Wonderland Park Vaudeville All Week Schedule
Wonderland Park offers free vaudeville through the week featuring the Zamora family and others with animal acts including elephant and camel rides. White City presents Baby incubator with jumval interest, Stendorf's band, vaudeville and otter attractions. Fair Bank Park showcases Weber's Prison Band of America with Miss Blanche Mehaffey soprano concerts and ragtime encores. Avondale Heights hosts nightly vaudeville and the one act farce The Chets Revenge.
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Wonderland Park
Zamora
White CiTy
Stendorf
Fair Bank Park
Weber's
Wonderland Fireworks and Animal Show Attract Crowds
Wonderland hosts Friday night fireworks light display and a Sunday 4 PM Queen Lil elephant show in the lagoon. Manager Frank Wicks once fell into the lake during a previous performance to the crowd’s amusement. The Zamora aerialists Wells and Sclts and Hi Greenway juggle on the open air platform while Queen Lil and Holy Mages draw large queues nightly. The Gaskill show turns away many visitors and remains a city favorite in the park.
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Wonderland
Paris
Queen Lil
Snow
Frank Wicks
Zamora
Wells
Sclts
Hi Greenway
Lil
Gaskill
Friday Night Amateur Program At Avon Dale Heights
An unusual program at Avon Dale Heights Friday night features novelties unseen on the Indianpolis stage. Soprano Dorothy Elingston will sing several pleasing numbers including Dry Dusky Rose and Why Don t You Try, acclaimed in New York. Kelly's concert orchestra presents March Deed of the Pen Waltz Gloriana Medley overture Hite 1908 March Mat n Chance Overture The Hem Tre Waltz Towers Confession Selection PHT Patt Po ut March Sta Peep Overture Vanderbilt Cup Characteristic Happy Heinte es Bhrenser Halos
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Avondale Heights
Thia
Tndlangpolis
Mica Dorothy Elington
New York
Kelly
Mareh
Hite
Tove
Fair Bank Parables On Band Leadership And Fame
The article discusses how a band’s showy leadership can draw crowds even when not musically strong, citing Sam Carey’s critique of Weber's band and a Chicago experiment by Brooke's military band. It notes Brooke’s success in public perception despite limited audience turnout and highlights forthcoming performances at Fair Bank featuring soprano Blanche Mehaffey and works by Offenbach Puccini Strauss Verdi and others.
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Sam Carey
Weber
Mr. Weber
Mr. Carey
Brooke
Chicago
Air. Carey
Rector Grooke
Alm
Naples
Luqung
Fair Bank
Blanche Mehaffey
Louis Westyn
Indianapolis
Verewes
Howard Offenbach
Orpheu
Rizolett” Eos
Verdi
Atest Wels
McCana
Kuhn
Karl Kohlmann
Johnny Jones
Cohan
Flo
New York
Boston Lawson
Yankee Doodle Bay
Local social notes from a Midwest city social circle
Miss Hazel Keating of North Jersey hosts Miss Edith Snider of Terre Haute and others at Walloon Lake summer home. Mrs. John N Carey travels to Mackinac with daughters. Mrs. William W Jamson returns to Lafayette after Indianapolis visit. Several families visit Pendleton and Marion, with trips to Indianapolis and Atwood City. Engagements and marriages noted include Miss Agnes Pattie’s return from Vevay and Miss Elsie Patterson’s wedding to Charles Blorack in Massachusetts Avenue, officiated by Rev. Nickish. newlyweds to reside at 1307 Massachusetts Ave after July 2.
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Elsie Patterson
Charles B. Blurack
Massachusetts Ave
Nickish
O'¢Ieck
Body Exhumed In Knudson Death Case In Chicago
Coroner Hoffman and State officials investigate the death of Mrs. Johanna Knudson of West Pullman. Exhumed body sent to Rush Medical College for chemical tests seeking arsenic traces. Knudson insured for 2500. husband silent on payout amid broader Hoch case parallels. Mrs. Knudson died March 17 after a brief illness. sister and relatives alerted state attorney Wednesday.
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Charles E. Wieger
Haines
Rush Medical College
Hofman
Knudson
Maguy
Wieser
Slater
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