Empire Theatre gives strong revival of The Lost Paradise
The Empire Theatre audience enjoyed Henry C. DeMille’s English version of Ludwig Fulda’s The Lost Paradise. Casts led by William Courtleigh and Isabelle Fletcher delivered solid performances with vivid stage pictures and lively supporting roles. Next comes Saratoga, then The Geezer of Geek departs Tremont for Chicago after four nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire Theatre
Henry C. DeMille
Ludwig Fulda
William Courtleigh
Reuben Warner
Frederick Murray
Andrew Knowlton
William Humphrey
Ralph Standish
Francis Ball
Bob Appleton
William Evarts
Mr. Fletcher
Carl Anthony
Schwartz
Herbert Cortell
Billy Hopkins
Margaret Knowlton
Isabelle Fletcher
Gertrude Berkeley
Mrs. Knowlton
Mabelle Estell
Polly Fletcher
Mary Sanders
Cinders
Flora Juliet Bowley
Nell
Empire Company
Bronson Howard
Saratoga
Pearl and the Pumpkin ends week as Boston bows out
A large Colonial Theatre audience last night welcomed the final week of The Pearl and the Pumpkin before Klaw and Erlanger shift the show to New York Broadway next Monday. Edwin Stevens and Ethel Johnson led strong comic turns with lively songs and dancing, joined by Gertie Carlisle as the Pearl and a bright ensemble including Kathryn Hutchinson as Mother Carey and George Richards as the Vermont Cook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Theatre
New England
Klaw & Erlanger
Broadway Theatre
New York
Boston
Edwin Stevens
Mariner
Ethel Johnson
Gertie Carisle
Sager Midgeley
Ida Hawley
Bermuda
Carrol McComas
Mother Carey
Kathryn Hutchinson
George Richards
Vermont
Harry Macdonough
Taylor Granville
Stella Beardsley
Faith Mother opens Park Theatre season in New York
The Park Theatre announces the opening night for Faith Mother with the strong New York cast set for Saturday evening September 2. Managers expect heightened activity and a busy three week run as the new season starts.
Heir to the Hoorah at Hollis Street Theatre
The Heir to the Hoorah brings Guy Bates and a strong New York cast to Hollis Street Theatre for Labor Day. The American comedy played previously at the Hudson Theatre in New York last spring and will be revived for local audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollis Street
Guy Bates
Hudson Theatre
New York
Bass Point Nahant Tops Local Summer Crowds
Bass Point Nahant draws large crowds this season as the Boston area’s hottest resort. Steamers from Lincoln Wharf offer direct harbor trips, with moonlit evenings boosting nightly outings. The open-air theatre vaudeville dancing casino athletic field concerts and boating entertain visitors, making Bass Point the premier leisure spot near Boston.
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Boston
Bass Point
Nahant
Lincoln Wharf
Banner Club of
Ward
New Dance Hall
Battery Street
Nahant Line
Court
Cuticura Claimed To Cure Severe Eczema In Woman
Geo A Davis reports his mother Mrs Wm F Davis of Stony Creek Connecticut suffered years with eczema until Cuticura products cured her. He says she could not eat or sleep, hair whitened, and sores covered head and body before treatment. He credits two cakes of Cuticura Sean five boxes and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent.
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Wm. F. Davis
Stony Creek
Conn
Geo. A
Davis
36Th St. N. Y
Muggs Landing Charms Bowdoin Square Theatre Audience
A four act comedy drama Muggs Landing drew a full Bowdoin Square Theatre crowd with clever staging and dignified costumes. Pearl De Sousier as Little Muggs Annette Marshall Julia Florence Hale Shouting Harder Butler Haviland Dixon Thad Grey Si Dobbs and Henry Brooks lead a strong cast. Next week Peck's Bad Boy is scheduled with daily matinees.
