Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-13

RUMAfER time seems TO have
reached Omaha, even II the al
rnanacs DO not recognize the fact.
rhe tsrnpsrature for the last day
- or two has been much more con-
vincing than any announcement the weather
mar LID make. although II isn't too late
for him TO turn on the rain tube and cool
things down a bit But the amusements
OF omaha are going to a summer basis
strictly. The Boyd and the orpheum are
closed, but the Krug and the Burwood will
continue for some time to furnish forth
good stun for their patrons The outdoor
parks are getting ready and the announce
ment is already made that next saturday
Krug park will be opened for the season.
Manawa will fall in line little later and
Mr. Her promises that Dream city VIII be
a reality by July /. II is not at all likely
that Omaha folks will lack for place to go
during the long evenings that stretch out
between now and the time Of opening the
theaters next fall
one end of the theater Of which the
public knows all but nothing at all is the
pack OF the house" The lordiy manager,
the petted star, the saucy soubrette and
the swell leading man are seen coming
sionAl glimpse of other members Of the
company as they step onto the street after
threading the way from the stage door to
the sidewalk. This stage door is closed In
the face Of the inquisitive and the merely
curious. IL opens only to those who have
business beyond It, for II shuts out realm
Of work from a realm OF make-believe.
Here the star goes to his dressing room in
a hurry the soubrette busies herself In a
little pen before mirror with rouge and
powder to get ready and the leading man
and oil the rest are simply reduced to 30
many working units, and the manager
only comes for brief and occasional con-
situations with the stage manager, whose
law is absolute. And the stage manager $
army is not the gaily dressed chorus, nor
prima donna or the tenor or any Of those
folks, but the meek and lowly stage hand
who is never seen unless some mishap mars
the scene and requires his attention. While
the curtain is up he is standing ready 70
pull ropes making quick shifts of scenery
he operates lights, causing sunrises anc
sunsets, moon effects and darkness, light
ming and the storms; the winds are his
and the thunder and the snow and rain
come and go at his command, as he Is
directed by the stage manager. He fires
When the comedian falls downstairs in hli
hurried exit, It is the stage hand who
rattles the board on the ladder and cause
the sound heard by the audience, and wheT
the luckless lover falls into the conserva
tory the stage hand drops the box o.
broken glass that Stimulates the crash
And after the act is over it is the stag
hand who hustles away the baronial castle
with its moat and keep, and establishes II
lieu thereof the mountain pass, with tn
practical" roadway over which the heroin
dashes on horseback; or he removes tn
howell in which the heroine grovels In he
fear that her father will find her and tax
her home again, thus getting her foreve
out Of the clutches of the fiint-hearted vii
lain who has sought her destruction, AM
sets instead the drawing room Of tn
plutocrats modern mansion. All these AM
other wonders the stage hand does, 5
noiselessly and expeditiously that by tn
time the orchestra has sounded the con
GLIDING bar of the entre'acte complet
new scene has been built on the stage an
the audience frequently applauds as tn
curtain discloses the wonder that has beel
wrought