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Bernhardt is Coming Here Again;
How tjie Stars'Shine in War Times
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Offerings
Local Theaters Have a
Variety of Fun Lined
Up for Patrons During
the Next Seven Days
HE new musical creation,
"My People," in the music
and mirth of a race, which
will serve to the "Smart
Set;" headed by Salem
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Tutt Whitney and J
- - Homer Tutt, at the Boyd
today; is said to .be plentifully
jupphed with good music and clean
comedy. Whitney and Tutt wrote the
score of ipis new musical creation,
and the supporting company consists
of Daisy Martin,' Lena Sanford Rob
erts and the best of vocalist and
comedians ever heard in any musical
show. The engagement is for four
nights with matinees Sunday, Tuesday
and Wednesday.
One of the gayest entertainments
of the season is promised in A. H.
Woods' forthcoming production of
"Mary'i Ankle," which comes to the
Boyd on next Thursday, for an en
gagement of ten days. "Mary's
Ankle," is the clever farce by May
Tully, which the New York Globe
compared favorably with "Turn To
the Right" and "The Boomerang."
The complications result from the
sending of a fake wedding invitation
by cfnt of three penniless young men,
in order to extract much needed wed
ding presents from ciose-fisted rela
tives. The young woman who has
been made an unconscious partner in
the design, eventually appears in the
person of a bewitching young woman,
Marv Jane Smith. From this sketchy
outline, which according to Miss Tul
ly, is founded on real facts the au
thor has evolved as sprightly and en
tertaining a farce as New York has
seen in many months. The notable
New York company includes Amy
Leah Dennis, Bert Leigh, May Wal
lace, James Hester, Edward Butler,
Louise Sanford, Donald MacLeod,
Gertrude Mann, Frank A. Meehan
and others.
The Naughty Princess," William
B. Friedlanders farcical operetta in
two scenes, comes to th Orpheum
this week as the stellar attraction.
t Tba company is headed by Esther
Jarrett, Donald Dunn, Earle S. Dewey
nH Mabel f"Billv") Roeers. The
Naughty Princess" was written by
Will M. Hough,; who is responsible
for many capsule musical comedies.
A feature act of the bill is to be
presented by Billie Montgomery
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bant Roof Oanteo, th now of Cbtmptcnt. Sinking
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honor Brother Coleman.
LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS
Turpin Schoo) of Dancing
New Term for Adult Beflnners Starting
Monday, March 18th.
Pupila Should Join the First Lassoa.
TERMS MOST REASONABLE
Harney 8143. 28th and Farnam Sts.
Assembly Every Wednesday Evening
Mr. Huhes' S!-Piece Orchestra.
THE R"ACES
CAFE AND CABARET
1415 Jackson St
Entertainment De Luxe
Soft Drinks and Meals
Dancing Until 12:30
P. M.
Popular, Prices
and George Perry, who call them
selves "Bachelors of Art." They say
of their act: "We sing a little, dance
a little, talk a little and play the
piano a little." "You," a symbolic
playlet, written by Harriet Rempel,
presented by her sister, Bessie, is
said to be the most effective dra
matic contribution which Harriet
Rempel has made to vaudeville. The
Kanazawa boys are a trio of Japanese
"risley" performers. One of them
is a comedian who raises hearty
laughter. Doc O'Neil, who declares
that his new laugh prescriptions are
all guaranteed under the pure fun law,
is a monologist with an original
method. Three comely young women,
the Jordan girls, are wire performers
who do many difficult feats with ease
and grace. Irish ballads and folk
songs are to be presented by Ruth
Osborn, who calls her act "A Bit of
Blarney." She plays her own accom
paniment on an Irish harp. A picturiz
ation of our nation's capital, Wash
ington, D. C, will be the film offer
ing of the Orpheum Travel Weekly.
"Harry Hastings' big show," with
that popular funmaker, Dan Cole
man, will fill a week at the Gayety.
The performance is in two acts and
10 scenes and is entitled "McNally's
Flirtations," Mr. Coleman playing the
title role. His feature song is, "Are
Yon An American?" In the cast will
be found Phil Peters, Alma Bauer,
Easter Higbee, Babe Burnette, Eliza
beth Tati, Hazel Lorraine, Frank
Mallahan and the Run-Way Four.
