Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-31
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II ed themselves good sports, by
~ closing at once when the "hu"
order went into effect. Their bust
ness was suspended, just as the sea-
son was getting under real head
way, and they have added blank
month to the record instead of
profitable one as they had a right
to expect. Now that the time has
come for them to open again, they
are putting on real steam, and will
start just the same as if nothing had
occurred. This spirit has won for
them much commentator, and per-
haps they will find before the VIM
ter is over that the public is not
entirely without appreciation of
their contribution to the COMMIT
nity's safety.
1t is a pleasure to note that the
Coburns scored another great Sue
cess in New York. The Captain
Bairnsfather play, The Better ole"
based on his cartoons, in which he
made Old Bill, Alf and Bert fami-
liar in all British and most Ameri-
can households, was peddled about
New York all summer. George c.
Tyler looked it over, and turned
it down as not suited to American
taste. While Mr.. Tyler was still
trying to interest another in the
venture, Charles Coburn bought
American rights to the play, and
his production is one of the hits of
the season. He brought it out at
his small theater in Greenwich vii
lage, but it is reported that eight of
the uptown theaters have offered
him unlimited time if he will move.
So much for the judgment of the
men who control the theater world.
1t really is a good thing for the Srt
of the stage that we have few like
Coburn and Stewart Walker.
why Marry" played for months
to capacity business at the Astor
theater, New York. Every member
of the distinguished company-Nat
c. Goodwin, Edmund Breese, Ernest
Lawford, Leonard Nude, Lotus
Robb, Louise Randolph, Anne Nor
rison-has personal following.
Both the play and the company, in
tact, exactly as it has been seen by
thousands at the Aston theater will
be presented by Selwyn in associa-
ton with Roi Cooper Megrue, at
Boyd's theater Saturday, matinee
and night, November 2. The COM
edy is by Jesse Lynch Williams,
one of the best modern-play fiction
writer's. 1t is one of the things
distinctly worth while in the theater.
The biggest event in the entire
season in the world of motion pic
cures, will be the presentation of
D. w. Griffith's latest filp master
piece. Hearts of the World" at the
Breadeis theater next Saturday. The
Number One Company" has been
laying off in Omaha since October
6, awaiting the lifting of the ban.
Hearts of the World" required IS
months in the making and many of
the scenes were taken on the actual
battlefields of France. 1t is, however,
primarily love story, in which
war figures as the grim background.
It may be called the STORY of a
village" and for more than forty
minutes during the exposition of the
story, there is not a cannon shot,
not a suggestion of wars alarms.
"Old Man" Johnson says he is not
trying to beat the gun, but wants
to get under Roadway as soon as
possible. He therefore will start his
new season at the Gayety at 1901
a. m. on Saturday with a grand
performance by Fred. Twins MA
jestics." Irwin has always brought
a good show to Omaha, and this one
is said to be no exception to the
rule. The midnight performance will
be followed by the regularly sched-
ule two-a-day, the matinee Saturday
afternoon getting off at the usual
hour.
Four acts of vaudeville and the
photoplay attraction The Demon"
featuring Edith Storey the Metro
star, will be the opening program
of the Empress theater on Saturday,
November 2. "The Demon is an
exciting story of life among the
bandits of Corsica and Algiers, in
which Miss Storey has every OPP
portunity to demonstrate unwaver-
ing courage and ability of outdoor
life, III which she excels.
David Warfield is to start on his
tour next month in THE Auction
eer."
Fay BANTER is to star in an adap-
tation of Mary Roberts Rinehart's
Sub-Deb stories by William Harris.
Ethel Barrymore has started her 3:
tour in "The Off Chance" She also
hes new play in preparation, which
will be brought out around the hol-
idays.
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Edwin Nicander and Consuelo
Bailey are in the cast Of George V.
Hobart's farce, "Stop That Man."
which is now having some pre-
liminary performances.
Julia Arthur is to appear in a play
called The Woman the German
Shot," founded presumably on the
story of Edith Cavell. The scenery
is by Paul Anthony Kelly, the au-
thor of Three Faces East" j