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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 23, 1917. 9 B Prosperity ' i New Season Starts at Omaha Thea'ters'Wiih Rush that Looks Like Money to Managers MIUA'C . .t.- n. -m"-i& season ai ine inei' 11 I " may fairly be laid to I be opened. At all events. the pool has been Uirred, and the waters are now readv to ha ntrrf. 'Tain one-night visits from "guaranteed at tractions' have furnished the most tangtbleof proof, the sort the man agers can take down to the bank and get credit, for, that our people we ready for a revivat of business at the theater. Two of the biggest houses ever assembled at the Brandeil gath ered to witness "The Boomerang," while the single appearance of Al Jol son and Tiis associates packed the Boyd to suffocation. Due note has been taken of the facts in the case bv the great ones in the east, and the next few days at least promise much of inlerest. A fuller test of the re ceptivity of the patrons, or at least their responsivenessr is to be given at the Brandeis this week, when "Fair and Warmer" will hc!d forth seven consecutive nights, with customary matinees. Timewas when no man ager hesitated at booking Omaha for a solid week, but that w,as before- well, never mind, the thing is that they are sending shows this way again, under the impression thatNwe want them. The Boyd htl two Rood things coming, "The. Thirteenth Chair," which has been as much of a success as anything the Shuberts have produced, and Anna Held in; a new musical concoction. Prosperity atjhe theater is not confined to the hijjfi class shows, for the Orpheum. the Gayety and the Empress, are all doing big business, while the nightly "pack ins" at the moving picture -houses has attracted 6uch attention from1 the authorities that sale of standing room is again forbidden. Comment on . the WQrk of a com pany, or, tile quality of the play it offers, is of.little service a week after the thing is over, yet it may not be i amiss:, to burn a bit of incense to the Jmemory of "The Boomerang" and the clever people, who presented it here. White the end of the 6tory is so ' obvious that it is in plain sight all the time, the-manner of its telling pre sents something of novelty? and-the mingling of wit and satire, of genuine comedy, and frank farce, is so well done that it must stand as a g6od ex ample of what the modern writer can do in the way of threshing fiver old straw ' and getting good grains of wheat therefrom. And Wheat frorh any source 'is not to be disdained these days of universal hooverizin. Of the company it ; already ha been said it is one of the most . efficient ever seen ' hire. "Incidentally, those who write of the theater for Omaha consumption have been anathematized by some during the week for not bombing Belasco and the Brandeis management because of the non-appearance of Marrha Hedman or the failure to substitute the name of Miss Valentine on the evening's bill. The incident was unfortunate, not in itself such as td seriously mar the value tt the performance. " According to the story of the representative. f .Mr. Belasccs iMiss Hedman wis attacked on the frajK'here-by: what firs was thought 4o .be--: pneumonia, put on diagnosis proved-to be acute bfon chitk , SHt tould not possibly appear at the theater, and the test was sim pleeither abandon .the-ngagentent or substitute Sti understudy. Te hay abandon, the engagement ..rowd 1 Um. rlnnfiv all fit StL Ofi- nave w . . ii portunity .to see Arthur Byron- and j- jrwauace .awger prime sterling actors, as well as the lesser lights of "the company, so the : play went on. And no one will say that Miss Valentine. has any. reason to apologize to Miss Hedman .forplay ing the fOle T)f Virginia Xylvia. There fore, it is not as if the public had.been deliberately defrauded, nor was it de prived of anything, -unless it may be the joy et recollecting- Martha Ht& man in her role, and for this) those who do treasure up suchv things may keep thVthought. that they saw a snt tvmhaihetic oerformance t... - ti-t whnan .