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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEEi MAY - SO, 1920.
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Afan Ingenues in
Season's Play;
Belasco Tells Why
By BURNS MANTLE.
NEW YORK. (Special Corre
spondence.) The "'English
managers who were and still
are eager to have David Belasco es
tablish a theater in London also
were eager to have him tell them
what he thought was wrong with
their system of theatrical manage
ment Whenever he met with them
during his recent tour of investiga
tion abroad they were the attentive
listeners and he old Daddy Wisdom
at whose feet they were privileged
to sit. i
Uncle David answered them by
saying that, so far as he could sec,
there was nothing wrong, either
with them or their system but if he
iwere to make a suggestion it would
be that they pay a little more atten
tion to the ingenue.
The ingenue, contends Uncle
David, is the most important per
son about a theater. Not only be
cause of her glorious youth, but be
cause she also represents that fern
mine charm which is the theater i
chiefest attraction. American man
agers long ago) discovered this to
be a fact, and as a result there is
always an attractive flock of them
, being groomed for positions of
prominence on the native stage
some passing on in their second or
third seasons from kittenish sou
brettes to emotional leads, others
advancing from simpering young
sters to Stake the places of the kit
tens. But always a solid phalan
, oi tnem advancing.
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This, in particular, has been an in
! genue year. Not many of the
J younger men of the stage have been
I neara from. Many ot them were
i away during the war and had not
yet readjusted themselves to their
u j peace-time strides.. Their opportuni
ties also are fewer than those of
i fered their pretty sisters. So there
j have been no new Shelley Hulls or
John Barrymores, or William Cour-
tenavs taking the snotlight recently.
But of feminine youngsters of
commanding promise there has been
no lack. AmonaMhem fc.va Le Oal
lienne, the poet's daughter, who has
, just won a personal success in "Not
so Long Ago : and Helen Mac
. Kellar of "The Storm," and "Be
yond the Horizon," who attracted at
. tention in an amateur performance
two years ago, and already is a
leading woman; and Margola Gill-
more, with whose praises the town
was ringing the morning after "The
Famous Mrs. Fair" was produced, i
Then there is Helen Hayes, who
- duplicated in' "Clarence" this year
the success she won in "Dear Bru-
, tus" a year ago; and Constance Bin
nev. who beean as a dancer in musi
caf comedy two seasons ago and be
came the leading woman, of "39,
East" this year; and Ida St. Leon,1
who took the honors away from a
cat of veterans when "Mamma's
Affair" was presented; and Gene
vieve Tobin, who skipped put ot ner
kid years into her ingenue period in
"Palmy Days"; and Tallulah Bank
head, from the south, who has just
scored a personal success in foot
loose";' and Madeline Delmar, who
is playing'the titular role in xiis
Chinese Wire.
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Nn ni f them is more than 18,
according to the records, and prob-
. ably not more tnan su Dy pe no
tations in the family Bible. .
In musical comedy we have Edith
Day, the Minneapolis girl, whose
success m Irene aireaay nas car
ried her to London, where they
threaten to keen and to star her, and
Vivienne Segal, from Philadelphia,
who bounded forward in "The Little
Whnnner
- just ahead of them, are Francinel
Larnmore, who had to ngnt lor a
chance to ola-v the lead in "Scandal,"
and is now a costar with Charles
Cherry; and Jeanne Eagels, who has
von ieamrca pusuiuu m um
Wonderful Thing"; and Ina Claire,
already one of the most successful
stars on Broadway; and Lenore
Ulric, who is well started toward a
preferred position among the fav
orites of the future.
They each dream of being the
Maude Adams, or the Ethel Barry
more, or the Billie Burke of the
next generation.. Most of them. will
be disappointed, out mere is no xeu
. ing which the disappointed ones will
'be. That is for the "public to -decide.
