Cordray's theater offers strong season bill at Grand
Cordray's theater presents Beach & Bowers in a lively minstrelsy show at the Grand in Portland Oregon. The cast features young, energetic performers with musical numbers by Nixon, Ware, Williams and Gordon. The program includes acrobatics, juggling, trick riding, and a fox-terrier act, with a Labor Day matinee Monday.
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Beach & Bowers
Walt
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Adie Nixon
Georgia Rose
Lou Ware
Joe Williams
Lou Knetzger
Harry Freeman
Smith Brothers
Woody van
Don Gordon
Bobby Beach
Billy West
Kenno
LaBerre
Van_ brothers
Whet
Seriou
Portland
Oregon Beach & Bowers
Sutton's Theater Opens Season With Texas Steer Atop Bill
Sutton's theater launches the season with Hoyt's Texas Steer a satire featuring James R. McCann Flor ence Rossland and Will H. Bray as Brander and the Minister from Dahomey with a full vaudeville lineup including Butte Juvenile Orchestra Rose Randall and Otis Skinner in Browning's In a Balcony rehearsals for Browning drama and other acts fill the October slate while touring stars progress the fall program
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James R. McCann
Brander
Jessy
Florence Rossland
Augustin Daly
New York
Dahomey
Will H. Bray
Lizzie Kendall
George T. Meech
Gustave Neuville
A Texas Steer parody at Washington stage
Sunday nights also matinee Saturday. A Texas Steer mocks Washington politicians from plantation songs to a kitchen garbage dump scene. Maverick Brander and family drive the plot with rapid wit and constant comic twists.
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Washington
Arlington Hotel
Washington, D. C
Maverick Brander
Dramatic Notes and Casting Movesin London and Denver
The New York theatre scene buzzes with notes on typhoid illness of Fred Hallen and major casting shifts. The First Born is staged in Denver while Blackballed by Russ Whyte, Cromwell's Son heads to London, and Charles Frohman plans Edna May in a musical. Mary Stuart, sister of Stuart Robson, returns to the stage as new Casino plans loom. James J Brady becomes business manager for Joseph Brooks ahead of Maclyn Arbuckle. Nat Goodwin in England may present When We Were Twenty-one before a U.S. return. Louise Thorndyke Boucicault joins Tim Murphy in A Bachelor's Romance. George Osborne exits Ben-Hur cast due to retirement. The London and New York stages fill with rehearsals for the coming season.
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James J. Brady
Ringling Brothers Circus
Joseph Brooks
Maclyn Arbuckle
Nat Goodwin
England
Louise Thorndyke Boucicault
Tim Murphy
New York
Sutton's Theatre One Week Starts With Sept. 2
Suttons Theatre announces a solid week starting Sunday Sept 2 with matinee and Labor Day Sept 3 featuring The Mysterious Lady. First western production with Monster Nalin and his company of wooden actors plus Jackson Richards Relea mimics pan tomime acrobats from Celique Roy. Rose Raj dall sings Chas Harris budget of songs Ceasar and Lewis magic Hindoo box trickery and new novelty acts each feature.
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Hellene
West
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Richards
Celique Roy
Rose Raj Dal
Dalley and team plan week of shows at Rhoe and Leather Bank
Dalley outlines a tour route starting with a week at the Rhoe and Leather Bank venue, followed by three nights at Lincoln National. The sequence ends with a final run at the Mint.
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Order Automatic Couplers in Great Britain
Washington reports that on July 30 the British safety appliance act received the queen's assent and became law. The Board of Trade gains broad power to enforce devices, with penalties for noncompliance. The fatality ratio in coupling remains high, echoing earlier U.S. rates and suggesting U.S. influence on the British act.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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MAY FORFEIT 1S SHIP
Captain William Smith of the steamship Porto Rico was served with a summons to show cause why the vessel and its cargo should not be forfeited. The ship, owned by the New York and Porto Rico Steamship company, left Port Jersey August 11 with government coal for San Juan and later loaded bananas in Santo Domingo, failing to change enrollment as required for foreign trade. Statements will be sent to the secretary of the treasury in Washington for action.
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San Juan
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Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
Robbery on Tipton Express Car Suspected of Gold Shipment
Unconfirmed report from Cheyenne indicates five men robbed a Tinian Pacific Express car at Tipton on Wednesday night. The cargo allegedly included $100,100 in gold intended to pay soldiers in the Philippines, and officials fear the entire shipment was taken.
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Philippines
Queer Trees in Brussels Track Current Cause Bloom Anomaly
In Avenue Louise Brussels the chestnut trees near electric trams show unusual behavior. Foliage browns and drops in August then buds and even blossoms in October while opposite-side trees follow normal autumn leaf fall. Botanists suspect underground electrical current affecting roots of otherwise healthy trees.
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Brussels
Hostile Divinities and the Clash of Empires
In a vivid exchange two Chinamen debate divine instruction to destroy foreign devils and to subdue China for religious aims. The first urges restraint asking why the gods cannot fight it out themselves, while the second insists on divine mandate to prevail.
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Kwan
China
Ting Point Puck First Chinaman I Don’t Understand
A dialogue fragment shows two Chinaman speakers debating religious sects and gun control. The exchange contrasts confusion over sect leadership with a question about which group holds more firearms, reflecting tensions in a multicultural context.
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Puck
Circumstances Alter Cases Skit on Fashion Demoralizes
Puck sketches a back and forth where a girl dismisses an extravagant suitor while an aunt urges restraint. The scene mocks a Ladies' Home Herald fashion feature showing a golfer in a gauze undervest and coral pets, highlighting society’s taste and propriety.
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Ladies’ Home Herald
Europe’s Longest Ride Nearly 1921 Mile Rail Tale
In a witty exchange a judge and Mrs Newlywed discuss apologies as banter. Then a fact box notes Europe’s longest continuous railway run from Paris to Constantinople covering 1,921 miles in about 64.25 hours.
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