Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

b@1-N ter Schatier Who heads the
IENSZN2i bill next week at the orpheum,
49, has been repeatedly asked
Manager Byrne. And this is now the in
quiry is answered:
TO people outside the show business
! know how Incredible 1t sounds that an
entertainer should draw a salary of 5000
week. 1t amounts to the same as say
ing that Schaffer earns enough in a year
TO pay the salary of President Wilson
CS75,0OO); the salary OF the ten cabinet
officers $4,000; the Ambassador to
England $4,000, and also the salary of
tho ambassador to Germany (Sl7,OOO).
How much II that? Makes a total of
s2SOooo. doesn't e? Well. schaffer could
pay that, and then have $4,000 left over.
out of his annual stipend.
How can the Orpheum circuit afford
to pay such a salary? I'll tell you. It's
for prestige. It's publicity event, and
not a money-making proposition.
Theatrical papers say that the tour
OF Bernhardt in vaudeville at $1,000 a
week was a money-losing piece of enter
prise. If that were true, it would still
have been worth while on the ground of
prestige.
1T is by these big events that ad-
vanced vaudeville establishes its stan
dards. The merchant, you know, some
times sell goods for less than the good
are worth. Why? In order to get his
store talked about
THE same thing holds good in the
show game. SO, on these terms. the
orpheum can afford to present the high
est salaried star in the amusement field
the man who actually receives SEQ a
minute"
Under Cover" Roi Cooper Megrue's
exciting new melodrama, comes to the
Brandeis theator for three nights begin
ming tonight with matinee tomorrow,
\Washintgon's birthday. with the endorse
ment OF New York City, Chicago and
Boston. in each of these big centers Il
has registered distinct hit having to
It's credit engagements OF forty weeks in
Boston and six months in Chicago. while
II It still one OF the big winners in New
York City despite the fact OF it's having
been there since the early part of last
August. Omaha will get the Chicago
company intact. which means in the
principal role the noted actor and star.
II. b. Warner, whose splendid acting in
the stellar role OF "Alias Jimmy VaIen-
tine won for him host of friends and
admirers. In his present part in Under
Cover Mr.. Warner is said to even sur
pass all of his former work. Supporting
Mr.. Warner arc Isabel Irving Rita Stan
wood, Frank Kingdom. William Court
leigh, jr; Thomas McGrane, Ruth Dom
nelly, Jay Wilson, Frances Stamford f.
NJ Dresser and Evelyn May.
Under Cover" Is modern melodrama
which means that it has been refined and
inc improbable element eliminated. Also
II Is free from Objectionable underworld
characters and nauseating white slavery.
The story OF Under Cover deals with
ths efforts of the United States customs
authorities TO run to earth a powerful
smuggier Stepher DENLY is suspected OF
smuggling into this country a pearl
necklace valued at $4,000. INSPECTOR
IaSlor OF the service learns OF il and
gets On the scent He allows DENLY to
enter unehailenged. as he Is travelling In
the party OF powerful political and soGal
persons but tracks him to a week-snd
party here he forces a young society
woman through his knowledge OF her
younger sister defrauding a burglary in
suranee company TO aid him. She dis
covers that DENLY is the man she loves
How she saves both him and her sister
furnishes one OF the biggest surprise
finishes ever offered on the stage
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Most Of the big popular successes on
the American stage came unexpectedly.
Some Of them have gone begging for
managerial recognition. while others were
thought of so poorly in advance that IL
was hard 20 find who wrote them. Among
the latter is Potash and Perlmutter, &"
the comedy founded on the Montague
Glass stories. which A. II. Woods win pre-
sent at the Brandeis theater for -four
lights and a Saturday matinee, begin