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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1908
Page
21
A stage production adapts a nautical tale with thirty performers portraying varied roles. The play unfolds across four acts and twenty scenes, featuring two loads of props including twelve horses to convey a raging sea setting with realistic danger and excitement.
The Rollickers Burlesque and Vaudeville Company presents a comedy burlesque at the People's this afternoon about two Hebrew bankers on Wall Street with stock and bond mix ups. The show features Will H. Cohan Nat Jerome Hazel Sanger Violet Pearl and a 40 member chorus with musical numbers and dancing.
Forepaugh management follows The Three of Us with a grand production of The Sign of the Cross at the Olympice Theater. The dramatic success is praised as a milestone in the art and promises a record-breaking week for the venue.
Fine weather draws a large zoo crowd as the garden seeks patrons. A recent influx of new animals, led by three fine India Sambur deer from Carl Hagenbeck, boosts visitor appeal. Autumn offers pleasant viewing conditions and enhanced enjoyment.
Corinne Next at Walnut. Lola From Berlin, the musical by John J. McNally William Jerome and Jean Schwartz, will be presented next week at the Walnut with Corinne in the lead. The show debuted at Liberty Theater New City last season under Klaw and Erlanger and won strong approval. An exceptionally strong supporting cast includes Mark Sullivan Hazel Carlton Franklin Vail Henry Carl Lew 8 Lillie May White Osborn Clemson Lillian Wilson Franker Woods Pearl Revare Freddie Scott Bonnie Ingelborg and a large ensemble.
The Lyric presents Clyde Fitch’s Girls with the original New York cast. After strong runs in New York at Daly’s Theater it toured due to excess summer openings, and Cincinnati will see the company Sunday night before it returns to New York for the remainder of the season.
David Belasco announces a program to lecture on playwriting to help fledgling American dramatists. He will dissect scenes from his works and explain character construction and the trade’s tricks. The first talk at the Belasco Stuyvesant Theater is set for next spring.
Hudson Hackett Theaters owner Henry B Harris announces a plan to modernize play production by using prompt books moving pictures and phonographic records to reproduce original performances The system aims to reproduce actors voices and stage details for revivals and has begun with materials from The Chorus Lady rights sale to Hugh J ard the Australian actor manager
Comedian William Collier, a top Charles Frohman star, begins a new comedy engagement in The Patriot at the Grand following Miss Barrymore’s week. The show features Collier's popular humor as he headlines the bill.
Mr Harris buys a moving picture camera and projection gear to record plays in the Gaiety Theater. The process reproduces performances with phonographic dialogue for touring, aiming to replace touring stage managers and reduce costs, with future films for other productions.
The New Robinson playhouse, famed for high class varieties, continues its change of programme with an impersonation act. The audience can expect a polished performance featuring a skilled mimic and lively stage presence.
The rink opens with inaugural Monday evening events and will run afternoons and evenings except Sundays. The season offers special features and is expected to be the sport’s most successful in years in this city.
Miss Edna Aug now in vaudeville negotiates with James Forbes author of The Traveling Salesman for his first success The Chorus Lady to be staged in Vienna under Ben Tieber. Forbes complains letters miscarried amid West theater engagements. Aug replies with a playful verse directing the postman to deliver the letter upstairs.
The Auditorium Theater Company will present eight big vaudeville acts from American and European artists. Two performances daily begin with a matinee Monday October 6 at 2 15 pm and an evening show at 8 15 pm. The renovated theater offers meritorious acts approved by Eastern managers. Souvenir programmes will be given during opening week. Tickets cost 10 and 20 cents for the best seats. Celebrities include Jewett Hays and Lind Smith and Daum Fanny Donovan Dick Barnes Arminta.
Miss Ring is scheduled as a star with Jos Weber and his Travesty Company at the Lyric Theater during the week of October 18. The listing highlights the stage event and the featured performers for that period.
Lulu Glaser stars in Dolly Varden with Miss Marcelle De Vare and James Wilson praised for high ability and magnificent costumes. Alberts and Emma Mora perform new illustrated songs. Animated pictures and capable actors energize the bill. The Briton's Promise and The Bogus Lord headline the picture plays.
