NAUGHT in the Rain to Play at Butte July 17
William Collier stars in the western comedy Naught in the Rain, coming to Butte on July 17. Set in Helena and mining circles, the play blends wit with love and mining intrigue as Dick Crawford falls for Muriel Mason, resolves misunderstandings, and ends happily. The production features a strong cast led by Collier and Frohman.
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William Collier
Butte
Helena
Dick Crawford
Mr. Collier
Muriel Mason
Crawford
Sixth Avenue
Charles Frohman
Albert Perry
John Saville
Reginald Mason
William H. Post
Charles Poore
Thomas Beaure
Faversham maps four new plays for upcoming season
William Faversham, resting in Old Surrey, plans a four play season starting in the West and Chicago by late September. His lineup includes The World and His Wife by Charles Frederick Nirdlinger, The Code of Victor Jaliot from Carpenter, The Right to Lie by Mme de Grassac, and an unfinished Morton work on American society. He aims to stage Code of Victor Jaliot in New York after year end, with exclusive stage rights secured.
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Old Surrey
England
William Faversham
Felix Isman
Mr. Faversham
West
Indianapolis
Chicago
Charles Frederick Nirdlinger
New York
Carpenter
Victor Jaliot
New Orleans
Faversham
New York City
Daly's Theater
Mme. de Grassac
Kitty
Martha Morton
Marys Lamb comic run opened in New York with Carle rules
Richard Carle enters his second month in New York City performing Marys Lamb at the New York theater since May 25. He prints comical husband tips urging avoidance of conflict, subservience to wives, sly tricks, and playful rowdy maneuvers designed to keep peace at home and charm in public.
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Richard Carle
New York City
Mr. Carle
New York Theater
Broadway Attracts With Colier In Caught in the Rain
The coming attractions list shows William Collier starring in Caught in the Rain on July 17 at Broadway theater followed by Robert Mantell in Richelieu on July 27. Other venues include Lulu theater and multiple vaudeville houses with pictures and illustrated songs.
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Broadway
William Collier
Robert Mantell
Richelieu
Lulu Theater
Zinn Musical Comedy Company
Grand Opera House
Family
Dreamland
Alcazar
Orpheum
Park Street
New Pictures and Illustrated Songs
Ideals and Laughter on a Summer Resort Choice
A humorous note advises letting one’s wife choose a preferred summer resort to avoid blame if the trip goes awry. The quip uses light irony about preferences and domestic harmony.
German Education Rivalry Sparks Hotel Parlor Banter
Joe Weber shares a crossing pond anecdote in a smoke room debate with a facially scarred German about German universities and students. He recalls visiting a Heidelberg student where a waiter interrupts with a quip about tapping a fresh barrel if they leave, highlighting campus and social humor.
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Joe Weber
Weber
Heidelberg
Play set with animal roles and Rostand health note
A farm dog headline describes a production with Galipaux as a blackbird, Mile Marthe Merlot a nightingale, Mme Augustine Leriche a guinea hen, and 60 other animal parts. Landolff works on costumes while scenery preps a woodland act. Rostand, ill, fights to keep Chanticleer in production. Frohman has rights for English speaking countries.
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Galipaux
Mile
Marthe Merlot
Mme
Augustine Leriche
Landolff
Monseiur Rostand
Charles Frohman
Dillingham Lifts Dinner Engagement Revelation
Charles Frohman and Charles Dillingham tour Paris London and Berlin. A London visitor arrives at Frohman’s Hicks office at 6 45 pm. He asks for Frohman, but Dillingham declines a card, citing window washing before 6 o'clock. The man leaves in silence.
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Charles Frohman
Charles Dillingham
Paris
London
Berlin
Mr. Dillingham
Frohman
Hicks Theater
Mr. Frohman
Dillingham
Jules Murry Announces 1908 09 Season With Star Cast
Jules Murry reveals the 1908 09 season featuring Paul Gilmore in Aida Johnson Young's The Boys in Company B, Florence Gear in Marrying Mary, Edwin Milton Boyle with Silvio Hein's music, and Norman Hackett in Classmates. Gilmore and Gear previous Murry veterans return. Hackett joins for the first tour, praising Murry's originality and daring.
