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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 21, 1919.
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By HENRIETTA M. REES.
THE deith of Cleofont Campa
nini comes as a distinct shock
. 1 to music lovers all over the
country. Although he had been ill
for some time, and critically ill for
over a week, hopes for his recovery
had been held out, until the last few
days. His death is a great loss to
the musical activities of the middle
west Under his direction the Chi
cago Opera company has grown
from a small organization to one of
the greatest opera companies of the
world. During his lifetime he had
conducted all the big operas of
Spain, Italy, France and South
America, and been actively connect
ed with the greatest opera compa
nies. He brought out many famous
' singers, among them Galli-Curci, and
he engaged American artists when
ever their talent and experience jus
tified him. He was a thorough mu
sician, as well versed in the manage
ment of the productions as in the art
of interpreting hem. The times
when he conducted in Omaha, his
authority and musicianship were
constantly in evidence, and many ar
tistic results were achieved both in
the orchestra and behind the foot
lights. He had won for himself a
high position in the world of music,
and his death will be mourned by
thousands who knew the fruits of
his labors.
- The opera house in New Orleans
was totally destroyed by fire De
cember 3. This structure was built
in 1859 and contained priceless rec
ords, pictures, programs and other
: things of great historic value, in
view of the fact that grand opera
vas first given in the United States
in New Orleans by a company ini
tiated from Paris in 1791, according
to Musical America. Most of the
singers who were singing there this
season were artists who had been
engaged by the late Oscar Hammer
slein for his projected opera sea
son. Here many operas of Rossini,
Meyerbeer, Auber and Mozart had
their first American appearances, ac
cording to the same journal. When
"Aida" was performed in New Or
leans for the first time all the stage
settings and costumes used at the
first production oi the opera in
Cairo were used at the New Orleans
performance. When one remembers
that this opera was written at the
order of the khedive of Egypt to
celebrate the opening of the Suez
canal one can well imagine that it
must have been a gorgeous perform
ance for an American city in those
days.
The demonstrations against Fritz
Kreisler which have occurred in one
cr two cities where he has appeared
in recital are only other instances of
the hotheads and sometimes only
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PRAIRIE PARK
Twenty-sixth and Amu Av.
' TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS
AND SATURDAYS
By the Ben Hur Dancing Club
Colfax 4923.
half-informed people who want to
inn. the world. Not only their own
world, but yours and mine and
everybody efse'a, and they t want to
run it without any experience or
naming in our lines of 'endeavor,
either. The chances are that not
one out of every hundred of them
ever attends concert.
Why should they set themselves
up as so much more patriotic than
anybody else? Music lovers are
just as patriotic a they, and if the
music lovers were convinced that an
artist was a real enemy of their
country, they would not support his
concert, for the hotheads seem to
forget that there is no law which
compels them to attend it. But
Kreisler did much for the stranded
musician of all nationalities in
Vienna before America entered the
war, when all means of continuing
his aid were cut off. At all times
his conduct toward this country
throughout the war has been above
reproach. A local manager, or the
committee of some representative
musical club would not engage an
artist, for a local recital if they
were not assured of his sincerity in
regard to this country, They are
too depended upon the support of
the local music lovers, if they are
not too patriotic themselves. But
the musical people are much more
liable to be correctly informed about
the status of an artist, than the
others, and if they, are willing to
give an artist a clean bill of health,
their judgment should be respected.
While one report says members
of the American Legion caused a
recital by kreisler to be cancelled
in one place, another report says
Kreisler has been invited to play
for the New York chapter on De
cember 28, appearing on the same
program with John McCormack, and
that he will do so. The very fact
that this chapter of the American
Legion would extend the invitation,
ought to quiet any sudden action on
the part of the nontljinkers.
Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini, prima
donna, who 10 years ago was promi
nent in coloratura roles in grand
opera, has returned to America and
entered upon a concert tour.
The premiere ' of "Boudour," a
ballet by Pavley and Oukrainsky,
librettists, and Felix Borowski, com
poser, was produced at the Chicago
opera last week, making a tremend
ous' success. It is described as a gor
geous spectacle, and the music as
"bearitijj every mark of. elegance,
melodionsness and grace. There are
also moments of dramatic intensity
and tense rhythmic passages, and
the music in design and develop
ment' follows' the plot of the ballot
closely."' Mr.. Borowski is a well
known Chicago compeer and critic
and his organ numbers and violin
and piano compositions are well
known.
musical journals in spnuiug ui
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inc premiere ui nyiiruuuc, aay
that the only indecent thing they see
about it is the trashy-tune "Alexan
dria" which is suddenly introduced in
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music.
Katharina Scores One on Petruchio
AT the last performance of "The
Taming of the Shrew" at the
Shubert in New York city, E.
