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Newspaper

Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Apr 09, 1910

Page

4

This Week in Local Playhouses Featured Bills

This week offers Mufat Walker Whiteside in The Melting Pot this afternoon and tonight, Rose Stahl in The Chorus hats tonight, and Arvine and company in The Heart of Maryland this afternoon and tonight. Bernard comes to Shubert Murat for a week starting Monday with The Girl and the Wizard through April 7, plus upcoming New Theater Company engagement and stars Frank Daniels and Charles the First acts.

Mufat Walker Whiteside Rose Stahl Seeet Ae Arvine and Company Maryland Jupire Martines Bernard Sam Shubert Murat Sihere Berrard Indianapolia Bete J. Hurt- Ery Manners Julian Edwards Eomponer Austrian Tyrol Murat New Theater Company New Theater New York New York Institution Winthrop Arces Sam Bernard S—J. E. Dodson Lillian Russell Ark George Arvyine and Company

Grand week of vaudeville and drama at the Park theater

A reader’s guide to next weeks offerings features Charles the First, the Fords, Brown Harris and Brown, and other comic acts plus the high class drama The Love Route by Edward Peple at the Park theater with a rail road plot and stage derricks. Henry Lee impersonator arrives at the Colonial with a slate of national figures and Strictly Business vaudeville sketches. Majestic starts twinned shows with Vean McElroy Earl Goforth Leona Mercedes and others, plus amateurs prizes.

Harles Charles Ae Grand Pig the Grand Schsnapolis San George Arvine the Park Theater Edward Peple Lincoln Square Theater New York Peple Texas John Ashby Louise Dunbar Allene Houston Willebe Herr Heinrich von Bludelhoff Frank Jones James Happington T. M. & N. Railway Company Harry Preston Coffin Clever Topham Francis Joyner Stuart Polk Kentucky Earl Metcalf Carver New Jersey James Harris Majestic Majestic Theater Anderson-Ziegler Company Vean McElroy Earl Goforth Bella Doyle Larry Rider Iwwaichi Leona Mercedes Comedienne West and Denton Dor O'Neil Flint, George & Co

Kentucky Belles at Empire theater enriches big burlesque program

Robert Gordon presents the Kentucky Belles chorus from a top burlesque company at the Empire theater next week. The troupe showcases singing and dancing in two one act musical comedies A Girl from Albany and A Texas Desperado by Frank Graham who also writes the book and lyrics. Special electrical effects and costumes accompany numbers such as A Wise Old Owl in the Tree Old Scarecrow and Chicquita My Spanish Queen. Frank Graham Edith Randall star in a farce A Gay Od Boy with Deery and Francis in a refined act. Mlle La Belle Helene performs An Egyptian Sunn Dance and Joe Opp appears as a German comedian.

Robert Gordon Empire Theater Albany Frank Graham Clty Edith Randall Deery Francis Mlle la Belle Helene Joe Opp

Chesapeake and Ohio and CCCL Rail Merger Promised

Richmond April 9 President Stevens of Chesapeake and Ohio says a merger with the Cincinnati Chicago and Louisville is declared to be a matter of a short time.

Richmond Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Cincinnati, Chicago and Louisville Stevens

Sir Morgan Crofton Divorced Over Elopement

London April 9 Sir Morgan Crofton was divorced from his wife after Lady Crofton's elopement to America with James E Montague. The pair's actions prompted the divorce and created a public sensation in society circles.

Morgan London Sir Morgan Crofton Lady Crofton America James E. Montague

Census Rules Guide Enumerators For 1910 Population Count

Washington outlines select census instructions for enumerators beginning April 15. It covers language terms, occupation classing, and prioritizing the most lucrative or time spent occupation when a person holds multiple jobs. The tone notes decorum and the need for accuracy amid varied locales.

Washington Tsintwar Kutzo-Vlach College of Instruction Old Custom House Baker Hinta

Bank of England may pay out immense fortune in 18th century romance

London April 9 The Bank of England may soon disgorge a fortune of 35 million dollars tied to a century old tale. A Northampton laborer named George Mobbs claims direct descent from a runaway marriage between a poor man and a wealthy heiress, asserting he can prove the union and present a church register entry. A London law firm backs his pedigree and asserts he can locate where the marriage occurred.

London Bank of England Mobbs Precnier Pytchley Ball Chancery Northampton George Mobbs

Traction Line Seeks Right of Way Through City

The Indianapolis Newcastle and Toledo Electric Railway petitions the Board of Public Works for a right of way via Nineteenth Street to Parker Avenue, under the Belt railroad by subway, to Eighteenth Street and to the Traction and Terminal station, while residents north of Brookside Park urge laying tracks on Twentieth Street instead of Nineteenth Street.

Indianapolis, Newcastle & Toledo Electric Railway Company Board of Public Works Today Nineteenth Street Parker Avenue Eighteenth Street Brookside Avenue Twentieth Street Brookside Park

Turkey gets new telephone system

In Constantinople on April 9 a Turkish committee was formed to study a new Ottoman telephone network. The plan aims to connect Jerusalem and Mecca with Constantinople and cover major Ottoman cities, with completion expected by year end. The move signals the spread of telephone service across the region.

Constantinople Christendom Islam Jerusalem Mecca Ottoman Empire

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