Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-21
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Approaching Attractions.

Promises OF the Press Agent ms to
Approaching Attractions.
Klaw & Erlanger will offer an interesting
production at the Boyd theater on Sunday
evening, when they will present for the
first time In Omaha Edmund Days drama,
THE Roundup" This play deals with life
in Arizona and New Mexico, where love,
hate and revenge are fuller and freer, like
the great plains which cover the land there.
and where law is lax In enforcement. Mr..
Day has thrown his play into four acts Of
one scene each, the first setting showing
the hacienda of the Allen homested in the
Sweetwater valley in Arizona. Here a we'd
ding takes place, the occasion bringing the
guests, the happy girls of the land and
the heterogeneous men Of the p~lace-vau-
queros, in picturesque outfit, cowpunchers,
broncho busters" scouts and the officials
of the country. The second act takes the
action to the home of the bride and her
new-made husband at Sweetwater ranch,
the living room of the house being shown.
For the third act Mr.. Day has chosen the
lava beds OF New Mexico, a land so bar
rem and hopeless that it is known as the
land of dead things" This bit of the
bad lands Is quite near the Apache res
e~rvation in New Mexico and the presence
Of a band OF marauding Indians makes a
dramatic climax to the act. The last scene
of all presents something of the great
sweep of the plains during a roundup of
the cattle belonging to the Sweetwater
ranch. The cast includes Maclyn Arbuckle,
Florence Rockwell. Orme Caladara, Harold
Hartsell, minnette Barrett, Elmer Grandin,
Walter Pennington, Marie Taylor. w. E.
Knibloe, Joseph NJ. Lothian, Fulton Rus
qal q T. Dtobord,a- IT. 49,
James Asburn, Jacques Martin, Texas
Cooper, cowboys, oavalrymen and Indians.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
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Mr.. Sothern appears at Boyd's theater
Monday evening. March /, in Hamlet"
in which play he was last seen here in con-
junction with Julia Marlowe. On Tuesday
evening he will play "Richelieu.' and on
Wednesday will be seen as Lord Dun
dreary. This character has proven the
most popular of any which the great actor
has yet given to the public and was the
rage of New York last season. To see
Sothern interpret the eccentric humor Of
Dundreary, as we'll as to witness the great
est comedy character Of the American stage
reappear upon 1t, has everywhere attracted
10 Sothern's performance the liveliest sort
OF the theater-goers. Sothern presents this
play with the original manuscript used by
his father, and besides the original bust
ness which the older Sothern had care
fully elaborated, Sothern breathes into the
character Of Dundreary his own individu-
ality. n play is given with a reproduce
ton OF the costumes used at the Theater
Royal. Haymarket, London, presentation
and sothern brings here the same organiza-
ton associated with him during the run OF
the play In New York last season.
The House Of Bondage is the new star
ring vehicle Of Miss Florence Roberts, who
opens a three days engagement at the
Boyd theater on Thursday evening, March
l. She has an excellent supporting com
pany and a magnificent scenic production.
"Sapho," which character Maude Leone
Is to portray the second week of her en-
gagement. at the Burwood. starting this
afternoon, is a dramatization OF Daudet's
great novel as played only by Olga Neither
sole. Sapho combined all OF the attributes
that go to make up what is known as a
mans woman" and yet Fanny LeGrand
(sapho was but a soubriquet) had many
warm friendships among her woman asso-
ciates. So wondrous were her charms that