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10 THE COURIER. THEATRIGAfo. THE OLIVER. "Yon Yoneon" will be presented at the Oliver, matinee and night, today, under the direction of Thall & Kennedy. The new features are the singing of the Lumberman's quartet and the introduc tion of Swedish folk songs in their na tive tongue by Arthur Donaldson. Mr. Donaldson is himself a Swede, and is a successful baritone in comic opera. He was last season with the late Augustin Daly's "Runaway Girl" company, which was one of the greatest hits in New York. Mr. Donaldson plavs the title role in Yon Yonson." The company includes Annie Mack Berlein, Beatrice Norman, Grace Hazard, E. J. Mack, Edith Hall, E. Guy Spangler, Clinton Maynard, Sidney Craven, George Lund and William Konst Mathews & Bulger at the Oliver the ater on Tuesday, January 16, in "By the Sad Sea Waves' will be hailed with de light by their admirers in this city. Of the clever people in their support are the moreprpmineot for this season's company are M'lle. Le Seye. Jane Len nox, Mina Hickman, Bessie Challenger, Mibelle Bothers, Lizzie Sanger, Agnes Wayburn, Mabel Meredith, Eva Lea ie, Marie. Wood, Marie Dellafontaine, Lot tie Ettenger, Ned Wayburn, W. J. Dom ing, W. H. McCarty, Tony Hart, The. A. Kiernan, Harry Sinclair, George Gilder and Horace Tabor. The com pany "numbers thirty people, with scenery of the grandest description, while the costumes of the ladiee are said to be perfect revelations, being culled from the. most fashionable "Dailj Hints from Paris." artistic instrumentalists; Lottie Thomp son, eccentric comedienne; Hodges and Launchmere, Australian singers and buck dancers; the Williams and Walker quartette; Elkins, Thomas, Williams and Orme; Overton' and Halliday, vocalists and dancers. UNDER "ME DIRECTION OF 0. L GRAWFOHD 5 F.C.ZEHRUNG Corner 13th and P. Phone 35J TH3 PHONOQRAPHIC CLOCK. THEFUZIKE. An amusing impossibility, "The Air Ship," is a composition .of Mr. J. M.. Gaites. An eccentric hero has invent d everything which eo far, has been re garded an impossibility such as an air ship, a submarine boat, perpetual mo tion, etc. During a trip in his air ship, he discovers the Lake of the Golden Dove, whoee shores are lined with pure gold. His nephew statta for Alaska in a similar machine, taking with him a party of beautiful girls, to each of whom he has guaranteed a millionaire hue band. In the Klondike be revolution izes the methods. of mininig and secures a fortune for each member of his party, when they return to Old Point Comfort. The company carries complete scenery. The costumes are beautiful and the muEic bewitching. Albert Living tone, Charles Osborne.'Louis "Eiseman, Marie Stuart, Cathryn Rowe Palmer, Lillian Gerome, the twin sisters Hale and oth ers. The Funke, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Williams and Walker -and their owj company of fifty people who come to the Funke on Friday and Saturday and matinee, January 19th and 20th, are all colored, will present for the first time in this city, their musical farce, "The Pol icy Players." The Williams and Walker show is the property of JInrtig and Sea "mon, the prosperous New York Music Hall managers. There are other colored companies, but the Wii Hams and Walker aggregation is perfection. Tbo "Policy Playeis" was created for these talented colored performers. Williams and Wal ker, the two real coons, and the only colored pair who have had the honor of appearing before the Prince of Wales at Marlborough, assume the leading char acters in "The Policy Playere."' Other vaudevillers are the lovely soprano singer. Miss Mattie Wilkes, who is the happy possessor of a phenomenal voice; Reese Bros, and Douglass;. great gun manipulators and spinners; George Cat lin, the only Chinese .impersonator in the world; Mallory Bros. and Brooks, Krila and Benefit of an Invention Jnat Pot on the Market In Germany. 'From the I"-w York Lun: Some mod ern inventions are a boon to humanity and others are not The phonographic clock which has just been launched upon the marv3t In Germany belongs to the .latter category. Cne must ad mit the alarm clock In the theory of moTrern life, but a phonogra ' alarm clock adds imult to Injury. If one must be awakened, one must; but how can one tun over and take the flna. lux-nrlor-j 1 ..y winks when the depress ing program of a busy day has been shouted into one's ears? Things that seemed natural and practicable the night before present an appalling front In the early morning; and the break last hour, announced In strident tones, la much more Insistent than when sug gested by nn Impersonal metallic clang. Some valuable possibilities the new invention does possess. V Je housewife needn't laboriously explain breakfast details to the servant at nirv and And the next morning that all important points have been conscientiously for gotten. She sets the pho- Taphlc alem for an early hour, talks directions into It, and Me next mor'ng the cook is Y-akened by a stern voice telling her exretly what is expected of- her In re gard to breakfast preparation. Pater-far-'JIas, too, can work the combina tion. No more will he sit up until his pretty dau.