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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY REE: AUGUST 12. 1917. 7 3 One Week Will Find the Regular Theatrical Season in Full Swing As usual, the first of Omaha's the aters to open its doors for the season of 1917-18 will be the Gayety, which will get under way next Saturday aft ernoon with the first of the fourteen performances to be given by a new comer to the Columbia circuit the "Oh, Girl!" company. This organiza tion, one of the thirty-eight musical burlesque entertainments to be seen at the Gayety this season, will niak a particularly strong appeal for pat ronage, it is said, by means of an un deniably clever cotenie of principals in fact, it is doubted if Peter S. Clark ever before obligated ' himself to such an extent for talent as he has for the season to open here next Sat urday. The list of principals is a lengthy one, including Clare Evans and Irv ing Sands as principal comedians and Frances Tait Botsford as prima don na. Pretty Jeanette Mohr and Mamie Mitchell will pull about even loads. Al S. Hyatt will interpret the "straight" role and Mills and Lockwood, a vaudeville team, will add much joy to the proceedings. Morcy Clark has been cast for the juvenile role. The beauty chorus numbers nearly thirty. There is no more humorous or snappier writer contributing to bur lesque that iijunie McCree and it is he who furnished the delightful breezy "book" entitled "The High Cost of Flirting," in which Mr. Clark's company will be seen. The theater is now undergoing all manner of house cleaning and refur nishing and the assurance is given that all will be in readiness for the grand opening next Saturday mat inee. The seat sale opens Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Theater-goers of this city are look ing forward with considerable pleas ure to the engagement at the Bran deis theater on Thursday and Friday, August 23 and 24, of Ruth Chattertou in A. E. Thomas' delightful three act comedy, "Come Out of the Kitchen." This city will be visited by the bril liant young American star, in what nas ueen aiu 10 ue uer greatest sue-; cess, even before Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and the other large east- prn vitipc fr fi11pi" arrantypft a Inn. ited stooover here, before taking the! company east. "Come Out of the Kitchen was included as one of the features of Mr. Miller's remarkably successful season at th,e Columbia theater, San Francisco, and it was for this engagement that he brought to a close the triumphant run of the play of thirty-two weeks at the George M. Cohan theater. New York City. The story that "Come Out of the Kitchen" tells is as whimsical as it is fantastic. It has to do with the four children of a proud old Virginia fam ily whose parents are abroad and whose finances are at Jow ebb. In order to save the ancestral home the eldest daughter consents to lease the house for six weeks to a millionaire Yankee who wants it for the shoot ing season. The northerner's insistance tliat a competent staff of white servants be provided precipitates much trouble. At the last moment the quartet of ervants refuse to go into the country and. it looks as thoughithe expected tenant will be lost. Whereupon Olivia Daingerfield (Ruth Chatterton) comes to the rescue with the brilliant idea of turning cook, and making servants of her two brothers and sister. Of course' the masquerade is eventually discovered, but not until a pretfy ro mance has been developed and fun galore begun. Manager Burgess announces the opening of the Boyd on Sunday after noon and evening, September 2, with one of the International circuit at tractions. He has not yet been in formed which of the several com panies will begin its tour of the cir cuit in Omaha. The policy of the house will be the same as last sea son. An International circuit com pany will play the first four days of the week, and a Shubert attraction the last three. The Shuberts have plans for putting out an unusually good Jot of shows this coming sea son, all of which will play at the Boyd. The International people an nounce