Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-09
BARON PROVES
bum ACTOR AS
TELLS OF LOVES
De 0rgIer Appears ReSpIend.
ant in All Accessories of
NobiIityOn Gayety Stage
But He Lacks Punch.

Baron de Orgler, who jumped in
to the limelight and then onto the
burlesque stage as a result of his
nationwide search for his dream
girF-the girl he found in Omaha
only to be spurned-;n his first ap-
pearance at the Gayety yesterday
afternoon and last night did not
make the hit he was expected to.
In fact, the baron is bum actor
as well as an unsuccessful suitor.
Everyone in the audience admitted
lit everyone except the baron.
The audience took him as Joke
and when presented by Frank L.
Wakefield, manager of Americas 6
Best" this weeks play, it took some
time before the former Kansas City
elevator boy could begin with his
well-drilled talk.
Theatrical Days Numbered.
His talk, drilled to the point,
showing at every angle that il was
shaped and rallied by theatrical ex-
perts, played at the audience. Ma
turally the patriotic stunt, like "this
great land of the free and the home
of the brave" the plea which, as
managers know only too we'll, al
ways pulls, had its due effect and
attracted some applause. AS whole,
the baron will be off the stage when
the end of the present engagement
is up.
AS to the regular bill there were
good features-enough for the
money without the loyesick "noble-
man." Agnes Behler and Frank L.
Wakefield, Broadway and Times
square sports, are out for a regular
time and take in some of the side
issues of the gay white way in old
New York. They start in a first
class burlesque house, where pretty
girls and charmante singers. such
as Inez de Verdier, Al de Lorraine.
Mile. Bartoletti, Agnes Behler and
many other entertain them with
Broadway's latest song hits.
Some Figure at That.
From the burlesque house they
get to the peace conference where,
with Dave Marion presiding, they
listen to a more or less heated dis
cussion about "The Leak of Ma
tons" A Fifth avenue modiste
shop, where expressmen are mis-
taken for salesnlen of ladies' gar
ments, concludes the first act.
The next number, not on the pro-
gram, is Baron de Orgler, who is
formally introduced to the audience
by Frank w. Wakefield, the leading
man of the show.
"Cherchez la femme" or easy
money" is the text his honor the
baron has chosen for his subject.
In full dress suit, Djer Kiss per-
fume, a lilac silk handkerchief in
his LETT cuff, the everlasting monocle
in his eye and-stop, look and listen
"a red-white-red ribbon across his
manly bosom, the. talk of the town
steps before his audience, a figure
Of Mark Antony, Lohen-
grin and Billy Hohenzollern.
Trouble, Trouble, Trouble.
He tells Of his marriages, one,
two, three and maybe the fourth
coming soon. "Oh, how / lufed
dat woman" cries this bon vivant,
referring to wife No. /, an actress
somewhere in Austria" who had
to give up the baron, because Eur
opean aristoeracy wouldn't stand
lor her. Wife No. 2 was trouble,
md a lot of il, the baron said. Wife
No. 8 OF New York, more trouble.
Here suddenly the string breaks
and the baron calls upon the dead
.or material for his IS minutes and
'2 seconds speech. Nat c. Good
win, God bless him, has to suffer. !
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