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THE COURIER. 1 JOHN DOWDEN, Jr., Manager. THEATRICAL NOTES "At Gay Coney Island' clayed to very good bueinets at tho Funke last Friday night. Mathews and Bulger are good comedians and they were ably supported by a talented company. The audience and the playera were en rapport from the beginning. But when Josie DeWitt, who had been changing her costume every five minutes, and appear in tighta and gauzy skirts started to play a violin, tho audience began to writhe and ehircr in anticipatory agony. Tho violin was attached to a soiled blue satin ribbon and suggested hayrides, hammocks, divans and the summer girl in her most harrowing moments. When she began to play ihe soubrette the soubrctto dis appeared and the artist, tho virtuosa, stood in her place. If I could be what Josie DeWitt ran be I would not bo what sho is. Her violin is a fine instru ment and Bhe played upon it with true fine technique and deep musical feeling. Tho tone she got out of it was round and full and tender. She received six or seven recalls and sho deserved them. It is hardly probablo that tho present theatrical season will bring to this city an attraction so popular, both in Eng land and America, as Sydney Grundy'e "Sowing the Wind," which will be pro duced under the direction of Julius Cahn at the Lansing theatre tonight, for one night only. Its theme is the rela tion of sexes toward each other and their mutual responsibility for tho pres ervation of virtue and purity. Rosa mond, a beautiful ard dashing concert singer of London, is loved by Ned Anneeley, a young man of good family, and the adopted sou of one Brabazon.an new and beautiful Empire theatre, built at a cost of nearly half a million, was crowded with the best known people in society and art circles, for besides tho interest in tho new theatre, said to bo the most luxurious in America, people were curious as to the play in which an author wholly unknown to the public Mr. Franklin Fyles was to mako dram atic debut Tho play opened well, the mingling of stirring war incidents with social frivolity and fun of life at a frontier post of the far west, sufficing to keep tho audience well interested. But it was only at the end of the second act, where the human interest becomes in tense, and a brave man is allowed to fall Saturday Night, November 28, Tlie Greoteat o oU Plo"S. I EMPIRE THEATRE, NEW YORK, SUCCESS Presented in. m JSwneiro Manner, SOWING THE WIND r A. Great Oast. ft aristocratic old gentleman of rigid ideas and social caste. Brabazon in hisyoucger days has been involved with a certain Helen Gray, whom he was not permit ted to marry because of her lower posi tion in the social scale. Their final separation occurred before the child was born, and Brabazon 'never learned of her birth. The climax, of course, is followed by the true relationship between Rosamond and Brabazon being made known to them and the curtain drops. Mr.Grundy has pat sufficient comedy into his play to properly balance the deep pathos of the plot, and a number of grotesque but well drawn characters assist in the development of the story. Ono night only. Prices 81, 75c, 50c and 25c Seats now on sale at theatre box office. x is about to shoot his own daughter (at The first night, four years ago, of the her request) in order to save her from new famous play, "The Girl I Left Be- the savages, the final appearance of the bind Mc," which comes to the Lansing rescuing troops in the nick of time -all theatre next Wednesday evening Decern- this was admirably done and evoked ber 2, for one night only, was one of the literally thunders of applause. Thecur aaost memorable in recent years. The tain had to be raised again and again THEME-Sex Against Sex Don't Iail to See it. PrioesJl,00,Sc, SOc, 25o Seats on sale at theatre. Box office. iMxe Iansine: Theatre. JOHN DOWDEN, Manager. One Night Only, under the one unpardonable sin in a soldier, cowardice, that people began to be excited; from that point until tho close of the third "act the excitement rose. The great third act scene in tho stockade at Post Kcnnion was upon the whole the most stirring of its kind wit nessed upon the stage in recent years. It opens very quietly. It is early dawn in the stockade. A few score of devoted men are waiting for the onslaught of the rekskins, who for days have sur rounded the camp. Worse than all there are women there whose fate these brave men cannot think of without a shudder of horror. The manner in which the incidents of this long and splendid act is wouund up the sus pense and terror, the futile parley with the enemy, the weird and awful war songs of the Indians in the distance, the solemn moment when General Kennion Wednesday, Dec. 2. Greatest of all Military Plays. EFV BYI1H m BYBELASCO AND FYLES. ' Presented in the same manner as seen for 400 nights in New York. Endorsed by the Press, the Public and the United States Army as the BEST AMERICAN PLAT EVER WRITTEN SUPERB CAST - - XBW SCBNBRY And All The Original Effects. PRICES 81 .00, 75c. 50c, and 25c. Seats on salo Monday Morning, November 30, at theatre box office. G.H. FREy fAiOittST - - f i0RSt 1131 0 Street Lincoln, Neb E ill 12 fffi YI. t i 6Sggjj8gnrffiTOBiirwwMnMM