Edmond Breese to Return in Zion and the Mouse at Grand Opera House
Edmond Breese known for the role of Ryder in The Zion and the Mouse will appear in the coming week as Henry B Harris and Charles Klein bring the company back for a third engagement at the Grand Opera House. Breese, born in Brooklyn North Carolina, began on stage after snubbing an aero career and has since earned acclaim for his merciless financier role. The season hosts a strong cast with Frank Sylvester and Ida Adair returning, new talents joining, and season-seat sales starting Wednesday morning with single-seat sales Thursday.
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Edmond Breese
John Burkett Ryder
Charles Klein
Henry B. Harris
Grand Opera House
Mr. Breese
Brooklyn
N. C
Kendallville
Ind
Robert Edeson
Strongheart
Mr. Breese Speht
Castle Square Theater
Boston
Mr. Edeson
Edeson
Ryder
Breese
King
Finance
Edith Willis
The
Ameica
Sinc
Will
Frank
Sylvester
Ida’ Adair
Walter
Gilbert
Harry Fenwick
Wilson Hummel
Robert Bly
Bloyd Fennimore
Jennie Ellison
Maye Louise
Aigen Aj
Law‘ton
Telents
Forest Sea
Bury
John Raveld
Elsie ‘Ellmore
Gilbert Bly
Popular
Bargain Day at Coney As Labor Day Fun Winds Down
Next Friday at Coney Island bargains slash prices for steamship travel and school supplies flood the midway as the island hosts free burgoo on Sunday. A Ken tuckian cook crafts burgoo from beef halves and sweet vegetables, its yellow mash delighting festival-goers amid vaudeville concerts and park attractions before Monday night closing at 10 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney
Queen and Princess
Lake Como
Miss Dorothy Donnelly to Star in Lion and the Mouse
Miss Dorothy Donnelly, renowned Shaw interpreter, appears next week at the Grand Opera House as Shirley Rossmore in The Lion and the Mouse. She has lectured at universities including Minnesota Wisconsin and Nebraska on George Bernard Shaw and his influence on modern drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Donnelly
Grand Opera House
Shuirley Rossmore
Mr. Shaw
Shaw
Henry B Harris
Shirley Rossmore
Klein
Forepaugh Stock Company Opens Season at Olympic Theater
Next Sunday afternoon the Forepaugh Stock Company begins its season at the Olympic Theater. The well-regarded troupe, housed comfortably, aims to maintain and exceed its high standard of plays and production. The company has strengthened its lineup with key additions from last season.
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Olympic Theater
A Woman's Chance to Marry and Save at Queen City Bank
A historical note on marriage demographics shows 52 percent of brides wed between ages 20 and 25 while 3 percent marry between 35 and 40. It recommends women start saving with four percent Queen City Bank Certificates of Deposit, offered at the Carew Building, Fifth and Vine Streets, to gain financial independence by 35 or 40.
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Hymen
Queen City Bank
Cincinnati
Carew
Fifth and Vine Streets
Reilly and Woods Big Show Joins Greater New York Stars at Standard
The Standard Theater hosts the Reilly and Woods Big Show joining the Greater New York Stars for a leading burlesque attraction next week. A cast of fifty led by Pat Reilly promises superior production values with elaborate scenic and electrical effects and lavish costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
Reilly and Woods
Greater New York
Standard Theater
Pat Reilly
Sicilian Players to Open in New York October 1
Charles Frohman confirms the Sicilian troupe will debut in New York on October 1 with forty four performers from Milan. Their repertoire features pure Italian drama including La Figlia di Jorio with Mme Aguglia and Signor Grasso. The company promises intense realism and nightly bill changes across twenty one pieces.
