Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-11
What the Omaha Theaters Offer
Their Patrons for Coming Week

Edward Lynch and his Associated
Players at the Brandeis will present
as an offering for their third week,
beginning next Monday night, June
II, the famous play, Inside the
Lines" fascinating stage tale OF ro-
nance and war, which ran all last sea-
son at the Longacre theater in New
York.
There are war plays and war plays,
Just as there are dumdums and Maxim
guns. But ever since Secret Service,
the real war play that thrilled was not
the one that shot off the most guns or
Redeemed the most gore. No stree!
1t is the play with the spy that gives
you the thrill and the. shivers, and is
worth the price of admission as a
piece of patriotism and detective
mystery all rolled in one.
It's curious how the current plays
reflect newspapers. Now theNobses-
sion of spies is just current. When
one is discovered in New Jersey an
other crops up in Missouri, and every
one of them makes good reading mat
ter and may or may not be getting too
much information on coast ldefences
or gun factories or the wireless. You
can't be too careful. This is just the
point of Inside the Lines" first and
most famous of the crop OF war plays
that have followed hard on the Euro
pean conflict spies. Inside the Lines"
is full Of them. 1t specializes on spies.
The New York critics called it the
best war play since Secret Service"
That's why: Spy for hero.
Edward Lynch is the chap who
plays regular William Gillette spy
role in Inside the Lines" and gets
away with it in regular Gillette fash
ion. Spy for hero. But that's not
the only spy in Inside the Lines"
Not for a minute. 1t looks like all
the cast were spies, from time to
time. Spy for a william, too. All of
which is to indicate that this Euro
pean war news, where they arrest the
royal family as spies when the stray
princess or the unwary prince is ap-
pretended without a passport, is get
ting on the American dramatists'
nerves and producing war drama with
the punch in it.
There is big time stuff on the bill
at the Empress this week. The man
agement has secured THE Happy
Hottentots," musical comedy ex-
travaganza that is not usually seen at
the prices charged by the Empress.
Maidie De Long is said to be the
craziest base ball bug ever captured.
August and August, comedy jugglers,
have time to be funny while doing
difficult and clever juggling. The
Musical McDonalds fill a one-day
special engagement here. Harry H.
Gardiner, the Human Fly, will be at
the Empress Monday and for three
days doing an act new in vaudeville,
and at the same time telling how and
why he climbs the Hottest skyscrap-
ers with nothing to assist him but his
will power and strong muscles. Also,
starting Monday and continuing three
days, will be Charlie Chaplin in "Fhe
Fireman. his latest comedy. The
bill for the second half of the week
is up ito the usual Empress standard
and headlines The Sterling High,
landers."
Miss Maude Adams will give three
performancessa at the Brapdeis theatsE
on Tuesday and Wednesday, june 20
and 81, matinee being announced
for Wednesday afternoon. The play
will be THE Little Minister" This
is the comedy in which Maude Adams
established herself as a star and en-
tered on a career that has been so
wonderfully successful.
TOO Much Married" is to be North
Bros. Perpetual Stock company's Of
fering for the week, beginning today
at the Krug theater and to continue
for ten performances. 100 Much
Married is a comedy with kick, and
was written by Mark Melfort for Nat
Goodwin, who successfully played it.
Sport North plays doughty sea cap
tain called Captain Midway" while
Roy E.. billiard plays an up-to-the-
minute stage undertaken, called Gar
raway Bones" These two characters
are the fun promoters and Mr.. Moody,
Grand, Roy and Steinel are all seen
in good supporting roles. The feni-
nine members are to be seen to none
the less importance, for the characters
enacted by Hazel McNutt, Ruth