Queen Victoria's Balmoral Years and Legacy
The article recalls Queen Victoria leaving London for Balmoral Castle, detailing her travel habits and Balmoral's setting on the River Dee. It notes her long widowhood, connections to Prince Albert, John Brown, and the royal family’s European ties, plus Gladstone’s anecdote about a cat and home rule.
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Balmoral
Spett
Dee
Prince Gonsort
Queen Victoria
London
Balmoral Castle
Northern Pacific
Aberdeen
Scotland
Crown
Earl of Fife
Prince Consort
Prince and Princess of Wales
Loch Negar
Kenilworth
Victoria
Osborne
Isle of Wight
Tennyson
Victoria and Albert
Highlands
John Brown
Prince Albert
Brown
England
Gladstone
Mr. Gladstone
New Opera House Rumor in Butte Thirdhand Talks
Rumors claim a new opera house is planned at Granite and Wyoming streets tied to the Thornton estate and hotel, possibly run with theatrical capitalists in the East. Local sources offer mixed responses, noting the site’s wealth and the city’s need, while denying W A Clark involvement.
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Butte
W. A. Clark
Clark Opera House
Granite and
Wyoming Streets
Thornton
Baldwin
San Francisco
Enhead
Theaters Brace for Uncertain Presidential Season
The past year brings theater prosperity with record activity. Managers foresee a busy season but warn many ventures may fail or fade. Analysts note more second class and popular productions, fewer dignified shows, and a risky outlook as winter approaches.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Presented by Wagenhals and Kemper
The revival stars Louis James and Miss Kathryn Kidder with a company of 41. It promises dramatic interest and diversified entertainment including fairy elements music and dance. The notable feature is a dawn transformation in Act four via transparencies lights and moving panoramas.
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Wagenhals
Kemper
Louis James
Kathryn Kidder
Athens
The Neill Company Tours and Expands Ventures
The James Neill Company, led by Charles Astor Parker, has toured the Northwest and is back in Los Angeles for a return trip. Nat Goodwin and Maxine Eliot, now at their Eng land home, followed by Neill’s oil venture with a $500000 capitalization in Los Angeles. The company’s Los Angeles run yielded over $40,000 in gross receipts in 11 weeks and new plays including Nat Goodwin’s big comedy success, An.
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Nat Goodwin
Maxine Eliot
Northwest
England
Charles Astor Parker
James Neill
Neill Company
Honolulu
New York
Boston
Los Angeles
Cal
Neil Company
Neill
Observations of Herr von Brand at Shanghai Dinner
The account recalls Herr von Brand of Germany once minister in Pekin and his influence on Chinese affairs. He impressed with wide learning and language skills, warned about Christianizing natives as a business, and described a Shanghai mission visit, Bund drive, and a Shylock theater plan.
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Associated Press
Emperor Williams
Count von Waldersee
Herr von Brand
China
Baron von Ketteler
Germany
Pekin
England
France
Li Hung Chang
Haurope
Asia
Bismarck
Shanghai
Herr von Krencki
Admiral Blane
Siam
A. T. Stewart
New York
Ehair
Astor House
Bund
Ropean
Bandmann
India
Madras
Mussulman
Pharse
Thalia
Melpomene
E. Bandmann
Missoula
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Pnglans
Russia
Europe
Magnificent Balmoral
Robert Hilliard
Bob Blessing
Joseph Arthur
Fourteenth Street Theater
Mr. Hilliard
Mr. Arthur
Indiana
Bob” Hilliard
Amarynth Society of
Brooklyn
Etellar
Richard Harding Davis
van Bibber
Clay M. Greene
Augustus Thomas
Hilliard
van Hibber
America
Littles Girl
Conely
Jacob Litt
Harry Mon
Hil-lard
Criterion Theater
Lester Wallack
Nat C. Goodwin
Kent
Mr. Goodwin
Duke of York's
Miller Kent
Goodwin
Stags
Palace of the King
F. Marion Crawford
Lorimer Stoddard
Viola Allen
William Seymour
Metropolitan Opera House
Miss Allen
Philip Second
Spain
Charles Kent
Don John
Austria
Robert T. Haines
Cardinal Luis de Torres
Edgar L. Davenport
Antonio Perez
C. Leslie Allen
Miguel de Antena
William Norris
Captain de Mendoza
Clarence Handgeide
Don Lope Zapata
John A. Holland
Don Manuel
Frank Gheen
Don Jamile
Eueene Sweetland
Don Giovanni
J. P. Jordan
Gus Frankel
Fudaldo
Gus
Frankel
Anne
Catherine Curtis
Ana de la Gerda
Eboli
Marcia van Dresser
Fiske
Becky Sharp
Farah Cowell LeMoyne
Harriet Pord
LeMoyne
Wallack’s
Browning
Otis Skinner
Prince Otte
Eleanor Robson
Arizona
Wallack
Madame Modjeska
Montreal
Mesers
Modjeska
Constance
R. D. MacLean
King John
Odette Tyler
Prince Arthur
James A. Herne
Hearts of Oak
Shenandoah
James Warren
Third Artillery
USS. A
Pacific Coast
Union Pacific
the Grand
William Sellery
New York City
Casino Theater
Anna Mortland
New York Herald and Telegraph
Geome
New York Dramatic Ea
Frank Daniels
Ruhtin
Beach & Bowers’ Minstrels
Grand Opera House
Olga Hayden
Wal
Sutton’s
Herr Bandmann
Cook Remedy CO
UsiNness
Cook Ready CO
Cook Remedy C.O
Masonic Temple
Chicago
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