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Charles Frohman
New York
America
Milan
Europe
Jorio
D'Annunzio
Mme. Aguglia
Signor Grasso
Shaftesbury Theater
London
Verga
Capuana
Maria
Giovanni
Lopez
Agugli
Lagoon's Final Week Atky Kentuky Resort
Lagoon closes for the regular season with a strong finale week featuring exclusive grounds access for Cincinnati Merchants and traveling salesmen on Wednesday September 2 from 6 p.m. to closing. The vaudeville bill includes Freeman's Goat Circus Rollins and Klifton Meldron and Marvel aerialists Marie Williams Buckeye Trio and other special features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lagoon
Kentucky
Merchants and Manufacturers of
Cincinnati
Freeman's
Goat Circus
Rollins
Klifton
Meldron
Marvel
Marie Williams
Buckeye
Campbells plan lavish revival of The White Slave play
Robert and John Campbell sons of Bartley Campbell announce a sumptuous revival next season of The White Slave. The famous dramatist’s work, once a sensation, will be staged with an elaborate production and an all star cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
John Campbell
Bartley Campbell
Fraser Highlanders to perform at the Zoo today
The Fraser Highlanders band with forty members will hold a concert at the Zoo this afternoon. Pipe Major Angus McMillan Fraser leads the group joined by bag pipers, Highland dancers, and Conductor B D Gilliland. Miss Edna H Foley soprano will perform with the band in Scottish and classical selections.
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the Zoo
Fraser
B. D. Gilliland
Edna H. Foley
New Robinson Theater Opens After Transformation
The Robinson Opera House has undergone a wonderful transformation. A force of men for several weeks has been busy making the changes, and today at 1 o clock a new Robinson Theater will be opened to the public. Caille and Kimsky own a circuit of profitable playhouses and plan to make the New Robinson a leader. The program features high class vaudeville pictorial bal lads talking pictures acrologues Pathe Co. imports and National Film Company selections.
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New. Robinson
Robinson Opera House
Robinson Theater
Caille and
Kimsky
Robinson
Pathe & Co
France
National Film Company
Edna May Glover Headlines Afternoon and Evening Gowns
The report notes Miss Edna May Glover performing in an American sheath gown at afternoon shows and a $2,000 Parisian gown and hat for the evening performance. It describes her as creating a furore wherever she appears, a sensation of the lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moraes Emma
Alpert
North
England
Oneil Farrell
Edna May Glover
Aed
New Musicals in Town as Cohan Heads New Show
The New York theater scene welcomes a musical comedy with George M. Cohan lending music while Klaw and Erlanger with John J. McNally provide the book. The cast includes Guy Standing as Challenging Steele in The Right of Way which opens at the end of the week. Theodore Roberts has joined rehearsals and Standing is due in New York on opening day.
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Alice! Cloyd
New York
George M. Cohan
Klaw
Erlanger
John J. McNally
Guy
Awho
Challe Mg Steele
Anes ‘Theater
Wade
Eta
Hrlanger
London
Theodore Roberts
Mr. Standing
Lillian Russell Heads Wildfire Tour Before New York Hearing
The article notes Lillian Russell rehearsing with dressmaker and photographer for Wildfire at Klaw and Erlanger's Liberty Theatre Labor Day. The Broadhurst Hobart racing comedy stars Russell with Joseph Brooks guiding a strong company. Two performances are set in Asbury Park on September 4 and 5 before the New York hearing.
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Lillian Russell
Wildfire
Hobart
Miss Russell
Klaw and Eylanger
Liberty
Labor Day
New York
Ben-Hur Brings 2500th Original Company Performance
The 2500th show by Klaw and Erlanger's Ben-Hur will be staged in Elmira New York on Tuesday October 1. Many staff and horses from the Broadway premiere nine years ago remain in the production. The combined runs of three Ben-Hur companies total 2742 with New York and London ensembles also showing long runs. The original company, refreshed with new scenery and costumes, tours again to captivate audiences.
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Klaw
Erlanger
Elmira
N. Y
New York Theater
London
Pacific Coast
The Round Up opens at the Academy of Music in New York
Klaw and Erlanger present a new production of The Round Up a stirring Arizona Desert drama. It features Maclyn Arbuckle as Slim Hoover with a large cast including Orme Caldara W E Knibbe and Joseph M Lothian plus cowboys cavalry and Indians in a vivid open air western.
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Academy of Music
New York
Klaw
Erlanger
Arizona Desert
Maclyn Arbuckle
Slim” Hoover
Sheriff
Orme Caldara
W. E. Knibbe
Joseph M. Lothian
Elmer Grandin
Walter Pennington
8. L.richardson
Vernon Ashburn
Jacques Martin
Harold Hartsell
John J. Pierson
Texas” Cooper
Fulton Russell
Florence Rockwell
Minnette Barrett
Marie Taylor
Shubert Brothers to Stage The Vampire in New Year
The Messrs Shubert accepted last week for a New Year production the drama The Vampire by Edgar Allen Woolf and George Sylvester Viereck. The play features a mastermind symbol character and a young author and girl, blending symbolism with love and melodramatic tension.
