Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15

tacular production progresses With renewed
thrill and realism
Gossip from staEeInnd.
Otis Turner, well known comedian, is
numbered among tho people engaged for
the college Widow company next season.
Harry Bulger In the Man From Now"
continues to crowd the fremont theater
Boston and this merry melange OF music
and frivoiity has captured New England.
The stay Of the Man From Now" Is In
definite.
on Monday last Mr.. Edward A. Braden
engaged Miss Irma La Pierre for the part
OF Aglaie, maid to Judith, In "Barabbas'
Miss La Pierre is young and pretty and
has been associated with the very best
organizations.
1t was announced yesterday in Edward
hearsals for Stanley Dark's new comedy,
1.-THE Man and the Angel" would begin on
Monday August 8. The first performance
will take place a month later at the Ly-
ceum theater, Rochester.
Charlotte Walker has signed contracts
with Edward A. Braden to play the part
Of Constance Pinekney In Louis Evan
shipman's new comedy, ION Parole" Mr..
Braden states that "On Parole is a play
of the civil war period and that II will
open the season at the National theater,
Washington, d. G. on September IL.
Blanche Ring is just now experiencing
1.-The irony Of fate" Miss Ring, who in
troduced the popularized In the Good Old
Summer Time" the song Of sylvan shades
summer committed to sing eight shows a
week right through the summer in torrld
New York Despite this activity the COM
medienne contrives to play hockey from
town at the end OF every week, from the
close Of Saturday nights performance until
the succeeding Monday afternoon. She
spends her week-ends at Long Beach. At
lantic City and Asbury. Miss Rings tour
in Dolly Dollars" under Charles Dllling-
hams direction, will commence septem-
Der
David Montgomery is expected back from
the other side about July Is Rehearsals of
The Red MIL" the new Victor Herbert
Henry Blossom extravaganza, for which
Montgomery and Stone have left THE
W., Wizard OF o." begin July Is; The open
given at Atlantic City Saturday evening,
September l.
Lena Abarbaneu, the charming canta-
trice who has created a sensation in Regi-
maid de koven's Student King" has can
cellcd her engagement to 20 abroad this
summer and will spend her vacation at
M MANN f,s NnsybaTd Rangely lakes In
role of lisa In the Student King when
the opera goes en- tour next season.
r. w. MacFarland, the well known young
department Of Henry ". savage sOe enter rtT.
prises, Is busily engaged in perfecting a
Photographic scheme for use in comic opera
productions. A studio has been erected in
the vast building owned by Mr.. Savage
on West Twenty-eighth street and many
novel advertising features are promised
Richard Carries long run of ffty-eight
consecutive weeks In The Mayor of Toxic"
Terminated on Saturday night at the Colon
ial theater Boston. His next musical piece
has already been christened THE Hurdy-
Gurdy Girl" Mr.. earle has written the
book himself, as always, and the music is
to be composed by II. L. Hearth, who wrote
the score of THE Tenderroot." earle GER
tainly has an enviable advantage in being
so well equipped to interpret his own cre-
atoms
Sarah Bernhard, once again in Europe,
is reported to have expressed an enthus-
astic admiration for Americans There is
no parasite class r. America she said.
They constitute a veritable nation in the
best sense of the word. They are proud of
their achievements and grateful to the land,
which, so to speak, recreated them, in
spired them with ardor and opened to them
vistas of boundless hopes. 1t is not aston
ishing that they should be inspired with
patriotic fire, which burns brighter no
where"
1t is reported from Paris that Sarah