the following list: "Hans and Fritz," "Mutt and Jeffs Divorce," Kate Elinore, "Bringing Up Father Abroad," Gus Hill; "The Cin derella Man," ?Tcgv o' My Heart." Oliver Morosco; "Turn Back the Hours," "AJter Office Hours," Ar thur Alston; "The Old Homestead," James Thatcher; "The White Slave," "Shore Acres," Robert .Campbell: Thomas E. Shea in "Common Clay,' Thomas E. Shea; "In Old New Eng land," "Arizona," Walter San ford; "My Irish Cinderella," Charles E. Blaney; Thurston; Walter Lawrence in "Come Back to Erin," George H. Nicolai; "McFadden's Flats," Charles H. Yale; "The Woman Pays," Woods and Aiston: "His Majesty, Bunljrr Bean," W. II. Currie; "An Hawaiian Butterfly," "Going Straight," Row land and Howard; Lew Kelly in "Hello, New York." Charles Barton; Jimmv Hodges in "Pretty Baby," Jim my Hodges; "Which One Shall I Marry?" Ed. Rowland; "The Katzcn jammer Kids," Gatts and Clifford; Halton Powell in "Oh. Doctor," Hal ton Powell; "Gus. Hill's Follies of 1917." Polly and Her Pals," Rose and Sanford; "Stop, Look and Listen," Sampter and Hill; "It's a Long Way , to Tipperary," Hill and Sanford; "The Unborn," Gazzolo, Gatts and Clif ford, and Ilurtig and Seamon's "Col ored Jubilee," Hurtig and Seamon. Manager Director Beck has desig nated, Sunday, August 26, for the opening of the season in all the thea ters'of the Orpheum circuit in the middle west, Canada and the south, which will place Omaha on Ihe high class theatrical calendar in two more weeks. At present the Omaha Or pheum theater is undergoing repairs and renovations, having been turned over to decorators, cenic artists, dra pers and cleatfers, who will have the pretty playhouse burnished bright and looking its best for the opening. Manager "Billy" Byrne will be at the helm' and" all the old employes will be back at their posts. Manager Beck has arranged an attractive bill to initiate the season of 1917-18 with. Two prominent Orpheum big-time headliners, and a special feature act are registered. Eva Taylor and Law rence Grattan,. who are now co-stars, presenting Mr. Grattan's latest farce comedy. "Rocking the Boat," and Nina Payne presenting character siuaics in oance win snare in the top line 1 distinction, while Charlie Howard with his inebriated dance, a side-splitting bit of fun, and as sisted by pretty Margaret Taylor and Hal Pine in a singing, dancing and LEADING MAN IN STOCK COMPANY AT BRANDEIS. vv :, W 0 J stock perfect bsajweis talking melange will constitute the special feature. Noel Travers. who was starred in "The Virginian" and "The Heir to the Hurrah," and Irene Douglas, until recently known as the youngest leading woman on the stage, have made their transition from the legitimate to vaudeville and will be seen in an Edgar Allen Woolf playlet entitled "Meadowbrook Lane." Med lin, Watts and Townes will contribute comedy and song. Jay Gould and Flo Lewis are a couple of youngsters with flattering heraldings of their con quests in their musical comediette entitled "Holding the Fort." Nelson, the comedy juggler with hundersd of , hats and the mysterious pitcher, and the Urpheum Travel Weeklv will com pete the program. I L'nder the management of Ledoux and Le Marquand, the Brandeis the ater, one of the best equipped and I most modern theaters in the country! will open September 1 under a new policy. The theater will continue to pre sent high class road attractions booked by Klavv & Erlanger, but in stead, of presenting those attractions at any time during the week, they will be offered on the last three days Thursday. Friday and Saturday, when ever available and only when rec ogtiized as worthy of presentation. Every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the latest royalty plays and successes of New York and Chicago will be produced and nre- i sented on the Brandeis stage, by one ! if not the best stock organizations in me country, uncier tnc management of Mr. Niggemcyer. the lessee of the onuueri rnearer oi Milwaukee and manager of the Shubert Stock com- pany of that city. The new management is not in a position to disclose the names of all the principals of the company - as