-hter's caller goes home and resort to time-honored hints to hasten the departure He will not slam shut tars -and -noisily lock doors and bid the other members of the family good night at the top of his voice and drop his shoes on the bedroom floor with a force that shakes the parlor chandeliers, and call down to the daughter that she must be careful aout turning off the gas and locking the door. He will never be goaded by a sense or parental duty into walking Into the parlor and making a scene and reducing the daughter to a point of tears. Oh, no; he will simply et the phonographic alarm for the hour wbn he thinks young men should end their calls. Then he will go serenely to bed; and when the fatal hour strikes a specimen of the old gentler-in's finest irn-y will be hurled at the offending guest Exit young man. The maiden wrathfully weeps cl ne. The ntw piano forte lecture recital of Mr. Eames will be given Saturday even ing January 20, in the University chapel This lecture was recently given in Chi cago with the greatest success. This will be the first public appearance of Mr. Eames in Lincoln and should be enjoyed by all Lincoln lovers of music. Price35c; seats reserved free Wednes day. 322 North 11th street. TVFN A Bargain Matinee 2:30. 23c and 50c II II )A Y Evening. Prices, 25, 50c, 75c rMsr 1 and 81.00. Messrs. Thall & Kenned' present the laugh ing" success, Introducing" the singing comedian, Mr. Arthur Donaldson, And a strong supporting company. BIG SCENIC PRODUCTION. See the Thrilling Log Jam! Hear the Lumberman's Quartet. Tuesday Eevening, January lOtla. Dunne & Ryley present lr'i y n j. M Mathews and B M MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY The big fun show The Marx, Reich Co. present the New York success, THEAIRSHIP By Joseph M. Gditr s. NOTE The whole forming the most rt fined and distinctly novel 6tage effort of this or any previous season in spectacular fnrto. Entire scenic equipment carried intact. Second and best edition and bound in laughter. Best musical comedy company on tour, in cluding MARIE STUART, The American Fougere, and Afoott Davidson, Catbyrne Rowe Palmer, Lillian Edwards, Hale Sisters, Josephine Johnson, Ethel Millard. Fau6ta French. R'nsein T.n.M Victoria Stewart. Kittie Burke, Harry Windthrope, George Miller, Louis' Eiseman, Edward Wise, Fred Deshon. iV"r ?t 4BkJfnT r C?P23 If) w'.WW 3PS WQ 3 1 V X. If --2: tt? Ik Bombay. Bombay, writes a traveler, is the econd city in the British empire. Here are endless streets, bordered with palm and banyan tree. Here are beau tiful homes, erected by white man and .J ..- . - - .- . I native. Here are markets and bazars; Friday, Saturday XS Matinee and here are horse cars and well pared, well-policed, well-lighted thor oughfares; a postoffice, a telegraph building, a university in short, a ver itable London set down in this trop ical country, but apparently inhabited entirely by half-naked Hindus. Most noticeable among the natives are the Parsees, found only In Bombay. They are descendants of the Persians, who were driven into India by the Moham medans centuries ago, and. having In termarried, have preserved their an cient characteristics. They are edu- MitnA frit All trrivn nnl waAvia . J rw, L,,-t . !. r.t j Miss Mamie Emerson, Mips Lottie Thompson, Richard Connors and n nrn,i SIS ,1 BS,?PrM' chorus of thirty trained voices; gorgeous costumes. A show full' tf new and perous and wealthy, and aro flre-wor- bright, original features and surprises. A car load of special scenery and elec- smppers. trical effects. Prices, 15 to 50 Cents. The ever-winning" favorites, Williams and Walker And their own gigantic company of fifty people in THE POblGY PLAYERS Introducing WllllatnB and Wa liter (The Two Real Conn M ss Mattie Wilkes, Mallory Bros, and Brooks, Reese Bros. ai.d Douglas Tlx "Williams and Walker Quortet In the latest revision of the big" vaudeville operetta, BY I SAD SEA WAVES. "Everything absolutely new but the title of toe piece. Rnn 103 nights at the Herald Square Theater, rew lork. SODARS OI COMEDY 35 A Kaleidoscope of Golor and Gostume. ''Did the audience like it? Immensely. A Merry Melange of Melody and Mirth. Tafhend "pn f ,oudl' J b J recalled the principals again and The Ne Plus Ultra of Refined Vaudeville, again." New York Heiald. A. Da2c2slin&; Chorus of Beauty. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 0. T. CRAWFORD AND F. C. ZEHRUNG COR. O AND TWELFTH. PHONE 355 J '