Omaha daily bee., 1918-04-07
Comes True
Ancient Jest About the
Ballet Girl and Her.
Grown-Up Daughter IS
Realized at Last Here
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
will actually be seen together
: as dancing partners in the bal

as dancing partners IN the bal
let of The Wanderer" when
it comes to Boyd's theater. This is
not the dream of press agent, either.
Furthermore, mother and daughter
look so much alike that they are usual
X taken for twin sisters The aver
a &c person can scarcely tell which is
the mother and which is the daughter.
The dancers in this case are Mrs.
Jenny Flamm and her daughter,
Dorothy. Eighteen years ago Mrs.
Flamm was ballet dancer i'll Ben
Hur." Her name then was Jenny
Lewis, and she was one of the pret..
tiest and most attractive dancers Of
the ballet. The stage electrician of
the company was Jacob Flamm. He
fell i'll love with the pretty ballet girl,
and they were married.
For many years during the run OF
"Ben Hur," Mrs. Flamm continued
as ballet girl. Meanwhile her daugh-
ter, Dorothy, had been growing into
a splendid young womanhood. Last
winter Mrs. Flamm was engaged as
dancer in the ballet of THE Wander
err She brought her daughter with
her to rehearsals and Morris Gest
admired her grace and beauty. When
Dorothy expressed desire to become
dancer also, Mr.. Gest agreed to put
he. IN the ballet.
Vow in The Wanderer" both
mother and daughter are dancing, and
by a peculiar chain of circumstances,
they have to dance with each other as
partners. Mrs. Flamm is IS years of
age and her daughter is II. Mr..
Flamm is now general electrician for
one of the big producing companies
of New York, and incidentally it may
be added that this stage marriage has
turned out to be most happy one.
"Oh Boy" with Joseph Stanley, is
the attraction booked at the Boyd
theater this week, beginning Sunday,
for four nights. The company and
production is coming to this city
direct from a run of six months at the
La Salle theater, Chicago. Support
ing Joseph Santley will be Laurence
Wheat, Dorothy Maynard, James
Bradbury, Hugh Cameron, Lillian
B< <Qnard, Lenore Chippendale, Henry
Dofhton, Josephine Hartman, Will
bert Dunn, Doris Faithful and forty
others.
"Oh Boy" has a book and lyrics
BY Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse,
with a musical score from Jerome
Kern. Among the song hits which
have preceded the attraction here are
IT'LL The Clouds Roll By" The
Old Fashioned Wife," 'Its Nesting
Time in Flatbush," pals" Il Never
Knew About You" and "Koo La
Loo"
The story of ooh, Boy" concerns
young professor who elopes with the
daughter of Judge Carter and then
brings down on his head the dis
pleasure Of his new wife, her mother
land father and his Quaker aunt when
an actress, fleeing from the police,
WHOM in her youthful exuberance she
has assaulted, takes refuge in the
professors rooms because his living
room is the only open window in the
building. By appearing in light blue
pa a.ras she places the professor in
a most compromising position, MAX
ing it almost impossible for him to
get out Of the tangle which has WOW
entabout his innocent head. A mat
inee will be given Wednesday.
This great Biblical drama, THE
Wanderer," which will be the attrac-
ton at Boyds for one week beginning
Sunday night, April IA, is said to
owe its great success largely to the
fact that it appeals to the infrequent
theatergoer. It's theme, which is that
of the Prodigal Son, is widely knawn
and it is said that the spectacular
beauty and dramatic interest of this
greates9 of all stage spectacles always
attracts the constant playgoer. Con-
sidered purely as spectacle, The