The Witching Hour and The Wolf Headline Big Year
The year features great successes and a lineup of eminent American and foreign actors and actresses. Following The Witching Hour comes The Wolf, another major year production with an all star company.
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1908
Page
18
Isadora Duncan Stuns Broadway in Barefoot Stroll
New York notes Miss Isadora Duncan, the famed dancer, walking barefoot along Broadway to the Empire Theater and Charlie Frohman offices, provoking gasps as cars pause and pedestrians react with astonishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Isadora Duncan
Criterion Theater
Merry Widow
Charlotte Corday
Miss Duncan
Charlies Frohman
Empire Theater
Chester to Host Big Barlow Minstrels Nine Day Run
Chester offers free vaudeville as the Big Barlow Minstrels begin a nine day engagement at the park with matinee today. The bill includes four comedians five vocal soloists a string orchestra a male quartet and five vaudeville acts plus special features by the Tuscano Brothers and Devere Brothers. The park stays open through Labor Day with shows twice daily and Sunday sessions on three September dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Big Barlow Minstrels
the Park
Bobby Gossans
Regie Futch
Joe Dunlevy
Doc
Martin
Kirkpatrick
Selrooms
Miss Edna Aug to Star at the Columbia This Week
Miss Edna Aug a Cincinnati comedienne returns from Europe where she starred at the Follies Bergere in Paris. The Columbia will feature her first local appearance in years, promising sensational entertainment as crowds fill the seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Aug
Cincinnati
Comediennes
Columbia
Miss Aug
Europe
Helayaort
Paris
Follies Bergere
Bohemians Present Week-Long Burlesque at the People's
The show opens this afternoon at the People's with a two act musical comedy by versatile authors. Miner funded the production with a substantial launch. A bevy of twenty beauties in brunette blond and Titian shades perform on stage. Notable acts include Andy Gardner Ida Nicolai Patsey Roxie and comedy bicyclists Joe Barton Broth er, with Tom Miner bringing a London import. Johnson and Buckley tease the crowd from Fifth Avenue to the Bowery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s
Bohemians
Miner
Fea
New York
Andy Gardner
Ida Nicolai
Patsey
Roxie
Charles Udell
Nat Willis
Joe Barton
Brother
Tom Miner
London
The Outlaw's Christmas Opens at Heucks This Afternoon
The advance notice touts The Outlaw's Christmas as a sensational thriller at Heucks, promising a murder scene a hero's hanging, a female villain, a painter fall, a broken bridge, and Jessie the horse plunging into a torrent as the villain is foiled and the crowd is urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heuck’s
Chee-Ild
Jessie
Heuck
Howe Reopens Lyric with Travel Scenes and New Ponies
Lyman H. Howe returns to the Lyric Theater for a two week engagement featuring largely new travel films from India Sicily Rome Naples Australia Switzerland England and France plus a sensational English steeplechase sequence. Miss Maude Anderson joins the company with modern songs and the bill includes Bancers and Brokers and Roger Brothers in Panama with music by Theodore Morse lyrics by Edwin Madden. The production boasts elaborate costuming scenery and electrical effects and promises colorful pleasing entertainment including the song Playing the Ponies with twenty numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyman H. Howe
Lyric Theater
India
Sicily
Rome
Naples
Australia
Switzerland
England
France
Howe
Mr. Howe
Calcutta
Benares
Bombay
Darjeeling
Yorke
New York
Play ing the Ponies at New Circle Theater with Yorke and Adams
