builds a natural mound above the spot. Mark Swan's drama tization of Harold Bell Wright's book is well done. Every important point is retained. L. C. Yeomans has not alone made a beautiful scenic produc tion, perfect in every particular, bnt he has paid strict atention to a cast of artists which will give competent interpretation. "The Katzenjammer Kids" will be the attraction at the Boyd next Sun day for 6ve nights and three matinees. For the week of February 25 the Orpheum proclaims four acts that" are usually distinguished with headline exploitation in big-time vaudeville. Eddie Leonard, the popular star of minstrelsy, with his own company, and Homer B. Mason and Marguerite Heeler, presenting the one-act play, "Married," will .divide the top-line honors, while Stan Stanley and his relatives will dispense a budget of comedy calculated to jar the risibles -while splitting the featured positions with Anna Chandler as "The De butant" 'in a study of song. In The Spiegel Rente," which is at the Gayety theater for seven days, commencing yesterday matinee, is a mammoth, with ten massive sets oi scenery 'and a wardrobe that would furnish three or four ordinaries. Spiegel retained George Totten Smith who retained the retainer to pro vide a book that even critics would regard as unusual, and he had the music written by Ruby Cowan and I. Strause. , Spiegel's cast is com posed of Billy Mossey, Midgie Miller, Callahan brothers, Marian Marshall, Ben Holmes, Josephine Yonnge, Marie Allen, Ida Lind, Anna Dare. Anna McGraw and others. A chorus of beauty as unusual as the book forms an important part of the or ganization and appears in bewilder ing dance creations. The revue is in two acts and ten scenes. There are two big electrical novelties. One snows Marie Allen, the modern Venus, in a series of poses represent ing the covert of the leading maga zines. The scenery is from the artis tic hand of P. Dodd Ackerman. La dies' matinee daily all week. Comedy, singing, dancing, erjuili bristic novelty stunts and "syncopa ted musikers make up the program for the first half of the week at the Empress theater, starting today. Middleton and Spellmever head the bill wtih a comedy singing and talk ing act called An Ocean wooing. KUiss and Waiman entertain with syncopated music. D'Amore and Douglas are equilibristic performers. The Hanley girls complete the bill with singing and dancing. The last half of the week brings Gilroy, Haynes and Montgomery in a nautical tinging comedy, "The Good Ship A rT-p ehtunii wo Empress (JraceSpeiineyer Nancy Lee;" Weber and Elliott in a novelty comedy offering; Ward, Bell and Ward, circus performers, offer Undr the White Tops." Harry La Toy, the talkative juggler, closes the program. l ' "Griffiths' Birth of a Nation" is coming for its third visit to the Bran deis theater for the week beginning next Sunday. Place yourself off the earth at a point somewhere off the southeastern portion of the' United States. From your vantage point you see the arrival ot the first African slave, the north and south develop rapidly. The breath of 1860 comes and young men of the north hasten to answer the call of the president for volunteers to pre serve the union, and the young men of the south form rapidly under the banner of the new confederacy. Far flung battle lines advance bravely over hill and plain. You hear the roar of battle and see the ground strewn with dead and dying heroes. The bat tle lines have swept on. Two young men, college chums, both wounded to the death, fall in each other's arms, the uniforms they wear alone the di viding line of brotherhood. They clasp each other about the neck and die. Lee surrenders to Grant Lin coln, his giant figure bowed with the woes of his beloved union, signs the famous proclamation and prepares to welcome back the starving children of the nation. False sentiment and political cunning thwart his plans. Things change rapidly. The radical is in the saddle and ambitious at tempts are being made to place the newly enfranchised negro on an equality, politically and socially, with the white man. In the prostrate south the negro tremendously out numbers the white man. Degradation and animalism sweep over the coun try. Homes ruined by the civil war, and on the eve of being re-established, are sacked and burned. The