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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
7
The Grand presents Right of Way with Faversham in a tense drama about Charley Steele and a controversial medical operation. Critics note strong performances and stagecraft while doctors debate the plot’s realism. Bonita and Lew Hearn offer Three Weeks as a rival skit, with Wine Woman and Song delivering musical comedy entertainment.
Washington critics hail William Faversham's new play The World and His Wife as a powerful moral drama. The Post and Times praise its artistry and strong company, noting a gripping climax and the actor-manager's refined staging at Be lasco Theater. The Herald calls it Favershams best work yet and highlights his artistic devotion.
The Rose Hill Folly Company will present the three act burlesque Knights of the Red Garter at the Standard Theater next week. George W. Rice stars with T F Thomas John E Cain Idylla Vyner Henrietta Wheeler Mile Beatrice Blanch Newcomb Andy McLeod Billy Chase and The Four Londons among the cast.
Forepaugh Stock Company presents a candle lit Tudor style mystery in Indiana. Old man Glenarm tests his heir by requiring one year in a candle lit house with tunnels and danger. The suspense builds as foes pursue the heir in a haunted seeming residence.
O T Crawford presents new Thursday and Friday bill today at the Auditorium Odd Fellows Temple playhouse. Selig and Lubin lead the moving picture output with Western life scenes and realistic cameraphone performances. Clara Thropp sings Let it Alone and Dont Get Married Any More Ma. Emmet Mack performs with a chorus. Will Price sings Change of programme Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays.
Bonita The Queen of Beauty with Mortimer M Theise’s Wine Woman and Song comes to Walnut for Sunday matinee. Nat Carr Lew Hearn Charlies Raymond James Mullen Alan Coogan and others headline a cast supported by Max Armstrong’s American Pony Ballet eight Broilers. Theise harmonists and a novelty travesty on Elinor Glyn’s book appear as special features.
The Rays Johnny and Emma Ray headline a laugh producing hodge podge musical comedy titled King Casey. The show blends mistaken identity with strong musical numbers and features Frank Rose and a fifty member company delivering era style tunes like Annie Anheuser and Uncle Sam Land. Matinee tickets indicate an overflow crowd.
The Owen Davis play On Trial for His Life comes to Heuck's next week after a successful road run. The four act drama features twelve scenes packed with action comedy and pathos. Six army horses purchased from the United States Government and a forty five member company including twelve Zouaves perform a military drill.
Mysterious Henella, seen at the Lyceum next week with W. F. Manns in Shadowed By Three, blends legerdemain and illusion with a singing head illusion to provoke laughter and astonishment. The mystery play promises originality and clever plotting of detection obstacles.
Roger Imhof leads the Empire Burlesquers with Casey the eccentric Irishman in Casey’s Alley a new vehicle in the Empire show. Imhof writes produces and stages this season’s sketches songs and parodies with the Empire show at the People's starting Sunday.
J H Hutchins former Covington Jackson Club director resigns his club post and membership due to his pledge to support William Howard Taft for president. Fellow member James Coyle also resigns as secretary and club member after declaring Taft allegiance. Hutchins had been a key organizer and past mayoral nominee candidate. He planned to campaign in Kenton and Campbell counties delivering Taft speeches.
Jacob Walz obtained a restraining order from Circuit Judge Yungblut to bar Drs. F A Stine and Ernest Redderson from seating on the Newport Board of Health as successors to Overton Harris and Dr. B F Bonar whose terms expired. The Board’s planned meeting was canceled. A 2:30 pm hearing was scheduled for today.
County Attorney in Police Court charged Mayor Craig with pardoning convicted men. The trial of G. T. French for a fatal stabbing was dismissed on City Attorney Phillips’s motion. Mayor Craig admitted pardoning Jim Dancer on solicitation to leave the city after serving five days and paying a $13.50 fine.
Charles Reach of 162 West Fifth Street was arraigned before Police Judge Read on the charge of failing to provide for his aged parents. The mother and father attended the hearing and urged the court to banish him from the state. The judge bound Reach over to the grand jury but released him on his own recognizance on the condition he depart Kentucky.
