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Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Apr 10, 1909

Page

3

Vaudeville at the Grand Stars Julie Herne and More

Indianapolis audiences will see Julie Herne daughter of the late James A. Herne in A Mountain Cinderella with a chosen company. Augusta Glose, Gus Kountry Kids, The Detcing Millers, Happy Gardner, Morrow and Schellberg, and Leo Donnelly headline a diverse vaudeville bill with Kinodrome shorts and a grand stage program. Corinne arrives at the Park Theatre with Lola From Berlin, a three act musical comedy featuring German songs and a wide cast led by Corinne.

Indianapolis Julie Herne James A. Herne Miss Herne George D. Parker Tennessee Mountains Miss Hene America Augusta Glose Grand C. S. Leeds Orpheum Louis Weslyn Jones India Rapolis Wittmark Music Publishing Company New York Miss Glose Wittmark Press Gus Kountry Kids Miss Rose Morrow & Schellberg ,Co Leo Donnelly Rice and Eimer Chinatown Grand Canal Venice

Phantom De Melodrama Opens at Park Theater

Oriental splendor and barbaric wealth set the mood as a foreign potentate stars in a strange musical melodrama. The production, staged by op d and Clifford Amusement, features hypnotist and principal characters amid thrills and sensational atmosphere.

Park Theater Opd & Clifford Amusement

Majestic to Stage Forepaughs The Idler Next Week

The Majestic Theater presents Forepaughs sensational The Idler starting next week with a strong stock company cast. The production promises an elaborate, highly balanced performance and broad appeal in a natural drama of modern society.

the Majestic Forepaugh the Idler Charles Frolman Haddon Chambers W.fe David Belasco Frohman Idler Herbert Kelcey Georgia Effie Shannon Henrietta Crosman Eugene Ormonde Walter Clark Bellows Indianapolis

Empire Theater Hosts Ducklings Burlesque Tour

The Empire circuit welcomes a new burlesque act titled The Ducklings with 30 maidens in elaborate costumes. The show, praised as a novelty of the season, is set to arrive at the Empire theater next week.

Empire Empire Theater

Broadway Burlesque Stars Lead The Janitor Revival

Star comedians headline the Broadway success The Janitor with dazzling electrical effects and five elegant scenes. Featured acts include Louie Dacre Eva Tanguay the European Berg Family Boyle and George Murphy and Magee Miss Frankie La Marche James Brennan and Kel ly s Irish Bar closing burlesque with the Ducklings. Wednesday brings Gotch Mahmout wrestling results by wire.

Louie Dacre Eva Tanguay Mr. Brown Berg Boyle and George Murphy Magee Frankie la Marche Electric Battery James Brennan

New Gayety to Stage Three Methven Sisters in High Class Vaudeville

The three Methven sisters lead the New Gayety next week with an original song act drawing crowds. The sisters sing in harmony with six costume changes, with Lulu Thies performing a blackface routine alongside Jack and Claire as instrumentalists, John and Alice McDowell in a comedy sketch, and George Peltzer as baritone. Two new moving pictures are added to the regular amateur nights. Monday novelty night reopens with The Three O Clock Train. Colored amateurs appear Wednesday, whites Friday.

Methven Lulu Thies Jack Claire John Alice McDowell George Peltzer Gayety Company

Orpheum Opens To Warm Welcome With New Films

Since opening last week the Orpheum on Washington near Pennsylvania has become a household word. Patrons praise the cozy theater and its animated pictures and songs. Next week's first three days feature Moscow in Winter The Tramp at the Masquerade The Lost Dog The Spy On the Western Frontier and other new films never before shown in this city. A full new bill will be shown Thursday and for the rest of the week.

Orpheum Moving Picture Theater Washington Pennsylvania Street Playhouse Moscow Washington Street Moving Picture Palace Wea Acme Jswo

The Flame of Destiny in a Hotel Parlor

Two ladies discuss marriage in a hotel parlor. One says she is single and proud of it. The other notes a passing woman who has been widowed four times and cremated husbands, while the speaker boasts of having multiple suitors.

Belasco Secures German Comedy Die Thur ins Freie for Open Door

Chicago and New York news report David Belasco has secured the German comedy Die Thur ins Freie for next season to be titled The Open Door with adaptation by Leo Ditrichstein. Blanche Bates ends her run in The Fighting Hope at Belasco tonight as Frances Starr remains in The Easiest Way at the Stuyvesant. Major talents like Virginia Harned and Frances Starr join a Clara Morris testimonial program at the New York theater, while Guy Bates Post leaves Paid in Full to headline The Bridge by Rupert Hughes. A spring tour and a Matinee of The Golden Girl are teased by Chicago management for next week.

David Belasco America Living Place Theater New York Oscar Blumenthal Gustav Kadelburg White Horse Tavern Mr. Belasco Leo Ditrichstein Blanche Bates Belasco Theater Frances Starr Walter Stuyvesant Theater Clara Morris New York Theater Lady Windermere Virginia Harned Elsie An Dorothy Tennant Eliza.Proctor Otis E. M. Holland Edwin Arden William Courtenay Robert Warwick Lawrance D’orsay William Eliott Edgar Norton Guy Bates Post Joe Brooks Eugene Walter Grand Opera Hovee Harrison Grey Fiske Rupert Hughes Alexander the Great

Golden Haired Girl Admitted Free To Matinee

A golden haired girl who can prove her natural hair color will gain free admission to the matinee after an expert confirms no bleaching. Malvina Longfellow stars in The Great John Gantor at Garrick Chicago in her first speaking part and previously appeared in The Rose of the Rancho. George M. Cohan announces plans to build a Chicago theater, stirring theatrical circles, with sites eyed including the old Orpheum and a block opposite the Colonial. The Shepherd King at the Auditorium features music by A Perlmuter and H Wohl, Russian refugees found in a New York tenement by Wright Lorimer who stars in the play. Lorimer’s leading role is noted alongside Frank Sadler’s arrangement of the score. Lee Kohlmar, of The Boy and the Girl at the Whitney, abandons vaudeville to finish the season with a musical show.

Corinne Park Theater Lola Berlin Liberty Theater New York City Klaw & Erlanger John J. McNally William Jerome Jean Schwartz Erik Myer Helmund New York America Mark Sullivan Hazel Carlton Franklin Vail Henry Carl Lewis Lillie May White Osborn Clemson Lillian Wilson Freddie Stott Pearl Revare Franker Woods Bonnie Ingeborg Malvina Longfellow John Gantor The Garrick Chicago Rancho Shuberts Boston George M. Cohan Cohan Orpheum Washington Street Shepherd King Auditorium A.perlmutter H. Wohl Russia Wright Lorimer Lorimer Frank Sadler Lee Kohlmar the Whitney

Fine Country Home Destroyed by Flames

Glenwold, the country home of Claude Griffith, one mile west of Broad Ripple, was destroyed by fire Friday night. Mr and Mrs Griffith hosted Mr and Mrs Thomas Potter Jr at dinner when flames broke out in an upstairs room. Guests aided briefly but fled as the house burned rapidly. The fire likely started from an open grate. Loss estimated at 90000 with about half insured.

Glenwold Claude Grifth Broad Ripple Griffith Thomas Potter, Jr Iiqurance

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