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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1908
Page
11
Miss Annie Catron of Cincinnati reports a long struggle with catarrh of the head and throat. She credits Peruna with a complete cure within a month and notes improved general health, adding that Peruna tablets provide a solid medicine option.
Ray Raymond stars in The Candy Kid at Park Theater as a breezy musical melodrama with fast numbers and bright comedy. Wanda Ludlow plays Bonnie Bosworth while Capt. Robert Bosworth and Emanuel Lopez propel the plot through a Yale college opening, a rapid-fire gun invention, and vivid stage effects.
A military brass band of 40 young women called the Navassars performs at Fair Bank this week with 18 soloists led by directress Augusta Dial. The group draws its name from Navajo and Vassar Girls and features varied selections with notable lighting effects and distinctive music. The Six Hall Sisters are another well known act on the stage.
The Navassars prove volume and clarity of brass sound, challenging the notion that proper embouchure is required for larger instruments. The band’s performance echoes across the hill and throughout the park.
Bert Morphy declared he would marry the Irish girl who sings loudest on the refrain at Wonderland. The Trish baritone performed despite a cold, drawing a free vaudeville audience to hear his cyclonic voice and lively political parodies. The crowd joined in on Tim Toolan and other songs, with Irish and feminine voices clearly heard in the hall. Murphy, a witty son of Erin, is popular for his singing and verse writing.
Florence Gerald Clark claims Paid in Full is an unauthorized adaptation of her 1907 1908 work An Idol of Clay. Walter denies knowledge of Clark and says the story came from real life divorce papers and not from her plays. He is in Chicago reviewing a cast for the production.
At Fairview Park Thursday evening Indianapolis Military band directed by H W Klausmann will perform selections from Buffalo News Losey Prince of Pilsen Luders and Gruenwald pieces with dances and humor numbers. Riverside Park visitors note Laughner's steam table dairy lunch draws many hungry parkgoers as lunch remains ready and hot.
At Riverside park, several hundred people have discovered the dairy lunch for quick service, cleanliness, and home cooking, appreciating its convenience in daily meals.
The Grand presents a program adding live acts to its pictures that talk. The show centers on the directoire gown as four Indianapolis girls perform a sketch titled The Revelation of the Broadway Girl with Miss Ethel Stelhern in the stellar role.
An Indianapolis ad touts possum its extraordinary skin remedy claims for eczema pimples and rash with overnight results. The 50 cent package and $2 jar sold by Weber Drug Co and other druggists, free samples available by writing Emergency Laboratories New York City.
Ollie Mack, also known as Ollie Trumbull, has arrived for a short city visit before joining his theatrical company Mur ray and Mack in rehearsals for Eugene Walter's The Sunnyside of Broadway. After a Colorado rest, he embarks on his seventeenth road year, splitting time between pleasure and business with Ed E. Daley. Rehearsals will occur in the east due to a moving picture lease at Gnayety, with a Park theater three day engagement to follow, featuring a large cast of about 56.
In a tense scene, Mona Kennard reunites with her father but the baron von Metzler pressures her to marry him. A confrontation with Kate Douglas and One-Eyed Pete ends in Kennard felled and the baron's plan to flee with Mona moving toward a staged elopement. Kate orders darkness for an exit while Pete confirms Kennard is dead.
The French government sought vital statistics from Damascus province. The Pasha replies death is the law of Allah with people dying young and old. He also notes that Damascus has died of thirst and urges that such questions concern only God, offering general remarks on local sanitation.
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