Howard Yates son of County Clerk John C. B. Yates will leave for Portland Oregon Monday to establish residence there permanently following his Kent State University graduation last spring. Dr W E A Wyman of the Covington Health Office urges river water be boiled before use to insure safety.
While returning from the funeral of John Griffin of Eighth and Willard streets a carriage with mourners was struck by a Main street car at Ninth and Main streets. The collision broke the carriage pole but caused only minor damage to the conveyance.
The Highland district Republicans east of Newport form a Taft and Sherman Club aiming for a straight GOP ticket in November. The group begins with over one hundred members, electing Albert Kelly as Chairman Captain Charles Devereaux as Secretary W H Ross as Treasurer and vice presidents John Macht Albert Grapes Daniel Veith and W M Donaldson. Meetings are set for Thursdays each week.
The Covington Reds led by Police Lieutenant Crout defeated the Blues 246 to 234 at Hazelwood Park on the Lewisburg line yesterday. Prizes went to top shooters including Walter Conley 48 of 56, Jerome Gaugh 26, John Clark 14, and others, with coal and a rocking chair among awards.
Names and residence fragments list several individuals including John M. Rameey age 22 Austin Betesssszede Mercy B Perkins Ottawa Ill Samuel Endicott Millersburg Ky Nannie Beeding Millersburg Ky Alexander Snyder Anna Jacobs Verona Ky.
The Daughters of Rebekah of Kentucky began their twenty first annual session in Odd Fellows Hall with over 100 delegates and 50 candidates. They honored State President Matilda Webb with a center table, and discussed plans for a new home. A trolley ride, banquet, and dance were scheduled for the day.
A deed records William and Mary Brinker selling or transferring 26 by 100 feet on Banklick Street to Jeanette and Charles Laibly.
Hal Davis and company in Pals will headline next week's bill at the Columbia theater. Johnny McVeigh and his College Girls perform a college dormitory sketch. Other acts include violinist Mabelle Adams, Gallotti's performing monkeys, Rockaway and Conway in dance and song, Carroll and Baker in The Hebrew and His Friend, Fonda Dell and Fon da club jugglers, Le Roy and La Vanion European comedy gymnasts, and moving pictures.
The text praises Mr. Mitchell as capable, industrious, and a convincing writer. It notes he is well liked inside and outside the profession, and says the move will benefit both him and his employees, bringing pleasant and profitable results.
The Grand opens this morning for the Right of Way sale theatre engagement starring Guy Standing and Theodore Roberts as Charley Steele and Joe Portugals. Klaw and Erlanger present a top company for a week of delightful and impressive performances in this notable stage engagement.
A Lyric performance of The Wolf draws applause for its cast of strong characters. The play’s new picturesque locale adds interest and keeps audiences attentive throughout.
Last Sunday at Chester Park features amateur vaudeville with Irene Rittenhouse giving her final public appearance before starting musical studies. The program includes prize-winning acts, a big post-season crowd, beach access for women’s swimming clubs, and the last prize waltz at 10 p.m. Afternoon contests run 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. with noon Sunday cutoff for afternoon entries.
A plain gold ring inscribed from A to W was found yesterday by Harry Stone, the man who recovered the boat Tuesday afternoon tied to the Ohio River case. The ring is believed to belong to the party whose clothes were discovered in the boat.
Tessie C Quebe sues for divorce from Cornelius W Quebe alleging idleness dissipation and drunkenness. Conrad Koch will pays debts and funeral expenses. his estate to wife Adeline Koch who is named executrix. Tom Green and John Mulvey jailed ten days each for loitering. Albert Dall case under submission. George Keuchler arrested as witness and released on bond.
Philadelphia report states Nat Goodwin sues for divorce on grounds of desertion. Maxine Elliott, his wife, confirms the charge and declines further discussion while performing at a local theater.
Fred Irwin's Majestics billed as the season’s largest show draws a full house at the Standard. The burlesque "Americans in Paris" offers entertaining scenes while costumes impress with costly design and the music by Mr. Hollander is well sung.
