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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1908
Page
7
Forepaugh Stock Company presents Fanchon the Cricket at the Olympic next week with Adair as Fanchon featuring Maypole and shadow dances. Kelcey and Shannon recalled for Bridge and other debuts, while Jones and Deyo tour with their company, recent Chicago to Hammond date noted.
Paul Nicholson stars as Don Ryan in the imitation musical number of The Girl Question. His facial likeness to James J. Corbett and similar voice let him convincingly mirror the ex-champion. Nicholson and Corbett share summer Long Island retreats and stay in top condition for the stage and boxing life.
May Robson shows in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary a fresh comedy full of wit and heart. The fast moving lines and light humor highlight Aunt Mary as a benevolent matriarch amid her roguish nephew.
The Blue Ribbon Girls, an all star vaudeville and burlesque troupe, headline a strong road show with 15 cameramen and 25 showgirls. Two burlesques, A Day at Niagara and Monte Carlo, open and close the bill with an olio of acts.
Herbert Kelcey and Efie Shannon join in the new play Bridge by Alfred Sutro. Ernest Shipman directs the tour with a top supporting company, promising a high quality seasonal engagement for the acclaimed duo.
Young Cincinnati performers are invited to compete for a prize by makeup of a local celebrity in the second act of The Gay White Way at the Lyric Theater Easter week. A box seat for a performance and a possible future engagement with Shubert productions await the winner, with judges including Montgomery Phister T G Mitchell Phil Simms C H Zuber and James E Fennessy.
The final shows of The Charity Ball at the Olympic will be staged this afternoon and evening. The play has drawn large audiences this week, underscoring its ongoing appeal to the public.
Sam Coley and his clever company perform the delightful farce Caught in the Rain. Audiences have praised the show as one of the season’s best laughers and star Collier has drawn steady delight. He heads to the Pacific Slope to present the play through mid July.
The Billy B. Van Patsy in Politics Company ends its run at the Walnut Street Theater with tonight's performance. Mr Van and his wife Rose Beaumont will headline vaudeville for several weeks following the finale.
A Grand theatre review lauds The Girl Question for its accurate cafe scene and lively pace. It highlights head waiter Paul Nicholson and Jo Forster as standout characters, noting the champagne glass chorus and witty exchanges that drive the plot.
Island Queen and Princess Sunday calliopes headline river trips drawing large crowds to the city. Princess serves Point Pleasant New Richmond. Queen to Lawrenceburg Aurora. Princess departs Broadway foot at 9 30 and 3. Queen at 10 and 4.
The fragment notes a theater or performance group in Cincinnati connected to a titled production or company named The Gay White Way Company. Further readable details are absent to confirm full scope or context of the event.
Miss Tedro a Cincinnati girl and principal in The Girl Question coming next week to the Grand has met with remarkable success in this big musical play.
The Forecough Stock Company presents a splendid revival and two today performances will be the last chance to see the play, likely to attract crowded houses and pleased audiences.
A report reaching the Columbia Theater claims Walter Jones and Miss Blanche Deyo have married recently. Jones’s previous Chicago wife secured a divorce while he was in New York, and Illinois law may forbid remarriage.
The eighty member company will reach the city Sunday night except for a few principals. Between arrival and opening next week they will rehearse new numbers and refresh scenery and costumes to ensure a top quality Easter debut.
Harry H. Frazee, producer of musical plays, arrived in the city yesterday for the coming of his company at the Walnut next week. He says, I don’t ...
The thirty second annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Cincinnati Presbytery is set for Tuesday April 14 at 10 a.m. in the Church of the Covenant Highth and Elm streets. Treasurer's report and officer elections will occur in the morning, with Rev John G Wishard of Teheran Persia delivering an afternoon address. Lunch will be served in the church. The vesper service at the Y W C A will be led by Rev John W Herget with Lindol R Meyers as soloist.
Rill and Edward C Nunneker were elected elders and Frank H Williams and Alexander L Parker deacons. The entire ten member board resigned and a new five member board was elected: Charles H Wentzel J Frank Davis A W H Jamieson W Clyde Monro Edgar L Kennedy. Davis was unanimously re elected as treasurer after nine years. Last year’s total raised was $6 443.59.