The story is set at McNally's club
house and revolves around McNally's
fascination for the female sex, which
gets him into no end of trouble. The
music is all new and original and
was especially writlen by Mr Cole
man and Tfromas S. Allen. Eadies"
matinee daijy all week starting tomor
row. Today's matinee starts at 3. '
Sallie Fisher and Allen Brooks will
share the headline distinction over at
the Orpheum for the week of March
24. Sallie Fisher, who is now under
the management of Charles Dilling
ham, will be seen in a comedy by
Clare Kummer, entitled "The Choir
Rehearsal." Alfen Brooks' - success
in "Dollars and Sense" has been most
pronounced. Not even "War Brides"
or "The Clod" is accredited with
greater success over the Orpheum
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ZIRA'S LEOPARDS
John BLONDYS Pavl
Hlfk Art 1b Gymnastic
FOLLIES DE VOGUE
ZUHN AND DREIS
Somewhat Different Eccentrics
FIRST EPISODE
Sensational Serial, With
PEARL WHITE and
ANTONIO MORENO
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curcult than was Mr. Brooks'
tour.
last
This is the first week of the split
week policy ar the Brandeis Hippo
drome and the management has en
deavored to obtain a bill that will
meet with the approval of all the
Omaha public. For the first half of
the week the bill is headed by' a big
girl act, "Follies de Vogue," with the
Chicago Winter Garden Girls. There
is plenty of music and dancing inter
spersed with comedy. Burt Draper,
blackface comedian, is presenting his
clever little dialogue number this sea
son under the title of "The Original
Brother Jazz" The Peerless Trio,
consisting of Tom Rossa, a comedian
who specializes in Italian characters,
and Mazie Berto and Anna Vencenti,
two beautiful daughters of" Sunny
Italy, who sing and play the accor
deon and flageolet as only natives of
Italy can, present an offering which
they bill as "Comedians, Street Sing
ers and Musicians." Two rollicking
comedians are Zuhn and Dreis, and
the Two Blondys, a pair of athletic
chaps, present a gymnastic number.
Zira's Leopards, a wonderful exhibi
tion of trained animals, complete the
vaudeville for the first half of the
week.
One can imagine oneself doing the
"Alps" on seeing Hirschhorn's Swiss
Song Birds at the Empress theater,
who present a rather pretentious nov
elty, singing and instrumental nov
elty. Other offerings on the bill for
the first halt include a singing and
dancing number by Markee and
Montgomery, a comedy sketch, "The
Devil in Possession," offered by
Kingsbury and Munson, and a danc
ing novelty which is the offerine of
Mattus and Young. For the last half
the bill is headed by "A Night With
PEERLESS TRIO
Comedians Sinters Musicians
With Anna Mae Bell, Hal
Van Rensselaer, Gladys
Lanphere and Famous Chi
cago Winter Garden Girls.
BURT DRAPER
The Original "Brother Jan"
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ERNHARDT is again o im
ing to Omaha. She will
nuke a tour of the Or
pheum circuit under the
direction of Martin Beck,
and will tlav at the
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Orpheum here. The date for her
appearance is not yet announce but
this will be given out soon Ar
rangements for this trip were com
pleted in New York a few days ago.
Mme Bernhardt will present the
death scene from "Camille," and
"Champ d'Honneur" ("The Fie'd of
Honor"), a one-act play written for
her by a French officer about a ear
ago. It was as Marguerite Gmtier
Niat Bernhardt really climbed to the
pinnacle of fame, and she has nhyed
the role many times since. Omaha
folks have seen her enact it. th. .ast
! time being at the Auditorium a few
years ago. The loss of her leg natur
ally has interfered with the freedom
of movement once a vital part of her
equipment, but eastern critics who
have written of her during th last
winter agree that her wonderful voice
has been touched by neithe age nor
misfortune, and that its musical vol
ume rolls forth in full power an .! un-
der perfect command, rrom the
beginning of the war Mme. Bern
hardt has given herself unreservedly
to the work of helping out in any
way possible to her. She was 1 the
trenches when the injury to her leg,
originally due to an accident at Los
Angeles when on a flying tour of
America, took such form that the
had to be taken to a field hospital
and submit to amputation. Anr-ng
the wounded soldiers, she, too. suf
fered for the France she loyes so
well. On recovery she tumid to
America, relying on her hold on the
public over here, to raise money- for
war relief work. Her appearances
have been really ovations, Amcn:ans
paying tribute as much to her splen
did patriotic devotion aj to her great
art as an actress.
It is interesting to note how the
war has chastened and sobered some
of the popular favorites. Anna Held,
for example, premier of romps, came
last fall full of the spirit of comedy,
but tempered by the experiences of
three years of contact with the trag
edy of France. Her efforts to amuse
were secondary to her efforts to
arouse the American people to a fuller
realization of what the war means.
