Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-08

-EORGE V. Hobart's play,
I~ Experience" hailed by
I0 critics as the great modern
- morality comedy-d m a,
lHN will open a three-day en-
g. gagement at the Boyd thea
ter, C m m n cling next
Thursday, and there will be bargain
matinee on Saturday. William Elliott,
F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest,
producers Of Experience" will send
the New York-Boston Experience"
organization with a cast of eighty
two notable players. In the Golden
Cabaret scene there will be a COM
plete light opera chorus. In this act
the latest songs are given and the
newest dances will be seen. The
play Experience" has been endorsed
by clergy Of all creeds and denomi-
nations. In New York, where it ran
for nine months; Boston, where it was
given for FIVE months; in Chicago,
where it was seen for seven months,
and in Philadelphia for FIVE months,
in San Francisco and Los Angeles,
special performances were given ex-
clusively for the clergy.
In ten brilliant scenes Experience"
brings home the story that only the
straight and narrow path leads to sue
cess. 1t is full of tense and thrilling
situations, and as a comedy provides
no end of laughs, many of which come
just in time torelieve the sob in ones
throat. The story of the play tells
of the adventures of Youth--the aver
age young man Of today-and- the
temptations he meets when he goes
out into the world to make the up
ward climb for fame and fortune.
The various temptations Youth meets
are personifed by beautiful women
and they are called by the names Of
vices and virtues they represent, such
as frivolity, excitement, passion, in
toxication, frailty, love, hope, pleas
ure, deceit and SANDER. In the cast
will be Conrad Nagel, Louise Gerard,
Maude Furress, Edwin Elton, Edna
Fenton, Peggy Ford, Duncan Pen
warden, Lille Leslie, Adele Durand
Holt, Harriet Gustin, Guy Collins,
Lillian Armstrong, Dan Van Charles,
Californian Faulkner, William Be-
mus, Irene Palmer, Edward Van
Vechten, Peggy O'Keefe, Joseph
Weber, Louise Everett, Betty Blythe,
Margaret Browning, Harold Burnett,
Albert Gran. Max Rudniek, Alice Pal
mer and John Harrington.
The engagement of "a Daughter of
the Gods" the William Fox 100000
picture beautiful, featuring Annette
Kellerman, the attraction at the Boyd,
will positively terminate on the date
originally set, next Wednesday, no
extension of the same being possible,
due to the demand from other, cities
that contracts. made with them be
filled on time as agreed. Those who
have seen this wonderful picture can
appreciate why this should be so,
for never in the annals of the amuse-
ment world has anything so preten-
tious ever been attempted. 1t is due
to the genius and patience of Viii
ldlH TON dlOnc tudl n bduSlitCi VI
the Gods" was made possible, for
those about him were discouraged,
due to the opposition that was met
with in the way of hurricanes, floods,
plaques and earthquakes. On the ISL
land at Jamaica that Mr.. Fox took
over for the purpose of production,
all the elements seemed to vent their
spite, but he rebuilt the moment after
nature destroyed and it seemed that
after long battle the elements gave
in to this mans Job-like patience and
persistence. In the face of all these
drawbacks he erected from barren
land a city magic in its creation.
Where pestilential swamps held sway
a city OF minaret topped palaces,
quaint bazaars and imposing ediices
took its place. By careful sanitary
engineering he converted a plague
region into>one of the most healthful
spots of the tropics. These are some
of the latter-day wonders accom-.
plished by this man of determination
and dynamic power. Two more ex-
amples are shown in the picture. One
in the scene of Gnomeland Were il
was necessary to have a mountain
torrent. To accomplish this Mr.. Fox
diverted river from. its course. In
another instance he had razed a range
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