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Jules Murry
Paul Gilmore
Aida Johnson Young
Florence Gear
Mary
Edwin Milton Boyle
Silvio Hein
Norman Hackett
William C. DeMille
Margaret Turnbull
Mr. Gilmore
Misa Gear
Mr. Murry
Missa Gear
Mr. Hackett
Murry
Hackett
Savage delays season for Madame Butterfly replacement
Henry W. Savage announced the English grand opera company will suspend next season only temporarily. While abroad he could not find a suitable successor to Madame Butterfly as Puccini’s The Girl From the Golden West is incomplete. The company plans to resume season after next with The Girl From the Golden West and two other grand operas.
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Henry W. Savage
Puccini
Mr. Savage
Margaret Illingtons Pacific coast tour opens in The Thief
Actress Margaret Illington launches a summer Pacific coast tour with The Thief. The itinerary includes July dates at Macdonough Oakland Santa Barbara Fresno Los Angeles San Diego Riverside Sacramento Portland Tacoma Seattle Victoria Vancouver Bellingham Everett North Yakima Spokane Helena Anaconda Butte Billings Denver and more, with matinees on select Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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Margaret Illington
Pacific Coast
Butte
Macdonough Theater
Oakland
Cal
Yosemite Theater
Stockton
Barton Opera House
Fresno
Mason Opera House
Los Angeles
Isis
San Diego
Loring Opera House
Riverside
The
Potter Theater
Santa Barbara
Clunie Theater
Sacramento
Heilig Theater
Portland
Ore
Tacoma Theater
Tacoma
Wash
Moore Theater
Seattle
Victoria Theater
Victoria
Vancouver Opera House
Vancouver
B.C
Beck’s
Bellingham
Everett
Yakima
North Yakima
Spokane
Helena
Mont
Margaret
Anaconda
Broadway
Babecock
Billings
Denver
Colo
In Old Kentucky to Open Sixteenth Season in Duluth
The play In Old Kentucky will start its sixteenth season on August seventeenth in Duluth and tour central and eastern cities and towns. It has outlived rivals and remains a strong drawing card with Olive Skinner as Madge the heroine and veterans Charles K. French and Bert G. Clark returning to the company.
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Old Kentucky
Duluth
Miller hires Isabel Irving to star in Mater at Van Ness
Henry Miller engages Isabel Irving for the lead in Percy Mackaye's comedy Mater at the Van Ness theater in San Francisco. Miller will play the principal male role for the opening, not joining the regular next season company, while continuing with The Great Divide. Frederick Lewis and Miss Mackaye support Miss Irving in the production.
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Henry Miller
Isabel Irving
Percy Mackaye
Margaret Anglin
van Ness Theater
San Francisco
Mr. Miller
Frederick Lewis
Miss Mackaye
Miss Irving
Shuberts Hire Mile Courtenay for New Opera in U S
The Shuberts engage Mile Courtenay of the Opera Comique Paris to star in a Glen MacDonough operatic production. Mile Courtenay is American from Missouri but has never performed in the United States.
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The
Shuberts
Mile. Courtenay
Opera Comique
Paris
Glen MacDonough
Missouri
United States
Stage stars and company bookings for next season
Henrietta Crosman opens at the Academy of Music New York with a fall repertoire. Rose Coghlan supports John Drew in Jack Straw next season. Irving Christian named stage manager for The Time the Place and the Girl touring Pacific coast. Lizzie McCall reengaged as Mrs Canby in Arizona for sixth season. Robert Fisher engaged by W A Brady for Rupert Hughes play starring Douglas Fairbanks next season. George M Cohan and company to open The Yankee Prince in Chicago September 7. Marie Wainwright engaged for Samson starring William Gillette next season. Rev Robert J Lockhart returns to Nichols N Y Presbyterian church for summer. Florence Nash reengaged as stuttering girl in Miss Hook of Holland with later dramatic production. Anton Heindl engaged to conduct Grace Van Studdiford opera company. Robert Mantell’s King Lear in San Diego draws largely from Point Loma theosophist colony.
