THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 10. 1918.
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MANTELL'S' MACBETH' THRILLS
LARGE AUDIENCE AT BOYD'S;
TWO VIEVS OF GREAT TRAGEDY
Actor Interprets Famed Char
acter as Man Brave at Heart
When Not Influenced by
Outside Influences.
Assistant Sporting Editor
Crams at Library and Then
Lets Go What He Thinks
of It All.
By EDWARD BLACK.
Robert B. Mantell and company tn "Mac
Deth," a tragedy by William Shakespeare,
In five acts and fifteen scenes. The cast:
Macbeth, a general in Duncan's army,
t.wi-..-....i.i.. Mr. Mantell
First ""I'-h . . , , ,"Mi CsimtUy BtvhHt f
Second witch. Miss Marion Evensen
Third Witch 7.. Mr. John Wray
Duncan, king of Scotland.. Mr. Frank Peters
Malcolm, Duncan's son,... Mr. Guy Llndsley
Lennox, a nobleman. .. .Mr. Edward Lewers
A Sergeant Mr. George' Westlake
Ross, a nobleman Mr. Albert Barrett
Ban quo, a general in Durwan s army..
. .i-,-itr. John Burke
Seyton, an officer ateTntlrign JjaQ-'
both. n..HK John Alexander .
Fleance, son of BaniuMisa Virginia Bronso'
A Porter X T. ."". .. Mr. John Wray.
Macduff, a nobleman Mr. Fritz Lelber
A Murderer rrv... Mr.- Frank James.
Another ...Mr. Frederick Dayton
First Apparition Mr. Guy Hawkes
Second Apparition.... j... Miss Georgia' Fox
Third Apparition.... ,.;M1m Bessie. James
A Doctor -Mr. Franklin- Salisbury
An Officer f.3ttt. "Abraham; Ivory
X Gentlewoman attending on . Lady .. ,
Macbeth j-i.Mtss Ida - Lawrence
'Lady Macbeth Miss Genevieva Hamper
f Robert B. Mantell and his company
of excellent players scored a triumph
Friday at the Boyd theater, wnere
"Macbeth" was presented before an
audience which was held in, "pleas
urable emotion" through the action
of this sublime tragedy. -
Numerically, the audience . repre
sented the seating capacity of the
theater, as the box office ticket holder
indicated, arid" the enthusiasm which
was expressed at the close of many
scenes was a tribute to the actors. It
was the most auspicious performance
of this notable dramatic engagement.
Interest and applause went far to
argue that the spoken drama of the
better sort is not dead and that play
goers appreciate such performances
as have been offered here this week.
Senses Poet's Purpose.
"Macbeth. alwavs popular with
students of the immortal bard, com
manded the full talent of the Mantell
company. Mr.i-Mantell,- as Macbeth,
was accorded generous iriDuic. tic
offered convincing evidence of a
scholarly appreciation of the sublimity
of this arreai role. He sensed the
poet's purpose in the letter and spirit
of the lines. Consider, for instance
Macbeth's scene with his wife, after
the banquet where Banquo's ghost
arose to haunt and taunt Macbeth. In
this scene Mi. Mantell and Genevieve
Hamper displayed their artistry. Mac
Koth was wearv of his restless ecstacy.
The ghost has added to the-tumult of
his mind. Weary of mind and body
he and his lady sat together in pitiable
solitude. He slowly removes the
crown from his head and places it on
a table and his wife does likewise
Then he places his arm around Lady
Macbeth's Lcck and seeks peace of
mind by resting his weary body
against his wife.. The deft touches of
this scene were wonderfully portrayed
by Mantell and Miss Hamper.
Shown as Brave .Man. .
Mantell's Macbeth is' never forced.
' fUe presents a consistent series of
staze pictures, irom brave MacDetn,
un il the last when Mariduff proclaims
Macbeth as "tyrant, murderer, hell
hound and villain. He shows Mac
beth as a brave man at heart when
not influenced by outside forces. Man
tell gave tht real touch to Macbeth's
lament when he said. "1 begin to oe
weary of the sun and wish my life at
an end." He showed Macbeth as 'a
man of finer sensibilities and imagina
tion than Lady Macbeth when Mac
beth said: "Duncan hath borne his
faculties so meek, has -been so clear
in his great office, that his virtues
will plead like angels, trumpet
tongued, against the deep damnation
f his taking-ott.
Lady Macbeth's Will.
