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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1908
Page
19
A wealthy lady runs a model dairy farm with her nieces the dairy maids. Navy officers disguise as girls to pursue their sweethearts, leading to comic clashes with the rightful aunt and a near run of elopements. The seminary gym scenes and farm setting provide light stage energy.
A city bathhouse cleanup uncovers items dropped into the lake last summer while divers search the bottom for valuables. Among the haul are a Teddy bear, rings, a coral necklace, a revolver, a silver watch, a fountain pen, keys, purses with money, and other belongings. Owners urged to contact Colonel Martin at Chester Park to reclaim items.
The famed English comedienne Vesta Victoria begins a seven day engagement at the Columbia this afternoon in Cincinnati her first in the city. She arrives after a successful New York run and features songs that boosted her fame with a long vaudeville act of forty to fifty minutes. The program includes audience participation numbers and a leaves dress scene in Queen of the Jujah Islands along with other acts such as De Witt Burns and Torrance The Three Mears Warren and Blanchard Ledagar Stuart and Keeley and a colorotographic Pied Piper of Hamelin.
The Forepaugh Stock Company presents Bronson Howard’s Aristocracy at the Olympic in a revival starting this afternoon. A balanced troupe will deliver an elaborate production with grand stage settings and new gowns, highlighting international marriage themes and the play’s enduring significance.
The New Rink at Music Hall in Cincinnati will close this Saturday marking the end of the winter season. Management reports a very successful term with high attendance, helped by many new skaters. Gala concerts by the big band will cap the final week with surprises planned for next season.
The Girl Question continues at LaSalle Theater Chicago with audiences limited only by capacity. To meet demand, Askin-Singer Company forms a touring unit to bring the musical play to Cincinnati at the Grand in a few weeks.
The lake at Chester Park is being emptied and its concrete bed polished this season. Colonel Martin aims to achieve a crystal-clear lake, insisting nothing will hinder the process.
George Primrose and his big black face minstrel company begin a seven day engagement at the Walnut Street Theater with a matinee. The program promises an entirely new year production featuring elaborate scenery and refined musical numbers with top soloists and a chorus of twenty. The bill includes old favorites and new acts plus the famous Watermelon Coons dance number and a negro sketch.
The Two Hot Knights and A Gay Modiste lead a week long Transatlantic Burlesquers engagement at the Standard starting matinee today. Acts span New York and Paris locales with thirty beautiful women, vaudeville features, and a lineup including Kalinowski Brothers European acrobats Norma Bell and her ponies Fitzgerald and Quinn James Whitely Frank Killion and William Sharkey Sisters DeGraff and others deliver comedy song and dance for a wholesome show.
Forepaugh presents a Dickens inspired drama at the Olympic season revival of Oliver Twist. The production promises a classic performance based on Dickens immortal tale and widely admired by audiences.
Frank R. Roberson appears at the Lyric for the third Lenten Sunday with two travelogues, Russia Aflame in the afternoon and Panama and the Big Ditch at night. He recounts his Panama Canal tours, with 300 vivid views filmed recently in an Official Government capacity for Mr. Roosevelt.
Arthur Alston's play At the Old Cross Roads will be staged in a seventh seasonal run in our city this week. Set around Natchez Mississippi with Southern chivalry and hospitality, the production promises vivid realism and comedy with original characters. Scenic touches and handpicked players accompany the story’s emotional sweep, a longtime Lyceum favorite suited to patrons seeking popular priced entertainment.
Mrs Fiske's annual Lyric engagement begins Monday presenting Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen. In New York the drama drew strong reviews praising her portrayal as Rebecca West as one of modern drama's memorable figures. The play unfolds with intense last acts and a powerful denouement amid praised naturalistic performance.
The review praises Manhattan Company as a premier dramatic organization with star performances by Bruce McRae George Arliss Fuller Mellish Albert Bruning and Florence Montgomery noting finish and superiority rarely equaled.
P. H. Sullivan stages a dramatic spectacle featuring a wild Western steer and an untamed bronco in The Cowboy and the Squaw. The hero Bronco Bob is roped to the steer and endangered until Silver Heels rescues him. The matinee today marks the initial presentation at the Heuck Opera House with the promised spectacular effects.
This week the People’s Theater presents Pat White’s Gaiety Girls performing two farces Casey at the Bat and The Down and Out Drug Store. Casey features Michael Casey answering the call for his appearance at the bar with the Mudville nine while De Wolf Hopper roots in a travesty timed with the baseball season. The vaudeville portion of the program follows.
The Malvern Troupe features Watson and Bert along with Jennings and Webb Zelma Sommers and Pat White in a show highlighted by a chorus of many show girls. A grand scenic and electric investiture promises a pretentious presentation.
The Primrose Minstrels touring show In New York Town is praised for its vivid city life scenes. Charles Howard drives the humor with a cast of fifty including chorus and supernumeraries. Victoria remains the top salary star with travel plans after her Columbia engagement.
The eighteenth Cincinnati May Music Festival lineup runs May 5 to 9 under Frank Van Der Stucken and Frederick A. Stack. Featured acts include Madame Gadski, Mrs Rider Kelsey, Miss Janet Spencer, and Mrs Schumann Heink performing works by Haydn Bach Brahms Mozart Strauss Wagner Elgar Grieg. Recitals by Mrs Flora McIvor Smith and John Yoakley accompany the festival, with a long program of choral works, overtures, arias, and orchestral pieces across six concerts.