H. Sothern in the role of Petruchio
failed to catch the vase of flowers
which Miss Marlowe, as Katharina,
throws at him, and as a result he
is now the possessor of a "black
eye." So for once, Katharina scored
over Petruchio.
Miss Julia Marlowe, who will ap
pear here this season with E. H.
Sothern in . Shakespearean reper
toire, recalls that when she made
her first appearance in Boston at
the Hollis Street theater, playing
Parthenia in "Ingomar," there was
only about $60 in the house, so she
stepped to the footlights and in
vited the audience to move down
front. Miss Marlowe was then 16
years old and this was her first
year as a star. That Boston was
not long in awakening to the fact
that a new' genius had arisen in the
theatrical world is attested by the
packed housei which always greeted
her there after her first visit to Bos
ton.
When Gordon Craig produced
"Hamlet" for the Moscow public,
the theater marked an eooch. Amer
ica knows . Craig's work only
through report and illustration, but
with the E. H. Sothern and Julia
Marlowe production of this tragedy
this season, playgoers of this coun
try will see some radical changes in
the stage, management and decora
tion of this play. The drama has
been newly studied and many lm
portant innovations have been made
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into me pusiness oi ine piece.
Especially interesting is the new
arrangement of the play scene. The
iignung: ana scenic aevices em
ployed in the new Sothern and Mar
lowe "Hamlet" give promise of be
ing the most significant advance in
classical production in America.
Vaudeville Volleys
PAT ROONEY and Marion
Bent, supported by a large
company, presented their new
vaudeville act in New York. It is
an elaborate affair, lavishly staged
and costumed, called "Rings of
Smoke." Edgar Allan Woolf, au
thor of many playlets that success
fully toured the Orpheum circuit, is
responsible for the Roney-Bent pro
duction. Bennett and Richards, the vaude
ville comedians who have been ap
pearing abroad for the past four
months, returned to this country last
Wednesday.
Nat Nazarro, jr., the juvenile
comedian-musician-dancer, assisted
by the Atlantic Fleet Jazz Band, has
just started on a tour of the Orphe
um circuit.
Loretta McDermott, the petite
jazzerine, who has been assisting
Frisco, "the original," will shortly
be seen in an act of her own, in
which she will be suported by Mel
Craig, Joe Horolik and a jazz band.
Harry Holman, the rotund come
dian, is now offering for two-a-day
approval a new sketch, written by
himself, entitled "The Ttferchant
Prince." - '
Mazie King, often alluded to by
Orpheumites as Miss Terpsichore,
is busily engaged rehearsing a new
dance offering. It will be lavishly
staged and contain many original
features.
Harry Mayo and Basil Lynn, who
toured the Orpheum circuit last sea
son, have dissolved partnership.
Mr. Lynn has secured another
partner, and Mri Mayo, for the
present, is going it "alone."
Kathryn Dahl, who pleasingly
sang her way over the Orpheum cir
cuit two seasons ago, will shortly
present a somewhat different, sing
ing and talking offering written es
pecially for her, by William B.
Friedlander.
If all the land above the sea
level' were spread uniformly over
the world it would form a shell
about 660 feet thick.
Movie Notes
By WEIR
TODAY you can step into a
movie house and journey
around the world in (five reels.
A few years ago a similar trip took
one into "steen" different kinds of
railroad trains and tram cars, seven
packets, five stage coaches and 49
restaurants. ,
C. Gardner Sullivan has in prep
aration a new story for Enid Ben
nett, the Thomas H. Ince star, which
offers her the most ambitious role
yet attempted by the star of such
successes as "The Virtuous Thief,"
"Stepping Out," "The . Haunted
Bedroom" and "What Every Wom
an Learns."
By far the best J. Warren Kerri
gan screen play of the year and
the best Leah Baird play from the
famous successes of Augustus
Thomas are December releases an
nounced by the W. W. Hodkinson
Corporation for distribution by
the Hodkinson sales organization
through Pathe Exchange, Inc. "The
Lord Loves the Irish" is the title
that links the star of the Irish name
with an Irish-American story by an
obviously Irish author, Monte M.
Katterjohn. "The Lord Loves the
Irish" is a Robert Brunton produc
tion possessing all of the technical
beauty and finesse that Mr. Burn
ton bestows upon pictures made at
his big California plant, and it is
directed by Ernest C. Warde.
They Art All
Blue-Eyed and
Blond Up There
Myron Selznick has purchased
two more stories for his stars, "The
Point of View," by Edith Ellis,
which was originally a stage play,
and "The Pride of Patricia," by
Elizabeth Redfield, an original
story. These will be produced in
the near future.
Some criminals never reform, and
in a figurative sense, this may be
true of H. B. Warner, star of "A
Fugitive From Matrimony" which
was made by the Jesse D. Hampton
studios for, Robertson-Cole. Mr.