Miss Hamper was equal to the ex
actions of Lady Macbeth, whom she
depicted as a woman of strong and
designing v--Ul, ever resourceful to
check the lapsing courage of her hus
band in the dire undertakings which
she had planned. The actress brought
out with full force the playwright's
obvious purpose to show that when a
woman wills she will and that when a
woman embarks upon a dastardly en
terprise she is not lacking in courage
nor cuuning to see it through. When
Macbeth refused to place the daggers
beside the sleeping companions of the
slain king, she chided her weakening
master and placed the blades herself.
And again she told him to screw his
courage to the sticking point. In the
sleep-walking scene Miss Hamper was
acceptable, receiving a hearty curtain
call.
Mantell Given Recall.
Fritz Leibu as Macduff won a per
sonal tribute after the scene wherein
he is told of the murder of his wife
and children. His suppression of un
manly grief and his determination to
Avenge the deaths-of his kin was
splendidly depidted by-Mr. Leiber.
Mr. Manteltrjvas recalled at the
close of' the fast- scene, following the
tragic ending -Toi- Macbeth, who re-
solves to die Avtthliarness on his back.
The scenic embellishments of the
production -aere noteworthy and the
quickness of the changes was marked.
v Food Committee inquires, .
Into Sugar Beet Cost
Grand Island, Neb., March 9. (Spe
cial Telegram.) The commission ap
pointed by National Food Adminis
trator Hoover to ascertain the fair
profit in raising sugar beets and the
manufacture therefrom of sugar,, and
the ratio of profit as compared with
that of other crops, held its first ses
sion in this city yesterday, complet
ing the inquiry here.
There were present Messrs. Bur
nett and Filley of the University of
Nebraska, Farley of Aurora and Weiss
of Mitchell. Manager Denman and
Agricultural Superintendent Baker of
the American Beet Sugar company
and representative beet sugar grow
ers gave testimony. The commission
will hold another session at Scotts
tbluff next week.
Catch Escaped Convict.
Auburn, N. Y., March 9. Reynolds
Forsbrey, the escaped convict, who
broke out of an isolation cell at Au
burn Thursday night, was caught
'shortly before noon today in a freight
ffr near Locke, N. Y.
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By WILLIE GREEN.
Assistant Sporting Editor of The Bee.
Sometimes I think the boss is a
nut. He called me over to the d:sk
yesterday- and -sez, -"Willie, you go
over" foh'elfoyd tonight an write up
Mantel: in Macbeth.
I guess I looked kinda blinky, for
he told me Mantell is an actor an
Macbeth is a play. An I believed
him then, cause I hadn't seen neither
of 'em; .,:
The -boss sed a kuv named Shake
speare wrote the play an it was
good. He was spoofin me, so he put
that in the past tense. It ain t a play
at all it's serious business. It re
minded me of 10 nights in a butcher
shop. . - . i ,
I . never met Shakespeare, but I
didn't tell the boss that. I had a
hunch Miss Tobitt over at the library
would steer me straight, so I hiked up
that way to buzz her. Shes awful
good about wisein' up a feller that's
shy a few light in his roof garden
an . she's, always boostin' members
of the women's clubs that can't make
the grade.
" ' Was a Bloody Britisher.
She got down a book as big as
the Bunker Hill monument an' pretty
soon she told me this geek was dead
died a long time ago, before Tom
Denrhson came to Omaha. He was
a Johnnie Bull right an' when he
was a kid 17 he married Anne Hath
away. He used to get drunk in Lon
don with Ben Jonson and Raleigh
back in the days of Good Queen Bess
an' she'd empty the cupboard at him
when he came in .late at night. She
had a disposition just like Maggie in
Bringing Up Father.
Before he got stuck on the girl he
worked for his dad in a butcher shop
up at Stratford. ' That's where he got
the plots for Richard III and Mac
beth., Over in Lbndon they call him
a bloody Britisher, 'an they're right
about it. It would take a regular
war correspondent to report the cas
ualties in his plays. Even when they
don't croak 'em right off the bat they
hack 'em up so they don't look well
in the parlor.
I Highbrows Were There.
After Miss Tobitt filled me up with
this dope I beat it over to the play
house feeling like I had 'a shot in
the arm.
The orchestra was ' playin' some
slow music that made me creep till
I thought every minute some guinea
was goin to stab me in the spinal
column. The lights was all on an'
there was a bunch of highbrows from
the university down in front that can
read the hieroglyphics on the pyra
mids fast as some people read The
Bee.
