Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-28
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THEAT Frs
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n tell me the date of Lin
= - coins birthday"
1t was Miss Gertrude Bishop
speaking, and she was addressing
her remarks to Master Charles
Monahan. Nine other youngsters
were ranged around an improvised
schoolroom. Some were busy with
arithmetic, others writing compost
tons and three others of Charles
own age paying strict attention to
the teacher.
1t was on the spacious stage of
the Empress theater and the boys
and girls were the members of the
juvenile headline feature, THE Ris-
ing Generation" Every day be-
tween the hours of II a. III. and /
p. m. Miss Bishop, a graduate of the
Louisiana Normal school, teaches
these children all the things taught
in our most approved public schools.
Perhaps in all vaudeville this is
the only act that carries its own tu-
tor. That is why the children are
allowed to perform in states that
frown upon juvenile art
lists. They have several hours of
play each day and never less than
10 hours sleep daily. The little
stars in the act are Mary Caroline
Daniel of Los Angeles, Cal;
Charles Monahan of Philadelphia,
and Jack Cole of New
York, Althea and Duncan Young of
Freeport, R. l.; Joseph Allen and
Howard Mack of Philadelphia
Charles Blake of Bridgeport, Conn,
and the little 7-year-old comedian,
lanes Edward Chubb, of Galveston,
Tex.
A deep impression is scored by
Hobart Bosworth in the one-act
play, THE Sea Wolf" offered this
week at the Orpheum as the stellar
attraction. A unique feature of the
drama is that the preliminary stages
Of it are shown in motion pic
lures. The play is a short version
of the story by Jack London. In
point of charm the high point of
the current bill is the singing of
Grace Nelson, a vocalist of distinc-
ton. The applause hit of the bill
is realized by Ethel Davis and Fred
die Rich in Songs a la Carte"
Harold Lockwood has Ruby de
Remer playing opposite him in
Pals First" which will be shown
at the Brandeis theater today and
tomorrow and Sunday evening.
She made her stage debut in the
Weber and Fields production of
Back Again" and last winter was
one of the principals of the mid
night Frolic." In her screen en-
gagements she has always played
feature roles, her most noteworthy
being as the star OF
The Auction Block
Otis Skinner, whom we are to see
at the Brandeis next week in The
Honor of the Family" was among
the first of the American players to
offer his services for overseas enter
tainment work for our men at the
front. No actor, also, has been
more active in the various Liberty
loan campaigns, and on the last
drive he spent many hours in a
campaign of speech-making, and, as
4 result, obtained many thousands !
Of dollars for the loan.
In 1.-THE Birth of a Race" now |
showing at the Boyd, some vivid |
pictures are given in the allegory !
which carries the story of men up
from the creation TO the outbreak |
81 the world war. There the char
acter changes, and it becomes the |
narrative of two families living in |
peaceful happy America. How they |
we're caught in the move of events,
and how the tragedy of war over !
them is told in a fascinat-
ing way. ...
Court (of fun only will be held |
.or the last two times today by |
'Slitkin and Slotkin, Refined Law
5ers," as interpreted by Watson and |
~otan, who are at the Gayety thea
.er with "The Girls de Looks" To- |
matinee, another favor
tie attraction comes for a weeks !
;tay-the great Star and Garter
show, from the magnificent Star
md Gartey theater at Madison and |
Ialstead streets, Chicago. With
he company is ], c. Randolph, an
Omaha boy, whose hosts of friends
IRE waiting to extend hearty well
,ome to him. Ladies matinee to-
lay and Saturday at 2:l5.
Ten wonderful "kiddies" COM
,rise the personnel of THE Rising
Generation" the greatest headliner
If the year, at the Empress theater. l
The act was conceived, staged and
presented by Maud Daniel, ac-
best in her line. Girls,
IS Red Cross nurses, boys as in
ernes, open the act and shortly re-
Give the message that war is over,
md the suggestion is made to
cheer the heroes up with song"
Then the individual talents of the
,iddies are shown, two in particu-
ar, Charles Monahan, the child yod-
err, and Mary Caroline Daniel, the
'wop" impersonator. Master
Charles Blake, the smallest child, is
he comedian, and he is some com
dian.