-thief difference fromJ the missing one is in the Color of the hair. And this is not enough t6 quar rel over. ' v, ' Omaha has suffered in the past and perhaps will again in the future from the substitution of understudies; some managers evrn ftiay b; accused of knowingly practfemk' deception Id $ese m4ttefs, 'and It Is little credit to the judgment of the rnen at the Bead of the great enterprise that they per sist in announcing ' the original Netf York cast,',' M wer,5 u is.m" to popular favor. But it is unfair td ' denounce, the local manager! a, ftafr. ties responsible irt such eases, ine men edhnected with the Omaha-the aters have their homes here, their business, tore,' aha" must Wffr lose according esjhey have the faw of the local public It does them small credit to allege thit for the sake of gathering in sifile niRht t receipts they would be gUiltK of 4 fraud that might cost them the. pro fits ol an entire, season. That is jw just The Bee -has diseusstd, this point in Other times, and has frankly ' censured'; the1 visitmts mtteet . fet their unwise course advertising "original casts,"-. and it his not changed its views btwhe pdint: Even NeW York, however, U Wf submit to the substitution, and often withoutny notice, of Ohe plaver for another 'irt important roles What is man to be deplored is the demand of Broadway prices for No. 2 companies. In bringing this discussion to a . Tv, ft n train cautions cor- Respondents that anonymous com- , rnUh cations win nai uc V"- " 1 the writer. Is sincere enough to Entrust the editor with his hame, the letter will not De puuusneu. t-tu: rf-A lik success.! As a striking" example, flote the progress about the country of the farce, "Fair anfl Warmer, DT wery iuywuuvi, ntj-fc ComBahV Will brirt to the Brandejs theater th Week commencing Sunday Septemher 23. Of all the plays that have been pre dated in New York during the past twenty years, "Fair and Warmer" stands at the head of them all as a success. The Story in New York waS repeated in Chicago. For tight months that the play suvld there, business was enormous. Then but Oft the road, the success that had pur sued the play during its Stay in the two centers of pbpulat:on in the tbun try; continued. air and WarmeC is to come here, produced exactly the same as -it was -in -New York and I . : S tW 'W AT Tftt QHPttUM played by a company of Broadway) caiiare. in vnc vasi "," Hibbard, Maud Andrew. Florence Ullivan, Chester Ford, John Morris and Ralph Simone. r.nlntr ;traicrht." to aooear at the nAvJ tVipatir four davs. conimtncinK Sunday matinee, September 23, is one oi- tne oio son oi piay wnu im tn nrove one of the most sterling hits of the season The leading man of the piece is one of two crooks who commit no crime against society, but only practice weir irauc iu upyuamv" to those who are trying to rob their (r;.r,Ac Throughout the olay they appear in the nick of time to do a good turn tor someone, .especially funny is the scene m wnicn one oi ine th detective a roll of and then oroeeeds ro liave him arrested for taking it To gether with the sentiment ana -laugn-ter of "Going Straight," is a delightful and wholesome love story that is sure to make the olav one of the most popular of the season. - A special mat iftee will be j given Tuesday and the regular one on Wednesday. ., , -!S n..,-A ti hipn"air!