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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
3
The Grand features A Modern Pocahontas with Joseph F. Goss praised for conceiving the show. Mrs Goss and Emma Rainey share strong ties with the cast as Miss Rainey travels from Carlisle background to Indianapolis locales and beyond. The production blends romance and spectacle with period costumes and scenic mounts.
Park Theater presents Dion O'Dare featuring Fiske O'Hara and a strong company. The opening Thursday performances drew large crowds with O'Hara delivering a fine tenor voice and many original songs. The light hearted Irish lead elicits laughter as the Wicklow inn setting frames a pretty tale of two travelers saved from danger.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as common sense relief for indigestion. It argues the stomach needs nerves fluids and nourishment from blood and claims the tablets enhance gastric juices, stop gas, and aid digestion. Spelling errors aside, it encourages readers to send name and address for a free trial package from F A Stuart Co in Michigan.
Forepaugh Stock Company performs The Man on the Box and then presents Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Majestic Christmas week. The play features a medicine that turns Dr Jekyll into Mr Hyde, a duality theme with a moral clash and murder. A funny one act sketch F A F F precedes the main offering. A holiday matinee is scheduled for Christmas Day with a Thursday matinee omitted for that week.
The Empire Theater this week offers a two act musical show titled Mr Wise From Broadway staged by the Brigailérs company. The lively production features song and dance as a vaudeville style centerpiece for local audiences.
New Gayety's manager Crose promises varied entertainment and several new embryonic stars as contestants. The bill includes The Feud and the Turkey, a Kentucky mountains story with a Christmas feature, and other comedy-filled features.
The Manhattan screens a western life play A Montana Schoolmarm with a lively schoolroom scene. A big boy, a stern teacher, a dance cap punishment, romantic pursuit by cowboys, a prize fight, elopement, shooting and hanging follow. Krause Brothers advertises fair dealing and quality with new emporium ambitions.
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