Notable Performers Highlighted at Lyric
Miss Ritchie, Miss Lewis and the rest were praised as among the best performers in the cast during last week's Lyric show.
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1908
Page
18
Klein on The Lion and the Mouse and Theatre Ethics
Charles Klein recounts life among London musicians and explains his view that plays should have ethical purpose. He compares Lion and the Mouse to The Music Master, notes focus on power and concentration, and discusses American managers' reluctance to trust unproduced manuscripts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Charles ‘Klein
Herman
Covent Garden
Shirley Rossmore
Ryder
Shirley
Mrs Leslie Carter Stars In Du Barry At Grand
Mrs Leslie Carter will present David Belasco's Du Barry at the Grand in a few weeks. The appearance of Mrs Carter in this play is a master stroke and lends extraordinary emotion, making the production one of the finest and best acted on the current stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Carter
du Barry
David Belasco
the Grand
Fitch Play Next at Olympic With Her Own Way Revival
The Forepaugh Stock Company follows Sunday with a revival of Clyde Fitch’s celebrated society play Her Own Way at the Olympic. Maxine Elliott’s first starring vehicle, the production impressed audiences widely and will be handsomely staged by Olympic forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitch
Olympic
Forepaugh
Clyde Fitch
Maxine Elliott
Meanest Man Tag Circulates From Baltimore to Stage
Agnes Cameron at the Lyceum in Anita the Singing Girl reports a “meanest man” find from Baltimore Maryland. She received roses and a note from an unknown admirer, a gesture she shared with her cast and crew as the mystery donor remained unidentified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Agnes Cameron
Lyceum
Anita
Miss Cameron
Coma Pores
Ets
Cam
Minnie Dupree in a Play of Mystery and Rival Detectives
A stage production features Minnie Dupree as a heiress under threat from a housebreaker who poses as a thief taker to shield her. Sherlock Holmes-like suspicion sparks a duel with Danvers while a romantic plot unfolds amid thrilling climaxes and strong supporting actors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pigeon
Sherlock Holmes
Mr. Corbett
Woman Declines Suitor After The Performance
A young woman rebuffs a gentleman who seeks a supper meeting after a show. She tells the messenger she does not know him and will not meet him. He pressures with vague promises, and she firmly refuses. The boy returns with the note that the gentleman asks for his roses to be sent back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eron
Irwins Big Show at Standard
Fred Irwin brings a six act extravaganza and two new spectaculars to the Standard Theater for a week starting with today matinee. The forty member company features Murray Livingston Harry Campbell Will Mahoney and others with Margaret Bennett Hazel Saenger and Lillian Carter plus a chorus and vaudeville acts. The Bennett Sisters perform physical culture during the burlesque and the management notes a separate company arrives in two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irwin
Actors’ Club
George H. Foster
Murray Livingston
Harry Campbell
Will Mahoney
Joe Brady
Billy Walsh
Louis
Fred Irwin
New Majesties
Anita the Singing Girl Opens at Lyceum With Agnes Cameron
At the Lyceum this week the matinee features Agnes Cameron and a company of twenty five in Anita the Singing Girl a melodramatic musical comedy drama. The plot follows Anita a young girl caught between her estranged parents and the schemes of Malcolm Danvers who hires Manuel Gomez to abduct her, with Gomez guiding her fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyceum
Agnes Cameron
Anita
Malcolm Danvers
Danvers
Manuel Gomez
Gomez
Anita and John Baird dramatic musical unfolds in revival
Anita a 16 year old girl raised to hate her father John Baird seeks him to avenge a presumed desertion of her mother Mary Baird. She finds her father and later Mary, discovers true kinship, while Vera Haywood plots to marry John for wealth. The drama ends with reconciliation and humor plus songs like On a Merry Go Round with Mary Anita and Just One for Fun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manuel
John Baird
Anita
Ned Tremont
Polly
Gomez
Mary Baird
Russell Baira
John
Danvers
Vera Haywood
Vera
Hussand
Mary
Miss Cameron
Jefferson Osbourne
William F. Burke
W. F. Canfield
Pearl Charlton Seward
Harris Spanierman
Molise Campion
Frank Melrose
Leta Gilmore
Harold Orlob
J. R. Hendley
Dorothy Vernon
Mittenthal Brothers bring The Burglar and the Lady to Heucks Opera House
The Mittenthal Brothers begin a week at Heucks Opera House London McCormick presents The Burglar and the Lady with Mr James J Corbett in the lead role as Sherlock Holmes. The drama combines two book heroes Ned Danvers and Holmes in a tale of burglary and philanthropy set around a banker home and a charity ball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mittenthal Brothers
Heuck
Langdon McCormick
James J. Corbett
Mr. McCormick
Ned Danvers
Beau Brummell
Sherlock Holmes
Mr. Corbett
Holmes
Man on the Box at Lyric May Surprise Audiences
Walter N Law rence presents Jameson Lee Finney in The Man on the Box a Harold McGrath adaptation. The Army officer undercover as a coachman romance drives the plot through a courtship and mistaken kiss with the embassy ball setting and shipboard meetings. Frances Nordstrom stars as the leading woman with a strong supporting company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyric
Walter N. Lawrence
