Grand Opera House to Stage Lay of Finance and The Burglar and the Lady
The Grand Opera House opens Lay of Finance on Monday and the Sunday Matinee Man on the Box. The program features Charles Klein finance drama Ready Money Ryder and Gertrude Coghlan as The Mouse with Laura Jaffray singing during Miss Ritchie’s absence. Also next week at Heuck's Opera House James J. Corbett stars in The Burglar and the Lady, a Holmes and Ned Danvers fusion with romance and thrills.
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Grand Opera House
Finance
Wall Street
Washington, D. C
Klein
Will
Ryder
Laura Jaffray
Flora Duval
Flora
James J. Corbett
Heuck
Sherlock Holmes
Ned Danvers
Raffles
Beau Brummel
Mittenthal Brothers
Mr. Corbett
The Hoydens Success at the Grand This Week
J Dil ligham's production of The Hoyden presents one of the season's best musical comedies. The show charms from multiple angles and is likely to be remembered as a delightful highlight in the current dramatic season.
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Hoyden
Isse Janis
J. Dilligham
Miss Adele Ritchie Sings Brief Rest After Illness at Lyric
Miss Adele Ritchie of the Fascinating Ora Company is out of the cast after a grip illness. Her physician Dr. de advised a brief rest from the strenuous stage duties for several days.
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Adele Ritchie
Ora
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Promoted For Headache Relief
An old ad text touts Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a quick headache remedy with claims of no after effects. It warns the pills contain opium and other narcotics and are sold by druggists with a guarantee that each package will benefit.
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Miles
Mile
J. Ik. Bush
Waterview
Man on the Box at Lyric Theatre Stars Jameson Lee Finney
The Lyric Theatre presents The Man on the Box starring Jameson Lee Finney for the coming week starting Sunday night. The company led by Mr. Lawrence is nearly identical to last season, promising strong performances of the popular comedy and recalling Henry E. Dixey’s Adonis fame at this house.
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the Lyric
Jameson Lee Finney
Lyric Theater
Henry E. Dixey
Al Reeves Beauty Show at the Standard this week
The Al Reeves Beauty Show features Al Reeves Andy Lewis and Ed Morris delivering extravagant comedy. Miss Almeda Fowler Miss Maude Elliott and other company members appear to good advantage in burlesques at the Standard.
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al Reeves
Andy Lewis
Ed Morris
Almeda Fowler
Maude Elliott
Mc Faddens Flats Returns to Heucks for New Tour
The musical farce Mc Faddens Flats garners strong applause at Heucks as it resumes a tour after a decade in the United States and Europe. The bright comedy features new jokes and songs, with fast paced humor and lively entertainment.
Fred Irwin's Big Show Promises Burlesque Delights
Patrons are promised an avalanche of mirth at the Standard Theater next week with Fred Irwin's big show. The opening skit The Great White Way features forty performers plus top specialty acts by Campbell and Kenney Ward Lynch and company Brady and Mahoney and others. A closing burletta Ladies Day at the Actors Club stars Margaret Bennett and Hazel Saenger with a large comic cast. The production is lavish and aims to wow audiences with elaborate scenery. Two weeks hence the company will present Fred Irwin's New Majesties with an entirely different troupe.
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Standard Theater
Fred Irwin
Amerca
Campbell and Kenney
Ward Lynch and Company
Brady and Mahoney
Watson Sisters
Bennett Sisters
The
Actors’ Club
Margaret Bennett
Hazel Saenger
Lillian Carter
Mu Livingston
Harry Campbell
Wil Mahoney
Billy Walsh
William Kenney
Joe Brady
Frank Lynch
Lou Bates
Puzzling to the Stage Manager
Stage Manager Joe Miller of Fasci nating Flora at the Lyric uncovered a raffling system within the chorus. While en route to the city, forty chorus girls shared a private car and described the gambling mania. Miller noted hats worn by one girl quickly duplicated by several others in days after.
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Miss Lord
Miss Williams
Comstock
Miller
Joe Miller
Flora
Lyric
Big Orgo
Moving Pictures at the Lyric Show Travel and Canal Scenes
Roberson brings 250 travel, comedy and Panama Canal scenes to Lyric Theater Sunday afternoon. The famous traveler presents a varied program showing Uncle Sam and his nephews at work on the Isthmus, with many pieces designed to entertain and amuse.
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Lyric
Roberson
Panama Canal
Lyric Theater
Sam
Macmillen Concert Today at Grand Opera House
Music lovers will flock to the Grand Opera House this afternoon to hear Francis Macmilen, the young American pianist, perform a program of contemporary and classic selections.
