Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06

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| the heroine rises from her sick bed
and Immediately falls dead in her
high-necked nightgown. T Imagine!
Nowadays. its more liable to be
sleeveless sea-grecn satin pajamas.
Illuminate bit on all our Goth
century plays. up In MabeFs
Room" is riot of mirth and
lingerie. The plot hinges oIf>a rose.
colored chemise which the husband
of a fussy little wife had given to
hM former fancee. Some way or
other they all get together at a
house party on Long Island and
Miss Has-Been Fiancee decides to
give wife good cause for jealousy
and almost shows her the rose
chemise. Then the fun begins. For
three lively acts the husband
searches madly for the garment.
causing much laughter and excite
ment.
When one thinks of woman in
bed, one fas visions of slumbering
pink and whiteness, flowing curls,
eyelids closed in sleep with long
black lashes resting on smooth
cheek, a curving bare arm thrown
up on the pillow. and the lady
breathing exquisitely through her
nose. H.
But-a man indeed is different
matter. He is bound to be snoring
democraticaHy with mouth open.
hair awry, and beard sprouting hobo
fashion.
So no wonder playwrights haven't
featured the masculine element of
our population as it appears in the
privacy of their bedrooms. Instead
they pick on the poor women and
raise the stage curtains in their very
faces while they're in the act of re-
moving their stockings or some
other intimately personal garment.
Oh, yes! there is one play where
the hero lies in bed. In Another
Mans Shoes" handsome young
man, after an accident, RECEIVERS con,
seriousness in bed to find beautiful
young woman leaning over him in
sistiHg she is his wife. He rs sure,
she isn't, butch! how he wants
her to be before the play ends. What
is most remarkable, in suite of see
ing him in bed in the cold gray
dawn" she really does love him.
One. cannot lay claim to fame as
an actress on the continent till one
has been photographed in bed, lin
ones most transparent robe. To
have one delicate foot extended from
the coverings in a blissfuliy uncon-
scious manner-that is the height
of fame. When one achieves a coy
foot, one is assured of immortality.
1--WE would a word" with the
| w newly rich men who would
| W blaze their trails along
Broadway in a Some sport" fashion.
Owen Conner, in the N. Y. Herald
| Magazine has carded, cataloged and
taken the numbers of several of
these notorious "foneys" Conner
records few facts-the real opinion
of those who help make the spend
er's spending easy.
| Zone of Broadway's transient
princes remembers the great thor
oughfare, after\he has left it, by
| its climate. He is-ikely to expa-
tate at length on its sudden changes.
He will have in mind its torrid
warmth of welcome and the polar
chill with which it permitted him to
say farewell. He is always a tran
sient, this fellow. for his sole claim
! of fame lies in his setting a pace that
no one could keep up for more than
| a year or two. He is the spender,
the reckless and foolish dispenser
of money in such sums and by such
spectacular methods that the crowd
puts him to one side to be looked al.
much as the latest pig or the three
legged chicken at county fair.
| Nearly. always there is a Coal
Oil Johnny" or "Klondike Joe"
somewhere in Broadway throwing
away his money and basking in the
l strained and calculating smiles of
the sycophants who surround him.
The wise persons of the crowd do
not blame the sycophants, rather
looking upon them as the result of
| the operation of the law of supply
and demand.
THE spender seeks the applause
of the unthinking as he blazes his
way through lobster palace, theatre
| and Jazz parlor. and he gets it The
minimizing manage to do enough
thinking to get his money. He is
gratifed and they are satisfied, so
tolerant Broadway waits with grim
smile for the end of the little play,
knowing that when the fools money
is all 'gone or when he gets tired
of letting it loose with lavish hand
the sycophants will cease to be syco-
plants. Then the spender will go
back to his normal obscurity and the
sycophants who formed his admir-
ing court will rest until another of
his type comes along.
None of the form of notoriety
known to this world is so fugitive as
that of the spenaer; his petty fame
quits him overnight. He drops out
of the running for few days and
the Broadway of which he had
4 hoped to be- the thoroughbred king
promptly forgets him. The men
and~women he had thought were his
friends tear out his telephone num-
Der from their little red books"
laugh little mirthless cackle over
his vanishing, and it is as. if ne
never had blazed across their sky
at all.
"One of the more spectacular fig-
ures of recent years in Broadway's
annals of spenders came from a
: western state. He travelled in
state in special train and boosted
t loudly of his intention ito burn up
J Broadway" Instead, Broadway
burned him up. He was not what
he wanted to- appear to be and he
! was found out very speedily. He