Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-15

acquired metropolitan reputation. Kittie
Raymond Florence Beardsey, Tllle Taylor
and Hazel Temple form a quartet Of singers
and dancers.
Monday and Tuesday evenings next Sow
ing the Wind" which was presented here
last October to large business, will be at
Boyd's theater 1t Is described as one OF
those productions whose truth to nature
makes an irresistible appeal to the heart
and the story behind 1t makes one feel more
| strongly than ever the great discrepancy
there is in societys treatment Of victims Of
the social evil, the weaker sex being made
to suffer almost the entire odium. Sowing
the Wind" tells the story Of a woman
bounded from pillar to post, with no oppor-
tunity to REFORM while the man who was
| responsible for her wrongs goes on with
his wrongdoing with the knowledge that in
his case 1t will be condoned by society. 1t
deals with a phase Of social life that is
continually pressing its consideration upon
thoughtful minds. and yet is Of such deli
cate nature that few dramatic authors are
able and competent to handle 1t In a suit
able way for stage purposes. Mr.. Grundy
brings together as the principal and oppos-
ing characters in the play young woman
and her father, neither OF them knowing
aught Of the relationship to each other, the
girls mother having been betrayed and cast
| aside by the father long years before. This
man is the adopted father of the young
woman's lover and Is refusing to permit the
marriage Of the lovers until the mystery Of
the girls parentage is cleared up. The con-
test between these two, so strangely brought
together, Is the basis Of the plot and some
Of the scenes between them are declared to
be as pathetic as anything that Imagination
can depict. The cast is the same as that
which produced the piece here in October.
The costumes are pronounced to be trumphs
In that line, being reproductions Of the
styles Of 1880 in England.
Marion Kerner's "Visions of Art" heads
the bill at the Creighton Orpheum theater
this week. For over three years these
visions occupied the stage at Roster &
| Bials, and for almost that length Of time
| at Proctor's Pleasure Palace, New York
city The series Of pictures shown are said
to be reproductions OF celebrated paintings
| by the great masters. BY means OF the
| electrical devices used, the costumes worn
and the highly colored scenery used in the
\ back ground, all the delicate coloring OF the
original pictures is brought out. Six
women, the pick of the models from the
artistic center Of New York, pose in the
pictures. The frame in which the pictures
are shown occupies almost three quarters
Of the stage opening Marion Kerner is the
originator Of the visions and has exhibited
them all through Europe. All remember
the three Macarte sisters, the equilibrists
who were big favorites at this theater three
weeks ago. In the act Of the three Merkell
sisters theater-goers will have an act that
eclipses that OF the Macartes. 1t is Euro
1
Berlin. and consists OF acrobatic work at
the top Of lofty revolving pedestals Miss
Lizzie Evans, we'll known here as the star
Of "Foggs Ferry" and "The Little Black
smith" at the time Of their original produc-
tons and Mr.. Harry Mills will offer a
comedietta by Herbert Hall Winslow, en-
titled "a Strange Catastrophe" which is
said to be delightfully."- humorous. Miss
Lille Western is reputed to be one OF the
| few successful female musical artists be-
fore the public. Frank La Mondue, known
as the mute comedian, enacts a speciality in
clown makeup with clothesline that
promises to be a humorous novelty.
Gollando, the other foreign importation on
the bill, does clay modelling. With a
mound Of soft clay he fashions the busts OF
famous personages in an incredibly short
time. James Cullen is announced as most
entertaining fellow and is said to have a big
fund Of sparkling new stories and parodies.
Shattuck and Bernard. comedy entertainers,
complete the bill.
Next Wednesday evening Robert G. Inger-
soil will deliver his lecture entitled "Super-
stition." II the judgment Of the critics who
have heard this lecture is not at fault, it
| is the best Of the many that have been given
to the world by Ingersoll during the thirty
years in which he has been before the public
as q platform speaker. The distinction en-
1oyed by him as a lawyer. soldier, states
man and a scholar has been outranked by
his greater distinction as a lecturer, and
those who have studied his writings have
never failed to find in them something
ennobling, whatever else may be found by
those who do not admire his brand of ortho-
doxy. The subtlety Of Ingersoll's eloquence
was first manifested when. at the close of
| the war of the rebellion, he began a series
of friendly talks to his neighbors in the old
Turner hall at Peoria, ILL.,. where he then
lived, and the favor with which these dis
cussions were received was amplifed when
he started out some years later and carried
his peculiar views to every city Of the
country.
The three closing nights Of the week, and
a matinee, at the BOYD VIII witness the ap-
pearance here Of Cole & Johnson's company
OF colored comedians, among them being
Lloyd Gibbs, tenor; Juvia Roam, the Cuban
nightingale; Tom Brown, character change
artist and vocalist; the Freeman sisters,
contortionists and dancing specialists; Rob-
ert Kelly, eccentric comedian; Jesse Shipp,
descriptive singer; Walter Dixon, Jim Will
son. Molly Dill, Margaret Rhodes and a
chorus of twenty voices. "A Trip to Coon
Town" is the significant title OF the piece.