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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1908
Page
18
A vivid account covers Mrs Joseph Smith and a conductor mishap then shifts to William A Brady detailing his ambitious theater plans for Grace George Mantell Mann Wise and others with tours, new plays, and collaborations at New York venues.
Excerpts from The Explorer by W Somerset Maugham staged at the Lyric Theatre in June feature sharp epigrams on marriage women and wit. The lines humorously critique social norms, corsets independence and the motives behind matrimony.
Henry Arthur Jones, famed English theater figure, confesses a bout of blue mood and envisions a half finished deserted temple of drama with unemployed dramatists still laboring. He depicts Bernard Shaw, Pinero, Barrie and others in a bleak, dreamlike scene and notes promoting National theater is not a gay life.
Miss Terry discusses the Henry Irving Ellen Terry split in the final chapter of her memoirs in McClure's August issue. She recalls staying on after the Lyceum's decline, turning down 12000 pounds to join Irving in Dante, and notes Irving’s shift to producing while she stayed with him as an actor.
Colonel Martin presents a sensational bill at Chester park starting this afternoon headlined by Dilgher the Man of Mystery who escapes from a burglar proof safe then Prof. Arnaldo and his trained leopards and jaguars. The Four Virginia Belles George Yeoman and Oneida the Mystic round out a strong program designed to outshine rivals.
The Lyceum Theater will open on August 23 with The Rocky Mountain Express as the attraction. The play features new scenery costumes and modern mechanical and electrical effects to enhance sensational scenes and climaxes. A capable company is engaged and improvements have been made to the production.
The article highlights Wormwood and his dog show at the Zoo alongside Henry Froehlich's reed orchestra. It notes mid August as a restless season with outdoor viewing favored before September weather shifts. Prof Wormwood claims his current show is the best he has owned, with six acts nationwide.
On the first Sunday crowds reach 580 as the fair sex is admitted only in the morning to allow regular Sunday bathers access. Dressing rooms will be strained as attendants hurry to serve women and children, with early gate openings and full efforts to provide suits and facilities due to record season demand.
The Ducklings vaudeville act leads the People's week starting August 16 with Louie Dacre a clever comedienne and Tiney Downey the Ginger Girl. Colton and Darrow Hal ley and McKinnon and the Lustige Weiber rotate acts with two burlesques Berry wood's Busy Day and Kelley’s Dublin Bar featuring Slim and Slam and Mrs Kelley. The touring troupe includes Manicure Girls Silver Clog Girls Lou Lou Girls Nightgown Girls Barmaids Arcade Girls Tourist Girls and others.
The play The Call of the North by Robert Edeson centers on Ned Trent sent into la longue traverse to perish, paralleling Henry Hudson's fate. The piece links Hudson's mutinied voyage in 1619 with Baffin's later pursuit, framing death as the cost of discovery.
George C. Tyler head of Liebler & Co returns from Europe with new works including The Melting Pot and A Matter of Money. He plans New York premieres for The Regeneration and a Viola Allen vehicle in September. Eleanor Robson prepares multiple new tours featuring The Nun and The Dawn of a Tomorrow among others. Nat C. Goodwin also involved in forthcoming productions.
TheSwells set October openings in Chicago with Cameo Kirby in the lineup and remarks on The Nun plot as a centerpiece for a modern drama. The Queen City Beach program features Bunco in Arizona as a Heuck Opera House attraction plus revival plans of The Rivals with the Jeffersons and Rosa Rand as Mrs Malaprop in August.
The Standard opens next week with Weber and Rush's Parisian Widows. The programme blends a one act burletta The Boarding House with vaudeville acts such as The Auto Bee and acts by Mary Ann Brown Margie Hilton Clifford and Bentley Julia Sinclair Burns and McCone and Ben Pierce. The finale A Busy Day is billed as a glittering feature and strong for the house.
The subject of Chanticleer is a rooster hero with all other characters birds. Rostand may mirror France's spirit through Gallus, a Gaul. Cyrano de Bergerac resembled this impersonation. It is hoped Frohman will note Coquelin's range beyond a single play.
During the first four weeks of Henry B. Harris new season opening August 10 he presents four shows in New York City. Robert Edeson stars in The Call of the North at the Hudson Theatre while The Traveling Salesman plays at the Liberty. Rose Stahl appears in The Chorus Lady at the Grand Opera House and Henrietta Crosman performs Mistress Nell at the Academy Of Music.
