Brilliant Theatrical Attractions Headline Night
Tomorrow night promises to be brilliant theatrically with many houses offering a new bill. Willard begins engagement at the Tremont, Hackett presents The Pride of Jennico at the Museum, Quo Vadis at the Boston, Brother Officers at Hollis, Miss Priant at the Columbia, Sapho at Bowdoin Square, Lost River at the Ark, new bills at Grand Keiths Howard Music Hall Austin Stone Nickleodeon Lyceum, Arrah-Na-Pogue at Castle Square, and Edward Strauss opens a week of concerts at Symphony Hall.
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Iuvery House
BD. S. Willard
the Tremont
James K. Hackett
Jennico
Museum
Boston
Hollis
Lost River
The
Ark
New Bills
Grand
Keith's
Howard
Music Hall
Austin & Stone’s
Nickleodeon
Lyceum
Castle Square
Edward Strauss
Symphony Hall
Willard to star in Dickens and Barron plays at Hollis Street
In Boston the week’s bill features Tom Pinch in a Dickens adaptation with evening performances and matinees of David Garrick. A new Barron written work punchinello debuts, alongside Parker Goodman Love in Idleness and a revival of The Middleman. The Empire Theatre’s Charles Frohman company opens an eleventh season with Brother Officers, starring William Faversham and Margaret Anglin, plus Jessie Millward in Torch and Lady Algy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Pinch
Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit
David Garrick
E. A. Barron
Punchinello
Italy
Louis N. Parker
E. J. Goodman
Hollis Street Theatre
Charles Frohman
Empire Theatre Company
Belasco and de Mille
Empire Company
Tom Robertson
James Albery
London
The
Garrick
Leo Trevor
South Africa
Trevor
England
William Faversham
Margaret Anglin
Miss Anglin
Jessie Millward
Torch
Lady Algy
Guy Standing
W. H. Crompton
Edwin Stevens
Joseph Wheelock, Jr
Up-to-date Editor Sparks Somerset Roasting Row
Helen Priant buys the Somerset Turnover to test journalism with a new staff in Somerset. On day two Eaton Spayce, the sporting editor, takes charge and prints a vicious roast aimed at stirring the town, provoking local reaction.
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Helen Priant
Somerset Turnover
Somerset
Eaton Spayce
Arrah Na Pogue Revival Extends Week At Somerville Theatre
The Somerville Theatre continues Miss Prinnt stage production with Marie Dressler in the lead. Richly staged scenes in all three acts feature an anarchist plot, a lawyer Richmond Blackstone and a burlesque comic opera. Cast includes Lillian Lawrence John Craig and J L Seeley with chocolate bon bons offered at the Monday matinee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ariah
Shaun
Lillian Lawrence
John Craig
Leonora Gaito
Kate Ryan
J. L. Seeley
Charles Mackay
Edward Wade
Lindsay Morison
John T. Craven
Tony Cummings
William J. Hassan
John J. Gear
Kathleen Mavourneen Show at the House
Etta Butler billed as the only real successor to Cissie Loftus makes her debut with impersonations of stage favorites. Mlle. Ameta, a living picture and dancer, adds color effects. The Ellis duo perform new songs, while Lew Bloom and Maxwell and Simpson headline. A Keith bill features Jane Courthorpe in a playlet It Might Have Been, plus biograph pictures and a ventriloquist, sketch artists, comedy acts, and musical entertainers.
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Mous
Kathleen Mavourneen
Etta Butler
Cissie Loftus
Miss Butler
United States
Mlle
Ameta
Papinta
Charles T. Ellis
Casper
Yodler
Mr. Ellis
Lew ‘Bloom
Maxwell and Simpson
Illustrated Song Men
Craigs
Dillon Brothers
Keith
Jane Courthorpe
Charles Forrester
Lazette du Brock
Quo Vadis at Boston Theatre Promises Unusual Charm
The Boston Theatre announces Quo Vadis will begin tomorrow night with an unusually charming performance. The dramatization is said to be of exceptional merit and the cast is noted for standout talent, creating strong interest in the stage adaptation.
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Boston Theatre
Women in The Pride of Jennico at Boston Museum
The Pride of Jennico opens at the Boston Museum next Monday with James K. Hackett in the lead. Women figured prominently in the production as the play is adapted from Egerton Castle and Agnes Castle by Mrs. Abby Richardson and Grace Livingston Furniss, with Bertha playing the princess.
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Jennico
James K. Hackett
Boston Museum
Egerton Castle
Agnes
Abby Richardson
Grace Livingston Furniss
Bertha
Magnificence in a London production reaches the U S stage
A grand theatre spectacle valued for theatre goers as a rare event. The Adelphi London scenic and costuming embellishments have been brought here for the first time to be seen in this country. Nearly 200 performers with a noted all star cast present Petronius's house peristyle to Nero's palace and Mamertine prison culminates in Ursus triumph and Nero's pardon.
