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| beautiful solos. OF which 1t is said the com
| poser has taken ample advantage.
Among the most popular numbers are the
riding song in the first act, the duet by
| Prince Charles 0enoD and Flora (soprano)
the "Grenadier" song, and the tocsins of the
clans; the "Margery" song, Boots and
| Saddles" and others.
The company includes, among others
| Arthur Donaldson, e. II. Carroll, Florence
| Wolcott, Harry Parker, Francis Rousseau
Mite Atherton, Albert Arling, Nellie Woot'
| ley Frank Glenn and George +. Knowles
! The chorus is said to be both large and
competent one. The engagement will be
for three nights.
The boxes for the performance Thanks
giving night have been reserved for the
foot ball teams of the Universities of Ne
braska and Iowa, which will attend in a
body.
The Imperial Opera company which, under
the able guidance OF Colonel Mapleson is
at present deighting New York audiences,
will appear at the Creighton for two nights
during the coming week. when the entire
, company, numbering over 200 performers,
besides orchestra of seventy-eight mem
bers. will be heard in grand Italian opera.
The enterprise of the Creighton management
cannot be too highly praised, as the bringing
of this immense organization to Omaha en-
tails not only great labor but large ex-
penditure of money a fact which it is hoped
will be thoroughly appreciated by the public
and as thoroughly rewarded.
OF Sol Smith Russell's new play by Mar
tha Morton, the dramatic critic of the
Buffalo Courier writes:
1T must have been a source of pleasure
to all the people who saw him last night to
feel that at last, after long years of weary
waiting, Sol Smith Russell. through the
kindness of Miss Martha Morton, has won a
fitting stage-land reward.
"a Bachelors Romance is more an idyll
of true love than a drama. 1t is beautiful
in conception. simple in construction and
pleasant in denouement, which. when
coupled with faultess presentation, makes
it a play that everybody should see. The
character given Mr.. Russell was made, of
course, for him, and although 1t contains
many new side lights, yet fundamentally is
as ever, that of a literary, philosophical,
middle aged bachelor, buried away from the
world and the trials thereof and brought to
light by sudden CLEAN of sunshine in the
shape of a most delciously charming young
girl.
at is like one of the old immortal fairy
tales in the unaffected directness with which
the story is told. and, it may be added in
its disregard of what is generally considered
dramatic probability and of fidelity to the
hard facts of real life. Its fashionable lux
ury Is so overwhelmingly luxurious, its
pie, and everybody in it is so good at heart
under the thin crust of wordiness and
recklessness and fashionable frivolity'
And what of 1t all, when the play is so
sweet, and pure and tender in its humor
and its pathos that 1t leaves you all kind o.
smiles round the lips and teary round tho
lashes,' leaves you in the mood in which
reading Dickens 'Christmal Carol leaves
rou.
"The play was perfectly presented in
every detail, with beautiful scenery, fine
costumes and excellent acting. The house
was crowded with typical Sol Smith Rus
sell audience, an audience of the actors
friends, who were made closer friends by
a Bachelors Romance See it, If you fol-
low this advice you will thank the writer
for having given it,"
Sol Smith Russell will appear at Boyd's
in "A Bachelors Romance" two nights De-
cember 1 and 2, with a Wednesday matinee.
The Girl | Left Behind me-" presented by
one of Charles Frohman's companies will
be seen at the Creighton for three nights
commencing Sunday, November 30, when, no
doubt, this popular military drama will re-
ceive cordial welcome. The company dur
Ing the present tour is said to include a
number OF players whose efforts added
greatly to the unqualified success scored
during the original New York run
May Irwin and John c. Rice in 1.-THE
WIDOW Jones' Will be a Creighton attrac-
tion in the near future
At the Nebraska Music hall the Gibbons
Mammoth Specially company will be the at
traction for the coming week The follow
ing artists will appear Jessie Lee, vocalist;
freda Maloof, muscle dancer; Dolores Sis
ters, acrobatic dancers; Thomas Gibbons.
Irish melodies; Ed Brumage, silence and
FUN; Hattie Clark black pickininny; Nav
cameron, song artist; Jeanette Rose, horn
pipe dancer; Winnie Adams, vocalist: Efie
Norris in latest selections; Guyette and Ne
Hille, monologue artists and parodists; Tillie
Strong. sero-comic hits. and Ruby knight
the plain American girl"