Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04
This Week at the Omaha Theaters

5eiles 10 America and to the Rawson
country seat on Long Island. The Raw
sons are caste-proud lot and the en-
gagemcnt is looked upon with the utmost
favor. sine. the name ''Deselle" suggests
Norman-Istu-h ancestry. and the family
must be voi. old" The canoes aunt. who
Is the head OF his fathers household. a
snob like the rest. surrenders completely
to the grace and charm Of Mrs. Bump
stead-Leigh. whom she describes as the
perfect ideal Of an English lady
Events are moving swimmingly until in
spite Of all precautions. the De seile
family stalks abroad. Disturbing rumors
connecting the family with q place called
Missionary Loop. gain currency, and a
person by the name Of Peter Swallow. a
drummer In the tombstone trade, with
epitaphs while you wait, arrives on the
scene with conspicuous inopportuneness,
and with memories Of an old sweetheart
who had given him. as he expresses it.
the gO-by. a series Of most embar-
raising situations for the lady from
England" ensues. and she is forced to ex-
ercise every phase OF her mental ability.
Several times she seems to face the GER
tain collapse OF her house Of cards, for
added to other difficulties there IS sedition
In her own family. Disaster finally over
and irrenediable but almost at the last
moment she happens upon information
with reference to the scion OF the Raw
son family that puts new trumps in her
hands. and she proceeds to play them to
the limit, plucking an audacous victory
from what seemed to be certain defeat
From this ii may be gathered that the
role Of the social bucCaneer who is neither
immoral nor mercenary, Is one peculiarly
suited 70 Mrs. Fiskes stimulating per
sOnality and rare camedy talents. Against
the background OF suobbery and social
phariseeism Is thrown a genuine note in
the sentiment that springs up between the
younger sister who was to have been
sacrificed on the altar OF advancement,
and the younger brother OF the whited
sepulcher to whom she was TO have been
Joined. This younger son, from the family
viewpoint is a ne'er-do-well since he,
detesting the family sham and pretense,
had left the narrow, strangiing and hypo-
critical confines OF his home for the free.
open and unfettered life of the west, from
which he has just returned for a visit at
the opening OF the play.
Mrs. F1ske has never before appeared in
a role such as Mrs. Bumpstesd-Leigh but
she makes IL one of the most convincing
in her career, entering into Il, as one New
York reviewer put it, with gorgeous
comedy effect" The title role is not what
is usually known as a double role. but in
reality IL Is that, and the changes from
the incorporating English woman to the
Indiana vulgartan are Kaleidoscope and
hiIar1ously funny. Mrs. Fiskes support
ing company will be found to display the
usual Fisks care in selection and direction
while the production will evidence the
artistic insight and completeness Of de-
tail proverbial to Harrison Grey F1ske.
The Melting Pot win be staged by the
Lloyd Ingraham company at the GAyety
the coming week. Israel Zangwill, penned
the story OF The hitting Pot" Although
Walker Whiteside was seen as David ouix-
ano. a young Jew musician in The Melt