(1!r th the bUckface repertory of Mclntyre and uith tin .win . nrPBenicu una week at the Orpheum as the eiiarrniltufe TLi .1,Att !e MM rAA Mill. 1 . tarv travesty, and is being used w much for its timeliness as for its amusing elements. Johnny Johnston and Bob'Harty will be Seen in a com-- -J.. a. 11.4 n Vi QVirH7hilt-v " "Th Hwlth Hunters" is the skit to be presented by "Buster" Santos and Jacque Hayes. The combined weight of' the two "young women is 340 pdurtds. Miss Hayes tips the scales !l hpr rlartnPf ftossesses the rest of the tonnage. The Belgian 'cellist, Elsa Ruegger, during ner present tour over the Orpheum cir cuit is assisted by the celebrated con- the gifted harpist, Zhay Clark. With his highly sophisticated monologue Ray VV. Snow has established him- AT THC 6KA.NDI3 Hugo Luigens at thc Enrido q it fits him ideally as it is very similiar w T to the one he had in "Fixing Sister;" I ? i i I i : i ii. in wnicn nc scored a uig personal nil at the Brandeis during the second' week of the season. . Bayard Veiller's melodramatic suc cess." "The Thirteenth Chair," will be presented here at the Boyd Octo ber 4, 5, 6, by William Harris, jr. "The Thirteenth Chair" became a sensation over night in New York and during its engagement, which covered one entire year at the Forty eighth Street theater, the capacity of the house was taxed to the utmost week after week. Hugo Lutgens, the 'Swede Billy Sunday," is to appear at the Empress theater for the first half of the week beginning Sunday, September 23. The act is an impersonation of a Swedish minister preaching his first sermon in English. No reference to religion or. religious matter is used, nor does it in any way offend the Swedish peo ple. He gives you something solid to laugh at; good, clean, healthy laughs. Spaulding's educated pigs have cre ated a lot of comment all over the circuit. Comedy singing, talking and dancing are presented by Kelly and Davis an1 the sensational acrobat Aristo troupe closes one of the best programs of the season. Mr. Axel Palmgren, staff corre spondent of a Stockholm (Sweden) paper, will give a descriptive lecture on "Sweden of Today, illustrated with motion pictures. It will be held IJI:l!lll!llllllll!lll!llMlllllllllllllllltlllllllil 9 4 i i ' Rome Vineyard Extraordinary Attraction DOUGLAS ISITT and HAZEL REED With Their Four-Girl Jubilee Review at the Omaha Auditorium Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, afternoons and evenings, October 1 2 and 3. each lecture and set of pictures being different. These pictures include politics and leading political figures, education,, industries transportation, folk dances, sports, Swedish Red Cross work and practically every thing of interest in Sweden. Jacobs and Jernions do not claim that their show. "The Golden Crook," which is now playing the Gayety theater for a week's engagement, with matinee daily, is the "world's best." They do claim that it is just a little ti...i-- ''!- ' m-- gi-illi'H lit u 'I' il-iu.. . better than some of the "best ones, and this they are prepared to back up in the presentation of Billy "Hobo" Arlington, the comedian,, and a capa ble cast in his support, presenting a two-act revue in twelve scenes. A large company of artists with a chorus of twenty-eight girls make this an attraction more than worthy of the large audiences it will no doubt receive all week. Frank Devoc, a local favorite, is a valued member of the hig cast, ns are Eleanor Cockran, Har lie Mayne, Tall Mall trio and others who are seen to advantage in this all new edition of "The Golden Crook." SM3SXSE Wight, 8,18. The Bet of Vaudeville 494- WEEK STARTiriS SUN. SEPT. 23 JASS BAND FOR DANCING Contiguous Performance 6:30 P. M. to 12:30 A. M. liliiliiliniiluliiiniiilMiniiU'iliiliiliiini'iiiiliiliilnliiliiiuiniT CleaHov CoeJkva.it self as a comedian with an original method, instrumental and vocal nar mony are to be contributed by. the trio of musicians who style them selves the Three