Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-29
julia Curtis AkAe 0ceheum

<A ANAGER BURGESS Is now
AA able to definitely fix the OPEN
N ing date for Boyd's theater,
- the event occurring on the
ks<N&4KN evening of Wednesday, Sep
UHe1 TENDER 20. when the big Win
ter Garden show, Dancing
Around" with AL Jolson in the cast, will
be presented. Four nights of this will be
followed by five nights of TOO Many
Cooks" another of the big Shubert shows,
on october 3, 4, 6 and G ''All over Town."
with Joseph Santley in the lead comes for
october and Q. closing the Ak-Sar- Ben
season with as fine list Of attractions
as ever was presented here during the
carnival period Next comes Maid in
America" another big Winter Garden
show. which has been running all summer
in Chicago. and will be sent to Omaha
almost directly from the Windy City. This
will be shown for a week Walker White
side in "A Ragged Messenger" drama
tiled from the Locke story, Will be next.
then "EEigh Jinks." william Faversham,
and "Silk Stockings" with Sam
Sothern in the cast follow in order
The booking list for Boyd's SO
far containes dates for thirty
three OF the leading companies and prom
ises very brilliant season Some Of
there ara Dancing Around" with Al
Joison; TOO Many Cooks" Life" IAN
Over Town." with Joseph Santley; Maid
in America" the New York Winter Gar
don company, now playing In Chicago;
Walker whiteside In a new play. 'The
Ragged Messenger; High Jinks," a mu-
sical show under the management Of Ar
thur HAmmerstein; "A Full House" and
"a Pair Of Sizes" II H. Frazee's farces;
''Tho Only Girl Joe Webers musical
success; 1.-THE Lilac Domino" a musical
play; Forbes Robertson, in repertoire;
Hands Up" now playing the Forty
fourth Street theater in New York Cityi
"Androcles and the Lion" the Barker
Shaw production from Wallaclx's theater
of New York City; William Faversham
in ''Ihe Hawk" Passing Show of 1917, %
the New York Winter Garden company;
Bird of Paradise" 'T,rilby." with Phyllis
Nielson-Terry and an all-star cast; "Ex-
perience," '"rhe Blue Paradise" "At Last
Alone, Nobody Home" q musical play,
now playing the Elliott theater Of New
York City: Sinners" "a Pair Of silk
Stockings" Louis Mann In THE Road
TO Happiness;" Marie Dressler In a new
play; Taylor Holmes, in "Mr. Myd's Mys-
tery;" Grace George, In new playi "A
Modern Eve" Omar, the Tentmaker."
In the meantime. Boyd's is being bright
ened UP a bit and some changes are be-
ing made In the interior arrangement
that the patrons may be made more COM
Portable. From the front door to the back
wall, the house is being Thoroughly gone
over, and it will be we'll worthy its Inn
portant position in the stage world when
it opens its doors for the regular season.
Manager Zehrung of the Brandeis
makes announcement of the plans for the
coming season at that theater, which
will still present the attractions sent on
tour under the direction Of the Klaw &
Brlanger company. This will include the
productions of Selwyn g. Co., Cohen s.
Harris. the Charles Frohman corpora
ton, Charles b. Dillingham;, David Bel
asco. Flo ziegfeld and Klaw & Erlanger.
The first attraction at the theater will
be Mrs. Patrick Campbell. who comes on
Friday and Saturday OF next week In