Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-10
Gossip About Plays, Players and Playhouses

save the fortune OF the man she loves,
Aiadge rides Queen Bess in the great stake
race, when at the last moment no Jockey
can be obtained. Queen Bess wins the race
and saves the fortune OF the owner A
short fourth act brings everything to a
satisfactory conclusion. As special fea-
ture, there will be a grand prize dancing
contest on Wednesday evening between the
I'm Old Kentucky plckaninnies and
number of our local dancers. Those wish
ing to compete will leave their names at
the box office.
For three nights and Saturday matinee,
starting Thursday night, December II, "a
Son Of Rest" will be the attraction at the
Krug theater. The costumes are entirely
new, some of the gowns worn by the
women being Of the latest models from the
Partisan plates. The electrical effects are
on a grander scale than ever and some
thing new in the way of color display will
be shown. Fifty people are carried-come-
dams. singers and dancers and the famous
beauty chorus Of thirty. Special attention
was given to the musical numbers and the
very latest Broadway hits will be heard.
The cast is the best this comedy has ever
had, containing a list of names well and
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caliber. MIR. Billy Swore will be the Hunt
ing Grub he of the rags and patches He
is a comedian who does not beg his laughs
by slap-stick methods, but gives an ar
tistic representation of this oft-abused
character, the tramp, making him funny at
all times. but never coarse. Besides the
parodies that he will sing his wonderful
eccentric dancing will be introduced.
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The first sketch written for presentation
in vaudeville by George AIDE and a demon
stration of the Marconi system Of wireless
telegraphy are among the features an
nounced for the entertainment of Orpheum-
ties for the week beginning matinee to-
day. Mr. Fred Lenox, who purchased the
rights to ION His Uppers'' from AIDE, and
his company will present 1t. 1t is described
as a little idyl in slang and while not
resting its worth on pretentiousness of
plots, is said to be brimful of bright and
crisp dialogue. The Piriscohis come from
Russia with gymnastic feats, some of which
are claimed to be as strange to us as their
nativity 1.-THE Queens Fan" a dainty
operate conceit, to which is ascribed such
popular components as pretty girls, sweet
voices, juggling music, beautiful scenery
and a fairy-like legend will be the Offering
OF the Misses Oriska worden and Adele
Archer. assisted by Lucille Georgia Cap
tain Bloom, who has devoted time and ex-
periments to wireless telegraphy, will give
demonstrations of the Marconi system
which he is claimed to do with surprising
clearness and comprehensiveness OF so little
understood a science. In point Of interest It
promises to be a most salient feature
Vinie Dewitt, accomplished fundamentally
as well as vocally in music, will be an
other number calculated for the lover of
sweet harmony. The wartenberg brothers,
heralded as double foot experts, do a rarely
seen stunt" While lying on their backs
they juggle and manipulate different things
with their feet with surprising dexterity.
simmons and Harris, comedians, will de-
vote their efforts to agtating the risIbles
with their own, idea of fun-making. while