Henry Russell director of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company will deliver a lecture before Conservatory students friends and others in the recital hall on Monday March 23 at 11 15 o'clock.
The Monday Musical Club will present an American themed programme tomorrow afternoon in Cable Hall featuring Clara Groneweg in piano selections Maud Rains in voice a piano duet Slumber Song and Valse Caprice with Helen Larkin and Mrs J B Hall plus further piano and vocal items by Clara Alice Ehlerding Lillian Rieckelman Madaline Vettle Alice Roth and Mrs A E Eyer among others including Violin pieces To a Wild Rose and Valse Caprice performed by Miss Madaline Vettle and Miss Edna Witham Smith coordinated by Mrs Rareche Gooshatt and Mrs Cowin D Harper and featuring Voices of the Woods adapted to Rubinstein night awe.
The Student's String Orchestra of the Wiegand Violin School conducted by Emil Wiegand will perform Tuesday evening March 31 at Greenwood Hall. Soloists come from Wiegand's class and the concert features an unusually interesting program. Invitations may be obtained by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Emil Wiegand 415 Broadway.
The second concert organized by Miss Dorothy Cohn is set for Wednesday, March 25 at 11. Messrs O Meare and Louis Victor Saar perform the Witch's Song after Saar plays several piano pieces.
A March 18 recital in the Linton Street Kindergarten rooms featured Mrs. Bennett Miss Callahan Messrs Barnett and Chilton with a quartet of voices performing a refined cycle Miss Zelleys piano work showed marked sympathy and understanding
The College of Music Chorus and Orchestra announce their final Music Hall concert on April 7. Attendance has grown since they moved to the larger hall to accommodate patrons, reflecting a strong local interest in these performances.
An audience of over 3,000 heard a college concert with Schumann Liszt and Mahler pieces among others. The program included Bach, Spontini, Boito, Vieuxtemps, Floridia and an orchestral Schubert/ Mozart section. Notable events cited include Judge Louis Saar and international song judging, plus multiple forthcoming recitals and operatic scenes at the Odeon.
A large audience attended a conservatory recital last Wednesday evening performed by Mr Alberterne's class. Soloists included Curtis McClellan Crane and Misses Borgie M Millig an Frieda L Heine Alice S Arnold Marie Overman Frances Belford Anna Bayer Katherine Schaefer Jeannette Kilsheimer Margaret Bronson Marie Isincaid and Frances Dismuke.
The conservatory invites the public to a pianoforte recital by Mr Douglass Boxall’s pupils on Monday evening March 30 and to the Conservatory String Orchestra concert directed by Sig Tirindelli on April 2.
The Saturday afternoon pupils recital will feature Gertrude Isidor David S Joseph Rosalie Seinsheimer Jean Kaufman Tressa Sugarman Lucile Skinner Mary Corre Ruth Rebhun and Ruth Kroger performing in the conservatory program.
Mr Hans Richard presents five pupils in a pianoforte recital at the conservatory on Tuesday March 17. Performances include Abegg Variations Op 1 and Waldstein Sonata with Miss Mabel Hatch Miss Lowela Hanlin and Mrs Alma Newton Anderson among others. The Boys Concert Company of Northside plans a Walnut Hills Presbyterian Church program April 3 featuring choruses from major operas and a cast of boy singers plus soloists and pianists.
The program includes a notable afternoon recital by Josef Hofman and Fritz Kreisler at the Grand Opera House on Thursday afternoon April 9. They perform solo and ensemble pieces and are billed as successors to Joachim in a premier local musical event.
Checker Editor invites contributions arranged in five equal columns for the board. Black pieces occupy squares 1 to 12 and white 21 to 82 with Black to move first. Names include Walter Gales W Lemke J T Slater H L Brown 8S Abrahams W Hartzell A L Sadler J W Coulthard by W F Lemke Cincinnati.
Multiple student performances for charity and school funds are listed. Alma Marks leads a two act operetta April 2 with a cast of named pupils. Other events include sketches for Northside W C T U March 26, and academy readings in April for Mystico Club and Covington High School Alumnae. A UC athletic fund sketch April 3 stars Anne McConnell and Joseph R Jones. Recitations and plays at the Metropolitan College of Elocution were praised for success with performers named.
The Art Museum hosts a collection by Claude Monet Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley through April 12. Monet displays four canvases Pissarro three and Sisley four with Degar Renoir Puvis des Chayennes Manet Boudin and Jongkind also represented. A separate Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts exhibition features about forty canvases including portraits and marine scenes.
Preparations for the annual spring exhibition are under way at the Art Museum. A painting by Mr. De Camp, popular in Boston, will be shown. Exhibitors include Chase, Has sam, Wenzell, who will present a striking set of large colored illustrations.
The third of six Saturday morning lectures by the Civic Department of the Cincinnati Woman's Club drew a crowded audience. Douglas Boxall and Signor Tirindelli performed a Chopin solo and violin program including works by Tartini and Veracini, with Bertha Baur funding the home and school garden drive and proceeds aiding the civic fund.
Chess and checkers items from a 1908 issue. Notes include Game No 583 Will o the Wisp with Black to draw after move 4 8, plus END GAMES, PROBLEM entries and correspondence matches involving Runyan Coulthard and others. Doctors and clubs mentioned. expressed sorrow for Dr S D Logan.
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