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THEATRICAL NOTES
JOHN DOWDEN, Jr., Manager.
Thomas Keane played to a top-heavy
housa at the Lansing on Monday night.
Mr. Keene is distinctly an ector of the
old school, a school which has not felt
the influence of realism or of that pecu
liarly modern movement which Ibsen's
plays and Duse's acting best illustrates.
Bearing in mind that Thomas Keene is
keeping alive the traditions of a perish
ing Fyatem, that h9 represents the meth
ods of another Kcan and his contom
porariep, of Forest and his dramatic an
cestry, it is still difficult for a critic con
vert to the school of Edwin Booth tD do
Mr. Keene justice. It is necessary for
effective stage represantation of any
emotion or passion, to exaggerats it, just
as a life fizo tiguro on top cf a column
must be made several times life size in
order not to be dwarfed by the height.
Mr. Keene's scale not being the same
that actirs as eminent as be now use,
it takes the eye an appreciable time to
accustom itself to the changed propor
tions. HiB Louis XI was a dirty, vicious old
man, suspicious of everybody and with
After that ho can only repeat him-
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no notions about "the divine right of fairly good business. Three successive
kings.'' Ue grovelled at the feet of performances will include nearly all the
priests and assassins with asuperttitious theatre going public of Lincoln. In this
and physical fear utterly lacking in loy case the numler was augmented by the
alty. To be sure, before Louis eleventh's number of children who went to see
time the King ot France was merely an what Palmer Cox has made as fascinat
overlord, and the historical Louis was a ing as Mother Goose. These were dis
co wara, but within a narrow range he appoitted. There was nothing of the
had absolute power. The habit of power quaintness and the charm which fascin-
life.
self.
Tho company was very good. The
only bit of character acting being by
Lawrence I owe!!, who played the Dau
phin. Chas. Han ford as the Duke de
Nemours had a stagey role and plajoJ it
conventionally. The play is an histori
cal drama, and does not detach itself by
anything striking from tho hundred cr
more I have seen.
Mr. Keene's makeup was extremely
clever. It was impossible for the audi
ecc3 to discern where the man ended
and the makeup began. In the bright
est light he was the exhausted result of
unrestrained vic3 and a mean soul.
We have been trained to expect pretty
women with forms not too prudishly
concealed, but Keene addresses himself
to the intellect alone in Louis XI. The
feminine temptations in bis company
were reduced to the minimum in number
and quality.
'The Brownies" played at the Lan
sing for two nights and a matinee to
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6.
Ladies' Matinee at 2:30. Bargain prices, 51) cents.
Children 25 cents.
EVENING PKICES8l. 00 75 50 AXD 25 CENTS-
One Day of FUN and MUSIC
lMy tlj KmiiotiH
Henshaw-Ten Broeck Co.
With
Jobn E. Henstyiw
In their Funny Play
With the best musical comedy cast in Lincoln this season.
"It's a rood thinje push it alonr!"
Seats on sale at theatre Box office.
THE LANSING THEATRE,
JOHN' DOWDEN. Jk, Manager.
Iincoln's Favorite
One Night Only,
' ' First TlrxG Hex-e o the
1 FrarI Darnels CorTX-c Opera Go.
In the Record-breaking Comic Opera Success
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ame gompclcnt at of f 0 jFti$t8
game Elaborate ccnertf and Costumes
As were seen during- the four months run last season at the
Casino, New York.
Prices-$1.50, $1.00 75, 50 aid 25.
lenJs a dignity and a royal bearing even
to canaille like Lou'u. Keene's Loui3 is
never a King. On bis throne, surround
ed by soldiers, he is the meanest of them
all. Choking, gasping, (creaming
throughout the play, he leaves himself
no climax. Physical expression can go and
no further than when, in the first act, he
entreats the priest for breath and long
ates or t hat peculiar quality which makes
the Christmas pantomime beloved of
children, in "The Brownies." The com
pany was very large. Among them were
three possessing talent, the wonderful
contortionists, Newhouse and Waffie,
little Ida MuIIe. Xcwhouse and
Continued on page ten.
Seats on sale Thursday at 10 a. m.
Free List Suspended.
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