Vagrants. "The boy Hercules," Ofville Stamm, is a giant in strength and performs surprising feats Picturesque Holland will be shown in motion pictures as one fea ture Of the Orpheum Travel Weekly, and another feature will be the scenes on the Grand MoHn, France. -Fiske O'Hara will open an engage ment of four nights and Wednesday matinee, at the Brandeis theater, com mencing Sunday night,' September 30, in his new romantic comedy, "The Man from Wicklow." The play is in three acts, with its scenes laid in Wicklow. Ireland, during the early part of the last century, and O'Hara plays the part of Robert Emmett V uonovan, a uasiimg yuuiig mvnti, .whose winning personality and gdod nature make him a favorite witn every one. .The character is said to give the Irish star the best oppor tunity he has ever had for the display of bis acting ability. The Brandeis Players left this morning for Lincoln, tn a special car oyer the Rock Island, a baggage car Of special scenery, properties and equipment accompanying them. They will play there at the Oliver theater, for the next eleven days; returning to the Brandeis on Thursday, October 4. The bill selected for production on their return is "The Road to Happi ness;" this to continue for ten days, October 4 to 13, with the usualmati nees. Mr. Minturn will have the part in which William Hodge appeared with great success for three years and BOYD Four Days Starting Matinee Today The New Comedy Drama f A New Play of Love -- Laughter - Tear,? Matinees Today, Tuesday, Wednesday All Seats 25c. . . Nights, 2Se, 35c, SOc, 75c. Neat Sunday "HER UNBORN CHILD." wmm & heat in "ON GUARD" Johnny Bob JOHNSTON A HARTY in "On th Shrewsbury s ELSA RUEGGER AND HER COMPANY vZbay Clark, HarpUt Edmund LicheniUin, VlollnUt THREE VAGRANTS Strt Singers and Musicians . Buster Jaequ SANTOS St HAYS The Girl with the Funny Figures, in "The Health Hunters" RAY W. SNOW The Man About Town : Unique Monologist. ORVILLE STAMM America' Perfectly . Built Boy Spocial Exercise for th' Ladies ORPHEUM TRAVEL WEEKLY Areun4 th WorU with th Orphum Circuit's Motion Flctur Photocraphtrs. PRICES Matin, f allmy, ifei Bast Scat (xept Saturday and Stmday), 25c Nihta, lOe, 2S, SOc aa4 78. milium iiiiiiiii!ii:iiiit:i:iii:iiiitii;iiiii:miiiiiiiiiiim in miaiiimiiiiuiii 1 SWEDEN TODAY I Better Than Peraonal Trip Through Sweden j , r in MOVING PICTURES and LECTURES S Under Direction of ' S I Mr. Axel Palmgren .from Stockholm, Sweden I WAR PICTURES s Shbwintf the Following t S The Exchange of Austrian, German, Hungarian, Polish 5 and Russian Prisoners Through the Mediation 1 S of the Swedish Government. The Swedish Red Cross Ministering to the Wounded, etc, I OMAHA AUDITORIUM Fifteenth nd Howard Streets I Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 1, 2, 3, 1917 S Afternoons 2iS0 P. M. Bveninis 8 P. M. . ' ' (Wednesday Niht Show After Electric Pared.) ; ... ; ADMISSION 60c and 25 SEASON TICKETS - - $1.00 thl..4lna 1 N I . With Rnr4 Saat. ' Ticktta ott SalS Now St Aucltu Boa Offlt. . S Jim Mclntyre and Tom Heath Go Back to Dawn. of History for Jokes In November, 1868, forty-eight years ago, J'm Mclntyre of Mcln tyre & Heath, rrtade his first jippear snce on the stage Mctntyrewas 10 years of age when, a green country boy front Kenosha, Wis., he arrived in' Chicago, determined to become a great clog dancer. He appeared in an amateur try-but night, at Kerwin's Variety hall, GUrk and Madison streets, Chicago, and the newsboys in the audience applauded s51?oCifef ously that the manager gave him an engagement at $10 a week and "cakes" -tne eqUlVftleht Of board. In 1874, iter touring the south with John R. lobinsorl circus, at &an Antonio, iex., he formed his partnership with fleath Mclntyre had maae a ciose stuoy o negro dialect, traditions, Superstitions and stories, and