New Puccini Opera Delights Boston Audiences
Boston hears Puccini's Mme Butterfly for first time in America with Belasco style staging. Elza Szamosy stars as Cio-Cio-San with Joseph Sheehan as Pinkerton and Rene Vivienne to sing Mme Butterfly tonight. The work blends thematic orchestration with dramatic romance, receiving strong performances and positive reception. Edward H. Crosby reports.
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Elza Szamosy
Joseph Sheehan
Harriet Behnee
Suzuki
Ada Saecker
Kate Pinkerton
Rene Vivienne
Edward H. Crosby
Marie Cahill Stars in Marrying Mary at Colonial Theatre
Marie Cahill opens final week in Boston run of Marrying Mary at the Colonial Theatre with a lively audience and a chorus of young ladies. William Courtleigh and Eugene Cowles deliver strong performances as the cast keeps the merriment rolling. Willard's engagement next week in Colonel Newcome tickets go on sale.
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Julius Caesar Shines At Castle Square Revival
The Castle Square Theatre revived Julius Caesar drawing a large eager audience. Hansel as Brutus impressed with noble Roman presence while Johnson as Cassius matched description, Miller as Antony brought youthful fire, Waldron as Caesar Langton as Portia and Brandt as Calpurnia added to the ensemble’s excellence.
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Brutus
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Cassius
Shakspere
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Antony
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Cesar
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My Lady's Maid shines at Majestic with lively mischief
At the Majestic Theatre last evening the musical play My Lady's Maid by Edward Paulton and R H Burnside with music by Paul Rubens premiered in the city. The cast features Fred Rivenhall Claude Fleming John Dudleah Harrington Madge Crichton Elsa Ryan Delia Mason Henry Bergman and R E Graham with Joseph Coyne as Oroya Brown and George Carroll as Corporal Ham. The production adapts Lady Madcap with Lady Betty Framlingham and a garden party caper full of disguises and mistaken identities. It runs two weeks with a lively chorus and strong comic performances expected to draw audiences.
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Ham
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Coyne Gwennie Holden
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Cece
Cere
Fisa Ryan
Genevieve Whitlock
Maude Adams Excels in Second Week of Peter Pan at Hollis Street
Maude Adams drew strong acclaim as she opened a second week in Peter Pan at the Hollis Street Theatre. The Boston audience greeted her with warmth as she fully embodied the role, making Peter Pan central to the fairy tale and eliciting thunderous applause at key moments.
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Hollis Street
Peter Pan
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Bobbie
Juliet
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Globe Theatre Presents Painting the Town with Irish Comedy
The Globe Theatre introduces Leonard and Halliday in Painting the Town with W F Carroll’s score and Herman Perlet lyrics. Charles H Yale stages lavishly with dancers, chorus, and a light plot about married men painting the town ending in a skylight reconciliation.
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Boston
W. F. Carroll
Herman Perlet
Charles H. Yale
John F. Leonard
Will Halliday
Mazie King
Claude Lightner
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Hunt
Louise Sanford
Jessie Lynch
Erastian
GLOBE
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Halliday & Leonard
Lades
Down the Pike
Cracker Jack travaganza at Lyceum thrills with music and humor
The Lyceum Theatre hosts a Cracker Jack travaganza with tuneful music brisk dancing and amusing comedy. Bob Van Osten Ruby Leon and Will Millard with Lillie Vedder star in The Social Whirl in Cupiolville while Nature in Marbig Hall closes. Moving pictures of the Nelson Gans fight and acts by Welgh Mitland Dora Denton and the Millard brothers heighten the program. Next week the Transatlantics are announced.
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Bob van Osten
Ruby Leon
Will Millard
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Marbig Hall
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Welgh and
Mitland
California
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Millard Brothers
Nelson-Gans
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Nev
Mountain Climber at Park Theatre Wins Laughter
Park Theatre presents The Mountain Climber with Francis Wilson supported by May Robson Edna Bruns and Jane Gordon in a lively farce burlesque blend. Wilson’s Montague Sibsey delivers broad comic timing while a clever Alpine set and a rope-trick finale propel the show to roaring audience approval.
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Francis Wilson
Samuel Midgham
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H Allen
Charles Midgham
Frank Goldsmith
Arthur Lydbrook
George Irving Sidney Ketton
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Elsa Garrett
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Edna Bruns
Ellen Mortimer
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Boston Theatre stars Mack in Arrah na Pogue and Marselle Sally
Boston audiences welcomed Andrew Mack in Arrah na Pogue at the Boston Theatre with laughter and tears. His singing and engaging manners drew praise as Mae Stevenson Rose King and others supported him. Next week John C Fisher’s Marselle Sally opens with Katie Barry and John Slavin leading a strong cast. Ticket sales began yesterday.
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Earl Simmonds
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T. E. Jackson
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Marselle Sallie
Katie Barry
John Slavin
George E. Mack
Sidney de Grey
Will Carleton
Jack Henderson
Florence Quinn
Agnes Finley
Trip to Chinatown thrills Bijou crowd with Craig company
The John Craig players at the Bijou Theatre deliver a musical farce revival of A Trip to Chinatown. Miss Young shines in singing and dancing as Mrs Guyer, while Mr Craig brings a new depth to Welland Strong. The cast includes Evarts Rashleigh Gay MacLarchie and others in lively specialties and baritone numbers.