negotiations' are ui progress in New York for the engagement of a few of the best stock actors iji the United States. :4'r -.yU : However, it is. already decided that Harry L. Minturn the leading man of the Shubert Stock company of Mil waukee for the last - season, who has been starring in some of the best stage productions of recent years un der the management of Liebler & Co. A . H. Woods will play the leading part of the new organization. It is rumored that the management is securing the services of a leading lady at present in New York City, who is known in Omaha, having ap peared on the Orpheum theater stasre last season in one 'of the most suc cessful sketches presented there last year. If you want a demonstration that "fine feathers make fine birds" see the wonderful transformation of the "Rube Girl" in the "Fashion Shop," the headline attraction at the Em press theater the first four days of this week, starting today. "A rube" and his daughter enter a modiste's ship in Paris to try on a few dresses. The designer starts to work to drape the models. From yards upon yards of satin, silks, chiffon, ornaments and laces and with only pins' and without cutting anything the transformation begins to take. Not a stitch is sewed and the actual time to make and fit an entire dress is only two minutes. Here is an opportunity of seeing something new in designing ladies' garments. Blanche Late.ll, "the rube girl," is considered one of the few funny women on the stage today. The chorus of Broadway models are exceptionally pretty, all blondes, and perfect 36s, too. The 'musical num bers are all catchy and there is a vein of toinedy that placcj the act far out of the ordinary. Expressions of comedy and music is the offering of Fargo and Wells. They introduce a clever line of comedy and play the Irish harp, the saxaphones. banjos and also the violin. Rose Berry, a singing comedienne, with a sweet voice, sings some late hits and does some character numbers in a manner that is satisfactory to all. Comedy and whirlwind roller skaters above the average are Van Horn and Am mer. Both are clever, young fellows who have won trophies in open com petition all over the country for all kinds of skating, and in addition de velop some entertaining comedy, Ince Outdoes Himself fn Building Big Village Thomas H. Ince, builder and spe cialist in villages, has almost outdone his former efforts at realism in the reproduction of a famous Alaskan town in the- first gold rush days. It was erected on the great range at Inceville, which has the most varied collection of villages in filmland. In completeness and accuracy it vies with the Mexican, Holland, Irish, French and other villages that have framed the picturesque backgrounds for many Triangle plays. "in "The Flame of the Yukon," in which Dorothy Dalton is presented as star, one sees the long main street of this Yukon town, which has grown up almost overnight. This street was reproduced with a fidelity seldom at tempted. Every feature in the original was retained, even to the exact let tering on the signs, the original names on the stores and the prices of goods I I I I I I I I l I I I I I II T i l I THE FATAL RING in i n i l in I I I t i i i i i Synopl. "THE FATAL KIMi." ' Kplnode A. Pearl Slaiidish -TVarl White High Priestess Ruby Hoffman Richard Carslake Warmer Gland Tom Carleton Henry (isell Nicholas Knox Karle Voxe After Carslake's attack outside the Temple, Tom Carleton came to to hear a scream from Pearl ring out from one of the windows above him. He investigated and discovered which room she was in. Climbing up, and hanging by his hands from the sill, he saw her suspended over the caldron of boiling lead, bound and gagged. There was no one else in the room with her, for the High Priestess had. j the end of the rope to the floor in the i adionmiK room, first allowing it to pass through a rat-trap in which were j ijve rats. The part of the rope that : passed through this trap was smeared j with sweet paste, to induce the rats to gnaw at it and when the rats sue ceeded in serving the rope, Pearl was to be. thus precipitated into