Florence Reed Made Pamela Gordon in Girls at Daly's Theater
Florence Reed, daughter of the late Roland Reed, has been engaged by the Messrs. Shubert to succeed Bessie Toner as Pamela Gordon in Clyde Fitch's latest comedy Girls at Daly's Theater. Reed debuted with the Daly's company on August 29 after serving as leading woman with EB. H. Sothern in If I Were King.
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Florence Reed
Roland Reed
Messrs. Shubert
Bessie Toner
Pamela Gordon
Clyde Fitch
Daly’s
Miss Reed
Daly's
EB. H. Sothern
I Were King
Laura Guerite Dons Diaphanous Double Directoire at Casino
Laura Guerite debuts in a new diaphanous double directoire gown at The Mimic World in the Casino, paired with a Mile Ou La La performance. The gown, modeled after Paris designs, features two side slits and sheer black lace overskirt revealing the body in tights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Guerite
America
Paris
Directoire
Mme. Guerite
Rue de la Paix
Bois de Boulogne
Mme. ‘Guerite
France
Mimic World Reviews Move to Staging at Casino
The Shubert brothers announce the end of annual summer reviews at the Casino. The upcoming season will be titled Mimic Worlds, marking a new format for their touring review and introducing a vintage presentation style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Shubert
Mimic
Will
Stage Notes On 1908-09 Cast And Repertory
The World of 1908 previews next year’s Mimic World of 1909 with Irene Bentley Walter Lawrence and Will West as core members. Henry Norman joins to play Dum in Pixley and Luders The Baron of Berghof. Tim Murphy’s Cupid and the Dollar and Old Innocence revive American character studies. Murphy is praised as the stage’s Mark Twain.
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Irene Bentley
Walter Lawrence
Will West
Tim Murphy
Onan Ae
Mr. Murphy
Mark Twain
Rev. Cyrus
Brady
Frederick Paulding
Paul Wilstach
E. E. Rose
Missouri
Opie Reicis
Carpetugger
Charles Hoyt
Féxas
Maverick
Anikdr
Martha Erton
Freeman Engaged for Louis Mann Play The New Generation
Max Freeman, known for the French waiter in Miss Grace Géorge's Divorcens, is engaged to stage Louis Mann's new play The New Generation to be produced September 6. Miss Edith Browning selected as leading woman by Mr Mann.
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Max Freeman
Grace Géorge
Louis Mann
Edith Browning
Honey Boy star George Evans to perform at Grand
George Evans known as Honey Boy and reader of 100 Honey Boys in the Cohan and Harris minstrels bows at the Grand tonight. A Welsh native, he came from a Welsh mining family and worked as a coal miner in Plymouth Pennsylvania before rising to national fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Evans
New Cohan and Harris Minstrels
Grand Tonight
Breg
America
Welsh Hill
Plymouth
Why Moretti Named After a Restaurant and a Blue Ribbon List
Eleanor Moretti recalls being christened after a famed restaurant when her mother saw a sign and decided the name fit her Italian look. The piece notes a classic theatre blue ribbon classification naming Minnie Maddern Fiske as most intellectual actress and lists other top actors and actresses including David Warfield, Henry Woodruff, Maude Adams, and Ethel Barrymore.
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Moretti
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Florence
Violet Rand
Eleanor Moretti
Minnie Maddern Fiske
David Warfeild
Henry Woodruff
Hamilton Revelle
Lillian Albertson
Margaret Anglin
Maude Adams
Ethel Barrymore
Aubrey Boucicault
Henry Miller
BH. H. Sothern
No Seacoast for Amelia Bingham in Hicksville Vacation
Amelia Bingham spent summer in Hicksville not listed on Ohio pocket maps. To locate it readers must consult a Buckeye State wall chart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia Bingham
Hicksville
Ohio
Buckeye State
Eva Tanguay as Salome Drew Notable Vaudeville Attention
A New York correspondent compares Eva Tanguay to a funny Salome in vaudeville. She rose from a symmetrical figure to audacious skirts removed as the act progressed and now commands the largest salary among women on the vaudeville stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Tanguay
New York
Eva
Miss Louise Dresser Joins Frohman for Gottenberg Return
Actress Miss Louise Dresser leaves Herald Square Theater to star in The Girls of Gottenberg under Charles Frohman at Knickerbocker Theater. Her husband Jack Gardner also signs for a lead in Fluffy Ruffles at the Criterion. The couple will perform opposite Miss Hattie Williams as lovers, their first Broadway meeting as a married pair.
