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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
7
Pretty Julia Sanderson the prima donna of The Dairymaids at the Grand shares practical wardrobe advice. She urges women to study themselves not fashions, wear well with taste and grace, and avoid ill fitting trends.
Miss Vesta Victoria opens at the Columbia with a varied program from a long list of songs. She will not perform all in one night and selects her programme from titles such as Dont Get Married Any More Ma Ice Ice Ice Will He Answer Goo Goo Queen of the Jujah Islands Mary Queen of Scots Man Man Man Poor John Waiting at the Church Artist s Model It Ain t All Honey Dreamy Eyes.
Minstrel George H. Primrose, famed for dancing and parade antics, has toured the country for 37 years with his minstrels. He claims his health stems from daily dancing, averaging twenty minutes on stage over 300 days yearly, nearly circling the globe in two tours if tracked on a straight path.
The Two Hot Knights and A Gay Modiste will headline at the Standard next week. The Transatlantics offer witty burlettas with a 25 member chorus and a lineup including Lizzie Freligh Kalinowski Brothers Opera Queen NormanS Fitzgerald Quinn and Sisters DeGraff. Costumes and scenery promise lavish spectacle.
A chorus girl Emily Gibson of The Dairymaids plans to turn leisure into earnings. Former Cooper Union art student she paints past cards and plaques, catching a photographer’s eye for a china art portfolio and sales use.
She colored photographs and impressed enough to receive the full assignment. Miss Gibson travels with her colored photos and ships them back to New York. She enjoys theater and plans to keep both painting and stage work, avoiding idle moments.
In San Francisco on March 19 at the Novelty Theater the new problem play Memory and Tomorrow by E. Booth Tilton was staged for the first time. Mary Mannering performed the reading part with praised emotional acting and the production received generally favorable remarks.
The tale recalls Miss Nielsen meeting Henry Russell, impresario, through the Duchess of Devonshire in London. She invited them to lunch after a backstage encounter, serving Florida strawberries in morning robes, sparking Russell's lifelong interest and shaping her rise as a leading opera star.
Sam Thrall arrived yesterday to prepare for the grand week ahead of the love and politics drama The Man of the Hour. The production promises a standout performance as rehearsals begin in earnest.
The last two performances of David Belasco's The Rose of the Rancho are presented at the Lyric Theater today. Cincinnati audiences who value fine drama should not miss this idealistic California tale praised for beauty and charm.
The Fore paugh Stock Company closes its run of Robert Emmet at the Olympic with final matinee and evening shows this afternoon and a farewell appearance of the popular minstrel afterpiece drawing large crowds of black performers and patrons.
Bronson Howard’s Aristocracy, a society drama about rich American girls marrying titled foreigners, is revived at the Olympic by Forepaugh next week. The production promises a strong ensemble, proper settings, and prominence in the forthcoming show, noted as a staple of American stage drama.
It is surprising how the theater habit grows on one, particularly if the theater provides you with the kind of entertainment you enjoy. Cincinnatians began crowding to the Grand Opera House.
Crowds flock to see shows at $2 prices as Rainforth and Harlin present Francis Wilson in The Red Mill last week and The Dairymaids next week. From Frohman,The Dairymaids is praised as dainty and clean with twenty plus songs and a star cast including Harry Burger Eugene O Rourke Edgar Atchison Ely Julie Sanderson Mabell Hollins and Flossie Hope.
The San Carlo Grand Opera Company’s Chicago engagement ends after Easter with Fraulein Rosa Olitzka in Lohengrin. An anonymous admirer sent bouquets and whispered plans for a New York City wedding after Lent, kept quiet by all. The Red Mill at Grand Theater draws big crowds tonight and matinee.
The Walnut hosts two shows this afternoon and tonight as Checkers, praised by a New York critic as the success of four seasons, ends a big week. In four years the play has had fifteen engagements in New York and will have another engagement there this season.
Miss Victoria arrives from Buffalo Sunday morning and will rehearse eleven songs including one with a special stage setting and two with audience chorus. The Vesta Victoria party includes Miss Victoria three maids and manager A B Figgis. Matinees at 2 PM and evening shows at 9 PM run forty minutes to an hour depending on encores.
Series of home mission meetings announced by the National Board of Home Missions at the Church of the Covenant Eighth and Elm next Thursday. Joseph Ernest McAfee Dr Charles L Thompson Rev Charles Stelzie and Rev Dr William Henry Roberts named as speakers with Dr Thompson and Mr Stelzle to address sessions.
The Rev. Theodore T. Hays of Hyde Park will conduct a vesper service at 4 o clock in the Young Women's Christian Association. Soloist Miss Emma Noe of the Cincinnati Conservatory will sing. Mrs Robertson's Bible class meets Tuesdays at 8 p.m., Miss Winston's Thursdays at 7 15 p.m., and Miss Cain's Fridays at 9 p.m.
Benjamin Fay Mills, exponent of liberal religious thought, will speak three times tomorrow with two talks each day. He will lead Sunday morning services at the Unitarian Church, deliver “An Address to the World” at 3:30 at the Auditorium, and close with “The Eve of a New Spiritual Era” at Vine Street Church at 8 in the evening.