Francis MacMillan to Perform at Grand Opera House
Violin virtuoso Francis MacMillan is billed for an afternoon concert at the Grand Opera House with a program featuring classic works and dazzling技巧.
Violin Virtuoso Rosina Van Dyk in Cincinnati Concert
Mme Rosina Van Dyk the Dutch prima donna and Herr Richard Hageman pianist from Amsterdam orchestras join Mr Macmillen for a diverse programme. Receptions were planned but the young artist must depart Cincinnati after the show to reach his next engagement. Seats selling well as the event moves from John Church Company to Grand Opera House by 1 pm.
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Mme
Rosina van Dyk
Richard Hageman
Amsterdam
Macmillen
John Church Company
Grand Opera House
Through Death Valley at the Lyceum
A scene featuring the killing of a rattlesnake marks a feature of the new far West drama at the Lyceum. The production, titled Through Death Valley, unfolds with a neo- style as part of the stage fare.
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Death Valley
Far West
Lyceum
The Toreador at People's Theater Week
The Washington Society Girls present a travesty on bull fighting titled The Toreador at People's Theater for the coming week starting Sunday matinee. The show features Merry maidens and chirper senoritas with toreadors and matadors, plus Mlle Moorey’s Living Pictures as an extra.
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Washington Society
People’s Theater
Hispania
Colonial Sextette Tops Columbia Booking Next Week
The Colonial Sextette will head the bill at the Columbia next week. The lineup includes four men and three women in Polidan t vocals and instrumental bits. Other acts: Inez Macauley and Company in The Unexpected. The Picchianis Italian athletes. The O'Brien and Havel Company in Ticks and Chicks. Elizabeth Murray with new humorous songs. The Quartet in rivalry with That Quartet. Charlene and Charlene juggling and music a mixed act, among others.
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Columbia
Polidant
Inez Macauley
Anita the Singing Girl at Lyceum Next Week
Agnes Cameron stars as Anita with a selected cast and chorus in a new musical drama at the Lyceum. Owen Davis wrote the play Harold Orlob composed the score and popular songs include On a Merry Go Round With Mary and Were You the Girl I Really Loved. A. J. Spencer produces a high profile, popular priced attraction with elaborate production.
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Lyceum
Anita
Agnes Cameron
Owen Davis
Harold Orlob
Mary
Miss Cameron
Jefferson Osbourne
W. F. Canfield
Molise Campion
Pearl Charlton Seward
Harris Spanierman
William F. Burke
Frank Melrose
Leta Gilmore
J. R. Hendley
A. J. Spencer
Actor Predicts 'Dry' in Cincinnati Laughs at Legislators
German born actor Harris Spanierman portrays the Dago in Anita the Singing Girl at the Lyceum next week. He visits Columbus and notes temperance lawmakers as “Pilgrim Fathers” and jokes Cincinnati will go dry, while detailing his travels and impressions of rural legislators and hotel life.
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Cincinnati
Harris Spanierman
Anita
Lyceum
Columbus
Southern Hotel
Spanierman
Maine
United States Revenue Service
George Ade
Alsace-Lorraine
Texas at the Walnut Next Week Matinee
Texas will be the attraction at the Walnut starting with the Sunday matinee. The play presents life on the Southwestern plains with authentic settings and costumes claimed to be absolutely correct. Buck Head Ranch in Val Verde County supplied props as the management adds Western atmosphere and a capable, well known cast.
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Texas
Walnut
Southwestern Plains
Lone Star State
Buck Head Ranch
Val Verde County
Sunday at the Olympic features Forepaughs with Ethel Barrymore
The Forepaugh Stock Company at the Olympic presents Sunday as a long loved Ethel Barrymore favorite. The play blends sincere sentiment and fine character drawing with American simplicity and Bret Harte style, including mining camp scenes in the West.
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Ethel Barrymore
West
Bret Harte
Illinois Farmers Agree to No Tobacco Crop This Year
Central and Southern Illinois growers linked to the Society of Equity discuss raising no tobacco in 1908. Farmers compare corn profits to tobacco, noting Kentucky plans and market fears. Indiana and Ohio acreage rise while Illinois peers weigh circulars about crop plans and potential trust influence. J S Kemper cites Kentucky crop risk without trust intervention.
