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8 B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 25, 1920. "MAY TIME" CLOSES BOYD'S AT the Boyd theater for the fare well week of its career Messrs. Shubert "will present their great company of the long: New York run in "Maytime.''. William Norris, Carolyn Thomson and Mel vin Stokes are the featured artists. "Maytime. Yhso far removed from the tough and tumble, jazz-jangle ol conventional musical comedy that ., the announcement of its re-advtnt in this city it calculated to bring a .,, wave of genuine joy to all who love , that which is best in both music nd drama. Its sweet and often ,.. serious comedy of sentiment, with the dainty and tuneful melodies run , ninjj through it, its splendid com ; pany rjf presenting artists and the exquisite- eries of scenes and cos , tumes with which the Messrs. Shu bcrjt have dressed it, make of this an altogether ideal attraction for, an evening at the theater. The action f "Maytime" covers .over 60 jrears of time in "little old ;New Yok." The piece is played in four acts or episodes, which start in 1840 in Washington Square, and end in a fetching scene in a dress making establishment of the present time. P. T. Barnum is one of the characters in the play and "Jump, Jim Crew," the famous dance which your grandparents indulged in dur ing the days of crinoline, is only one . of a score of unique and altogether charming dances. Then there is the lovely song "Will You Remember, . Sweetheart," which has sung its way j irrto the heart and memory tlie world over. Miss Carolyn Thomson will lagain be seen as the heroine; Ottillo ' Van Zandt. Miss Thomson satig this role for a year in New York and was also the original Otille of -the-' Chi cago cast, with John Charles-Thomas playing opposite her. William Norris, comedian of many memories, will be seen as Matthew Van Zandt, of which role he was the originator on Broadway, while Melvin Stokes, the possessor of a fine tenor voice, will be the Richard Wayne, and singer of the lovely song, "Will Yeu Remember." There are many more of the original New York cast, in eludinjr Douglas Wood, Arthur AI bro. Tcbby Webb, "and Edna ana Genevie Temple, Amy Leicester, Ed ward F. Nannary and Nina Valieri, Ruth Watson. Iseth Munro and Wil liam Blaisdell are newer members. Ther is the same large ensemble of beautiful singing and dancing girls and the same opulent array of cos tumes of the four periods through which the romance takes its course. Fanchon and Marco, the' dancing artists, and stars of "Let's Go!", the revue which held forth in San Fran cisco for 10" capacity weeks, will be seen at the Brandeis for the en tire week, starting tonight, with matinees on Wednesday and Satur day. "Let's Go!" makes no claims to, a plot, for it is a merry hodge- . F?ge of comedy, music4, pep" and girls. Comedy scenes-of the uproar ' ort follow the bright vaude ville turns; dancing is interspersed throughout and one novelty follows another with rapidity. Fanchon and Marco scored effectively- in their tours of the Orpheum circuit, ' but thv ire seen at their best in "Let's :Go!"' But Fanchon and Marco have seen to it that the supporting Cast is the. best that could be - secured. Among others in the company -are Arthur 'West, blackface comedian; . Madame Ida Gold, prima " donna; Davt Lerner, Eileen Miller, Nelson and Chain ,tnd Mildred Mayo, 'not foregetting the chorus, composed of tht "30 most beautiful girls in the world. - ' t Mitil will be seen at the Brandeis soon, having been rebooked again after losing the first engagement in Omaha-fill ttl fi.el rrAa .' si.- - ------ r " avivtsai who turns a handspring into smart American society. The vehicle for r display of comedy and physical mnastics is the new Henry W. ' musical comedy called tad Over Heels." The cast to be 1 here is praised as being one ft most satisfactory in even its lest parts of the theatrical year. rtrude Hoffman comes to' the turn this week with a produc frjavbhly staged, and with an hinted orchestra, she is to offer nJss of dances and impcrsona- A special stage crew is re : j trT to handle the accessories of andsomely mounted offering. r dew offering she has but one Jmt,'her musical director, Max . ' tfan- 'e of ihe most popular :' . Of 'tlie bill will he ronfiihiitPrl tPl- 1al0n Singer-8' - ttti 'quartet : and accompanist. imurt ii oisunciiv a concert i I Frank Jerome and "Big" Her , . comedians, offer 14 .minutes fun, wme of the "nut" variety, , A some eccentric dancing. "Laughs l ,oared With Melodies" is to be pre sented by George Watts and Belle iHawfey.i For over half a century , vtm ana wara nave neen a vaude ville. Nntnstrel team. Their partner ship began, in Cincinnati in Januarv 186?. Although each of them is 68 years of age, they are still extreme ly agile. Mr Teuber is the only producer of optics-chefhical stage effects. .His process, not only opens ,a -new method of scenic art anaillu Fttwrbut gives to vaudeville a de- 1 " THE HENSHAW HOTEL Up Skating Exhibition ; in ' Cafe Every Evening Special After Theater Supper ,:. ; . :V'.n.'