THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: DKCKMBER lb HUT 9 B I Thurston Has Hobby of Collecting Timepieces mi iiu One might presume that if a suc cessful magician like Thurston, who opens a week's engagement at the j Boyd theater today, had the time and ! inclination to nurse and cherish a hobby that hobby would be the inven-: lion of new miracles of stagecraft with which to mystify his audiences. Put not so with" Thurston. Miracle making is a business with him and thereiore no hobby. Thurston's hobby is timepieces, an tique timepieces, and the more an tique the better. Three times has Thurston circum navigated the globe. And each time it is said he devoted more time and expended more energy in the search tor quaint timepieces than in mak ing magic. Thurston has one of the most ex tensive collections of old clocks, watches, sundials and the like in the world. Among his most prized an tiques are a watch presented to him by the late Francis Joseph and an Egyptian obelisk which is an exact du plicate of the type used in Cleopatra's time. This he wears in his tie as a stick pin. The magician also has another hobby. It is a home for actors' pets. He wants a home built in New York, where actors, actresses and other stage folk can leave their animal pets in safe keeping when they go on the road. J V cA JJ pS" MHm Vfoli 5?!, jjlk Ixia l?Aa'"ft"'w,MW!M Tips for the Boys From One Who Was Over There Retired Canadian Soldier Gives Some Advice on Trench Warefare and "Going Over the Top." .-f !! c.irali.ui oorv-ns iKpf dltloii, fVr s,-,t, ;,.r 1, . 1. i. .1.. U in,..,!!,, in I -ram-, nn.l H."1(;him. was j l" ' ,l" L " ""' l"c . i. :y w.Hiiul.,1 and in I'hyst.ully unfit for ! If s 'l,l !. Ami you will SCC OtlC furtiiiT sitvii-i. iin inodomiy requests that j time enough. Thev are all along there, j In iiamo In- withheld.) ! frnm tin. Ynrtl, c...;'.-i i' I I boys. Keep vour ammtmition rlean I others in the household, she cares for her own children. Carlyle's dis covery of Isabel's presence and clos ing incidents of the interesting storv occur in act live. or hA i w iQji 7feletiw.ptoii Two gifted proteges of Gus Ed wards Oeorgie Price and Cuddles Edwards will have the chief roles in his "Bandbox Revue, ' which comes to the Orpheum this week as the stellar offering. It is an elaborate musical act, in which Vincent O'Don nell also will be featured. In the youthful fantasy arranged for these clever youngsters there are 12 mu sical numbers. A competent company of entertainers surrounds the princi pals. For a special feature and ex pert of the flying rings, Miss Leitzel is to present her unusual act. She is billed as a wonder of the air. Still mother feature act is the one to be contributed by Al Herman, who is known as the "Black Laugh." He is a monologist of impromptu comedy. As a blackface entertainer he is said to have no peer on the vaudeville ?tage. Assisted by the pianist-composer, Clarence Senna, the clever imitator, Lillian Fitzgerald, will be m amusing element of the bill. She is to the stage what a cartoonist is to a newspaper. Entertainers of special quality are George Austin Moore and Cordelia 1 laager. She is an actress who lias given excellent account of herself in such plays as "Peg o' My Heart" and "Paid in Full." Mr. Moore and she offer songs arfd stories if amusing attributes. As a press agent and playwright, Georgia Earle has made a name for herself, but she ii still netter known lor ncr work as ;;n actress. In -vaudeville she is ap prnring in her diverting one-act play, 'Getting Acquainted." Fern. Biglow and Mehau arc comedy gymnasts, who have an offering which they c:.il "Higballs and Bumps." Thev con tribute a very laughable performance. "Temptation" a fantastic comedy with music, is presented under direc tion of George Damerel with a cast of 10 people headed by Bobby Vail, will be at the Empress starting today. This act is the headliner the first four days. Complete sets of scenery descriptive of the three scenes are carried, many changes of costume and girls, who sing and dance. A surprise playlet is "The Pension Office," by Lawrence and Edwards, who have accomplished "patriotism