Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-22
Attractions Listed for Coming Days the Omaha 7heaters


with an acute attack of ptomaine
poisoning. He was in agony, but he
insisted upon being driven to the
rheater. There he collapsed so COM
pletely that he had to be carried I'M
conscious back to his hotel. The
management wisely decided not to go
m with the performance and gave
the audience their money back
Sl,750 in all. The next night Mr..
Eltinge so far recovered that he was
able to play and has never missed
performance since.
Richly endowed as a vocalist and
as an entertainer, the Broadway
favorite, Dorothy Jardon, will be the
headline feature for the current week
at the Orpheum. She has filled en-
gagements several times with VIM
ter Garden productions, but it was
in MADAM Sherry" that she won her
widest recognition. No celebrity to
come over the Orpheum circuit has
had wardrobe of greater richness
and variety. As a comedian Ben
Ryan has developed striking indi-
viduality of method, and with Har-
riette Lee has achieved exceptional
popularity. Featured as special at
traction, Ryan and Lee are to present
a laughable skit called you've
Spoiled It," Thomas F. Swift will
be seen in a novelty skit called me
and Mary" an offering combing mirth
and melody. Maria Lo and her COM
pany present the most unusual pos
ing act in vaudeville. They depict
rare specimens of China. Benny and
Woods are musicians whose concert
number of violin and piano is very
effective. Corbett, Shepard and Dom
ovan are three young men who sing.
As dancers Richard Wheeler and his
partner, Gertrude Dolan, are quite as
popular in Europe as in America.
Athletic movements will be shown
slowly visualized in motion pictures
by the Orpheum Travel Weekly, and
another interesting subject will be a
Roman promenade of historic pic
turesqueness.
For the week of April % the Or
pheum Road show, direction of Mr..
Martin Beck, headed by the Greater
Morgan dancers, which Mr.. Martin
Beck presents this season on a much
enlarged scale, comes to the Or
pheum. A novel feature Of the Or
pheum show, the first of its kind ever
offered here in vaudeville, will be the
young Japanese prima donna, Haruko
Onuki. The roster of the Road Show
includes Frances Nordstrom and Will
liam Pinkham in a quaint comedy en-
titled "All Wrong" by Frances Nord-
strom; the Gates Brothers, known as
the tailor Made Boys" two of the
best dancers in vaudeville; Patrick
Barrett, with unusual songs done in
an unusual way; Robert Everest's
novelty circus, sinian novelty, and
the Three Jahns, European equili-
brists.
"Katinka," legitimate successor to
"The FREELY" and High links" sent
on tour by Arthur Hammerstein, fol-
lowing a year of sensational success
on Broadway, will be presented at the
Boyd May Sc. "Katinka" is the Joint
production of the librettist, Otto Hat
erbach, and the composer, Rudolf
Friml, who collaborated so success
fully on "The FREELY" for Emma
Trentini, and later on "High links"
The play opens in a town in Russia
where Katinka is being forced into
disagreeable marriage with the power
full and elderly statesman, Boris. Her
lover, Ivan, learns that Boris already
mas a wife, and so, on the wedding
night, in the midst of the festivities,
he steals little Katinka away, and the
two, accompanied by an American
friend named Hopper, set out for
Turkey in seach of Mrs. Boris, the
first. After series of exciting and
ludicrous adventures in Old SIAM
boul, the party learn that Mrs. Boris
has gone to Vienna, and they follow
her there. In the capital of Austrian
gayety many farcical plot complica-
tons that have arisen are ironed out.
The feature of the musical score.
which the audience whistles as it
files out of the theater after the fall
of the final curtain, is "Rackety Coo"
the most catchy melody of decade.
A large chorus adds charm to the
many other musical hits. .
Sam Chip of the famous team of
Chip and Marble, who recently toured
the Orpheum circuit in "The Clock
Shop" died in hotel in Rochester.
N. Y, last week after an attack of
acute indigestion. Mr.. Chip, whose
real name was Samuel Kornblum, was
resident of Brooklyn, N. Y, and
had been on the stage for nearly
twenty-five years. He was bachelor,
but his business association with Miss
Marble dated back to days of Hoyt's
Milk White Flag" Chip and Mar
Bile had been favorite vaudeville team
for about nine years and had always
played picturesque Dutch roles.
Sunday night, April %, at the
Brandeis theater, D. w. Grifith's EN-
tolerance" will open limited engage
ment. The sale of seats will open at
the box office Monday, April %. This
mighty spectacle is not only new, but
revolutionary in its handling of
dramatic themes, in which the spec
lator sees as he would from the top
Of high mountain four great stories
Of the worlds history sweeping down
the vistas of time like four mighty
rivers, gathering strength and power
Us they flow until they mingle in one
Mighty food of humanity. 1t is
bold arraignment of that spirit of
despotism which often dominates the
thoughts and actions of kings, mobiles,
priests, quasi-reformers and dogmat-
lists. II is the apotheosis of freedom
Of thought, action and being, and it
should ha1o ~ atr;ka aH A. .L, ,I,fo-