Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-12
MAYOR JIM HERO IN DRAMA
Omaha's Chief Executive is Chief
Element Of New Comedy.
IAN INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE"
Author Makes Mayor Former Laun-
drymRn Instead OF Cowboy aud
Father of Girl who MarrIcs
Omaha Congressman.

Mayor Dahlman has been dramatized.
He appears in George Brosdhurst's new
comedy. International Marriage as
the father OF a young woman who wishes
TO marry the nephew Of a European king,
with the king objecting strenuously. one
might fancy that the father OF the girl Is
Senator Elkins, but not so, because the
program OF the comedy distinctly says that
the father is mayor Of Omsha-severa
times elected such.
Now daughter is a little flighty, and
while she thinks she wishes to marry the
duke. she is really in love-according TO
the drama-with a Nebraska congressman.
whom she ultimately marries. This con-
gresham is made to come from the con-
gressional district in which the mayor lives.
Mayor Jim is pretty well disguised in the
drama. Instead OF being a former COW
puncher, he is a laundryman who brags Of
being self-made through his wringing ma
chine. Dahlman's own preference would
probably be the lariat instead Of the mangle
and a decollete revolver in place of an
ironing board.
Say lie il SlRnEy.
According to franklin Fyles, who writes
OF the play. Mayor Dahlman, who goes
under the ~resounding name OF Bennington
DAtht ~ AAS pay 10 ibhh NN'NNNN ~
slang, and this is, Of course. a gross libel,
for past the barrier Of the mayors lips
there never wells forth aught but the purest
stream Of English undefiled.
When the duke asks him for his daughter
and she wants him to say yes he blurts out
to the young fellow: you look like the
goods all right, but won't know you for
a sure good thing till I've run you through
my wringer." And, then again. when the
duke is spoken of as likely to fool his
daughter the mayor casually remarks
HE stands as much chance as a dog with
tallow legs chasing an asbestos cat through
h-L"
This proudest day OF my life" he re-
marks when congratulate ted on his daugh-
ter's engagement to the possible heir to a
throne, isn't this one. but the day that GW
leading Omaha men ~banquetted me after
my last reelection to the mayoralty, and
every one wore a shirt done up in a
laundry of mine"
"Gadzooks!' quoth Mayor Dahlman wher
he read that he had been put in a play
"Methinks this Broadhurst wight mus
have been seEely shy on material.
which Senator is Hef
Now this Senator Williamson who ap'
pears in the play. Wonder If that Is
Burkett or Brown. There was unconscious
humor in Burkett's bill to make every maj
sing Mother, Mother, Mother, Pin a Ros'
on Me- while Browns opinion of himself
hath a comic effect in a contrast way.
This making me out crude, slangy snC
abusive is a trifle unkind. but l suppos'
every little bit of advertising helps. Thi
banquet business must have been the las
time SO ate goat. 1t could not possibly b'
the Jacksonian dinner"
Mayor Dahlman goes to the theater rathe
infrequently, his last visit being when Ed
win Holt played The Mayor and the Mani
cure" here. However, he announces that /
AN International Marriage lasts lonl
enough to get to Omaha he will give a boz
party. 1t is likely though that the new
Broadhurst play, so-called, will perish a
quickly as the dog with the tallow legs