Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14


kq89 winter season. II sounds little
Nt 9strange to talk OF winter" in
the middle Of the dog-day season. but the
stage and its affairs deal always with para
doxes. and the apparent climatological con-
tradicuon is as logical as a great many
other things that are down and excused
by the patient public, who look with some
thing of complsisance on whatever vagary
may be presented and called art. SO now
the announcements are here. One effect on
the local situation caused by the promised
competition in vaudeville is that the Or
pheum will open its season a week sooner
than was first announced, and on next Sum
day will give its opening performance. Man
ager Byrne had his instructions during the
week from Manager Beck, and has all
ready to fire the first gun. The Morris
people will adhere to their scheduled open
ing date, and on Monday, August 49, will
give the first show in the new theater
which will be known in common with the
other Morris houses as the American
Music hall. A most pretentious bill Is an
nounced for the first week The Gayety
starts on the 18th, so that within two weeks
Omaha will be placed under the most siren
uous test, that Of three theaters offering
each fourteen performances week, and
most of us are curious to know what VIII
be the answer.
The Boyd will open on Saturday evening,
August a. presenting Miss Lang at the
head Of a carefully organized stock com
pany, to play the season at the popular
house. The opening bill will be Love
Watches" with Miss Lang in the role
played by Billie Burke when the play was
offered at the Boyd last season under
direction of Charles Frohman. Manager
Woodward sends word that the company
will be here next week, ready to set about
rehearsal for the opening bill. Manager
Burgess of the Brandeis is not yet re-
turned from New York. where he went to
secure an opening show for Monday, Sep
TENDER 5. which is also Labor day. Man
ager Breed of the Krug will welcome his
patrons on Sunday evening, August %, and
the six Omaha theaters will soon be under
full sail for public favor.
.
When Miss Margaret Anglin was play
ing THE Awakening of Helena Richie"
at the Brandeis last spring, she told, among
other of her plans, that she intended to
produce during the coming winter a play
by Miss Helen Ingersoll Of The Bee staff.
Anglin that the piece was given a trial
performance at Seattle, and was very we'll
received. The star when here spoke with
enthusiasm of the play and said it would
be of great service to her 1t has been
professionally named Shifting Sands" In
this production Miss Anglin appeared for
the first time in her career in a character
role, creating the character OF Liz, a girl
OF the dance hall. This character is in
cidental in the story of the play, which
chiefly concerns a crisis in the life Of three
people man and woman who have come
from the ease OF eastern life to the stress
OF the plains, and a man, of the plains.
The play is in two scenes and the action
covers twelve hours.
William Morris, Inc, has wired Manager
Collin Of the American Music Hall that
the Barnyard Romeo" opera based on
Rostand's "Chanticler," will be the feature
of great galaxy of vaudeville stars for
the opening OF American Music Hall Mon
day evening, August 20. This same pro-
gram is now playing to capacity at Ameri-
can Music Hall, Chicago. The entire COM
pany of seventy-one people comes to
Omaha by special train direct Among the
well known people in the cast of 1.-THE
Barnyard Romeo" will be seen Adelaide,
the famous dancer; Sidney Grant, come
dian; Miss Mizza Hajos. the vennese
beauty who plays the part OF the hen
pheasant; ]. j. Hughes. as the cat; Frances
Lowe as the maybe, Joseph Keno as the
dog, Margaret Srearer as the sparrow.
Arthur Rulend the turkey. the Tod
Judge family of acrobats as the monkeys,
with chorus of fifty hens. hares, mice,
geese and parrots. Also there will be seen
the famous fox, the goose. the mother hen
and all the known characters of the barn
yard.
Owing to- the unprecedented mail orders
received for seats the management has de-
cided that in order to give everybody an