Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-12
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TT ERE is good news for play.
n goers: The Boyd theater will
- be utilized a few weeks longer
before razing for high class shows,
the opening date being Richard
Carrie in Sunshine" September 70
u. Stuart Walkers company, pre-
senting Seventeen" is to appear
the Boyd theater for the week OF
October II. If for no other rea-
son than this, patrons will be glad
that the playhouse is to endure a
while Longer, even if it does not
last for the entire dramatic sea-
son. The site, as everybody knows,
is presently to be utilized for new
building to be added to the Bur
gess-Nash store.
The following Schubert attrac.
tions, however, have been booked
for the autumn: The first is the
successful farce, "She Walked in
Her Sleep" which will be the Of
fering in Ak-Sar-Ben week. The
engagement opens September 2e
and closes October |.
Next after that comes Seven
teen,' the charming play Gramatized
from the story by Booth Harrington.
Last season this attraction was
booked here, when the influenza
closed all the theaters. Again at
Christmas time the company was
scheduled to appear, but at the last
minute the engagement was can
celed.
The musical comedy. II Love
You is to come October q, "a and
Is. This is to be followed by the
big melodrante, Seven Days
Leave" which is booked for O.
tober rs, q, % and 20.
One of the biggest attractions
sent on tour by the Schuberts, THE
Passing Show of 1918" is to be the
attraction late in October, with Eu-
gene and Willie Howard being two
of the conspicuous favorites in the
immense cast.
No war play shown at the Or
pheum has aroused the enthusiasm
which is evoked by "An American
Ace" the big melodrama which is
on view this week. With cast
of II people, headed by Taylor
Granville and Laura Pierpont, and
presented in II scenes with a car
load of striking stage effects, the
thrilling stage story is deliberately
produced. Three other acts of the
current show score emphatic hits.
One is the travesty act done by
Jack Durham and Sammy Edwards.
Another is the piano comedy of
Herschel Henlere. Still another is
the startling gymnastic feature pre-
scented by European equilibrists
known as the Three Jahns.
Today George Douglass, John
Barry and their merry associates,
The Bon Ton Girls" who have
done so much toward making Mer-
chants market week a grand sue
cess, will give their two final per-
formances at the popular Gayety.
Tomorrow matinee, THE Million
Dollar Dolls" whom Omaha was
deprived of seeing last season be-
cause of the "flu" shut down, will
open a weeks engagement. Cliff
Bragdon, EIDE Mae and Scottie
Friedell head the organization.
Ladies' matinee today and tomor-
row.
The Quaker City quartet at the
Empress fully sustain their reputa-
ton. Their Forge" number from
Robin Hood" is put over with all
the FIRE and ambition of four lusty
blacksniths. Another number that
proves big hit is the patriotic song
entitled America Never Took
Water" which at the present period
is most appropriate.
Alexander, the original, THE Man
Who Knows" student of the occult
and the deliver into psychical re-
search, and his show of wonders,
will commence next Monday night,
September IS, at the Brandeis thea
ter and continue six days, with a
ladies' matinee Oh Friday and a gen.
cral matinee on Saturday.