the molten metal. One man had been left to sit beside in the days of 1898-9. The result was achieved bv calling in the aid of ex perts to adVise the designers and ar chitects. The building of the street, which is nearly fiv blocks long, vas supervised by George H. Percival, a pioneer and proprietor of north ern Aslaska's first dance hall. When Manager Thomas of the Strand, where this picture will be shown today and Monday, was at the Chicago convention he met Thomas H. Ince, and he told him that he per sonally thought it the best picture he has made. Railroad Service in Spain To Be Resumed Despite Strike Madrid, Aug. 11. Premier Dato has announced that the ministers of the various departments believe they will be able to resume railroad service despite the strike which was expected' to begin last night. Military and naval engineers will be substituted for the strikers. . The Northern Railroad company has given the men forty-eight hours to abandon the strike. If they fail to do so they will be definitely dismissed. rAW ; mmmMllA L i If Peep Into Photoplays Coming Soon Bile Harrinrale. . . In In In In In In In in HMHue Lore Wallare Held..,. Famile Wnrd Crone VI' I! bur. . . . Jnn Hotlirn . . . Thorrm hnnclil.. Bfssle Eyton . Ruth Clifford in FIU Hall. In In In In In In In In in In In In In In June Llrldxe (arlyle. Bin. k well. (eorne Walsh William Farnum . . Viola Unna. . ... . Robert Harwrrk.. Oladra Mulette flonna Drew . . . . Harry Carey Mary Anderson.... Harry Morey William Rimwll... Juliette Day I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I H I I I I I I I I i Written by George B. Seitz and Fred Jackson and Produced by Astra Film Corporation Under Direction of Mr. Seitz i i i i i i i i i i i i i I i ill i i i i i i i the rat trap and watch the rodents feed. The High Priestess and the rest of her followers had taken their-departure, Tom discovered that the bars on the window at which he hung were fasten ed to a gate that could be-opened from inside. He slipped his hand through and opened it, drew himself through the aperture and caught the rope just as ' the rats gnawed it through. Holding Pearl safely above the boiler, he swung her to-safery, and freed her from her bonds. " , ' But now appeared the Arab to in vestigate, for lie had not heard the splash of her body falling into the lead. Tom attacked him but was be ing worsted in the light when Pearl auiuneo nerseit against the Aral), hurling him hack. His foot slipped He staggered backward falling' ti in stant death in the boiling metal. "Pearl and Tom speedily Mod the place. Meanwhile, Carslake had fought oft' the pursuing Arabs and had taken himself back to Nella's house. There he learned that Nella had gone to dine at the Claremont with Henley. Fol- Filmland Favorites Mary Anderson, star on the Greater Vitagraph progi.'in, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y June 28, 1897, and received her education VI Erasmus Hall ;md Holy Cross school in that city. She had an curly stage career, starting as an amateur Grecian dancer for charity, lie .screen career has always been under the Vitagraph banner, and she lias been seen in "The Flower of the Desert" "La Pa louia," "The Wardrobe Woman," "Getting Rid of Aunt Kale, Bill Peter's Kid," "The Luck Charm," "The Last Man, Ihe Divorcee," "The Magnificent Meddler," and is now being seen in her latest screen offering. "By Right of Possession," co-starring with Antonio Moreno, Her recreations are horseback riding, swimming, painting and scenario writing. Her height 'is four feet, eleven inches, weighs 105 pounds, has auburn hair and gray eyes. 