Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-14

Machavalius Fudge ........ Homer Lind
Wondrous Wise ........... w. II. Mack
1000 falry s....s.s.s....... Ross Snow
King Bum ................ Ben Grinnell
simon Simple ............ Willie Dunlay
KITS kringle ............... Bert Devlin
me t1ery Dragon ........... II. l.. Zeda
JACK Horner ............... Mae Phelps
Maize Bon Bon ....... Grace Orr Myers
Margery Daw ............. Nellie Lynch
Bdllle Lunn s..ss..s.s..... Marie Barry
My al, ''''''''''''''''; Helen mlller
MOON Girl .............. Beatrice Barnes
The Girl in White .... Dorothy Leighton
There is an air of superiority In 1.-THE
Gingerbread Man." presented twice yes
terday at the Boyd theater, that stamps
the production as something worth while
in fact, something more than worth
while. 1t is really an artistic 'fanciful
fairyesque," as the program announces.
There is musical hit after musical hit
fairyland scenes of childhood's happy
days illustrated with the aid of modern
stagecraft, mythical characters exploited
in a manner that arouses the risibilities
and smooths out the burrows of care and
catchy witticisms and young and bright
faces mingled with a symposium of good
things to make the whole an enchanting
entertainment 1.-THE Gingerbread Man"
is good enough to eat, at least, the "choc-
late eclairs" are.
The piece was offered here last season.
but at present writing is as fresh and cap
tivating as If Just released from the Land
of Bon Bon. The principals are the same
seen in the front row last season and the
choruses are strong in voice and of full
some figure and face.
Eddie Redway's abbreviated stature and
elongated nav" cover much ground dur
ing the time allotted to him as '"rhe Gin
rorhr l., Ia
Dough-" with chorus, he was recalled five
times at one of yesterdays performances
and with Miss Lynch in Nursery Rhymes Z"
had to respond time and again.
w. H Mack as wondrous Wise. Ross
Snow as the Good Fairy, Ben Grinnell as
King Bum and Willie Dunlay as Simple
Simon elaborated with Mr.. Redway in
the fun-mal1ing delineations. Homer Lind
as Machavalius Fudge. dealer in black art,
has a splendid operatic voice. His Queen
of My Dreams" with male chorus, Is one
of the hits Of the piece. Ross Shows bur-
lesque as the Good Fairy is cleverly done.
Imagine an angular six-footed creature of
the male persuasion, in pink tights above
the knees and a hounce around his waist
carrying wand and the key to fairyland
Mr. Snow says 1t is great to be a fairy.
Mae Phelps as Jack Horner, Grace Orr
Myers as Maize Bon Bon and Nellie Lynch
as Margery Daw are pleasing In their
respective roles.
The story of THE Gingerbread Man" is
a simple little fairyland tale of love The
performance will be repeated this and
Tuesday evenings
Lord and Lady Algy" at Burwood.
Comedy of very light character is pre-
scented this week at the Burwood In the
three-act play, Lord and Lady Algy."
There are no heavy problems to vex the
minds of the audience and no very serious
soul crises to tax the abilities of the cast
The humor Is not at all subtle and consists
principally In complicated situations and
the babbling of a drunken lord at a fancy
dress ball ''Hinglish" slang of the race
track permeates the lines and the listener
of a studious turn of mind can get both
amusement and instruction, turning 1t into
the strong and forceful language Of the
American turf
The plot ranges around the troubles of
Lord Algernon Chetland and his wife, who
have quarreled over the merits OF Turkish
and Egyptian cigarettes and two rival
racing stables. They are living apart, and
the situation lays Lord Algernon open to
suspicion as to his conduct with other
play he is induced unwittingly to assist
his brother. the marquis of Quarmby, who
stands before the world as an emlnently
respectable and discrete man, in a proposed
elopement with a married woman. The
affair comes within an ace of being dis
covered, and naturally Lord Algy is sus-
pected of being the guilty man. He shields
his brother and his estranged wife appears
on the scene Just In time TO give a plausi-
BILE explanation to the whole affair. and II
IL closed up with everybody happy and the
guilty pair repentant and still unsupported
Lord and Lady Algy discover the true in
wardness of their souls, she consents to
smoke Turkish cigarettes with him and he
acknowledges her superior horse sense
She takes of her hat and decides to stay,
and the curtain goes down on a reunited
family.
Albert Morrison goes we'll in the part of
the sporty Lord Algy and he does an I'M
usually large amount of work in the three
acts. Miss Adams is at her best In the
part of the light-minded. breezy Lady AlRy.
David NJ. Hartford fills well the place of
the emihently respectable marquis of
Quarmby and Charles Schoefield is right In
his element as the wronged and duped hus-
band. Brabazon Tudway. Miss Hin also
mas q prominent part In the cast as Mrs.
Tudway. The support is OF high class
and the staging OF the play Is excellent.
Vaudeville at the Orpheum.
A little bit OF everything except instru-
mental music and song and dance Is In the
bill at the Orpheum this week. It Is mostly
good comedy. though Patrice and her com
pany are Offering a little sketch of western
life built along lines that are 30 popular
nowadays. A waif is raised to womanhood
by a rough old miner A rich young man
falls in love with her, and at the psychology
teal moment she is discovered to be the
daughter of family as good as anybody's
II is IN the working out, though, that the
little sketch glstens. and the star and her
assistants do II well enough to secure warm
applause. Nick Long and Adalene Cotton
have a sketch that enables each to appear
in more than one character, and make a
little goOd-natured comedy as we'll as pre-
senting several interesting studies. Miss
Cotton bears the brunt OF the work and
does II with finish. Mr.. and Mrs Allison
present their sketch of last season, Min
ME from Minnesota" and II still gets the
laughter. Anna Chandler initiates some
well. known singers and comedians and sings
the songs as well as one would wish to hear
them Shields and Rogers are experts with
the laTiat, and do things with their noosed
ropes that seem out OF reason They have
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