without the flag." Carroll and Kathryn McFarland are a duo of young people who pre sent "Catchy Songs and Witty Say ings." Both possess winsome per sonalities, which capture an audience at once and their ability carries them through to the completion of a most satisfactory and entertaining per formance. Frank Ward, a young man with original ideas, presents an offering consisting of singing, talking, danc ing and a novelty that is bound to crea'.e enthusiasm, "The Twentieth Century Entertainer." He's a clever youngster possessing the necessary requirements for a successful future. His "fingrer hnce" is a feature worth while. For many seasons now Fred Ir win's "Majesties" have been before the burlesque public. That organiza tion is now at the Gayety theater for the week. In every department will be found the verv highest of efficiencv. Among the well known burlesque and vaudeville entertainers who are pre sented in an entertainment of the widest diversity are Florence Ben nett, Lyle La Pine, Paul Cunning ham, Ruth Barbour, Roscoe Ails. Flo Emory, Doc Dell, Eloise Matthews, 3KANti Vjiiitston."' oiorea p.cuire stumes or ninis win . Eleanor Wilson, Mav Belmont, be shown in the films ot the Or- j George Leon, Charles ' Tyson and pheum I ravel W eekly. Even more others. There is a chorus which ex mteresting will be the views of south- pjoits its beauty and talent in mu "rn China. sical numbers and dances which have 1 originality about them. The laugh in One of the world's most famous j terest is in the hands of men who plays. "Hast Lynnc." is to be revived make the most out of every line and by the Brandeis Players on an elal orate scale for a week, beginning to day with a matinee at 2:30. For an "Old Favorite" week the management is responding to repeated requests for a production of this acknowledged favorite with millions of theater-go- situaiion ann me snow is a success from its comedy standpoint as well as from every other viewpoint. Todav's matinee starts at 3. Beginning to morrow there will be ladies' matinee daily all week. ers. i tie tlieater fturmg the past MM Oertrude Hoftmatin, assisted by a years has produced no play that has . company of 40 artists, comes to the ; n'eved the remarkable popularity Orpheum for the week of December tuat this story has attained. The 23. Gertrude Hoffmann has an indi offering at the Brandeis will be an ! viduality and distinction among the entirely new and modern version of; big stars of terpsichore that make that famous story as told in the novel. A play written in the style and lan guage of the theater today, yet con taining every important detail of the entrancing story as revealed in the famous novel. The dramatization to be used tells the story in five acts, all of them laid in East Lynne. in rur al England, excent one scene in the third act, .vhich occurs in London. The play faithfully follows the story relating the incidents of Archi bald Carlyle's marriage to Lady Isa bel and their arrival at his home, wel comed by Dill and Cornelia, his sis ter. Barbara Hare, calling on Carlyle to enlist his aid for her brother. Richard, meets him in the garden and is over seen -by Lady Isabel and Francis Levison, who tells Isabel that Carlyle is in love with Barbara, thus inducing her to elope with him. The third act shows Isabel in London, deserted by Levison. She returns to East Lynne as nurse for little Isabel, disguised as Madame Vine, where unknown to ler uniquely magnetic. Miss Hoff mann has built a temple of art pecu liar to ncrseit. It is a structure nob -wu i pidycr, nanvc or ioreign, could erect or occupy. It represents the as sembling of bits of every art into a harmonious -whole each particle so complete within itself as not to re: quire the support of the others. In her review this .year Miss Hoffmann has assembled those things she knows to be best by experience. ! tertainment universally and deservin.n ly popular. '' "Potash and Perlmuttrr in Society," the new coniedv, bv Montague (ila.