Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

| partly uHou Nnt sIunk company VI plNgtEs
which presented It In its recreated form
and mostly upon the winning personality
! Of the star No artist has appeared In a
! long time better fitted to win and adorn the
stellar position to which Miss Wallis aspires
| than this latest Fanchon. She will always
be restricted by her slight figure to roles
! to which her abilities would by no means
confine her, but in that considerable field
! once occupied by Lotta, Patti Rosa and
! Mitchell, and for a long time vacant of any
who consplcuously adorned It, Miss Wallis
is sure. barring accidents Of holding place
| OF the highest honor. Delicious as her per-
| formance Of Fanchon is-and one confesses
to feeling more varied and delightful emo
ttons at the sight and sound Of II than ever
| visited ones breast in the days when good
| old Mitchell shook her ancient limbs In the
shadow danCe-she has that in her which
will bring her to far higher planes, ambition
| and the divine spark of genius, without
which ambition is cheated Of its best attain
| ments.
Mr.. Pauldng. who played Landry to Miss
| Wallis Fanchon. has many friends In Omaha
| among the older settlers by reason Of his
| residence here during the '70's, when his
father, the late General Dodge, was in COM
| mand at Fort Omaha. and he has made
many others among the thousands who have
| seen him more recently in various roles when
| he has appeared here professionally. His
| Captain Absolute in the Jefferson Florence
| representation of THE Rivals Is still re-
membered with pleasure, and those who saw
him two years ago in repertory at Boyd's
when he was starring jointly with Miss
Mazda Craigen, Will not soon forget the salts
faction afforded them by his finished work.
| He is a man of fine intellectual endowments
and of many gifts. He has baritone voice
| Of unusual compass and feXibility, the
natural excellence of which he has i'm
proved by persistent training. He is play
| wright of no mean ability, one Of the most
| thorough stage managers alive and an actor
of wide experience and great versatility To
| those who complain that the role of Landry
| Is unworthy of him, he replies that the man
| makes the role, not the role the man, and
| that he finds his present surroundings quite
| congenial and happy.
To bark back a moment to "Trby." was
| ever more artistic fake" achieved than
| the duet of Svengali and Gecko in the first
act? Probably the bulk of the audience never
doubted that Messrs Lackaye and Morrison
were producing that concourse of sweet
| sounds on the instruments which were in
sight, but the fact remains that neither of
| them played note. The duet was performed
| by other fingers off the stage, while the two
| ostensible players went through the motions
| in almost perfect accord with the music.
| That almost" is the saving word. II they
| had been in perfect time the illusion would
| have been perfect. 1t was not far short of it
anyway.
There will be a gay vision of ideaized
| Spanish life at Boyd's theater tonight, when
| Sam 7. Jacks Extravaganza company, Just
| returned from Its successful tour of Spanish
| America. takes possession of the stage The
burlesque Is styled "The Bull Fighter" and
deals with the life and adventures of one
Don Pedro Escamillo, a Spanish matador,
who vanquishes numerous rivals, and finally
Stays a huge bull single handed as the eli
max of the play. Don Pedro is represented
by girl, the picadores and other assistants
by women, and the heavy villain is the rag
| ing taurus himself. The living pictures are
said to be marvels of beauty. and the spe-
cialty bill comprises every variety of enter
| tanment.
At the Creighton theaer. commencing with
matinee today, and continuing for four
nights William A. Brady's much -talked-of
production, THE Cotton King" will be pre-
| sented with the same cast and scenic environ
ments which were seen during its run Of
100 nights at McVickers theater. Chicago,
last summer. 1t was also successfully pro-
duced at the Academy of Music New York
City. and remained in Boston for four months,
receiving excellent patronage, and equaling
| the success of The Silver King" THE Cot
ton King is said to be revelation in stage
effects and realism, showing the workings
] Of an extensive cotton mill in Manchester,
Eng, practical elevator, and other effect
| i've scenes The play is by Sutton Vane who
has written a number OF successes, and con-
tains a story of human interest. Mr.. Brady
| aw The Cotton King in London, and his
! Judgment dictated that it was a good thing
Ior the American play-goers. Its success has
/ proved he was right. Although an English
| play, it written for Americans as well,
| and the hero is Yankee" who went to
| England with American ideas, and made
| fortune in cotton fabrics.
The stage of Boyd's theatar will
| be occupied on Wednesday and Thurs
| day evenings of the present week
for the first time by a farcical comedy,
entitled ITO Much Johnson, which has en-
| joyed marvellous success both in New York
and San Francisco The play is an adapta-
| tion by William Gillette Of French play.
| called lie Plantation Thomassin."
Mr.. Gillette will play the role Of Gus Bill
| lings married man with home and wife
and mother-in-law in Yonkers and an office
| In New York City. In some way or the
| other, which no married man will be able to
! find out. he has fallen into a Irritation with
pretty little French woman Flrtations take
time as well as ready money. and Billings
| has to lie a little at home to explain his fire.
quent absence. He tells Mrs. Billings and
| her mother that he has purchased a planta-
| tion in Cuba which he must visit. Wife and
| mother-in-law believe the story, and he is
supposed to go to Cuba. At the final moment
Mrs. Billings and her mother decide to ac-
| company him, and just as the vessel is about
! to start they appear at the gangplank and he
| is compelled to go. Worst of ALL the French
woman's husband, who has learned of the
| Irritation. follows him on board and Billings
holiday begins. The first act is on shpboard
| Billings owns no plantation and knows moth
| ing whatever about plantation, but when he
reaches Cuba he borrows one.
| The first man he meets on the dock mis-
takes him for his intended fsther-in-law
| and greets him as such. This man is John
! son, who owns an immense plantation He
! is delighted to Mrs. Billings also-John-
son is Mrs. Billings is his fancee. Billings
| tells his folks that johnson is his oyerseer.
| Johnson is engaged to Miss Faddsh and he
| has been expecting her and her father. The
| Faddishes do arrive latter. but that does not
disconcert Billings. He introduces them to
Johnson poor relations, and Johnson, draw
| ing the line at poor relations insists that
! they shall work for their keep, which Bill
ings says is only fair, Everything is NOV
| ing along smoothly for this Ananas until
| the Frenchman crosses his path again. The
| Gaul demands satisfaction and duel en-
| sues. This forms a mass Of complications
which never are untangled until the dis
closure Of the true state Of affairs, which
| does not occur until minute before the final
curtain tall.
Following the Cotton King at the Creigh-
| ton theater comes Charles Calahan's big
scenic production, Coon Hollow" Among
the many unique features Of the production