Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-07

The company numbers seventy people.
From Kansas City, where the company APP
peared all Of last week, Manager Burgess
received several messages complimentary
to both company and productions. An or
ehestra Of ten pieces is carried by the
company. This will be merged with ten
pieces Of the theater orchestra.
The last farce comedy and recognized as
the best OF the late Charles Hoyt is "A
Stranger in New York" II will be seen at
the Boyd Saturday matinee and night. An
excellent company, headed by Jack Camp
bell, is said to be interpreting the piece.
Scenically It is promised with the same de-
gree Of excellence that has invariably
marked the Hoyt productions. Some Of the
Hoytian farceurs well known here-J.
T. Doyle, T. W. Sturgeon, Percy walling,
W. Keller Mack, r. f. Beamish, Arthur
Dean, Molly saylor, Katherine Wells, Nellie
Sennett Miller-are in Mr.. Campbell's sup
port. A number Of specialties will be given
throughout the comedy.
One OF the most sensational, unique and
the first stunt" OF the kind ever billed at
the Orpheum will be presented by Sparrow,
who is known as the mad juggler, his en-
gagement being for a week, commencing
with the matinee today. During each per-
formance enough chinaware is destroyed to
stock a cupboard. Among the prominent
ones on the bill who came and amused us in
a stellar role before high-class vaudeville
was established in Omaha is Eddie Girard
Of Natural Cas- fame, who gives an imita-
ton of an Irish policeman in such an anus
ing manner that he seems to have become
inseparably attached to 1t. He and his
plump and pretty partner, Jessie Gardner,
who sings and dances, will present their
sketch entitled THE Soubrette and the
Cop" George II. Wood, styled "the some
what different comedian" will have a mon
ologue. Thomas j. Leo and Jessie F.. Chap
man appear in a comical acrobatic turn
called Wanted, a Donkey" Leo's spe-
cialty is the horizontal bar, while Miss
Chapman has some songs. For the first
time Belle Williams will let us sample her
ability with a number Of coon" songs.
Another vocal feature will be Miss Edith
O'Reilly from the ranks of the light opera
singers and Miss Kathryn Manning from the
concert stage. The Standard quartet, musi-
cal comedians, have been here before, but
will have some new things to offer. The
Kinodrome pictures will be entirely new.
The Creighton university undergraduates
will present their annual play next Wednes-
day evening. December 10. in the University
Hall. Great work is expected, as the stu
dents who have been fortunate enough to
make the dramatic team this year. prom
Use to surpass every effort made before the
footlights in former years. The play, en-
titled For the House of st. Quentin" is
Of a nature to inspire confidence in these
boasts of the buskined tyros, for 1t abounds
in those qualities Of climax and plot. which
indicate a snappy stage-piece. 1t is a
dramatization of the thrilling story THE
Helmet Of Navarro" which held such a
conspicuous place among the new works of
fiction last year. 1t is Bertha Runkle's
novel, and readers of the work will per-
ceive at once its peculiar fitness for adap-
tation as a college play. Its vivid pictures
of French court life of 1898, and its soul
stirring events have lost none of their
sparkle and vigor in the drama. The dram
atizer is Frof. Johnson, formerly of Creigh-
ton, who is now engaged at st. Louis uni
versity in dramatic and literary work. The
actors are proud of their play and realize
the greatness of the task of exactly Dor
traying the characters as conceived by the
novelist, ard worked out on dramatic lines
by the playwright. But the work is rem
dered easier, by the fact that the characters
of the play are with little variation the
same as those of the book. All the per-
sonages of the novel are retained in the
play and those who do not appear before
the audience are mentioned in the lines
and remain factors in the DEVELOPMENT Of
the plot. Even the scenes have been pre-
served as far as the dramatlst's art would
allow, though they do not follow one an
other in the same sequence as those Of the
story.