-s and Roi Cooper Mcgrue, ami a con tinuation of "Potash .and Perlmut-1 ter," which has been presented here I before, will have its first offering in ; this city at the Brandeis theater for i four days, December 3d. Although the new play, like the former one, ! fairly bristles with homely, rugged I virtues, the new one has been written I down to the very sub-cellar of humor. and its characters are drawn and i acted with great skill. j Henry W. Savage';, latest musical comedy success. 'Have a Heart," will come to the Brandeis theater for three nights, beginning Sunday, Jan uary 13. If you like to be amused by a delightful tangle of lively nonsense, catchy melodies, pretty girls, dances 1 and novelties, not forgetting a co- j icne oi principals mat nave won tlie hill this week praise oi notn tne press and public t Strom's verses: ew xorK, cnicago and boston, do itumHhi. nu.ipi.-i not overlook this opportunity to see what the New York Sun called "the jolliest musical comedy in own." J is said tint his present program is more varied and interesting than ever. It is staged dramatically, the breath less condition among his audience is worked up by clever preliminaries and impressive staging. Most of Thurston's new features for this year deal with life in the aftcr- j world such as the materialization of ; ghosts and the manifestations of ; spirits. His big sensation is a remark ! able scenic, sketch presented by a special cast of 16 people called "Villa Captured," showing the inosi realistic race between an automobile and mo torcycle ever staced. Matinees will , be given today, i ucsday, Wednesday ! and Saturday. About Stage Celebrities. "Cuddles," who appears at the Or pheutn this week in "A Bandbox Revue," will cuter the moving picture field next vear. Her first picture will be "Scln.oj Days," in which 3,000 chil dren will take part. Georgia Earle was once a reporter on the New York Tribune. She is the author of several plays, including the one in which she plays the leading role at the. Orpheum this week. George Austin Moore and Cordelia Hanger are man and wife. Moore won her away from an Indianapolis mil lionaire to whom she was engaged. Frances Xordstrom is such an ad mirer of Miss Leitzel that she has burst into poetry about her. They play in different acts on the Orpheum Here arc Miss N'ord- foollsh thln. A inass of Kul.1 and fniry wlnj:, Tensed and tumb..U everywhere, 'Tis LeiUiT hair. the famous magician, program of sensational Tiny ruff, a Incey fluff. Jiathor short -ll. thort. enough. To givo an InklliiiK' i.f tho twinkling. T.-iptrcl of hfr, alort, Tl.i I.Htz. I s skirt. Irving Berlin's greatest success, "Mop! Look! Listen!" as originally presented at the Globe theater, New York, by Charles Dillingham, will be the next attraction at the Bran deis commencing Sunday, for four days. This is the same production that ran for over a year in New York and Boston and helped to bring the young composer to the fore as a geniusof the rst caliber. A classy and up-to-date affair from the start, the new contribution possesses all the ingredients that go to make, an en- Beautiful Movie Star Dons Factory Jumpers for Tremendous Auto Film Thurston, with a new features will be the attraction at the Boyd today for all week except! inursgay. Few who watch Thurston's per formance know the magnitude of his undertaking, the expense incurred in ouiifiing new mysteries, and tne ex- . i one of oiu.iys ur.KKwcii s ror. nt Kox CCUtlve alMJlty required to handle SUCll ; nitttfrps, many ..f the fi. nes wern taken a production as his. Thurston, aside (in iho -.ti fM.is n.-ar i.os AnKoi,.-j. Th from his skill as a magician, is excep- rule of tho nlnyers berame: "Oily tn bod tionally facile as an entertainer. It and oiiy to riser Tlahy haiifl." nn.l dimplmj ohruk, l.lttln nosn and II t f I.- f.-. i. Amhltloiis, lover of her art, Thn only I. ik thlni!. 