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Muggs
Bowdoin Square
Pearl de Sousier
Annette Marshall
Julia
Florence Hale
Butler Haviland
Judson
Wilmer Walter
Dixon
Thad Grey
Si Dobbs
Henry Brooks
Asa Beck
Edwin Denison
Messrs
Charles Wheelock
Frank Wright
W. E. Spragg
Peck
Big John Middle Sky at Austin and Stone's Museum
Austin and Stone's Museum exhibits the Yuma giant Big John Middle Sky beside mythic giants, claiming last week of show with vaudeville and curios hall attractions. Kohler and Marion, Ward and Goodwin, Melrose and Ehren, LaPorte and Hadley, Powell minstrel maids, and a full company of artists perform with record crowds and standing room only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big John Middle Sky
Yuma
Austin & Stone
John Middle Sky
Marion Cleveland
Warren Boyd
Ollie McMann
Vaudeville Bill at Point of Pines Shines with Top Acts
A rustic theatre bill features Bunth and Rudd the grotesque team, Hathaway and Walton wooden shoe dancers, Seymouth and Hill acrobatic stunts, and Charles Kenna in The Fakir. Zella and Dot perform a man and dog act as fireworks entertain. Sun and Mon shows were omitted, boosting performances. Lynn Cadet Band plays daily while a photo contest offers $15 for best night illumination and $5 for second, plus $5 for best beach day shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rustic Theatre
Point of Pines
Bunth
Rudd
Boston
Hathaway
Walton
Seymouth
Hill
Charles Kenna
Zella
Dot
Lynn Cadet Band
Raymond
Lexington Park Offers Garden of Eden Experience With Daylong Attractions
Over 20 000 attend Lexington Park last Sunday an all time high except a holiday. The park features pine forest paths lovers lanes floral gardening and a Garden of Eden setting. Highlights include Lenna Claire Howe's orchestra roller skating hippodrome restaurant swings merry go round observation tower and a toboggan slide. The rustic theatre presents The Belle of Boston by Matt Ott about a Boston widow who disposes of four husbands with bean soup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington Park
Lenna Claire Howe
Women's Orchestra
Hippodrome
Rustic Theatre
Boston
Wrier
Matt Ott
Dangers of Working Girls Opens at Grand Opera House
The Grand Opera House opened the second season with Dangers of Working Girls a vivid New York life drama by A H Woods. It depicts third degree and opium joint dangers ending with a dynamite explosion and a police rescue. Annie Blancke follows in Fighting Fate a Boston favorite per the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Opera House
New York
A. H. Woods
Annie Blancke
Miss Blancke
Boston
Howard Opens 60th Season With Vaudeville Headliners
Next Monday the Howard theatre begins its 60th season with a straight vaudeville bill featuring headliners such as Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy James Richmond Glenroy the Pantzer trio Hoey and Lee Murphy and Frances the De Elmars Grace Leonard Russell and Tillyne Nessen and Harvey the Felmer sisters Fred Bow man and the Imperial musical duo. The interior debuts in white and gilt with modern stage apparatus and electric lighting. The Howard burlesque company will follow with a rollicking musical show later in the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Howard
Mark Murphy
James Richmond Glenroy
Pantzer
Hoey and Lee
Murphy
Frances
de Elmars
Grace Leonard
Russell and
Tillyne
Nessen
Rich and Harvey
Felmer Sisters
Fred Bowman
Imperial Musical
Howard
Howard Burlesque Company
Paragon Park hosts Bristol equine wonder free circus week
Professor Bristol's Equine Wonders head a free open-air circus at Paragon Park featuring five ponies, Diamond the contortion thoroughbred, Ruby the funny mule, and acts by McPhee Hill and Marr Evans. The Darky Jubilee and Filipino band attract crowds while Palm Garden shows and Mace Gay's Martland Band draw steady audiences.
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Bristol
Paragon Park
Ruby
McPhee
Hill
America
Marr and Evans
Palm Garden
Mace Gay
Martland
Norumbega Park draws record Sunday attendance this season
Norumbega Park reported a record Sunday crowd for the season, with total attendance surpassed by only one holiday. The park offered canoeing on the Charles, a zoo, a chalet, a restaurant with orchestra, band concerts, a merry-go-round, an electric fountain, a casino, a plaza view of river activity, and a covered open air theatre. The vaudeville program featured Domestic Pets by Ellsworth and Burt, Lizzie Daly, the Maxsmith Duo, Yackley and Bunnell, C W Littlefield in impersonations, and Komograph motion pictures.
