The Termagant at Park Theatre Boston Review
Olga Nethersole stars in The Termagant at the Hollis Boston with the Liliputians, a blank verse melodrama about Beatrix and Roderigo. Critics find it overlong, artificial, and poorly staged, though Nethersole's acting shines in modern character scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis N. Parker
Murray Carson
Olga Nethersole
Boston
Hollis
London
Miss Nethersole
Beatrix
Hamilton Ravelle
Roderigo
Luigi Lablanche
Garcia
Harry Dodd
Padre
Fred Thorne
Nicole
Camille
New York Lyceum Company
Trelawney
The
Wells
Grand Opera House Hosts Boston Liliputians Premiere
The Grand Opera House drew a large audience for the Boston Liliputians first appearance here. The show featured Franz Ebert Helen Lindner Max Walter Bertha Jaeger Adolf Zink and Miss Schrader with new songs and staging. The troupe performs two weeks with matinees and strong vaudeville acts at Keith's and the Tremont Theatre is next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Opera House
Boston
Price House
Magee
Funny
Franz Ebert
Tiny Helen Lindner
Max Walter
Bertha Jaeger
Adolf Zink
Miss Schrader
Liliputians
Castle Square Theatre Evening Delivers Strong Performances
The Castle Square Theatre filled to capacity last night with the military drama The Girl I Left Behind Me. Lillian Lawrence as Kate Kennion and Marian Chapman as Lucy Hawkesworth led a strong cast praised for their polishes in a well staged production. The play is announced for every afternoon and evening of the present week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Museum
Viola Allen
Glory Quayle
Allen
John Storm
Miss Allen
Henry Jewett
Hall Caine
Boston
John Mason
Frank J. Keenan
Jameson Lee Finney
George Woodward
R. J. Dillion
Mrs. Dickson
Merrilees
Lowell
Hudspeth
Castle Square Theatre
Kate Kennion
Lillian Lawrence
Marian Chapman
Lucy Hawkesworth
Mary Sanders
Wilbur
Ann
Alberta Lee
Fawn
J. H. Gilmour
Lieutenant Hawkesworth
Charles Mackay
Major Burleigh
J. L. Seeley
General Kennion
Yucca Demonstrates Power at Austin & Stone's Museum
A large audience crowded the exhibition hall as Mme Yucca, famed for her strength and beauty, entered with applause. Professor Hutchins introduced the athletic performer in a graceful speech and Yucca acknowledged the praise with a smile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin & Stone's
Mme
Yucca
Austin & Stone
Hutchins
Strongest Woman Yucca Delights Audiences At Local Museum
The article lauds Yucca for lifting heavy weights with remarkable skill and power, noting her crowning act of lifting a band while wearing a leather harness. It highlights her as a physical wonder and the strongest woman, contrasting her form with disfiguring muscularity. Also mentions other performers and acts at the museum including Say Bicknell, Lassard brothers, Vernon sisters, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Yucca
Jenty
Say
Bicknell
Lassard Brothers
Vernon Sisters
Prater
Vienna
Lennerds
Lamexicana
Troubadors
Zera Lemon
Cogan
Bacon
Nellie Franklyn
Albene
Brant
Danny Sonfof
Batchelor
McVey
Riley Brothers
Alice Bablow
Jeber and
Barlow
James
Uncle Tom's Cabin Draws Large Crowd at Columbia Theatre
The Columbia Theatre presented Uncle Tom's Cabin last night with Milt G. Barlow in the title role to a large audience. The performance featured buck and wing dancing banjo music and poignant scenes like Elizas flight and Uncle Tom's death. A special matinee for local orphan homes will be held this afternoon before the weeklong run moves to Yon Yonson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Theatre
A. W. Martin
Uncle Tom
Milt G. Barlow
Eliza
George Harris
Simon Legree
Buck
Wing
Bowdoin Square Theatre Hosts James Boys Melodrama
Bowdoin Square Theatre reports strong patronage for James Boys a Western melodrama based on Jesse and Frank James. Frank Lavarnie stars with four trained horses and cowboys, Maurice Darcy portrays Frank James, Fred Murray Charles Quantrell, and Charlotte Hunt Eliza Jane Buckskin. Next week N B Wood presents The Boy Detective.