scattered white men organize . the Ku-Klux-Klan. Clad in white sheets, with cross-marked masks, mounted, they sweep from plantation to plantation, resolved to bring about the supremacy of breeding and culture. Racial hatred rises to the boiling point You see things that ought never to have been and wonder why they ever should be among reasonable creatures. All this you see in the wonderful panorama of history, symbolized not by cold pages of type, but written with human beings for words and months for sen tences. T. a. Gnbto JtoM Anmey. T. 8. QamMa, aaetatant manacar of the Maxwell Motor Balee corporation, has re atcood to become a partner to the firm of Benenn, Campbell A Slaten, adrertlelng eft-enta, with offices In Chlcano and Cleve land. Mr. Gamble will make hl headquar ters at the Cleveland offlre and will handle the eastern bualncai of hla firm. v. ! -f T Music, Art and Drama eaters tJasephtne YovTfG Music (('ontlfiiied from Pac Four.) the time to the work of the others as j supplementary. The class lesson idea seems to flour ish most in the department of siting instrumnets, where in some places like the University of Kansas credit is given for work in violin classes. In the schools of Boston, I am tod. class lessons in violin work have been quite successful. But at that thev arc slow and expensive in the end. The violin is one of the hardest o( all instruments to master, and from its very hei?in-, nings presents problems of bowing, j intonation and fingering which must be learned right or the pupil v ill never learn to play. It cannot be taught, t for instance, as the musical amateur learned to play the 'cello in the book of the same name, by pasting a slip of naner under the fincerboard, with the places for the different notes marked upon it. and then just playing j by putting his lingers at these places and sawing away. j Music study makes no record, which the teacher can gather up like a pile of examination papers after class and j take home to correct. The sounds are ! heard and then vanish, the motions which produced them are over, and in class work much that is wrong is likely to be passed by through lack of time, and because faults do not stand out as glaringly plain as they would if they sounded through the air alone. When one comes right down to the very easiest and cheapest way of studying music, it is simply to hunt up a good, well equipped teacher, a specialist in his line, and to take individual lessons, and then work with all one's strength to know those lessons. Any one in doubt of what one should learn in different lines of music would do well to spend an afternoon in the reference room of the library, The American Ency clopedia of Music is there and there are two volumes on Essentials, which will give one a good working idea of what one should expect to understand and learn in the pursuit of their spe cial branch. The Omaha Mendelssohn choir con cert tomorrow night in conjunction with the Minneapolis Symphony Or chestra, is being looked "forward to with the greatest interest. This last number of another highly successful and most gratifying series of concerts presented by the Omaha Ketailers association, will give lovers of the 6n est in choral singing and orchestral music a chance to indulge their tastes. Both of these organizations have many friends and admirers. The Omaha Mendelssohn choir concerts before the Omaha Retailers' associ ation entered the field were for many years the feature of the musical sea son, and the fame of this wonderful choral singing has spread to many other cities, and has done more than anything else to make Omaha known as a musical center. The standard of the singing done by this large choir under the direction of Mr. Thomas J. Kelly, is of the highest order, and many of the numbers to be presented tomorrow night are from the finest of choral literature. Our Omaha choir ranks as one of the few finest choirs in America. Music lovers who go east to hear other choirs come back more convinced of this than ever. The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra un der Mr. Emir- Oberhoffcr is not a stranger to Omaha audiences either, having made an annual visit ret our city for several years, and established an enviable reputation with us. This great choral and orchestral concert will make