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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
7
The program features Ouida’s Under Two Flags as a highlight with Belasco success echoed by Forepaughs. The Shuberts present the original New York Casino Company in a musical attraction including Maude Raymond and Evelyn Vaughan. Matinees daily.
The river excursion habit grows here this early season. Last Sunday the Coney Company carried over three thousand people, and if next Sunday is fair and warm an estimated five thousand may use the ports announced for the Coney boats.
The Robinson Circus plans to open Monday April 27 on Reading road and Florence avenue with The Leap to the Moon starring Dare Devil Sylva. An immense elephant herd led by Governor John Robinson joins the show as part of a vast menagerie that also features hundreds of ponies for children.
The Gingerbread Man charms all ages with a fairy land fantasy and comic opera dignity. Composer A Baldwin Sloane and Frederick Rankin blend poetry and music, featuring songs like John Dough and Beautiful Land of Bon Bon, promising a popular Grand performance.
Three stars thirty shows and 30 Screams will fill the Lyric Theater Sunday for a week long engagement headlined by Jefferson De Angelis Blanche King and Alexander Carr. The act features burlesques and travesties built on recent hits with an eighty member chorus and a costly scenic production including four large sets.
The Gay White Way comes to Lyric Theater with three stars and a company of eighty in a production painted by New York Hippodrome artists. Governor Robinson offers to take the show on a summer circus tour in a mammoth opaque tent with full electric lighting and a private car for stars including Jefferson De Angelis Blanche King and Alexander Carr. Two railroad sections will carry scenery tents seats autos and a mammoth movable stage while Shubert precedent suggests strong city receipts from such a venture.
Miss Margaret Moffatt who plays Mollie Livingston in Strongheart remains in the role for another year in support of Ralph Stuart at the Walnut. Her long run as Mollie in the DeMille production has become a handicap to branching out and she sought a change, but producer Henry B. Harris declined noting public demand keeps her under contract for another year as Mollie.
Ralph Stuart, a leading American stage figure, headlines the Walnut starting Sunday matinee with his vehicle Strongheart. The veteran actor has long shaped American drama and in Strongheart he further explores core American themes and character.
The Lid Lifters Company brings a refined burlesque program to the Standard Theater next week. The troupe emphasizes strong scenic and costume work, a versatile chorus, and equal footing for all performers with no leading ladies.
Taylor Granville and Laura Pierpont lead a three scene piece set in a cellar street and stage ring with over fifty onstage. finale features a regulation prize ring. Other acts include Gallagher and Barrett travesty, Mullen and Corelli, Smith and Campbell, hoops, grotesque artists, dancing and piano act, and the kihodrome.
Frank V. Bruner, part of Henry W. Harris staff, arrived to promote Thomas W. Ross in The Traveling Salesman. The new comedy by James Forbes, author of The Chorus Lady, stirs interest as Ross plans to stage the play for the entire summer in Powers' Theater, Chicago.
New York officials announce a two cent party rate for theatrical managers across most Southern states. The rate becomes effective once ICC notification is given and railroads consent. Savings amount to one cent per mile for travelers supporting Southbound theatrical enterprises.
Maude Raymond, famed for "Bill Simmons," debuts a new number "Somebody's Been Round Here Since I've Been Gone" among hits in The Gay White Way. She tested over three hundred coon songs and kept two, with a burlesque on the sawmill scene from Blue Jeans highlighted in Jefferson de Angelis and Blanche King’s The School of Acting special ty within the show.
The Mayor of Marseilles and a General Council member dueled at the Velodrome. Neither combatant was harmed. a second fell and broke his kneecap as pistol shots were exchanged.
A fire at Standard Oil storage tanks in Riverside ignited a herd of elephants from a nearby circus. Leader of the herd entered Glenwood Hotel courtyard injuring Miss Ella Gibbs who died, and multiple guests were hurt. About 60,000 gallons of oil burned. total losses estimated at 11,900 dollars with two tanks spared.
Washington April 16. Friends secure order for Colonel William F. Stewart Coast Artillery to live at the abandoned St Francis Barracks St Augustine Fla for three years or more while on the active list. He leaves Fort Grant Ariz where he was posted in September. His status is described as unusual with no command at his new post and questions about the basis of the action remain.
Julian Thompson, lost in the Galveston flood at age five, travels with a drifting gypsy group before being found by his mother Mrs. W. M. Reynolds in Shreveport. After years of wandering through Houston Webster Parish Sarapeta Hanesville and other places, he is identified by birthmarks and brought home.
Father Peter Chang the only Chinese Catholic priest to visit the U S travels from Hoboken with Bishop Henninghaus and Rev Father Ahne. Chang speaks German and Latin fluently and knows English and Italian. The pair visit New York and Hoboken churches as part of a world tour to aid Shang Tung diocese.
Boston April 16 Attorney Percy A Brigham filed a divorce libel in Salem for Clara L Von Herrmann against Karl S Von Herrmann The libel named Julia Marlowe and Maude Thorburn Backus as corespondents The court dismissed the libel eliminating the two women from the case Brigham said the Von Herrmann family trusted the information source was unreliable
New York April 16. Illness of actress Julia Marlowe has led managers to close her tour for the season. The company is disbanded and plans are made to fill the time reserved for her at the Lyric Theater. Miss Marlowe remains confined to her room at the Plaza Hotel while physicians advise against further acting.
Section men on the Roscoe Railroad in Abilene Texas were blown ten miles in a box car by a fierce wind. They released the brakes to start the car, then had to brake again as it accelerated. The car ended up ten miles from the camp.
In Bristow Oklahoma on April 16 a black man alone in the front of a whites only coach car laughed at a crowd of white passengers who stood in the aisles. He commented that the crowd deserved the law.
One of London’s costliest trials is before Justice Phillimore with Isidore Wyler and the Ibo and Nyassa Corporation suing Lewis & Marks and others for alleged conspiracy. Wyler claims losses of 30 000 to 40 000 pounds as the case, potentially the largest ever in law, unfolds over an estimated twenty nine days with 20 witnesses and massive counsel retainers.
Prince Kuni of Japan, after surprising British officials at Gibraltar by rushing to Madrid for a bull fight, travelled through Lyons to Creusot in France. There he inspected silk mills and the great Schneider iron works, noting Armier plates, big guns and locomotives produced there.
George Howard, superintendent of the Rockaway Hunt Club, once bid 75 for marsh land in Jamaica Bay and now has a 25000 offer. He refused the bid, hoping for 35000 to fund brick houses, and notes docks may open near his property as Brooklyn docks expand.
An unidentified man was arrested in Austin Texas and jailed for an inquiry into his mental condition after he refused food or sleep for five days and nights. He smokes cigarettes constantly.
Miss Ida Lewis, longtime head of Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport harbor, may take a brief leave after fifty years on duty. She suffers from nervousness and sleep loss, having earned the Carnegie Hero Fund pension for saving eighteen lives and the Cross of Honor from the American Cross of Honor Society. Her brother Rudolph assists in lighthouse upkeep.
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills relieve nerve irritation from headaches neuralgia sciatica rheumatic pains and backaches without upsetting the stomach or causing after effects. Your druggist can confirm widespread use and will refund the money on first package if no help. 25 cents. Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind.
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