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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1916
Page
7
A column lauds Marland Thiame Komedy for a bright musical comedy featuring Mr. Dingbat and his family. The review highlights nonstop humor with sparkling songs and special features and notes a big children’s matinee this afternoon with the Dingbat Family and a dolls giveaway.
The Billy Allen Company closes its season tonight at the Maryland Theatre with The Beauty Parlor a tuneful comedy. Billy Allen shines as the mystified shoemaker delivering convulsing humor and strong chorus numbers. Tonight offers The Dingbat Family a timely farce with music based on Harrison’s cartoon Doings.
Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter bring their Montague Glass heart-interest sketches to the Maryland Theatre on Monday February 21 direct from New York. The three act play blends laughter with pathos as romance politics and law intertwine in a fast sequence of incidents.
A leading party presents a comedy interpreted by a splendid company of New York favorites including Jules Jorden Lew Welsh Gus Coban Fred Fieck Jr Howard Shoben Irving Southard Wm Leyden Jules Unger Lottie Kendall Marie Ilone Pearl Ford Bertha Martin and others. A special train on C & F P RR is announced for 1912 with seating now selling.
The Birth of a Nation, Griffiths musical photoplay, opens for three nights and two matinees at the Maryland Theatre Cumberland on Thursday February 24. It portrays Civil War events and Reconstruction with a large cast and a synchronized symphonic score, featuring actors such as Joseph Henabery Donald Crisp Howard Gaye Mae Marsh Lillian Gish and more.
Elder Camerons and Walter Seigmann as Lynch promote a seat sale starting Tuesday February 22 with a special C Y RR train and electric RC option in this Adver tisement.
New York hosts a star studded Movie Ball at Madison Square Garden with Mary Pickford Charlie Chaplin Theda Bara Raymond Hitchcock Mick Sennett Sidney Drew Betty Nansen Clara Kimball Young among guests. Fans travel from coasts and regions to see idols up close for a small fee and hear their voices in person.
The article describes a grand Movie Ball where actors will dance sing and speak with fans arriving on late trains. Major film concerns nationwide are thanked for conceiving the event which promises a dazzling frazzling evening.
New York critics debated James K. Hackett’s Macbeth as he parts from tradition. Hackett promised a five year critique plan and a self described shift in Shakespearean interpretation, aiming to redefine Macbeth and other roles while acknowledging Evil atmosphere and Irving’s villainous portrayals.
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