Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-03

asked to play seven nights and -four
matinees each week, besides attend
ing daily rehearsal, one might be
pardoned for asking what Miss Leone
would do il she took notion to get
busy.
The Krug opens Saturday evening,
September 10, The opening play will
be Augustus Thomas Arizona Will
liam's Select players will be equal in
every phase to masterful presenta
ton, says Manager Billy" Cole, The
regular announcement will be made
of the opening OF the box office, and
until then no seats will be laid away.
Hawaiian, Egyptian. Greek and
East Indian dances will be the head
line feature OF this weeks bill at the
Orpheum theater, presented by Miss
Evan Burrows Fontaine. Her produc-
ton is one OF the most lavish ever
offered in vaudeville. Kenneth Har-
Ian, who will be remembered as an
associate of Gertrude Hoffman, is
one of the members of her company.
"An Innocent Bystander" is Homer
Miles latest sketch, in which he is
supported by Helen Ray. In the pre-
sentation Of his latest sketch he has a
company Of five people. Leipzig, card
manipulation, wears handsome medal
presented to him by society OF Eng
lish magicians. Edward Miller and
Helene Vincent, vocalists, present a
musical comedy sketch called an the
Cool of the Evening" The Girl in the
Moon" is a spectacular singing nov
city with mystical and charming
finish. A dainty maid sails out over
the audience, sitting on new moon
She sings as she goes and drops pretty
blossoms A musical act Is Offered by
Harry Steiner, 'cellist, and Edna
Bentz, pianist. Equillbrlsts and foot
jugglers are the three Kitaro brothers.
The Orpheum Travel weekly is to
show Cairo, Egypt; the Gulf of Ton
quin, Indo- China, and lovely Catsol-
mia, Spain.
The Orpheum announces for tho
week Of September 10 Melville
Ellis and Miss Irene Pordonl as the
headline attraction. Mr.. Ellis has
distinguished himself as an American
piano virtuoso and Miss Bordoni Is a
French chanteuse and Paris favorite,
Honor Thy Children" playlet by
Samuel and Clara Lipman, which has
been meeting with success, comes to
the Orpheum as a special feature at
traction of the bill for the week OF
September TO-
Accompanied by a full symphony
orchestra and a chorus of California
Mission singers, Ramona" w. H.
Clune's cinema-operatic production OF
Helen Hunt Jackson's famous novel
of the old California missions and the
Mission Indians will be seen for the
first time in Omaha beginning Sun
day, September 10, at the Brandeis
theater for limited engagement, with
matinee every day.
Ramona" was produced In Los
Angeles early last spring and for ten
weeks it packed the largest theater in
the southwestern California city,
which lies in the very heart Of the
Ramona" country. 1t was then TAX
en- to New York, where 1t captivated
theatrical clientele, supposed to be
imperyieus to anything not rife with
sensationalism, Chicago was the next
city to welcome Ramona" and In the
dead of summer with the terrific heat
wave in full blast, the California
maiden drew hosts OF playgoers into
the Auditorium, Several other cities
of California and the east have wit
messed Ramona" and in the five
months of its career the play is esti-
mated to have drawn 100000 specta-
tors.
Everybody Is familiar with the gen
eral outlines of the story, Ramona"