'Ti L.'itzcl'., hfari. i j omc advice. Well, when your i fust sprint "over the top" conies j along, don't worry. Just knock into your head the conviction that you ,.ue coining back, then you will. As j they say mer there, if your name and I number is on a shell or bullet it will I be duly delhered. If not, it won't. I Don't be too anxious for a peep over the top lirst time in. Remem ' her there are men waiting for you, ; and they rarely miss. When you i happen to be on a sentry duty in the ; front line at night never tire from the , same place that you do your watch ; nig from. It is very unhealthy. We 1 did all our bring over the parapet at night, but the average German mf.ui ( tr.Miian does his through a loophole ' in the sandbags, and, watching I through this, he waits for vour rilic tlash and fires the instant you do, and, ! of course, you might be unlucky j enough to stop one. Fire from one corner of your bags, then move down a few feet from there and do vour watching, and vou I will probably find the instant you lire ; or move a German mauscr will rip a i hole in the bags ou just left. It is worth remembering. j It your artillery Plows a breach in their trench during the day get busy, I train a machine gun on it; he will j come along at dusk to repair it. Then I all you have to do is pull the trigger. Ot course, there are always two sides to this question. Watch out for his trench mortars. You can gen erally see them coming at night by the glow of th e time fuse circling through the air. If you see this for the. first time, don t stand watching it, like you would fireworks on July 4. If you do you will probably be in a' position to sing, "Where Do We Go From Here, Boys?" Dodge the Dugouts. In the daytime look out for "strange things" coming through the air. Never dive into a dugout, if you have one. These are only a death trap, and trench mortars seem to have a special liking for them. The same applies to the daily "strafing" of your trenches by the German ar tillery. Don't be too anxious to in vestigate and say, "Where did that one go. Bill?" If it came too close just move up a little or down a little, Js the case requires. If you hear "heavy stuff or "freights" come rumbling through the air, throw yourself fiat on your face and don't be afraid of getting any mud on your clothes, either. If you ever go out in Xo Man's Land scouting or puUing up barbed wire and find an oldniernian helmet, etc., which would be a nice souvenir for your girl, don't pick it up. Ten to one it was placed there by loving hands for your benefit. Cigars, cigar ettes, bottles of wine, etc., found in German officers' dugouts arc to be treated the same. If you happen to be engaged in the enjoyable task of carrying in ra tions don't duck every time they shoot up a shell, just stand perfectly still in whatever position you are caught. It takes a little practice, but it is far safer. Always pay attention to your gas helmets. Examine them vouisclf every day and if there are any defects your quartermaster will gladly give you a new one. Your life depends on it. Never be too lazy to carry a full bottle of water when you go in the line or on a route of march and then try to "bum a drink" off the other fellow. It is not playing the game. Can't Lose the Lice. 1 Don't neglect your feet. An infan , Iryinan's feet are his only means of transportation. So take off your shoes j in wet weather in the first line for about five minutes every dav. Rub them well with your hands to help the circulation and if you don't own another pair of socks wring the water out of the ones you have and put them on again. This helps to prevent trench feet and a proper dose of this disease is not to be envied. Don't be ashamed if you find you have got lice on vou. Every one has them out there. We tried everything to kill them, but the only result was the more stuff you used the more they thrived and the bigger they got. Keep down the population and after a while you find you tret used to it. I Don't strain your eyes trying to find la German to shoot at. As the Irish Ten Warm Hustling Newsies Wearing Mittens Given Them by The Omaha Bee industry are so and immensely Detroit, Mich., Dec. 16. Miss Myr-j the moving picture tie Steadman, beautiful movie actress, typically American has just spent 10 days studying the j P.om,lar because they arc essen- iiaov Lunsuuimc ministries. "Both are building useful practical great automobile factories of Detroit, preparatory to staging an immense products. The world needs both, and tilm spectacle, founded on the motor I the movies need the automobile. I