The managers think they
' make the stars. , But they donV
They merely nominate them. The
theater going electorate casts the
deciding vote. s ,
A new play of the week is called
"His Chinese Wife." It does .not
, give promise of going very far, but
it is moderately entertaining. The
, heroine is a Chinese princess who
(found an American outcast lying be
side the road in her native land and
had her servants pick-him up and
carry him to .her house. He was
steeped in liquor and tired of life,
having been cast off by his Amer
ican relatives and sent to the far
east in the expectation that that
was the last they would hear of him.
But the princess cleaned him up and
afterward reformed him, and was so
pleased with the job that she finally
married him.
Some years after they came to
America. The boy's family, as im
possible a group of would-be aristo
crats as ever lived in New Jersey,
refused to receive her. On threat of
a public , scandal, however, they
made the best of the situation,
though they immediately set about
trying toforce their, son and brother
to divorce the princess.
Olive to Open First
Summer Orpheum Here
Their chief aid in the conspiracy
was a former sweetheart of the hero,
who sought to win him back. She
taught him to drink again and to
fall into his wild ways. He .the
typical movie waster and she the
vamp. Bu4 the little princess was
too much for them. She promptly
reformed him again and the play
leaves them as they are about to
start-back to China, where, far from
the degrading influences of the over
civilized east, happiness presumably
awaits them.
"His Chinese Wife" is another of
those first .act plays. It starts well,
with a problem to solve and a half
, dozen rather well defined characters
j to solve it. But it drops immediate
ly thereafter into a series of forced
, situations, becoming hopelessly ar
tificial and a good deal of a bore.
Forrest Winant and Madeline Del
mar have the principal roles, but
Mabel Bert is the only member of
the cast who wins the favor of her
, audience, partly because she has the
most sympathetic and the most hu
man role to play, that of a sweet- j
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Olive Thomas opens the summer
movie season at the Orpheum today
in "Footlights and Shadows."
Gingham May BeflU
Right But Tod Much
Alice Joyce.
She was as nretty to him in sing
hams as in silk, but when wealth
came, a fear of returning poverty
made ,her overwork the gingham-
Alice Joyce as Madge Hillyer in
"Dollars and the Woman," coming
to the Kialto the last of the week.
Esther Magnetizes
All Her Competitors
A.s Esther Regan in "The Iron
Heart" at the Empress today. Mad.
laine Traverse is left a big. steel
mill by her dying father. He begs
her not to sell the mill to his com
petitors. With the competitors de
termined to buy the mill, it s some
job for a slip of e girl to try to
run it. But Madlaine does just that
iu "The Iron Heart."
tempered grandmother who takes
the princess' part in the family quar
rel. The play was fashioned by For
rest Halsey and Glara Beraneer
from a short story called "The Un
wanted One,' written by Mr. Halsey.
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Betty; Be Good" is another of
those musical comedies in which a
dashing young baritone has entan
gled himself with a still more dash
ing young- actress by; frequently
avmg breakfast in her, apartment.
When he tires of the breakfasts and
decides to marry the souhrette and
settle down -he tinds it difficult to
explain his absences to the act.-ess.
furthermore, after he is .married he
iscovers. that his best man has
rented the actress' apartment for the
honeymoon, and also that the ac
tress has returned suddenly from an
nprontable road tour without
knowing her apartment ha been
rented. '
It is not a large apartment, con
sisting. of one room and four or five
doors, and the young man's effort to
do his singing and his honeymoon
ing in the one room without letting
is wife or the actress met is sun-
posed to create a suspensive inter
est worth the price of admission.
But. though the book is stupid, the
music is good- it was written by
Hugo Reisenfeld, who began as an
orchestra leader and now manages
most of the cinema theirs on
Broadway. ' , Josephine Whittel.
Georgia Hewitt, Frank Crumpit and
Eddie Garvie are the principals.
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Summer Vaudefville Bills
FOR this, the opening wtk of the cum
mer season t the Orpheum, the vauile
vIIIm nftmrinvm mrm In ha henilnd hv
Rubevllle." and "Footllght and Shadows."
ith Olive Thomas as the star, will 1x5
the feature film. From 2:11 in the after
noon until 11 at nlrht there la to be a
continuous performanYe. In "Rubevllle '
the featured fun-makers are Harry B.
