Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21
Gossip About Plays Players and Playhouses

leading events follow each other in clearly
defined sequence. An interesting love
story is told. during the progress of which
farcical complications arise in a perfectly
legitimate manner. The piece is freighted
with a wealth of song successes. including
which may be mentioned Diplomacy"
MY Uncle SAM" III 1 Were the Man in
the Moon" I'm Lonesome for YOU" "Oh,
the Deuce, What's the User" ASK the
Man." The Revel of the Brownies and
the captivating number, Heap Love-" a
seductive Indian serenade. The leading
comedy part is entrusted to John W. Ran
some.
For the coming week at the Burwood the
alter Clyde Fitch's study is jealousy, THE
Girl with the Green Eyes" being the bill.
In this piece the story is OF a young
woman who is unreasonably jealous and
who makes her own life miserable and sue
eeeds in wrecking her own happiness and
that Of her husband by her conduct jimmy
Austen Is one of Mr.. F1tch's most original
creations and presents a deeper insight into
the elemental passions of life than he gen.
orally INDUCES in. 1t also offers some
psychological difficulties for the artist who
interprets the role and for this reason is
approached with much respect by whoever
is called upon TO play II. Miss Eva Lang,
who will have the part in the Woodward
Stock company production, has given 1t
much thought and study and believes she
has struck the keynote of the character
and will try to present it properly during
the coming week. She looks upon Il as the
most interesting and at the same time
most exscting piece of work she has yet
been called upon to do. The other MEM
bers OF the company are we'll located in
the cast, and Director Sedley Brown has
taken unusual pains with the rehearsals,
to the end that he expects fine perform
ance from the first 1.-THE Girl with the
Green Eyes will be presented each evening
this week and at matlnees on Sunday,
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday.
For four nights and two matinees start
ing with a matinee today The Four Nor
tons, in their new musical comedy, Break
ing Into Society,"" will be the attraction at
the Krug theater. There is an able sup
porting company of fifty, OF which number
twenty-five are dashing girls OF the great
American Beauty chorus. The scenic
adornment and stage settings are exquisite
and there are over twenty big song hits in
the play, and each OF them is so we'll sung
It fingers long after the song itself has died
away. It has received the highest praise
of press and public being of the absolutely
clean and harmless order and must be seen
to be appreciated. The advance sale of
seats here already indicates crowded houses,
which have been the rule all the season.
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For three nights, beginning on Thursday
and Saturday matinee, Buster Brown" will
be the attraction at the Krug theater. To
the average individual no description Is
needed of that irrepressible small boy with
the angelic, infantile expression, who for a
long time past has made a speciality of find
ing trouble and appropriating II as his own.
in the comic supplements of numerous daily
papers. But Buster Brown" as a pictorial
creation and Buster Brown on the stage
demand altogether different consideration.
In the one case a great deal is left to the
imagination. whereas in the other we have
the veritable living embodiment Of the
artists creation. He is funny, a thousand
times more funny, than when held captive
in the comic newspaper supplement. The
piece itself is a very ingenious and alto
gether delightful combination of lively
music, sprightly comedy laugh, provoking
characterizations and side-splitting situa-
lions. There is bevy OF girls who have
been CARRIED in the latest and most luxuri-
Gus style The chorus is large and the show
girls exceedingly pretty.
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Lillian Burkhart and company, presenting
"A Strenuous Daisy" generally accepted
as the cleverest and most ambitious of
her numerous one-act comedies, heads the
new bill beginning the week at the Or
pheum with matinee today. The narra-
tive is that of young man at college who
has married without his parents knowl-
edge the very girl they are planning to
have him marry. Neither of the old folks
having seen her since she was a child,
they do not recognize her when she comes
home with their son. He does not tell
the old folks they are married, which
serves to bring about some amusing COM