Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-17
Dode. Phelps
VRPHEU/n)

noon, and for the second week,
opening next Sunday, the Orpheum
is to present a bill of unusual
merit. The initial show is headed
by the largest jazz band in the
world, the next week comes the
most artistic ballet that vaudeville
has known-the Marion Morgan
Dancers. The United States Jazz
band, including Is blue Jackets, that
tops. the current bill, was ordered
overseas, where it gave concerts at
training stations and naval bases.
All members of the organization
have received their discharge, but
the band has been kept intact. Al
Lydell and Carleton Macy are to be
fea tured i'll "Old Cronies." They
are clever character comedians.
Out in California" musical play
let, is to be presented by Leona
Stephens and Len D. HOLSTER. An
amusing skit, "A Salvo of Screams"
is to be offered by Jimmy Salvo, as
sisted by Jean Franza. Irving New
hoff and Dode Phelps offer what
they call fragrant tunes from the
garden of melody" Ergotti's Lilli-
putians are small in size only. AS
tonishing feats by these two tiny
wonder men are more hazardous
and funnier than ever. Dan Ma
honey and George Auburn are two
Of the most rapid manipulators of
Indian clubs to be found anywhere.
Once again this season the Or
pheum has made arrangements for
exclusive news and travel motion
pictures.
Ruth Chatterton opens the season
at the Brandeis theatre on August
20 in The Merrie Month Of May
new comedy by George Scar
borough. In her new play she is
girl from Arizona. from which state
her father is a United States sem
ator. The scenes are laid in Wash
ington at the present time and all
the type are distinctively American.
On Friday and Saturday Septem
Der 5 and E, at the Brandeis theatre,
Henry Miller and Blanche Bates,
with distinguished supporting
company will appear in "Moliere,"
new play by Philip Moeller. The
scenes of the three acts of "Moliere"
are laid in Paris at the Palais Royal
and Louvre.
In the play Mr.. Miller appears
as Moliere and Miss Bates as
Madame de Montespan. The period
of "Moliere" is toward the latter
part of the seventeenth century.
The music for "Moliere," inciden-
tai to the play for entract purposes,
has been especially composed by
Cassius Freeborn and Mr.. Miller
brings special musicians with him
on tour to augment the local orches-
ira in interpreting this period music
Fiske O'Hara will be seen at the
Brandeis theater on September % in
his new romantic. comedy Down
Limerick Way, by Anna Nichols.
Klaw & Granger and George c.
Tyler are presenting Miss Patricia
Collinge in Title, and star and
play come to the Brandeis theater
October E, 7 and 8, after a run of
$50 performances at the Blackstone
theater. Chicago.
.
The Marion Morgan Dancers will
be presented by Martin Beck at the
Orpheum theater the week of August
"a. These trim and high spirited
Californians will go abroad immed-
lately following their Orpheum
| tour. Miss Morgan has developed
out of material to which nature was
kind, a ballet whose perfection of
line, grace of movement and all
round loneliness gives it classic dis
tinction. There are now in her ballet
20 young women possessing skill
matching the best professional
standards. The plot of this seasons
offering of the Marion Morgan
Dancers is of the time of Attila and
the Huns, gorgeously staged, mag
nificently presented. deliberately cos
! TUNED and with scenic and musical