'Home address, 5127 Herald Way and Win ona boulevard. Studio address, Vita graph studios, Santa Monica, Cal. "Wooden Klioe" "We I.Hrty ilelM" "The Thlnir Me I.oie" "Mexli.nli .Mile" v "The IU.mhI of the Father". "Pec O' the Sea" "The Nmoulderlnr Flume"., "The Ive of Madge O'.MHra" , . . Triangle . . .Trianele . rarnmnmit . Paramount . . A r( lira ma . .Art drama . . . .tieneral . I . tieneral . . . Bluebird ...Bluebird World World Fo Fox Metro I'athe I'n the , . .Butterfly . . . Ilnttej-fly . . Vitaicrapli . . Vitacraph Mutual Mutual The Face of Prentice .Teller". "The Charmer" "Shall We Forgive Her?" "The Biirirlar" "The Vanl.ee Way" "l Miserable)." "Blue .lennx". "The Mad liver" , "The (banner" "The lair of the Wolf" "Stralxht Minoting" .. "The. Keil Frlee" "Who One There?" "hnnds of Sacrifice" "The Kninlmw (.irl" t - ) v I I I I I 1 1 I I I I I I I I ) mil i i i i i i i i i it i i i i i i i t t i i i i i 'i i i i' ii i lowing them, he arrived before them and took a sheltered table. Chief of Detectives Hanna. who was the most eager among police officials to capture Carslakc, chanced to be dining' that night at the Clareniont also, with a party of friends. Feeling something wrong with his eye, he borrowed his wife's vanity-case to look at himself in the tiny mirror, and through the glass saw Carslakc, Likewise, Carslake saw Hanna between himself and the door. Carslake rose, dashed toward the rear and leaped through a window. Hanna pursued, shouting "Stop thief!" and tiring. Carslake succeeded in dodging the crowd that was instantly on his heels, just long enough to hide I n,c violet diamond behind some loose plaster in a stone wall in Riverside Drive park. To escape, however, was impossible as the drive was alive with searching men. .Carslake was arrested and hustled toward the station house. Now, Knox having failed to re cover the diamond in the time allot ted to hint, received a notice from the order informing hiln that his days were done and that he must pay the -r : : --i i 'w in, , t :,i Dustin Farnum is Back After a Short Layoff From an outlaw with a price on his head to a 100 per cent citizen is the character portrayed by Dustin Farnani, famous star of stage and screen, in the latest William Fox pho toplay, "Durand of the Bad Lands,' to be shown at the Sun theater for three da., .. beginning Thursday. In this screen drama Mr. Farnam shows all the virile energy for which he is so well known. His portrayal of the bad side of Dick Durand's char acter is the best he has oot-.e and he shows the man's softer, nobler in stincts with that carefree, rollicking, laughing disposition that has made him a favorite wherever he has ap peared. He saves three kids from Indians who massacre everyone else in the little settlement. He is blamed for the killings, is caught, tried and con victed. But the governor, whose daughter Ve has sayed, pardons him. Long before he had fallen in love and the girl's fondness for him turns him into an A-No. 1 man, Mr.'Far num's boyhood life on a fann comes in handy to him in this picture milking cows particularly. This is the first picture lie has ap peared in on the screen for almost a year. Woman in Politics Shown on the Screen The woman in politics gets a fine tribute in "By Right of Possession," the Greater Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feature which will be the attraction at. the Kmprcss theater on four days starting today. The scene of the play is located in Colorado, one of the pioneer suffrage states and one where women have been holding public office for two de cades. A situation is created whereby a girl, played by Mary AnVlerson, is elected sheriff of a county and she establishes the law of prevention as against rule by force, and her system works out to the betterment of the community and the people. The story recalls the incident in congress when Jeanette Rankin, the woman member from Montana, showed her woman's heart in declin ing in vote for war. At first this ac tion on Miss Rankin's part was crit icised all over the country and it was made to appear that women in politics lacked the strength necessary tj meet big crises. Later, however, the pub lic realized that it was only the mother instinct in her that caused her to decline to vote for bloodshed, and a new respect was created for woman suffrage and its exponents, 'Phis is the same result as that at tained in the case of the woman sheriff of "By Right of Possession," whose humane methods for the up lift of her people and the abolishment of crime. Prefers the Beauty of Nature for His Stage Ninety-nine out of a hundred mo tion picture directors find settings for their photoplay ii g in parlor scenes, restaurants anil drawing rooms but Lynn F. Reynolds of the Bluebird staff is the hundredth man. Nature , , I M i l H ll ltll I 1 1! FEATURING PEARL WHITE lit i i i i i i i i i I'M i i 1 1 i i i 1 1 forfeit with his life. He appealed to Pearl who set out for his house with Tom, but the Arabs arrived first, suc ceeded in entering, and rehashed be fore him the secret of the violet diamond. The High Priestess' father had discovered a white powder 'strong. enough to dissolve men into thin air almost m an instant. 