The New Music Hall Rink plans winter opening Monday with a revamped skating floor praised as among Cincinnati's best. Hundreds of new skates were added and improvements made to boost public enjoyment. Prof June's Military Band will perform.
Burke and Berrian and Mackin are listed among Ren nee troups and others in the readable fragment. The note preserves the names and affiliations as readable in the source.
The Columbia calendar includes Mr and Mrs Merk Murphy in The Coal Strike and the Gibson Girls. Helen Hale stars opposite William Collier in The Patriot, after notable roles in The Yankee Tourist Woodland Peggy From Paris and Paris voice training. Harry Holliday, famed Uncle Howie in The Virginian, brings over thirty five years on stage.
A lecture on Paris By Wete at the old Coliseum leads to a Lyceum appearance by Chuck Connors in From Broadway to the Bowery. The play follows a pretty girl driven from wealth to the slums, with Connors leading an acclaimed cast in a dramatic portrayal.
Gertrude Hoffman, under Shubert management, debuts with The Mimic World at Grand Opera House New York on September 28. She will star in Salome dance imitations and Spring Song Dance, touring with the company for a reported 2000 dollars weekly salary, one of theater history’s highest.
Otis Skinner delivers a celebrated Broadway turn in The Honor of the Family adapted by Paul M. Potter. Critics praise his daring swashbuckler impersonation and note the play as a high point since Trilby. A. G. Andrews delivers notable character work in Skinner’s cast.
Mary Mannering will tour with Glorious Betsy after her Lyric engagement and return in spring with a new offering debuting in several major cities outside New York. Ruth Bryan Leavitt proposes a four act drama depicting modern American life with political intrigue. Amelia Bingham joins Shubert roster with Feroza a four act society drama set in Australia and England about a woman who takes the blame to save her fiancé.
David Belasco plans spring lectures at the Stuyvesant Theater in New York. Seymour Hicks debuts The Dashing Little Duke with Ellaline Terriss as the Duke. The first Yiddish Devil appears at the Thalia and People's Theater in New York. J E Dodson to star in Birth by Hartley Manners. Robert Edeson studied Juvenile Court cases at 66 Third Avenue to prepare for The Offenders at Hudson Theater. Edgar Selwyn stars in Pierre of the Plains and hails from Toronto. Rose Stahl is daughter of Colonel Stahl of Trenton and longtime Chicago Inter Ocean critic.
Dorothy Donnelly spent years studying law to sharpen her analytical approach to roles and plays in The Lion and the Mouse. The actress pursued legal training to inform character interpretation and stage technique.
Gertrude Coghlan of The Traveling Salesman Company is described as the most expert fencer on the American stage. She learned the craft from her father, the late Charles Coghlan.
Henry B Harris has exclusively produced plays by American authors, with no productions of works by non American writers recorded. This emphasizes a focused repertoire centered on American dramatic authors.
In the October Strand Sir John Hare lauds Boston as having the finest English speaking theatrical audience. He calls them critical yet enthusiastic and describes them as cultured and appreciative witnesses.
Julian Edwards presented The Patriot a one act opera at Keith's Philadelphia on September 21 The North American headliner called it a grand opera tabloid Antoinette Le Brun played the Tory's daughter.
New Orleans hosts Louis James in Peer Gynt while the city enjoys performances The Devil and Salome.
Valeska Surratt will support Anna Held in Miss Innocence Abroad and Messrs C A Bigelow and Lawrence D Orsay are noted as winners. Maude Adams will start her season in mid October with a repertoire including Twelfth Night.
Walter Damrosch and his New York Orchestra will open Cincinnati music season Monday evening October 26 with a symphonic concert at Music Halls. Damrosch, a leading interpreter of Wagner and of Russian music, brings an acclaimed program including Nembach’s Invocation and notable soloists. The piece notes the social subsidy aiding the endeavor and the absence of a regular orchestra series in Cincinnati this winter.
The Orpheus Club marks Mendelssohn birth centennial with a February concert featuring his works including cantatas To the Sons of Art The Hymn of Praise and the baritone aria I am a Roamer From the Son and Stranger Mr Glover continues examinations on Tuesday afternoons and evenings for the next two weeks at 222 West Fourth Street and the Ohio Mechanics Institute Sixth and Vine streets.
