Opening of Boston Music Hall Delights City Audience
Labor Day performances mark the new dramatic season at Boston Music Hall with an opulent renovation. The transformed venue offers clear sightlines, refined decor, and a full day of acts from M Valkyras to the Bowdoin Square actors. The Bowdoin’s N. S. Wood stars in The Orphans of New York as Nicholas Atwood and a strong company performs for a week. The Park Theatre features Neil Burgess in The County Fair to four weeks of box office success. Keith’s Theatre opens with a large vaudeville bill and praise for Jansen and Wilder, plus a bustling crowd at the Oyster Farm and Nahant line boats.
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Boston Music Hall
Boston
M. Valkyras
Wilson
Leicester
Ford Brothers
Tanakas
la Porte
Bicknell
Clay Modeller
Hafford
Worth
Ollie Young
Brother
Blanche King
Frank Bush
Mimic
Clifford
Wood
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Lothrop
Mr. Wood
Bowdoin Square Company
New York
N. S. Wood
Percy Atwood
Bootblack
Louis Bresen
KE. D. Denison
Judge Pleming
E. R. Philips
Dennis Ryan
Carl Fey
Will Phillips
James Levering
Frank Dayton
Robert Lawson
Harry Hadfield
William J. Geary
Park Theatre
Neil Purgess
Playstar Aid Company
County Fair
Neil Burgess
Eugene Tompkins
Evans Akroyd
Fred Robbins
LeRoy Renfield
Herr Karl Hampe
Henry Woelber
J. R. Larricain
Miss Jansen
Eileen
Atlantic City
Jacksonville
Nahant
In Gay New York at Columbia Theatre Opens Season
De Fe Re we manager A H Chamberlyn congratulated for an excellent production at the Columbia Theatre last evening. The show features a fresh cast, new costumes, a tuneful chorus of young women, and strong principal actors led by Catherine Lingard. Mae Crossley shines as Sally Tompkins with singing and magnetism, while Bella Gold and dancers Czarina and Fanehonette receive praise. William Gould and Louis Wesley add humor, and a burlesque parody titled Weighed on Yeast provides laughs. The piece promises a prosperous run and a lively summer spectacle.
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A. H. Chamberlyn
Columbia Theatre
New York
George Marion
Catherine Lingard
Mae Crossley
Sally Tompkins
Bella Gold
Czarina
Fanehonette
William Gould
Louis Wesley
the Columbia
A Night at the Grand Opera House Opens with Lafitte Tale
Franklyn Fyles presents A Ward of France at the Grand Opera House set in 1803 New Orleans when Lafitte and pirate crews terrorized Gulf shipping. Maurice Drew as Jean Lafitte delivers a comprehensive, prepared performance. Maud Atkinson shines as Flower Mayne. Delancey Barclay and Frank H. Fey also contribute strong turns. Miss Phebe Smith sings Ave Maria. next week The Angel of the Alley.
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Ward
France
Franklyn Fyles
Maurice Drew
Jean Lafitte
Maud Atkinson
Flower Mayne
Delancey Barclay
George Villiers
United States
Frank H. Fey
Marquis de Casa Calvo
Louisiana
Walter Wilson
Paul Scott
George H. Rareshide
Frederick Guest
Edith Worde
Maude Rogers
Mabel Malone
Phebe Smith
Divorce Opens Castle Square Theatre with Strong Cast
At Castle Square Theatre the regular fall and winter company opened with Augustin Daly's Divorce. The audience responded warmly to a well staged production. Stars Lilian Lawrence Leonora Gaito Leonora Bradley Hope Ross Marian A Chapman Jennie Kendrick Rose Morison and others entertained, with John Craig Tony Cummings Charles Mackay J. L. Seeley John Craven Lindsay Morison and Edward Wade delivering notable turns as the cast moved toward an announced next week and a Monte Cristo follow up.
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Castle Square Theatre
Augustin Daly
Lilian Lawrence
Fanny Ten Eyck
Leonora Gaito
Lu Ten Eyck
Leonora Bradley
Mrs. Ten Eyck
Hope Ross
Flora Penfield
Marian A.chapman
Grace
Jennie Kendrick
Kemp
Monte Cristo
Reed Delights Boston With A Modern Crusoe at Museum
Large audiences at the Boston Museum yesterday praised Roland Reed in his latest production A Modern Crusoe. The show features a rich cast stranded on a desert island with humorous mishaps and clever stage business. Isadore Rush and Carolyn Whyte receive strong notices as leading performers, with praise for Gotthold Surst, Brandon Surst, and Wright Kramer in key roles.
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Boston Museum
Roland Reed
Mr. Reed
America
Rosenfeld
Isadore Rush
Carolyn Whyte
Charles Gotthold
Brandon Surst
Wright Kramer
Woman and Wine dazzles Boston Theatre crowds
At the Boston Theatre Manager W A Brady presents Woman and Wine a riotous melodrama drawing large enthusiastic audiences in both matinee and evening shows. Sylvia Lynden Howard Kyle and Frank B Hatch headline with strong support from John T Burke Millie James Zelda Paldi Sears Marion Winchester and Violet Black as minor roles. The production runs through this week with the final performance on Saturday night September 15.
