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is anticipated.
That "the plays the thing" is clearly
proven by the success that is attending Marx
Twain's 'Pudd'nhead Wilson" which is now
in its second season. and which will he the
attraction at the Creighton for four nights,
commencing Thursday. January Z, and con-
Guiding with two performances on Sunday.
The man who created the stage version OF this
delightful Missouri story has passed away, but
his convincing play still lives and moves its
audiences to alternate laughter and tears.
VI has been proven that this truest and best
of American plays depends upon no one man
Tor its interest and success. Frank Mayo's
creation in this play was greater than his
own great personality.
1t is hard to describe "Pudd nhead Will
SON" 1t is like no other play 1t is a
simple, sweet story, told by men and women
who do not seem to be acting at all, but
who reach right out and lay hold on the
hearts of their audience holding their love
and attention until the final fall of the
curtain, and you carry from the theater
grateful remembrances of them that en-
shrine each and every one of them in your
hearts old friends. During the action of
the play you are taken bodily to the banks
of the Mississippi river; you are lulled by
the mighty flow of the Father of Waters,
and you become part OF the sleepy, easy
going, yet delightful, life as 1ivod in the
Mississippi river village in ante-bellum days.
You seem to hear the buzz of the bees and
the butterfly fits lazily through the soft
southern air. You enter into the spirit of
the story and industriously help those upon
the stage in unraveing the mysteries which
are only mysteries to them. For you know
all about 1t when the prologue is over. You
have laughed and you have cried and you
leave the theater with that kindly, satisfied
feeling that makes the whole world kin.
You go.home glad that you live in the same
dear, delightful world in which such folks
live as they who have told you the story of
| "pudd nhead Wilson"
The company is almost identical with
that of last year. Theodore Hamilton.
sterling old actor plays the title role. and
Emily Rigl one of the best emotional act
resses in America, is the new Roxy. Other
wise the cast is unchanged.
That charming play. Alabama" by Au-
gustus Thomas, will be the attraction at the
Boyd theater for six rights and three mat
| inees, commencing January TO-
After all, the old old story, that all of
us have heard and that all of us tell some
time in our life, is the best. War, strife,
misery, crime, all engage our attention,
warns our. blood, but love-honest. noble,
eloquent love-moves the very soul as moth
ing else can. And that is the theme of Ala
| bama." The author of this sweet story has
| contributed to the stage n fragrant flower,
which will not be permitted to withcr. He
has set before his countrymen vision of all
| that is ennobling, refining and Christening
! in human nature. The vision is so natural
! that 1t becomes a reality 1t is so vivid that
! II remains with us long after we have left
| the playhouse. II is so poetic and so purify
! ing that we are better for having seen 1t.
| When an artist can create something that
calls to life the nohest and most unselfsh
| impulses of mankind he has benefited man
| kind. Augustus Thomas has done this in
| "Aabema"
The excellence of the Clement Bainbridge
company is too well established to need conf
ment. 1t includes Mr.. Bainbridge, for whom
| Augustus Thomas wrote the part of Captain
! Davenport: Fred Mower, Harry NJ. Allen l..
| p Hicks. w. NJ WadswOrth, Robert Conness,
f. w. Kensil, Francis Nelson, and the Misses
Ethel Irving, Helen Weathersby, Florence
| Crosby and Kate Dooling.
The attraction at the Creighton theater
next Tuesday, January 5, will possess more
| than ordinary interest to theater-goers
| Omaha talent will be in the ascendant. and
some of it already bears the foreign stamp
so necessary to success
"The Players" the recently formed dra-
matte company composed of the members of
| the Creighton theater dramatic school, will
present mile. Lott" and "The Bells" The
| first named Is p one-act comedy from the
French, dramatized by Guy b. Short This
has been arranged especially for Miss Nina
| Marshall, who plays the title role.
| One of the surprises and successes of last
| season was Frank Lea Shorts presentation
OF THE Bells and he has consented to pro-
duce it again. Mr.. Short will appear rs Mat
thias the Burgcmaster, and the remainder
of the cast has been revised and improved
upon.
The casts are as follows:
MILE. LOTT
Mile Lott of the Calumet. Nina Marshall
Mr.. Arlington. one of the managers of
the Calumet. Ed S. Thompson
Mr.. Wells. one of the manag3ers of the
Calumet. Frederick Somers
THE BELLS.
Matthias the burgomaster .........,....
- .......................:.. Frank Lea Short
Christian, quartermaster or gendarmes
. .........,.................t ..trederlck Somers
Hans. ns........................... John McKeon
Walter. .,........:........E Ed $. Thompson
President of court........C Charles Harwood
Clerk of court. Edgar Johnson
MM9teanGrggris:ii..H;erbErrratnk Herbrrt RobennSn enmer
Catherine, wife of burgomasterr
Annette daughter of burgomaster.......
soze Margaret Scanneli
Gendarmes, peasants, etc.
The Chicago University Glee and Mando-
lin club, which will be heard in an elabo- |
rate musical program at the Creighton to-
morrow night, is at present on its first |
western tour, and it is said has succeeded
In thoroughly winning the appreciation and
appreciation OF it's auditors. The member |
ship of the club, which numbers thirty-fve, |
includes a number of well-known college |
musicians. who, it is promised, will present |
a superior program, consisting OF choice |
vocal and instrumental numbers.
Frederick Warde and his excellent COM
pany of players will be the attraction at
the Creighton for three nights, commenc-
ing Monday, January II, when this favor
lite legitimate actor will be seen in rep
ertory of those plays with which he has
become identified
Mesmerlsm and its mysteries will be dealt
with by Prof. John Reynolds during his
coming weeks engagement at Creighton hall,
commencing tomorrow night. Mr.. Reynolds, /
1t Is said introduces the amusing as well
as the practical Uses OF this science, making
his seances interesting as an entertainment |
in addition to illustrating the practical ad-
vantages to be derived from it, Since a for
mer visit to this city, Prof. Reynolds has IL
is said, won new recognition for his re-
searches In this comparatively unknown
field, having received a degree conferred by
one of the great English universities
Manager George Mitchell of the Nebraska
Music hall has made up carefully arranged
program for the coming week at his popular
place of amusement His list of attractions
Is headed by Daisy Wade, late of Proctor's
Pleasure Palace New York, and includes