The Musical Art Society reports excellent attendance at the first rehearsal last Monday. The planned first concert features Brahms Hungarian Dances, a city premiere, and Louis Victor Saar’s Ritornello for six-voiced choir and small orchestra. Mr Glover aims to bring Arnold Dolmetsch as soloist for the third concert with his followers’ instruments.
A meeting is scheduled for next Sunday at 3 o clock in the Walnut Hills Business Club on Gilbert avenue to promote the welfare of the citys musical interests. Invitations have been sent by musicians Theodore Bohlmann Henry Froelich Edwin Glover Adolf Hahn Victor Saar W S Sterling and Philip Werthner.
The Metropolitan College Chorus starts regular rehearsals on Wednesday October 14 at 8 p m under the direction of W S Sterling Outsiders may join by contacting Mr Sterling.
Douglass Powell baritone from the College of Music faculty will perform a recital on October 15. The programme features rare numbers and covers four vocal schools with selections from Wagner Massenet and Gounod operas Haendel and Mendelssohn oratorios and German Lieder pieces.
The College for Music chorus and orchestra begin rehearsals with high standards as directors Saar and Ern anticipate a crescendo in performance. Over one hundred chorus members have been admitted after examination, while the orchestra starts with twenty eight violins six cellos and full violas. Winds gain four more flutes and other additions to horns traps and more. Open training to talent students beyond college enrollment has increased applicants, giving the conductor a strong nucleus. Rehearsals next take place Wednesday and Thursday at 3 pm.
The College of Music string quartet presents a revised roster with Henri Ern as first violin, William Burker as second violin, Emil Knoepke on cello, and Frank La Prade from Memphis as viola. La Prade studied under Jacob Bloom and joins after training in Cincinnati. Rehearsals begin for the chamber music series and Sig. Romeo Gorno will be the pianist for the first concert.
The examination for admission to the academic department of the College of Music will be held at the college on Friday and Saturday October 9 and 10 at 3 p.m.
R W Hans Seitz leads a Cincinnati society to form a chorus modeled on German singing societies known for tone color and phrasing. The group will train weekly to achieve perfect breath control and enunciation, conducting one evening a week as a singschule.
A Thursday night farewell benefactor concert at the Scottish Rite Cathedral honored Mr. Joseph Schenke who will soon depart for Germany. Schenke, a tenor with a wide range, impressed audiences with pieces from Die Meistersinger and Stabat Mater. Soloist Louis Ehrgott and mezzo soprano Mrs. Charlotte Nees received strong acclaim, with organist Mr. Yoakley and pianist Adolph Hahn also cited for their contributions.
A fragment lists plays Quality Street I Afgion and Bar rie's new work. The brief item suggests theater listings or a review note with limited readable details.
George Edwardes stresses his plan to bring David Warfield to London calling him the biggest attraction and the best actor he has ever seen.
Henry James' comedy The High Bid will be produced by Mr. Forbes-Robertson early next month at matinees in the St. James Theatre London.
Mrs Edythe Birkley soprano and Miss Jessie Wilkerson pianist of the Ohio Conservatory of Music gave a concert at Amelia Ohio to benefit the graduating class featuring popular melodies and two step numbers from leading composers including To man Mas and Rainbow.
Miss Maude Martin has been made a member of the faculty of the Ohio Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art in the department of elocution. Miss Martin has large classes in this Avogk.
At the general meeting on October 5 the Women’s Club plans full summer reports, delegates’ notes from the Boston biennial, and invitations to the Cincinnati 1910 federation. The thirteenth Ohio Federation convention is set for October 13 to 15 in Tiffin with an official train from Cincinnati October 12. Further talks cover social education and public school socialization, with remarks by Dr. Henry Suzzalo and Mrs. Philip Moore.
