New Boston Theater Shows Two Fresh Plays Now
The New York Lyceum company opens its second week at Hollis Street Theatre with Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett The First Gentleman of Europe and Julian Field When a Mans Married. Cast features James K Hackett Miss Mannering Charles Walcot and more. Curtain raiser praised for brisk pace. Next week includes De Koven The Highwayman and Sweet Lavender.
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New York Lyceum Company
Boston
Hollis Street
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Europe
Julian Field
James K. Hackett
Prince of Wales
Ffolliott
George Carteret
Maude Odell
Joseph Wheelock, Jr
J. Brandon Tynan
Elizabeth Tyree
Helene Macbeth
Mr. Castello
Willoughby
de Koven
Smith
Hollis Matteieatere
Isaac B. Rich
Mats
Daniel Frohman
Lycium Theatre Company
ME. Castello
Eve
Zenda
DeKoven and Smith
Sign of the Cross at Boston Museum Opens Fortnight Engagement
William Greet's London company opened a two week run of Wilson Barrett's The Sign of the Cross at the Boston Museum. Charles Dalton reprises Marcus Superbus while Irene Rooke as Marcia impresses. Gertrude Boswell returning as Stephanus. Nero played by W E Bonney and Ettie Williams as Berenice. The run precedes Charles Frohman's Never Again.
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Boston Museum
William Greet
London
Wilson Barrett
England
Charles Dalton
Marcus Superbus
Gertrude Boswell
Stephanus
Marcia
Irene Rooke
Capitan Returns to Tremont with Hopper Company
Sousa’s popular opera Capitan returns to Tremont Theatre with De Wolf Hopper leading a strong company. The audience lauded the star after curtain calls and Nellie Bergen delivered a standout soprano. Edna Wallace Hopper impressed as she entered, with Hopper’s humor filling scenes as the two week engagement sells out. Minnie Maddern Fiske will follow with Tess of the D Urbervilles on November 1.
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Sousa
Capitan
Tremont Theatre
de Wolf Hopper
Casey
Nellie Bergen
Edna Wallace Hopper
Fanny Davenport Stars in Dress Rehearsal at Boston Theatre
Boston audiences enjoyed a full dress rehearsal of Fanny Davenport's new play with a large cast including Harry Jewett and Melbourne MacDowell and musical features by harpist Margaret McNulty. Opening night promises a polished performance with international press in attendance and souvenir programs planned.
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Boston
Fanny Davenport
Miss Davenport
Harry Jewett
Charles Barron
James M. Colville
Albert Gren
Marie Shotwell
W. G. Jones
Frank Tannehill
Louis Hendricks
Charles B. Stokes
Ellis Ryce
Albert Lang
Melbourne MacDowell
Margaret McNulty
L’africain
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Secrecy surrounds Fanny Davenport Boston Theatre play
An eager reporter fails to pierce the veil over Fanny Davenport’s new Boston Theatre production. The singer actor Conn Murphy guards the stage door as a cornet and bass signal suggest a musical piece, and the intruder is warned to leave. The curtain falls tomorrow night.
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Fanny Davenport
Boston Theatre
Washington Street
Conn Murphy
Mr. Murphy
Conn
Youse
In the Name of the Czar debuts at Bowdoin Square Theatre
The Russian melodrama opened to a crowded Bowdoin Square Theatre last evening. It centers on nihilistic intrigue and secret police with a mix of thrills and romance, featuring Frederic Montague, Jerry Keanan, James R. McCann, Gus Bruno, Edward Lewis, Lillian Ames, Lettie Allen, and Bonnie Magin. Performances continue through the week with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday, followed by The Girl I Left Behind Me next week.
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Bowdoin Square
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Russian Empire
Frederic Montague
Hector Dilworth
Jerry Keanan
Alexis Silvitch
Imperial Guard
James R. McCann
Norman Darrel
Fortress of
Krava
Gus Bruno
Barney O’brien
Edward Lewis
Christof Kerovitch
Lillian Ames
Blanche Darrel
Lettie Allen
Iva Ferona
Secret Police
Bonnie Magin
Marie
Castle Square Theatre Revisits The Wife Cast Repeats Roles
The Castle Square Theatre recalls Belasco and De Mille's comedy drama The Wife with most of the previous cast. Miss Lawrence Helen Truman Mary Sanders Kitty Ives Rose Morison return. Adelaide Cushman debuts as Lucille Ferrant. Adele La Gros Mrs Bellamy Ives. Florence Baker as Agnes. The company and director Cummings keep strong performances as the show runs daily with a professional matinee.
