Belasco Rose of Rancho at Lyric with Montgomery and Stone
Spanish flavored dialogue and vivid character scenes mark Belasco’s Rose of Rancho at the Lyric next week. Donna Juanita’s mixed heritage and sharp wit spark fiery exchanges with love, family, and cultural tension as Nebraska landgrabber threats loom. Montgomery and Stone profile and career notes follow, including their rise from circus acrobatics to musical theater stars and the success of The Red Mill.
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Belasco
ROSE
Rancho
Lyric
Red Mill
Montgomery and
STONE
Donna Juanita
Johnny
Robinson Crusoe's Isle heads Columbia bill week
The Columbia bill for next week features a spectacular musical extravaganza Robinson Crusoe's Isle with a carload of scenery and fifteen cast including John Rogers and Benjamin Deeley as Crusoe and Friday. The Rocking Chair Girls led by Nellie Floredo with six assistants perform a three scene specialty with elaborate scenery. Also announced are the Baggesens jugglers, Rayl Royce monologist, Macart's Dog and Monkey Circus, Bert Levy artist, Hanavar and Anna Lee in The Golfer and the Maid, Clinton and Jermon singers and dancers, and the kinodrome with two St Patrick's Day slides.
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Columbia
Isle
John Rogers
Benjamin Deeley
Nellie Floredo
Comedienne
Baggesens
Rayl L.royce
Macart
Bert Levy
Hanavar
Anna Lee
Clinton and
Jermon
The Rise of Montgomery and Stone at the Red Mill
Two famed American comedians Montgomery and Stone, long vaudeville stars, rise to prominence in musical comedy. They will be seen at Grand Opera House next week in Charles Willingham's production The Red Mill after forming their team in September.
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Montgomery
Stone
Montgomery and
Grand Opera House
Charles Willingham
the Red Mill
George Stone
Charles Wilkins
Ethel Johnson Star of The Red Mill
Miss Ethel Johnson appears with Montgomery and Stone in The Red Mill and plays Tina. A versatile dancer and actress, she has starred in The Burgomaster and The Tenderfoot and other musical comedies. Her performance in The Red Mill is described as her career hit.
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Ethel Johnson
Montgomery
Stone
Red Mill
Miss Johnson
Tina
Minstrel Partners Formed By Montgomery And Stone
David Craig Montgomery born April 21 1870 in St Joseph Missouri rose from Strickbein's Garden to join a new minstrel partnership in New Orleans. He mentored Stone who won the New England trap championship on December 31 and plans to hunt bears in Alaska while Montgomery heads to Japan after the season.
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New Orleans
Haverly
David Craig Montgomery
St. Joseph
Strickbein’s
Mr. Store
Stone
England
Mr. Stone
New England
Alaska
Mr. Montgomery
Japan
Blaney not superstitious about thirteen at Lyceum
Aug. Anderson stars in The Curse of Drink at the Lyceum next week. Blaney says he is not superstitious about the number thirteen and would not let it affect the performance or attendance.
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Chas. E. Blaney
PB. Aug. Anderson
Lyceum
Curse of Drink Triumphs in Rail Road Play Debut
The article notes the shift from superstition to success as Charles B Bly staged The Curse of Drink on August 12, drawing crowded houses and strong revenue. Anderson’s planned debut on the 13th was overtaken by Bly's risk and the show’s robust reception across cities.
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Sied
Mr. Anderson
Charles B. Bly
Blaney
Anderson
Irish Heroic Drama at the Olympic Next Week
Forepaugh Stock Company presents Robert Emmet at the Olympic with historically significant actors led by the famed hero and his lieutenant Desmond and Sarah Curran. Emmet’s Wicklow escape climaxes the plot as Chief Justice Norbury presides. The week also features brand-new specialties by the company to surprise patrons.
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Robert Hmmét
John Desmond
Sarah Curran
John Philpot Curran
Norbury
Emmet
Wicklow Mountains
Robert Emmet
Edna the Pretty Typewriter at Heuck Opera House
A sensational melodrama called Edna the Pretty Typewriter will play at Heuck Opera House next week. Promised thrills include a duel between miners, Edna leaping from a tenement roof to an elevated train, a vault explosion, and a race to Coney Island with a daring escape into a sweetheart's car.
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Edna
Heuck Opera House
Coney Island
Sam Devere Show At People's Link Next Week
The Peo ples Link go presents the Sam Devere Show opening Sunday matinee with a selected company for two original burlesques and a high class vaudeville. Burlesques titled The Belle of Boston and Mr Planet From Mars parody The Hub women and The Messenger From Mars with scientists. Featured acts include Phil Ott Nettie Nelson Al Steadman Teddy Simmonds Dorothy Ward Ali Hunter the La Velle Sisters Fred Ireland Max Walsh and a chorus of twenty two.
