Royal Catastrophe at New York Lyric Theatre
The king queen and several courtiers crumble from a throne mishap during E T Sothern’s If I Were King revival. Sothern delivers his speech while Louis and his wife vanish behind draperies as the throne collapses. The scene ends with the royal couple back on an understudy throne and Miss McLean with a scratched arm.
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France
Lyric Theater
New York
E. T. Sothern
Mr.Sothern
Louis
Malcolm Bradley
Miss McLean
Jules Vilson
Sothern
William Collier and the Frantic Stage Waiter
A humorous vignette from a theater scene describes William Collier among actors famed for wit. During a fast paced production a young waiter actor repeatedly left stage between scenes to seek relief from heat. On one return with two filled trays a mishap occurred as Collier observed the tray and the actor’s agitation.
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William Collier
Collier
How Chorus Girls Feed and Pay for Supper
A humorous look at chorus girls who dine lavishly when a generous patron pays, then switch to frugal noonday meals when paying. It contrasts Clarice and the others as they order costly items and later bargain for cheaper fare, highlighting the social double standard and streetwise dining.
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Bobby
Clarice
Chanteuse
Angelica
Johnny
Gossip of the Stage at Columbia Theatre Headline
James K. Hackett will lead the Columbia Theatre stock company in Washington for a few weeks starting May 11 with a slate of his successful plays. Eugene Walters to write a new piece for Miss Viola Allen next season. Miss Eleanor Roberts plans a London summer appearance in Salomy Jane. Lulu Glaser to appear with Shubert in the Viennese opera The Girl Who Dared. Margaret Wycherly moving to vaudeville with a novelty act. Fawcett starring in The Squaw Man in London and Pudd'nhead Wilson mystery cited.
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James K. Hackett
Columbia Theater
Washington
Eugene Walters
Viola Allen
Hbleanor Roberts
London
Salomy Jane
Margaret Wycherly
Ae ‘Fawcett
Record of Basil Boothby the American bound engineer
Basil Tanfield Boothby, veteran rail builder and explorer, arrives in America after 13 years in tropics. From Uganda to Mombassan, he led campaigns against Wakikuo tribes, survived lion hunting, and helped construct the Uganda railway. He later worked on the Andes crossing and the Shanghai Nanking line, facing Chilean negotiations and likin hurdles.
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Basil Tanfield
Boothby
Tropics
America
England
Uganda
Africa
British Foreign Office
Mombassan
Walton Harrison
Harrison
Great Gift Valley
Andes
South America
Buenos Ayres
Valparaiso
China
Shanghai-Nanking
Uoon
Likin
Chinese Imperial Railways
Chicago’s Great Subway Opens Freight Lifeline
The Chicago freight subway, a 45 mile underground network costing about 30 million dollars, aims to speed up freight movement, ease street congestion, and boost business in the city. The system duplicates streets 25 to 40 feet below ground, connecting depots, warehouses, factories, stores, and merchants across a two mile square area. China builds railroads as Manchurian lines resume through traffic. the Hsinmintun Mukden line cost 1 646 000 and the Shanghai Nankin railway extends toward Nankin with several sections opening in 1906 and 1907 as Canton Kowloon lines advance.
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Chicago
China
Hsinmintun Mukden
Shanghai-Nankin
Chinklang
Nankin
Kalgan
Chentung-Taidan
Pekin-Hankow
Kalfeng
Chenchou
Canton-Kowloon
Canada’s transcontinental route under way to Pacific
Canada’s Atlantic Moncton to Pacific Prince Rupert rail line, a 3000 mile plus project, is progressing and expected to be completed by April 1, 1941, at an estimated cost.
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Canada
Moncton
Atlantic
Prince Rupert
Pacific
The Mixed Court of Shanghai and Its Brutal Practices
A described visit to Shanghai's Mixed Court outlines how Chinese and foreign officials share jurisdiction. Prisoners kneel. punishments include bambooing, cangue, and public shaming. Bribery corrupts judges, executioners, and even witnesses, with bribe buyers escaping or altering sentences.
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Acene
China
Sing Sing
Social Evening Pup and Kosk wine Joke
A Sunday school scene turns awkward when a bull terrier enters the room and a boy says his bull pup Ike grew into a bloodhound. The lecturer mentions Athabascans and Kosk owine river, sparking an interruption by a spinster leaving to the Kosk owoine trail.
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Ike
Koskowine
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Marquee Claims Public Cure All Dreaded Disease
A 1900s newspaper snippet touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh and constitutional disease, promising to pay $100 for any case it fails to cure, with testimonials and postal address for F. J. Cheney & Co. Also mentions Hall’s Family Pills and other ads.
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Santages
Hail
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ail Druggista, TS
Hall
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Laura Hope Crews
Otis Skinner
Grace de Grammont
Margaret Anglin
Henry Miller
Edgar Allan Woolf
Mr. Sothern
Marshall P. Wilder
Joseph B. Bowles
Shanghai
Barchet
ST TN
Meekison
Peruna
David Meekison
Jacob L. Davis
Galena
Stone County
C. N. Peterson
South Main St
Council Bluffs
Iowa
D. C. Prosser
Bravo
Allegan Co
Mich
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus, Ohio
Minnesota
G. Iverson
St. Paul
Minn
George Eliot
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Mines Investing CO
Wall Street
New York West Bank
Ar Bsc
Bsc
the Alabastine Company
Grand Rapida, Mich
Water Street
Bow Tork City
Senne Tourm
Attus
TS Eras Ae
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