a fitting close to this popu lar course of concerts of which the Omaha Retailers' association have cause to feel justly proud. For the Portmanteau Theater S Tl' ART WALKER'S ortmanteau theater is to be unpacked for one eve ning in Omaha, the Boyd to lie the scene and Friday iriiiiit the time. It comes under the auspices of the Omaha sec tion of the Drama League ot Amer ica. Much interest is shown in the aftair. which promises at least a break in I he routine of the season, in that it ' worthily presents roniethins of intcr- est. Principal of the plays to be I Riven is Dunsanv's "The Gods in the Mountain." Of this it is interesting ' to know vhat so keen and competent a critic a-. Walter Trichard Katon ; thinks of "Gods in the Mountain." To the editor ot the Dramatic Mirror Mr. Katon writes: "Since you ask what is the most significant play I have seen this sea son and not what American play or new play. 1 have no hesitancy in an swering "The Gods in the. Mountain." produced by Stuurt VValk'er in his Portmanteau theater. Though this work was first shown in New York by the h'crrer school and a year ago by the Amateur Comedy club and though other plays hy Dmisany have been done at the Neighborhood play house and elsewhere, to Mr. Walker, 1 think, must go the credit for put ting Dunsany before the general pub lic in Amcrna as a dramatist capable ot bringing the crowd into the the ater through the ordinary channels. " 'The Gods in the Mountain' is a work of singular dramatic simplicity and force. It is a work infused with the magic of poetic speech; it is a work full of irony, touched with i unique humor and carrying a tieptn ot appeal linijtcd only ny tile intellec tual capacity of the spectator. Above all it compters, in its action, a cycle: it ends a rylhm with that sense of satisfactory finality we associate with the perfect work of art. whether play or poem or musical phrase. "That it ii 'so utterly different from the realistic drama of the day adds to its significance, for to me it seems to have restored imagination to our stage. After a round of Rroadway playhouses this fall I came upon one blessed afternoon, as one comes upon an oasis in the desert, or 'into the slnidow of a great rock in a weary laud.' 'tirerl of Sing Sing and Fort) second street, and 'An English Coun try House.' It was good to be with rrsv, MiiBra ; "in nWit? II U$$A I n TP ir-'- ' M 3 111 " """"f - ill T ft ' ; IRC 1!tIJ: L. Mt-'Mf: .ill Omaha Musician's Union Purchases Exquisite Victor Victrola at Mickel's Nebraska Cycle Company If an expert, talented and proficient musician doesn't know music, who does? And if such a musician has a half dozen makes of tone re producing machines offered him and finally settles down to a genuine VICTOR-VICTROLA, what does that signify? - Well, here's the answer. The Omaha Musicians' Union has pur chased for iU own use, in its own cozy quarters, an exquisite VICTOR VICTROLA XVI at $200, finished.in a delightful fumed oak, so as to perfectly match the pretty fumed oak finishing of the rooms. The illustration above shown the VICTOR-VICTROLA as it ap pears placed in the rooms of the Union, and to say that it is proving a joy all around is putting it mildly. The Omaha Musicians' Union is highly pleased with its purchase and happy that it's a VICTOR-VICTROLA. Now then, if the most expert coterie of music makers in this part of the country decides to have a VICTOR-VICTROLA for its own' use, shouldn't that influence YOU in your choice? To be sure. You want a VICTOR-VICTROLA. You want one soon. You want to derive just the sort of pleasure out of it that the Omaha Musicians' Union is deriving out of theirs. So it's up to you to stop in and tee the VICTOR-VICTROLA ex hibit at Mickel's Nebraska Cycle Co., corner 15th and Harney streets, Omaha, or, if you live in Council Bluffs, 334 Broadway will do just as well, for Mickel's Nebraska Cycle Co. hat an establishment over there, too. MICKEL'S NEBRASKA CYCLE CO. it the concern that puts "Vim into Victrolas" in other words, the Mickel boys have popular ized the Victrola idea around here. When you get ready to buy YOUR Victrola, (and that's going to be toon), tee that it's bought at MICKEL'S NEBRASKA CYCLE CO. THIRD ANNUAL FETE AND BALL, 1917 T. M. A. Theatrical Mechanical Association Omaha Lodge No. 38 MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 21 A program of dancing and theatrical nam bait. Something out of the ordinary. Tha Mayor and MUs Roy Samuels, on tha Orpheum hill this week, will lead the grand march. GEORGE GREEN'S BAND WILL FURNISH THE MUSIC Ticket: $1.00 the Couple. Extra Lady, 50c green peaks of Along with this will be two "inter-! ludes" by Mr. Walker, "The Very Naked Boy" and "Nevertheless," the i bill to conclude with a dramatisation i of Oscar Wilde's "The Birthday of I the Infanta." In the company are a! number of capable players, but its art-1 ing has a flavor quite removed from i that of routine professionalism. It is in j the fcenery finite as much as in the acting that Mr. Walker seeks to set) X .u I.:. .1. I t-i. . ' , i .. . i . , whole obbject of this s to make the audience imaguie rather han see. J.? ' Cn?"Whl 'T.P , f C setting or you he says, if you only give It the cue. lorm ins iiicories ami meats. i nc Gregory Kelly, a young actor who has been on the American stage since he was 10 years of age and who won recognition ior his excellent work in Mrs. Fiske's companies, has been especially engaged for the juvenile roles. Mr. Kelly made his first pro fessional appearance with Virginia Harned in E. H. Sothern's romantic drama, "The Light That Lies in Wom an's Eyes." He was engaged as the featured player in the famous melo drama. "After Midnight," in which he toured for two years. Charles Erob man then selected him for the role of John Napoleon Darling in the sup port of Maude Adams in "Peter Pan," after which he was seen with t arlotta Nillson in "The Three of Us." Mr. Kelly forsook the dramatic stage for a season to assume the role of Johnny Bostonbeans in "School Days," in which he gained popularity during the long run of that musical comwly at the Circle theater. New York. He then acted with Mrs. Eiske in "The Green Cockatoo," "Pillars of Society" j and "Hecky Sharp:" with Ethel Harry- j more, in "Alice Sit-by-the-Firc," and with Otis Skinner in "Kismet." Being an accomplished dancer as well as an actor. Mr. Kcllv was chosen for at prominent part in "Just Herself,' ill which he danced with Lydia l.opo kova, the celebrated Russian danseiise. Psychology of Chicken Thieves Peeves Woman Just when her hens had started lay ing 50-cent eggs Mrs. F. Roberts re ported to the police that someone broke into her lien house by forcing the padlock and removing seven of her choicest birds. the gods on the Marna." Upon completion of its week's engagement the third in two years at the Brandeis Theater, where it will be presented twice daily for the seven days, beginning next Sunday, February 25, "THE BIRTH OF A NATION" will have been presented in Omaha, and at the Brandeis Theater, exactly 107 times inr less than sixteen months a record which has never been approached by any other attractions and never will, at least for many years. Almost every person is familiar with this whirlwind combination of story, spectacle and tense drama and most have seen it and heard its wonderfully effective musical accom paniment SAME COMPANY SAME ORCHESTRA SAME EFFECTS Half the Former Admission Price. Seats Tomorrow, 25c-50c-75c-$l Omaha Extends Welcome To Popular Rose Tapley Omaha is to have an opportunity to day to see a real live honest-to-good-ness movie star. Rose Tapley is on a tour of the United States on request of numerous managers and in behalf of the Vitagraph Film company. Ck. i ... i .?nc i uiic 01 inc popular rarraocrs of the Vitagraph family and has ap peared in many of the notable features which have been released hy this com pany. Sliei,s known as the question iady, and will answer any questions that may he asked her while she ap pears at the Muse theater today. She will have with her a reel of film called "From Script to Screen," which shows the development of a photoplay trom the time the scenario is accepted ... ,t. , ,i . iv. uic MIllMlCU uruumi is Bern ,,. 