Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19

Inc Renalty OF SIN, mOueTH
drama, by Edmund Francis Hackett,
is the attraction at Boyd's theater for
the six days beginning Sunday, No
vembcr ~. In this Lois Craven is in
volved in murder mystery, when
Robert Borglum, who thinks that
money can buy everything, Is found
dead in his rooms. The slight clews
found point to woman and Mrs.
Craven is placed under arrest. 1t is
in trying to clear herself OF the
charge that the story is worked out
II opens about in the middle OF events
and through the succeeding three acts
the scenes move backward and then
forward from the point of beginning
The presenting company includes
Mabel Montgomery, Lillian Lee An
derson, Frances Woodbury., Maude
Williams, Harry Cowan, William
Mortimer, Eugene Frazier, Frank
Hersome, Jack Walsh and Others.
There will be the usual matinees on
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday. y
"The Heart OF Dixie" which will be
the attraction at Boyd's theater for
four days beginning Sunday, Novem-
Der rs, is a comedy drama of the
Southland, and is declared to sound
a big deep human note. A carefully
selected company includes Doris
Hardy, Ethel Wichman, Catherine
Campbell, Dorothy Hays, Charlotte
Langdon, Richard LaSalle, Jerome
Bruner, William Friend, Peter Ros-
sar, Robert Edgerton and Lawrence
Atkinson. An enjoyable feature OF the
performance is the singing and dane
ing OF the darkies in the plantation
scene. The usual matinees will be
given,
Maud Allan, who was announced
with her company at the Boyd thea
ter for Thanksgiving day, has met
with an accident that necessitates can
ceiling the engagement. She is now
laid up with badly sprained foot
and will not be able to dance for
some weeks. Her engagement at the
Boyd theater has been postponed to
a date to be announced later.
Two special feature acts are to be
given at the Orpheum this week. First
musical comedy, Nursery Land"
is to be offered by Bert Kalmar and
Jessie Brown, Mother Goose"
characters, such as Bo Peep, Little
Boy Blue, Jack and Jill and Mother
Hubbard, with pretty songs and clever
dances, will be elements OF this pro-
duction. OF great interest will be
the expert swimming and diving Of
Odiya, who comes with her school of
trained sea lions. Her unusual per-
Torrance is given in glass tank
filled with clear water, and her feats
will be exhibited in a manner calcu-
lated to astonish audiences. The sea
lions do tricks of exceptional sort
Willard, regarded as physical
phenomena, demonstrates the control
OF involuntary muscles. By his own
efforts he has added two and half
inches to his stature. "The Wife
Saver" is one-act comedy to be
presented by Franklyn Ardell. The
humorist-violinist, Trovato, produces
both good music and hearty laughter.
Helene Davis is to present eleven
minutes OF daintiness called past and
Present" especially designed for her
by A. Seymour Brown Helping
Hubby is a juggling skit TO be con-
tributed by Pielert and Scoheld Pic
turesque Normandy will be one of the
features of the Orphcum Travel
Weekly, whose motion pictures will
also show fascinating glimpscs Of
French lndo-China.
Phyllis Neilson-T Terry, a niece OF
Ellen Terry, has been booked for a
tour of the Orpheum circuit and will
be seen here for the week OF No
vember 26, On the program for the
same week is another. Orpheum fea-
ture attraction, Honor Thy Chill
dren,' travesty, in which son and
daughter Intellectually try to run a
household.
The Chicago English Opera COM
pany will appear in this. city on No
lvember %, "a and rs. The Chicago
English Opera company consists Of
sixty members and its own orchestra
Of especially selected instrumentalists.
The company carries three carloads of
scenery and baggage. The repertoirs
includes "Lohengrin," Aida" Gar
men )" "Valkyrie." I'll Trovatore, -
"Cavalleria Rusticana'. and "Cleopa
ira" presented entirely in the English
language The cast includes Madame
Mercedes Dalmada, who will appear in
the Wagnerian and dramatic soprano
roles: Nine. Dalmada comes from the