Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-30
AT THE
THEATERS

| COCIETY helped to fill the
- Orpheum on Monday night.
~ Gymnastic harmony, known as
jazz, dispensed by Henry SantFey
and his Society Jazz band, the cur
rent headliner, created riotoos en-
thusiasm among the fashionables.
Another feature to find favor was the
somnambulistic farce, "The Man
Hunt" while the bill as a whole
scored in a manner that evidences
popular satisfaction and assures big
crowds.
There will be two performances to-
morrow night, New Years eve. The
first performance will start at ESQ
o'clock and the second performance
at 1910 o'clock. The sale of seats
for both these performances shows
two capacity audiences will attend
and more than a hundred theater
parties have already secured sittings
Patrons of the second show are re-
quested not to arrive at the theater
earlier than 10 o'clock in order to
permit the first audience to exit.
Nothing funnier in the way of a
farce has been offered in recent
years than Avery Hopwood's "Fair
and Warmer" which is proving quite
as popular on this as on its former
visit to the city. 1t is the New
Years attraction at Boyd's, where
the big audiences have given it JOY
Gus welcome.
Walter Hast's comedy success,
Scandal" conceded to be the best
of Cosmo I Hamilton's stage writ
ings, is scheduled for an appearance
at the Boyd, week of January 4. Mr..
Hamilton in Scandal" attempts
to show how two super civilized
people with all the advantages of
education and wealth, crumble into
primevality. He makes two people
find themselves in finding each 9TH
or, and they come back to a much
truer, sincerer plane through the one
thing in all the world which hui
manizes us all-love. Seats on sale
tomorrow.
Folks will wonder how Fred
Stone gets through his performance
in Jack O. Lantern" which is the
attraction at the Brandeis theater
during the coming week, without
breaking his neck. One would sup
pose that he slept all day to rest.
Nothing like that for Fred Stone.
He is up bright ard early every
morning and at the theater before g
o'clock. There he puts in strenu-
Gus morning on all sorts of stunts.
If the weather is right he will either
be riding horseback or playing golf
in the country in the afternoon. His
ot.ly relaxation he takes before the
performance. This is an hour spent
in his dressing room, beginning at 7
o'clock, in which he plays hearts
with Willie Kerschell, who has been
his dresser for 18 years; Charles
Mast, the stage manager, and w. H.
Macquinn, the director of the or
chestra. Promptly at s o'clock he
Shoes everybody but Willie out of
the dressing room and in 20 minutes
more he has started the earnest and
energetic performance of "Jack O
Lantern"
The Liberty Girls company will
be the attraction at the Gayety all
week. 1t is a spectacular musical
burlesque entertainment entitled
"Manless Isle" of which Jack Con-
way is the author. A chorus OF 20
Broadway chorus girls bedecked in
gorgeous and elaborate costumes
aid in the musical numbers including
late song hits. The olio includes spe-
c;alties by the Runaway Four, late
of Head Over Heels company, and
others. Ladies' matinee daily at 2:15.
Extra midnight performance at 1880
tomorrow night, New Years eve.
Big surprise on the stroke of II.
Perfection seems the watchword
throughout he exhibition given by
Gus Thalero's circus at the En-
press. Such cleverness as the ponies,
dogs and monkeys display is rarely
seen in animals. An act that meets
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ventriloquial offering of Grace De
Winters. A yodling, a sneeze song
and crying are new elements in this
line introduced by Miss De Winters.
Henrietta Brewster, the singing
ccmedienne, who plays Mrs. Smith,
the unwilling-to-be divorcee in la
La Lucille" the attraction at the
Brandeis New Years week, is one of
the few young women of the stage
who is making determined effort to
do her share to reduce the Fl. c. L.
On the announcement from Wash
ington the other day that the gov
eminent was about to form women's
clubs to combat this evil, Miss
Brewster wired for authorization to
form club composed of women of
the stage.
quick, questioning, appraising glance
he threw at me. His eyes held mine