Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
At tie Opheum

roll offer concert number as one
of the three feature acts this week a
the Orpheum theater. Bert Levy, the
artist-entertainer, is another, ant
Miss Edna Brothers in one-ac
comedy, The Might Have Beens," i:
a third. Formerly Miss Wheaton has
appeared in the support OF Sam Bern.
ard and De Wolf Hopper in musica
comedy. On the dramtic stage she
has been with Maude Adams and
Margaret Anglin Mr.. Carroll is a
pianist and a composer of such popu.
lar songs as by the Sea" and The
Trail of the Lonesome Pine" Car
toonist Levy has an invention of his
own for stage work. He draws on
smoked glass, the sketches being pro-
Jected upon a screen as he makes
them. He whistles and talks enter
tainingly while he works. THE
Night Have Beens," in which Miss
Brothers is appearing, is fantastic
comedy, in which childless couple,
sitting by the fire, have revery in
which they see their dream children.
odd Nonsense" is the offering of
Mullen and Coogan. An eminent ar
tist from the concert stage is the
Italian pianist, G. Aldo Randegger
Masculine strength and graceful mo.
ton are combined by two expert
gymnasts who term themselves the
Gladiators. The act is also admir-
ably staged. Pictures put together by
rags and odd ends of cloth are the
feature of the entertaining activities
OF the Brightons, who call themselves
artistic rag pickers." Madagascar
and life within the Arctic circle of
Siberia are to be shown in the mo-
ton, picture scenes projected this
week by the Orpheum Travel
Weekly.
1.-THE Little Lady from Lonesome
Town" story of the woman who
paid, comes to Boyd's, commencing
today, for an engagement of one
week, with matinees Sunday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Saturday. In this
play of the golden west the author
takes us first to the mountains of
California, among rough and ready
miners, and then into the home of a
United States senator. He shows us
the depths of woman's devotion and
a mans unrelenting and honest pur-
pose in the fulfillment of his duty as
he sees it. The title role fits Nancy
Boyer and her methods admirably. A
strong organization, including as
leading man, Ferdinand Tidmarsh,
Richard |. Scott, Jane Stuart, Julia
Earle, Corda Davy, Ida Elliott, Henry
Tesla, Jimmie Brown, Thaddeus VIII
Der, Daniel J. LAWYER, w. J. DON
nelly, William Mccarthy and Bert
Hall.
Omaha will be one of the first cities
to be visited by Lew Fields and COM
pany in Step This Way" which
plays at the Boyd Friday and Satur-
day, October 6 and 7, with matinee
on Saturday. This delightful must
cal revue, which ran in New York all
last winter, finishes its long engage
ment of the summer in Chicago, Sat
urday, September 80, and after four
days in Milwaukee, jumps to Omaha,
making an unusual attraction for the
last part of Ak-Sar-Ben week.
Marie Pettes will make her next
local appearance in "The Woman He
Married" at Boyds theater, starting
next Sunday, for FIVE nights, with bar
gain matinees every day. Miss Pettes
won popular favor here as a stock
star and her. present work is marked !
with the same degree of success. Last
season she was here with Walker
Whitesides in The Ragged Messen-
ger" Associated with Miss Pettes
are Walter Scott Weeks, John w. |
Lott, Marie Louise Benton, Kate
Pryor, Alfred P. James and Emmett
O'Reilly.
The upward trend of burlesque is
we'll illustrated by the production
which is being given this week at the
popular Gayety theater by THE Hip,
Hip, Hooray Girls" A few years
ago it would have been deemed i'm
possible to give, i'll connection with
burlesque, an olio of such high class
with such feature as that
presented by the Six Diving Bellies"
Jessie Switzerland and Trixic Norris,
the two chief divers, have won ma
tional fame for their remarkable
water feats, and there is nothing in
the diving line which is not included
in their act. The woodland pool
scene, which furnishes the setting for
the act is one of great beauty with its
ater-fall of real water. To
those who are interested in the me-
chanical detail OF stagecraft, it may
be said that the tank used in this act
is the largest tank OF water ever used
on any stage, and practically requires
the rebuilding of the stage to make
place for it. Thursday night there
will be a diving contest for local
men and boys, and on Friday night,
Omahas feminine swimmers will
Handsome silver trophy