Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

woodward Stock company will
entrain for Kansas City wher- for brief
time It will add to the soy Of living at
the mouth OF the Kaw. Something is
needed TO make life worth living while
down there, and the base ball team doesn't
furnish It. A week later the Krug will
close its DOORS and the season will be
over. Not quite, for one week still later,
and couple OF days, TO use a Weber
heldian expression, Nat Goodwin will come
boating along, on a cometary, rather than
starring, tour ana will furnish the last
spark, after which the theaters will be
turned over TO the renovators and the
people to the parks and the ball games.
Manager Burgess has already let contracts
Tor putting In the new chairs at the Boyd
next season, and for the information OF
those who want TO match up with the
color scheme and like TO be notified in ad-
vance. he vouchsafes the information that
the aforesaid chairs are to- be done in
leather OF a dark maroon color Mr.. Bur-
CESS IL dealing with a couple OF Omaha
firms now for the carpets and draperies
that are TO greet the patrons when the
BOYD opens next September for the new
season, and expects 10 also let shortly a
contract for the redeoorating OF the in
terior. II Is to be all done over and the
sketch plans are being prepared now. This
includes new drop curtain. The Kr,ig
and the Orpheum will also be given a
summers renovation and will be bright
as new when the curtains go up again.
AZ the Burwood not much will be needed,
but whatever is required will be attended
to. for the managers all look for a busy
season next winter. even II the shuberts
have signed all the stars and engaged all
the play writer's OF the world
speaking Of the shuberts, that enter
prising combination has recently made an
other Intellectual attempt 70 induce local
capital to erect another theater in Omaha,
but without success. Omaha men with
means to build theaters are willing that
the shuberts and the Syndicate" should
hight 70 their hearts content, but do not
feel like furnishing any Of the snews to
be used In the warfare. Omaha can we'll
support one irst-class playhouse but two
would be ruinatlon 20 both. Further, on
the shubert line: 1t isn't impossible that
New Workers will get some of their amuss-
ment little cheaper in the future. Mr..
Charles Frohmap is TO present" at the
Academy of Music, beginning on Monday
evening Mr.. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in
round of Shakespearean plays at pop
ular" prices, and at the same time the
Shuberts put on one of their big musical
productions in a Broadway theater at
which 81 will buy the best seat in the house.
The dollar vaudeville house is already doing
business in New York and this seems to
suggest that maybe next season one may
see a good show on Broadway and not
have to give up more than the price Of a
weeks board FOR the ticket. Whatever the
result the present undertaking seems to
indicate that some sort of an agreement
will be reached between the warning fac
lions. The surest indication of the end is
when the rivals begin to cut prices. And
in the end the public or the angel" will
have to foot the bills
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When you read the following SANDER
which has been told in a number of east
ern newspapers during the winter, and
latest in the New York Times, recall the
fact that 5000 people paid to see the d.
vine Sarah die OF consumption at the Audi
forum last winter, and you will under
stand how little # takes to make good
story sometimes:
In the death scene Of Camille" Mar
guerite, with her eyes already partially
glazed and staring, is supposed TO declare
Il see a facet referring to Armand s
Business was all to the bad in Omaha
once, when the divine one, gazing into
the unkn Jwn-repre scented by empty benches
with wonderfully realistic, woeful voice
cried
Mr.. Louis " De Foe, writing for the New
York World, reviews the season in New
York at some length and to some purpose
He says In the course of a page article
Ask any manager what has been the re
suit OF the last nine months OF play-goinl
and he will answer that Il has been a gilt
tering success. So 1t has-from his poin
of view, There is no longer question tina
the theater is organized and maintained OF
a strictly commercial basis. The specula
tors who control II measure its success b!
the box ONCE returns In dollars and cent
and the business advantages that accTu
from complete command OF It's product
the public has spent it's money freely
balances are on the right side OF the ledge
and the prohts are greater than even tn
most sanguine managers had reason to ex
peet
But ask any person who Patronizes tn
theater regularly and regards the dram
as something higher and better than
commodity in trade and he will answer tina
the. season has been uncompromislngl
native playwrights have failed 20 come u
to their own standards. The reigning Eng
lish dramatists have scarcely been hear
from at all No translated drama of con
spicuous value has been produced. Out @
the list Of sixty-eight new works less tina
a dozen will see the light of another yea
and only two or three have exhibited qual
tiles that will insure their permanenc
The general plane Of this season has bee
below that Of last. IL has furnished n
comedy as sympathetic ana true as IL
Music Master" no melodrama as absorbin
and effective as lea Kleschna," no tras
edy as dignihed and pure as "Adrea
These plays. indeed, have continued to con
mand greater interest than the best Of III
productions that came after them.
CHANGING over the list Of productions
the twenty Eight theRters that take n
Initiative In the dramatic affairs OF Anne
lea, only four plays stand out in d.
servedly bold relief. They are J: NJ. Ba
rie's Peter Pan" Charles Klein's "Tl
Lion and the Mouse" David Belasco
'arhe Girl OF the Golden West" and +
win Milton Royle's THE Squaw Man"
Four other plays are only short pace b
hind them. They are George BernRl
Shaw's Man and Superman," Edwal
Peple's THE Prince Chap" Alfred sutro
'sThe Walls OF Jericho" and Henri Law
dams '"The Duel" The rest OF the year
ton Of the German classic, Don Carlos
merge into blur OF inartistie moons
quence.
These eight plays, generously patroniE,
through the several months OF their run
bear testimony 20 the increasing cath
lcity Of taste on the part OF New Yol
theatergoers, Similarity In subject al
treatment exists between only two-"Tl
Girl OF the Golden West" and THE Squa
Man" The others have no points in cor
mon. In fact they cover almost the enti
range Of what now passes under the mar
OF stage literature
And In this new evidence OF cathoiic IA 4