Theatre Week Adds New Play and Noted Attractions
The Castle Square Theatre premieres Just A Day Dream on stage tomorrow. Keith's Theatre showcases Ching Ling Foo and a vaudeville company. Pop Concerts near end at Music Hall. Austin and Stone's Museum and other houses offer strong acts this week. No Rumaba Park and other open air resorts report a very successful season.
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Castle Square
Keith's
Ching Ling Foo
Music Hall
Austin & Stone’s Museum
Norumbega Park
the Chutes
Just a Day Dream at Castle Square Theatre
A New York journalist Paul Armstrong writes a debut play Just a Day Dream to be staged at Castle Square Theatre with J R Pitman preparing the production. The work features John Powers a gray 30 year old seeking love and redemption as the central character. The Ching Ling Foo troupe of magicians and jugglers headlines Keith's this week with an extended Boston run and a renowned program of feats including the bow and fire eating.
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Ching Ling Foo
Castle Square Theatre
Paul Armstrong
New York
John Powers
Keith
America
Boston
Ching Ling -Foo
Stage and Variety Lineup At Keith’s And Nearby
The program features a multi act bill aboard a Pacific Mail steamer voyage with John Powers and a large cast, plus Ching the fire eater with his family. H. Percy Meldon performs A Matrimonial Blizzard at Keith’s, Odell Williams and company reprise The Judge, and a strong variety cast includes four emperors of music and trick bicyclists. The biograph offers new North American squadron pictures from the port.
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Gavin Spence
Johnston Brothers
FOUR
H. Percy Meldon
Swan
Bambard
Saxon
Brooks
Delaphone
Ching
America
Boston
Keith's
Edward McWade
James J. Flanagan
Frances Maryland
Odell Williams
Four Emperors of Music
Fisher and Carroll
Coakley and West
Saxon and Brooks
Norumbega Park Week Adds Alabama Troubadours Attracts Families
Norumbega Park enters its fourth week with Afro American Alabama Troubadours replacing daytime and evening shows in the rustic theatre. The Talma Ladies Military Band performs daily concerts in Music Court and on the restaurant veranda. Zoological Garden work advances with a bear pit nearly complete, new baby bears, and a diversifying display including an Indian colony and electric fountain. Ching Ling Foo and family perform in Boston, captivating children and rail travelers alike with a series of feats and wonders aboard Atlantic Avenue wharf connections.
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Talma Ladies
Norumbega Park
Alabama
Norfolk
South
Music Court
Zoological Garden
Big Bear Pit
Brain
Casey
Children’s head there is never ceasing round of amusement
A Hibarnian piping contest and a series of challenge dances entertain little folk at the Austin and Stone venue. Cissy Lof tus, the mimic, performed at Keith’s Theatre where a magician headlined, with a Chinese child joining the stage act on several occasions.
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Cissy Loftus
Keith's Theatre
Donnybrook Festival At Austin Stone Features Irish Dance Prizes
Pretty colleens and dancing gossoons for prizes will be new features in the rol licking Donnybrook festival of gayety at Austin & Stone's this week. The show will include fast piper rivalries as the two Irish bagpipers argue over tempo, with a final audience verdict. Prizes include a gold watch for ladies and a silver mounted meerschaum pipe. The program also offers Milo Morelli's cocker spaniels, the Bourchier troupe, Carlotta Herbert and others, with novelty acts and oriental costumes.
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Austin & Stone
Tipperary
Dublin
Cork
Corkonian
Donnybrook
Ireland
Brockton
Milo
Morelli
Bourchier
Carlotta Herbert
Cora
Constance Tylton
Spaulding
Riley Brothers
Belle Linden
Hickey
Nelson
Lizzie Weston
Walter Fernandez
Burke and
Thompson
Mack and
Burgess
Percival
Alice Harmon
Ching Ling Foo Replies To Boston Child Letter
A Boston Chinese merchant’s son, inspired by Ching Ling Foo’s New York fame, received a Chinese letter from the famed illusionist. The reply, written by Ching in Chinese characters, reflects the performer’s focus on pleasing children and his notable past entertaining the Emperor of China.
