Inside the Wallace Circus Life a Worker's Rest and Drive
The Wallace show runs a 600-strong workforce with strict yet humane discipline. Writers describe leeway for meals and rest among crew like canvasmen hostlers and property men while praising high pay, career paths, and skilled practice. Musicians under Professor Bronson rehearse daily to keep the band sharp as performers pursue new tricks between shows.
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Wallace Circus
Wallace
Goss
Fay
Canvvasman Smith
Frofesor Bronson
Bronson
Profesor
C. Z. Bronson
Eddy
Silverton
Sticks
Dellameads
Dramatic theater notes shift with Miss Walsh and season changes
The article surveys shifts in management and repertoire as Miss Walsh parts with Ben Stern and La Madeline is dropped for Solambo. It notes Klaw and Erlanger ties, Star casting for Sally in Our Alley, When the Boys Come Marching Home, Zuza rights, Shrillers, and Alaska melodrama plans.
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Doun
Jules Mered
Ming
Miss Walsh
Actre
Toesin
Ith
Miss. Walsh
Comphy
Ben Stern
Wagenhals
Kempel
Star
Itanslaus Stange
Wiss Walsh
Yoyer
Ben Stern Laslanche Walsh
Klaw
Erlanger
Jeremy Sykes
Richard Atlagt
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Lowing
George W. Lederer
Sam Bernard
Sally
Mr. Bernard
Marie Cahill
Argenie Blair
Conch
Actors Tale Spurs Southwest Tour Memory
A fragment recalls Viola Allen touring the southwest with other attractions during a single week. Countrymen gathered before a plank wall displaying playbills as one man read aloud to his brothers, capturing a small scene from a bustling theater period.
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Bac
Satan
Anthony
Viola Allen
Palace of Being
Feliers
Iis Hing
New York
Tim
Southwest
State University of Iowa IGWA CLTY program openings
The State University of Iowa announces free scholarships across colleges including Liberal Arts Law Medicine Homeopathic Medicine Dentistry Pharmacy and Graduate College. Summer programs begin September 2 and February 1 with early announcements encouraged.
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the State University of Iowa
Igwa Clty
Meeduratha
London society tale and Manila Bay reminiscences
A jumbled reminiscence piece recounts Jimmy Powers in London among aristocrats, a Duke, and a revelatory host, with digressions on Hollywood style anecdotes, Jefferson, Harriet Stove, and theatrical tension. It shifts to editorials on aging, growth, and the need for new blood in press life and public discourse.
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Jimmy Powers
London
Migather
Jimmie
Flero
Duke of
Mr. Powers
Palm Seach
Fred Zimmerman
Pe Jefferson
Dewey
Manila Bay
Mike
Hving
Harriet Stawe
Boston
Alastle Monthly
Mert
Hey
Rip van White
Tiay
Jefferson
Washington Press
Adam
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