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Rashleigh Gay
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Queen of the Highbinders Excites Grand Opera House Crowd
A. H. Woods melodrama Queen of the Highbinders draws a large audience at the Grand Opera House. Bettina Otis, a white woman, leads a Chinese secret society, schemes against a gilded youth, and plots murder. Captain Kelsey’s Zouaves perform as a special feature.
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Austin and Stones Museum Show Features Maine Oxen and Oddities
Two 9000 pound Maine oxen head a gallery in Little Coney Island at Austin and Stones Museum this week. The lineup includes Francois Lentini with three legs, Joseph Mandy with an iron skull, Beauvais the one armed athlete, Mathilde the queen of comedy jugglers, Ben Hur the snake, Till's marionettes, and Grace Toledo with Boston maids. Minstrel Maids perform new songs and costumes. Haswell the baritone debuts in illustrated songs to strong praise.
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Mathilde
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Two Married Bachelors Burlesque at Palace Theatre
Rice and Barton's company brings lively burlesque to the Palace Theatre this week with the show Two Married Bachelors. Leading comedians Charles Barton and Bert Baker shine while Al Pinard John Lemuels Alfred James and others deliver comedy roles. A blend of vaudeville hits and musical numbers features Annie Dunn Mullen Kate Prior Maxie Aleene Tessie Burns Edythe Hamilton and more with strong singing and dancing specialties.
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Columbia Theatre Presents Snappy Burlesques and Vaudeville
Two short burlesques and a vaudeville program at Columbia Theatre run two and a half hours. The Jolly Grass Widows lead a bright show with song, dance, and costumes. Gruet and Gruet perform a funny blackface specialty. Maida Dupree and Ruth Everett showcase ragtime and mechanical doll imitations. The Zarrow trio cycle with humor, Garden and Somers impress on xylophone. A lively crowd stayed to end.
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Bowdoin Square Theatre Delivers The Life That Kills Hit
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents The Life That Kills a dramatic take on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with a strong cast led by Alexander Caden. Wilmer Walter Edwin Denison and Annette Marshall draw big crowds for a week long run with daily matinees and bargain prices for ladies. A mystery unnamed play follows next week with a prize for the patron who coins its title.
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Annette Marshall
Florence Hale
Ralph Brown
Irvin Walton
Harry Brooks
Dwight Gaylord
Frank Wright
Gertrude
Binley
Alice
Thornton
Eva Wheeler
Bowdoin Square Theatre Company
Keiths Theatre Delights with Unabated Talent and Daring Acts
Lieutenant Amers’organization brings intense enthusiasm as Keiths presents flawless music and clever acts. Miss Serpell, Miss Lynn and Young charm audiences with dances and songs while the Uessems remain favorites. Will Rogers performs unique rope stunts and lariat tricks alongside Josephine Gassman and pickaninnies. George Evans stays top draw with growing popularity. The three Mitchells, Cherry and Bates, Dan Nowlin round out an excellent programme.
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Keith
George
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Bates
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Theatre Comique Hosts Record Week with A Race for a Wife
This week at the Theatre Comique in Scollay Square the main attraction A Race for a Wife draws strong crowds. Also featured is the detective tale Getting Evidence about bringing criminals to earth. Thomas Bullock Grace Mordaunt receive encores for singing while Frank Cohan Charles Armstrong Margaret Chesley Edith Sinclair Fred Towle Helen Qualey and J H Law are praised.
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Scollay Square
Thomas Bullock
Grace Mordaunt
Frank Cohan
Charles Armstrong
Margaret Chesley
Edith Sinclair
Fred Towle
Helen Qualey
J. H. Law
Percy Williams Presents Night in the Slums of London at Orpheum
Last night at the Orpheum a 15 member company presented A Night in the Slums of London with silent storytelling of Whitechapel streets and a lodging house. Della Fox Fred Hallen Mollie Fuller Bonnie Fagan Henrietta Byron Taguda’s acrobats Thatcher Ernst MacDonald Metropolis Four Hellman bicycle act and Vitagraph pictures drew strong audience praise.
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Fred Hallen
Mollie Fuller
Bonnie Fagan
Henrietta Byron
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Hamilton
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Hallowe'en Roller Skating at Park Square Rink
The Park Square Roller Skating Rink in Boston hosts a unique Halloween event at month end. Attendees will see displays of hay mayhem and barnyard animals including cows pigs sheep and fowl amid festoons of wheat corn and fresh vegetables.
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Howard Atheneum Vaudeville Review At The Old Howard
Yesterday afternoon and evening the Old Howard was crowded with patrons. Anna Chandler’s songs and imitations draw crowds, while acts by The Three Clares Crimmins and Doyle and the Lewis McCord company entertain with humor and song. The Gans Nelson fight pictures return with life size clarity and new lens, now shown at 4 and 9 30 p m. Milton and May duel in words, Bryant and Carter perform, Violet Mascotte leads a beauties group, and the burletta Win Out showcases social types in a vivid stage piece.
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Anna Chandler
Fay Templeton
Claeres
Adams
Mack
LaClair
West
Milton
May
Bryant
Carter
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Fire Destroys Portia Town in $50,000 Damage
Portia Arkansas suffered about $50 000 in fire losses last night as high winds blew through the town leaving it without fire apparatus. The blaze caused extensive damage across buildings and streets, with emergency crews responding to contain the flames.
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