-'" V""' ! ' !' '' , f S WrigM' 8 Orchestra ENTERTAINERS. v DANCING Carolyn Thomson (j A ( JS4 kl'Q I ffarfiret . ?iW i " ( ('yt! If 0 ?r-J:'j 1 ! 1 I J canmfft C-X , . ' , 1 k : - --"a r h w nv m i : (irrfyn Cvnnttigia.m Vaudeville Volleys ADAME OLGA FETROVA, who returned to vaudeville a few months ago after a lapse of four years, has been engaged for a tour of the Orpheum circuit. For her Orpheum appearance Mine. Pe trova will present an act in which she is given full opportunity to dis play her 'aried talents. Alexander Carr, the kell known character comedian, is again appear ing in "An April Shower," the one- act playlet m which he was seen over the Orpheum circuit two sea sons ago.-. Elsa Ruegger. the cellist, who de lighted Orpheumites. has just started on a return trip over the Orpheum L circuit. Franklyn Ardell has discarded '"The Wife Saver," he one-act com edy that served him so well, and will shortly be seen in a playlet that Samuel Shipman is writing for him. Closely following the arrival in this country of Wilkie Bard, Alice Lloyd and Wish Wynne, Ella Shields, another English artist, reached our shores last 'week and made her initial American appear ance in vaudeville in New York on Monday. Wellington Cross is now busily engaged producing an elaborate song and dance revue in which he will be featured. cided novelty. The offering is called -"Beginning of the World." It is an act described as a trevesty play performed by living colors and featuring Mile Laluce as the spirit of color. Comedy as well as skill is combined in the act to be offered by Van Cellos. His pedal extremities are quicker and more .nimble and dexterous than those of any Jap in feats of foot-jugglery. Entertaining paragraphs from newspapers wil? be a screen feature displayed in "Topics of the Day." News events will be pictured by Kinograms. Maude Lambert, musical comedy star, and Ernest R. Ball, popular song composer.,come as the stellar feature at the Orpheum for the week of February 15. Miss Lambert has grace, charm and ability to put a song over, something only a limited number of even those with very fine voices can do. Ernest Ball's "Mother Mschree," "Love Me and the .World Is Mine,' t)le Desert Gro Till the Sands of Grow Cold." "A Little Bit of Heaven Called Ireland," "Dear Little Boy of Mine" and many other of his songs are popu lar standard ballads here and in England. Another popular team is Cartmell and Harris, and another special will be the Rigoletto broth ers, assisted by the Swanson sisters. "Business"" Before Pleasure" will be offered at the Brandeis theater for four days, beginning Sunday, February 1 under the direction of A. H. Woods, who founded -the theatrical firm of Potash & Perl mutter. , It is the work of Montague Glass, who created the characters and Jules Eckert Goodman, the VI who returned to vaudeville a II 1 . ' f J liw . , 1 I S&au5S r AY : ' (ofipHeuti) Beauty Also Needs Brains ' When Ambition Spurs I F YOU'RE not pretty, you've got to be smart," is a bit of feminine' philosophy which homely daughters of Eve have evolved for their own consolation. But Carolyn Thomson, one of the featured members of "Maytime," coming to the Boyd theater tonight goes a bit turtner with her tlieory. It you re pretty youvc.got to be twice as intelligent as you would otherwise," he says. "Of course that doesn't apply to the girl who is willing to be the pretty-girl type tor the rest of her lite or as long as she keeps her good looks. Being one of themost exquisite studies in pink and white which ever bloomed on Broadwav. Caro lyn ought to know. And accord- ng to her, her peach-bdown com plexion has been a drawback to am bition rath'er than a spur. "A stage beauty, if she has real brains, needs every ounce of them," said Carolyn recently. "If she wants to be known as an actress as well as a mere beauty she finds that her most difficult task is .'living down' her