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pany will arrive in Omaha the first
days OF the present week and will i'm
mediately begin rehearsing. Every
thing will be ready for the opening
and it isn't out of the question, with
the capable company which has been
engaged, to expect that the presenta-
ton of Romance" on Saturday, Sep
tember l, will be a really worth while
offering.
II has required a force of twenty
one men during the last month to put
the Orpheum theater in readiness for
the opening of the new season of big
time vaudeville, which opens with
the matinee this afternoon. All the
mural decorations have been re-
touched, the woodwork has been re-
painted, the furniture refnished, and
the whole theater renovated from top
to bottom. A pronounced change is
the addition of new scenery. An
other will be the substitution of girls
to serve as ushers. The initial bill,
opening today, has two stellar attrac-
tions. One OF them is the laughable
farce, Rocking the Boat" to be pre-
sented by Eva Taylor and Lawrence
Grattan, and the other. is series of
character studies in dance to be
offered by Nina Payne. Charlie How
ard and company will be seen in his
new comedy called Cured" a
travesty on conditions prevailing in
country gone dry. Noel Travers and
Irene Douglas are to be seen in a
play by Edgar Allan Woolf called
"Meadowbrook Lane" Medlin, Watts
and Townes, singing and talking
comedians, have an act called "The
Wife Question" Jay Gould and Flo
Lewis are to offer their humorous
musical comedietta, Holding the
Fort" Funny capers are executed by
the juggler, Nelson, with a fantastic
variety of hats. Again this season the
Orpheum Travel pictures are to be
conspicuous feature of every per-
formance.
"The Millionaire's Son and the
Shop Girl" will be the first of the
popular priced attractions opening at
the Boyd next Sunday, September 2.
This melodrama was one of the most
successful on the international circuit
last year and was one of the few to
be held over for a second season. It
is replete with startling situations,
climaxes and comedy. The engage
ment is for four nights, with matinee
Sunday and special matinees Labor
day and Wednesday.
The first of the Shubert attractions
at the Boyd theater will be Al Jolson
in Robinson Crusoe, Jr.," who plays
a return engagement for one night
only on September 20. Mr.. Jolson
has just completed a most success
full engagement on the coast, where
he played to packed houses at every
performance. The company remains
intact, being the same as played at
the Bpvd last spring. This undoubt-
edly will be the last appearance Of
Mr.. Jolson in Omaha for several
years, as directly after his engage
ment here he closes his company in
New York and will rest for a year.
Already the demand for seats has
been large.
For the second week OF the season
at the Orpheum, starting Sunday,
Seotemher 2, Stella Mayhew and
Billy Taylor are booked as the
headline attraction. Another feature
act for that week will be Jean Adair
snd company in Maggie Taylor
Waitress" a comedy by John B.
Hymer.
A monster tank of water and big
troupe Of diving beauties will be the
main feature of the "Hip-Hip- H ooray
Girls" which opened at the Gayety
yesterday afternoon for a weeks en-
gagement. The show was the hon
ored attraction which was selected by
the powers OF the Columbia Amuse-
ment company to hold the stage at
the Columbia theater in New York
for the all-summer run, and the show
came out with flying colors. playing
to packed houses twice daily all
through the hot summer SPELL. Ben