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People's Link
Sam Devere
Boston
Mars
Ollo
Phil Ott
Nettie Nelson
al. Steadman
Teddy Simmonds
Dorothy Ward
Ali
Hunter
la Velle Sisters
Fred Ireland
Max Walsh
Good Show at Standard Sunday
Harry Bryant, a comedian who understands audience laughter without offense, will perform at the Standard Theater next week. He presents original concepts, a wholesome flavor, and a first-class company with a diverse program including graceful chorus girls and a Bryant collection featuring brunette and blonde beauties.
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Standard
Harry Bryant
Standard Theater
Bryant
Curse of Drink at Lyceum Promises Melodramatic Sensation
Charles E Blaney presents The Curse of Drink at the Lyceum next week a melodrama of strong story sensational scenery and moral drama featuring a drunken engineer delirium tremens a locomotive on stage and a crucial rescue scene Fireman No 751 saves his sweetheart The cast includes P Aug Anderson Dorothy De Schelle Queenie Phillips Jules Ferrar and Irene Meara among others.
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Lyceum
Charles E. Blaney
Nickelscooper
Barre
Blaney
P. Aug. Anderson
Dorothy de Schelle
Queenie Phillips
Re Brighton
Jules Ferrar
Impermedy Four
Irene Meara
Helen Gildea
Checkers to Open Fourth Cincinnati Engagement at Walnut
A Cincinnati audience will see Checkers next week in a Walnut Theatre matinee Sunday. The play is billed as a character comedy about American life, focusing on a hero known as Checkers who dominates the action from start to finish. The story follows his transformation after meeting Barlow and her donor, Arthur Kendall, exposing class and sporting themes in Clarksville.
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Hot Springs
Barlow
Arthur Kendall
Clarksville
Pert and Checkers: A Dainty Classical Stage Romance
In a charming love scene, Pert confesses care while her father blocks a match until Checkers earns $5,000 in a year. The subsequent acts follow how Checkers makes the money and how he uses it, delivering continued interest and steady theater gusto.
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Pert
Ape
Checkers
Sothern to Head Annual Actors Fund Benefit
Daniel Frohman announced that E H Sothern will star in the Actors Fund of America benefit this season. The veteran actor will perform selections from his repertoire and a one act play by an 11 year old boy. The show will run within a month before Sothern leaves the Lyric Theater engagement in New York City.
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Mr. Kearney
Don Luis
Donna Juanita
Kearney
Mamacita
Marria
Dante
Gringo
Senora Kenton
Juanita
Kincaid
Nebraska
Sammy
Lbseere
California
Boston
Drink Fueled Engineer Stars In The Curse Of Drink
Mr. Anderson, noted character actor, portrays a drink crazed engineer in Charles B. Blaney's The Curse of Drink at the Lyceum next week.
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Mr. Anderson
Charles B. Blaney
Lyceum
Francis Wilson Shines in Grand Week Comedy
Francis Wilson earns praise in When Knights Were Bold at the Grand big week. Auditors applaud the company and John Wilson's performance gains strong support from Mary Holland Clarence Handysides Victor Benoit and Edna Bruns as seats sell rapidly for remaining shows.
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Francis Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Marlowe
Benson gate subscription opens for San Carlos Grand Opera
Lyric management announces the Benson gate subscription for the San Carlos Grand Opera Company is open. Mail orders with payment will receive prompt attention and individual seats go on sale Tuesday morning March 17 at the box office. The engagement is expected to be the best ever presented locally.
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Lyric Annount
Benson Gate
San Carlos Grand Opera Company
San Carlos Opera conducts Conti in Lyric Theater tour
Sig Arnaldo Conti leads the San Carlos Grand Opera Company on a second transatlantic tour of the United States with eight performances at the Lyric Theater beginning March 23. The Italian conductor has a storied career from Padova to Rome to Buenos Aires and London, directing a 45 member orchestra and a company of 160 artists famous internationally.
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Sig
Arnaldo Conti
San Carlos Opera Company
Henry Russell
Lyric Theater
Italy
America
Conti
Padova
Rome
Richard Wagner
Signor Conti
Buenos Ayres Grand Opera
San Carlos Company
Covent Garden
London
San Carlos Grand Opera Company
United States
The Three of Us at Lyric Theater Delights Patrons
The clever presentation of The Three of Us at the Lyric Theater earns favorable comment from top theatergoers for Rachel Crother's work. The comedy pleases fans of clean, clear intellectual humor. The final matinee at reduced prices is Saturday afternoon.
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Lyric
Lyric Theater
Rachel Crother
Walter Wellman to appear at Lyric Theater on Sunday
World famed Arctic navigator Walter Wellman will lecture at the Lyric Theater Sunday afternoon and night, presenting still-life and moving pictures of his planned North Pole airship voyage. He will recount voyages and show scenes of hardships faced with his companions. The same lecture is scheduled for both sessions.