1 Incorporattd in this wj1 b! , manv .. .. f f h leading V.ta- h , hj h . A Elr, , fvUliam, Anil. Ste'wart. Pe,rrv Hv- : land, Antonio Moreno and many oth- ers equally as popular. Manager "Hob' Shirley has espe cially arranged for today a picture in which she, Peggy Hyland and Antonio Moreno are starred, "Rose of the South." Looks rather like roses will "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER' Mats., IS-tS-M 2S-SO-7S Mix 8iImI. KSaoff "The The Spiegel Revue Bltly Mum, HIMU Miller tH Fwtv AseotUtM. "The Girl m tin MettulM." elMtriul wteltar. Extra. ImUu tf FrUav Nlhw PtrtMt Fhtar Cm ttstt. Open tt Omaha Veeuaae. Trtfhy aepa l wtaMrs 1 r ranormaMa rneay mn. Latftos' Dim M all neaE very Weal A Convenient and Comfortable Place to Eat Your Sunday Dinner From 12 M. to 3 P. M. DINNER, SOc Cream of Tomato Soup Sweet Pickles Olivet Radishes Choice of Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, au Jut Baked Chicken with Dressing Loin of Pork, Apple Sauce Baked Premium Ham with Spinach Mashed Potatoes Early June Peat Cranberry Sauce Stewed Tomatoes Waldorf Salad French Rolls Pitted Cherry Pie Apple Pie Cocoanut Cream Pie Crushed Strawberry lee Cream with Cake Coffee Tea Milk Cocoa Miller's Cafe P. P. MILLER, Prop. 1811 Faraara St Matinee Delly SilS Every Night tils. The Beat of WEEK STARTING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18th EDWIN ARDEN In an Odd Affair of tb Present Day in New York City, Entitled "CLOSE QUARTERS" By Oliver White. FINK'S MULES Vaudeville's Equine Joy Feast Tha Orif inal College Boys KENNEY & HOLLIS In a New Act, Entitled "Froshy's Initiation" ' Chirlea -IRWIN & Kitty HENRY "Comin' Through tha Ryu" Horace WRIGHT & DIETRICH Tha Somewhat Different Singers In a New and "Somewhat Different" Offering ORPHEUM TRAVEL WEEKLY Around the World with tbo Orpheum Circuit's Motion Picture Photoarsphers. BOYDS &utX FEB. 18 Matinees Sunday "His Whole Life Work Had Become Centered in the Reclamation of the Kings Basin Desert" L. C. YEOMANS Offers THE DRAMATIZATION BY MARK SWAN OF THE WESTERN CLASSIC . By HAROLD BKIX WRIGHT 'THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH" WITH ' VIRGINIA HARDY A Strong Cast of Well Known Players A Beautiful Scenic Production See the Sand Storm In the Desert. NOTE This Is the Only Company in the United States or Canada Playing This Play, Hence the Original Company. DDirTQ Evenings! Lower Floor, 75c, SOc; Balcony Seats, JT rl,VX-eaJ 35c, 25c. Matinee Prices: 25c. Next Sunday, "THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS" be the fad today. Why not all wear one in honor of her visit? Please do not think that Ro Tap ley is visiting every city in the United States just a few. Manager Shirley and Mr. Palmer of the local branch of the Vitagraph think they should be congratulated on the "success of their effort in making this possible. We all hope that Mist Tapley will have cause to remember Omaha long after she leaves here and that somewhere in that big heart of hers she will reserve a little spot for Omaha. minimitniiiiiimiititiii' i John Haynes Holmes - " f Nnr York Z Z Praphrt of a Nnr Sociil Orfer i FEARLESS rOWERFUL FARSEEINC -a "THE INTERNATIONAL MIND" 1 Wr and Pmc W.rkl Citlunihip - BOYD THEATER FEB. U. I P. M. " 2 B(U Nnr UnlUriu Church XSc SOc I MMunititniinMSJiiNliitiiiiiiHtnliiliiliiliiliiliiaiiltiltiiiiii BRANDEIS THEATER Tuesday Evening. February 20th "THE AMAZONS' 3-aet farco, hr Arthur W Plnero P DCSMlit PiesoMloH By Flavors' Club American Ambulance Hospital of Paris TICKETS, SOc TO S1.0O. BOYD1 kThurs, Fsb. X3 One Night Only P STUART WALKER'S 1 1 ORTMANTEAU In the Pollowlnt Short Plan: Oerar Wilde's "The Birthday ol the Infanta." Triumph" N. Y. Ere. Sun. "Nevertheless" "ltaonislU bit of comedy." N. V. Herald. "Very Naked Boy" "Unreservedly amusing." N. V. Globe. Lord Dnnsany's "Coda of the Moun tain" "One of the great plays of our time." -Bookman. SEAT SALE NOW at has office. PRICES SOc to M OO. 1 LI ,l 1.1 J eaVJ kj IX oas BmaaBj ru - hwiwbj r a. a i Omaha's Double Attraction CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE AND PHOTOPLAYS TODAY AND 'TILL THURSDAY KLAISS AND WAIMAN m Syncopated Muiihere Sketch MIDDLETON 4 SPELLMEYER in Comedy Singing and Talking "AN OCEAN WOOING" D'AMORE DOUGLAS Aa Equilibristic Novalty HANLEY GIRLS Singing and Dancing CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG h "THE SAVAGE INSTINCT" ADMISSION, 20c and 10c Twice Dally t lilt SllS. Doug. 4S4. Vaudeville RAYSAMUELS The Blue Streak of Vaudeville. MARLO ft DUFFY Originality in Gymnastics Rene PRICES. Gallery, 10e Best Seats (except Saturday and Sunday) 2Sc; Nights 10c, 25c, SOc end 7Sc. end Wednesday MP