Keiths New Theatre Promises Major Vaudeville Bill
Providence Keiths Theatre announces a top line vaudeville program for next week featuring The Poettinger Swedish Lady Quintette, Miltone and Dolly Nobles in A Blue Grass Widow, Eddie Girard and Jessie Gardner in The Soubrette and the Cop, Collins and Hart in a barrel jumping routine, Musical Cale instrumental showcase, Charlie Case Father and Brother Henk tales, Joe Flynn songs and parodies, Galletti's Dogs and Monkeys for all ages, Eldora juggle and Norine, Al Lawrence mimetics, Jennings and Renfrew singers, The La Tels gymnasts, and new Biograph pictures.
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Providence Keith’s
Keith
Europe
Miltone
Dolly Nobles
Requet
Eddie Girard
Donelly and Girard
Natural Gas Fame
Jessie Gardner
Collins and
Hart
Cale
Charlie Case
Henk
Joe Flynn
Galletti
Eldora
Norine
al Lawrence
Jennings
Renfrew
la Tels
PHIL Mays BARGAIN AT STRATFORD CONJURER FAIR
The artist Phil May sketches a roving conjurer at a Stratford-on-Avon fair. The conjurer praises May, pays him with a paper containing three sovereigns, three half sovereigns and crowns, but the packet turns out to hold just two pence and a halfpenny, making a humorous tale of a painter’s commission.
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Phil May
Stratford-on-Avon
Phil
Portrit
The
Bloomin’' Real Academy
Great Men of Literature Before Science Forged Task
George Moore recalls Balzac and Hugo as ceaseless creators who fueled literature by bursts of work and stout coffee. He compares their intense output to Veronese painting swiftly, imagining masters of beauty producing in mornings and finishing in afternoons before science redirected arts.
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Balzac
Hugo
Hernani
Veronese
Cana
Fiddler
George Moore
Lippincott’s
Phrase Exchange Sparks Derby Style Quip
A brief wit exchange between a Briton and a Yan kee appears in the Philadelphia Ledger. The Briton claims you can tell an English man, while the other jokes that knowledge may not help.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Becoming Discouraged in Brooklin Life
A dialogue notes a couple’s concern over parental approval of their marriage. He says the father didn’t object as much as expected, while she laments that papa is still too particular. The exchange preserves social pressures on arranged unions in the Brooklin Life column.
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Papa
Brooklin
The Ship's Purser
A Strand excerpt by Harry Furness details the purser aboard a ship as a busy hub of information and social querying. The purser faces constant questions about passengers origins destinations wealth and social news while also being pressed for practical travel tips and shopping discounts from Liverpool to Rome.
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Grand Staircase
Capelcourt
Wall Street
Europe
Liverpool
Rome
Harry Furness
Strand
Unappreciative Listeners Warn Uncle Jim
In a Kansas City Journal item a well known lawyer named James visits his brother and his four year old daughter. He tells two folklore tales to entertain her, but she does not smile and says her uncle will go to the bad place for telling her two big stories.
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James
Jim
Kansas City Journal
Conventional Lie Or Exclamation Sparks Family Quarrel
Agatha defends a remark about Aunt Becky as an exclamation rather than a lie. Her mother rebukes the idea of her daughter lying, insisting on honesty in the family's social exchanges. The dialogue captures a small domestic conflict over manners and truth.
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Agatha
Becky
Chicago Tribune
Suburban Railway Electric Car Schedule Highlights
Regular service runs Providence to Bristol with weekday times begins at 5.45 a.m. from Dorrance Weybosset, then 80 minute intervals to 7.15 p.m. and hourly to 11.15 p.m. Bristol terminus departures start 5.19 a.m. to 12.41 a.m. Riverside service details repeat, with Sunday reduced times. Cars also depart Franklin Street six minutes after terminus.
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Bristol
Providence
Fall River
Fox Point
Dorrance
Weybosset
Riverside Car House
Riverside
Franklin Street
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Bristol Phoenix
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