Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-30

was unhappy. she complained that abe
WITH Miss Messenger soiicitousiy i'm
quired We'll, Il looks like gold" Miss
Rehan confessed. but Il feels like thun-
der and lightning"
Among the first 70 enlist for police
duty in London after the call for 5000
volunteers, was Dallas Anderson. well
1 known I'm the United States for his excel
lent dramatic work. Mr.. Anderson plans
20 remove to the United States, but in
the meanwhile viii do patrol duty. Sir
| Herbert Tree. Cyril Maude and host OF
other prominent actors have also en-
LISTED.
j Suzanne jackson, the interesting dra-
| matte actress who staggered belief with
the aggregate number OF prominent
| women contributing TO American stagd
success, which she recently compiled to
prove that the women OF the stage are
the envied Of all her sisters, he's awak-
telling compliment TO the arts, indi-
eating that IN all the arts women are CO.
equal with the sterner sex
Mrs. Beulah jay, the Philadelphia man
ageress, who Is TO conduct a special re
that city this season, with eminent play
ers such as Ian Maclaren, Whitford Kane,
Hilda Englund. Wallis Clark and Mar
guerite Hertz, expressed the difference
between an actress and an artistic. AN
actress acts. while an artistic may have
Jumped out Of a balloon. or shot man
or caused king TO lose his throne she
declared.
Bertha Mann has returned to New York
ana joined the company reeharsing To-
day for Chicago. She had planned a
brief camping expedition TO follow her
liong and arduous season as leading
woman Of a prominent Canadian stock
company, but Manager Won Ttlzer, fear
ing the necessity of some changes in his
companies on account of the war, de-
termined to keep his hand well upon his
latest leading woman. Miss Valentine,
who Is to play the lea Leads IN tne eastern sIiI
open next week The Chicago company
follows within a week.
II there be any doubt about the value
| OF dancing let Martha Messenger of the
Blue Bird" tell you. Dancing Is purely
| n recreation, and while IL benefits one
physically. It aids the mind by making a
| pe. son forget their business cares. The
music is inspiring and arouses the best
| thoughts toward life and the realization
that one isexecuting dancing stepe grace
uIly affords pleasure which had as hats us
| to be happy. So, why discourage the
dance craze since it's benefits completely
! overshadow its detrimental features2
Well, as she says, "Why?
Z Marguerite Hertz, one OF the interesting
dramatic discoveries of the last season,
Is a Chicagoan. She was discussing the
, fatality of g little knowledge recently.
, "out in Chicago is an amusement park
, known as the Sans Souci One OF the
| residents had heard that the name was
, French and meant free from care but
, ance asked him what the name meant
he replied with readiness for which most
OF his kind are noted: " 1t Is from the
1 spanish he said, with pOmposity. and
means. I should worry"
Perseverance, may DO all right" Gil.
bert White, ~the American artist and
but nowadays art demands more from
its disciples. II demands energy. bril-,
. lance, originality" Mr., White smiled anc
> continued: Two millionaire business mer
a were iunchinE in Fifth avenue when ar
old graybeard stumped by. That's Brown
He works for me- said the first business
be got StaynR po OWs SsKed the sp seconc
q business man. He has that. said thu
first. He began at the bottom OF th'
ladder in '16 and he's stayed there eve
6 since
Is Margaret Nybloc has been cheated o.
= her proposed return to Scotland this sum
mer because of the demands OF her par
r in Kitty MacKay." which has beer
4 | playing some thirty -six weeks in New
| York. To lessen her nostalgia she ha
. invited clever English actress, Rhodi
y Beresford, to visit her, and after man,
n thrilling escapes, and what might hav'
y been escapes had they not been mer'
- alarms, she arrived on the Finland las
y week. Now Miss Nyoloc Is contented am am
- New York engagement, TO be followee
&c by an extensive tour later in the fall
ol Catherine ChlshOlIn GUSHING was lOr
n tunate in entrusting to Miss Ny
blocs remarkable talent the characte
of Mag Duncan. which Is one OF tn
RI uuaintest stage conceptions of the season
,eI Olive Briscoe, the vaudeville artist, wa
Ia q member of several dramatic companie
before she graced the vaudeville stage
N Miss Briseoe was a good actress. but de
10 cided early in life that as she was he
n own best friend she would first pleas
~ herself and afterward, II II did not con
ie flict with her own ideas of propriety, sh
n would please others In this mood sh
10 met a stage manager once who disagree
= with her artistic temperament. AFTER NV
le or three rehearsals Miss Briscoe came Z
the conclusion that the stage manage
did not know his business ana thereaIte
ne entered no longer into her young itt
II was q few days later that her elde
le els the new stage manager hard
please Ollie?" 81 am sure don't know,
J. was the nonchalant reply, Il never tried.
'e About July Of each year the theatres
managers return from Europe ladene
* with plans" for the coming season.
al tss plays ~ tS sse tSe 'h numS
theaters in New York now accepted q
being about three times too many Moul
st be insufficient to meet the needs. "Thes
- announcements bring to mind the remar
=, OF a negro cook down south. kine
aoutherner, observed. This negres
ID bengaRed as cook. announced to her mi!
VI tress that she was about 70 leave,
IN fact was leaving at that time me mlI
ress protested and ssk ,s tor Ssrs s a %
:. much ahiftin' OBJ de dishes in dis hous
~ 10; the fewness OBJ de things 70 eat.
=. AND" Mr. Powell concludes WITH
Z. smile. 'sthat Is a pretty good liustrsuo
to OF the theatrical sitnSeon; suoseo