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Castle Square Theatre
Belasco and DeMille
Cummings
Miss Lawrence
Helen Truman
Mary Sanders
Kitty Ives
Rose Morison
Mrs. Amory
Mr. Cummings
Vaudeville and Fairground Acts Highlight Boston Show
The program opens with delayed acts from New York to Boston, featuring diving and a baby merry-go-round at Coney Island. May Howard’s extravaganzas lead a strong bill with The Naughty French Girl and The Three Lost Brothers, plus top-flight acts by Udell and Pearce, Barr and Evans, Ruth Robinson, the Martinez Trio, and Jaguarina in a famed sword duel with Corporal High. The Vaidis sisters lift the aerial segment, Imogene Comer shines in Just for the Sake of Our Daughter, and a Chinese theatre act from San Francisco dazzles crowds with martial drama and feats. The bioscope offers new lifelike pictures as female naval cadets perform with precision alongside a wide roster of entertainers.
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New York
Boston
Express Company
Coney Island
Haverstraw
The
Howard
May Howard
May
Miss Howard
Fred Solomon
Udell and Pearce
Barr and Evans
Mile Raye
Ruth Robinson
Comedienne
Martinez
Phil Mills
Vinnie Henshaw
Jaguarina
Corporal High
United States Army
Vaidis
Post
Imogene Comer
Annie Whitney
John and
Anna Chick
Alex Wilson
al Dashington
Dollie Lafferia
James Neary
Wam-Drea
Chinatown
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Bioscope
Captain Dodd
Franklin Field
Three Tenos
Nisaras
Fitzyibbons
Flying Harmons
Tezge and
Daniels
Keith's Variety Delights Audiences with Broad Show
A large Keith's audience enjoyed a diverse program with Johnstone Bennett in A Quiet Evening at Home and strong supporting turns. Kent, Dixey, Cervalto, Busch, Gracey and Burnett, the Emerson Ladies' Quartet, Polk and Rollins, and local Biograph reels highlighted a colorful program pleasing crowds.
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Keith
Johnstone Bennett
Kent
Bennett
Butte
Mont
James Whitcomb Riley
Dixey
Leo Cervalto
Busch
Gracey
Burnett
Miss Bonett
Emerson Ladies’ Quartet
Lost Chord
Louisiana
Lou
Polk
Rollins
Biograph
McSorley’s Twins at Grand Opera House Delivers Roaring Farce
The Grand Opera House presents McSorley’s Twins described as a broad farce fable and frolic. John T. Tierney as Dennis McSorley and Mark Murphy as Michael Clancey lead a satirical Broadway style program with lively Irish caricatures and comic hijinks drawing hearty audience laughter. Nat M. Willis as Otto Dunmore and Marguerite Ferguson as Vera Litte contribute with songs and contortions while Charles Horwitz portrays a sensational Morning Howler reporter. Gayest Manhattan slated to follow on Oct 25.
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Nat M. Willis
Otto Dunmore
Charles Horwitz
Philip McCollum
Morning Howler
Marguerite Ferguson
Vera Litte
Manhattan
Nansen Relates Arctic Hardship at Savage Club Dinner
Dr Nansen recounts fifteen months without soap and skinning walruses as the Fram commander speaks at a Savage Club dinner in London He details washing methods and fuel recovery from clothes and gear amid polar hardships while awaiting his Boston Music Hall lecture on November 4. Harry Morris's Twenty Century Maids entertain at Palace Theatre with The Century Widows and Too Much Trilby plus strong vaudeville acts and living art reproductions.
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Nansen
Boston
Music Hall
Arctic
Fram
Savage Club
London
Dr. Nansen
Harry Morris
Palace Theatre
Trilby
Slangvally
J. S. Harrington
Baisley
Simonds
Lillian Beach
Johnson
Irene Young
Charles Johnson
Alice Wrenn
Abacco
Page
Lola Molliere
First Regiment Band Performs At People's Temple Night
The People's Temple entertainments featured the First Regiment Band directed by Frank L. Collins with soloists William B. Hall saxophone H. W. Treet cornet and Fred J. Howard trombone supported by reader Addie Chase Smith. Miss Smith rendered His Atonement in a pleasing harmony. Next Monday John Thomas and his concert company will perform.
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People’s Temple
Frank L. Collins
William B. Hall
H. W. Treet
Fred J. Howard
Addie Chase Smith
Collins
Miss Smith
Brooke's Chicago Marine Band Performs Two Boston Theatre Concerts
Brooke's famous Chicago Marine Band presents two grand concerts at the Boston Theatre on Sunday next October 2 in the afternoon and evening for Father Cummins's Church in Roslindale. Miss Sammis will sing several Irish songs including The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow by request. Box office sales start Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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Brooke
Chicago Marine Band
Boston
Father Cummins
Roslindale
Sammis
East Indian Lovers Spark Attention at Austin and Stone’s
At Austin and Stone’s Museum lecture hall yesterday the couple Lalloo and Wam-Drea drew the crowd as the unusual figure Lalloo, described as having two bodies, featured as the day’s central curiosity and novelty.