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Louise Dresser
Herald Square
Charles’ Frohman
Gottenberg
Jack Gardner
Miss Dresser
Mr. Frohman
Knickerbocker
Frohman engages Julia Sanderson for Hicks Theater debut
Miss Julia Sanderson sails to London on the Caronia Saturday morning to open with George Huntley in the new English play produced by Charles Frohman at the Hicks Theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Frohman
Julia Sanderson
London
George Huntley
Mr. Frohman
Hicks Theater
Frohmean's The Thief Company Rehearsing at Lyceum
Charles Frohmean's The Thief Company rehearses at the Lyceum Theater with Charles Dalton Herbert Kelcey Arthur Law rence and Effie Shannon. The company appears at Asbury Park Casino Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Frohmean
Lyceum Theater
Charles Dalton
Herbert Kelcey
Arthur Lawrence
Effie Shannon
Asbury Park Casino
Illington to Tour West Then In New York Stage Return
Margaret Illington ends her Pacific Northwest coast run of The Thief and resumes winter dates in Boston Chicago and Philadelphia. She has toured since June 15 appearing in San Francisco and major Northwest cities and earned rave reviews for Marie Louise Voysin. Her road tour pauses briefly to start the Bernstein play at Frohman s Empire Theater New York ahead of J M Barrie s What Every Woman Knows debut at the Duke of York s London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Margaret Illington
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Denver
New York
the Thief
Miss Illington
San Francisco
Marie Louise Voysin
Charles Frohman
Empire Theater
Bernstein
J. M. Barrie
Duke of York's Theater
London
Frohman Suggests Peter Pans as Chorus Name
Charles Frohman proposes a playful rename for chorus girls in the contest offering a prize for a new term. He jokes that chorus girls, unlike broilers or squabs, will never grow up, preferring to be called Peter Pans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Frohman
Miss Gertie Millar Joins New York Run Of The Girls Of Gottenberg
Miss Gertie Millar, star of London's Gaiety Company, arrives in New York on four months leave to star as the lead in The Girls of Gottenberg at the Knickerbocker Theatre under Charles Frohman. She notes American audiences’ fondness for her work and hints her stay depends on Frohman’s plans amidst a London-British stage crossfire. The Belle of the Barbers Ball, a 30 minute Cohan and Harris minstrels sketch, features new songs and comedic routines, with three fresh numbers and a glossy production described as among the best in show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertie Millar
London Gaiety Company
New York
Gaiety Theater
Miss Millar
Gottenberg
Charles Frohman
Knickerbocker Theater
America
Belle of the Barbers’ Ball
Cohan and Harris Minstrels
George M. Cohan
Cohan
Tleet
The Free Setters Quartet at the Columbia this week
The Free Setters Quartet appears at the Columbia with a musical comedy act titled The Missing Link. It features Eddie Drury Johnnie Jones Joe Murray and Frank Pickett with numbers including Mardy Lane There’s Always Something Wrong I Never Knew I Loved You Till You Said Good-By Who Me I Ain’t That Man Dixie My Dixie Dan and original dancing by Johnnie Jones The Lass From the County Mayo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Free Setters
Eddie Drury
Johnnie Jones
Joe Murray
Frank Pickett
Mardy Lane
Dixie
Dixie Dan
County Mayo
Amateur Vaudeville Seeks Acts for Chester Park Sunday
Applications for the Chester Park amateur vaudeville bill on Sunday September 13 are invited. Ches ter Park Amateur Manager seeks singers dancers sketch artists monologists character comedians artists acrobats whistlers and more. Prizes include 10 in gold for first 5 for second and 2 50 for third. Audience judges the acts. Full information on application.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Park
Lena Rivers Comedy Success Praised by Audiences
A noted stage success features Beulah Poynter leading a strong cast in Lena Rivers. The piece is lauded for its clever situations and consistent laughter, drawing a blase but entertained audience response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Poynter
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