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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
7
Immense crowds for Jimit Warfield in The Music Master at Lyric Theater with Herr Anton Von Barwig. Performance praised for Warfield’s artistry and strong supporting cast. New Year engagements and additional shows announced.
Forépaugh Stock company stages Shore Acres at the Olympic next week with a grand production plan. A real rail fence and a storm on the third act will heighten realism while a full Christmas dinner scene and farm kitchen set will showcase elaborate props. The company aims for a rare, costly achievement to satisfy managers and audiences alike. A New England farm atmosphere and a beacon-lit rescue will anchor the drama, promising an exceptional week and an extra matinee on New Year’s Day to accommodate crowds.
The article discusses Nazimova arriving in America to pursue acting as an experiment. It notes her surprise at the public’s focus on larger issues beyond theater and reflects on her career and roles she created.
A stage reproduction titled Custers Last Fight opens Sunday at the Lyceum. The battle scene uses gear lent by Colonel Gordon W. Little Pawnee Bill, portraying Custer with a romance and warfare thread. The finale features a realistic duel between Yellow Hand Cheyenne chief and Buffalo Bill US army scout chief.
TheSmart Set a colored theatrical company will perform Theack Politicians at Heuck's next week led by H Dudley as Hezekiah Doe. The company includes fifty performers, strong chorus and harmony. An extra matinee is planned for New Year’s Day with a dancing contest on Saturday night.
Brigadiers Burlesque company performs at People's theater for New Year week presenting Mr Wise From Broadway in its second edition. The show features a chorus of 25 singers and dancers, 16 original songs, elaborate scenery and electrical effects. Johnny Wise the insurance agent leads with Rosalind May Carrie Starr Johnny Neff Walter Wolfe and the Mille r and Melvin Brothers in supporting roles.
The Lyric hosts the return of Clyde Fitch's comedy Girlie. Three young women in a law firm, a stenographer, and a would be star seek independence from men, facing comic complications before ending in a traditional union. The production is praised for its complete detail and cast.
A travel feature on the Apache Warpath promises vivid imagery and color in a story of a journey to the far West. The piece, titled The Apache Warpath, is described as a travel teller about American subjects and will be presented next Sunday with notable photographs.
The Columbia will open its vaudeville tour next week led by Camille D Arville the famous American prima donna along with Ned notes and Jefferson De Angelis in The Gay White Way. Strong attractions follow including the Trapnells lady Melville Higgins Porter White and company in The Visitor Melnette Twins Clay Smith Artistic Nonsense Matthews and Reece jumpers the Fernandes May Duo European musical novelties Le Clair and Simpeoh in a strong man travesty and moving pictures.
George M. Cohan's Fifty Miles From Boston opens at the Walnut Street theater for one week with a strong cast and chorus. A New Year's Day matinee is added to the regular weekday performances, reflecting its popularity from previous long runs in major cities.
Prof Jung directs his military band for a Christmas afternoon and night programme at the New Music Hall rink. Attendance remains strong as Santa Claus delivers skates to many homes promising a busy post holiday season. The El Rey sisters arrive January 4 for a week of elite roller skating exhibitions.
The Grand screens Edmund Day’s West ern drama The Round-Up for a week starting Monday. Klaw and Erlanger staged with lavish scenery and a full cast including Texan Maclyn Arbuckle as Slim Hoover and a lineup of cowboys, cavalry, vaqueros, and Apache actors with twenty six cow ponies from Arizona.
The Talk of New York company at the Grand plans a Christmas celebration after the show. They will felicitate George M Cohan and family for The Yankee Prince success and greet Eddie Dunn arriving today. Sam Harris and A LeBrillanger will be wired about Counsel for the Defense reception.
The passage notes perilous stunts in Great Wild West performances at Buffalo Bill and Cody. It describes a rider leaping a long stretch with a horse on a narrow stage and warns that a misstep could put both rider and horse off the footlights, highlighting the dangers of such acts.
Details of a children oriented theater in New York were announced with L Frank Baum noting the plan. The octagonal venue would seat 1490, offer two daily performances and free Monday patronage for orphans, with $150000 expected from Chicago society women and other capital.
One of the gayest holiday parties will be held this afternoon by the players in Talk of New York at the Grand. They will be guests of the Wiedemann company in Newport. Victor Moore, the star, is announced for a hunt with a sho sine in a quiet suburb where no game smaller than domestic chanticleer has been seen in years. Moore expects to seek quail.
Mme Nazimova defends Ibsen as revealing truth by focusing on small details. Miss Georgie Kelly, called The Irish Vesta Victoria, charms Columbia audiences with encores. The Old Homestead continues drawing large crowds at Walnut with three matinees remaining Thursday Friday and Saturday.
The Cincinnati section of the American Chemical Society elected Frederick Honburg as president, with Dr. Sigmund Walsbogt as vice president, Ralph Oesper as secretary and treasurer, and Dr. Albert Singer as the national Panago representative. The Baltimore meeting next week was noted, and F. W. Weissmann presented on the Chemistry and Physiological Action of Newer Remes.
William M. Humphries of 651 West Fourth Street was arrested on a grand larceny charge by C C Crane and released on a $500 bond by Justice Tibbles. He was later stopped outside the state office by Justice Bolsinger officers and released again after furnishing a further $600 bond.
W G Wolfangel informed the board of public service yesterday that he has a claim against a theater strip of street rights of way. The matter concerns a rovement of an avenue and an engineer's involvement in the plan.