Her days were spent in work that has
but little to do with the theater. In
Omaha she addressed the Chamber of
Commerce at luncheon, and spoke in
the open air on a chilly afternoon to
great crowds on the street, braving
pneumonia, loss of voice and all the
other terrors of cold that she might
add her bit to the force gathering
back of the great drive. It was not
Anna Held of the milk bath or the
misbehaving eyes who recited "They
Shall Not Pass," and sang "Joan of
Arc" to us at the Boyd that night; it
was a new Anna Held, regenerate and
inspired by a cause, and the crowds
the Poets," by W. B. McCallum. The
title should he "A Night With Riley"
for it is the well-loved Hoosier poet
whose verses are interpreted by a
reader, J. Walter Wilson. "Nonsen
sicalities" is the title of the singing
and dancing skit offered by Frank
and Gracie Demont. The rest of the
bill includes Romano, a novelty artist,
and the Ziras, in a series of classy
ideas.
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Afternoon
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IMK STARTING
(A Farcical Operetta in Two Scenes) With
Esther Jarrett, Donald Dunn, Earl S. Dewey and Mabel ("Billy") Rogers'
Music and Lyrics by William B. Friedlander. Book by Will M. Hough
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that heard her caught something of
her spirit.
So, too, with Harry Lauder; he is
the genial, canny Scotsman, but with a
soberer cast to his fun-making. His
personal loss has been deep, as those
who know him well can testify. His
well-beloved son lies in a soldier's
grave, somewhere in France, but fa
ther and mother alike rejoice that
death found him doing a man's work
for humanity. The shadow of war is
over Harry Lauder's fv.n. and he shifts
willingly from his banter and badin
age to talk soberly, earnestly and con
vincingly of what is being done and
what is to be done "over there."
Whole-heartedly and unreservedly he
is giving himself to relief work
Fritz Kreisler has laid aside his
violin and its bow of magic, and will
not be heard in public again. For this
honorable foe only deep respect is
felt. He was a soldier, was dis
charged from the military service of
his country because of wounds sus
tained in battle unfitting him for
dutv. He returned to America and
toured with great success, but sinceH
our country has gone to war with his
he docs not seek to thrust himself
into attention that might bring un
pleasantness. Constrast his way with
that of Karl Muck,' who insists that
his -German art should be welcomed
where his German citizenship and
sympathy would exclude him. It is
not chauvinism that turns on Muck,
but it is nambypambyism that tries
to excuse him. Ignace Jan Paderew
ski has given up his piano until his
Poland is restored. He is working
to his utmost for the cause of his
land and its people, and has sym
pathetic assistance from the people of
America.
Schumann-Heink, naturalized and
domesticated as an American, wants
to go to France to sing for the sol
diers. It is not likely she will get to
do this, for the French government
is chary of admitting any who come
with her antecedents. One popular
American writer had to forego a
trip across because her grandfather
was a German. If this rule applies to
all, Schumann-Heink's voice will not
be heard much nearer to the front line
than Battery Park. Frieda Hempel has
learned to sing "The Star Spangled
Banner," and wedded with a natural
ized American, but this has not fully
restored her to the favor she lost by a
bit of temperament last summer.. And
John McCormack, Irish-born ' and
heaven-gifted, pays the heaviest in
come and excess profits tax of any.
To Celebrate Patronal
Feast at St. Joseph's
The patronal feast of St. Joseph's
hospital will be celebrated nex Tues
day by divine services in the jchapel
ofthat institution. Archbishop Harty
will preside, and will be assisted by
Rev. James Aherne. Rev. James W.
Stenson will be master of ceremonies.
The officers of the solemn high mass
will be Rev. Marcus Schludecker, O.
F. M., celebrant; Rev. Michael
Stagno, deacon; Rev. John Krajicek,
subdeacon; Rev. D. P. Harrington
and Rev. J. F. McCarthy will be dea
cons of honor. Rev. F. A. Living
stone, S. J., Creighton university, will
preach the sermon.
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Bessie Rempel and Players Kanazawa Boys
Present a Symbolic Playlet Entitled Equilibrists
"YOU" With a Laugh
Written By Harriet Rempel.
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Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey of
Independence, Kan., president general
of the Daughtcis of the American.
Revolution, believes American women
have not even begun to save. She '
spoke at the luncheon given for her
at the Hotel Fonteneiie bv the Dauh
ters of the Arnciican Revolution. She
is enroute to the state convention in
Beatrice nrpt week.
"Wc have such a lot of war work to
do, and we have not yet really incon
venienced ourselves with it. I believe
the war will last not less than five
years," she said.
Mrs. Guersncy told of the patriotic"
education being done by the society.
She said the national society would in
vest $100,001) in bonds in the third Lib
erty load drive. The rebuilding of the
French village, Tilloloy, destroyed by
the enemy, is another work which the,
daughters are doing. Fifty-one thou
sand dollars have been given to that
purpose. It is intended tnat by next
April $SO,000 shall be raised for this
reconstruction work.
Mrs. Guersney is the guest of her
sisters, Mrs. C. H. Aull and Miss Dove
Mitchell. She leaves after the con
vention for the Kansas state conven
tion and then will go to Washington,
where she makes her home during her i
administration.
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