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Adelphi Theatre
London
Wilton Lackaye
Petronius
Vinicius
Aubrey Boucicault
Poppaea
Rome
Hbliia Proctor Otis
Bijou Fernandez
Lygia
Neros
Edmund D. Wyons
Ursus
Charles Riegel
Hasta
Junius Brutus Booth
Aulus Plautius
Antium
Nero
Mamertine
Aulus
Auroch
Willard Returns to Boston at Tremont in David Garrick
E S Willard resumes stage work in Boston at Tremont Theatre after three years abroad. He stars in David Garrick with Maud Hoffman and a strong company. Weekday evenings feature Garrick. Wednesday and Saturday matinees offer The Professor's Love Story with Goodwillie. New scenery and costumes accompany both pieces. Willard plans weekly bill changes during the engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. S. Willard
Boston
Tremont Theatre
David Garrick
Mr. Willard
Maud Hoffman
Ada Ingot
Messrs
Frederick Volpe
J. G. Taylor
Ernest Stallard
H. Cane
H. G. Lonsdale
H. Barfoot
W. Edmunds
Cavendish
Laura Linden
Galland Stars in The Pride of Jennico at Boston Museum
Bertha Galland debuts in Boston as the princess in The Pride of Jennico with Hackett as Basil Jennico. The saga follows a marriage of mistaken identity, prideful quarrels, and a daring reconciliation as Ottilie reveals herself and the lovers triumph. Cast includes Barbier Hoops Hall Taylor Wright Lewis Donnelly Otley Alison Rivers Light Neilson Trutcher Holloway. Mr. Hackett remains a crowd favorite.
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Galland
Jennico
Criterion Theatre
New York
Boston Museum
Mr. Hackett
Basil Jennico
Hungary
Dornheim
Marie Ottille
Ottilie
Bertha Galland
Special Lost River performance to showcase rival company
Tomorrow night at the Park Theatre a special Lost River show features the New York company in Boston, with Mary Sanders, William Courtleigh, P. Aug. Anderson, Charles Abbe, Mabel Taliaferro, Ada Dwyer, Eusente Thais Lawton, Hans Robert and others. The Boston company will swap places in New York, inviting comparison and proving equal strength of both touring ensembles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Theatre
Boston
New York
Mary Sanders
William Courtleigh
P. Aug. Anderson
Charles Abbe
Mabel Taliaferro
Ada Dwyer
Eusente Thais Lawton
Hans Robert
Mrs. Preston
James Wlackaye
John Winthrop
Violet Rand
Hallett Thompson
William Hazeltine
C. B. Hawkins
Harry F. Adams
Edith Athelston
Harry Bradley
Sarah Sumner
Helen Thill
Madge Carr Cook
Liebler & Co
Castle Square Stock Company
Castle Square Company
Roxy
Frank Mayo
Pudden
Wilson
Smith
Miss Priant at Columbia Theatre Promises Bright Comic Night
Playgoers at the Columbia Theatre will see the latest musical comedy Miss Priant presented by Marie Dressler and a company of singers dancers and actors. The show by George W Hobart with music by John L Golden is touted for its lively jollity and musical appeal. The comedy features an engaging story and a setting near any place with action that covers a vertebrate tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Theatre
Sapho at Bowdoin Square Theatre this week in Boston
Bowdoin Square Theatre will stage Sapho the dramatic saga that stirred America, led by Laura Alberta as Sapho of the West. The production, with Parisian stage styling and renewed lighting, runs one week only with matinees daily and a souvenir photo offered Tuesday for advance sales.
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Sapho
America
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Boston
Laura Alberta
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Paris
Miss Alberta
James
Jean
Frank M. Allen
Caoudal
Carley la Gomerie
Madame Hettema
Henrietta Rich
Miriam Lawton
Gertie Mars
Alice Keane
Eller Rainer
Gussie Hunt
Alberta
Arrah Na Pogue Revival Draws Interest at Castle Square
The Castle Square Theatre revival of Arrah Na Pogue proves Dion Boucicault wrote for more than one generation and shows his dramatic instinct to portray Irish life with lasting appeal for playgoers, despite some modern critics missing leadoff context.
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Castle Square Theatre
Dion Boucicault
Secret Service at Grand Opera House This Week
William Gillette's Secret Service is to be presented at the Grand Opera House this week amid strong triumphs in New York where the play ran for seven months. The performance promises the same acclaim for local audiences as it did in the big city.