Warner became famous as a "crook"
in "Alias Jimmy Valentine" and
taken up his old ways in the new
picture in which he impersonates an
escaped Sing Sing prisoner
Big Time Vaudeville
v At the .Orpheum
"Tea for Three"
At the Boyd
"Chocolate Soldier"
At the Brandeis
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Doc WaggnerY Saxaphones
r , From Ak-Sar-Ben
Vaudeville
(No War Tax)
ALL COMBINER
IN ONE SHOW
At the Empress
Acterf Benefit
Show
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There's never been a real honest-to-goodness Variety show
in Omaha. -
But tnere's one on its way. It'll be here Friday moon.
December 26, at the Boyd theater.
Billy Byrne, who tells Martin Beck what to use c ieum
stages, is general manager. He's making the show up wit-.! actors
in all Omaha theaters this week. -
The show will be a combination of the best in Omaha Decem
ber 26. They'll all put on acts.
Proceeds go to the Actors' Benefit fund of America.
For nearly three years, actors have been giving their time
to help every patriotic and charity drive.
Now it's a show for their own needy members. :
We'll show them we're grateful.
It'll Cost Only $2.50, But It Oilghta Be $8.00
. a 21
ieatre
SPONSORED BY THE ELKS' LODGE
W ESTERN MICHIGAN boasts
of more blue-eyed blonds
bearing resemblance to Kath
erine MacDonald, acclaimed the
"American beauty of the screen,"
than any other section of the coun
try. At least, that is the claim of the
photoplay editor of the Grand Rap
ids Herald and the judges in a cop
test to determine the girl who looked
most like Miss MacDonald. The star
of "The Thunderbolt" and "The
Beauty Market" started something
when she learned of this contest. She
wrote the editor asserting there was
a possibility that her producers may
later desire to use her double in
some picture. She also promised to
send autographed photographs of
herself to 16 of the contestants de
clared to look most like her. The
cash and other prizes offered by the
newspaper created mild interest
compared with the announcement
by Miss MacDonald. When the
young hopefuls of western Michigan
learned of the possibility of appear
ing on the screen as the double of
the "American i Beauty" the editor
was fairly deluged with their photo
graphs. The weary judges who had
to pass on them insist that prac
tically every blond, artificial and otlw
erwise, in western Michigan, between
the ages of 16 and 40, participated in
the contest. These judges, it is re
ported, have since v taken a much
needed vacation.
. Two features calculated for popu
lar distinction are announced on the
bill at the Orpheum for the week
of December 28. One of these, reg
istered to headline, will be Henry
Santrev and his society jazz band,
heading of which is a novelty to Mr.
Santrey who is well known as a
baritone. It is not common for an
established vocalist to lend himself
to this sort of acrobatic music, but
Mr. Santrey is well pleased with his
success in the new line and being
registered all over the big two-a-
day circuits as one of the most pop
ular of top-liners. The Man Hunt
is to be the specially featured pro
duction. It is a somnambulistic
comedy by Harlan Tnompson.
Isolda Illian heads the cast.
Cohan and Harris will present at
the Brandeis January 19, 20 and 21
"A Prince There Was," the newest
comedy from the pen of George M.
Cohan. It has been described as
a modern fairy story, with its char
acters all so much up to date that
one of them is a . moving picture
actor. One of the scenes is laid in
a New York boarding house far
from the bright lights of Broadway.
Cohan and Harris promise a first
class production and an excellent
company headed by James Gleason,
and including Ena Lewis Willey,
William Slider, Josephine Williams,
John Bedouin, Lucile Webster, John
E. Sanders, Adelaide Wilson, James
Bradbury, jr., Marie Nelson, Joseph
Oddo, Will T. Goodwin and Muriel
Nelson.
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AH Dressed Up in Misery!
GOSH! how he longed for the boys back home in the lumber camp! And the good
old "hoe-down," and hobnails pounding in time with Lem Barton's mouth organ.
But here he was adorned for a terrible night among the elite; proprietor of a
"tony" modiste shop !
A bushel of fun, a smashing battle for a good woman's name, a pretty romance
of love, and some mighty big pulls at your heart you'll see them all in "John Petti
coats." A Mack Sennett Comedy, "Ladies Tailor" Rialto News.
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"Ireland Must Be Heaven
That's what we say after seeing this greatest of all Kerrigan pie
turetl You'll say so too, when you see it, for its the most human, in-terest-compelling,
gripping drama, this popular magnetic idol has aver
made! The story runs the gamut from the shamrocks and blarney
tone of picturesque Ireland to the great scene in which the hero, a
member of the fighting New York police force, break up the most
desperate gang of counterfeiters in the United States. Whatever you
do, don't miss it! l
OVERTURE Selection from the Irish Operetta "Eileen"
New Moon Orchestra Direction Robert Cuicaden. Edwin
Stevens and his sweet-toned New Moon Pipe Organ.
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