Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-05
TACK O. LANTERN" Charles
Il Dillingham's musical extrava-


night, fairly swept the big audience
eff its feet
OF course, Fred Stone is "Jack
o Lantern and Jack O Lantern" Is
Fred Stone. If there's anything this
clown of clowns can't do no one has
/ discovered it. If he isn't versatile
he isn't anything, and after seeing
him romp, sing dance, skate and
Joke his way through the many
scenes of Jack o Lantern" one
doesn't wonder why he has such a
hard time getting off of Broadway.
There are so many good things
in Jack O. Lantern" so many sur
prises, that it's like a three-ring
circus on a stage. Mr.. Stone makes
Glowing fine art. He's bobbing
up all the time in some new antic.
some new character, that the au-
dience is kept on edge waiting to
see what he'll do next. He's a vaga-
bond, a Frenchman, a Scotchman, a
Russian, an English music hall
singer, an Italian, and in the final
scene of the big spectacle gives an
impersonation of Charlotte. the
noted woman skater, star of the New
York Hippodrome. In this scene
there's real ice pond on the stage
and Mr.. Stone gives an exhibition
that would make most professional
skaters gasp.
One of the features OF the show is
the dancing of Violet Zel1, who has
been appropriately called the "hu-
man rag baby" Her work with the
master clown gets a big hand.
Seemingly no Fred Stone show
would be complete without the six
Brown brothers and their syncopat-
ing saxophones. This is the orig
inal clown saxophone band. The
Moonbeam girls do some clever
singing and dancing, and the big
Globe theater chorus is made up of
TEAL beauties, who wear some Won
derful costumes. Katie Smith has
a daring skating number.
Some of the other stars in Tack
O Lantern, who come in for their
share of the honors are Frank Her
bert and Coly Lorella. a pair of
dandy acrobats; Teresa Valerie,
Harold West, Charles Mast, Oscar
Ragland. Roy Hoyer, Helen Barlow
Hazel Renaud, Penelope Willard,
Jet Stanley. Sigma Pierce the Hoy
sisters, Ursula Chare, Kathryn
Walsh, Elsa May and Mabelle &C.
dars.
There are two acts and eight
scenes in Jack O Lantern" which
was written by R. H. Burnside and
Anne Caldwell. Ivan Caryll is re-
sponsible for the many catchy must
cal numbers. "Jack O. Lantern" will
be at the Brandeis all week, with
matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
Cosmo Hamilton has again pro-
vided a dclectable study of a girl,
this time opposite in character to
the one he presented in "The Blind
ness of Virtue" In that well remem-
bered comedy the young lady hero
inc was led to the brink of preci-
pice she did not discover just be-
cause Dame Nature asserted her
self, and she yielded to promptings
she could not comprehend. In
Scandal" his girl IS sophisticated
and entirely self-centered seeking
what she calls fun" and "life' at the
expense of the opposite sex. It
pleases her to play with things she
ought to shun, and finally. to extri-
cate herself from tight fix she in
wolves real herman bv alleging
secret marriage with him. This sat
isles family pride, and anlazes init
mates, but does not meet the entire
approval of the mail, who has some
old fashioned ideas of his own, and
proceeds to put them into effect
His method of teaching the selfish
Young person wholesome. salutary
lesson is the most logical feature of
L comedy that in some respects lays
a heavy demand on the credence of
the spectator. Mr.. Hamilton has
gone almost as far as his license al
lows in order to establish the situa-
ton which gives him the climax:
smashing rs It is, qulvcfirg bit OF
genuine life. The third act provides
the convention ant. climax the let
down needed to send folks away
from the tllcater in a pleasant frame
of mind because everything ends so
happily. I. would have been far
more logical just to have left
the situation as it exists at the close
of the second act. where the heroine
sobs in her ''nightie," spurned with
contempt by the man whom she had
thought was about to demand the
ultimate price for his acquiesence in
her deception.
Miss f.tba Andrus brings to the
iole of the girl a piquant quality of
humor, and fairly realizes the de-
mands of the scene in which she
makes the surrender. It is brief, but
is splendidly brought off. Its sue
cess, though, is chiefly due to the
human touch that Coates Gwynne
gives the man in this moment of ulti-
mate tension.
A carefully selected company sup
ports these leads in the presentation
of the comedy, which opened a
weeks engagement at the Boyd last
night, where 1t was welcomed by
large audience that greatly enjoyed
the proceedings.
Amelia Stone and Arman Kaliz,
in an artistic musical and dancing
production entitled Romance" and
Saranoff, accompanied by Billy Alb
bott and the Winter Garden Girls,
are two stellar acts which lead the
splendid bill at the Orpheum this
week.
Miss Stone sings az sweetly and
is as winesome as when she APP
peared here on previous occasion
with her talented companion who
is clever in the Characterization OF
"a chivalrous Frenchman. Their