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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
2
Fragmentary notes indicate Miss Dessie Mii in a leading role in a New York production with Cyril and ana latency in dialogue. Details are unclear but suggest a stage or screen showcase featuring prominent performers.
Mr. G. Caulton Guy heads a capable company to stage a string of plays including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Bells at Bucklen next week. The selections promise powerful dramatic situations with comedic complications and heart.
Klaw and Erlanger sell expired Auditorium lease to Chicago Grand Opera Company. They plan 509000 dollar improvements and twenty weeks of grand opera each season rivaling the Metropolitan in New York.
James Bernard Fagan, Irish playwright, addressed the Irish Good Fellowship Club at the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago. He denounced the stage Irishman as a posed grinning gorilla, finding support from the club as he leads a movement to rid the stage of Irish comedians.
Cohan and Harris will build a new theatre at the corner of Broadway and Lard Street in New York. It will be named the Cohan Theatre and be devoted to productions under their management exclusively.
Plays and players report an early production of Paul Armstrongs Whom the Gods Love in New York. The piece hints at a forthcoming staging with Armstrong involved in the project.
Mrs. Carter announced in Omaha that she will soon open a theatre of her own in New York. The claim signals a bold expansion into the New York stage scene by the famed performer.
Willis announces a forthcoming musical play produced by the Shuberts in collaboration with Lewis Kids and Victor Herbert. George Ve Hobert is listed among creatives. date of production to be announced.
In The Lottery the new comedy Aida Johnson is set to open within a few weeks. Lea Finney is slated to portray a New York newspaper reporter in the production backed by the Shuberts and Jameson.
Ethel S Johnson, a Chicago native born on the north side about twenty three years ago, now appears in The Old Town. Her father served as a captain on the Great Lakes for forty five years.
Next Monday evening the new play The Commanding Officer by Theodore Burt Sayre opens at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago. Bruce McCrae and Isabel Ieving star in the leading roles.
Charles Rann Kennedy announces The Servant in the House soon to succeed. The Great Divide will be staged in London and his Icelandic tragedy The Winter Feast is announced for the winter season at the Lessing Theatre in Berlin.
A garbled OCR note mentions a hearing related to Glazer and a potential embezzlement case. Names and details are indecipherable, but the fragment implies a legal proceeding involving an individual named Glazer and embezzlement questions.
The readable text shows a financial balance fragment with amounts such as 7, 038.42 and 130,137-79 totaling 161,980.90. Mentions traders and a location Millesburg and a state reference, though many details are incomplete.
George Arliss appears in a stage dramatization of Edwin A Locke's novel Optimus produced by Phillip Littell. The actor reportedly finds the role notably different from his past work, yet agreeable and engaging for audiences.
George Barnum once a prominent Pacific coast baseball figure and past National League presidential candidate appears as Baron Cosaca in Such a Little Queen. The article highlights his varied public life and entertainment role.
Alfred Sutro the noted English playwright wrote a one act piece for Rose Stahl after admiring her role in The Chorus Lady in London last season. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Fires of Fate is set for New York production by Charles Frohman in December with rehearsals planned. Frohman also plans soon to begin rehearsals of The Brass Bottle by FB Anstey.
A druggist named Houseworth touts a cure for eczema using D. D. D. Prescription with a wintergreen oil base. He claims extensive success across many cases and presents testimonial confidence in the remedy’s permanent relief at a low cost.
The divorce action Duker v Duker dismissed. Susannah Hepler estate foreclosure Eckelbarger v Whitehead dismissed. Vernon Kreider trustee v Smith quiet title. Mary Hayes guardianship granted for Mina Thompson's peti tion with $500 personal property and $300 rent value. Rock Run ditch appeal moved to dismiss. Electricity fire hazard claim disputed with note on fire safety facts.
Governments of the federated states of Germany discuss a land tax on unimproved land to slow price increases and raise about $5,000,000 annually. Critics warn the levy would fall mainly on landowners in rural districts where values rise slowly.
Notice of a special election to be held in Elkhart County Indiana on Tuesday November 16 1909 for council seats and voting places as in the general election. Dorando Pietti and Meresa Dendi are mentioned in connection with a subsequent personal note.
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