Mr G M Peters will address the men s meeting at the Young Men s Christian Association tomorrow afternoon at 3 Miss Mabel Hill contralto will sing Florence D Richards evangelist speaks Sunday morning and evening in the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church
The Norwood Presbyterian Church holds a special Brotherhood service with Prof. J. P. Cummins presenting an illustrated lecture on Pilgrim's Progress. Norwood Chapter re elected officers: President Ben Mulford Jr, Secretary Dr N Scott, Treasurer Harry McBride. Vice Presidents in charge of special apartments of work are Julius Friedeorn, W M Fridman, A J Gunter and A R Bloomfield. D W Miller is organist.
The Story of Calvary will be rendered in a special musical service at Knox Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening. David Davis will direct the music.
A Sunday program at Mt Lookout Methodist Church on April 19 at 7 45 p m under Epworth League auspices. A vocal quartet led by Miss Mary Conrey Miss Eleanor Bain Mr Leslie K Chilton Mr Howard S Barnnett and organist Miss Grace Rusler will perform.
The annual meeting will be held at Ninth Street Baptist Church on Thursday April 16 at 7 45 p m. The program includes addresses music by a choir of fifty Roumanians a double male quartet stereopticon views of the work and a social hour with refreshments.
The thank offering gathering of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church will be held next Tuesday at Trinity M. E. Church Ninth and ce streets. Morning session starts 9 45 AM and afternoon at 2 PM with speakers Miss Metton from Japan Miss Hillman from Korea and Misses Bonafield and Shaw from China.
List of Holy Week and Easter services at St. Peter’s Church St. Paul’s Cathedral Church of the Advent Calvary Church Christ Church Epiphany Grace Avondale with service times Holy Communion Sunday School sermons prayers and special musical offerings by church leaders and choirmasters in April.
The Presbyterian Church of the Covenant choir performs Dubois sacred cantata The Seven Last Words of Christ on Easter Sunday at 4 p.m. in the church.
The annual meeting of Northside Presbyterian Church occurred last Wednesday evening. Messrs. George L Thomson and M B Tur- led the discussion and reports outlining the church’s activities and finances for the year.
Frazee defends Heinrich Lemphauser in The Royal Chef as a serious character part. He praises William J. McCarthy for a polished portrayal that could fit fine comedy, not mere slapstick. The Walnut engagement mirrors the Garrick Chicago and Lyric New York casts with Ben M. Jerome directing in Cincinnati.
Viola Hopkins, a Cincinnati girl, comes to the Lyric Theater BHaster week with Messrs. Shubert for The Gay White Way musical review. Her father A. M. Hopkins manages for M. C. Dow druggist. She studied with Mme Tecla Vigna and sang as soprano at the First Presbyterian Church. In 196 Miss Hopkins married Joseph Herbert Jr., son of the actor and playwright Joseph Herbert. The couple will be guests of Mr and Mrs Hopkins during their stay.
The Grand Opera House in New York was leased yesterday for ten years from the Jay Gould estate by Cohan and Harris. The theater will be used to produce new plays by George Cohan and associates, preserving its prestige as one of the city’s famed playhouses. The Gould family keeps a private box in the theater.
Carl H. George delivers sentimental German exile speech to a cafe head waitress in the Grand production The Girl Question. He evokes home, family, and imagined comfort of German scenes, ending with Auf Wiedersehen as a farewell note.
In Storrs area E T MacMahon preaches at 10 45 a m and 7 45 p m morning subject Preparation evening Triumphal Song Palm Sunday sermons slated A Sunday school at 9 30 a m Other churches on Walnut Hills Lawrence Street and North Fairmount list pastors and service times with 9 30 a m or 10 30 a m Sabbath schools and evening programs including social and Endeavor sessions and Bible study classes.
A list of services and events at Central Ninth Street Richmond Street Walnut Hills Carthage Camp Washington Evanston Grace Avenue Northside and other venues featuring ministerial talks Bible schools and baccalaureate services for teacher training graduates.
Rice and Cady, leading exponents of German comedy, join the Blue Ribbon Girls for seven nights and seven matinees at the Standard Theater. They bring an original act with songs and topical hits after a fourteen week Broadway run. The Blue Ribbon Girls include twenty five show girls with singing dancing and beauty. The entire scenery and electrical effects are by the company.