appearance. . Managers insist upt on her appearing in productions in which she doesn't have a thing to do except make a pleasing stage picture. -The public refuses to be lieve that she has brains. Her friends. compliment - her on her gowns and forget to mention her acting. '. But people insist UDon thmkine that when a girl has beauty, she can have no more than a teaspoonfu of brains. A homely girl can cultivate noted playwright. "Business Be fore Pleasure" is in three aits and four scenes, most of the action tak ing place in-the office and projecting room of the newly organized Potash COLORADO LUMP coal tsar For All Purposes, Per Ton $11.00 Delivered ll!io Lump, Egf and Nut A iC th but central district "P.ti CONSUMERS COAL & SUPPLY CO. Dealer In 13th and Nichol... Good Coal Phona D. 729. BASKET BALL I ISBsaaaaaaCSa ' - Creighton vs. Drake University CREIGHTON GYMNASIUM, January 26th and 27th Game Called 8:15 p. m. Sharp ADMISSION 75c and $1.00 . Tickets on Sale at Townsend Gun Co. an owlish expression and talk about her 'career and her friends think she is going to be a writer or some--thing. But let a pretty girl intimate that her acquaintance with Freud embraces more than the correct pro nuciation of his name, and people lcok at her with a pained expression. She has no righttto think. Her vo cation is merely being beautiful, s "That's why. sometimes, I almost wish for a. snub nose, a-grin and freckles!" and Perlmutter Film Co. Jules Jor dan and Harry First will be seen in the principal roles. Howard Hull will 'present here-for three nights starting Thursday,' Feb ruary 5, at the Brandeis theater Free Lectures for Non-Catholict St. Cecilia's Cathedral 701 North 40th St. Omaha, Nob. From Sunday, January 25, to Sunday, February 8, 1920 . ' by - The Rey. Bertrand L. Conway and The Rev. John E. Burke OF THE PAULIST FATHERS OF NEW YORK . Thejpurpose of these lectures is to explain the doctrines of the Catholic Church to all seekers of the truth, and to answer in a kindly manner all their difficulties. Question Box: Questions deposited in the Question Box at the door of the church will bo answered the following evening. ORDER OF THE LECTURES Sunday, January 25,11 A. M. "The Church's Divine, Mission." Sunday, January 25, 8 P. M. "What Think You of Christ?": Monday, January 26, 8 P. M. "Reason and Faith." Tuesday, January 27, 8 P. M. "Is One Church as Good al Another?" Wednesday. January 28, 8 P. M. "The Kingdom of God." Thursday, January 29, 8 P. M. "The Church and the Bible." Friday, January 30, 8 P. "The Papacy." . Sunday, February 1. 11 A. M. "Church Unity,"- Sunday, February 1, 8 P. M. "Religion in Spirit and in Truth." Monday, February 2, 8 P. M. "Confession of Sins to a Priest." Tuesday, February 3, 8 P. M. "The Holy Eucharist." - - Wednesday, February 4, 8 P. M. "After Death What?" Thursday, February 5, 8 P. M. "Marriage and Divorce." Friday, February 6, 8 P. M. "The Church and Intellectual Progress.""; . Sunday, F ebruary 8, 11 A. ai. Sunday, February 8, 8 P. M. ALL-HON-CATHOLICS "Is Celebrity Worth While?" Asks Gertrude Hoffmann GLORY? What does it amount to? Nothing. I've- accom plished' everything in the world that I wanted to accomplish. I've done all the things that I planned to do. They are material things. Now that I have them I'm as unsatisfied as before. I want some thing bigger. What? I dorft know, l'erhaps I should like to live in a country where all the people are in terested only in the arts music, dancing, sculpture, literature. I'm content to do just what I want in the I future. On the other hand, I'll never be satisfied until 1 dance in the bal let at the Metropolitan." - Gertrude Huffman, wrapped in a corduroy dressing gown, her hair swathed in a towel, sat in her dress ing room and expounded her views on life and art "In a way I'm content. I have the things I wanted most in the world. When 1 was a girl I wanted to be George Cohan's leading woman. I've Margaret Anglin in her play, "The Woman of Bronze," byHenry Kiste niaecker and Eugene Delard. This play has proved to be the greatest success of its kind produced in years. , "Flo-Flo," John tort's latest mu sical comedy delight, will be a Feb ruary attraction at the Brandeis. K Barney Gerard's 1919 version of "Follies of the Day" is at the Gayety for the current week. The book Mr. Gerard has written for the cur rent season has been given the title of "Polly's Going Up." The fun starts in a combination photo gal lery and pawn shop iii which Henry (W-1sh anneare