Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-12
SEVENTEEN
REAL COMEDY



again through your eyes and ears.
That is Just what you may do when
Stuart Walkers original production
Of Booth Tarkingtons Seventeen"
comes to the Boyd theater
tor weeks engagement, commenc-
ing tonight, with the usual Wednes-
day and Saturday matinees.
There are the joys and follies OF
youth, all the little episodes tna.
make lie at this age so amusing
to Others and so serious to youth.
A visit to Seventeen" is guaranteed
to wipe out 20 or 80 years of your
age, for one evening at any rate,
and young people love it.
Here is middle west town; the
curtain is drawn back and reveals
just such an sssemblage as you may
find in hundreds of such places; the
youth, William Sylvanus Baxter.
his imp sister, Jane, who. like
Nemesis. never fails to shadow him
and show him up; his hated rival,
Johnnie Watson; the girl OF his
happy dreams, Lola Pratt, with the
baby talk lure. and her adored dog,
Flopit. And they dance and sing,
have their little porch flirtatlons,
even the farewell dance, where Viii
liam Sylvannus, in fathers evening
clothes, is sentenced to indescribable
misery as the escort of the fat Ethel
Boke, just as half the audience have
do-e.
Humorous and wholesome, youth
giving and happy in its sincerity as
the story is, much credit must be
given to the cast, whose members
are so thoroughly imbued with their
roles that they actually live for the
audience the various episodes. Greg
ory Kelly has become known from
coast to coast for his delightful
characterization of Willie, the youth
Just beginning to realize his coming
manhood-life is never quite so i'm
portant and serious as at this age
Lillian Ross, the imnish Jane, is tine
Infant terrible of 10, in looks, in
manners. in gestures and in that
curious mixture of innocence. Ruth
Gordon, who plays the fascinating
Lola Pratt, became the toast OF the
town during the shows run in New
York and Boston, and there are Ben
LYON, Wallace Ford and various
Lyon, Wallace Ford and various
other girls and boys who give the
play the typical Harrington spirit.
As for the grownups, there are:
Judith Lowry. who brings to the
stage a new type of mother in Mrs.
Baxter; Louis John Bartels, Aldrich
Bowker as Mr.. Baxter and Eugene
StocSdalc as the harassed Mr..
Parcher. ~
Conan & Harris will present the
late Harry James Smiths comedy,
"a Tailor Made Man. at Brandeis
thea.er for four days, the engage
ment opening tonight and including
a matinee on Wednesday. For its
presentation Cohan & Harris an
nource large cast, headed by Har-
old Vermilye, and, of course, this
firm has staged the comedy in a
lavish manner. "A Tailor-Made
Man" is a modev1 variation on a
good old theme which has served
playwrights often in the past and
assuredly will be capable of the
same good service in the future. 1t
is the story of prodigious and au-
dacious young man whose mendac-
ity overcomes every obstacle.
While making a limited tour in
vaudeville, Nine. Marguerite Sylvia
comes to the Orpheum this week as
the stellar attraction. From the
Opera Comique in Paris and the
Paris grand opera. she came to the
United States to be one OF the stel-
lar lights in the Chicago grand OPP
era company. With this organiza-.
ton last season she sang Carmen
and other operas. During her en-
gagement at the Orpheum she is to
offer a program of exclusive songs,
her repertory including numbers at
once artistic and popular. Billed as
"syncopation's scintillating star"
Marion Harris is to offer one of the
featured acts. She comes to vaude-
vile after having established her
sell as a favorite with the Ziegfeld
midnight Frolic." The Youngest
OF American prina ballerinas, La
Bernicia has become famous. She
Is assisted by Yvonne Verlaine and
the act is deliberately staged. Repair
tee, nonsense and music will be Of
fered by "Skeet' Gallagher and Irene
Martin. Mike Bernard's speciality
is playing two, three or four notes
on the piano to every note thai. IS
written in the music. Seven A. M"
by Jack Lat, is the sketch that is
to be presented by Bill Frawley and
Edna Louise. A hotel night clerk
and the cigar girl are the characters
who figure in this entertaining act.
The Bradnas are expert boomerang
throwers, but instead of using BOOM
erangs they use hats. Bright say
ings of the newspapers will be dis
played on the screen under the
heading OF Topics of the Day"
News events of the world VIII be
pictured by Kinograms.
Almost every division of the
American army had soldier show.
These were encouraged by the War
department. Two OF the successful
soldier shows were you Know Me,
Ar and Lets Beat It. produced
by the 9th division. When the d.
vision was returned to America and
was discharged II soldiers who had
taken part in the shows formed a
little company of their own. select
ed choice bits from both and pro-
drced them under the name of Put
ting 1t Over" Putting 1t Over"
was such a hit that the men were
persuaded to put aside whatever
thoughts they had of other occupa-
tions and become actors for sea-
son. OPPORTUNITIES will be given a
chance to see Putting 1t Over" next
week, starting Sunday, October lo.
One Of the features of the vaude-
willie program at the Empress today