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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1908
Page
21
A dramatic tale centers on a painter and his young wife Olga, with a sinister figure—an almost supernatural devil—manipulating lovers, testing fidelity, and steering their destinies. Olga betrays her husband Karl as the devil urges passion and alchemy of love, culminating in a hidden fate. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
The Forepaugh Stock Company announces Brown of Harvard at the Olympic this week in an elaborate production at popular prices. The show promises realistic college life, stirring boat race scenes, and a large chorus with the Bohemia quartet. Emerine Campbell and her company present Two Hundred Miles From Broadway as a companion act with Dottie Dimples.
Forepaugh management revives the tale of Parisian art life in Trilby at the Olympic after Brown of Harvard. The production features Svengali as the central character and is expected to draw strong local interest.
Cohan and Harris present Forty Five Minutes From Broadway in three acts set in New Rochelle. Scott Welch and Frances Gordon star with a large company, songs like Mary Is a Grand Old Name and I Want To Be a Popular Millionaire featured as the cast delivers wit and style in this touring adaption now in its fourth year.
Claude Gillingwater and company present A Strenuous Rehear 581 with a leading man portraying an ambitious actress as her instructor provokes laughter until a husband interrupts during a sentimental moment. Miss Lee Kane and Miss Carlyn Strelitz assist, Ray L. Royce offers eccentric characterizations in a rural court and burlesque on a country schoolteacher, plus a backwoods orator. Clayton Kennedy and Mattie Rooney perform The Happy Medium with soft shoe dancing and dancing. Bilbon’s novelty circus features cats. Amoros Sisters highlight Parisian gymnastic novelty and Arabian tumbling with striking costumes.
Eddie Foy, the popular local comedian, headlines the Lyric next Sunday night in his new musical play Mr Hamlet of Broadway. The show brings a fresh blend of humor and musical numbers to the city theater audience.
Sol Solomon the Hebrew detective, portrayed by Harry Fields, headlines the four act melodrama The Opium Smugglers of Frisco at Heucks this afternoon. The story follows San Francisco harbor opium smugglers and a kidnapped heroine with a love plot amid New York scenes and vivid stage effects.
Lincoln J. Carter brings In at the Finish to the Lyceum for a week long run this afternoon with a matinée opening. The play features a spectacular race between a locomotive and a fast freight train performed before the audience, using a clever device to simulate speed and danger. Hero and heroine are rescued from a villain aboard the moving train in a sequence of thrilling incidents, blended with Carter's characteristic brisk humor.
Vaudeville fans will find two act musical travesty The Navigators at the People's Theater featuring Miss New York Jr The production spans ten scenes with lavish world tour set pieces and elaborate costumes Led by Ned Wayburn the cast includes Lee White Dave Ferguson Abel Reynolds Esterbrooks Lilla Brennan and the Still City Quartet with strong ensemble numbers and stage effects.
The Standard Theater opens this week with Sam A Scribner's revived big show, expected to draw crowds daily. The production is praised as up-to-date entertainment with clever performers, attractive scenery, appealing music, and stylish costumes, building on Scribner's strong season performance.
Roberson’s Travelogues begin this afternoon at the Lyric Theater with a talk and pictures on North Holland. The presenting troupe, a three member expert corps, toured last summer and gathered material for this season’s program. An added feature will be moving travel pictures illustrating scenes and incidents of interest. The management promises the season’s show is even more engaging than last year, aiming for greater success.
A brisk stage piece promises clean high drama with sensational scenes and broadstage spectacle. Audiences will see aristic scenery, tears and laughter amid a brisk mood, offering a lively mix of thrills and humor.
Eddie Foy appears at the Lyric Sunday night in Mr. Hamlet of Broadway a burlesque where he plays a stranded factor who with his performing bear stumbles into an Adirondack hotel during Hamlet preparations. Maude Raymond stars Ophelia with George Schiller Anna Laughlin Knute Erickson Madison Cook Mabelle Baker and John H Pratt in key roles.
The Grand Opera House will host Way Down East next week with Phoebe Davies leading the original company. The production features a large touring cast, substantial scenery and livestock, and a note on improved local turnout and election day collaborations for patrons.
A surge of children has been skating at the mati nees New Music Hall Rink over the past week. Parents watch with equal pleasure as youths glide on the smooth surface to Prof. Jung's military band music. A new program of popular tunes is planned for the coming week.
