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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
29
The July Theater magazine notes actor beliefs about stage misfortune. Opinions vary on the wrong side of the curtain and hidden peep holes. Drop curtains, yellow instruments, squeaky shoes, and wearing wigs are cited as luck or doom signs. Cats crossing stage are good luck if they stay off during the show.
Olga Nethersole spoke to the Socialist Drama Movement dinner in New York on Sixth Avenue praising health as life and urging compulsory federal workers insurance to care for workers in sickness and disability. She linked health to tenement reform and criticized ignorance while applauding the medical profession.
A Chicago stage piece recalls veteran actors Stedman Bock and Chappelle and the trio of triplets who toured the country. They discuss the old days, training, and the flying company system that shaped early theater life.
The article recalls distinguished stars at St Louis summer parks and the austere Boston museum backstage. Lola May, juvenile lead, recalls critics grading younger actors while veterans like Stedman Chappelle and Bock set the pace. Directors Grigmer Brady commanded rehearsals with sharp commentary.
Rowland Buckstone and H. H. Sothern staged Dickens many works including A Christmas Carol in one act. The piece, 35 minutes, was performed in London venues and before royalty. Dickens adaptions followed Copperfield and other novels with actors like Irving, Fawcett Rowe, Wallack, and Jefferson shaping stage history.
The piece compares historical pay for tenors and actors, noting a Paris opera tenor’s early modern salary and Moliere era shares. It contrasts theatre pay with earlier French salaries and mentions Miss Mary Gordon’s public image and Boston newspaper verification of her appearances in Thais.
In Paris dramatic criticism is a complex hierarchy led by the Monday feuilletonistes who fill twelve columns weekly. Summers bring lean weeks with little to fill the space and the Debats critic Jules Lemaitre rereads Lamartine to offer evolving impressions and theories.
In Robb Lawson's The Actor's Catechism a question on tears in acting prompts Arthur Bourchier to say the actor should feel the emotion but remain in control to preserve effect. He cites Sardou's Fernande at Daly's Theatre in New York and notes how genuine emotion must serve the audience.
Mrs. Yeamans recounts her early stage year when a tour began in Sydney and reached Hongkong where the manager fled with funds. The troupe, struck by plague, performed vaudeville in a Chinese store back room to raise fare to San Francisco where Yeamans and her husband joined a circus.
The article surveys early English theater practices from Elizabethan bills posting to the Swan Theatre’s 3000 capacity. It notes actors’ protections, first foreign performers, famed early plays and actresses, and Greek stage customs including dawn performances, audience reactions, and methods of showing disapproval, such as groaning and stone throwing.
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