CAKEWALK A CALAMITY Edwardes Says It Almost Ruined the Musical Play
Edwardes, London Gaiety manager, visits America to preview The Duchess of Dantate and promote real musical theater over cakewalks. He argues American audiences must accept musical plays as here to stay and notes England has already embraced them.
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Ivorge Edwardes
London
Gaiety
America
Playa
Jong Te
Atlantic
Aaiity Kana
Tiwan Edwardes
Edwardes
Grand vaudeville at the Grand and Park Street shows
The Grand features Konchas the European juggler and a refined vaudeville bill with acts by Conchas, Cooper, Robinson, and the Maowatts, plus The Family Shytec at English's. Park Street opens Deserted at the Altar with Jasper Daubs as detective foil ensuring lovers’ escape from counterfeiters in a melodramatic ending.
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Lek Wiegele
Fetrale
Amd
Caudeville
Paul Cone
Utik
George W. Cooper
Willam Robinson
Maowatts
Init
Need and Shaw
Aymnasts
Howard
Truesdales and Company Weed
Jasper Daubs
Park Stonday
Daub
Sherlock Holmes
Paul Darrow
Mrs. Burgoyne
Frank Creighton
Nelle Dorsey
Johnnile-on
Darrow
Empire Theatre Highlights A Mixed bill of acts
A lively Empire programme features dramatic swordplay and chase scenes with a witchlike pursuer abducting Uneroine, plus a feisty vaudeville turn by the Halter troupe and new acts. Critics praise Laney Watkin and Rick Cleyde riding tricks, while the Dramatic Reading by Conner offers Shakespearean merit at Claypool Hotel. The unique show opens with The Rank Agent and gathers varied, mostly wholesome entertainment before late-week audiences.
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Hilary
the Empire
Utley Theater
Ten
Wired
Sone Laney Watkin
Rick Cleyde
Hermann Ie
Hermans
Years Ago Today Chronicle of World and City Events
A compact retrospective lists events from 100 to ten years ago. It recalls French sailors aiding at a public sale in Amsterdam, Moraccan tribute, a New York snowfall, Smithsonian fire damage, Garibaldi in Italy, English prestige in Africa and Britain’s miseries, and a firestorm with heavy losses at Brindisi.
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New York
Miss Lawford Denies Engagement With Joe Lester
Miss Lawford, star and owner of the touring play An American Woman, denies reports that she is engaged to Joe Lester the young capitalist. The denial follows circulating gossip during the show’s national tour.
Social Roundup Across Terre Haute Shelbyville and Indianapolis
Mrs Henry Wycott returns to orders while EL H Daugherty visits Shelbyville. Mira Ella Wilkinson guests Terre Haute. Mixes Nevsletons of Anderson and others travel between Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Meetings and entertainments noted at Meridian Street home and various clubs.
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O1ders
EL. H. Daugherty
Shelbyville
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Mire
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Terre Haare
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WA. Woodruff
Fiehbuck
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Peragnen
Sonbay
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Beame
Sayre
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Geetrude Marhtid
Mary Somit
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Toreity
Haute
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Tata
Maude Maines
Tov
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Air
Sulder
Mattinerinie
Margaret Wabl
Roberta Annex
Monn
Dog Swallows Mrs Thurston’s Watch in Seattle
Mrs J Thurston of Seattle Missed her watch and believed thieves stole it. A dog’s stomach told the tale when a vet and a surgeon retrieved the watch intact. The dog, delighted, scampered about the house after regaining the prize.
Pretty Girl Posed as Boy for Years in Ohio City Tale
A French English girl raised as a boy since childhood confesses at City Hospital in Cincinnati after a nervous collapse. The sex-shifted youth, known as Frank Williams, worked as a saloon bar boy and canvasser while living as a man, then revealed her true identity to her jealous husband and doctors.
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Ater
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Columbus
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Mansard
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