Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-11

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VssSy New York and Chicago. Mr..
Anuer's engagement is for Monday, Tues
day, wednesday and Thursday evenings.
and Wednesday matinee.
Her Husbands Wife,"was one OF the
first clean-cut successes OF last season.
The story Of the play sets forth the adj
ventures OF a hypochondriacal young wife
who fancies herself about to die, and who
determines to pick out her successor. The
girl she chooses is quite plain, or at least
seems so in the careless unbecoming
clothes she wears. She is not apt the
wife thinks, TO make her husband forget
his decidedly pretty first wife. The second
wife-elect is not pleased at the insinuation.
She pretends to fall in with the scheme,
and then proceeds to deck herself ont in a
stunning Paris costume and makes a dead
set at the husband. The wife becomes
furiously Jealous, and from that point on
the play teams with amusing situations,
which are given full emphasis by Mr..
Miller and his brilliant supporting COM
pany. Omaha will see the original cast
that carries Her Husbands Wife" to
success last year. Mr.. Miller continues in
the role of the uncle. and Laura Hope
Crews is still the pretty, foolish, young
wife. The other important roles are played
by Josephine Lovett, Walter Hitchcock and
Charles Gotthold, and the minor characters
are cleverly portrayed by the original
players. There win be no advance of prices
for Mr.. Miller's engagement beyond the
regular scale customary at the New
Brandeis. At the Wednesday matinee pop
ular prices will prevail
1t is Just a year since Miss Billie Burke
started out on her first starring tour in
Love Watches" AS the girlish heroine of
that piece she was charming. Now she is
coming back in another play, Mrs. Dot" a
comedy by W. Somerset Vaughan, and the
New York critics say she is more charm
ing than ever. But then in this piece she
has the role of wealthy young widow and
widows, II is well known. have q peculiar
fascination for some men. 1t will be just
as we'll for local theater-goe to investi-
gate for themselves when Miss Burke
comes to the Brandeis theater on Friday
and Saturday evenings, September 16 and IT,
In Mrs. Dot" Mr.. Vaughan has conceived
the whimsical notion of having a young
and beautiful widow, endowed with the
additional fascination OF untold wealth
spurned b. the man she loves and to whom
she offers her hand and pocketbook. Well
scribe the situation The man is willing
enough, but he has previous engagement
and touchy sense of honor compels him to
say no when the widow pops the question
Mrs. Dot, however, is used to having hel
own way and she won't take no for al
answer. How she finally wins the husband
she wants-thats the play, and Mr.
Vaughan tells the story in his own peculiar
way. There are several other good char.
acters-character drawing is one OF the best
things Mr.. Vaughan does-and Charles
Frohman has provided some excellent
actors to impersonate them
In Caught in the Rain" which is to be-
the bill al the Boyd this week, the Wood
ward Stock players win have one of thu
best chances OF the season to show theil
quality as farceurs. The play is light, bu
snappy, and is fairly loaded with gooC
things in the way of bright lines, witty
edgrams and humorous situations. Much
too. depends on the staging and the mettlt
OF the director will be tested as we'll a;
that of the players. Miss Lang will hav,
the role of Muriel Mason, the young woman
who tames the woman hating engineer
Dick Crawford, to be played by Mr.. Harris
The others in the company will be wei
cared for in the long cast, which requires
the use of all. Director Brown has worked
assduously all the week in prepar
ing for the production which now look
as II 1t were going to be perfect. The frs
performance will be at a matinee today
and other performances will be given dur
ing the week, with matinees on Thursda!
and Saturday.