Watson and Reg. O. Mervllle. The scene
Is a general store where rural characters
assemble. A band and aiuartet are en
tertaining elements of the act. Mr.
Watson appears as the . proprietor of
the store and of the hotel. Mr. Mer
vllle has the role of the constanble. All
of the company are singers and Instru
mentalists. An attractive feature will be
the new comedy by Edwin Burke, "And
Son." Charles Irwin, a gifted entertainer,
will present what he tefma "Pleasant
Memories." 'Willing and Jordan offer "a
few pleasant moments." They both sing
well, and their songs are exclusively their
own. Jerome and Newell, Jocular gymnasts
present what they term a "Chinese Cir
cus." Their antics and acrobatics are of
the most entertaining type. The .feature
film Is to be Olive Thomas in "Footlights
and Shadows," a story of love and life
upon the stage, original in plot and strong
In its dramatic sJU'iti." .. .....
summer season, each. Mil li to I-. j-.i '.u
ap of five standard Orpheum acta. :h
vaudeville snows are to be supplemented
by first-run films, featuring notable stars
of the sereen. No reserved seats will be
sold during the summer, and prices are
to be reduced. Kach bill is to open with
news events pictured by Klnograms.
Bright and clever paragraphs culled from
the newspapera will be a film feature un
der the title, "Topics of the Day."
WITH the big typhoon ocean breeie
fans now in operation the Empress
theater is the coolest spot in town.
For this week one of the popular attrac
tions will be offered by Jim McWllliams,
a young college graduate, and member of
his university glee-club, who Is said to
have all the essentials of a great musical
comedy star. The Stuart Girls have com
bined their vocal attainments and will of
fer one of the featured acts cf the bill.
The girls make several changes of cos
tume, displaying some distinctive crea
tions. Reo and Helman "physical master
pieces." perform sensational feats of
equilibrium and lifting.
Camille Blanc of Monte Carlo Pilots
'Floating Bankrolls' to Casino Vault
-1 By Henry Wales.
Chicago. Tribune Foreign News Service.
Monte Carlo, May 29. Camille
Blanc is the boy who runs
Monte Carlo. t He leases the
rights for the casino and the
Sporting club, and the Hotel de
Paris, and the Cafe de Paris, and
, nearly everything else in the
' principality from the Prince of
Monaco.
1 The prince spends most of his ,
time cruising on his yacht. He
has made a profound study of
floating mines since 1915 and
has made up charts proving that
all the stray mines sown by the
Germans and the allies will
eventually find thir way into the
Saragossa sea. ,
' Pilots All Bankrolls. "
But Camille spends most of
his time especially during the ;
season right there , in Monte .
Carlo studying floating bank f
rolls. He has found that aljt'
loose cash in the vicinity of tha' tj
principality will eventually findV,
its way into the vaults of the
casino down in the living rock
facing the Mediterranean.
M. Blanc ha a string of race
horses which he runs on the
French tracks. He has a yacht,
too, and a handsome villa just
outside Monte and a big town
house, in Paris. He has six auto
mobiles and 65 suits of clothes
and 11 high hats. Outside of
that he doesn't. know where his
next meal is coming from.
" Helps Fellows 'Broke. ,
When' a poor fellow goes
broke at Monte Carlo he goes
to the executive offices of the
Casino, states his case, tells
how much board bill he owes
and where he lives,' and the
"house" squares his landlady
and gives him a railroad ticket
back to where he came from.
They won't send you back first
class to Peking, China, nor to
Cape Town, South Africa, but
you will get some help from
hem, no matter where you
come from.
Suicides are not nearly so
popular here as readers of the
six best sellers think. Once in
a while a bug bumps himself
off at Monte, but the chances
are that he bought the gun or
the cyanide in Joliet or Ant
werp or Lyon and merely de
layed taking it through forget-fulness.