Annie Russell of Wagen hals and Kemper Company shines in John Valentine s comedy The Stronger Sex. The London Apollo Theater run exceeded 200 nights and critics in the East praised her performance as Mary Barrington a Texas girl who wins love through wit and American spirit.
The long standing association between J. M. Barrie and Charles Frohman began about a dozen years ago with the unprecedented success of the stage version of Barrie’s The Little Minister, marking a pivotal collaboration beyond mere business.
A long observant note on J M Barrie sending one playful but decisive kick to manager Charles Frohman regarding holiday engagements at the Duke of Yorks Theatre in London. Barrie insisted Peters Pan should play during holidays even if it interrupted Barries own What Every Woman Knows run. Frohman approved after Barrie’s light but firm gesture.
William Gillette returns to the stage after two years to star as Maurice Brachard in Samson, Henri Bernstein’s four act drama. An all star company includes Constance Collier Arthur Byron Frederic de Belleville Marie Wainwright and Pauline Frederick. Collier solidifies the show with a decisive second act performance as the leading lady.
David Belasco brings back the greenroom at his Stuyvesant Theater on West Forty-fourth Street New York with unprecedented luxury. The room features Louis XV period furniture red upholstery gilt wood and full length mirrors plus tapestries portieres and antique touches creating a palace car feel rather than a plain behind the scenes space. It contrasts with older cramped backstage areas and promises comfort for actors during waits between entrances.
In a richly described theater green room, a J. Gautier statue of Don Quixote dominates a pedestal while a glass case holds the sandals worn by Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett in their Brutus and Cassius tour. Miss Blanche Bates enjoys the space after tense scenes in The Fighting Hope at Belasco Stuyvesant as Mr. Belasco and peers mingle nearby.
Casada and Deverne head a vaudeville bill at the Auditorium Family Theater this afternoon with seven other acts and new moving pictures. Ladies souvenirs are planned Tuesday afternoons and Tue Thu evenings. amateurs perform Friday. Saturday afternoon shows include children’s souvenirs. The management aims to attract women and children with top entertainment and generous expenses.
Cyril Scott, initially set for the title role in The Man of the Hour, now headlines as the reform mayor in the Brady-Grismer managed show Prince Chap. He leads the cast in a new comedy by George Broadhurst to be staged soon at the Grand, with Scott drawing strong praise.
Lew Dockstader the minstrel comedian visits the Lyric the week of November 8 and, famed for subscribing to daily papers before engagements, uses headlines editorials and local items to craft topical songs. His method includes advance reps and note taking to enliven performances with current events.
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1908 comes to Grand Opera House the week after election week. The revue blends funny characters, pretty girls, singing and dancing with stage effects rivaling Follies of 1907. Notable numbers include The Candidates burlesque and Mile Dazie's Directoire dance, with stars Carmen Fairbanks Nora Bayce Annabel Whitford and Coquette Bryan among the cast.
David Higgins, famed Cincinnati star, brings Captain Clay of Missouri to Walnut Street Theatre next Sunday afternoon after noon. Written by David and Milton Higgins, the play follows life in a fictional Cornville, Missouri with love, horse racing, mint juleps, politics, and baseball. It previously played at McVicker's Theater in Chicago to good reception and will return for a lengthy post holiday run.
A returning Shelter Island visitor recalls Wilton Lackaye at the Lyric tonight after leaving a principal hotel for a cottage with his family. Another guest asked why he left the hotel and Lackaye quips about rotten table service and a Canadian accented chef, sparking amused dialogue.
David Belasco works in a loft on Manhattan's upper west side near his home. Few know its exact location, guarded by the dramatist and family. He works through long hours, pacing his alley to solve stage problems with relentless invention. His shop spans about a hundred feet on a single floor.
A fragmented sentence suggests a figure who has often walked a hundred es of his left with an idea to apply to stage use, ending baffled and forced to reconstruct his plans.
W L Hubbard in The Chicago Tribune lauds Aida Hémmi for soprano excellence in Marguerite and Leono -r a and confirms her voice purity clarity and freshness. Her high register control and florid style prove her fit for the top grand opera post with strong musical taste and dramatic expression.