was a great friend of the late Joel Chandler Harris, and the germ idea of many of B'rer Rab bit's mbSt amusing adventures came front the minstrel mart. Charles Eg bert Craddock, the novelist of the Tennessee mountains, kept up a cor respondence on the humor of the Southern ftegro with Mclntyre ind letth for many years and Mark Twain nsed to roar with delight at the ebmieal stories tbld by the burnt-cork comedian, who liked the South Caro lina darky best of all because, as he "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" OaUy Mat, 1S-4S-S0 ?jUlfe4f treatttf. 2S-S0-7Se-l Billy Arlington That Funny Lltttt rannv Lltlll Llllltl .on mm nni MlAltH Mttittal yg uiitutn vrtwwn Bu,,u( CUt It J unu?ld. Twenty.faur CraokatU Btnittlet In 6rnd Pallet Da Lu. 4 LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DATl . ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND Vlctrola Bunch SHADY LAKE, CblumhW., Neh. Sttfitky Night, September 23 says, "there is a touch of Irish brogue in his dialect. Tom Heath deseribes minstrelsy as "the ham and eggs of art." He alsb says that the first joke is burled in an tiquity, and. though he has asked such venerable men as Lew Dock stader, Will M. Cressyarid James Thornton, he has found no one who dates that far back Heath's own first joke began with "Why is a-?" tor words to that effect He says: "Now these jokes are meant to be furtny, not because they are funny, but because thef aren't funny. To fit these darkey roles, the jokes couldn't , be new and one must ' understand that the funniest thing' about many 6f thfc jokes is that the darkieS themselves lliiimiimiitiffliimiiiiitimiim . til i Pi and All This Week Matinees Wed. and Sat. THE GREATEST FARCE HIT OF A DECADE AVERY HOPWOQDfc GALE OF LAUGHTER i U A. M. CONTINUOUS 1 1 P M. First Half of TAnnV MAAk B Inn In J IvUHl m m turn tw x3 tvTDi anppra SHOW AT SsSO - ' m-i ttani. of P hranl Tllur.Uy 1 7 1 9 A m A CAREFUL SELECTION FOR EACH DAT li OUR CHIEF AIM Our Sunday Dtonw Will flea You pj iZ t, 3 'DINNER - 80c WUh Chlckwi, 0o Clrrr and Tmte Soup Celerf Relish Sweet PtekU Queen spllvM Radiihw CHOICE OF ' f Roaat Prime Rib ot Beef, an Jus Baked Sprifi Clfokeft, Oyiter Dreatink Boiled Prtmlurt ftanl WitB Cabbatt Leg of Sprlnj tnmb Mint Sauce or Plum Jellr Homer Squab, Casserole , 'Mashtd Potaleei Sliced Tomato Early Jun Pe4a Cora on Cob Fruit Salad Fa Iter, House Roll Appl, Plum or Peach Pi Bisque ot Almond Ice Cream With Cak Coffe Tea Milk Buttermilk Mtller$ Cafe 1811 Farnam Street. P. P. MILLER, Prop. m PIRECTION, of StLWVN 6 CO. SIX MONTHS CHICAGO ONE YEAR NEW YORK A SURE-FIRE CURE FOR It Ripples With GWi Clean Fun. Th. No. 1 Week Stand Company. A usual Deiwyn vast ana rroaucuun. PRICES: K"oo NO HIGHtfi . L.. J - - ' -- 4 DAYS BEGINNING EfbT IVI A T I N NEXT SUNDAY. wUrl. dll WEDNESDAY ti 1 att. . - fc ... Augustu Filou Presents THE ACTOR-SINGER A' i ft'-' Wf'Jt I ,( a l a f I ' ' M ' ! .. tin i IYA n ti n w r. u a 1 rub ' IN A NEW ROMANTIC COMEDY "THE mil FR0r,1 VJIGliLOlT' Anna Nichols. HEAR O'MARA'S NEW SONGS PRICES NignU, 25c ts'llJO. Mat., 2S. to 1. Sotts Tomorrow. Note: The Brahdels Players, now playing at the Oliver Theater, Lincoln, Neb., where they remain for eleven dayl, reopen at the Brattdeis on Thursday evening, October 4, in the cheerful comedy of optimism: - "THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS" "Ymtip" On the Waon and be Happy it, Spaulding's Educated Pigs TRAINED aNIMALT NOVELTY : if r I i y SIX s fcANDL MUSICAL DAVIS HARVAHDS COMEDY, SINGING, Ml Mil VMI. Ui3 TALKING an J DANCING InstrumaatalUts. GREATER VttAGRAPM BLUE RIBBON mWIIK AUCE JOYCE MARC MacDERMOTT J$b "AN ALABASTER BOX" (mM From tli Novel ot th Sam Nat ) VlAjMjfp $4 BILLY WEST in HIS LATEST FROLIC v "DOUGHN UTS" PRICES ALWAYS THE SAME 1 ft S 4 )