Direct from its engagement at the New Circle Theater New York the musical comedy Play ing the Ponies opens this afternoon at the Walnut. The company features fifty fan makers and stars Madge Lawrence Edward Morris Jimmy Conners Wallace Beery Maud Campbell Linton DeWolfe Lanier DeWolfe Robert Burns and others with the Manhattan Four ballet and a thirty-strong chorus. The end of the piece was written by Aaron Hoffman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Circle Theater
New York
B. B. Forrester
Yorke
Adams
Walnut
Madge Lawrence
Merry Widow
Edward Morris
Jimmy Conners
George M. Cohan
Wallace Beery
Raymond Hitchcock
Maud Campbell
George Sidney Company
Linton DeWolfe
Lanier DeWolfe
Robert Burns
Russell Hill
Nettie May Lyon
Roy Burk
James Hall
Philip Lynch
Ethel Munson
Frank Martin
Vera Maxwell
Spectacular Ballet
Manhattan Four
Beautyland
Aaron Hoffman
Columbia bill features Edna Aug and Cincinnati stars
Local amusement week presents Miss Edna Aug back in Cincinnati after two years abroad with Paris triumphs. Also Angela Dolores from Pike Stock Company and her troupe perform Cupid at Home. The program includes Perkins Fisher's The Half-Way House, Free Setters Quartet in The Missing Link, Banks-Breazeale Duo, and short films The Selfish Man and Contagious Nervous Twitching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Edna Aug
Paris
Miss Aug
Cincinnati
Angéla Dolores
Pike Stock Company
Miss Dolores
Robert Kelley
Orpheum
Dolores
David H. Hunt
The
Pike
Perkins Fisher
Ezra Kendall
Free Setters
Anderson-Ziegler Couny
Joseph Urray
Frank Pickett
Johnnie Jones
Howard Drury
Queen City Beach to Add Docks and Towers Next Season
Queen City Beach plans a major expansion with a 10 000 square foot open pavilion for dancing and concerts, a free boat service from Cincinnati, more steel row boats, 500 additional rooms, and river slides and towers once the nine foot stage is ready. Also announced is a stage adaptation of Little Nemo with a large cast and a Wormwood animal show continuing through the week at the Zoo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen City
Cincinnati
Little Nemo to Debut in Philadelphia Forrest Theatre
The musical comedy Little Nemo will open September 21 at the Forrest Theater Philadelphia, produced by Klaw and Erlanger. A New York version is to be staged at the New Amsterdam Theater with about 200 cast members. The production, costing $100,000, is in rehearsal under Herbert Gresham with a book by Harry B. Smith and music by Victor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert
Winsor McCay
Slumberland
Morpheus
Little Nemo
Palace of Dreams
Flip
Dr. Pill
King Morpheus
Mrs. Nemo
Gladys
Valentine Queen
Uncle Dawn
Officer Buttin
Mr. Sleet
Little Bon Bon
Dawn Guards
Central Park
Nemo
Weather Factory
Albertina Benson
Fairy Queen
Dave Abrams
the Cat
Madeleine Marshall
Rose Beaumont
Florence Tempest
Forrest Theater
Philadelphia
Klaw and
Erlanger
America
New York
New Amsterdam Theater
Herbert Gresham
Harry B. Smith
Victor
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Henry B. Harris
George Evans
Julian Eltinge
Ernest Tenney
Harry Morse
Eddie Leonard
George Thatcher
John King
Frank Morrell
Matt Keefe
Waterbury Bros
Tenney
Geo. M. Cohan
BH. Sullivan
Theo
Kremor
the Outlaws
Matinees
Island Queen
Princess and Park
River Grove
Smittie
Really
Woods
People's
Lyceum
Fraser Highlanders
Edna H. Foley
Lincoln J. Carter
Pat Reilly
JOE Barton & Bro
Johnson & Buckley
Straus
Firth and
Noitwo Wormwood
Worke“Adams
Direct From
Circle Theater
Columbia Leona Aug Angela Dolores & CO
NG Lady Pike Stock Company
Drury
Mrs. Perkins Fisher
T. Nelson Downs
Cook
Sylvia
Banks-Breazeashe
Moving Pictures
Robinson
Theater
PLUM
Edna May Glover
Directoire
Hee Big Barlow
Minstrels
Labor Day
Tootsies
Barlow Minstrels
Cincinnati Star
Johnson
Buckley
Fifth Avenue
Bowery
Lyric
Yorke and Adams
Banks-Breazeale
Atlantic Ocean
Lyman H
Queen City Beach
Wormwood
Zoo
Prof
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