Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-03
AZ THE pLAYHuusts

Fay Templeton and company in Forty
hve Minutes From Broadway, a comedy
In three acts. by George N. Cohnn, win
incidental music by the authori under the
direction Of Conan a Harris The cast:
Mary Jane jenkins. the bousenlaid. ~
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Fay Templeton
Flora Dora Dean. a footllght favoriteA
Mrs. David Dean, her mother. Julia Ralph
Mrs Purdy' a resident OF New Rochelis;
Tom Bennett the ber-at.ia Svat,on 9.se
Kid Burns his secretary ~. Louis Hsines
James Blake. public administrator man ii.
Daniel Cronln, In the mining business
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. James ii. Manning
Andy Gray the butler. louis r. Grssl
station Master. ............. maurice Ehlott
Police Sergeant.............Fl Floyd r.. Francis
Messenger Boy........... Charles Friedland
Twenty-Five years and little over ago
a slip OF a girl with a figure. face and
voice that have never been forgotten
by those who saw her, sang her way into
the hearts OF the Omaha people, and through
all these years she has remained enshrined
in the warmest affections OF those who
have watched the girl grow into the woman
as the town has grown into the city. Fay
Templeton has never been less than ia
vorite in Omaha. and in all likelihood Will
never be- II is no disparagement to George
NJ.
company, to say that the great bulk OF the
people who assembled at the Boyd the1ter
last night went there TO see Fay Temple
ton. The two names are so intimately
associated in Omaha that the one ALWAYS
suggests the other. For Fay Tempieton
opened the Boyd theater at Fifteenth and
Farnam streets-the first real theater
Omaha had-and that first performance OF
''The Mascot" Is just as we'll remembered
by those who were fortunate enough to
see IL as Is the delightful performance she
gave last night. Never mind, Mary: you're
not the only one who has put on flesh. for
time has not stood still with any OF US
who encored Bettina that night; but the
statute OF limitations hasn't run yet. and
while we are nearer forty-ive hours than
forty-f1ve minutes from Broadway, you
are always good for house in Omaha,
and you can work off stun here as old as
Kid Burns handed to the New Rochelle
yaps That is, II you want to. But, II you
come as you did, with piece that lets
YOU revei In the NERVOUSNESS Of your ma
ture wit and allows you TO display your
wonderful capacity for droil fooiery and
TO enfold all in the richness OK your un-
aduiterated humor, you will be douoiy well
come.
a queer combination of comedy and meio-
drama. nut together with much technical
skill and permitting the introduction OF at
least two clearly cut characters, In addi-
ton TO the conventional persons who move
through MAYS Of all sorts. Mary Jane
| Jenkins is a housemaid, and In the develop
ment of her peculiarities Miss Ternpieton
| has shown a capacity for comedy that Is
1 far and away beyond what was expected
| of her She has lifted play that would
have been merry funny in the care Of less
gifted person to the realms OF genuine
merit, and has given IL vogue that 1t
! doesn't intrinsically deserve 1t Is quite
| likely that MIR. Conan saw the possibilities
| of the role in the hands OF competent
person. and yet II Is improbable that he
expected It to be so endowed with delight
| full life, as 1t has been by Miss Templeton.
| She has certainly enriched the authors
dream until II is scintillating gem. And
| all with her demure little ways, her grace
In spite of her figure, and her assumed
awlswardness that is the more laughahlt
because II is 80 palpably assumed. And
| the full, rich tones of her voice are as
caressing as ever. her little ripping laugh
is a delight as of yore. and the merry little
twinkle that sparkies now and again In
her eyes is quite as bewitching as It ever
| was.
Mr.. Maurice Elliott Is playing the part OF
Kid Burns, Mr.. Victor Moore being Land
up In Denver with typhoid fever Elliott
gives very satisfactory presantment OF
the worldly wise young man. full Of city
slang. suddenly set down in country
community He doesn't overdo the parI
and in the one or two strong scenes that
are his reaches the climax quito naturally
The desire was strong to see Mr.. Moore
in the part, but Mr.. Elliott doesn't need
to apologize for the work he did last right
The others in the cast are quite capable
Of giving Miss Tempieton the splendid sup
port she deserves
The piece is staged very appropriately
and the incidental music is OF the catchy
Cohan type. The principal songs, Mary
Is a Grand Old Name" and $50 Long
Mary" were already well known but Miss
Templetons singing OF them was mono tbs
less enjoyable for that reason. The H I'd
theater was il.ed last night with an audi
ence that was quite demonstratlve in ia
enthusiasm, and which showed every OK
ternai symptom of being highly enter
tanned by the performance.
"Forty-hve Minutes from Broadway will
be repeated each evening during the week
and at matinees on Wednesday and Satur
day.