Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-21
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Innocent as a Lamb" the last Of the
series Of three plays in which Mr.. Roland
Reed has appeared at Boyd's during the week,
was found on the occasion OF its first pres
entation in Omaha last night to be a rather
clever piece of writing, after the style of
the honest old English farces 1t is the joint
work of Walter S. Craven and Glen Mac,
Donough, and describes the resistless move
ment of retributive justice In the case Of a
frisky stock broker who is Mr.. Reed as q
matter OF course, and who, after twenty-one
years of unquestioned matrimonial allegiance,
is tripped up by an accident to him In Pater
son, N. j., when he should have been in
Boston, Mass. The role of Pilkngton gives
Mr.. Reed one OF those opportunities for in
tricate entanglements with his women folks
which seem to be indispensable to him, and
he makes good use of the many udicrous
situations into which the wand ring husbands
sad propensities lead him. The part is a
less boisterous one than those usually af
fected by this artist, or else he was wearied
last night by his recent secret society ex-
periences, his frequent illusions to mystic
ceremonials seeming to favor the latter hy-
pothesis.
Mr.. Tupper, Mr.. Julian Reed and Mr.
Bunny are excellent in character parts and
Miss Bernard, who has not been seen be-
fore, made a good impression, doubling the
maid and the printers devil. Certain of the
older members of the company seemed mis-
cast, notably Miss Rush, who, although she
is infaibly charming, evidently finds the
role of Kitty unsuited to her peculiar abil-
tiles.
| Tonight Roland Reed and his excellent
| will N G, nl &c
| bright comedy, THE Politician, or the
| Womans Plank" at Boyds theater.
The play begins with the scene in the ex-
| terror of Peter Wooey's house. Here are
introduced nearly all of the characters OF the
| cast General Josiah Timber, the politician
| (Mr. Reed, comes hastily in, as does the
| politician, who has only a few moments in
| which to save his country. He chats with
| the ladies and asks to see Mr.. Wooey. He
sees him, and falling into the politician S
way of calling people by their first name,
| endeavors to secure Mr.. Wooleys consent to
| run as compromise candidate "the savior
of his country" says General Timber. Mr..
| Wooley Is aghast at the idea Timber grows
enthusiastic, but Wooey refuses for he lacks
| the many great qualifications necessary for
one occupying that position. Mr. Wooley de-
scribes what congressman should be: HE
should be noble of purpose, Intelligent
"Its pity" says the politician, aside, "to
send man like that to congress. He'll be
| 81 iOHesOlHe. ne pOllIlCldH lntelS mls'
Muffin, the widow sister of the prospered can
didate. She is sentimental.
Let us talk of the soul"
Eyes, 1t is interesting but 1t is not on
our platform" breaks in the politician.
"He is the deodorizer of politics"
| ''If we weight the womans plank too much
it will sink"
And so throughout are bright sayings and
abrupt, odd expressions. The characters are
all cleverly conceived. one In particular, por-
T.,
century girl has created q sensation from
the novel characterization and dressing of the
role.
At the matinee this afternoon Craven and
| MacDonough's comedy, Innocent as a
Lamb" will be the bill. This is play new
to Omaha theater-goers, the first performance
of it here having been given only last night
Gladys Wallis will be the attraction al
Boyd's theater on Tuesday and Wednesday
next. She will be seen in the new Fan
chon."
Sam Harrison, the genial road manager
of Charles Frohman's TOO Much Johnson
company, arrived in the city yesterday. His
| attraction will appear at Boyd's theater or
Wednesday and Thursday, October 2 and
3, with Mr. William Gillette, the author, in
the cast.
"The Hustler" closes its short engage.
| hieut dl the creighton WIFI lWO
ances today, matinee at 2;30 and this even.
| ing at S:15. The usual matinee price oi
70 cents for any reserved seat prevails.
Cleveland's Mammoth Mnstrels play two
performances at the Creighton theateI
Thursday, September 26, matinee and even
| ing. The company consists this season o
eighty-one exponents of modern mnstrelsy
The advance sale of reserved seats for the
short engagement of A. M. Palmers com
pany in "Trilby' opens at the Creighton
theater box Office this morning at o'clock
The engagement is for two nights, closing
with a matinee Wednesday.
Canary & Lederer's big company, present
ing that successful production, "The Pass
ing Show" will be seen here again at the
Creighton for two nights, commencing Fri
day, September 27 The company of 100 peo
pie include John E. Henshaw, Vernona Jar
beau, George A. Schiller, Lucy DAILY, Gus
Pixley, Madge Lessing the Leigh sisters
Canary & Lederer's pickaninnies and the
attractive L'Enfant Prologue" ballet dan
GERS.
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