Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Attractions Booked at the Various
Places OF Amusement

The Elks' forthcoming benefit promises to
to be grand success, both artistically and
financially. The boys are rehearsng their
business every night, and it is safe to pre-
dict that they will give an extraordinarily
fine entertainment. Messrs GoodalI and
Lou Beard, the extreme end men, are pre-
pairing themselves to do some excellent
WORK and the songs for the first part will
equal anything of the kind ever heard on a
local stage. Colonel Frank Moores, Judge
Shields, Nat Brigham and other vocal
solos, which, with the accompanying chorus
of fifty or more strong voices, are calculated
to make Boyd's opera house ring with music.
Among the specially attractions will be
Daisies Crow" by James g. Crawford, city
editor of the Herald. Mr.. Crawford is u
minstrel star Of the old Birch and Backus
school, and therefore may be expected 70
that IN these days of spectacular galore is
virtually lost. Messrs. Douglas, Dana,
Tirrell and Goodall are also booked
TO display their talents in the
the after piece, "Mr Sampson, Of South
Omaha" they will hold the stage foi fifteen
minutes and do some clever acting. Over
500 tickets have already been sold, and the
demand for them has only just commenced.
"rhe Twelve Temptations" was originally
founded upon a Morse fairy tale. The re-
vision, which forms the text as it will be
presented at Boyd's opera house, beginning
Thursday evening next, was prepared with
view chiefly to fitting the piece for gor-
geous spectacular setting, and it is in this
direction that the greatest expenditure of
cessful stage production have been ex-
trivances Of ali imaginable sorts,
dragons, snakes, flying saurians
and other horrid creatures. From these
misshapen things there are representations
of every stage of evolution up to men and
fairies. These creatures disport themselves
about a stage that is decorated with spark
ling fountains gardens OF ferns and palms
through one scene after another, till the
bower of the Queen Sun" is disclosed
which is the climax Of the whole spectacle
The ballets are danced by three premeres
and twenty coryphees, whose costumes are
in keeping with the stage scenery IN respect
to richness and color, If not quantity. There
are three ballets, "rhe Policeman and the
E'lirts, " in which there are four ponderOus
officers, made up to represent the four presi-
Dental and vice-presidential candidates In
the ballet Of the cockatoos, twenty fairies
appear, each with live cockatoo which she
holds on IA gilt perch during the dance In
the ballet OF the nations, one wears red,
white and black; another green; another
red, white and blue, etc Charles H. Yale Is
the author OF the revision and directs the
performance
The management of the Eden Musee has
prepared a most interesting programme for
the coming week. Splendid attractions will
appear in all parts OF the house, but one OF
the most interesting will be- "Maze, the
Princess" lady hailing from Hindoostan,
who reads the future and past Of all with
startling correctness.
The entertaining illustrated lectures of
Mr.. Ragan at Boyds on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week are well worthy
some means of spending "a pleasant and So
cial evening.