A highly garbled passage references names and places but lacks clear events. Readable bits mention Bay and Sea items as scattered terms with no coherent narrative or dates. No definite people, organizations, or actions can be reliably identified from the text.
A Cincinnati driven smoke abatement effort shows strong local backing with many firms contributing subscriptions to back the movement. Businesses such as American Book Ault & Wibo, Blokford Ore & Tool Co, Cincinnati Supply Co, Fairymaine Woolen Mills, and John A Shillito & Co are listed among supporters. The campaign seeks practical measures to reduce smoky emissions and improve urban air quality.
Barney Amman a molder of 2832 Gladstone avenue was struck by a car as he got off an Oakley street car at Madison and Cleinview. The driver sped away after the collision. Amman was found unconscious and taken to Engine Company 28. Dr. John C. Otis treated scalp wounds and other injuries.
J Gano Wright Fred R French and others filed a protest with the board of public service against an assessment for Observatory Avenue last September. They claim the street in front of their property was not resurfaced as promised and seek relief from the city.
A garbled OCR fragment references a move to vacate a property in Terre Haute and a court action. Readable parts indicate an eviction or notice related to housing, with no clear parties or dates.
A local obituary notes a former magistrate and barber who served as an officiant for weddings and held lodge memberships. It mentions his involvement in public affairs and the pending unexpired term of Magistrate Jameson. Funeral arrangements were set for Saturday afternoon as Governor’s department staff prepared the procession.
Covington police faced a startling report when youths admitted collecting snow from railroad yards and transporting it in tubs to throw at Robbins and Bank lick. The incident left many pedestrians snow coated as investigators confirmed the tale.
Milton Sears Smith of Buffalo and Miss Ellen Virginia Ward of Versailles Ky were married in Madison Avenue on Monday by Rev Gilbert Glass pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian church. The groom, formerly from Russellville Ky, graduated from Kentucky State University last June and will join an engineering firm in Buffalo after a brief honeymoon with Central Kentucky relatives. Smith was a classmate of Howard Yates, son of County Clerk John C. B. Yates of Covington.
George Pohlman 32 saloon ee of Twelfth and Banklick streets and Covington board of education member died at home after a brief pneumonia illness. He had served as a juror downtown last week in Foley's administrator vs I N case and was excused near trial’s end due to illness. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at Mother of God church.
Dexter 8 sues Central Covington Stockyards in Kenton circuit court over possession of a 650 by 150 foot lot on old Banklick road seeking 1700 damages. Heckman transferred the lot to Dexter for 315 after a prior suit favored the stockyards. Freund divorce case moves forward with restraining orders on property and loan funds. Judge overrules peremptory instructions in Anna Davis vs. Town of Bromley. Henry Price 19 is fined 100 and jailed 50 days for foritering. Unlawful use of union label case B Kyle continues next Tuesday. Stewart theft case of a oppongum from a Covington grocery also delayed.
Willie Hampton son of William Hampton was found dead in bed by his mother at 121 West Twelfth Street. Amended articles of incorporation increased Phelps Iron and Steel Company capital from 4000 to 10000 were filed with County Clerk John G B Yates. Ralph Rouse aged 13 of Hil Russell Avenue was struck and killed by a westbound C and O passenger train at Fifteenth and Rickey Streets. His body was mangled and taken to Henry Linneton's morgue then home. he was son of James Rouse.
Fragmentary real estate notes show transfers on Covington and Lexington pikes near St Louis Street. Mentions include Harry Leachman to J D Yel feet Myrtle Avenue and Buckner et al to M Buckner for 23 acres in Covington. Further details reference Fidie B Turpin and Henry in St Louis Street area with related plots on Covington and Lexington pikes.
In Fort Thomas the county committee voted on a new chair with 23 votes for Reuscher and 22 for Schleuter. Reuscher won by one after Jones abstained, but Hodge followers dispute the result claiming 24 votes are required for a majority in a 46 member panel. Harry Healy was elected secretary. Traver of Carthage and C M Smith of Dayton were chosen for the seventeenth judicial committee.
The Newport waterworks commissioners urge adoption of a new contract with Union Light Heat and Power for Bellevue water. The rate is 10 cents per thousand gallons up to 80 million, 8 cents thereafter, with meters and annual test cost shared by both sides. The change could boost city revenue by about $6,000 over 2.5 years.
The Newport board of health with Dr. Fred Stine as president elected three district physicians Dr C Wame ley Dr F A Clark and Dr Edward Buten for the city. It ordered milk deliverers to obtain permits and display numbers by Jan 15 and formed a committee to seek an appropriation for a laboratory and inspection equipment.
The Alhambra quintette Edward Heckle Arthur Flannery William Dinger Edward Dinger and William Mange prepare for the fifth annual mask party at Central hall Newport on New Year’s Eve December 21. Mrs J K Lawrence of Fourth avenue Dayton slipped on a stepladder at home yesterday and broke her left leg below the linea doctors Young and Garrison attended her. John Havink a brickmaker near California in Campbell county was arrested on a warrant by Lincoln Short in Squire Peck's court charging him with threatening to shoot.
Campbell County circuit court heard Ice Delivery company sue HLFF Webster for 605 on an account with a general attachment sought. Oliver Pike sues South Covington Cincinnati Street Railway for 72,000 over alleged injuries from a pit fall at the plant. judge Yungblut directed the jury to render a verdict for the defendant.
About thirty five Dayton residents organized the Charles W. Yungblut Glan of Dayton at K of P hall. The group aims to back Yungblut for reelection as judge of the Campbell County circuit court and plans to grow to several hundred members. Officers include Jota A.
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