The Pavements of Parts at Button's Theatre
A stock company in Butte secures rights from Howard & Dogie of Chicago to produce The Pavements of Parts as a Christmas offering. Premiering Sunday matinee, Dec 44, elaborate scenery, strong cast, and a prologue set in the Franco Prussian War with the balance fourteen years later. Narratives on stage careers, moral questions, and remarks from actor Jamed Nail accompany notes of other upcoming productions and theatre life.
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Button
Howard & Dogie of
Chicago
Butte
Earnale
Wally
Theatre Gossip: London to Open New Dramas and Roles
The piece surveys London stage news with notes on Coghlan fraud claims in the south, Frohman’s New York venture My Daughter-in-Law, Seymaun Hicks touring with Risaline Terriasd, and plans for Rupert of Hentzau in St. James. It also reports on Bellew and Robertson dissolutions, a Summer Dreyfus in Australia, and actor Charles M. Curtiss’s death.
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Charles Coghlan
Coghlan
Frohman
New York
Seymaun Hicks
Risaline Terriasd
London
Criterion
Kyrle Bellew
Henry Hamilton
Monte Cristo
Dantes
Mr. Bellew
Mrs. Potter
Forbes Robertson
Patrick Campbell
M Campbell
George Fleming
Why Smith Left Home at the Grand for Three Nights
A three night engagement begins tomorrow at the Grand with Why Smith Left Home a lively farce by George H B Broadhurst. The show promises humor and roaring complications as Smith departs his home amid meddling relatives and newlyweds offering amusing marital lessons. A special matinee is planned for Monday.
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Smith
George HB. Broadhurst
Coiples
Return of the Neill Company at Grand Opera Haus Rex
The incomparable Neill company returns to the Grand Opera Haus Rex for a matinee Wednesday and evenings through Saturday. Audiences expect a full house with high quality repertoire including Gilded Fool Captain Lettarblaire Royal Irish Pauliniers Captain Swift A Bachelor's Romance and Lady Winderemere's Fan. The Neill company is regarded as the best high-class repertory troupe, a pioneer rarely seen outside three major American cities in five years.
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Neill
Neill Company
Christman
Captain Lettarblaire
Royal Irish Pualiniers
Captain Swift
Lady Winderemere
Brown's In Town at Grand Dec 1 New Year's Day matinee
The farce Brown's In Town follows Dick Pinton, heir to a wealthy stockholder, as he hides his identity by posing as Brown to win his beloved amid a family feud. Suzanne Darce helps, and the plot unfolds with rapid complications and original musical numbers.
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Brown
Dick Pinton
Suzanne Darce
Advice to aspiring actors stalls ambition in fashion tone
The passage voices a cynical view that actors and actresses often tell ambitious amateurs not to pursue acting as a profession. It describes the advice as a superstition or doctrine that crushes dreams, noting the frequent discouragement offered when guidance is sought.
Fragmentary theater notice from Batford Enz era
A garbled historical clipping references a native of the country making first appearances in Pooh lain at St Louis. It mentions Booth and Barrett, James I and Frederick Warde, a circus, and a brief engagement at Eng nate artiste halls, then a head injury near Africa with Herbert Mining's company.
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Batford
Enz
Poohlain
St. Louia
Sears
Shorty
Africa
Herbert Mining
Woman asks Roosevelt for change for a dollar
An Albany news sketches a scene outside the executive chamber as Mrs. Anta Holmes, a Black woman, pleads with Governor Roosevelt for change for a dollar. After hours of waiting and nervy moments, Roosevelt, unable to provide change, leaves by a private door while Holmes remains resolute at the door.
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Anta Holes
Rene Holbilnr
Reneevelt
Albany
New York
Woman’s Folly and Fealty Echo in Detroit Journal
In a fragmentary tale from the Detroit Journal the dialogue centers on feminine nature and marriage, with a man promising not to go to the dogs after a plea to remain true. The narrative hints at self doubt, temptation, and the idea that women influence decisive life choices.
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Weller
Mata
Detroit Journal
Quote quarrel over weather ends with a quar ter insult
A brief, sharp exchange from the Indianapolis Press shows a quarrel over social wit and weather talk. One party accuses the other of being too clever to get caught, while the other retorts with a challenge to prove better days.
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Higegins
Wickwire
Latch
Indianapolis Press
Diver Fights Alligator During Natchez Steamer Rescue
Albany Indiana special to the Chicago Tribune recounts diver Charles Broecker returning from Natchez Mississippi where he aided in raising the steamer Natchez. He describes an encounter with a monster alligator in the hold, a near-fatal dash, a hatchet blow stunning the beast, a draw up to the surface, and the skiff overturning as the creature struck it. All aboard escaped with near shore aid. Chicago reports of Klondike gold fields follow as Broecker eyes February return.
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Albany
Ind
Chicago Tribune
Charles Hroseker
Natchez
Miss
Broecker
Chicago
Klondike
Thirteenth Street
Cicero Court
Harrison Street
Henry
Lucky Polw Uman Arrives in Hold With Greenbacks
Chicago report notes James Henry Trumme arriving with MAW in hold and funds in greenbacks. Authorities review transport details and identify implicated individuals. Further details pending official release.
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Chicago
Trumme
James Henry
Maw
Greenbacks
Tommy's Conclusion and Hereditary Meaning Confusion
A Philadelphia Record item quotes Judge De Armond of Missouri discussing heredity with Tommy and his father, humorously linking inherited traits to old clothes. The piece mentions a well known gardener in Butler, Missouri famed for rare and beautiful fruiting plants cultivated in that latitude.
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Tommy
Pop
Mia
Philadelphia Record
Judge de Armond
Missouri
Butier
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Herbert and Smith
Bostonians
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Florence Rockwell
Stuart Robson
Juliet
Thomas W. Keene
Oliver Glademith
Augustus Thomas
W. Y
Stuart Rob
Henry BE. Disey
Jeffreys Lewis
Tbsen
Berlin
F. R. Berson
Hamtet
Charles Riehard
Ada Rehan
Israel Zanewill
Biljah
Fanny Rice
Bessie Bonchill
South Africa
Julia Dean Haynes
St. Paul
Minn
Oley
William Archer
Eaguel
America
Salvini
Hanoi
Tonkin
Knesp
Shorty Smith
Dreyfus
Australia
George Rignold
Drury Lane
M Walter Bentley
The
Lyceum
Faithful Begg
M. P
Esterhazy
Devil's Island
Esterhasy
Dreyfun
Charles M. Curtiss
Solomon
Santa
Philippines
Sante
Lucky Polw Uman
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