as the nawnbroker's pderk. There are a score or more of musical numbers and dances intro duced during the action of the bur lesque which is in two parts, all par ticipated in by a large chorus and gowned in a manner that would make the Shah of Persia green with envy, particularly is this so of the Oriental scene from "East is West" which is a replica of the original. Ladies' matinee at 2:15 daily. To day's matinee starts at 3:00. I Willa Holt Wakefield comes to the Empreas theater for an engage ment of four days starting today, as the headline attraction. Ihe Musi cal Blacksmiths," as presented by Staley and Birbeck, is to be another of the featured acts. Billy Broad, comedian, who presented his black face offering to more than a million men in England, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany, will be seen in a new version of the "High Cost of Living." Two graceful dancers are Lasova .& Gilmorc, who cannot fail to meet the heartiest approval. Walter "Fatty" Hicrs has signed a five-year contract with Lasky. "Fatty" has been freelancing for a long time. In joining the Lasky forces, Walter is adding one more to that company's great galaxy of players. . Irene Castle's forthcoming picture, "Miss Antique," boasts a real Indian girl in. the person of Mabel Love Cloud, whose grandparents were of the Osage tribe. Miss Cloud saw a flicker of Broadway lights two years ag4and came to New York, start ing sin a musical comedy. This is her ijrst venture before the camera, MnfH'The Miracle of Love," pre sented vat the Rialto i theater? New York, last week, the second cosmo politan production by the Famous Players -Lasky corporation, the wardrobe i Ida Darling, known .widely for her portrayal of grandes dames, is said to be worth the study of women -who have reached the years of experience and dignity, as well as those who haven't. Among Mis? Darling's gowns are a-silver tissue tea gown on mediaeval lines, a black velvet dinner dress, with a chemisette of jet, and a beige taffeta cut bouffant. it is me mass mai itmiiers. "Why I Am a Catholic." tUKUiAi.1-1 lnviitw , Conner's Amusement Company Have Opened the AUDITORIUM 15TH AND HOWARD STREETS a Public Ball Room and invite you to hm present and dance en the best Spring Floor in Ihe state. Dancing 8:30 to 11 p. m. Admission 10 Cent Free Dancing Lesson Dancing 5 Cents 7:30 to 8:30 , Management . Car! Lamp's Orchestra . JACK CONNERS ' had that position. When I was a girl I wanted a home. I have the home, just as I planned it in those days. I wanted celebrity. I have' it. None of these, things amount to any thing, however. I want something more. Yet I feel content now to drift. I- don't have to work any more. I'll never be happy unless I work. There ore the opposite view points. From now on, however, I'm going to do just the things I want to do. I have no plans. I feel as young as I did when I was 7 years old. But I know in my heart I.'m not as young. Perhaps you'll see me coming around here playing character roles soon." She laughed. "Nineteen years ago I started in the chorus in San Francisco with a stock company," said Miss Hoff man. "Wc put on all the better light operas and musical comedies. I got teal experience in staging and in di rection in that company. Soon I went to a dramatic stock company there. The stars were Florence Rob erts and Lewis Morrison. I was a protege of Miss Robert's and it was through her that I got my first chance. She sent me east to St. Paul, and I appeared there in a musi cal comedv. "Then I went into a musical stock company in Richmond, Va. I was pieces for a year and a half. After that I went to New York and stage stage manager and I put on all the managed pieces for Hammerstein. I put on Elsie Janis first success. Then I went into vaudeville. "Later I played opposite George Cohan in "The Governor's Son," that was 'afterward renamed "The Honeymooners." I then went to Eu rope and studied dancing in Paris. While abroad I was engaged to ap pear in America in 'Salome,' and I did. "I've always been glad that I brought the first Russian ballet to this country. I had seen it abroad and I longed to have it done here. It cost me $65,000. The public didn't want it; it came before its time. No one knew what it was about. In the east they couldn't write intelligently about the ballet; it was only when we came in this direction that re viewers didn't treat it as a sort of 'Follies.' I'm glad that I did 'Sumur un' also. I don't think the general public cared much for that. But it satisfied me do you understand? it gave me a feeling that I personally achieved something bigger, that I had grown by producing these things." DANCING! PRAIRIE PARK Twenty-iixth and Amea An. TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS By the Ben Hur Oancing Chib Colfax 4923 Evnte.. 