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Walter Wellman
Lyric Theater
North Pole
Mr. Wellman
Cincinnati Event Review Highlights Costume Contests and Plays
The city hosts a costume skating party with nearly 1000 signups and $100 in prizes. Belasco’s The Rose of the Rancho opens at Lyric Theater with Frances Starr as star and box theater parties planned. A special ladies matinee at Heuck’s Opera House features Bertha M Clay’s novel. Grand Opera House shows travel films Sunday with Ireland as a featured destination and Howard Saxby delivering talks amid a musical program.
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the Rancho
Lyric Theater
Spanish California
Ohio
Frances Starr
New York
Boston
Heuck’s Opera House
Sellers
Dora Thorne
Bertha M. Clay
Rescue at Mill Creek as family narrowly escapes sinking boat
Ben Snow his wife and three young children lived in a shanty boat at Mill Creek mouth. While dining supper the City of Louisville swells struck the boat’s supports washing them away. The vessel capsized and sank in three feet of water. Snow escaped through a window and then pulled his wife and three children to shore.
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Ben’ Snow
Mill Creek
Louisville
Blaisdale to Exhibit Fast Typewriting Tonight
H O Blaisdale, winner of the American championship, will give an exhibition of fast typewriting at Bartlett College Commercial Tribune Building this evening. He is regarded as a leading typewriter operator in the country and a large crowd is expected to attend. The demonstration will cover transcribing from original notes copying and dictation along with other typical tasks for a modern operator.
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H. O. Blaisdale
Bartlett College
Commercial Tribune
Blaisdale
Man Creates Disturbance During School Confessional Service
An unknown man screamed his prayers and gesticulated during a church service for St. Frances de Sales School children at Woodburn Avenue and Madison Road. Firemen Luhn and Beckstead, with the priest, removed him from the church.
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St. Frances de Sales’ Church
Woodburn Avenue
Madison Road
Luhn
Beckstead
Obituaries of John Teagle and notable figures
Obituary notices recall John Teagle once a leading independent oil refiner who died in Cleveland at 60 after a career with Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle and a sale to Standard Oil in 1901. Also memorialized are Italian writer Edmundo De Amicis who died in Bordighera, Allan C. Durborow former Congressman who died in Chicago after a long illness and a political clash with William Lorimer in 1903.
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John Theagle
Cleveland
Mr. Teagle
S. D. Squire
Scofield
Bordighera
Italy
Modena
Austria
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Mr. Durborow
Congress
Eago
William Lorimer
National House of Representatives
Lorimer
Durbotow
Pennsylvania
Tor
Italian Troops Kill 460 Natives in Somaliland Raid
Rome wires report that in Italian Somaliland a local tribe aided by the Mullah attacked a protected tribe, killing thirty opponents and looting cattle. Italian forces pursuing the raiders suoceed with 400 tribesmen and 60 Mullah soldiers slain in one engagement. One Italian and two natives were killed or wounded.
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Rome
Italy
Armor Belts Are Criticised in Naval Testimony
Commander A L Key testified before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee about armor belt depth and gun clearance. He argued five feet below the water line suffices and criticized freeboard, turrets, and ammunition hoists. The committee limited further structural testimony and will decide other topics at a later meeting.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
A. L. Key
Senate
Naval Affairs
Committee
Hale
Chains on tires condemned as health menace
Chicago authorities debated an antichain ordinance after Dr. J L Pennington claimed chains on automobile wheels spread consumption. The City Council Judiciary Committee discussed enforcing a ban while Secretary Sidney Gorham of the Chicago Automobile Club and members planned an auto trip to test the claim.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
City Council Judiciary Committee
J. L. Pennington
Sidney 8. Gorham
Chicago Automobile Club
Woman Sues Health Board Over Vaccination Order
Mrs Lucy Elam of Lexington filed a $5000 damages suit against the Board of Health and city officials alleging the compulsory vaccination order forced her to quit work at a tobacco factory and she has not worked in twenty eight days.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Lucy Elam
Board of Health
Hoosier Traveler Found Dead In Galveston Shed
The body of Grant Cox, a Bloomington Indiana traveling man, was found in a steamship shed in Galveston Texas. His throat was cut, the wound judged self inflicted. A razor lay near the body and despondency is believed to have driven the act.
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Galveston
Commercial Tribune
Tex
Grant Cox
Bloomington
Ind
Despondent salesman kills wife then commits suicide
St Louis March 21 Despondent after weeks without work Joseph Sartine a cigar salesman cut his wife's throat and then killed himself with carbolic acid Mrs Sartine is in a dying condition and the case follows a tragic domestic attack and suicide in the city
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Commercial Tribune
ST. Louis
Joseph Sartine
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