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Secret Service
William Gillette
Grand Opera House
New York
Howard Atheneum Presenting Queen of the Orient Bill
The Howard Theatre offers a burlesque and variety program headlined by George H. Carr and the Queen of the Orient company. Carr and the troupe perform travesties of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry with a cast of twenty chorus girls and featured numbers by The Crawford sisters and Eloise Mortimer among others. The show opens with The Queen of the Orient and closes with a second burlesque act starring Carr as Abdul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
Queen of the Orient
Fred Russell
Will Bell
Herbert Ashley
Mark Wooley
Lillian Thelma
Emily Jordan
Eloise Mortimer
Agnes Barron
Lu Davenport
Carrie Hawkes
May Merrall
Annie Posten
Nellie Montrose
Annie Morris
Madge Raymond
Beatrice Clarke
Crawford Sisters
Ashley and Wooley
George Carr
Abdul
Secret Service praised for blend of history and romance on stage
The review lauds Gillette's Secret Service for weaving history and fiction, pairing love and heroism with patriotism to captivate 70,000,000 American hearts. It notes soldiers and sentiment, brass buttons and bayonets, and calls it a brilliant screen of war drama. Also mentions Grand Opera House success and vaudeville duo Fay and Clark.
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Secret Service
Gillette
Mr. Wilkinson
Johnson
Grand Opera House
Boston Music Hall vaudeville week showcases stars and wax tableau
Boston Music Hall offers a rich week with headliners like Bessie Bonehill Montgomery and Stone and Edna May company under Frohman. New attractions include Seeley and West, George C. Davis imitations, D'Alma’s dog and monkey circus, and a live wax tableau depicting Daniel in the lion's den with real-looking felines for a dramatic center display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Music Hall
Old Bumstead Hall
Bessie Bonehill
Miss Bonehill
New York
Montgomery and Stone
Edna May
Charles Frohman
Harry Thorne
Melrose Brothers
Seeley
West
Boston
George C. Davis
John W. Kelly
Living Pictures
D’alma
Dog and Monkey Circus
Little Ones
Bessie Gilbert
Martin Fuller
Dave Meiers
Lew W. Hawley
Allaire and
Gaudrau
Yale Trio
Kittie Leslie
Latina
Snor and
Devoe
Musec
Daniel
McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Hart and de Mar Return to Keith's Theatre in Sketch
Keith's Theatre presents Joseph Hart and Carrie de Mar returning tomorrow with a previously successful spring sketch. The duo, renowned for lively songs and rapid character changes, showcases foreign style costumes. The act has earned nationwide audience approval and promises a hearty local reception. J. K. Murray and Clara Lane remain on the program with opera selections including The Heart Bowed Down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Hart
Carrie de Mar
Keith
Mr. Hart
Miss de Mar
Life in Greater New York at Grand Theatre
The Grand Theatre presents the melodrama Life in Greater New York for this week at Washington and Dover streets. Leading man Severin De Deyn stars as Jack Earnest with J J Owens as Harry Sheldon and Frank J Kirke as Old Bat. Supporting cast includes Thomas Carroll James Bliss and others, with Mildred Hyland Virginia Thornton Jennie Kenrick Izetta Jewell in key parts. (Continued on Page 13.)
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Grand Theatre
New York
Washington and
Dover Streets
Grand Central Depot
Washington Square
Battery Park
Severin de Deyn
Grand Theatre Stock Company
Jack Earnest
J. J. Owens
Harry Sheldon
Frank J. Kirke
Old Bat
Thomas Carroll
Frank Raymond
James A. Bliss
Willian Ellison
Banker
Charles Farwell
Evan Harris
E. K. Bender
James Walsh
George Harris
Mildred Hyland
Jennie Mullen
Virginia Thornton
Laura Rawson
Jennie Kenrick
Mrs. Earnest
Izetta Jewell
Constance Ellison
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Am Om Ee
BNA
Py LN
Rae
Pride of
Arrah
Richmond Blackstone
Sneezeovitch Snoezelotski
Miss Priant
Blackstone
Mabel Morningside
Miss Prinnt
van Asteroid
Somerset Four Hundred
Marie Dressler
Dave Lewis
Theodore Babcock
Arthur Stanford
Thomas Sivans
Lew Simmons
James F. Grant
John McCauley
Frederick Richter
Clarence Rogerson
Zella Frank
Jobyna Howland
Adele Farrington
Catherine Lingard
Julia McCoy
Charlotte Walker
Bella Howe
Lottie Medley
Clara Wood
Maude Wells
Willard
Seay Chae
Panions
Bingham
Charles and
Madge Hughes
Tegge
Daniel German
Kittie Bingham
Allyns
Meyer and Mason
Howard Atheneum
Hamid
Fay and Clark
Keith’s Theatre
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