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Society of Equity
Central
Illinois
A R. Dietrick
Effingham
Kentucky
Union
American Tobacco Company
Trust
Ohio
Indiana
J. S. Kemper
Owen County
Beauchamp Killed on Hobart Platform by Thomases
Dr F B Beauchamp who killed Charles Thom as of Chico Tex on a train at Hobart a year ago was shot and killed in Lawton Okla Two brothers of the victim John Thomas and William Thomas confronted him on the Rock Island Depot platform Both Thomases fired Beauchamp died after returning fire The Thomases surrendered to the Sheriff John Thomas is a prominent attorney William Thomas was visiting his brother
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Commercial Tribune
Lawton
Okla
F. B. Beauchamp
Charles Thomas
Chico
Tex
Hobart
John Thomas
William Thomas
Beauchamp
Will Thomas
Thomases
William J. Thomas
Cincinnati
Chicago
Clearwater
D. C
Lanette
Ala
Forepaugh to Present Barrymore Production on Stage
Miss Barrymore’s Sunday play resurfaces on tour under Managers Fish for the Olympic engagement. The Forepaugh Company promises a fully staged production with vivid locale and character drawing, aiming to deliver a sympathetic, well presented performance week.
At Yale play draws crowds at Walnut with rowing crew
Amusement notes say college life on stage draws strong reception at the Walnut. The eight oared crew appears in rowing costume for the first time in the city, accompanied by a well presented glee club in good voice, adding musical appeal.
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Yale
Walnut
Glee Club
Cincinnati loses in rate decision discrimination case
Interstate Commerce Commission rules that a combined state and intrastate rate set by the same carrier can still fall under ICC jurisdiction. The Reliance Textile and Dye Works vs Southern Railway case found the Cincinnati dye works disadvantaged by a broader rate structure, but the commission deemed the overall discrimination not undue or unlawful and dismissed the complaint.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Reliance
Southern Railway
Clearwater
Lanette
New England
Southern
Receiver Harmon Reports November Rail Details
Receiver Judson Harmon of the C H D Railroad filed the November report showing earnings 708,786.18 and operating expenses 623,244.47 leaving net income 85,541.71. Wages paid 365,533.17 and interest on funded debt 75,000.00. Freight earnings 513,247.38 passenger 135,614.49 mail 10,009.74 express 17,301.94.
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Arnings
Harmon Elected President of Dayton & Union Railway Co
Judson Harmon was elected President of the Dayton & Union Railway Company by the new board at yesterday's meeting. A full board reorganization followed with E. F. Osborne as Vice President Thomas J. Walsh Secretary and Charles L. Warringer Treasurer. Stockholders met Tuesday and chose Harmon Perkins Ingalls Layng Colston Osborne Walsh Shoemaker and Cox as directors.
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Judson Harmon
C., H. & D. Railway
Dayton & Union Railway Company
Big Four
E. F. Osborne
Thomas J. Walsh
Charles L. Warringer
Harmon
W. F. Stock
Co. J. Brister
H. J. Rhein
J. L. Cramer
Dayton
George W. Perkins
M. E. Ingalls
J. D. Layng
Edward Colston
Henry F. Shoemaker
C. F. Cox
Rail line weekly earnings show decline and dividends declared
The C N C T P Railway reports weekly gross earnings of 184 243 for the week ending December 31 down from 206 170 the prior year a decrease of 20 927. Illinois Central directors declare a regular semi annual dividend of 3 percent in New York City. Reading Company board in Philadelphia proclaims a 2 percent annual semi annual dividend on first preferred stock.
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Illinois Central Railroad
New York City
Reading Company
Philadelphia
Cincinnati Couple Wed In Grand Hotel Ceremony
Dr. R. E. Fishback and Miss Bessie Scott of Lexington Kentucky married last night in the Grand Hotel. They were joined by Miss Ella Fishback and brothers Harvey and Leslie Scott. The couple said they chose Cincinnati to wed away from home and will stay in the city until tomorrow.
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R. E. Fishback
Bessie Scott
Lexington
Grand Hotel
Ella Fishback
Harvey
Leslie Scott
Cincinnati
Mrs. Fishback
Changes Made in Codification Bill In House Debate
The House Committee on Revision of the Laws tentatively eased amendments to the bill codifying penal laws, while opposition over bribes and sale of endorsements for offices shifted to tomorrow. Senate proceedings opened with brief roll calls and a plan to pass uncontroversial sections, with an executive session sought by Senator Carter.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
House of Representatives
United States
House
Quilie James
Kentucky
Harriman
Rockefeller
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Heyburn
Idaho
Burkett
Nebraska
Teller
Carter
Montana
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N. M. Breeze
N. W. Ry
C., H. & D. Railroad
Cincinnatian
Dayton & Union Railway
Railroad Notes
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