Durant Family Gun Plot Sets Stage For Love and Rivalry
Frances Durant, heiress of the Durant works, courts Lieut. Sommers while rival manager Edward Pinckney schemes to push a new Rhinestrom gun ahead of Sommers’s model. Durant returns home to a house of tensions as business and romance collide.
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J Wes
Durant Tee Works
Somers
United States Navy
Durant
Frances
Oere Pinckney
Works
Pinckney
Pinckey
Sommers
Durant Works
Marsh
Francee
Pluteburg
George Durant
George
Edward
Lieut. Sommers
Wireless room intrigue and theater chatter in notes
A fragmentary piece blends a girl instructor in wireless telegraphy with backstage theater notes. It recounts her learning from Edward, rigging a top floor station, and a testy exchange with Mr Sommers. The column shifts to reviews of Otis Skinner in The Honor of the Family and stage details at the Grand Opera House Chicago.
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Edward
Sommers
Frances
How to Get Rid of Catarrh by Dr Blosser Secret Remedy
Sufferers of catarrh are offered a home treatment by Dr J Blosser of Atlanta Georgia. The method promises to cleanse the head nose throat and lungs and cure catarrh without harming the stomach. Readers may request free trial medicine and an illustrated booklet by mailing their address to 62 Walton Street Atlanta.
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Blosser
Hattie Williams Stars in Fluffy Ruffles at Illinois Theatre
Chicagostage notes praise Hattie Williams in Fluffy Ruffles at the Illinois Theatre. The comic musical features Williams in multiple costumes, with a lively chorus and the song Won’t You Harmonize With Me. The review highlights humor, fashion, and Williams’s performance.
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Chicago
Hattie Williams
Fluffy Ruffles
The
Illinois
Fluffy Ruffies
Fluffy
Cabby
Paris
Hattie
Arizona
Sage Brush
Camille D Arville Captivates Grand Audience In Vaudeville
Camille D Arville, billed as the American Prima Donna though born in Holland, charms Grand audiences with a multilingual vaudeville act and an array of stunning costumes. Her stage presence is hypnotic and her opinions on modern theatre spark lively interest.
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Camille D’arville
Miss D’arville
Holland
Amsterdam
America
W-S. D'Arville
Mme. Schumann-Heink
Miss D'Arville
Park Theater Bill Changes and New Cast at Matinee
Park theater announces a matinee today with Joseph Santley performing Billy the Kid by popular demand alongside the hit Lucky Jim. THE NINETY AND NINE American drama returns Thursday to Saturday with a new scenic and technical setup. The Promoters musical comedy revival by Ward and Vokes arrives Monday Jan 18 for three days with twenty tunes and Lucy Daly featuring Sympathetic Sue in a localized set.
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New York Academy of Music
Park Theater
James D. Barton
Ward
Vokes
Lucy Daly
Sue
Shore Acres at Majestic Impresses Audiences This Week
Forepaugh stock company presents Shore Acres at the Majestic to test company and management. The home like tale pleases with purity and dramatic strength, while strong performances by the Forepaugh players mirror the play’s wholesome charm. Next comes Strongheart by Robert Eccleson, promising a modern college life drama with football.
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Shore Acres
Shores Acres
The
Majestic
Robert Eccleson
Strongheart
Robert Edeson
Cupid in the pulpit offers pro posing wisdom for lovers
Beatrice Fairfax relays advice from a St. Louis pastor on love and matrimony. The piece argues courtship should avoid turning marriage into tragedy, notes the folly of platonic love, and says proposals occur in plain moments, not romantic excess. Audiences must judge their own timing and method.
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St. Louis
Cupid
Remarkable Bag Puncher Demonstrates Ten-Bag Feat
The performer claims to have never been matched in the world as he strikes ten bags simultaneously using hands feet and head. While in Indianapolis Heinz will conduct several exhibitions in local gymnasiums.
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Indianapolis
Heinz
New Gaiety Colored Amateurs At The New Gaiety
The New Gaiety features amateur acts tonight following the second show. The general bill is billed as one of the best offered at this popular family playhouse.
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Family Playhouse
The Pickpockets in a New Drama at Chicago Grand Opera House
Arnold Daly stars in The Pickpockets at the Chicago Grand Opera House. A new play by C M S McLellan uses a large strike as its hub to explore capital and labor with Daly portraying a progressive Pennsylvania capitalist who investigates the causes of the strike.
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Chicago Grand Opera House
Chicago
Arnold Daly
C. M.S. McLellan
Daly
Pennsylvania
Army leads federal troops quell violence at Grand
Miss Fernand Eliscu stars in a brief engagement at the Grand. The show opens Sunday evening, January 17, with federal troops on duty to quell the violence reported in the city.
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Fernand Eliscu
the Grand
Sneaker Cannon Becomes Grandfather Says Courier Journal
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes Sneaker Cannon is now a grandfather. It states he has long served as a combined stepfather and Dutch uncle for several terms.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Sneaker Cannon
Washington Post
The Masks
A witty quip about a married couple meeting at a masked ball and now traveling together in their car. The remark plays on disguise and domestic life with a light, humorous tone.
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Jugend
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Mr. Durant
Edward Pinckney
Bommers
Dad
Martha Volkman
Syracuse
New York
Messina
Bert Leslie
William Norris
Augustus Traddles
William
Tribune
Norris
Rimini
Dodo
Grand Opera House
Chi
Cago
Otis Skinner
Bridan
Masonic Temple
Flora
Siegfried
Stage News of Chicago
Overcen
Speglee
Majestic Theater
Empire Theater
George Herts
Uncle Sam
Belles Company
Empire
Herts
Beatrice Fairfax
Liebler and Company
Gillette
Vonnegut Hardware CO
East
Washington St
J.H. Reed
Jeweler
West
Washington Street
J. Francis Wilson
Newton Cly Oot
Coughlin & Wilson Dental Co
Jes. Tf. Young
Mgr
Broadway
Columbia National
E. Washington
Serset
Dehaven Wall Paper CO
Darby
Bee
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