Publicity-Obsessed Stage Stars Parade Attention Tactics
The article catalogs actresses known for courting public notice. Louise Gunning headlines by branding stunts like a dog's eye gear, Nora Bayes carries a walking stick, Louise Carter hosts a dog dinner, Ethel Levey wears striking outfits, and Anna Held trails with a Teddy bear. It notes hats and monocles as rumored trends among peers.
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Hayden
Louise Gunning
Tom Jones
Philadelphia
Bellevue Stratford
Ethel Levey
Paris
Dorothy Russell
Lillian Russell
Anna Held
Fall of a Gallery God at Keith Proctor’s theater
Joseph Allen a stableman sat in the front gallery at Keith Proctor’s Fifty-eighth Street theater. He leaned over the rail during a scene and fell into the orchestra landing on his feet in the aisle. An ambulance took him to Presbyterian hospital where he was not seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Dramatic Mirror
Joseph Allen
Keith & Proctor
Fifty-eighth Street
Mickey
Presbyterian Hospital
Sothern Quotes on Dramatic Technique and Craft
Edward H. Sothern is cited as praising stage management and the need for deep technique in acting. He stresses asking reasons behind actions, mastery of technique, and subtle, nonvisible artistry. He links technique to performance and selection of plays with conscience and soul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward H. Sothern
Stevenson
Plays and Players Showscope of New Theatre Moves
Frank Worthing travels to Colorado Springs to recuperate from pneumonia. Russian actress Countess Muravieff welcomes 20 in her company to tour the United States opening March 15 with Ibsen and modern Russian and European plays. Marion Kerby joins Thomas W. Ross in The Traveling Salesman. Charles Dalton to support Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Mrs. Beerbohm Tree in Electra. Joseph Holland to stage Ditrichstein's Bluff after a long absence. Regine Martial battles Paris Matin over Sacha. Warfield plans London season with The Music Master and A Grand Army Man. Dustin Farnum set for The Rector's Garden next month. Henrietta Crosman rehearses The Smoke and Fire with a road tour then New York.
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Frank Worthing
Detroit
Colorado Springs
Col
Mme. Kommisarzhoffskaya
Countess Muravieff
Jeff St. Petersburg
United States
Ibsen
Leonid Andrieff
Sholem Rash
Marion Kerby
Chicago
New York
London
Thomas W. Ross
Charles Dalton
Patrick Campbell
Beerbohm Tree
Joseph Holland
Tve
Ditrichstein
Mme
Regine Martial
Criti
Sacha
Theater de Gymnase
David Warfield
Dustin Farnum
Byron Ongley
Robert Edeson
Henrietta Crosman
Jessie Trimble
Interviewer's Art and Famous Encounters in Journalism
The piece recalls early interviewers led by William Howard Russell and Archibald Forbes, noting how the craft grew with public demand. It recounts John O'Hara Cosgrave's Boston stratagems, Eugene Field portraits, and Admiral Bancroft Gherardi's stormy yet revealing refusal to be sketched, illustrating journalist tenacity.
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James Lewis French
New York
William Howard Russell
London Times
Russell
America
Times
Russia
Turkey
Archibald Forbes
The
Daily Mail
Alexander
MacGahan
Frank Miller
New York Herald
Europe
Paris
Vanderbilt Dynasty
Jefferson Brick
John O'Hara Cosgrave
Everybody's Magazine
Young's Hotel
Boston
Tom Lawson
Cosgrave
Lawson
Ridgway & Thayer
Chicago
Eugene Field
Daily News
Field
Nye
Apollo
Joliet Penitentiary
State Librarian Seeks Weekly Papers for Archival File
Texas State Librarian Meyers asks editors to send complimentary copies of leading state weeklies for filing in the state library. He plans to begin on January 1 and preserve back numbers if available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Meyers
Country Press
Downing Street: The World Famous Hub of the British Empire
A historical look at Downing Street in London, its origins with American George Downing, its role as the site of the prime minister’s residence at No. 10, and its status as the center of British governance for two centuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downing Street
Haa Long
London
Joseph H. Choate
England
America
Empire
George Downing
United States
New
Downtnog
Cromwell
Downing
Charles II
Thomas Howard
Earl of Suffolk
Daisy Lester
Chicago
Washington
Duchess of Portsmouth
Lady Castlemaine
Nell Gwynn
Lee Lord Litchfield
James II
Lord Litchfield
George I
Baron Bothmar
Bothmar
George II
Robert Walpole
Walpole
Treasury
Paris Opens Free Sea Water Clinic Aided by Marquise de MacMahon
Paris presents a new Quinton sea water treatment dispensary in Rue d Ouessant to aid the poor. The Marquise de MacMahon and a noblewoman lead charity efforts funded largely by private expense. Doctor Rene Quinton’s sea water plasma injections are claimed to purify the blood and rapidly revive fatigued cells, with a Sorbonne lecture highlighting perceived triumphs.
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Paris
Marquise de MacMahon
Marquise
Quinton Sea
d'Ouessant
Grenelle
Quinton
M. Rene Quinton
M. Quinton
England's first woman pastor: Gertrud von Petzold
Rev. Gertrud von Petzold, born in Thorn Prussia, became England's first regularly ordained woman pastor. She led the Free Christian church in Leicester for three years, lectured on liberal Christianity in Berlin, and served as a delegate to Boston's religious liberals congress. She holds A.M. from Edinburgh and studied theology at Oxford.
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Gertrud von Petzold
London
England
Thorn
Prussia
Scotland
Free Christian Church
Leicester
Berlin
Congress of Religious Liberals
Boston
Edinburgh University
Oxford
Circus of Trained Ants Arrives in America
An unusual German circus spectacle features trained ants performing in a display of makeup dance, wrestling, and fencing selections as part of a novelty act brought to the United States.
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America
Times Turbulence and Thunderer Legacy in Press History
London Times ownership shifts amid tariff reform chatter with Pearson and Henderson. critics warn of policy change while recalling the paper’s bold stand for press freedom. Historical anecdotes recount multiplicity of state pressures, libel suits, and the origin of the nickname Thunderer.
Revived In Hie Coffin A Del Rio Miner Alive
John Adams a Del Rio East Tennessee mining engineer was found apparently dead from heart failure. Relatives were notified and an undertaker bill demanded cash. At the last moment Adams revived yawning, and the undertaker vanished. Adams recovered and remains alive.
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John Adams
del Rio
East Tennessee
Adams
Philadelphia
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North American Review
New York Journal
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Maine
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Capt. Lindsay
Boston Transcript
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Chamberlain
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Tariff Reform League
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