Gil Robinson declares the new Hippodrome production the greatest stage entertainment devised. He asserts a thorough view of past offerings and affirms the current show surpasses all prior efforts.
Frank Keenan and Charlotte Walker complete a record-breaking week in The Warrens of Virginia at the West End Theater New York. The star turns drew strong crowds and strong notices, keeping the production in demand through multiple performances.
Blanche Bates stars in The Fighting Hope at the Belasco Stuyvesant Theater on West Forty fourth Street New York with two months of advance sale and Thursday matinees. J Pierpont Morgan has attended the production three times since its opening four weeks ago. Critics praise the portrayal of a loyal brave and loving American heroine appealing especially to women.
George Arliss in The Devil at Belasco Theater draws full houses each evening and Wednesday Saturday matinees. If weather stays mild he is expected to play through next summer in Molnar piece, as Satanic Majesty proves popular.
Blanche Bates stars as Anna Dale in The Fighting Hope now playing to full houses at the Belasco Stuyvesant Theatre in New York. The heroine writes letters for her employer Mr Temple of Gotham Trust Company and Belasco has printed thousand letter heads bearing the company title and officer names as cast.
Charlotte Walker of The Warrens of Virginia is noted for vivacious charm as Agatha. Her hobby is designing and arranging original women’s headgear. She creates hats for herself and friends, demonstrating a distinctive Charlotte Walker hat trademark.
A special train carried the Maude Adams company to Atlantic City for the Barrie play What Every Woman Knows. Miss Adams appeared Friday evening as Maggie Wylie with Charles Frohman directing rehearsals and overseeing the premiere. The production is described as the most elaborate yet for Miss Adams, with scenery occupying three baggage cars.
Richard Bennett and R Peyton Carter star in a four act play set across twelve years now at the Duke of York Theater London with Gerald Du Maurier and Hilda Trevelyan leading. Beatrice Agnew and W H more are mentioned as part of the company. Miss Adams postpones New York opening to January succeeding John Drew at the Empire Theater.
The fragment from Armand Caillavet, co author of Love Watches, shows an early English attempt with lines like I am charm that you are so successful and L Amour Veille. Billie Burke has received passage lines.
A vaudeville act titled At the Sound of the Gong is booked for the Columbia stage next week with a climax featuring a prize ring scene said to surpass the excitement of The Star Bout’s fifth feature.
A moving picture of the Chicago Detroit world championship game from two weeks earlier in Chicago will be shown at the Columbia this week. The film captures enormous crowds and several brilliant plays from the decisive contest.
Claude Gillingwater, opening with his company at the Columbia today, advocates short plays and a rotating bill of three one-act shows weekly. He argues such a theater could prosper, spur demand for quick returns, and rival the old stock system in popularity. The author and dramatist’s recent works include A Strenuous Proposal and The Wrong Man, the latter retitled A Strenuous Rehearsal for this week.
Israel Zangwill's new play The Melting Pot is a Chicago hit. Walker Whiteside stars as David Quixano delivering a successful performance of notable breadth.
Grace Filkins, regarded as one of the richest actresses on the American stage, is described in private life as Mrs. Adolph Marix, wife of the United States Navy Admiral. She embodies society elegance, hosting lavish hospitality across three homes in Washington, Chevy Chase, and near Gray Gables on Buzzard’s Bay.
One of the season’s musical events is the Grand Opera House presentation of Oscar Strauss Viennese operetta A Waltz Dream. Adapted for English by Joseph W. Herbert from Hans Mueller’s Book of Adventures, with lyrics by Herbert, the work captures Viennese gayety with waltz heavy music and lively numbers.
A group of musicians gathers at Walnut Hills Business Club today at 4 p.m to finalize a musicians club formation. The first meeting on Sunday October 11 appointed a five member committee including L V Saar as chairman to draft by laws and rules for future governance. Many named members and participants from Cincinnati and surrounding clubs are listed with rehearsals and program details for a forthcoming Monday Musical Club event at Cable Hall with readings, vocal and piano pieces by local artists.
Dr Wade Thrasher will present a series of lectures at the Metropolitan College of Music on the Anatomy Hygiene and Physiology of the Vocal Organs. The first lecture is set for the early part of November.
Alpha Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority at Metropolitan College of Music plans an open meeting. Details specify venue and time to be announced, inviting members and interested guests to attend.
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