Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
Gossip About Plays, Players and Playhouses

beauty have been the object rather than
bombastio luxury The pfoscenium IL sup
ported by two great columns, and In front
OF IT, forty feet above the moor. hang three
Greek lamps. seven feet in height. The
general tone of the auditorium Is a golden
mahogany, the walls decorated In a most
unusual style with tapestry made in
France, relieved by bun stone OF which
the balconies. boxes and proscenium are
built. The curtain Is Of dark red velvet.
with an edge OF tapestry eight feet deep
and showing a reproduction OF the famous
frieze Of Dionysius. There is large lobby,
and so many exits that the house when
crowded to its capacity can be emptied in
three minutes. The company sur
rounding Miss Russell at the Astor
II an unusually strong one, includ-
ing Edwin Mordaunt. Atkins Law
renee. Oswald Yorke. Lionel Adams. Ed
ward Jongman. Thomas CONN Cooke, Will
liam Gilmore. John Bunny. Richard Lee.
Wilmer Dame, Hubert Osborne. Edith
Chapman Catherine Proctor. Lansing
Rowan James Young. Ina Brooks. Bessie
shrsdnecky, Leon Strauss Winnie Burns,
William Brown, Bertram straus. Belle
Fairchild. Jennie Irwin. Elizabeth Dodd-
ridge, Dortea Deveney.
Coming Events.
Edwin Arden. in the picturesque drains
OF western life. Told In the Hills" Will
be the attraction at Boyd theater four
nights, beginning Sunday, September %
matinee will be played Wednesday. Mr.
Arden has long been recognized as one
OF the finest actors OF romantic roles on
the stage and his coming in Told in the
Hills IL one of the important dramatic
events OF the season. The play Is dram
atization by Marah Ellis Ryan of her novel
of tho same name. The story deals with
the love of Genesee Jack, a cowboy and
scout in Montana, for Rachel Hardy, an
eastern girl visiting on her brothers ranch.
Genesee Jack Is a supposed pariah, who
IN the retrospect, TO give his brothers
child a name. has married a woman he
does not love, and has gone forth into the
growing west to 1pd solitary happiness
Here he meets Rachel Hardy, and in the
first act he saves her life by rescuing her
in an ail-night snowstorm. During his alb
sence horses from the nearby cavalry
camp have been stolen. and Captain Holt
an officious young West Pointer. unfa-
miliar with Indian campaigns accuses the
scout Of being in league with the thievine
Blackfeet Indians. Genesee Jack refuses
to explain his suspicious absence of the
night before; because to keep undefiled the
young woman's name, he will not tell that
he was with her on the night of the
storm. While Geneset Jack is under ar.
rest the Kootenai Indians approach on ar
errand Of peace, but the laundering Holt
fires on them and kills the son Of theil
chief. This precipitates an Indian uprising
and the critical situation in the third act
MI to aYfrr M
Genesee Jack proves to be the only mar
capable Of saving the party. In the last
act word comes that Jacks wife is dead
and he In free 10 marry Rachel. Told ir
the Hills'' enjoys the distinction of having
been presented successfully all summer al
Powers theater, Chicago, and II will b,
seen here with the original cast and com.
piete scenic production. under the direction
OF the VIII J. Block Amusement company
The Viola Gillette Opera company in the