Most of 'em wore specs an' they're
so critical they kick if the principal
murderer jabs, his victim an inch or
so too high or too low in puncturing
his gizzard. '.They've got it down to
a science. Some of ' those ginks
would try to teach a chicken how to
lay an egg.
It Was a Frameup.
In a "couple of weeks the curtain
went up., an'- two or three guys , in
circus clothes" came out an' spouted
some poetry like a grafonola. It was
the slowest thing I ever saw an' I
thought how different Pete Loch
would have pulled it off. You couldn't
have guessed that they were going
to muss , up so many of those fellers
before they got through, except that
,the orchestra kept up that chills an'
fever stuff, '
Pretty soon the knockers got busy
and framed it up to get poor old Dun
can's goat, just like they did in the
Schroeder case, only they were
rougher they done it with the adz.
Looked like the battle-ax they used
over at Villisca.
Dunk was king of Scotland and one
of those simps who don't know that
when youVe got a good thing the
world, is full of fellers willing to
knock your block off and take it way
from you. So he went to call on the
Macbeths up on the hill. Lady Mac
beth received him with open arms
and "welcome to our city" a la Mayor
Jim.
Pass the Pork, Please.
There's a murderer in Macbeth that's
the meanest guy I ever heard of. He
don't think any more of slipping a
pitchfork into your giblets than
Frank Judson does of getting your dol
lar for the Red Cross, an' he does it
just as easy. You know, you kinda
admire a chap that plugs some skate
for gettin' gay with his girl or slap
pin' his mother, but .this here Mac
beth is a paragon of depravity even
in that caravansary of crime. He
was after the cash an' the king's job.
An' his old woman was worse. She
put 'im up to it. She was all fenced
in with witches, an' they had a big
pot of stewed snakes an' toads an
things. They piped her full of the
old man being king an' he fell for it.
They called her Lady Macbeth, but
if she's a lady gimme pork, please.
Officer Burns, who is on that beat
and knows all about the -drama told
me Mantell practiced in the Corsi
can brothers til! he got so he could
polish 'em off without batting an eye.
He's making too much money in
Omaha or the kaiser would have
hired him for a few nights in Bel
gium. Everything Was Regular.
He's got a wheel off on one side an'
he looked sneaky. I'd rather they'd
step straight off, so when you see 'em
comin' you know they're goin' to
kick in your slats if you'll let 'em do
it This other kind of business ain't
square, anyway. " ,
Prof. Fling would say he did a
bully job that it was "system" or
something like that, but I vote "my."
The fact is, his work was so lumpy
they hung it onto him cold, like they
did on "Johnnie" Lynch. Everybody
knew he did it, an' the highbrows
were tickled to death when Macduff
caught 'im dead to rights on the 20
yard line 'an chopped off his conk.
That was system, too.
This Macduff was ' a bull-headed
Scotchman all right, but he was on
the level and a real scrapper. When
he got onto what a crook Macbeth
was he ordered his soldiers to bring
in the wood the witches were always
prating about and the stuff was off.
The way he sassed Macbeth before he
beaned him was scandalous.
The lady was so sore because he
couldn't be queen that she went out
behind ' the 'barn and bit herself to
death. Besides, after she lost out, so
ciety folks wouldn't notice her any
more. Up in my neighborhood the
Lizzies would have snubbed her sure.
Kreisler to Play No More
' Until Peace Declared
New York, March 9. Fritz Kreis
ler, noted Austrian violinist, whose
appearance even in concerts held for
charitable purposes has caused dis
approval in several communities, Fri
day canceled all his engagements and
announced that he would not appear
1 C A - l 1 i !1
uciore an American puuiic uhui ycatc )
was declared. Sometime ago he de
cided not to appear except for charity.
Kreisler was wounded while serv
ing as a lieutenant in the Austrian
army during the present war.
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Student
Bedroom Furniture
in the vogue-and assembled to meet the
requirements of a discriminating clientelle
1 ?
This suite
is now
on display
in our
. north
window
-t f , . ,, .,.
A large
photogravure
o) the room
scene will be
sent fret on
application.
Mention
plate 220.
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A Bedroom According to Hepplewhite
The room shown brings out the grace anp! dignity and refinement of the Hepplewhite
style in a modernized development. .,
Elliptical forms were favored in the Hepplewhite style and are introduced in this room in the
mirror over the beds and in the rug. As a point of detail, ellipses will also be seen in, the carved
motif on the head and foot boards of the beds and in the drawer handles.
i The piefces assure comfort and convenience.
