Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-23
At the Theaters
"Peter Pan" at the boyd.

Eva Lang and company in Peter Pan" a
comedy in four acts produced under the
direction Of .. ID. Woodward. The cast
of characters:
Peter Pan ......................M Miss Eva Lang
Mr. ng................ Mr.. Frank Dudley
Mrs. Darling ......... Miss Marie Hudson
Wendy Mora Angela Darling. ........
......................M Miss Ethel Valentine
John Napoleon Darling.
.................M Master Walter NORMAN
Michael Nicolas Darling. .......Neta Bayne
Liza...,................. .Marjory Bayne
Mana urse)..............Mr. Clinton Tustin
Ilnker Bell............ .Herselt
Members of Peters band
Iootles. Miss judith Harl
Nibs.. ..............,..,,..Mi Miss Evelyn Monroe
Slightly. Miss Alice Ballentine
Curly. .................M Miss Mayme Williams
FIRST Twin. ...................M Miss Kate Smell
Second Twin.......,,......M Miss Gene Harold
James Hook (the pirate captain) ........
......"..............Mr. Theodore Friebus
Pirates
Since. Lloyd Ingraham
key.............,.....M Mr.. Ralph Marthy
CocCo.......,............ William Hayes
Mullins. ................,Mr Mr.. Clarence Austin
Noodier. .,...............Mr Charles Grazier
Redskins
Great Big Little Panther. Mr. Mithers
Tiger Lily............Mss Kathryn Sheldon
More than ordinary talk has preceded
tho engagement which began last night
because of interest in the players return
ing here from Kansas City, because of
interest in the play selected for the open
ing and particularly because of consider
able eagerness to see Miss Lang in the
role of Peter. To this interest was the
testimony Of a crowded house and the
quite veracicus reports of hundreds more
turned away.
Those fortunate enough to gain entrance
were well rewarded. Not only is Miss
Lang remarkably successful, but the play
nat
ing is pretty close to being the greatest
achievement ever made locally in stock.
Little need be said in praise of Mr..
Barrle's fantasia. Peter and Wendy,
Nurse Mana, Tinker Bell and the Pirate
Captain have been voted into immortal
memory by all not wholly deaf to the call
of childhood days and Peters wish never
to grow old will be realized. He is a boy,
indeed, as Miss Lang plays him. boyish in
carriage and voice tone, in mental attrl-
butte, in fervor and braggadocio. Except
for her and Miss Valentine as Wendy the
play does not carry many opportunities for
the actors as individuals. But as the
Pirate Captain, Theodore Friebus, a new
leading man here, does show himself pos
sessed of many of the qualities which &c
to make an excellent actor and his play
ing in a less grotesque role will undoubt-
edly evoke great admiration. Miss Valen-
tine is In a part more thankful She Is a
sweet, glrlishly appealing little Wendy; q
superb foil for Miss Langs Peter. Miss
Hudson, who is the bereft mother, shows
consistently steady gain in art, playing
! the scenes with the children with beauti'
| fully delicate tenderness. Mr.. Dudley Is
the husband 1t is a foolish sort of part
wherein Barries satirical spirit nearly rar
away with him. Mr.. Dudley develops the
comedy of the role to advantage. Another
old friend, Lloyd Ingraham, has little tC
do this week. He is cast as Since of the
pirate crew. The real child actors of the
company are rather better than the aver
age of their years.