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Bowdoin Square Theatre
Frank Lavarnie
Boston
Bowdoin Square Stock Company
Mr. Lavarnie
Jesse James
Maurice Darcy
Frank James
Fred Murray
Charles Quantrell
Carl Fey
Bob Ford
I. R. Philip
Charlotte Hunt
Eliza Jane Buckskin
Helen du Carte
Rita
Avenger
Florence Hale
Mrs. James
Newsboys
Bootblacks
Armstron
Mr. N
Wood
Bowdoin
Boy Detective
Daly Musical Company Delights Tremont Audience
Augustin Daly's musical company capped the final week of its Tremont engagement with an enthusiastic crowd. The lively performance of A Runaway Girl drew frequent encores and ran late, signaling the show could extend beyond its scheduled run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustin Daly
Tremont Thea
The Monte Myre Four and a Wide Vaudeville Bill
The program features the Monte Myre Four in a French pantomime mimic sketch. Also presented are Pastimes Among the Flowers by Crissie Sheridan and twelve coryphees, Farnum and Nelson as top acrobats, Al Lawrence in song, Whitelaw and Stewart in international sketches, Scanlon and Stevens as sketch artists, and Leslie and Gaylor as comediennes. The finale offers an up to date burlesque The Princess of Santiago with elaborate costumes. Stewart sisters May and Belle lead the bill alongside Tanakas and other acts with Ike Johnson, Eddie Carroll, Jeanette Lilford, J H Mack, John Goss, and Mile Perkins in various specialties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crissie Sheridan
Coryphees
Farnum
Nelson
al Lawrence
Whitelaw and Stewart
Scanlon
Stevens
Leslie and
Gaylor
Santiago
Stewart Sisters
May
Belle
Comediennes
Howard
Zantrella
Ashley
Ike Johnson
Eddie Carroll
Jeanette Lilford
Soub
Nickelodeon Exhibits Electric Chair Attraction
The electric chair show at Nickelodeon draws the crowd nightly as a lifelike replica of the Martha Place execution is presented by a young actress. The venue also features a creole beauty show with Dreamy Eyes and a troupe performing buck and wing dances and other acts as Manager Walker offers a prize for best performance.
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Nickelodeon
Martha, Place
Mrs. Place
Empire State
Walker
Boston Curio Halls Show Mix of Acts and Vaudeville
The program features Master Smith Restus and the creole troupe with Yat Zam Mora the Mexican knife throwers. Frank Cooley the human lobster tours the crowd. The Artist's Dream illusion is praised as Boston's finest. Miss May St Clair's Strawberry Blondes burlesque and a vaudeville company headline a large chorus, comedians, and living pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith Restus
Mora
Boston
Frank Cooley
Liiams
St. .Clair
Strawberry Blondes
Grand Theatre Burlesque Show Attracts Boston Audiences
The Grand Theatre presents the Manhattan Club Burlesquers in On a Frolic with over twenty performers including Sheehan and Sheehan and Barnell. New costumes and scenery accompany vaudeville turns by Keegan Keegan Osborne family and others. The show is praised as among the best in Boston in years with strong afternoon and evening audiences. Next week features the Reilly burlesque show.
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Grand Theatre
Boston
Manhattan
Club Burlesquers
Aherris
Sheehan
Barnell
Keegan
Martinis
Lew Wells
Charles
Minnie Osborne
Harry Boyd
Marion and
Pearl
Viola Hilson
Rose Carlin
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Marian Abbott
Edward Lee
Kelcey-Shannon
Park Theatre
Clyde Fitch
Rone
Edward Fletcher
Mr. Kelcey
Miss Shannon
Marion Walton
Virginia Earl
Abscondin Amsel
Jolly James Powers
Ethel Jackson
Cyril Scott
Elsa Ryan
Jefferson de Angelis
Jolly Musketeer
Julian Edwards
Stanislaus Stange
Tremont Theatre
Keith’s Theatre
Joe Hart
Carrie DeMar
Hart
Mr. Sidman
John FE. Owen
James A. Herne
Denman Thompson
New England
Emeline Benchasten
Red Hook
Emily
Squire
Lizzie
Vinte Daly
Frank Leon
McAvoy
Fields and Ward
Kriesel
Charlie Case
Riley
Hughes
Weston and Breen
Biograph
Howard Atheneum
Phil Sheridan
City Sports
Paris
Tremont Temple
Suesday
Albert KB
Pillsbury
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Tue Hos
James Kk
Daniar
Thomas Ki
Liverpore
Herbert €. Parsons
Beer Enear
Au. Ryder
J. U. Er
Ladie
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Newark
Danny
Cox
Chicago
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New York
Hunter Baltimore
Wellington A
Hardy
Broad Street
Loston
Maas
James Boys
Maurice Darcey
Frederick Murray
E. R. Phillips
Helene DuCarte
Rony
Spot
Dash
Wager
Orchestra Balco
N. S. Wood
Fivery
Scorcher
Tewart
Monte Myro
Whitelaw and
Stewart
Eugene Tompkins
Grand Opera
Metropolitan Opera House
Maurice Grau
Emma Eames
Adams
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de Reszke
Carbone
Dufriche
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Maestri
Campanari
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Bosecrnee
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Boston Theatre
NEW England Kennel Club
Mechanics’ Building
Huntington Ave
Buke
OPEM
Emont Theatre
Park
Frazer Agene Tompkins
Kelcey-Shannon Co
City Heatres
Polly Holmes
Rateens Castle Square Opera Co
Ames Thornton
Unre Caspines
Castle Stechre
Tremont St
Tremont
Oxford
Dally
Phi
Belasco
Fyle
Columbia Tiitin
Uncle Tom’s Cab Mile
G. Barlow
Yon Yonson
Rivaudeville
Joseph Hart
Chauncey
Arthur Sidman
Phasey
Copley Hall
the Christian
Hollis Theatre
Isaac B. Rich
OQI
GA. Nethersole
Mattness
Daniel Frohman
Lyceum Theatre Company
Trelawny
Theatre Cor
Washington and
Dover Sts
Ing
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