Theodore Mitchell the noted dramatic critic has accepted the role of business manager and advance representative for Miss Lillian Russell. He will depart Saturday week to begin duties with her in New York City where Russell is enjoying a highly successful engagement. Brooks, Russell’s manager, and all parties are to be congratulated on the arrangement.
Nat C. Good, the actor, asked his attorneys to allow a local newspaper to view the sealed divorce complaint filed here against his wife Maxine Elliott. The suit cites desertion for over a year and includes no sensational details.
Master Commissioner to Rosa O K rent Lot 120 in their subdivision Newport. $1 300 Jennie L t and husband to Her man a wife Lot 87 in Buena Vista and Newport.
Klaw and Erlanger plan another collaboration for Guy Standing and Theodore Roberts after Right of Way. They will star together in The Barrier next season, with high expectations. A possible rehearsal at the Grand may occur next week, but public offering is set for New York in the following season.
George Messmann and Miss Angelia Smith were married yesterday morning in Heart Church. Rev. Father Hinsenn officiated with nuptial high mass. Miss Nettle Messmann and Aloys er, the bridegroom's attendant, served as attendants. Mayor John Kruehten departed for Lexington Kentucky for a bankers association meeting. Mrs L M Taylor left for Denver Colorado to visit relatives for several months.
Washington dispatches report the cruiser Yankee badly damaged after running aground at Buzzards Bay. The hull shows punctures and water fills the forward compartment. wrecking outfits and divers are en route to salvage the vessel before heavy weather. The ship cost about $550,000 and carries roughly a dozen three inch guns. A Board of Inquiry will be appointed to determine fault.
Kentucky Court of Appeals upholds state law barring express companies from moving liquor from dry counties to other counties. Adams Express Co. fined 75 dollars for shipping whisky from Mercer to Washington County. Decision written by Chief Justice O'Rear.
August Eberhardt pleaded guilty to the murder of his aunt Mrs Ottilie Eberhardt in Hackensack New Jersey. He was sentenced to thirty years in State Prison.
Mrs. Anna Raison and fellow Esther Temple members have returned from the Grand Lodge meeting in Lexington Kentucky after four days away. A man on York Street was bitten by a dog near Eleventh Street and treated by Dr Higgins for the leg wound. Paris C Brown’s body was brought home from Chicago for a 2 pm funeral at his parents’ home on Hast Third Street with Evergreen Cemetery interment. Russell Chapman, six, received six stitches for a forehead gash after a fence incident. Campbell County Farmers Institute set to meet in Alexandria Courthouse tomorrow.
Margaret Billings sues Edward Lambert in Kenton Circuit Court for 5000 for slander. George E. Donnelly, administrator of Spencer Faulkner's estate, sues Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Susie Faulkner and William Oberding to enforce a 205 life policy claim. Suburban Perpetual Building and Loan Association sues Grant Mount for 522 on a note and HB J Wever for 345 on another note.
Emil Gran of West Wareham Massachusetts, a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is hospitalized with a broken back after a rush among sophomores and freshmen on the common. About 200 students took part as Gran tripped and was trampled, with X rays showing a dorsal spine fracture and reports of rapid decline in his condition.
The Countess of Yarmouth, sister of Harry K. Thaw, who recently had her marriage annulled, announced through her lawyers that she will drop her title and be known as Mrs. Copeley Thaw.
A blooming apple tree on the William M. Joe estate in Heekin Avenue, Linwood, attracts local interest as it bursts into a second bloom this year.
Mark Il Demotte former Indiana congressman and former editor of The Lexington Register died in Valparaiso Indiana at age 76. A Russell Peabody longtime Thaw defense attorney died suddenly at Babylon Long Island of pneumonia at about 35. Hedwig Luszczewska known as Devyma Polish poetess dies in Warsaw born 1848.
An advertising notice extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted laxative. It emphasizes natural action, no debility, no dosage escalation, and physician approval. The message urges buying only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists.
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