Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-18
AT THE
THEATERS


Lookw company has settled down
for a weeks stay. If the opening
session pressages anything, it is
going to be one big week. Most
of us thought Ready Money was
good and served we'll as entertain
ment for several seasons; now that
it has been redressed with dots of
pretty girls, some incidental lyrics,
and covered all over with ragtime
and a soupcon of jazz. you'd hardly
know it for the same thing. Nobody
cares for the story in a musical
play, and why should one get fused
up over this? With. the Dolly sis
tiers to cut their quaint and dainty
capers, and Harry Fox to sing his
own songs in his own way, any old
plot or no plot at all will serve
What folks want is the dancing
and the songs.
And this is just what they get n
ooh, Lookw If it isn't one of the
Dollys, its the other, and when ii
isn't the other. it's both. Such times
as they take off the stage to catch
their breath or change their clothes
is we'll filled in by Harry Fox or
some of the assistant geniuses and
beauties, and the whirl keeps gath
ing force right up to the very end.
1t is good, also. because it contains
some genuine novelties, nothing
that will demand a monument to
commemorate its discovery, but
each a sufficient departure from the
conventional i'll musical comedy ar
rangeme mt to make it welcome. And
the company is made up of people
clever enough to put any part of it
over in such fashion as to make it
seem the most natural thing to do
under the circumstances.
What more can be said, except
to repeat in varied phrases the
words of commentator already set
down? 1t is real Broadway show,
long way from home, but yet
among friends and we'll wishsrs.
Go to it.
And don't waste any time trying
to tell one Dolly from the other.
1t doesn't maxi bit of difference
which is which-either is good, both
are better, and trying to keep track
of them only bewilders the ordinary
mortal.
One feature of the show last
night was the presence i'll the au-
dience of "a wounded soldiers, just
back from Europe, on their way to
reconstruction hospital in Cali
fornia. These, accompanied by local
Red Cross nurses and the regular
attendants who are going with them,
were guests of the management,
and between the acts Harry Fox
sang a couple of new soldier songs
for them which brought the big
gest "hand" of the evening, and
that is saying a good deal, for the
house was filled with an asemblage
that seemed to enjoy everything
that took place.
The new bill at the Orpheum made
a flying start on Sunday with head
line thriller and a melange of laugh
ter, singing and dancing. The Sylvia
Bidwell company in Langdon Nc
Cormick's THE Forest Fire" has
been seen here before, but evidently
no mistake was made in running
this production over the circuit again
as two audiences yesterday greeted
it with considerable enthusiasm. The
fire scene is realistic and the little
story which leads up to the big event
sufhces to arouse the spectators
feelings to a high pitch. Charlie
Jackson as Danny Murphy is back
again in the comedy role, while
Frank Larue and John Brice are
seen in the serious roles of the
Bradwin brothers.
Wilfred Clarke, assisted by Grace
Menken, B. B. Vanderen and Miss
Carol Gordon. aroused much merri-
ment with His Reel Trouble" a
farcical skit presented by Joseph
Hart. Florence Tempest, remem-
bered here as a member of the
Tempest and Sunshine" team, is
back with George Harriss in a clever
offering of character songs.
The Leightons, in minstrel skit,
win all sorts of applause and that is
about the best test of their ability.
The Eddy Duo are usually clever
on the tight wire. Cervo is a piano
accordionist who wins popular favor.
Resale and Helen Mellette. with
Lew Pollock at the piano, have a
of vocal and instrumental
numbers which are acceptable.
"The Revue De Luxe" a whirl-
wind one-act sketch of song, dance
and music, is one of the most effec-
tive of these tiny musical comedies
that have been presented at the En-
press theater, where it is the head
line feature for the first half of the
week. Sundays audiences fell in
love with this catchy musical
Knockout The Hudson sisters
and their sketch, "Up-to-date Songs
and Dances" proved a charming EN-
tertainment. Lacton and Smith, in a
comedy singing, talking and piano
act. keep the audience in an uproar
the near-human efforts to enter
tain of Herbert's dogs were roundly
Jane and Katharine Lee
in Tell it to the Marines" and
Charlie Chaplin in "The Landlady's
Pet" are the features on the photo
play program.
One Sunday paper took occasion
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