The color scheme of the room should be both restful and cheerful. Plain walls, or walls in
delicately toned "French stripes," are to be preferred to any figured wall paper. It is. far better
taste, decoratively speaking, to concentrate all color and pattern in the hangings. The selection
here is a French stripe, with a delicately colored floral motif corresponding with the rug border,
which ii also in color, on a black ground. . . .
Decorative accessories for any bedroom, should be kept as few and restrained as possible. :
A William and Mary Suite
A William and Mary suite, similar to cut, in English
Brown Mahogany or American Walnut. This interest
esting" style is seen to advantage in this suite. Char
acteristic hardware in antique finish and fine beaded'
moulding embellish each piece. ;
, , Dresser, with extra large mirror .$72.00 ,
Chest of Drawers to match $56.00
Dressing Table with triple mirror $61.00
Full Size Bed $61.00"
Chair, $15.50. ' Rocker, $16.50
Late Sheraton V-MiK?
Serviceable
A distinguished Late Sheraton suite in American
Walnut of especially pleasing shade. Panels and mir
ror frames of Fiddle Back Maple, ebony corner ros
ettes. A delightful Vanity Dresser is one of the fea
tures of this suite.
Vanity Dresser ,'. . . $82.00
Dresser, extra large size and conveniently fitted with
full width mirror .$94.00 .
Twin Beds, each $54.00
Triple Mirror Dressing Table .$59.00
Adam Exeg,ted' Old Ivory
By Berkey & Gay. This suite is a shining example of good
workmanship and attention to details, the decorations, though
elaborate, do not interfere with the usefulness or practical char
acter of the suite. It is indeed a set to delight mi-lady, and the
present popularity of Old Ivory is all in its favor.
Dresser, of large size $97.00
Bed, full: size $71.50
Triple Mirror Dresser Table $71.50
Quaint Cane Panelled Chairs, Rockers and Stool to
match. .
Other Ivory, 01 ' Ivory and Dove Grey States are priced
' from $100jOO up $500.00 the Suite
Modern English afefta
Fashioned in Mahogany, with panels of selected
Crotch Mahogany of a lighter shade. A very prac-'
tical suite on account of its storage capacity. To be
seen on our fifth floor.
Dresser, with mirror full width of case .$78.00
Large Chest Drawers $68.50
Triple Mirror Dressing Table with drawer divided,$55.00
Twin Beds, each $52.00
Chair, $10.50 ' Rocker, $11.50
Decorative Accessories
When you have your bedroom furnished,
berugged and decorated it is still unfinished
at this stage it if only on a par with the
bedroom of a large hotel, it still requires
those little touches of color and articles of
usefulness to make it your OWN bedroom.
The lamp that matches the finish of the
furniture. The shades Introducing just the
color note that lends piquancy. (This year
they are made of taffeta with full skirts.)
The Bed Spread of taffeta made to har
monixe with the draperies.
The little toilet boxes for your dressing
table, and the many, many other necessary
accessories that may be chosen from our
carefully assembled stock in our gift shop.
Rugs for the Bedroom
We are receiving daily new rugs ideally suitable for'
Bed Room use on account of their soft colorings that '
match the new Cretonnes. Among them; will, be found
Delft Blues, Rose, Lavender and Gray, in plain or colored ' .
combinations. Quite a craze has recently developed 'for '
Old Fashioned Rag Rugs made in Oval as well as Oblong
shapes. Some of these are the Hand Braided kind, others
are made by machinery. We can match any colorings, and
the sizes range from 18x36 inches to 4x7 feet Prices
from 75c to $25 each.
Body Brussel Rugs htive for years been the favorite
for Bed Rooms, due to their hard surface to which lint,
hair, etc., does not cling. They come in many beautiful
Chintz as well as Oriental patterns. Sizes from 22x36
inches at $3.00 to the 9x12 size at $41.50.
The Hangings
For the Curtains
Potted and Figured Swisses, at, per
yard 30c to $1.50
Filet Nets, per yard. . . .40c to $2.25
Plain 11 Voile and Plain Figured Mar
quisettes, per yard 30c to 85c
For Over-Curtains
Cretonnes in all their variety of col
orings, per yard 50c to $1.50
Silks
Colored Madras and Sunfast mater
ials, in the delicate shades, suit
able for bedroom hangings, at per
yard ........$1.50 to $4.75
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