Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-07

has just been completed. The hrst presenta-
ton will be given IT. Trenton, ". ].
Nine. Bernhard, during recent orief
engagement at Geneva Switzerland, &c
voted an evening TO the presentation OF
the role OF Hilda. 1t is claimed that this
was the first time the great French woman
ever played an Ibsen part and the critics
character which gave her no scope for the
displaying Of her emotional abilities.
in Key s s IT q, D 1saS WINS 1or ,e nsi5 10 Pu
Potter. the dramatist as advance induce
ment to collaborate with him in making
q dramatizaton OF Dixon,s story, The one
Woman" In the trial in New York last
week Dixon demonstrated that he had paid
Potter SOU to secure his services, but that
the latter had not lived up TO the terms Of
his contract. The court ordered that the
advance money be returned to the preacher.
Laura Jean Libbey has formed a partner
work with the latter upon the dramatiza-
ton Of her most popular stories with
veT TO having them PrESd hHS by s Tne
nished indirectly lot of melodramatic
stage material and now gets into the game
dramatic versions of several of her older
successes are well under way, and Will
be brought out from time to time As
inexhaustible.
London journals speak very favorably of
de la Pasture entitled Peters Mother,
which has just been played at Wyndham,s
theater, 1t tells simple story OF dot
ing mother who was almost ready to de-
sert the deathbed of her husband in order
to take charge OF her son, mere boy
and who lived to find her son utterly sell
fish and Indifferent to her sacrifices for
him. All ends happily. however, with the
still young, marrying the man of her
choice The piece seems to have owed a
great deal TO the admirable acting. OF
Marion Terry and that excellent comedian,
Frederick Kerr.
Having successfully launched the two
companies that are presenting The Clans
Brennan has turned his entire attention to
organizing the company that is to realize
.t Tas JInge Upton siISlGiTs thrilling
dramatized by Margaret Mayo and Mr..
Sinclair. Among those engaged to create
sadler. Marion Ashworth, Helen F. Ormsby.
Nina Ainscoe, Frank Sheridan, Edwin
Chapman, r; G. Turner Boyd Coleman and
number nearly thirty speaking parts, ex-
elusive OF an army OF extra people who
direction OF Frank Hitch. who staged THE
Clansman," and THE Jungle will have its
first production at Trenton, N. j., on No
vember 8.
Emanuel Lederer, who is the owner in the
United States and Canada Of the copy
pay ftelQelDerR, WnlCn was
heretofore so successfully produced by
Richard Mansfield, has obtained a final de-
cvree from E. Henry Lacsmbe. Judge OF the
United States circuit court for the southern
district Of New York. enjsining perma-
nently Geerge Morehead, who made an I'M
au utiDri translation; from in any way
only one to whom Morehead sold his trans
lation of "Old Heidelberg" was Dick Fer
Minneapolis, Mimi and an action to re- e.
cover, according to section 1866 OF the
United States copyright law, the damages
Heidelberg" for $3.50 has just been brought
In the United States court against Ferris
and VIII be pushed to final conclusion as
The famous old Adelphi theater in Lon
don Is celebrating It's centenary. At first
It was called the Sans PareiL. but since
Sir Walter Scott was all the rage, and
the theft first big productions INCLUDED 'kenil-
OShan anS Hs st a Fl Mlf
Well" In 1921 Pierce Eagan's tom and
Jerry" made great hit. and in 1880 came
Benjamin Webster's celebrated connection
with the theater began. Under his rule
Madame Celeste made deep impression
Forest" and her Miami in The Green
Bushes" John Reeve, Edward Wright
and J; L. Toole were successfully principal
comedians at this house. From 1850 started
the production of dramas by authors of
the class of Tom Taylor, Watts Phillips,
LlOn bOuClCdult ana CnarleS hedQe. WGD-
ster rebuilt the Adelphi in 1850. and the
Messrs. Gatti began their memorable ten
ancy in 1856 Latterly the theater has
been associated with the higher forms of
the poetic drama.
After a preliminary tour of three nights
Eleanor Robson opened her thirty weeks
season at the Liberty theater. New York,
with Israel zangwili new play. ..NuI Sc
Marjorie" on Monday evening. During
the course of the engagement Miss Robson
win present ten new plays at definite in;
w he nm. "a = "A
adapted for the Bnglish speaking stage by
Bread" by Leo Ditrichstein; The Girl
Who Has Everything" by Clyde Fitch;
gene w. Presbrey, from a story by Jerome
X. jerome: a new one-act play by Alfred
sutro and a new one-act play by MISS
fifteen years no actor or actress has made
the bold announcement that he or she
would take theater In New York and
weeks and during that time present ten
new plays. irrespective OF the success or
Me% york 81 a season Miss IL Robson %
taken to London, whore she will follow
the same plan of procedure during the sea-
Mr.. William T. Stead has been to musi-
cal hall. Why, he does not explain. He
is In no doubt. however, as TO what he
found there. He writes: For three and a
half solid hours / sat patiently listening
to the most insunerable bananty and inn
becility that ever fell upon human ears,
Compared with much Of the 'patter' and
semi-articulate gibberish that was heard
upon the stage. the gibbering OF apes at
the Zoo was an intellectual repast. Hour
after hour the dreary round went on.
Comedian succeeded Coincidence with mo-
notonous regularity. The elaborate organi-
zation OF the hall ground out turns as a
sausage machine forces cut its mince-
meat. Here and there came a welcome
splash of color from a human kaleidoscope,
as when the--Girls' were en- and there
was a juggler who was clever. but for the
most part the performance was unre-
neved by beauty as by wit. My second
impression, which naturally followed upon
the boredom, was one of wrathful indigna-
ton. II seemed intolerable that in Ammo
Domini 1906 the heirs Of a thousand years
OF civilization, and the product Of thirty
five years OF the education act, should
. relish this inane drivel. 1t was not the
immortality of the thing that reused me
SO much as the imbecility OF IL all 1t was
dificult to realize that the well-dresseo
ladies and gentlemen who had paid foul
and five shillings TO occupy the stalls, and
who approximately applauded vulgarities
which might have shamed costermongec
were citizens of an empire on which th(
sun never sets, arbiters Of the destinies
OF quarter OF the human race. / die
not feel that they we've vicious so much
as they were so markedly stupid and un'
ashamed"
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