Frank March former Fifth Presbyterian Church pastor turned missionary will speak at Norwood Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning about real life stories from the North Carolina mountains.
City evangelicals list morning Bible schools and services at Central Ninth Street Evanston Grace Avenue Walnut Hills and other churches. Pastors include John L Hill Ray E Deadman J N Greve and C J Sebastian with sermons on Real Life The Open Bible and Is It Lawful To Give Tribute to Caesar.
Wyoming Charles E Stanton pastor conducts services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. with sermons An Invaluable Substance and The Privileged Who Shall See God. Norwood J Sowers minister 9:15 a.m. Bible school 11 a.m. morning worship Glorying in the Cross 3:30 p.m. Baptist Brotherhood 7 p.m. B Y P Union evangelistic service The Bread of Life. Ninth Street John F Herget pastor 9 a.m. Bible school 10:30 a.m. preaching In God We Trust 6:30 p.m. young people 7:30 p.m. The Secret of a Great Life. Columbia W R Venting pastor 9:30 a.m. Sunday school 11 a.m. In and Out 7 p.m. young people 7:45 p.m. Insanity. Mt Auburn Rufus W Weaver pastor 9:30 a.m. Bible school 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. A T Richardson professor New Testament Epigesis Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville Ky will preach 3:30 p.m.
The San Carlo Opera Company reports large audience seats with several operatic presentations at the Lyric Theater still offering fine holdings. General distribution among performances means patrons can find good seats and satisfy their wishes for quality selections.
Advance manager Phillip Jacques in the city arranging for the star to come to the Lyric Theater for Henrik Ibsen's Rossmersholm.
P Auy Anderson and his company close their week at the Lyceum Theater with two performances of Charles Blaney's temperance drama The Curse of Drink. The play has pleased Lyceum audiences.
Rockdale avenue Avondale Services at 3 30 pm with subject Matter reading rooms 1019 1020 First National Bank Building Church of Christ Assembly Hall fourth floor Mercantile Library Building Service 10 45 am subject Matter
Storrs and Warsaw avenues led by E T MagMabhon with 10 45 a m service and 9 30 a m Sunday school. Lawrence Street under M O Evans with Welsh 10 39 a m service and English 7 45 p m sermon. Locust Street with Dwight Mallory Pratt 9 30 a m Sunday school 11 a m preaching 7 p m social Endeavor. North Fairmount led by J H Locke 9 30 a m Sabbath school 7 45 p m services.
Sunday services at multiple churches listed with times and speakers. Highlights include Ben Mulford Jr speaking at Presbyterian Bond Hill on Running Life's Bases, Welsh service on Working Out Salvation, and various congregational meetings and revival sessions across East and West neighborhoods.
Calvary Clifton Grace Avondale Advent Walnut Hills and other parishes show weekly worship times Holy Communion morning prayer sermons and Sunday schools. Rectors include Fiinch baugh Gor Don Eastman Tyler Rhodes Matthews and others with varied service hours throughout the week.
Lent schedules list daily and midweek services at Church of Our Savior and CHRIST Early, detailing times for holy communion Sunday school morning and evening prayers, sermons by Revs F H Richey and J Howard Melish, and lectures during Lent with midweek litany and addresses.
Lutherans list Sunday events with ministers Charles S. Bauslin and Jacob W. Kapp. Walnut Hills hosts 9:30 a.m. Lenten service and 11 a.m. Sunday school. evening sermons cover The Atonement and Modern Thought and Studies in the Life of Christ with color stereopticon. First Church offers 111 a.m. service and 7:45 p.m. Better Things.
A long list of church services across multiple congregations with times and sermon titles. Pastors include Hartman Braun Cole Schenk and Baker among others, offering morning and evening sermons daily at various streets and neighborhoods.
Listings show morning and evening services at United Brethren on Cumminsville and Weber streets led by Pastor C. B. Boda. Unitarian at Reading road and Linton street features Benjamin Fay Mills at 11 am. First Universalist at Essex Place presents Samuel Gilbert Ayres at 11 am and 7 pm with a 7 45 pm youth meeting. Church of the New Jerusalem on a corner invites Louis G. Hoeck at 11 am. New Thought Temple at McMillan and Gilbert avenue holds 11 am service. Christian Assembly at Fourth and John streets joins with the Christian and Missionary Alliance for 8 pm and 7 45 pm services led by Rev. A. H. O'Brien. Week services listed.
Mrs Jessie Harpwood Pul ts wife of J D Pults cashier of a College Corner National Bank died today in Hamilton Ohio. She was to appear in Common Pleas Court Monday as the plaintiff in a 15000 damages suit against the Cincinnati Chicago and Louisville Railroad. She lost an arm in an accident near College Corner two years ago and a companion was killed. her husband also has a 10000 damage suit against the railroad to be tried on Monday.
Sealed proposals for laying 1450 feet of 12 inch cast iron main plus assorted valves and castings in Cincinnati will be received until 12 noon April 21 1908 at the Commissioners of Water Works office. Plans bonds and bid forms are on file and bids must be sealed with a $300 surety.
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