Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01

ls&F[ the conclusion tnat Om-
SS aha people are ready to be
amused. At any rate, the two COM
panies putting in at that house last
week were most cordially welcomed,
and their efforts got such approval
as must have convinced anybody of
the desire for laughter. This eve
ming a further test will be applied,
when our old friends, Abe and Nav
russ. resume their pickering at the
Boyd. With their coming all the
local theaters will have gone into
action, and a wide range of choice
be provided for shoppers" From
agents VINO have visited Omaha is
gathered the information that New
York producers have their eyes we'll
on the west this season, having final
ly reached the conclusion that this
section of the world is really worth
the trouble of cultivating. One of
their diff -ulties is supplied by the
railroad administration. Gone are
the days Of party rates, special sleep
ers, extra baggage cars, holding
trains, and lot of other privileges
that are nov esteemed because they
have vanished. Mr.. McAdoo's regu-
lations, primarily designed to, keep
folks at home, or at least to reduces
the American habit of gadding to the
minimum, apply as forcefully to the |
travelling show company as to the |
humblest individual. For example,
the A. H. Woods company that is
to open at the Boyd tonight pays
for its tickets to San Francisco just
what it would cost that number of
people to make the trip if they were
travelling singly. Omaha is the first
stop from New York, the company
reaching here Saturday morning;
from here the troupe goes to Denver,
then Salt Lake City, and thence to
San Francisco. After leaving there,
tickets will be bought from town to
town and local fare paid, all the way
back to Chicago. 1t is this phase of
the situation that will govern the
season outside OF New York and
Chicago this year.
Business Before Pleasure" the
Eltinge theater, New York, success,
will be presented at the Boyd theater
tonight for an engagement of one
week. In continuing the episodes in
"Mawruss" Perlmutter in Business
Before Pleasure" the authors have
transferred them from the cloak and
suit business to the vastly more inter-
esting and exciting environment of
the movie business. As film
magnates ABE" and "Mawruss" re-
veal their delightful eccentricities,
their thoroughly human rats and
their charming human traits and
and at every contact with their new
and unfamiliar associates. The play
will be presented by characteristic
A. H. Woods cast, including Jules
Jordan as Potash and Charles Lipson
as Perlmutter, Helen Gill, Murray
Phillips, Richard Barrows, William
McCauley, Lizzie Wilson, Lottie Vern-
on, Doris Kelly, Olive Massey, Rita
Hewlett, Harry Hammill, Harold
Skinner and others. A special Labor
day matinee will be given tomorrow
and the usual Wednesday and Satur-
day matinee. Owing to the length
of the production, curtains will be at
2:15 and Sis sharp.
The second attraction of the season
at the Boyd will be Jack Norworth's
revue, "Odds and Ends" This at
traction will be played for three
nights and Saturday matinee begin
ming Thursday, September IL. 1t
comes to the Boyd with a record run
OF five months at the Garrick theater.
Chicago; Omaha being one of the
first cities to view this unusual
musical revue. ,
Mr.. Norworth's offering is de-
cided departure from the customary
musical revue as it is not a travesty
of New York theatrical successes
but rather satire on happenings
that are or have been prominent in
the minds of the people with range
from the New York subway to the I
trenches.
In "All for Democracy" as~the
Orpheum this week, President Will
son is the central figure. He sits in t
grave meditation, while at his elbow /
appear Grant, Lee, Lincoln. Wash
ington, Lafayette and Joan of Arc.
The attraction is an allegory of the +
present day, which emphasizes the i
point that the road of justice and t
right is always difficult road to
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