Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-23

lHD GIRL FROM RECTOR'S'
win begin three days en-
Fagement In Omaha at the
- Brandeis this evening. A mat
fk inee will be played Tuesday
- afternoon. The story Of the
piece deals with young wife who tires Of
the mOnotony Of a small town In Michigan.
during her husbands absence and who
decides 70 see something OF the white
Lights" OF the metropolis. There she meets
many habitues OF the all-night circles and
the complications follow when she returns
to Michigan, to meet several Of the
FOUNDERS at the home Of a mutual friend
The origin OF the comedy is French and is
the work Of Pierre Weber, from which Paul
M. Potter made the English translation.
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To portray a woman's emotions, through
which she passes and suffers in the course
Of giving UP TO another the man she loves,
Is the task TO which Blanche Walsh has
set herself in her new play. THE other
Woman" presents the story Of a passionate
whole-souled woman who has given the one
love Of her life to a man who, she learns
too late for her own happiness, is already
married. The mans wife loves him as a
true wife should. moreover so that "the
other woman" faces the question OF whether
she shall place her own happiness before
that Of the wife. The man in question
loves "the other woman" and gains her
consent to elope with him. Just in time
however, she learns of the wife, and being
possessed of the quality of love which
seeks the happiness Of it's object as its
greatest desire, she decides not 20 separate
the husband and wife. but to have the man
return to his home where, she feels sure
he will find his love for his wife return in
the midst of old friends and home sur
roundings.
As Eleanor Gates in The other woman
Miss Walsh is said to have one OF the
strongest roles in her career. ''The Other
Woman" was written by Frederic Arnold
Hummer, who wrote the leading role with
the object Of having It played by Miss
Walsh. The producers found II exactly
suitable 20 her personality and extraor-
binary emotional powers, and Miss Walsh
/ herself regards the role as one OF the very
best In which she has ever appeared. Her
leading man is George w. Howard this
4 being his fourth season with Miss Walsh
in that capacity. Nellie Butlen another of
the principals In ''The other Woman" was
one of the chief supports for Walker White
side in THE Melting Pot last season.
Myrtle Vane, Fora Lawrence and Isabel
Mendoza are also prominent in the cast
The company comes to the Brandeis
on Wednesday for five nights with a
matinee on Saturday.
After an unusually prolonged and sue
oessful season at the Belasco theater in
New York. extending 70 over 300 perform
ances and a tour Of the large cities in the
east, Frances Starr will be seen at the
Brandeis theater for three nights COM
mencing October 81 in 1.-The Easiest Way
Eugene Walters play OF "a particular
phase OF New York life" She will have
for her engagement a company Of excep-
tionai merit, including Joseph Kilgour
Edward H. Robins, John p. Drawn, Louise
Randolph and Violet Rand, and the scenic
equipment will be identical with that pro-
vided by David Belasco for the run OF the
play at the Belasco theater.
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One OF the elements OF fun In the rip
roaring comedy, Seven Days" that win be
at the Brandeis theater shortly is a con.
spiracy 20 have a marriage ceremony per.
formed by telephone between a couple who
are pretending to be engaged to pique 9th.
ers OF whom they are Jealous.
"Old Heidelberg" that evergreen ro-
nance Of youth and life at a German uni
versity, with its flavor OF college days and
its moral that no man or woman can es
cape the inexorable law OF duty and des
tiny, is to be played at the Boyd thii
week by Miss Lang and her company