Theatre and stage notes from a summer season spread
Theatre news covers Katherine Tingley and Isis in San Diego, Billie Burke sailing to London for August rehearsals, Clara Osmond’s Chicago wedding, Lulu Glaser project, Bessie McCoy contract, Elgar Selwyn’s collaboration on The Wall Street Girl, Checkers and Push Miller castings, Metropolitaln season opener in St Paul on August 23, and Adelaide Thurston in The Woman's Hour. A Montenegro mob raids a theater over The Merry Widow claiming insults Montenegrins. the opera’s plot is linked to a former prince.
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Montenegro
Mabel Melvine Joins Askin-Singer For Time Place and Girl
Mabel Melvine has been engaged by the Askin-Singer company for the role of Mrs Talcott in the western company of The Time the Place and the Girl. A revival of Richelieu with Robert Mantell is planned for next season by William A Brady and will run west to Aug 11. Checkers opens its sixth season in St Paul in August with Hans Robert in the title role and a stable cast for a third western tour and later eastern dates.
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Hans Robert
Checkers
Dave Braham, Jr
Push Miller
Metropolitan Opera House
St. Paul
Mabel Melvine
Askin-Singer Company
Mrs. Talcott
Lord Lytton
Richelieu
Robert Mantell
William A. Brady
Cardinal
Lawrence Barrett
Edwin Booth
Irving
London
Pacific Coast
Algeria opens at Broadway with Herbert and MacDonough
Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough present Algeria as the opening Broadway attraction at New York's theater starting August 31. Frank McKee produced the production and engaged George Marion to stage. principals include Ida Brooks Hunt, Leon Moore, William Pruette, Harry Tighe, Harriet Burt, Katherine Hutchinson. Joseph O'Mara, premier English tenor, will star after completing European engagements in Peggy Macree. O'Mara's Peggy Mahree season may begin late fall at McVicker's in Chicago.
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Algeria
Victor Herbert
Glen MacDonough
Broadway Theater
New York
Frank McKee
George Marion
Ida Brooks Hunt
Leon Moore
William Pruette
Harry Tighe
Harriet Burt
Katherine Hutchinson
Joseph O'Mara
England
A. W. Dingwall
Joseph Brooks
London
Peggy Macree
Denis O'Sullivan
Covent Garden
America
Mr. O'Mara
Peggy Mahree
McVicker’s Theater
Chicago
Broadway manager Dingwall eyes Drury Lane melodrama in Chicago
A. W. Dingwall who runs the Broadway theater New York and Mc Vicker's Chicago has secured an option on American rights of a Drury Lane melodrama to be staged there this fall. He may also present The Sins of Society in the United States. Cecil Raleigh, originator of the London attraction, is a close ally of Dingwall and once collaborated with the late Jacob Litt on Sporting Life.
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A. W. Dingwall
Broadway
New York
McVicker’s
Chicago
Drury Lane
United States
Cecil Raleigh
London
Dingwall
Jacob Litt
Sporting Life
Raleigh
Gotham
Detective methods in India arrest Bengali youth Bose
An old Indian police trick led to the arrest of Khurdiram Bose, accused of throwing the bomb that killed Mrs Kennedy and Miss Kennedy at Mozufferpore. He sat at Waini railway station eating rice when constables noticed his inability to swallow, revealing fright and prompting arrest before he could shoot himself.
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Khurdiram Bose
Toved
Rostand's Chanticleer to Open in Paris with Coquelin
Final production plans place Edmond Rostand's new animal play Chanticleer at Porte SaintMartin in Paris early in September with the elder Coquelin in the title role and Jean Coquelin to play the son. The drama centers on a vainglorious barnyard rooster and a tragically ended love story, drawing possible inspiration from Aristophanes The Birds.
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Edmond Rostand
Coquelin
Jean Coquelin
Agricultural pest in France from London Globe
The dodder parasitic plant has ravaged French hops vines clover peas tomatoes and more prompting a presidential decree banning its import. Once established it resists control. cutting burning and poison have failed to eradicate it.
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London Globe
Career of Frank C Bangs, Noted 19th Century Actor
Frank C Bangs died at his Atlantic City home. Born October 13 1833 in Alexandria Virginia he rose from newspaper setting type to stage star and Confederate soldier. He appeared in Washington Ford's Philadelphia New York and Baltimore theatres starring in Julius Caesar Hamlet and Enoch Arden among others. He served as a brevet brigadier general in the Confederate Army and after the war returned to the stage becoming a leading man and a familiar figure in American theatre history.
