Minstrel Theater Opens in Butte with Gortons and FergusonActs
Three local playhouses in Butte offer tonight shows with Gortons minstrels at the Grand, Ferguson and Mack at the Broadway for a week plus Labor Day matinees, and Suttons Family Theater repeats A Thoroughbred Tramp with matinees today and Labor Day. Daniel Frohman arrives in New York after 10 weeks abroad to arrange Lyceum plans and a Worcester festival with pianist Gabrilowitsch.
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Butte
Marks
The
Grand
Gorton
Barney Ferguson
John Mack
McCarthy
Broadway
Mining Congress
Sutton’s
Gortons Minstrels Promote Longstanding Touring Company
Gortons minstrels celebrate the 14th year as the oldest traveling minstrel organization. The company showcases upgraded wardrobes and stage effects, with no objectionable content, aiming for a high standard of excellence. James O Neill’s new Harriet Ford play under development, with May Buckley as leading lady and Nestor Lennon as supporting male lead.
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Gorton
James O'Neill
Harriet Ford
Rupert Hughes Sells New Four Act Play for Blanche Walsh
Rupert Hughes sells a new four act play to Managers Wagenhals and Kemper for Blanche Walsh. The project is titled What Will People Say and is described as a dramatic work following the success of A Wooden Wedding in London.
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Rupert Hughes
London
Wagenhals & Kemper
Blanche Walsh
Hughes the dramatist gains attention for new play title
Comparatively unknown dramatist Mr Hughes is known to literary circles as essayist and novelist. His poem Gages Ring has been praised as perhaps the best modern blank verse. Miss Walsh heard a new play read and praised its daring theme and tragedy, prompting Hughes to adopt What will people say as the title. Mr Stange will present Salamba based play first, with Hughes guaranteed a production later this season.
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Hughes
Hushes
Stange
Tracy the Outlaw melodrama heads to road tour
Bruce Van Sant wrote the new four act melodrama Tracy the Outlaw to be staged immediately by Percy G. Williams of the Orpheum Brooklyn. P Dodd Ackerman photographed scenes and the production features dramatic episodes such as Tracy's Home The Temptation The Salem Penitentiary The Escape The Portland Train Robbery The Cascade Mountains The Duel and The Wheat Field by Moonlight.
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Bruce van Sant
Percy G. Williams
Orpheum Theater
Brooklyn
P. Dodd Ackerman
Salem
Portland
Cascade Mountains
Mr. Williams
Pacific Coast
Bessie Bonehill Dies in England After Vaudeville Fame
Bessie Bonehill the famed vaudeville and music hall performer who rose to fame in New York under Tony Pastor died in Plymouth England after months of illness. Born as Mrs John Seeley she had two daughters and two sons. She first appeared in London and was quickly brought to Pastor's theater where she became a hit. She later starred in Little Christopher and at Koster & Bial's in New York and bought a Sayville Long Island farm where her children reside.
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New York
Tony Pastor
Plymouth
England
John Seeley
London
Pastor
Christopher
Koster & Bial’s
Sayville
L. I
Italian stars tour opens as Mrs Ferguson causes scene
Signora Duse completes organization of her American tour with famed Italian artists listed. Mrs Richard Ferguson of the McCarthy Mishaps company hurled a milk filled bottle at a Fort Wayne Cincinnati & Louisville baggage man after her bull pup died from falling parcels en route to Muncie. The bottle shattered on the car and peace was restored after intervention by theater and railroad staff. Ferguson filed a claim for the dog’s value of ten dollars. The conductor barred her from bringing pets into the passenger coach.
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Richard Ferguson
Grace Passmore
Fort Wayne
Cincinnati
Louisville
Muncie
Ind
Hartford City
Eminent Scotch Basso David Baxter Secured for Loudon Charlton
Loudon G Charlton announces the signing of David Baxter a renowned Scotch bass who has never visited America. Baxter will perform in recitals concerts and oratorios with a vast repertoire including Handel Mozart Gluck Franz Verdi Schubert Schumann and Tchaikovsky. His coronation concert at Queen's Hall London marks a major event for the coming musical season.
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David Baxter
America
Europe
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Queen's Hall
London
Handel
Mozart
Gluck
Franz
Verdi
Schubert
Schumann
Tschaikowsky
Australian contralto Ada Crossley to tour America
Loudon G. Charlton secures Miss Ada Crossley for a concert tour in America this season. She remains booked in Europe until January 1903, with February to April set for performances on this side of the water. Her voice is described as wonderfully great in timbre and her repertoire wide and beautiful.
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Loudon G. Charlton
America
Europe
Miss Crossley
England
Grand opera house reopens with Gortons minstrels
The Grand opera house in Butte reopens this evening for the season with Gortons minstrels a sterling attraction. After three nights the house will close ten days for stage upgrades and orchestra front remodel, then continue with a steady run. The Stair Haviin circuit offers a mix of comedy drama light opera and extravaganza at popular prices.