25-SO-75c.fi Daily Mat. 15-25-50c BARNEY GERARD'S GREATEST SHOW 1 2th Annual FOLLIES of the DAY Ku. HARRY ("ZOOP") WELSH, GEO. f. HAYES, EVELYN CUNNINGHAM. Sitlrai on "Eait l Weit," "Going Uo." "Builneit Btfore Plauiire," Etc. Beauty Chorus of Springtime Freihnen. LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS HOTEL ROME Announces It Serves a $1.25 Table D'Hote Dinner from 6 to 8 P. M. Every Evening, Also tA La Carte Ml ' of Fare vat Modest Prices. Appointment the best Cui sine all that could be desired. The management invites guests to visit our Modern Kitchen and Bake Shop. - Our CAFETERIA doing v capacity business. When contemplating giving ft banquet, large or small, see us first. Make reservations early. MUSIC EVERY EVENING ROME MILLER, NEW SHOW TODAY WILLA HOLT WAKEFIELD Everyday Sonre for Everyday Folks STALEY & BIRBECK Musical Blacksmiths BILLY BROAD LASOVA A GILMORE Photoplay Attraction Wm. Fox Presents Peggy Hyland . . in 'Faith' ' I Martin Johnson Presents "Tulagi" Mark Swain Comedy Paths Weekly At the Auditorium Barber's Bay Rum Makes Way for Perfumed Water Boston, Jan. 25. No more hair cuts will be sprinkled with bay rum at barber shops. It will be perfumed water instead. This rule is enforced at the bar ber shop in Tremont temple, where nearly all the patrons have been strong prohibitions!!. It has also-been discovered that TONIGHT Mats. Wed. and Sat . Ok- lif I 7 ARTHUR WEST I 'A ,1 f f DAVE LERNER f & BEAUTIFUL iftunti &w GIRLS Hw ) if - OH THE llLUmNATED .MV P - PRICES Nights. Orchestra $2.00; 4 Rows Balcony 11.50; 5 to 12 Rows Balcoay $1.00; Second Balcony 50c; Boxes $2.00 and $2.50. Matinee Orchestra $1.50; 4 Rows Balcony $1.00; 5 to 12 Rows Balcoay 7Sc; 2d Balcony 80c; Boxes $1.50 and $2.00. STARTING NEXT SUN. CU t -a. FOUR DAYS ONLY TeO. IN MATINEE WEDNESDAY Potash A Perlmutter in the "FILLUM BUSINESS." A. H. WOODS Presents BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE Nights. 50c to $2; Mats. 25c to $1.80. Seats Tomorrow. Matinee Daily 2:15 THE BIST IN WEEK STARTING 0 Sertrude Hoffmann In a Series of Dances and Impersonations With Special Stage Settings and Augmented Orchestra. Ralph Dunbar's SALON SINGERS In Moments Musical George Belle WATTS & HAWLEY in "Laughs Coated With Melodies" M. Teuber's "THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD" A Futurist Color Play Per formed by Living Color TOPICS OF THE DAY ' PRICES Nights, 15c to $1.00; Matinees, 15c to 75c Patrons Pay War Tax. JeBBBBBaBnvBBVneaBBneaanBiBnBBnaBBBBB BOYD LAST WEEK OF THE OLD PLAYHOUSE The Quaintly Beautiful Romance of Four Periods With Lovely Heart-Warming Music "Fracrant aa wood violets: sweet as fond memories t MM Year in New York The Most1 Successful Musical Play in the Annals of the American Stage, With the Big New York Cast, Including 'Wm. Norris, Carolyn Thomson, Melvin Stokes Douplas Wood Teddy WebV Wm. Blaisdell Edna Temple .. Ruth Watson Amy Lester I DEAR, DELIGHTFUL DANCING GIRLS IN FASHION'S FROCKS OF FOUR GENERATIONS PRICES: Every night except Sat., SOc.to $2.00 Sat. night only, SOe to $2.50 in many other barber shops aince the ban upon alcohol, bay turn is' sidetracked from haircuts. New Teachers to Demand i At Least $1,000 a Year Syracuse, Jan. 25. Co-eds o Syracuse University, determined to raise the standard of teachers' wages, have pledged themselves to accept no post that does not pay at least $1,000 a year. THE BIG SSJJS&TiOtO THREE DAYS, STARTING P-L C MATINEE SATURDAY rCU. O HOWARD HULL Presents Margaret Anglin In Her Newest Play The Woman of Bronze Mall Orders Now. Seats Thursday. K PHONE DOUG.4M Every - Night 8:15 VAUDEVILLE SUNDAY, JAN. 25 FRANK JEROME and "BIG" HERBERT Versatile Venders of Varieties FOX AND WARD The Record Minstrel and Vaudeville Team of the World THE VAN CELLOS America's Own Exponent f v Pedalogy, in ' "FOOT FEATS" KINOGRAMS mm, TONIGrf-S:15 Call Motor. AND ALL WEEK 11 P, M. Matinee Saturday, 50c to $2.00 dainty as the mignonette and rosemary ol aa old fashioned garden." MESSRS. LEE AND J. J. SHUBERT Present Rida Johnson Young's and Slgmnud Romberg' GAY- GOLDEN GLORIOUS Months in Boston Arthur ' Albro Nina Valieri Edw. F. Nannary Edith Wright John Wheeler Iseth Mnnro