Paul Nicholson heads the cast in the musical comedy The Girl Question. He is the son of the late Paul Nicholson, founder of the New York Press Club and early dramatic musical critic for The New York World.
Henrietta Tedro from Cincinnati headlines the musical comedy The Girl Question. She is the granddaughter of Joseph Tilton, Cincinnati’s oldest printer, who went blind while at the case.
Christie Pastor Hartmian at 111 a.m. and Rev Gaddis at 7:45 p.m. present The Lion and the Moth. Asbury on Webster Street hosts a morning service at 10 45 with G Pollard speaking at 8 p m evangelistic service led by the pastor and singing by Mr and Mrs Albrecht. Columbia’s C W Horn preaches at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m on The Day of Palms and Consider Christ. Decision Day set for Sunday school at 9 20.
Multiple city congregations announce weekday services at 8:30 and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday with Sunday school at 9 a.m. and sermons at 10:30 a.m. Holy Week features include Passion Week events starting April 13 and a slate of ministers led by Revs. Barber Enwall Whiting McGee Hartman.
Walnut Hills to Evanston and surrounding areas list pastors and service times. Charles Sumner Brown at Central Shrine of Christianity preaches at 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. John F. Herget leads worship with a 9 a.m. start and 6:30 p.m. programs. J. O. Sowers at Norwood offers Bible school, sermons, baptisms, and a Baptist Brotherhood session. Lincoln Park hosts G R Robbins with morning and evening themes. Stan t on at Wyoming and First in Madisonville detail sermons, Sunday schools, and evening services.
Mt Auburn pastor Henry Melville Curtis speaks at 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. sermon by Dr. Frost. Sixth Street East End holds services at 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. First East Fourth Street has 11 a.m. service and 7:45 p.m. Gospel service with 9:30 a.m. Sabbath school. Bethany Mission at 1683 State Avenue lists 10:20 a.m. preaching and 3 p.m. Sunday school. Montgomery by James M. LaBach offers 9 a.m. Sunday school 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services with 6:30 p.m. young people's meeting Wednesday.
Walnut Hills at Stanton and Locust hosts Palm Sunday with Minister Charles Bauslin leading 9:30 a.m. services and 11 a.m. Sunday school. The evening 7:45 p.m. confirmation features The Miracles of Christ with Tissot color reproductions. Special Holy Week services planned.
At 129 Main avenue the Rev. I. M. Comfort of Cherry Grove preaches and conducts quarterly communion at 10 45 a m. At 7 30 p m Rev F H Bohn preaches and leads an evangelistic service. Sabbath school 9 30 a m Junior P S and C E 2 p m Senior WP and CE 6 39 p m. In Cumminsville at Borden and Weber streets C B Boda preaches The Holy Spirit in Us Morning service No evening services due to union bac calaureate in Northside M E B Church.
Church listings show two Sunday services at First Church of Christ Avondale and Christian Science services at Assembly Hall Mercantile Library Building. Avondale offers 11 am and 3 30 pm with the subject Are Sin Disease and Death Real. Reading rooms listed at 1019 1020 First National Bank Building.
A roundup of church services across Walnut Hills with times and ministers. First Universalist schedules 11 am service on The Gospel and Miracle and an 7 pm young people's meeting. New Thought Temple holds 11 am service. Church of the New Jerusalem has morning service by Rev Louis G Hoeck on The Church in Laodicea. Union Gospel Mission offers 2:30 pm Sunday school and 8 pm sermon The Unknown Companion. Millennial Dawn Readers' Bible Class conducts 2:30 pm special services and 7:30 pm preaching by Evangelist J D Wright. Unitarian on Reading road features 11 am sermon Martyrs by George A Thayer.
Day E Elmore a cigar dealer in Los Angeles ended his 43 day fast by drinking clam broth and milk and begins slowly to solid foods He said the death of a man in St Paul who attempted a longer fast prompted him to quit due to risk to others He shed thirty eight pounds during the fast and climbed Mt Wilson on day thirty nine before ending the abstinence.
James A. Hoggsette was elected to succeed John H. Leech as Public Printer of the Philippine Islands. The Nebraskan native has long been connected with the Manila office.
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