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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1908
Page
18
The note lists mats sections for Sunday Wednesday and Saturday with COM. TODAY MATS. The reader is directed to check the newspaper’s mats pages for those days.
The script describes a highly dramatic stage piece featuring cowboys, Indians, Mexicans, bandits and breezy characters. It blends wholesome comedy with character drawings and a mountain prairie atmosphere. Scenic highlights include an express train and a moving freight train to heighten interest.
Fred Irwin's Majestics, a 65 member troupe from Columbian Amusement, plays the Standard Theater with strong vocal numbers and a Salome dance. Gus Fay and Will King lead the comedy, six scenic sets enhance the production, and elaborate lighting includes an electrical storm and dawn scene.
Blanche Bates has earned the title starmaker for helping Belasco elevate George Arliss in The Darling of the Gods and Frank Keenan in The Girl of the Golden West. Arliss now headlines The Devil at Belasco Theatre while Keenan stars in The Warrens of Virginia, Belasco’s Southern war play from last season.
The Lost Trail is praised as a well written Western melodrama with strong staging and a capable company led by Franklin Woodruff. Set at a Colorado military post, the drama follows a man on the wrong trail and his reclaiming, with five settings and varied comedy. Ernest E. Ottke from Cincinnati also appears.
The Big Review presents Frivolities of 1918 a two act musical comedy burlesque at the People's this week. A large company of sixty performers supplies music song and humor with acts set in Yonkers and a country grocery store. The production promises elaborate scenery and is billed as the most pretentious show yet at the venue.
An added attraction will be La Belle Duseth, a clever French danseuse, who will give a realistic imitation of Maude Allen in her Salome dance.
William Faversham headlines at the Lyric Theater starting Monday September 28 with Charles Frederic Nirdlinger’s adaptation The World and His Wife of Jose Echegaray’s The Great Galeoto. The cast includes Julie Opp Nellie Thorn Olive Oliver and others in a drama about calumny and social ruin.
Ton Selton, Charles Harbury, Sheldon Lewis, Benton Churchill, Henry Redding, Emmet Shakleford, Albert Cowles, Albert Lyons and Frank Bixby are cited in a community notice listing residents or participants. The text provides only the names without context or actions.
The Columbia bill features Gus Edwards' School Boys and Girls in a juvenile sketch, Sammy Watson's Barnyard Circus, the Juggling Normans, Ward Klare's Twin Flats, the Rooney Madcaps, and the Sisters Brasely. Also included are the Bootblack Quartet, the Frederick Musical Trio, and the Village Gossips on screen. Margaret Anglin's drama The Great Divide is noted for touring Australia with Forepaugh's stock company presenting exact stage settings.
Forepaugh Stock Company presents Margaret Anglin in Zira directed by Henry Miller and Hartley Manners at the Olympic with a tale of a woman’s regeneration and wartime heroism. Klaw and Erlanger revive Sir Gilbert Parker’s The Right of Way starring Guy Standing and Theodore Roberts at the Grand Opera House on September 28. Jose Echegaray, Spanish dramatist of El Gran Galeoto, is highlighted with a biographical sketch of his life and works.
A solo vocal instruction and dramatic art studio announces reopening on October first at 530 East Fourth Street. The venue offers lessons in singing acting and stage presentation.
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