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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1906
Page
3
Holiday week showcases a mix of theater options across venues. Grand offers matinees and shows including A Corner Free, Princeton Glee Club, Peer Gynt, Parsifal in a dramatic version. Bijou hosts Me Him and I and other matinees. El Dorado features Sherlock Holmes and The Two Orphans. Star presents a week of popular vaudeville with matinees.
A feature honors Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Grieg, and Mansfield as leading figures in drama, music, and writing. Their enduring influence spans theater, composition, and acting on stages and pages worldwide.
Richard Mansfield, famed for intense energy and mythic stage presence, appears at the Grand in Peer Gynt. His life spans poverty hardship in London to success as actor and self managed star, living a private, studious life with wife and child on Riverside Drive.
Ready for Work report states the Georgia Petroleum Company, formed to develop oil fields in Jefferson county near Louisville, Georgia, has ordered five car loads of boring machinery and curb pipe and expects to start sinking three wells by January 10 next year.
A grand production of Parsifal will be presented at the Grand Emay and Es nights with elaborate scenery, an augmented orchestra, and a star cast led by John Lane Connor as Parsifal. The show runs two acts with brief intermissions, begins 745 PM and ends 1115 PM, with strict early seating rules and a Saturday matinee at 2 PM.
Christmas week at the Grand features three acclaimed productions. Tim Murphy leads A Corner in Coffee with Dorothy Sherrod and a strong cast on Mon Tue and Christmas Day matinee. The Princeton Glee Club performs Wednesday, Richard Mansfield stars in Peer Gynt Thursday, and Wagner's Parsifal closes the week, drawing wide interest and big advance ticket sales.
Review of Me, Him and I at Bijou, a lively musical comedy with three tramps impersonating a busted Indian medicine show. They travel via private yacht to Dawson City, stir up antics aboard, debut a comedy band, and end with a Klondike fortune after a gold cache. Subplots include political heiress romance and Far West pairings. Music by Max Hoffman features spectacular numbers and Arctic scenes with northern lights.
A concerned note on performers and theater staff missing holiday cheer as they endure long hours, travel, and late meals while audiences enjoy Christmas. The piece urges audiences to show kindness to ushers, stagehands, and others who enable performances, to elevate their holiday with considerate support.
Hurtig and Seamon stage a lavish musical with lively chorus in colorful costumes and topical songs. Matinees are listed for Christmas Day and the days after. plus a local death report of K. Enjstron, an Atlanta Steel Works employee, found at a private sanitarium and awaiting relatives in Pennsylvania. Lizella residents prepare for holiday festivities as town gleams in Christmas attire.
Tim Murphy headlines as Colonel Jim Johnstone in a stage adaptation of Townsend Brady's serial novel A Corner in Coffee This Is dramatized for the Grand with Brady describing characters like Pogis DeBeverse Killegrew and Constance Livingstone among others The cast includes Bertram Van Livingstone and Cutter with a villainous turn and a servant named Putter leading the misadventure
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