Night Owls of the Stage Feature Society Onstage Gatherings
Maude Adams avoids after theater dining while William Gillette snacks crackers and milk at a stool among late night patrons. Ethel Barrymore leads supper groups, May Irwin’s circle travels with her, and Lee Harrison is a famed boulevardier. Belasco, John Mason, Nat Goodwin, Louis James, and others are noted for hospitality and social rounds in theaters and on tour.
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Maude Adams
William Gillette
Ethel Barrymore
Scotchman
May Irwin
Lee Harrison
David Belasco
Belasco
New York
John Mason
Chicago
Mrs. Fiske
Nat Goodwin
United States
Louis
James
Charleys Aunt Endures Record Run Worldwide
The comedy Charley's Aunt holds the world endurance record with 1,466 London performances. Other long runs include Our Boys 1,362 nights and The Private Secretary and The Chinese Honeymoon each over 1,000 nights.
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London
Monkey Actor Delivers in Marion Ballou Play
The Little Organ Grinder features a Rhesus monkey as a pivotal actor. After extensive rehearsal, the intelligent simian performs reliably, consistently delivering props to the villain’s room, except for one Louisville mishap where it carried four apples to Miss Ballou instead of the papers.
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Marion Ballou
Louisville
Vilain
Names They Were Born With In Theater History
The article reveals how many stage stars adopt new names through birth, marriage, or stage lineage. It lists actresses and actors such as Mrs. Fiske, Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, Virginia Harned, Mary Mannering, Marie Dressler, Maxine Elliott, Edna May, May Irwin, Eleanor Robson, and Lawrence Barrett with their birth or early names, showing the common elimination of patronymics in favor of stage personas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Fiske
Davey
Julia Marlowe
Sarah Frances Frost
Taber
Marlowe
Maude Adams
Kiskadden
Adams
Virginia Harned
Hicks
E. H. Sothern
Mary Mannering
James K. Hackett
Florence Friend
Marie Dressler
Lella Koerber
Maxine Elliott
N. C. Goodwin
McDermot
Edna May
Oscar Lewinshan
Miss Petty
May Irwin
Campbell
Eleanor Robson
Madge Carr Cook
Lawrence Barrett
Larry Brannigan
Stage Notes Highlight Actors and Works of the Broadway Scene
Gertrude Coghlan plans a September publication biography of her late father Charles Coghlan. Laurence Irving's New York Lyric Theater play will be titled The Inheritance of the Meek, with alternative title The Fool Hath Said There Is No God. California actor George Wessells, known for Moriarity in Sherlock Holmes, dies in Denver. Claire Kummer writes The Garden of Love sung by Sallie Fisher. Truly Shattuck to perform Love Me and the World Is Mine at Berlin winter garten. Virginia Harned praises Bert Williams. calls him a genius. J M Barrie prepares a sequel to The Little White Bird titled When Wendy Grew Up. Stella Hammerstein joins George M. Cohan’s The Yankee Prince rehearsal after Europe tour with George Edwardes productions.
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Gertrude Coghlan
Charles Coghlan
E. H. Sothern
Laurence Irving
Lyric Theater
New York
George Wessells
California
Moriarity
William Gillette
Denver
Col
Mr. Wessells
William A. Brady
Claire Kummer
Dearie
Sallie Fisher
Shattuck
Berlin
Virginia Harned
Adah Patterson
William and Walker
Bert Williams
J. M. Barrie
Wendy
Stella Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein
Europe
George Edwardes
Mesera, Cohan and Harris
George M. Cohan
Spiritism and its scientific critique by a long-time investigator
A recount of a 25 year inquiry into spiritism argues that phenomena can be explained by science, not spirits. It asserts most mediums are self deceived, telepathy underlies messages, and that impressions and clairvoyance are psychic, not disembodied. The author recalls meetings with Dr Hudson and contrasts impressions with spiritualism.
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Joseph B. Bowtes
Japanese Immigration to Hawaii Surges in 1906
Honolulu records show 18 187 Japanese arriving in Hawaii in 1906, a threefold increase from the previous year, while an equal number left Hawaii for the Pacific coast. The statis tics highlight a sharp rise in the Japanese influx to the islands and outflow to the mainland.
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America
Honolulu
Hawaii
Japan
Pacific Coast
Death tale of Da-Ga-In-Ka the Mescalero Apache
A formal report narrates an Apache killer afterlife punishment by his own people. It follows Da-Ga-In-Ka as hunger, pride, and flight collide with white authority, pursuit across the Sacramento mountains, and a final stand near the Rio Grande while Apaches and agents clash over justice and civilization.
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Sioner
Washinton
New Mexico
Jim
Jim McLane
Da-Ga-In-Ka
Sacramento Mountains
Rio Grande
Mexico
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Little Monkey
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