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Norumbega Park
Charles
Norumbega Boathouse
Zoological Garden
Comedietta
Ellsworth
Burt
Lizzie Daly
Maxsmith
Yackley
Bunnell
C. W. Littlefield
Komograph
Eastern Steamship Excursions Popular and Booking Fast
The height of popularity has been reached and patronage for the Eastern steamship excursions is at a record level. The White Flyers are in the public eye with daylight trips from Boston to Portland on Monday Wednesday and Friday and all day Sunday excursions from Boston. Reserve staterooms early to secure preferred locations aboard.
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Boston
Portland
Crowds Flock to Revere Beach as Season Peaks
Revere Beach sees steady crowds arriving by trolley boat and auto, marking the season’s height. Amusement managers showcase high quality venues such as the mystic rill palace merry go round Coney Island hurdlers nautical gardens rough riders boulevard toboggan mammoth museum and theatre musical railway and Kirby’s for first class fish dinners.
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Revere Beach
Palace Merry-Go-Round
Coney Island Hurdlers
Nautical Gardens
Rough Riders
Boulevard Toboggan
Mammoth Museum and Theatre
Musical Railway
Kirby’s
Keith's Theatre Presents Farce He She and He and Notable Varieties
Summer audiences filled Keith's Theatre as the farce He She and He led a varied program starring Rudolf Horsky Leona Bergere and Roy Fairchild. The bill also featured Victor Moore Emma Littlefield Kennedy and Rooney with multiple singing dancing and novelty acts plus a strong kinetograph Russo-Japanese conference film. The Fadettes are set to close next Wednesday after a high-spirited season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith
Rudolf Horsky
Leona Bergere
Valerie Bergere
Roy Fairchild
Alexander
Georgette
Victor Moore
Emma Littlefield
Boston
George H. Wood
Kennedy
Rooney
LeClare
Hardt
Rae
Bennedetto
Gates
Nelson
Daisy Dumont
Georgia Galvin
Moonlight trips to Nantasket Peach attract crowds
The Nantasket near Boston resort draws thousands all week to Paragon Park with its electric lights and other attractions. Evening sails leave Nantasket pier at 10 40, offering harbor views and a fixed schedule via Rowes Wharf connections to Pemberton and Nantasket.
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Nantasket Peach
Boston
Nantasket
Paragon Park
Nantasket Pier
New State Bath House
Rowe’s Wharf
Pemberton
Weir River
Nantasket Beach
Massachusetts
Bay Line Cape Cod Outing to Provincetown
Clear skies and warm sun draw excursionists to Bay Line wharf at 400 Atlantic Avenue for a day trip to Provincetown. The Cape Cod sails four hours each way, covering 104 miles round trip with refreshments and first class staterooms. Boat departs daily at a.m. and Sundays at 3 30 a.m.
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Bay Line
Atlantic Avenue
Cape Cod
Provincetown
Pilgrims
First Landing Plate
Atlantic Ave
Rowe's Wharf
Malin
A. Moody
Grand celebration at Salem Willows with fireworks and bands
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday nights feature fireworks of every description and lively music by celebrated bands. The steamer City of Haverhill arrives just in time and will be beautifully decorated for the trip. Fare is 50 cents with departures from Union Wharf at 7 p m and Willows at 9 pm return leaves Willows at 10 and home by midnight. Moonlit refreshing sail promises a fine evening.
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Salem Willows
Haverhill
Union Wharf
the Willows
North Shore Navigation Co
Gloucester
Beverly
Ascension
City of Haverhill
Boston
Battery St. Station L Road
CRAND
City of
Old Colony Steamboat Excursion to Plymouth
The Old Colony steamboat offers a full day trip from Rowe's Wharf at 10 a.m. Sundays including Finch day, with Plymouth reached before 1 p.m. and return at 3:30 p.m. Passengers have time to visit Plymouth Rock, the burial grounds and Memorial Hall.