Vaudeville activity will rise as magnates plan aggressive campaigns for the new season. Over 100 new feature numbers will join the big circuits headlining acts such as R A Roberts with Dick Turpin, Hymack the comic, Jesse Lesky’s Birdland, La Petite Adelaide and her dancers, Alba, the Gibson girls, Jesse Lasky’s Hoboes, William By Thompson in Sir Henry Irving's Waterloo, and others relayed in promotional notes.
Robert Mantell clarified the tour ends Saturday in Winnipeg after a forty nine week season. The Broadway company has performed from Sidney Cape Breton to San Diego California with stops in Boston San Francisco Toronto and New Orleans. Equipment will be stored in Duluth Minnesota where Mantell’s next season opens September 28. Brady’s force will move there to repair and retouch.
Miss Margaret Wycherly will headline next season in Her Own Self by Stanislaus Stange and Bayard Veiller. She plans special matinee performances of esoteric works including Ibsen and Yeats dramas and a Strindberg program. Also Mary Shaw will appear in Georgette Lemeunier by Maurice Donnay, noted for ironic merriment.
The Jesse L. Lasky Company tours five major vaudeville offerings for the year. The Love Waltz A Night on a Houseboat The Military Odette The Pianophiends and The 7 Ho boes each require a carpenter property man electrician and an orchestra leader.
The piece centers on Mrs Siddons life at age two percent of a century ago with her protecting an old flame's daughter and a bold kiss on stage. It follows her return to fame, a sentiment filled room scene, a Hampden Heath coach robbery, and ends in a theater green room.
Edna Archer Crawford headlines the Poll Stock Company in New Haven Connecticut as Shirley Rossmore in The Lion at the Mouse, opening September 1 after Crawford finishes her stock season.
Fred Irwin conducts rehearsals for two companies this week along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. He works openly reading manuscripts and approving designs, arguing office walls should not confine his process. In earlier days he led the Irwin Brothers Circus with August Beck backing the venture, recalling a Buffalo opening where Beck urged order as crowds rushed the ticket booth.
The sentence notes that Collin Kemper, of the Wagenhals and Kemper theatrical firm, is a Cincinnati native.
Henrietta Crosman opens the Academy of Music run of Mistress Nell on August 13, marking the 1 024th performance of the famous play. Crosman headlines the production continuing her long association with the role and venue.
Henry B. Harris will present Edgar Selwyn as a star in Pierre of the Plains. Selwyn is a playwright and actor and author of The Rough Rider's Romance A Friend in Need It's All Your Fault and the above named play inspired by Sir Gilbert Parker's Pierre and His People.
A group of Lambs reserved seats for the New York debut of James Forbes' comedy The Traveling Salesman and will attend to back Frank J. Moore, a popular club member, as the cheering section.
Mme. Fred de Gresac, co author of the French version of The Marriage of Kitty, draws big interest as a vehicle writer for U S stage stars. Miss Grace George will star in Give and Take and is under contract to supply plays to Bertha Kalich and William Faversham by December 1. The Faversham piece will be The Right To Lie.
Barefoot Salome dancers in New York overwhelm chiropodists with numerous cases of splinter injuries as they contort for performances.
Mr and Mrs Frank Loveland departed Tuesday for Middle Bass. Mr and Mrs Ralph Rogan and family accompanied them for the trip as listed in the society notes.
July visitors and residents are listed among gatherings at Harbor Point and nearby locales. The piece notes travel to Beaufort South Carolina and Rich mond Indiana, picnics at Clay Banks, card parties and luncheons, and hosting at White Lake Michigan and Sycamore venues.
St Bernard hosts a Friday euchre gathering at H Naylor residence with prizes for Mrs Barker Mrs E Young Mr P Young and Mr Grassinger. Participants included Mr H Barker Mr C Young Mrs P Yo Mrs J Grassinger and others. Presbyterian ladies plan next week meal at Mrs Mottermans. Meyers sisters Lizzie Ethel Margaret return from Chicago visit. Lawn fete planned August 13 at Collins lawn. Katherine Rundebaum and H Apke announce upcoming September wedding.
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