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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1908
Page
3
U S Senator from South Carolina M C Butler writes from Washington praising Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble. He mentions using Peruna and feeling revitalized, calling it a wonderful medicine and a good tonic. The note promotes Peruna Tablets and a Free Peruna Almanac for 1909.
A vast sum remains idle in the paymaster general’s custody for the Supreme Court suitors. About £50,000 in securities is held, including £26,126.14 in British government bonds and other assets such as railway, Indian government, corporate, local authority, and initial government securities. A notable item is a bag marked Jones v Lloyd dated Aug 9 17267, guarded for nearly two centuries.
An exchange defines a confirmed bachelor as any bachelor who is liable to marry tomorrow, with the humorous punchline implying the term is a tease about imminent marriage rather than a fixed status. The joke relies on wordplay and social expectations.
The Grand Opera House offers a varied program with music, tragedy, Irish comedy, and athletic novelty. John and Mae Burk star in How Patsy Went to War while Emmett Corrigan presents His Last Performance. Sadie Sherman impresses as the central favorite with graceful impersonations and thanks the crowd. Delmore sisters entertain with southern river melodies, Besnah and Miller please, and Valveno Tresk showcase gymnastic feats. Kino dromes deliver lively fun and spectacle.
The Park theater opens a week long engagement led by Bonita and a strong troupe in a musical revue. Acts include burlesque parodies of David Warfield and Caruso, a Gibson Girl number, pony ballet, and a satire on Three Weeks. Nat Carr Lew Hearn Mamie Walter star in several pieces along with a large company.
Majestic Theater presents The Warrens of Virginia by William C. de Mille under David Belasco. Frank Keenan and Charlotte Walker star with a strong company as Indianapolis audiences hail the production as a major dramatic treat and curtain calls run frequently for the cast led by Keenan.
Bonita star of the Wine Woman and Song company to appear at the Park theater all week in Indianapolis. She is famed as a singer and dancer with 17 art posing medals and has posed for numerous portraits in New York galleries. Bonita credits happiness and a positive outlook for her good looks amid public scrutiny.
The review lauds Violet Rand and Charles Waldron in The Warrens of Virginia with Walker as Agatha Warren and Keenan as Gen. Buck Warren. Performances near Apommattox evoke Belasco detail. The bill features Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall and vaudeville acts by Lyda Carlisle Lillian Perry Nellie Granville and more.
A lively Gayety show last night drew strong audience praise with an old time fiddler taking top prize. Harry Martine’s comedy act delighted patrons while Mabel May’s contortionist performance impressed. The feature pictorial playlet, The Lubman and the Tramp, drew attention. Tomorrow night will spotlight colored amateurs.
Lux presents a pantomime revival titled For Love of Country set in early colonial days. The play features Ruben and his wife in a log cabin, with a British raid and capture themes, amid fine scenery and the song Let's Play House performed by Prof. Downey.
Eddie Mack, a Tac ian, impersonates an Italian organ grinder to an Irish policeman with versatility. He carries the performance, switching characters as he appears in each needed figure. The act blends comic impersonations with other comedians and a chorus of pretty show girls singing tuneful songs as the burlesque begins with an original opener titled Tha.
A bedridden patient Tompkins survives a severe illness with help from doctors and a nurse who brightens his days. He asks Edith to marry him but she reveals her affection was part of the treatment to keep him cheerful. She plans to run away with a legless man, a darkly comic Penny Magazine twist.
A humorous sketch features a golf professional warning a beginner that mastery comes only after intense years of practice. The exchange underscores caution about rapid success and the stubborn, slow process of learning the game.
A New York dramatist visits a famed player's dressing room and receives a French appeal for help from an actor who prides himself on French. The player instantly lends the amount requested. A friend questions the decision, then the player confesses he cannot read French but fears exposure as unable to read the note.
A child argues with his mother about school after the day’s remark by his teacher. Willie defends the teacher’s kindness, while the mother threatens to pull him from class, prompting Willie to grin and exit.
A divorce case dialogue highlights a sharp temper as a witness retorts that she inherited her husband from his ancestors. The attorney questions the claim, while the witness defends her temperament as inheritable through marriage. The exchange appears in the Chicago Tribune.
The scene features Mrs. Chopsticks and the Professor discussing the absent Willie at around ten to eleven o'clock. Martha pours water as Mrs. Chopsticks admits worry over Willie’s whereabouts while the Professor recalls a memory connected to a past incident of Willie falling down a well.
A conversational snippet notes a spectator asking about the show last evening and mentions Mrs Brown seen at the venue with a mysterious man, signaling gossip about social attendance and relationships.
Humorous exchange from Harper's Weekly sketches a girl listing wants and contraries. A playful dialogue contrasts a child’s wish list with a mysterious wishbone gag, framed in London Ideas style.
A daughter and her brother were shot at their New York home by their father Charles Loose. The father killed Miss Meta Loose in a rage over another daughter's marriage while Rev. F. W. Loose was also struck by gunfire.
A Kansas City Journal remark imagines what would occur if the hero fails to rescue the heroine in time. The manager shudders at the thought of the costly piledriver being wrecked, highlighting melodramatic stakes.
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