Jameson Lee Finney
Harold McGrath
McGrath
Washington
United States Army
Army
Navy
Liverpool
New York
Texas Western drama opens at Walnut in week long run
The Walnut presents Texas a real Western play by J Mauldin Feigl opening this afternoon for a week. It follows Texas West daughter of a ranch owner who loves Jack Dallam a cowboy and ranger while English Lord Angus Trecor tries to win her. The production emphasizes authentic ranch life strong staging and period costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Walnut
J. Mauldin Feigl
Southwest
Texas West
Jack Dallam
Buckhead Ranch
New
York Show On Tour Delights SOUTHWEST Audiences
The production winds through the South and Southwest for two months earning unstinted praise. A strong cast and ample scenery bolster the show, and it is expected to repeat its prior success at this house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
The Road to Yesterday at Lyric Theater
Playwrights Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and Beulah Marté Dix describe The Road to Yesterday a fantasy comedy starring Minnie Dupree at the Lyric Theater the week of January 26. The action shifts from a modern London studio to Elizabethan England with a three century trance and a strong Shubert cast led by Dupree and Marshall Welch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland
Beulah Marté Dix
Sterling
Minnie Dupree
Lyric Theater
James I
London
Castle and Inn
Herald Square
Lyric Theaters
New York City
Colonial Septet Tops Columbia Week Vaudeville Card
The Colonial Septet headlines the Columbia show with a 25 minute act featuring expert instrumentalists soloists and novelties. Inez Macauley and Clarence Oliver present Edmund Day's The Unexpected at Sheepshead Bay New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Inez Macauley
Clarence Oliver
Edmund Day
Elizabeth Murray
Nora
Herman
Charlene
Sunday at the Olympic A Charming Stock Week
The Olympic offers a delightful week with Sunday a Western era classic starring Ethel Barrymore in a refined, sympathetic tale. Critics praise its absorbing plot witty humor and rich character drawing as a strong crowd-pleaser from opening night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forepaugh
Ethel Barrymore
Sunday Attraction Promises Superior Forepaught Company Production
The Forepaugh Company presents a Western style drama with a vivid wild West atmosphere and rugged miners. An English home contrast and atmospheric sets mark a thorough, delightful production noted for its fine ensemble and standout miners in the Sunday guardians quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salome Jane
Washington Society Girls at People's Theater Engagement
The Washington Society Girls begin an engagement at the People's Theater this afternoon presenting burlettas, Vaudeville specialties, a musical farce with singing and clean comedy, plus Mlle Moorey's living pictures. The company features Leo Stevens, Lillian Raymond, Mark Adams, the Mullins sisters, Fred Bulla, Abbie Carleton, the Mardo Trio and other vaudeville favorites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Society
People's Theater
Mlle. Moorey
Leo Stevens
Lillian Raymond
Mark Adams
Mullins Sisters
Fred Bulla
Abbie Carleton
Mardo
The Lion and the Mouse Opens at Grand Theatre
The Lion and the Mouse begins a week at the Grand tomorrow evening with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. The comedy drama, one of the era’s top money makers, showcases power and wealth amid love and ambition, tracing Wall Street’s glare through Charles Klein’s timely drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaand
Wall Street
Charles Klein
Lion and the Mouse in Washington Dramatizes Finance Clash
Edmond Breese stars as "Ready Money" Ryder and Gertrude Coghlan as Shirley Rossmore in a modern American drama about a financier’s bid for a Senate appointment and a young woman’s campaign to humble him. The original New York company leads a cast including Frazer Coulter and Julia Hanchett as the supporting players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Burkett Ryder
Senate
Ryder
Washington, D. C
Shirley Rossmore
Finance
Lion of Finance
Henry B. Harris
New York
Edmond Breese
Gertrude Coghlan
Breese
the Lion
Miss Coghlan
the Mouse
Frazer Coulter
Julia Hanchett
Malcolm Duncan
Marion Pollock Johnson
E. A. Eberle
Reginald Carrington
Walter Allen
Charles Sturgiss
Margaret Grey
Remarkable Casting Lineage Ties In Lion and the Mouse
Gertrude Coghlan, playing Shirley Rossmore, is daughter of Charles Coghlan famed as a leading English stage actor and Grace Thorne, mother of Mrs Ryder actress, daughter of Charles Thorne a top American stage star. The two families were contemporaries, linking Coghlan and Thorne through their children in the Klein play company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Coghlan
Shirley Rossmore
The
Charles Coghlan
Grace Thorne
Mrs. Ryder
Klein
Charles Thorne
Coghlan
Thorne
Wallack's
New York
Henry Irving
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Henry Harris
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Origial New York Company
Anna
Broadhurst Currie
Dmance
Southern Plains
Matinee Daily
Gli
Mittenthal Bros
Sharlock Holmes
James J. Corbett Sr
Kernan & Watson
Washington Society Belles
Mme. Morley
Mats
Eiree Fiten
Weet Dien
Wights
Brand Jun
Office
Woll
Klein On “the Lion and the Mouse
the Lyric
Heuck’s
Frank R. Roberson
Heuck Opera House Co
Ted
Cincinnati
Fanama Canal
Big Ditch
Harold MacGrath
Gracy T I. Furniss
Queen City
Rin Music Hall
Washington Society Girls
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