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! Eoy,' Russian emperor and empress aut
! president Of France at Porte Dauphm
! Paris spanish Guard" mounting at Mad.
! ma French Cuirassicrs In sham Battle
| March o. NInety-siNth French Infantry,
| Russian Dance" "Babys Roposc" and
sword Dance" glance at this list viii
show that many Of the scenes are Of foreign
| origin and to those who have never seen
such thing as French or Spanish military
! mlncuvers or royal party, these views
viii be doubly interesting.
The Boston Howard Athenacum star
| Speciality company, now in it's fifteenth sea,
| son, will be the attraction at the Creighton
! or two nights, commencing with matinee
! today.
Among the well known vaudeville artists
who Will assist In entertaining are MoliC
! THOMPSON, singer who makes her initial
| appearance after three years tour OF Eu,
| rope and South Africa Ben r. Harvey, oN.
| pOnent OF the negro character, singing
| negro melodies ana playing Rag Time
! music on the Iiano; sam and Kitty Morton
| character singers and dancers; D0lph and
| Susie Levine In The Rival Arts" Morton
and Mack as the piper and Dancer" the
| Misses GrOviai and Murray, aCrObats dancers
and contortonists; Eddie ODel the Lth.
| letic tramp; Delmore and Lee, gymnasts on
| the revolving ladder suspended In midar
| Kaye and Henry, comedy sketch artists. in
| Capital VS.. Labor" and the Motographe a
| a screen.
"Puddnhead Wilson," with its quaint
| characters and faithfully depicted scenes of
the south "befo' de wah," will be presented
| at the Creighton for three nights com
mencing Thursday, January :, being inter
| preted by company almost identically the
same as when seen in this city last winter,
Pudd nhead, the character made famous by
the lamented Frank Mayo, will be inter
preted by Theodore Hamilton, an actor of
long experience, whose success in Friends
during its first presentation here will be
remembered by many, and who has been
| mighty commended by press and public for
ms work in this more recent and most
difficult undertaking. Newton Chisncll.
Frank Campau, Frank L. Aiken, Arnold
Daiy, Eleanor Moretti. Lucille La Verne and
Frances Grahame and other favorite play
ers are still retained in the cast.
The engagement of 1.-The Shadows of a
Great City" at Boyds will be brought to a
close with matinee and night performances
today.
Alabama" will be at Boyd's in the near
future
Della Fox and her comic opera company
VIII be the attraction at the Creighton thea
ter on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
evenings of this week. with a special matt
nee on New Years day. "The Little
trooper will be sung Wednesday evening
and at the New Years matinee THE Lit
tie Trooper has been adapted for the Amer
lcan stage by Clay NJ Greene from lie 2S
Jours de Clairette, a French operretta by
Raymond and Mars. The story of "The Lit
tie Trooper tells of the adventure of Clair
cite. the jealous wife of a young captain
OF hussars, who follows her husband to
camp and. finding that a former sweetheart
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is visiting him there, and has been intro
duced by a laundering friend as the cap
tains wife, she DISCUSSES herself and re-
ports for duty as Lieutenant Benot The
laundering friend makes violent love to her.
Clairette gets into trouble by boxing her hus-
bands ears in the presence of his superior
officer and is arrested and only saved from
execution by the arrival of the real Benoit
The opera Miss Fox will present Thursday
and Friday evenings, "Fleur de Lis" may
be summed up as comprising good libretto
founded on familiar French story. "Fleur
de Lis was taken from the French of
Chivot & Duru the words and lyrics being
by j. Cheever Goodwin. The musical num-
bers are entirely original. and are by Will
liam Furst The plot OF the opera hinges
on the disagreement of two lifelong friends
the Marquis de Rosolio and the Count des
Escarbilles, over the ownership of the Duchy
Tubortierre estate at st. Claude, France.
The action of the opera is supposed TO take
place in the sixteenth century. affordiD.s
every opportunity for brilliant scenic dis
play, as well as the introduction of novel
and picturesque costumes.
Miss Fox has company OF seventy people,
including many well known comic opera
artists. The scenery and costumes are said
to be Of an elaborate nature, and "A hands one
production is promised.
William Calder, the we'll known play
producer, will arrive in this city this morn
ing and spend a couple OF days with his
Saved from the Sea company that plays at
Boyds theater this week. Mr. Calder also
directs the tours of THE Span of Life"
Northern Lights In Sight of st. Paul's"
and other scenic productions. His wife and
daughter accompany him, and they will
during the week start for California where
for a couple of weeks on his fruit farm
Mr. Calder will recuperate.
The Players the newly organized company
of the Creighton Theater Dramatic school.
will give its first public performance at
the Creighton theater, Tuesday evening,
January g.
Mile Lott an original onc-act comedy
from the French story, "SerpOlette" which
has recently been dramatized by Mr.. Guy
b. Short, will have its first performance on
any stage on that evening Miss Nina Mar
shall, who plays the part of French
danseuse, has most difficult part to por-
tray. Her reheaTsals give ground for the |
belief that she will astonish her many |
Omaha friends with her acting.
Five life studies will be given. These
life studies were quite the success of the
reception given by Mr.. Short for Miss May |
Robson in September.
As many requests have been received by |
Mr.. Short for repetition of his excellent |
performance of THE Bells" which was |
given at Creighton theater last May for the |
benefit of the Creche, that he has consented |
to repeat it at this performance.
The play has been recast, and greatly |
to its benefit.
At the Nebraska Music hall during the !
coming week many new features will be
and several of the strongest fav-
orites of former weeks will be- retained. As
made up this week the entertainment in
cludes the Kellys in their comedy, "Slat- ,
terys Visit" Dot West, Mamie Newman. !
Mamie Peck, in songs and dances; Ford
West, buck and ring dancer; Mae Waldron,
Mill Peck, May Cameron, Ruby Knight,
Tille Stork and Signor Almon Zrenyi hand
and equilibrist,
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