Great Army of American
Tourists Invades London
"London, May G?. The American
tourists have begun to arrive in
.swarms, h-very liner tnat oocks at
a -British port brtngs-its quota ot
, wealthy sightseers.,
The Caterers' association has ar
ranged to feed upward of 40,000
tourists in London daily. The hotels
aire booked ahead for most of the
summer. Many private houses are
being let at huge fees to transients.
California Town Loses :
. - Its' Best Climatic Ad
' Stockton, Cal, May ' 29. Stock
ton's Desf climatic advertisement
is no more. " ;.
John Busch, 57, who came here
40 years ago weighing 160 pounds,
is dead. He weighed 490 pounds
just before his death and for many
years was a noted figure as the big
gest man m the San Joaquin valley.
A special coffin was built in which
to bury him. ;
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Forty Veteran Knights of Le
gion of Honor Follow
Dancer's Coffin to Paris
. Cemetery. '
Taris, May 29. At the respectable
age of 86 the original queen of the
"can-can dance" has just died in
Paris a white-haired old lady vener
ated by her neighbors, v ro never
suspected that at one time she had
been the most discussed danseuse iu
Europe. . - .i-; , " '"
It was at the Casino Cadet in Paris
in the days of the second empire
that Madame Badel then a young
girl of 16 who had run away from
her home in Nancy, originated the
famous ca,h-can, which was . de
nounced by the court of France as
an attempt to'coirupt the morals of
the nation.
Under the slang name "Rigel
boche" (mirthful) she defied magis
trate after magistrate to stop her
and danced-her way finally into the
most outsfandirtg popularity enjoyed
before or since by a dancer ' in Eu-J
In those days a woman dancer was
.i unique spectacle on a stage and all
France flocked to see her. It is re
lated that the second Napoleon was
given a sound rating by the Empress
Eugenie for attending a performance
wherein "Rigelboche" danced, the
etnpress uttering the phrase I which
has since become famous: "You are
king to other people, but to me you
are only a husband." ,
Her celebrity carried the famous
dancer, who was dressed always as a
vivandiere in "Les Huguenots" to
the legitimate stage, where she
scored the triumph of the nineteenth
century in "Felichons et Felichon
nettes," to which the princes of -Germany,
Russia, Spain. England and
Italy came, the royal boxes being
crowded nightly. Her married life
was unhappy. Once she said that no
dancer ought to marry because high
kicking and a husband did not agree
with the digestion.
Early Romance Shattered.
She was early separated from the
man she had wedded in a spurt of
youthful romance, and her late part
ner went around the cafes boasting
that he had had "what an emperor
had been refused."
She retired late in the last century
and with her savings opened a
boarding house in Monte Carlo, to
which nfen who had known her in
the prime of her success came to eat
at her table.
When she died no fewer than 40
knights of the Legion of Honor, who
remembered the dazzling beauty
who had been, followed her coffin
to the cemetery.
NEW SHOW TODAY
CARROLL TRIO
, , "The Joy Dispensers"
" STUART GIRLS "
Harmony nds Character Singing
JIM McWILLIAMS
In "A Burst of Clean Comedy" '
REO A HELMAR
Physical Maaterpiecea
Photoplay Attraction
Wm. Fox Presents
Madlaine , Traversa in
"THE" IRON HEART"
Martin Johnson
Feature
Harry Fox Comedy
.Path. Weekly
Visit W est r Lawn
You and your friends are cordially
invited to visit West Lawn Cemetery
Sunday and Memorial Day.
..The profuse floral decorations, the
' brilliant hues of blooming plants, the
" magnificent trees and song birds all
conspire to enhance the charm of nat
ural attractions, at West Lawn.
Take West Leavenworth street car
and say "'West Lawn.' v
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"God's Green Acre Beautiful" "
Office :.319-323 South 15th St.
' - Cemetery: 58th and Center Sts.
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