The first Tourists meeting will be at President Mrs J Warren Ritcheys home on Tuesday October 6 with talks on Japan by Miss Elsie Hobart and current events by Mrs Mefidenhall. The Susan B Anthony club opens at Gibson House on October 6 at 2 30 pm with reports from Station and a program. Walnut Hills Literary Club held its first meeting of the year at Mrs William C Jewett Avondale. Mrs Farbach opened with a speech and Mrs Henry Shaw welcomed the years work. Holland was the season theme as Mesdames Blowney and Brown discussed it, Miss McAvoy shared Truder’s Siege, and Mrs Waltz offered domestic science notes through The Poor Housekeeper.
Mrs Greaves of Fern Bank hosts Alpha Circle for a full day event on September 26 with Milton’s Paradise Lost read in the morning and Shakespeare Henry VIII studied in the afternoon. Officers elected include President E C O Connell Secretary Clara Looker Treasurer Aycroft with Allen and Talbott on the Press Committee. Next meeting set for Public Library on October 17.
The Walnut Hills W. C. T. U. will meet at the Christian Church on Locust Street near Park Avenue Wednesday at 2 30 p.m. A Loyal Temperance Legion will be opened in the Congregational Church this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The fall and winter term in millinery dressmaking art needlework china painting basketry domestic science stenography typewriting bookkeeping languages music elocution and gymnastics at the Young Women's Christian Association begins Monday October 6.
The Cincinnati Woman's Press Club held its first fall meeting in the Odd Fellows Temple with Miss Alma Fick presiding in the president’s absence. Mrs. Mary G. Watts read an original story and notable magazine fiction by Watts was noted. Poems by Brotherton Fitch and Folger were read along with reports from Laura Hutcheson Turpin and Sue Spilman Save. A social hour followed the programme.
The Young Woman's Club announces winter classes in millinery dressmaking embroidery bookkeeping china painting and music offering skill development for members.
The club lists a junior program for girls aged 8 to 16 to run on Saturdays. Meetings occur in Room 311 at Odd Fellows' Temple. The club’s first general meeting of the year is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, with civics department chair Mrs. George B. Kerper slated to speak next Thursday afternoon.
The Price Hit History Club held its first meeting of the season at the home of Mrs. Meeds, who is the new president. Members exchanged vacation experiences, enjoyed piano solos by Miss Ruth Keller, and heard Miss Haskell share reminiscences of a Honolulu trip. The next gathering is set for October 7 with Mrs. Droste on Rapid Run Road.
The group will hold a meeting at the Woman's Library Building Mercantile Library on Saturday evening October 10 at 3 o clock with Miss Maud Summers as speaker. The first meeting of the year for Julian Ward Money Club will be held Wednesday October 7 at Mrs. W. C. Ziegler home 3514 Burch avenue Hyde Park with Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Slebern assisting.
The regular monthly meeting will be held Wednesday October 7 at 2 30 p.m. in the Woman's Club. Delegates will be appointed to attend the State conference in Fremont Ohio October 15 and 16.
The Norwood Literary Club holds its initial meeting for 1908 09 on October 22. Prof Harry will present an illustrated talk on Greek Art at 8 15 followed by a reception. The club enters its sixteenth year with fifty members and an attractive calendar prepared by the Programme Committee chaired by Mrs William Fridman. Officers for 1908 09 include Mrs C P Cobb President Mrs Davia Davis First Vice President Mrs William Corre Second Vice President Mrs Alfred H Singer Secretary Mrs Jean Meader Press Secretary Miss Greaves Treasurer and committee members Mrs William Fridman Mrs J Ari Lloyd Mrs Howard Justis Mrs Charles Maguire and Miss Cora Mackenzie.
The Hartwell Literary Club will hold its first meeting of the 1908 09 year next Tuesday afternoon October 6 at Mrs. Robert Hyndman's residence. Program includes music a duet by Mrs. Gorman and Mrs. Kern officers reports and an address by President Mrs. Hyndman.
The students at the Academy of Dramatic Arts plan monthly entertainments in the academy hall under principals Adda B. Young and Grace Littleford. The dramatic curriculum has been enlarged with a new directing class focused on stage direction and management led by Adda B. Young.
Newport residents host and visit friends across states and cities. Mrs Higgins entertains guests including Mr Farnsworth and Mrs Bowman while others travel to Springfield Columbus and New York for weeks. Local clubs plan meetings and lectures as members return from Ohio California Kentucky and Missouri travels.
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