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Frank C. Bangs
Atlantic City
Booth
Barrett
Wallack
Couldock
Drew
Mr. Bangs
Alexandria
Washington
Richard II
Redelphi
Southern Press
Cooper and de Leon
Philadelphia
E. O. Marshall
Old National Theater
the Miller
Frances
Charlotte Cushman
Cora Mowatt
Bangs
Edwin Forrest
National Theater
Pizarro
Orano
Flying Messenger
Ford's
Baltimore
Romeo
Horatio
Claude Melnotte
Marshall
Arch Street Theater
John Drew
Kinlock
Thayer
Olive Logan
Lem Shewell
George Gile
Albany
N. Y
Greene Street Theater
Richmond
Joseph Jefferson
Laura Keene
New York
George Gordon
Miss Keene
James W. Wallack
Lester Wallack
Virginia
Hilton's Head
Grover & Hess
Wahsington Press
The
Globe
National Intelligencer
the Star
the Republican
Army
Navy
the National
Niblo Garden
George Jamison
Old Tom
Fiske
Gould
Sardou
Patrie
Grand Opera House
Edwin Booth
Brutus
Lawrence Barrett
Cassius
Mr Bangs
Mark Antony
Caesar
South
Shylock
Virginius
Laertes
Hamlet
Charles Fechter
Niblo's Garden
Phillip Ray
Enoch Arden
Pierre Durand
Amy Robsart
Earl of Leecester
Dan'l Druce
le Vieur
Frederic le Maitre
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue Opera House
Jarrett
Palmer
Julius Caesar
E. L Davenport
Lawrence Barrett Cassius
Jarrett and Palmer
Byron
Sardanapolis
Agnes Booth
Charles Calvert
Buffalo Bills and Custer Tale of a Relentless Mule
W F Cody recalls guiding General George Custer over 60 miles to Fort Larned in a race against a stubborn mule. He narrates a tense night when Indian scouts in foothills nearly intercepted them, a noisy mule triggering a frantic escape, and Custer’s good nature about the unmapped chase.
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W. FL. Cody
Custer
Yellow Hair
Fort Hayes
Fort Larned
Larned
Cody
Ine Company
Uncle Jake Neff Recounts Early California Mining Sacks
Former lieutenant governor Uncle Jake Neff recalls California mining days when flour sacks were valuable. He describes cutting sacks into three inch strips to make patches, towels, undergarments, and Arizona sacks. One sack yielded three good pairs and even served as makeshift footwear in a pinch.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Jake’ Neff
Callefornia
Arizona
A New School From the Pittsburg Post
In a scene at the old swimming hole an alley kid and a pampered pet meet. They glare and glower as two schools of humor propose different outcomes, but truth prevails. There is no fight, as is often the case.
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Pittsburg
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Academy of Music
Rose Coghlan
Jack Straw
Irving Christian
Lizzie McCall
Mrs. Canby
Robert Fisher
W. A. Brady
Rupert Hughes
Douglas Fairbanks
George M. Cohan
Colonial Theater
Marie Wainwright
Robert J. Lockhart
Presbyterian Church
Nichols, N. Y
Florence Nash
Holland
Anton Heindl
Charles Bradley
Grace van Studdiford Opera Company
King Lear
Ponta Loma
Katherine Tingley
Cult
Tingley
Playhouse
Mr. Mantell
Billie Burke
Gladys Unger
Clara Osmond
T. Clara Hooker
Richard Mansfield
Preston McGrain
City
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Bessie McCoy
Joseph M. Gaites
Frederick Paulding
Francis X. Hope
Adelaide Thurston
Reba Dale
the Merry Widow
India
France
Arthur Jones
Mers Union Square Companying
John Streble
James Rainton
Anthony Absolute
Colonel Ransom
Duke Vestagola
Stuart Robson
General Wilkinson
Master Benbo
Roland de Castro
Major Gaboche
Notre Dame
Pope
Buffalo Bills
Lrizona
Zinn
Morocco
Jules Garrison
Pantzer
Alice Robinson
Don & Thompson
James & Prior
Captain Barnacle
Florence Modena and Company
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