Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-09

Observation-Disclosures
(C1E AYTIME" will have its
MI first presentation here at
40 Boyd's this evening,
March 9, where it will stand
throughout Auto week with gala
matinees on Wednesday and Satur-
Jay. We are to have the cast of the
long New York run in its entirety.
This is headed by John Charles
Thomas, who has won high honors
in the light opera field and on the
recital platform too during the past
few seasons. Miss Carolyn Thorn
son, who essays the leading feminine
role, has three New York hits to
her credit and a London triumph be-
side She is a most attractive young
woman with q beautiful voice. Mr..
Thomas and Miss Thomson are
featured by the Messrs. Shubert in
this production together with John
7. Murray, an English comedian of
fine quality and several recent Sue
cesses on Broadway. Other interest
ing personalities in the company are
Howard Marsh, said to possess a
rare tenor voice, Vivien Oakland, a
Spanish dancer of extraordinary sup
pleness and beauty, Jenette Methvan,
Russell Lannon, S. Bird Wheeler,
Grace Studiford, Isabel Vernon,
Ezra c. Walck, Alfred Hemming.
Title Salinger, Clarice Snyder and
Betty Kirkbridge In addition, there
are many pretty dancing and singing
girls to wear the hoop-skirts of 1870.
the bustles of 1880, and in the final
act or epis~ lie. the last whispers of
fashion Jr 1910 But the great sue
cess Maytime" has been due, not
to beautiful costumes and scenery.
nor yet to the beautiful girls who
appear within. Rather it has been
due to the lovely music by Sigmund
Romberg, as it carries out and COM
p,etes the sentimental feeling, a gem
timely unusual and pretty romance.
On Tuesday night David Belasco
will present his popular star, David
Warheld, at the Brandeis for three
performances. with matinee on
Wednesday in a revival of his first
great success, "The Auctioneer," a
comedy of character by Lee Arthur
and Charles Klein 1t has been II
years since Mr.. Warfield first APP
peared in this play at hesold Bijou
theater, New York.
In both its scenes and characters,
1.-THE Auctioneer," radiates sweet
ness, and while the lines of the play
keep one laughing almost constant
ly, it is the kind of laughter that is
very close to tears. It's story has
to do with Simon Levi, lovable
old Hebrew who is at first seen in
his east side auction store and
home, building up the fortune begun
with his peddler's basket. When his
adopted daughter, Helga. is about to
become the bride of Dick Egan, he
moves into a Lexington Avenue
mansion, and has a good time"
while it lasts, becomes suddenly
penniless, and then has to go back
down town and cheerfully begin
life all over again with his peddler's
basket. The story is most human
one Astounding in situations which
call for the sudden transition from
broad fun to pathos and sentiment
and tears, which no actor on the
American stage today can accom-
plish with such remarkable fnesse
and effect as Mr. Warfield can.
In Mr., War6eld's supporting cast
this season are several PLAYERS who
appeared with him when The Auc-
tioneer" was first produced, among
them being Marie Bates, Louis
Hendricks. Horace James, Harry
Rogers and Tony Bevan, while
others are Guy Milham, Harry Lew
ellyn, Helena Phillips, Ida Grooper,
Edwin Caldwell and Ethel Saxton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Drew in
spoken play remarkably adapted to
their personalities. under the direc-
ton of Richard Walton Tully, will
personally appear in the merry COM
edy, Keep Her Smiling" at the
Boyd next Sunday for four nights
and Wednesday matinee. Keep
Her Smiling" is by John Hunter
Booth author of The Masquerade
er," who founded his comedy on
the stories of Edgar Franklin pub
lished in the Saturday Evening Post.
The play is in three acts laid in a
New York Office, and suburban
residence near there. 1t deals with
the domestic, social and financial adj
ventures of Henry" and Polly,
(The Drews.)
"a Stitch in Time" modern
Cinderella play, which broke all |
record at the Fulton theater, New
York City, will be presented at the
Brandeis theater for the week start
ing Sunday, March %. "A Stitch in
Time" is a play that ranks with
"Peg O. Ny Heart" and Daddy |
Long Legs" The ptly Is an adven-
turous story in which love figures
in a disguise of rags and tatters, for
the heroine of the piece, modern
Cinderella, makes her first appear
ance with mop and pail as the scrub
girl in an artists studio.
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The San Carlo Grand Opera
company, whose popularity here is
unquestioned, is sure to arrive, De-
voices of the art have much that is
new to look forward to in the. com
ing of the San Carloans. Managerial
foresight has caused to be retained
in the forces such splendid artists as
Elizabeth Amsden, the dramatic
soprano; Stella DeMette and Marta
Melis, the two rich-voiced contral-
tos; Manuel Salazar, the brilliant
Spanish tenor; Giuseppe Agostini
and Angelo Antola. tenor and
baritone respectively; Joseph Roger,
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