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Grand Opera House
Gorton
Stair & Haviin
Butte
Delecher acquires rights for Her Lord and Master vehicle
J B Delecher buys the rights to the Martha Morton play Her Lord and Master. Helen Grantly will open Asbury Park Sept 15 in the production asbury park engagement runs until year end. She then moves to The Girl and the Judge with Annie Russell slated for Dec 10 and Delcher books the supporting company.
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Martha Morton
Herbert Kelcey
Effie Shannon
Manhattan Theater
Helen Grantly
Asbury Park
Annie Russell
Mr. Delcher
Miss Grantly
Mrs Brune’s Engagement Anticipated For Crawford Heroine
The coming engagement of Mrs. Brune is anticipated with strong interest. Her portrayal this year of F. Marion Crawford's heroine in Anorna is said to surpass all her prior dramatic efforts. The play, drawn from The Witch of Prague, is praised as the most meritorious work from Crawford’s prolific romance pen.
When I Go On the Stage Debuts by Miss Hall
Miss Josephine Hall of The Girl from Paris unveils a new song When I Go On the Stage in Aarons & Murray's My Antoinette. The piece promises musical humor and strong stage appeal to rival her prior Sister Mary Jane's Top Note.
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Josephine Hall
Paris
Mary Jane
Aarons & Murray
Antoinette
Miss Hall
Hanford to Stage Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado This Season
Charles B. Hanford will present both The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing this coming season. The run includes Petruchio and Benedick, noted as two of the most engaging courtship and honeymoon portraits, placed together in the same repertoire.
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Charles B. Hanford
Petruchio
Benedick
Frank Worthing Returns from England to Stage in New York
Frank Worthing recently returned from England and acted in two Mrs. Ryley plays in London The Grass Widow and Jedbury Jr He is under contract to appear with Julia Marlowe at the Criterion theater New York in November.
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Frank Worthing
England
Mrs. Ryley
London
Jedbury, Jr
Julia Marlowe
Criterion Theater
New York
Nellie Beaumont Engaged for Principal Role in My Antoinete
Nellie Beaumont of the Beaumont sisters, a noted Weber & Fields feature for three seasons, has been engaged for a principal part in My Antoin ete.
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Beaumont Sisters
Weber & Fields
Antoinete
Temp est storm scene mirrors Drury Lane transformations
Wagenhals and Kemper stage The Temp est with Louis James and Frederick Warde, signaling a storm scene recalling the marvelous transformations shown at London Drury Lane theater.
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Wagenhals & Kemper
Louis James
Frederick Warde
Drury Lane Theater
London
Hanford Opens Season In Lynchburg With Much Ado About Nothing
Charles B. Hanford will begin his season in Lynchburg Virginia on September 29 presenting Much Ado About Nothing. This marks the third consecutive year he starts his tour in that city. All members of Butte Butchers Union No. 17 are asked to meet at their hall at 9 am on Labor Day September 1 to join the parade. By order of president W J Honey secretary Box 82 City.
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Charles B. Hanford
Mr. Hanford
Butte Butchers’ Union No. 17
W. J. Honey
Box
Notice to Engineers Union Meeting for Labor Day
Notice to Engineers. All members of the Butte Stationary Engineers Union No. 88 are asked to meet at their hall Monday at 9 o clock to participate in the Labor Day celebration. P. A. Stevens president.
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Butte Stationary Engineers’ Union No. 88
P. A. Stevens
Settled in New Home for Centerville Parochial School Staff
The seven sisters who teach at St. Joseph's parochial school in Centerville moved yesterday to a new home at 6 O'Neil street due to growing staff from four to seven, replacing former school building apartments now used as music and eighth grade rooms. Mr and Mrs E J Gearing thank the K O T M of Butte and Whitehall, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and United Brotherhood of Railway Employes for help in the death of their son Lawrence Gearing.
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St. Joseph's Parochial School
Centerville
O'Neil Street
E. J. Gearing
Butte and Whitehall
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
United Brotherhood of Railway Employes
Lawrence Gearing
Montana Matters at Capital
Washington confirms Walter J. Garrett named substitute clerk at Helena post office. Samuel Weich of Grass Range awarded a pension in the Capitol dispatch.
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Washington
Walter 3. Garrett
Helena
Samuel Weich
Grass Range
Dr Bosanko Pile Remedy Ad Promises Relief
Itching piles cause moisture and itching and come in forms such as blind, bleeding or protruding. Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy is claimed to cure by stopping itching and bleeding and absorbing tumors. 50c a jar or mailed with treatise free. Dr Bosanko Philadelphia Pa.
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