'I his powder was hidden, and to find its hiding place it was necessary to restore the violet diamond to the eye of the violet god. This powderso much more powerful and efficiacious than gunpowder, shot or shell or pestilence could make the followers of the violet god the kings of the earth. Pearl and Tom reached' Knox's house just in time to hear this secret through the closed door of Knox's study; but at the end of the story, when the Arabs began to strangle Knox with a silken thread and Pearl and Tom prepared to interfere, they were seized from behind, before they could defend themselves and forced forward into the study. There, the High Priestess informed them over Knox's dead body that it was their turn next. in its rugged beauties, the majesty of mountains and the tropical beauties of palms and veidant valleys will be attractively reflr-dcd in "The .Show Down," to be presented "llluebird day" at the Hipp theater today and Monday. Palm canyon, California, and Santa Cruz Island, in the Pacific ocean, off the coast of California, furnished rlie nature settings for this screen-romance of force and interest. The various characters take on the rugged nature of their surroundings; the .selfishness and arrogance of hu man nature is transformed in the melting pot of privation when a boat- SHADY LAKE Columbus, Nebraska BASE BALL, 2:30 Co. K. vs. Columbus Regulars. Columbus City Band, 4:00. Dance 9:00. Ragfy Mawhn. Grand Opening HF T I TYF DANCING USL LUAL ACADEMY 111 South 16th St., Opposite Hotel Fontenelle Thursday Evening, August 16th. 7-PIECE JAZZ ORCHESTRA. NEW FLOOR BEAUTIFUL DECORATIONS New Shell Orchestra Stand. ADMISSION 25c OMAHA'S MOST UP-TO-DATE AND POPULAR DANCING ACADEMY For Private Lessons, Tel. Walnut 1037. athing AT T FT MANAS Dancing Roller Coaster, Skee Ball and many other amuse ments. Free movies every evening. Eat a dandy lunch eon at the Lakeside Cafe teria. Reasonable prices try 'em. ADMISSION TO PARK FREE load of shipwrecked passengers are cast away on a veidant island to shift for themselves or starve. There is a pretty girl concerned in the story for what would a photoplay amount to if there were not "heart interest" to thread the exciting scenes into an entertaining composite with the proverbial lianpv ending? Opens for Season 1917-18 WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22 When Henry Miller Presents Ruth Chatterton and the New York Company Including BRUCE M'RAE, in "COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN" The delightful three-act comedy by A. E. Thomas ENGAGEMENT LIMITED TO TWO NIGHTS Special Matinee Thursday Mail Order Received Now Box Office Sale Opens Saturday Ob, Omaha! Slick Up and Get Ready to Meet Oil, GIRL! And Her 40 Nifty Pals, Under the Chaperonage of Peter S. Clark. A Brand New Show. Musical Burlesque's Open ing Attraction at the WK. s ing' SAT. MAT. AUG. ATE-EEfl LJ Scat tail ittartt 10 a. m. Thun., Auf. 16 aiaU. BEAUTIFUL LAKEVIEW PARK "Joy Spat of Omahi" A QUARTER OF A HUNDRED ATTRACTIONS i CARL LAMP'S Orchestra DANCING JACKRABBIT COASTER WONDERLAND FERRIS WHEEL CARROUSEL ROLLER RINK MINIATURE RAILROAD BOWLING, BOATING I" FS GARAGE W Et P I Motlon Picture! I It lata nd Othar 5c CAR FARE CARTER LAKE CARS BOOK YOUR PICNIC NOW EMPRESS GARDEN Tha Beauty Spot. BY POPULAR DEMAND BELL SISTERS Held Over for This Week Sunday Table D'Hote Dinner Served, 12 to 8 O'Clock, )1.00 A La Carte Service, 12 to 12 Week Day Luncheon 35c. Dinner SOc. FAMOUS EMPRESS GARDEN ORCHESTRAL PIPE ORGAN Is Great rAFABL SO ARE Boating - Picnics