car industry. j have always insisted that the world. The title of the feature is hpinr i "pleasure-car" is a misnompr without withheld, but will be one of the pre-! a cause. A trolley ride is oftentimes mier productions of Miss Steadtnan's own company, now forming in New York City. Until recently Miss Steadman was a Paramount star and occupied a dis tinctive position among movie cele brities around Los Angeles. She calls herself "an out-door crank," and knows automobiles like a lady Barney Oldfield. But in order to see the modern motor car from the time it is nothing but raw material down to the time of its appearance in the own er's garage, Miss Steadman has just spent 10 days visiting a number of the big Detroit plants. At the Chalmers factory she put on lumpers and actually manipulated a lathe on one of the famous hot-'spot engines. Later she addressed some of the Chalmers employes and the fol lowing a. a few of her timely com parisons of the moving picture and automobile industries: "The reason the automobile and a pleasure, but who would call a trol ley car a pleasure car. At another part of her talk she said to her audience, "This gathering re minds me of a big scene in a movie studio. Every one is important from the leading lady to the 'extras.' Yours is the drama of commerce and ma chinery, ours is the drama of life. "If Mr. Toner were working for D. W. Griffith he would be a great director of pictures but working for Mr. Flanders, he is a successful di rector of sales. "The automobile and the moving picture camera are indispensable in war or peace. The former is winning the great war, the latter is recording it for posterity. The automobile is winning the battle of transportation and, do you know, that every army in Europe has its own completely equipped movinf picture department? And in man power both industries have given of their best" SIMMMM-mK $C M va Mil 1 .i... 55 ,,, rsa He was bare I Ten little hustling newsies with ' 0,,t ''is new mittens. i i ,i . .i ... i t , , their new mittens which wcrr pk r-.i i "'--looKf.i eoni. .someone them by The Bee la,t week. " j" n, '? r y m,w ""My1 r. I1"1)- nd lie smiled and replied I Happy and warm, yes-sir-ree and "here they arc" and pulled them out I they look the .part. One of these of his pocket. "They're too warm " I little fellows came iu jcstcrO-, witli-! lit .aid, "i haven't Kut use to tUuui I yri. i ins wick an tne ue.w.-h.-.ys have Ik en liu-ili to win ten new pairs o; overshoe-, which are to be given in them by The Bee. There will be more mittens next week, then raps and overcoat"!, until every riewsie ia made 4iiu and warm foi winter. ; it only takes a lew minutes to do this and you will be surprised how quickly it gets duty. A very good thing to practice is rapid loading and tiring. You will be taught all this, of course, but constant practice will make you an expert and a man who can turn himself into a human ma-, chine gun in a case of emergency is j very valuable, indeed. By practicing' this 1 could load and fire l'j ; rounds in 27 seconds from a Lee En-1 field ritle and hit the target cverv time at 75 yards. This is close j enough shooting when the Potsdam1 giants or the Bavarian babies come along in massed formation, shoul der to shoulder, and singing their na-; tional anthem. -When you know how, boys, it is O. K. And remember the infantry so ! far has been the backbone of every army. There is a standing joke among j the "gravel crushers" over there. Il l you can't get a hor.se taken an infan-1 tryman. They can't do without the! men who sweep across No Man's I i-.iuu in tne cany nours ot the morn ing, some diopping here and some there to rise no more. He'll Be There! When you sit at home and read in the newspaper an official dispatch, "We have advanced our positions on a front of two mile north of Ypres, etc., and are consoli 'ating our gains," it does not mean much to you, but remember that the men who made that dispatch may be the very men who some time ago marched down the streets of your home town, bands playing, and cheered by all your citi zens. Out there is no one to cheer them, just a silent, grim-face line of