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Plymouth
Old Colony
Rowe’s Wharf
Plymouth Rock
Old Burial Grounds
Memorial Hall
Woman's ribs broken by kicking horse incident
On August 13 a horse driven by Samuel W. Spofford of Stoughton kicked the front seat of a buggy injuring Mrs. Houghton. The impact broke two ribs and she was taken to Michael Lyons' house where Dr. Joseph McDonald treated her in a critical condition for a period.
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Stoughton
Samuel W. Spofford
Photographer scam targets Highlands residents in Lowell
A man posing as a photographer sold coupons for a quarter promising photos at a studio. On Saturday shoppers went to the Harrington building in Central street, only to find no studio or photographer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
the Highlands
Harrington
Central Street
Labor Rally Aims for Gompers as Speaker in Holyoke
The Holyoke Central Labor Union plans a post Labor Day labor rally with Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, as the hoped for principal speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holyoke
Fitts Worked Boston Once Convicted of 1895 Break
Taunton August 14 Frank Carr known as John H Fitts of Boston was convicted in Taunton Superior Court for a Fall River break dated November 4 1895 and sentenced to seven years in State prison. He worked with a man named Barrington who received five years recently He is known in New York and Philadelphia and is wanted in New Jersey.
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Taunton
Frank Carr
John H. Fitts
Boston
Fall River
Fitts
Barrington
New York
Philadelphia
New Jersey
New York Insurance Probe Delayed
James McKeen, counsel for the New York legislative committee to investigate life insurances, said the panel would not start for about two weeks due to many preparatory legal details. Western state insurance commissioners urged the committee to take up the New York Life Insurance Company investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James McKeen
New York Legislative Committee
New York Life Insurance Company
Bodies moved as 19th century couple tombs unearthed
In Oxford on August 14 Captain David Barton and his wife were relocated from one cemetery to another. The wife’s burial from 1899 yielded a petrified remains while the captain’s body, only 20 inches away, had crumbled to dust.
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Oxford
David Barton
Chorus Girl Goldie Mohr Inherits Millionaire Estate
New York reports a Will dispute rumors. Alan Wood ironmaster married chorus girl Goldie Mohr last spring after discussing plans with his children. Goldie, once a Broadway chorus girl earning $25 weekly, became widow with a $5,000,000 dower in the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alan Wood
Goldie Mohr
Goldie
Iowa Doctor Brings Man Back To Life At Mercy Hospital
Des Moines reports a dramatic medical intervention by Dr. Wilbur S. Conkling who revived Louis Weil, an Italian man who had suffered fatal injuries from a razor attack. Weil’s heartbeat was restored by the physician just before a planned postmortem examination at Mercy Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
Wilbur S. Conkling
Louis Weil
Mercy Hospital
Missionary turned devil worshipper dies in Africa
Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce, a Wilberforce University educated missionary who returned to Africa and reportedly reverted to devil worship, is dead. Missionary Stalus at Freetown West Africa did not provide the date of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Ind
Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce
Wilberforce University
Africa
Stalus
Freetown
West Africa
Wilberforce
Plot to kill Roosevelt prompts railroad detour
News from New York reports Erie officials took unusual security steps for President Roosevelt. The Chautauqua special was split at Suffern and the party traveled via two branch lines to Jersey City after a threat near Ridgewood, N J prompted police orders.
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New York
Erie Railroad
Roosevelt
Chautauqua
Jersey City
Suffern
Paterson
Ridgewood
N. J
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace to Be Sold at Auction
Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, a farmhouse near Hodgenville Kentucky, will be sold at a commissioner’s sale on August 28. The owner A W Dennetea of New York bought the estate for 3000 dollars but is now bankrupt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Abraham Lincoln
Hodgenville
A. W. Dennetea
New York
Cabinet Shakeup Rumors Center On Hanna Indiana
Washington reports Secretary Shaw will retire in February. Ex-Comptroller Dawes rejects the post, and Cortelyou heads from New York. The name H. H. Hanna of Indiana is under discussion as possible successor.
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Washington
Shaw
Dawes
Cortelyou
New York
H. H. Hanna
Indiana
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Tarrant CO
Hudson Street
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