Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-11
SRERMAN'S PHANTASMd.

Sherman's Phantasma, the first production
Of which was given last evening at lie Boyd
for the benefit Of the Presbyterian hospital,
Is an entertainment of truly high merit
and deserves a much larger audience than It
received. The performance consists entirely
Of tableaux, NEUROLOGICAL, military, historical
and comical.
The marvellous and beautiful effects are
equal to anything in the spectacular line
ever seen in Omaha, and the manner in
which these effects are produced is as
mysterious as they are beautiful One
could scarcely realize that the marble-ke
figures that appeared, vanished, reappeared
and melted into one another with such start
ling rapidity were really live young women
and Omaha young women at that. The
novelty of seeing a well known young lady
dressed as Sappho, the Greek poetess, dis
solving into air and materializing again on
full lighted stage, causes an uncanny feel
ing and recollection Of ghost stories
A whole company of militia appears and
disappears in the twlnkling of an eye, while
living people dissolve through one another
feet and most realistic. THE Three Little
Maids from School, were as saucy as Gil
bert & Sullivan ever meant them to be. A
series representing the progress of a modern
foot ball game, caused the audience no end
of merriment. snowstorm was introduced
in one tabeau with excellent effect. Re
becca," "Galatea," Elaine" "Ophelia" and
"Trilby" were among the characters repre-
sented. and Millets THE Angelus'' is par
ticularly worthy Of mention.
Emily Bancker and a selected company of
artists known as the leading eXponents of
polished comedy on the American stage,
play an engagement at Boyd's theater next
Wednesday and Thursday, May Is and 49,
with a special Thursday matinee when Mrs
Musgrave's great comedy hit "Our Flat"
will be presented. 1t is said to be one of the
rare treats of the season and a genuinely
great and deserving success. 1t is now en-
joying quite long run at the Strand theater
London, where it has nearly reached its
S00th performance. 1t was first produced in
America by Daniel Frohman at the Ly-
ceum theater, New York, where it played
100 consecutive nights to enormous business.
"Our Flat" in a nutshell, is one of the
most amusing and cleverly put together
plays of it's kind seen in years. The in
PRODUCTION of high class numbers will be a
feature of the performance. The scenery
will be new and novel, while the costuming
will overshadow anything seen in some time.
The cast speaks for itself, including Tom
Ricketts, p. ii. Ryley George W. Parsons,
w. II. Wallis, Marion Van Courtland, Lee
Jarvis, Vesta Verno and others.
II gives us great pleasure to assure our
readers that the general desire to hear as
many of Sousa's own popular marches as pos
sible at his concert in this city on next Tues
day night will be gratifed. One of his
newer marches, played for the first time at
the exposition in st. Louis, entitled "The
Directorate will surely be played Be
sides his marches, the regular numbers on
the program will be literally interspersed
with jolly plantation dances and airs dear
to all sections of the country. In respect to
responding to the wishes of his hearers for
the music of the people, Mr.. Sousa is gen.
erous to an unusual degree. His program
embodies every variety of music, from grave
to gay and from lively to severe. The con-
trasts in these respects to the severity of
Thomas, Seidl and others of the stricter
classic school proves a gratifying feature to
the great body of music lovers, whom Sousa
so thoroughly pleases and entertains.
In addition to the advertised program for
the Tableaux Phantasma matinee today. Ruth
Lyman Cobb will give a reading from
Kate Douglas Wiggin entitled Patsy" In
the evening she will give The Child Wife"
by Charles Dickens, and "The Portrait"
by Lord Lytton.