Boston Lyric Opera opens at Grand with three new productions
The Boston Lyric Opera starts a week at the Grand Opera House tomorrow with The Idol's Eye Wang and The Fencing Master. Colonel Thompson touts new scenery costumes and electrical effects, promising lavish staging and striking devices unseen in local comic opera.
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Grand Opera House
Idol's Eye
Wang
Colonel Thompson
Hhouse
India
Abel Conn
Morse & Goodwin
New York
DeWolf Hopper
DeKoven & Smith
Marie Tempest
Dresden
Thompson
Pasha
Broadway Arts News Signals Shifts in Stage Careers
The period reports major moves in theater and music production. Harry B. Smith resigns from Weber & Fields to join Klaw & Erlanger for Foxy Quiller starring Jerome Sykes. Nat C Goodwin to portray next to a British officer in a Rob ert Marshall play at Lancaster barracks and London drawing rooms. Ernest Haskell to design for Miss Viola Allen. The Palace of the King scenes set in sixteenth century Madrid. Germany to gain a permanent German theater in London with a stock company focusing on art. An alphabetical list of Comedie Francaise acrotraires to 1658 published by Georges Mouval with 351 autographs.
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Grace Cameron
Klaw & Erlanger
Jerome Sykes
de Koven and Smith
Foxy Quiller
Harry B. Smith
Weber & Fields
Tor “Foxy Quiller
Nat C. Goodwin
Robert Marshall
Lanchester Barracks
London
Ernest Haskell
Viola Alen
Spain
Madrid
Haskell
St George's Hal
Theee
Comedie Francaise
Moliere
Paris
Georges Mouval
House of Moliere
Paris Opera figures and English stage notes from 1891
Martin Harvey to perform Romeo and Juliet with Grace Warner as his Juliet. A Marion Crawford inspired drama and Maeterlinck play will be produced. Librarian Malherbe will exhibit autographs of world composers at the Paris Exposition. Paris theaters report strong June receipts, led by L Algion. Rejane and Coquelin prosper, despite Comedie Francaise absences. Blanche Walsh drama features a persecuted Hugenot who moves to Quebec.
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Grace George
George
Martin Harvey
Grace Warner
Charles Warner
Franklin McLeay
Marion Crawford
Maeterlinck
Aglavine and
Belysette
M. Malherbe
Opera
Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
L’algion
Mme. Rejane
Mme. Sans-Gene
Coquelin
Comedie Francaise
Eugene Presbrey
Blanche Walsh
Hugenot
France
Quebec
The Stage Fever And Its Fatal Glamour
A column notes the dangers of stage life and its impact on marriages. Hillary Bell cites cases including Nella Bergen and Minnie Seligman, who left devoted spouses for the theatre, ending in estrangement or divorce. The piece warns that stage obsession ruins domestic life.
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Hillary Bell
New York
Angelo Neumann
Covent Garden
London
Jhalr
Milady
Cory
Phee
Nella Bergen
Minnie Seligman
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