men fighting like hell to hold what they have won the infantry. And al though I dropped out of the race about 40 miles from the German fron tier, if you ever have the luck to tramp down the Unter den Linden 1 will ue there to give you a cheer, boys. A Tale with a Moral. Churlee Hey, the popular Thnmna H. Ince arren ntnr, ta deeply concerned about inn conmniuiy aonrlng- price of nctore' clothes. In hla Intent picture, ''The Hired Man," pi .. .ed hy Air. Ince for Paramount, Hay hae ilia part of a young country boy. When K camo to "dressing; the part" he visited a secondhand clothlnic emporium In I.oe Amreles, end, finding; a suit of seer sucker doth thnt cntne up to requirements, naked Ita cost. 'Nine dollars and seventy.flve cents," re piled the clothing; seller with the facial camouflage. Ray Bridled thnt the suit was not worth that much, whereupon the merchant mumbled, "Take It for $1.7.1, but ao help me, I'm losing- money on It!" Ilrftojlil' Today eo All This Week A Revival of the Great Drama Emotional t EAST The greatest heart story Aver written Matinees wsS;y 25c EVERY EVENING 15c. 2Sc. 35c, 50c THREE DAYS ONLY Dec. 2T7-28-20 A Fairy Story Comedy Drama "THE CINDERELLA MAN" FOUR DAYS DEC. 23-24-25-26 Matinees Tuesday and Wednesday PERRY J. KELLY Offere Charles Dillingham's Production of Irving Berlin's Best Musical Comedy Slop! Look! Listen! THE MUSICAL COMEDY METEOR Seat Sale Tomorrow 10 A. M. SBEDDSrF Empress Garden UNDER EMPRESS THEATER Sunday Table d'Hote Dinner, $1 Weekly Luncheon, 40c. Dinner, 50c. Cafeteria Open 11 to 8 MISS ALMA HUNTLEY Sweat Singer ef Song AL PERRY Eccentric Dancer-Entertainer BLACKSTONE ORCHESTRA Tuea. Theatrical. Thura. Amateur. HOME OF CONTINUOUS MUSIC When the lnco an. wan ready to don the suit Ihe follow Iiik da. . preparatory to milk ing tho frlet Hceno ,,r "The Hired Atiin," he found pinned1 to tho com a ticket which read: "Jl.Tf." Moral: When one nn k nntlng for n sec ondhand suit of clothes I. is well (o leave one's 15,000 automnhlle out of sight. THE TUESDAY MUSICAL CLUB Presents MME. HELEN STANLEY Soprano In a Song Recital at the BOYD THEATER THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 20 8:15 o'Clock Prices, 50c to $2.00. Membership Sale of Seata December 17th. Public Sale of Seata, December 19th. OMAHA'S FUN CENTER Daily Mate., 15-25-SOc. Evenings, 25-50-7Sc-$I. JUST THE SHOW FOR TIRED SHOPPERS FRED MAyCCTirC Mualcal IRWIN'S I" n I t 3 I 119 Burlesque Florence Bennett, Lyle La Pine, Roscoe Alls. Paul Cunningham, Flo Emery, Ruth Bar bour. Big caat and CHORUS OF 20 THE BEST OBTAINABLE LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS. If iilrVrll WEEK STARTING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16TH sasBBBaaBsaiBBSj gjgaBagjBsHBjM 1 JIQTUT JUST FOR A KID Gus Edward' Two Famous Proteges GEORGIE and CUDDLES (Price) (Edwards) IN GUS EDWARDS' "BANDBOX REVUE" wuh VINCENT O'DONNELL (The Kid McCormack) r Imitating Imitated Home From a World Tour LILLIAN FITZGERALD GEORGE AUSTIN MOORE and Tho Unusual Comedienne CORDELIA HAAGER Supported by Clarence Senna From Te: i and Kentucky : MISS LEITZEL Wonder of the Air. GEORGIA EARLE & CO. Those Silent Funsters in "Getting Acquainted" FERN, BIGLOW & MEHAN A Quaint Rural Comedy in By Georgia Earle , "Highballs and Bumps" AL HERMAN The Black Laugh The Assassin of Grief and Remorse. ORPHEUM TRAVEL WEEKLY Around the World With the Orpheum Circuit's Motion Picture Photographers. PRICES Including U. S. Government War Tax Matinees. lie to 55e. Nights, 11c, 28c, 55c and 83c. NEXT WEEK, STARTING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23 GERTRUDE HOFFMANN With Company of Thirty-five Artists, in 1 GERTRUDE HOFFMAN'S REVUE BOYD'S ALL THIS WEEK EXCEPT THURSDAY, Starting Mat. TODAY BARGAIN MATINEES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, 25c SUNDAY AND SATURDAY MATINEES, BEST SEATS, 25c A 50c EVENINGS, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c. THE ONLY SHOW OF ITS KIND ON EARTH ! SURPASSES HUMAN UNDERSTANDING 8ESSS VILLA CAPTURED! A REMARKABLE, DARING AND REALISTIC RACE BETWEEN AN AUTOMOBILE AN0 MOTORCYCLE. COMINCXMAS WEEK "MUTT AND JEFF" AND "VERY GOOD EDDIE" J