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T. Ching Ling Foo
China
Boston
Keith
Celestial Kingdom
United States
Ching Ling Foo
Ching
New York
Harrison Avenue
Chicago
Electric Fountain Tops Huntington Avenue Amusement Park
The new electric fountain enchants patrons with rising and falling color cascades and lights. The First Regiment Band offers weekly concerts themed by nationality. The miniature railroad remains a season highlight alongside ponies and the open air cafe. Chutes operate daily from 1 to 11 pm with ten cent admission.
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Huntington Avenue
First Regiment
Sacred concerts open season at Point of Pines today
The first concert of the 1899 season at Point of Pines features Mile. Nannia Hands soprano, Joseph O'Hare church soloist, and the Prince Pro Tem quartet. Lew Benedict, Lynn Cadet Band, and other artists will perform with the band accompaniment. Fare from Boston to grounds is 20 cents, with seashore and country attractions noted. The Boston Revere Beach Lynn line operates the event.
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Point of Pines
Boston
Neil
Mile
Nannia Hands
Joseph O'Hare
Lew Benedict
Prince Pro
Lynn
Revere Beach & Lynn
Corbett and Fitzsimmons Revisited at Nickelodeon This Week
A facsimile of the Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight headlines the Nickelodeon program alongside Shar key and McCoy in a 10 round bout and Corbett versus Courtney in six rounds. The show promises forty minutes of top arena action with Mile. La Roux presenting female athletes in weight lifting high jump and punching demonstrations. Edna NateVey featured as fearless rattlesnake.
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Corbett and Fitzsimmons
Nickelodeon
Sharkey and McCoy
Corbett
Courtney
Mile
la Roux
Edna NateVey
Rattlesnake
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Tremont
Oxford
Tohn Powers
Carroll McKay
Carroll Norton
John Powers Grant
Edward Lanford
Chena Fae
Liam Courtleigh
Charles Mackay ‘Charles Mackay J. Ls. Seeley
N. H. Fowler John J. Gears
Philip Drew Ybert A. Thorne
Allian Lawrence
Mary Sanders
Addison Pitt
Pacific Mail
Japan
Grants
Grant
Auburndale
Anima
Rustic
Newton Boulevard
Commonwealth Avenue Railway
Wark
Subway
Daylight
Penobscot
Stnday Sacred CC
Aliutumly
Joseph O’hare
Uuzis
VILLE
Nannie Hands
Prince Pro Tem
Lynn Cadet Band
New Rustic Theatre
Caron
Herbert
Odell Williams and Company
Kara
Tremont Row
Stone & Shaw
Donny
Morello
Grand Orchestra
Gustav Strube
Hocroritureons
Dvc
Columbia
Ioan
East Lynne
BR. F. Keith
F. Keith
Amusement Enterprises
al Fs
Njou
Tremont and
Washington Streets
Admiral Sampson
Meadowbrook Hunt Club
Washington Street
Henry F. Miller & Sons’ Piano Co
Louiston St
Estey Organ Co
Olumbiss
Teieatre
Congregation
Andhe
Poland
J. M. Byrnes
Miss Clifford
Dooling and
Brenbian
Theodora
Wonderful Child
C. H. Mailes
al Leonard
Isabelle Verne
Baty
the Cliffords
H. J. Corthell
Huntington
Ava
The
Cate Miniature Railroad
Chutes Open Air
Trae
PBS
Keith’s Theatre
Frisco
William Courtleigh
Charles Mackay
J.L. Seeley
N. H. Fowler
Chena
John J. Geary
Nolan
Philip Drew
Robert A. Thorne
Bethel Grant
Lillian Lawrence
Gladys Kearney
Mrs. Hardy
Fanny Addison Pitt
Mr. Armstrong
Nickelodeon Museum and Parlor
Hanover
Mlle. Laroux
Edna Natelle
Hartford Sisters Female Tinstrel and Vaudeville Co
Living Pictures
Bass Point
Nahant
Grand Harbor
Lafricain
Naval Brigade
Lincoln Wharf
Commercial Street
E. H. Searbrook
A. P. Lane
Washington St
Ping
Dominion Line
Queenstown & LI
Fitchburg R. R
Canada
Derbyshire
State St
Dominion Atlantic
BY. S. S. Line
S. Princis George
Long Wharf
Yarmouth
Maritime
Foot State Street
Low England
Yarmouth Steamship Co., Ltd
Lewis Wharf
S’riday
N. Y
Nova Scotia
Chatham Street
A,y. Hammond
Atlantic Avenue
Inner Harbor
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