Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
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ADJUSTMENTS,


The local playhouses cannot be said to
have contributed either largely or well to
the public entertainment since the last
weekly review. Each Sunday for the past
month, instead Of bringing with 1t the peace
full memory Of a week well spent, has seemed
TO close a period even more dreary than that
which has gone before and to usher in seven
other days even less fruitful. Boyd's has
not lit It's lamps since last Sunday; the
week before 1t furnished nothing more al
Turing than a 10-csnt show, which, to be
sure, drew some thousands Of people where
higher prices would have barred them out
and gave them, so far as can be learned,
their moneys worth In every case.
The Creighton id somewhat better during
the fortnight in question, but not SO much
better as to give II any special pre-eminence.
One alludes I. the character Of the enter
tainment provided, and not TO the business.
''The Merry World" which concluded the
week before the last at that house, was a
bright and cheerful burlesque, of the style
of "The Passing Show" and Thirdly, ana,
being presented by a clever lot OF low come
dams, deserved the generous patronage 1t
received. Last week, however, the Creigh-
ton. which was the only theater open, otered
very little to tempt the public. 81 FUNK
ard" is not precisely a name to conjure with.
Inc TuUe TuSIlC type, MHHCh u 80 49,
even admirable in the hands OF artists ike
Denman Thompson or James A. Herne, be-
comes a thing of horror when 1t assumes a
pink wig and leads a cacophonous band Oh
yokels blowing horns through city streets
To be sure, the gifted player who assumes
the title roe SAYS "gosh-darn" and rolls his
RS portentously after the well known habit
of New England farmers, and his bucolic
sweetheart, who hungers for connub.al joys,
wears a sumptuous dress which comes Just
below her infantile knees, and must nave
cost as much as $50 or $67. so. And there is
n dapper boy, set down in the bill as ia
petite Freddy''-though one is ignorant why
''la'' and petite" unless Freddy is either
more or less than he seems-who enters,
apropos Of nothing, upon the drawing room
scene, and after announcing his intentions IN
perfectly good English, assumes the chafac-
ter of a ~polyglot %linguist, addresses the or.
chestra with "Attongshong z~hentlemens!
and proceeds TO sing songs in what ne tohulS
calls different languages But as.de from
these manifold beauties one cannot shake on
the haunting conviction that Isl Plunkard is
better adapted to the needs of rural audiences
than TO the requirements of a theater which
Mr.. Mansfield designates as the admirable
Creighton"
The week to come shows a brighter
promise. At Boyd's, a company when IN
cludes Jefferson D'Angelis and other clever
people, will present a new comic opera the
first two nights, and everybody's ~favorite,
Sol Smith Russell, will give us The Rivals, y
and his new piece in his old manner, on
Friday and Saturday.
Frawley Stock company, an organization OF
great strength, which will be seen in such
plays as The Senator "A Lost Paradise,
and Men and Women Many of the men,
bers OF the company are well and favorably
known here from former visits under other
aucpippp. hauoatb the Fra wlpy banner the
combination has become endeared to the
theater-going public of the Pacific coast by
its fine presentation of standard plays, and
the press of San Francisco and other cities
which it has visited in its tour eastward, has
been uniformly complimentary. Those who
remember the very enjoyable performance Of
high-class plays last fall by the clever pee
pie who made up the John Stapleton com
pany, may safely count upon deriving a
similar pleasure from this engagement 1t
Is not the policy of The Bee to criticise
theatrical attractions, favorably or %unfavol-
ably, in advance; but where a company OF
such uDdoubted merit comes among us prac-
tically unknown, it is a duty as well as a
privilege TO inform the public of the treat in
store.
Those who enjoy-and who does not?-a
masquerade ball, decorously conducted so
that the prudent may attend even unmasked
without loss of caste, are looking forward to
tUe ltsIlNllleS VI tue ATlOH Dali, Which is
announced for Saturday night. April II, at
Creighton hall. The connection with the
management of this event Of several of the
employees Of the Creighton theater must be
accepted as the excuse for the notice in the
dramatic columns of an entertainment of
this kind, and that connection is expected
to rid the Arion ball of the low attributes Of
public masked balls in general, and to keep
1t as free as may be from the presence of
Objectionable characters. Theater employees
ara accumulated with tho hn1y nf onnnsnrpapt
seekers as is no other class, and that is why,
although to be sure they are paid for their
services and perhaps do no more than they
ought to do, their benefit performances are
almost always well attended by a public
which appreciates courteous treatment. 1t
is safe to say that many men, who, as a
general thing shun public masquerades for
their reputation's sake, will be present at
the Arion. and If they take their own instead
of other mems wives, why, so much the
better will Woodland and Scott and Hayward
and the others be pleased. 1t is violating no
confidence to announce that tickets are now
to be had at the Creighton boxofice.
For the convenience Of those who intend
to go to Chicago to the opera during the two
weeks season the list of works to be pro-
duced this week at the Auditorium, with
casts, is appended:
Monday, March 23-Faust-Mme. Melba,
Nine. Bauermeister and Nine. Scalchi; NJ.
Su VIC 'NNTSnNI S5' aHi -"' oNSf
de Reszke.
Tuesday-Carmen-Mme. Calve, Nine.
Bauermeister, m Van Cauteren and Nine.
Marie Engle; NJ. hubert, NJ. de Vries, Sig.
Carbone and Sig. Ancona.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the following
unprecedented cast: Nine. Nordica, Nine.
Scalchi, Nine. Bauermeister and Nine. Melba
Nj. Jean de Reszke, M. Ed de Reszke, Nj.
and M. Maurel.
Thursday double bilD-Traviata. Acts l.,
ii. and IV.-Mme. Savllle, Nine. Bauermeis-
ter, Nine. Van Cauteren; Sig. Ancona and
Sig. Rus1itano; followed by Cavalleria Rusti-
cana-Mme. Calve, Nine. Bauermeister and
Marie Engle; Sig, Campanari and Sig,
Cremonini.
Friday-Tristan and Isolde-Mme. Nordica
and Mile. Brema; M. Jean de Reszke. Sig.
and NJ. Ed de Reszke.
Saturday Afternoon-opera-To be an
nornced later.
Saturday Evening double bilD-Rigoletto-
Nine, Melba, Nine. B~auermeister. Nine. Van
and Nine. Scalchi; Sig. Cremonini,
NJ. Customary and NJ. Maurel.; followed by
the mad scene from Lucia-Mme Melba.
The recent passage by an upright and en-
llghtened council OF an ordinance tucking
in bed at s or 8 o'clock at night, ac-
cording to the season Of the year, is said 10
have inspired a certain housekeeping city |
father with a sense of the necessity Of SINH