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Lalloo
Wam-Drea
Cynosure
Austin & Stone
Klondike exhibits draw crowds at city Zoo lectures
The Zoo offers talks, views, and native Alaska displays to educate visitors about the Klondike. The Klondike twins in native dress delight families, Explorer Briggs presents a Seattle to Klondike trip with 100 views on the big screen. Nevada performs in Bates Hall, a spiral incline act features a globe, and Hagenbeck's polar bears arrive this week.
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Klondike
Zoo
Explorer Briggs
Seattle
Bates Hall
Nevada
Snake Charmer
Hagenbeck
Clyde line to reassign Cherokees route and add Pawnee
The Clyde line plans changes as Cherokees crew shifts to New York and West Indies service. Captain Al Collins will join the Algonquin in New York, with Pawnee also slated for local service after rebuilding. Immigrant detainees from the Cunard steamer Gal via were released, while passengers mourn John Tyrer of East Boston. Port Antonio opens to ships again and Barnstable and Brookline receive repairs for Jamaica and Philadelphia routes.
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Clyde Line
Jacksonville
Charleston
Cherokee
J. K. Chichester
New York
West Indies
al Collins
J. Malcolm Forbes
Wild Duck
Pawnee
Philadelphia
Cunard
Gallia
Patrick Hanbury
Ann Flynn
Eliza
Susanna O’leary
John Tyrer
Trenton Street
East
Boston
Woodlawn
Ferry Department
Charles Pearson
Port Antonio
Jamaica
Barnstable
John W. McGrath
Long Wharf
Port Morant
Atlantic Works
Brookline
Hopkins
Ethelred
Ethelwold
Beverly
Belvidere
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Jenks
Czar
Schlosselburg
Imperial Opera
Siberia
Callery
T&c
America
WEW
Hollis
Columbia — Melodrama
Edy
Grand Opera
City Theatres
A. W. Pinero
Paris
Park Theatre
Parisyerrie
Georgia Caire
Miss Caine
D. L. Don
Frans
Spa
Iife
Fred Lennox
Dominie
William Broderick
Augustus Cramer
Thomas Keirns
Rose Beaudet
Anna Buckley
Ruth
Landscape
Pond’s Extract CO
Grand Theatre
Myrtle Ferns
Frank J. Keenan
Grand
George Kavanaugh
Isabel Pitt Lewis
Alice Morton
Frederick Murray
Nathan Oak
T. F. Thomas
Jerry
Sydney Blair
Edith Harris
Professor Burke
Wonderful Dog Circus
the Tyler
Alice Lillian Barnes
Marian F. Sawtelle
South End
Gorman and West
Byron
Blanche
Grant
Pamphret
Zeb
Searles
Abbey
Columbia Theatre
Boys
William Gill
George Richards
Eugene Canfield
Silas Plummer
Sam Plummer
Jessie Sterling
Plummer
McCune
Plummer, Sr
Mattie Keene
George —. Martin
Carrie Roma
Messrs. Richards
Canfield
Miss Stembler
Howard Atheneum
Keith’s Theatre
Grand Opera House
the Palace Theatre
Austin & Stone's
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Reeves
Prouty
Paul Revere
Household Institute
Tom Thumb
Alexander Bernstein
New England
Tremont Temple
George A. Foxcroft
John B. Schoeffel
Si’r
Minute Men
Tremont
Clan MacKenzie
Fellows
Eixtla
Edward E. Rice
Tompkins
Ata
Zita Estrado
Nickelodeon Museum
Hanover St
Oak Hill
Seaman
Carbonero
H. W. Hills
Philadelphia & Reading Company
Sam
Warren
Treasury Department
Hamlin
D. Hart
Thatcher
Iowa
Plant
Halifax
Lewis Wharf
Provinces
Windsor, N
William Yates
Henry Miller
Gloucester
Harvard
Morrison
Atlantic Avenue
T Wharf
Talisman
Model Playhouse
Washington Streets
Jane
Lillian Burkhart
Castle Scnexre
Tony Commings
Tremont St
Columbia
Wm. Gill
McFadden
Eugenhd Tompkins
Mgr
E'Anin YY
Davenport
Syria Theatre
Kloxdike
Twin Sisters
Great Nevada
Brownlie
Valdis Sisters
Mills and Henshaw
Breserved
Washington
Cor
Dover “T
Grand Theatre Stock Co
Bioscpe
Ee EE Crand Opera House
Mark Murphy
J. T. Tierney
C. E. Lewis
Winthrop Line
J. R. Bacon
Marine Park
North End
Charlestown Bridge
Union Station
White Cycling Academy
Tremont Street
Bethesda Hall
HL. H. Ml Lnnes
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