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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
8
A church and newspaper report discuss restrictions on intoxicated men riding streetcars in New York. A Yonkers Statesman quote asserts no tolerance for unfit riders. An orator extols the American eagle across distant lands, urging bold, open posture.
Klaw and Erlanger unveil a new advanced vaudeville circuit with seventeen theatres offering two hours of headliner acts. The aim is a high class, varied program where every act is a main attraction and no filler. The system seeks continual improvement across the entire circuit.
The program for next week at Keith's Theatre lists Valerie Bergere and company Clarice Vance Lew Sully Urbani and Son Mignonette Kokin Klein Ott Brothers and Nicholson Wilton Brothers Italian Trio the Kitamura Troupe of Japs Galletti's Monkeys and Ryan and White Miss Bergere will debut in Boston with the new sketch A Bowery Camille a top vaudeville attraction
The program features Clarice Vance with new self written songs, Lew Sully in bright storytelling, Urbani and son's elite European acrobatics, Mignonette Kokin and Klein Ott Brothers, Wilton Brothers on the bars, Kitamura Japs, Calletti monkeys, and Ryan and White dancers. Avon Comedy Four return along with Seven Mowatts and other acts from Boston.
Comic opera and grand opera alternate weekly at Castle Square Theatre. This week Iolanthe continues to please audiences while next Thursday Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, known in English as The Masked Ball, is to be staged. The opera’s Boston setting features the royal governor and eighteenth century citizens, and has not been sung in Boston for nearly twenty years.
The Orpheum announces Alec Thurley and company as the headline act for next week, presenting The Coster's Concert with English coster comedians.
The Boston Grand Opera House will feature A. H. Woods' western melodrama Deadwood Dick's Last Shot next week. Written by Owen Davis, the production promises thrills, hair-breadth escapes, and sensational climaxes, with strong all around approval expected from press and public nationwide.
Cambridge's sole amusement purveyor, Simon Alexander, teases patrons with a winter program of ongoing improvements and fresh entertainments. He invites the public to drop in to sample afternoon or evening shows and judge for themselves.
A pompous factory owner boasts of his intricate machinery when a visitor counters by claiming his own line is crinpowder. The exchange exposes pride and a lighter note on ingenuity as the two men compare crafts.
In a fragmented quote, a shopkeeper boasts a mirror to deter close inspection by servants while a butcher admits the device hides his weighing. The dialogue appears in Meggendorfer Blaetter.
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