Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-04

by Vincent Bryant: staged BY william
Post The principals:
Otto vogelsburg. a musioian.-......-....-
...................-.....H Herman Hirschberg
Victor LeAferier. q paintsr. ................
........................Th Theodore A. Doucet
Brian McGonigaL a sculptor. ............
....- Nnarlea MoueHly
Neil Graham. a girl. .MadEe Kennedy
Jack Spencer. q man.. Henry Woodruff
Percival Clutterbaek. oonnoisour -,
..-s-..-s-.- - rank AeAuEu
Josephine vanDusen. a diiettante........
......................... Cassie Jameson
Mrs VanDusen. a mother......Tna Rurze
The "I-kncv-him-when" members are
likely to declare that they knew The
Genius when Il was The Genius and the
Model" II they desire TO pursue their re-
searches little farther they may look up
an old novel called "Armorel Of LyOnesse."
By Sir Walter Besant wherein is contained
the germ Of the plot What is more i'm
portant than this sntiquarianism Is the
fact that The Genius is now anus
ing little comedy. OCCASIONALLY striking q
farce note and again pulling out a muEi-
cal comedy stop. II IL play better suited
TO Harry woodruff than The Prince OF
Tonight popular, but generally overrated:
or the equally popular and unspeakahle
Brown Of Harvard"
Boiled down. the story 10 this. Jack spen-
Ger. long on money. short on culture,
breezy and debonair. wouia WOO and win
Miss Josephine VanDussn, a diHetante
debutante. When Il came to the art game
Spencer was a few chips shy on the pre-
Iininary deposit So he hunts up three
artists as good and as poor and unrecog-
nized as dramatic and literary eonven-
lions demand. and with these he conspires.
Result is fame for him: money for them.
rrnsaHr frrrH
the requirements OF a model so far as one
can Judge. Too great opportunity for oriti-
cal pronouncement on this Is not afforded.
Now what more likely than after Spencer
has the glory which would get him the
dinetante that he should then prefer the
other7 When he tries 70 slough off his
fame and glory. when he would inform ali
cf his fraud, he finds IL tough Job. A
critic who "discovered'' him has his own
reputation at stake and pulls oontrariwise.
The public votes the genius mind unhinged
and stin acclaims him.
Having reached an impasse on this tack
| Spencer veers to another. He and one Of
the artists have an overheard converse
/ ton In which he Is reluctantly, oh, so re-
luctantly. convinced by the artist that 20
marry his inspiration" would be Just abb
soIutely fatal TO his art Art demands a
I sacrifice. Josephine rather fancies herself
as a sacrificial votary Of Art and Spencer
( Is freed. No time Is lost in tagging the
model
Bluffing about knowledge OF art is ex-
eeIlent material for comedy purposes and
/ il is well utilized In The Genius" II IL
funny to see Woodruff rehearsing his pupils
when the dilletante. her mother and the
art critic first catch him reveling in his
4 a.
receiving admiring aesthetics. though one
Z or two Of these are frfghtful caricatures,
/ and It is more than ordinarily funny to
I hear him and his eonspiratOr sorrOWing
over the necessity Of the rupture with the
dinetante- In his serious love scenes Mr..
Woodruff is. OF course. effective. He is
/ interrupting himself more often than ever
before with sudden pIunges from the sub
/ lime or the near-sublime to the ridiculous
or comic. Incidentally II may be remarked
/ that be Is quite as goOd-looking as ever.
I His clothes, particularly in the last act,
must be intended with some degree Of
humor. The plumscolored evening suit
makes even Jim Corbetts chiaroscure
minstrel clothes seem tame.
Miss MRdge Kennedy Is the model Her
fresh young charms are numerous, and
though probably not long on the stage Is
playing with much skin. OF the others the
best acting is done BY Herman HirscbberE.
who IL the principal fellow eonspirator.
The Genius win be seen again this after
noon and evening.
/ some stage Land Gossip.
Billy Grew is now a member OF the Lyric
Stock company at Minneapolis. playing
leads
4
The fact that cirahame- White, the Eng
lish aviator. sailed for London On the same
/ boat with Pauline Chase is offered as con-
firming the statement that they are to
wed. And this does away with another
4 reported engagement for Elizabeth Sears.
In the same breath we are told that Miss
i sears Is to have q monoplane OF her own,
and intekds 70 san the sky all by her
lonely. What Elizabeth most needs is a
press agent
Mary Gardens saiome looks pretty good
TO several other cities. even IL Chicago
would not have Il 90. and she viii be
given AL needed opportunity to dance dur
Ing the winter Art" Is bound to be
served
That Albert ChevaIier. the English actor.
may see the opening performance OF his
ooun1ryW Miss Olga NetherHole. IN
/ Mary Magdaiens" az the New theater
/ December 8, Mr.. Chevalier's own New
York premiere has been put over. Instead
OF opening on scheduled time AZ The
Racket, Mr.. chevalier, in his new charae-
ter-eomedy in three acts. Daddy Dufard. %
viii make his bow Tuesday evening. De
| Gambler G.
According 20 Paris gossip Mrs. walker
Fearn. widow q the late United states
minister 70 Greece and R0umania- Is
dramatizing the more important ineidentr
In her book. The Dairy Of a RefuE.s ..
The play Win have for its title Genera
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