Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Picnic Tit Conan & Harris minstrel en-.
~tertainment, has been written and pro.
duced under the personal supervision OF
this prolific writer Of musical successes
IL contains all the atmosphere. liveilness
and briskness Of the Characteristic Cohar
musical comedy. There Is action ever,
moment from the rise OF the curtain I'M.
I'll Its fall. Mr.. Conan has devised a new
entertainment in minstrel production. and
has given to the stage what is reputed Ia
be its biggest and most pretentious Minis
trel performance. The old time vaudeville
features have been eliminated from the
program, and rave been substituted with
ensemble numbers Characteristic OF the
Conan musical shows At the same time
there is strict adherence TO all that Minis
trelsy implies, with Characteristic sketches
Of scenes in the southland and termina.
ton OF a one-sct musical minstrel comedy
entitled The Firemen's Picnic The frs,
scene Is entitled THE Crimson TrelIis. 8"
and Il has been pronounced one of the
most mammoth and beautiful scenic con-
ceptions the stage has ever witnessed.
In the semi-circle will be seen such we'll
known comedians as John King. Harry
Van Foseen, Earl Benham and Sam Lee.
while the vocal contingent has for its
principal star singers John Rogers. Voughn
Comfort and VIII Oakland. three minstrel
vocallsts, who have gained much renown
and reputation, and are considered among
the very best singers on the vaudeville
or minstrel stage.
At the BOYD Tuesday and wednesday
John Cort will present for the first time
In this city the new college girl comedy.
commencement Days" the joint work Of
Virginia Frame and Margaret Mayo.
There seems to be the best of intrinsic
reasons why this play has won excep-
uonal approval. Two of these are that Il
is native in locale and novel in charac.
terization. While the college boy has been
ftttingly and remuneratively exploited on
the stage, the college girl has been ne
elected. Virginia Frame, who is said 10
nave cleverly limned the types that
abound in Commencement Days" has
been fortunate In the collaboration Of Mar.
garet Mayo, a mistress Of stage technique.
But Miss Frames good fortune has not
ended there; she has won the Invaluable
advantage of interesting a progressive and
liberal movement. John Cort, possessed of
means, the disposition and the discrimina-
ton necessary, has given to Commence
a ~ OAhkAlOlA NIldL Is nOLn
handsome and correct, and a cast of dis
tinotive merit. the latter including Fred
erick V. Bowers, the celebrated singer.
comedian and song writer; Grace Hopkins.
Willard Louis, H. A. Morey. Edmund Nor.
timer, e.. #. o'Connor, Albert Roberts,
Amy Dale, Leila Smith, Catherine Carter.
Elizabeth Van Smell, Tip Smith and Oil
Vette Haines. The company totals fifty
people, of whom thirty are girls. Two
baggage cars of scenery are carried. A
special Wednesday matinee Will be given.
Eugene Walters celebrated play. paid
in Full" will be at the Boyd sunday and
Monday. II is a play which many say il is
a duty to see. People owe it to themselves
to keep abreast of the times in matters
artistic and literary, and Of these the
drama is no small part. In seeing this
play there is a happy combination of duty
done and pleasure derived, for Paid I'm
FulP' is entertaining to an exceptional de.
gree. II is a vital story of modern Amer
lea, and though It's scenes are in New,
York they might with equal fitness be laid
IN any American city. 1t is a real ana
faithful picture OF the world about and
II seems as If the author had picked I'D a
home and its occupants from ones own
neishborhood and put them down on the
stage that the public might behold them,
The cast sent here comes with a New York
reputation, where the play ran for two
years.
A stellar attraction comes to the Burwood
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. when
Dustin Farnum appears for the first time
IN this city in the new Harrington and
Wilson drama Of life in Louisiana in the
early thirties, Cameo Kirby" Whatever
Mr.. Farnum has done has always been
stamped with the mark Of an artist. and
1t has been regretted that Of late years he
has not had a play that offered him a
good chance to prove THE Vlrginian" and
The Squaw Man" are not the only types
that he can portray.
That this new vehicle from the pens Of
the authors of "The Man from Home has
given him the long-sought-for opportunity
is fully attested by the praise showered
upon him. 1t is structurally an excellent
play, fun Of incident and action, with here
and there a bit of pathos, and the name