Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-26
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III H. SOTHERN aad Julia
~. Marlowe will end their phe-
nomenaily successful season
/ Of Shakespeare's plays at the Shu-
bert theater in New York City on
Saturday night. November |. They
will begin their tour at the Boston
opera house on Monday, November
: 5. 1t has been. arranged, however,
to proiong the tour. Managers on
the Pacific coast have offered in
ducements never before held out
to a theatrical organization for
Sothern and Marlowe' to visit the
coast, but these offers have had to
be declined. The stars will, how
ever, go as far west as Kansas City
and Omaha. When the tour was
originality planned. only Is weeks
outside ofNew York City were ar
ranged, this being due to the un-
certainty Of how Miss Marlowe
would stand the strain of the re-
hearsais, which Are by no means
light when repertoire is being pre-
pared. As the actress has never
felt better and is thriving on work,
she is keen to play out the entire
season.
The New York Winter Garden
spectacle, "The Passing Show" will
be at the Boyd for one week be-
ginning tonight. THE Passing
Show" oath in the list of Winter
Garden productions, is said to be
. the largest and most enjoyable Of
all these entertainments Omaha
will be the furthest point west this
! company will reach this season, as
ii is scheduled to play return dates
in all of the big eastern cities where
it has already broken all records
for length of runs and amount of
business.
n Within five weeks it returns to-
Philadelphia for an extended en-
gagement and following this goes
to Boston. But five weeks have
elapsed since it finished its remark
able engagement of over four
months in Chicago.
"The Passing Show" is in IS
colossal scenes and it carries COM
pany of over $50 clever people.
There are two-score stars and
prominent New York stage celebri-
ties. Heading the list are Willie
and Eugene Howard, while follow
ing them are such topnotchers as
Roy Cummings, John Burke, Will
FH. Philbrick, Edward Basse, Helen
Darlington, Leeta Corder, Emily
Miles, Alexandra Dagmar, Dorsha,
Blanche Parks, Billie Thaw, Ed
ward Cutler. Jack Hall, Mary
Booth and Dolores Suarez. There
lis also one of the most attractive
choruses ever seen in one musical
piece. In point of youthfulness,
beauty and ability to sing and dance
it is revelation, having been picked
from the famous New York VIM
ter Garden combined chorus of over
500 girls. There will also be an
augmented orchestra of Is men.
Manager Burgess announces the
engagement of Francis x. Bushman
!. and Beverly Bayne at the Boyd the
ater November 2, 5 and 4. These
famous screen stars, known to all
movie lovers, will appear in. person
in Oliver Morosco's mammoth pro-
duction Of "The Master Thief"
Omaha is one of the first cities to
be visited by these famous stars
since their renouncing the screen for
the legitimate stage.
"A Night in Honolulu" which |
comes to the Brandeis, playing a
return engagement tonight only, is
story of Hawaii, which immediate
sly suggests a myriad Of thoughts
to the. American. In "A Night in
Honolulu" one may hear native
musicians chant their weird melo-
dies, hear the mournful prayer OF
{ death or the gay, care-free hula
music.
"Going Up" theCohan and Har-
ris production, IS to play a-return
engagement at the Brandeis thea
ter Of three nights and Wednesday
smatin&, commencing, Monday, Oc-
tober n. In> its original form the
comedy was entitled "The Aviator"
James Montgomery wrote IT and
Wallace Eddinger and Edward
Abeles each took turns starring in
ii, Cohan and Harris chose Mont
gomery's still timely story to set to
music. Otto Harbach wrote pun
gent lyrics and Louis A. Hirsch a
9tuneful score. Then, with the pro-
duction given it by Cohan and Har-
'ris, "Going Up" scored success.
The metropolitan cast of players, |
numbering IS, and an augmented or
chestra will be seen here for the
return efgag cement in Omaha. Ray |
mond Craze. whose prominence
among American comedians is ev-
erywhere recognized. enacts in the
principal role.
In her artistic presentation of a
really novel character. May Robson
will be seen at the Brandeis for
three days, beginning Thursday, Oc-
stober so, with a matinee on Satur-
day. Miss Robson's personality and
artistic genius are embodied this |
season in the character OF "Iish.H in
u play of the same name, adapted |
by Edward E. Rose from the .9ary !
Roberts Rinehart stories recently i
appearing in the Saturday Evening |
Post. A most capable company sur
rounds Miss Robson in this new
comedy, "Tish," and under the able
direction of Augustus Pitou moth
ing has been spared by way of pains
or expense to make the production
s.,notable one. Seats for Miss Rob
sons enga cement will be placed on
sale four days in advance at the box
office.
At the Orpheuln for the current
week will be two headline attrac-
tions and one featured act: Emma
la;c apd I,eL Watdron offer thar