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Boston Theatre
W. A. Brady
Sylvia Lynden
Marcel Rigadout
Howard Kyle
Frank B. Hatch
Hunchback
Dan Halifax
John T. Burke
Millie James
Zelda Paldi Sears
Marion Winchester
Violet Black
The Dairy Farm Charms Tremont Theatre Audiences
The Tremont Theatre hosted Merron’s The Dairy Farm performed by Wallick’s company. Audiences laughed at rustic humor and powerful climaxes in the third act. The author’s humor balanced serious scenes, promising full houses for the remaining three weeks with a matinee tomorrow.
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Tremont Theatre
Tremont
Big Sensation Burlesque at Howard Atheneum This Week
Me 8 et Matt J Flynn present a lavish burlesque show at the Old Howard this week featuring twenty five white performers and a Creole contingent. Mlle Zittella called Queen of Burlesque leads a melange of songs and dances with another lineup including the Keeley brothers, Court ney and Nelson, Adams and Kelly, Richmond and Clements, Verdier sisters, Bryant and Conroy, Josie LeCoy, and the Grundys. The closing burlesque titled The Queen of the Opium Palace promises further mirth and social satire.
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Old Howard
Mlle
Zittella
Keeley Brothers
Courtney
Nelson
Adams and
Kelly
Richmond
Clements
Verdier Sisters
Bryant and
Conroy
Josie LeCoy
Yodler
Grundys
Opium Palace
Howard's
Patrice
Bobby Gay
Liliputian Royal Midgets and Tom Thumb Sword Display
Thousands visit Mrs General Tom Thumb and diminutive companions Count and Baron Magri in the curio hall. A Knight Templar sword once belonging to General Thumb is shown. Mrs Thumb presented the sword to Frank P Stone, a valued friend. Swiss singers and other artists add to the merriment.
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Count
Baron Magri
Curio Hall
Dewey
Manila Bay
Labor Day at the Point of Pines Draws Vast Crowds
Thousands visited the Point of Pines for Labor Day with morning trains pouring in. Lynn Cadet Band concerts, amateur baseball, and a balloon ascent by the Sawyers entertained all day. The rustic theatre, seating 2500, was full both afternoon and night, featuring Raymon Moore's vaudeville stars with Jessie Couthous Emma Carus and the Colbys. A harvest festival begins next week in Weston.
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PRP
Lynn Cadet Band
Sawyers
Rustic Theatre
Raymon Moore
Walsh
Jessie Couthous
Weston
Emma Carus
Moore
Marion Sawtelle
Haynes
Redmond
Colbys
Miss Carus
Fred V. Bowers
Revere
Bass Point Nahant Closes Season With Naval Brigade Band
After a prosperous summer, Bass Point Nahant wrapped up with Lafricain's Naval Brigade Band and Marte Jansen the comic opera star. An ideal shore day drew full Nahant line boats and crowds surrounding the band stand as Ac cknowledgments and solo highlights by Brenton Lafricain Nort Senia and others were praised.
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Naval Brigade
Marte Jansen
Point
Lafricain
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Thomas Senia
Crescent Gardens closes rustic theatre after large audiences
The Crescent Gardens rustic theatre ends its season this week though the open air dance hall remains open until Oct 1 with daily dances. The Mimic Four vaudeville company leads the final bill with the famed Mimic Four act drawing long crowds and high praise from Manager O'Neill.
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Crescent Gardens
O'Neill
Mimic Four
the Gardens
Nickelodeon Holiday Show Draws Big Crowd
A busy holiday at the Nickelodeon opened at 9 am and sold out tickets by 9:30. Mile Barnello’s Trilby feet contest drew many young ladies with sizes from 112 to 8 in, voting on artistic Trilbys. The theatre offered hourly vaudeville and living pictures with well known performers, and next Friday promises a large amateur bill with local contenders and valuable prizes.
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Barnello
Living Pictures
Carters
Ida Johnson
Gus Adams
Bert Shaw
Annie Martine
Flora Carter
Marie Stanley
Charles Jackson
Ray Ellis
Annie Hill
Allie Davidson
Lola Rennet
Lulu Hathaway
Royal Burlesque at Lyceum Draws Strong Vaudeville Crowd
The Lyceum Theatre presented the Clark Brothers' Royal Burlesque, a leading vaudeville act touring the country. Headliner Edward Leslie, famed mimic and comedian, delivered phenomenal success across Europe. The bill included Campbell and Caulfield, Mile. Carrie, Bixley and Hughes, Coulter and Starr, Kelly and Adams, Annie Morris, and Merritt and Rozella in various musical, comic, and acrobatic numbers.
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Coulter
Starr
America
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Adams
Versatille
Annie Morris
Merritt and
Rozella i
Burlesque and vaudeville delight at Palace Theatre
Patrons enjoyed a superb burlesque and vaudeville show at the Palace Theatre presented by Rose Hill English Yolly company and Rice & Barton. The program featured All at Sea a nautical burietta, with acts by Joseph J. Sullivan Carrie Webber Catherine Rowe Palmer Collins and Collins Willard and Wheeler Phil MackFarland James Lee and Hickey and Nelson among others in high class specialties and routines.
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Joseph J. Sullivan
Carrie Webber
Mamzelle and
the Cop
Catherine Rowe Palmer
Collins
Willard
Wheeler
Phil MackFarland
James Lee
Hickey and
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