Dick Whittington at Shubert Murat and English's
Shubert Murat to stage the English Drury Lane Dick Whittington with Louise Dresser in the lead, a two act, nine scene extravaganza with 100 chorus and ballet. The cast features Jesse Dandy Frank Brown Harry Clarke and others with a large production touring from Boston and Chicago. Next week also at English's The Fair Co Ed and The Call of the Cricket.
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Dick Whittington
Hippodrome
America
London
Drury Lane
Shuberts
Jesse Dandy
Prince of Pilgen
Frank Brown
Harry Clarke
Edwin Lamar
Alfred Gray
Louise Dresser
Norma Brown
Bernice Mer@bon
Irene Dillon
Dorothy Webb
Mileayo
Miss Guerite
Grady
Post
Russell
Shubert Murat Theater
Boston
Chicago
Dramatic Circuit Dazzles with Circumstantial Evidence at Grand Opera
A bustling bill at the Grand Opera House features CirCumstantial Evidence with a juror’s stubborn quest for acquittal turning into a dramatic reveal. Performers include MuHe Bianci in European ballet, Thurston the famed illusionist, and a host of vaudeville acts from the Kinodrome and Park Theatre lineup.
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Grand Opera House
Harrison
Sat
Atene
Sathak
Taurfier
MuHe
Bianci
Europe
Ballerini
Permane
Charles ‘Barry
Halder ‘Halvers
Arkansas
Orpheum
Constant Arkansas
Dilly Arkansas
Week of Shows at Theaters with Big Casts and Vaudeville
Next Week at Shubert Murat Theater features Dick Whittington with 150 actors and matinees midweek and Saturday. English's Opera House presents Elsie Janis in The Fair Co Ed and Mabel Taliferro in The Call of the Cricket across several nights. Grand Opera House offers fashionable vaudeville with Circumstantial Evidence as headline. Park Theater stages The Newlyweds and Their Baby and Thurston the Magician across days. Colonial Theater offers high class vaudeville with Alexander Carr as headliner. Empire Theater runs burlesque daily.
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Shubert
Murat Theater
Dick Whittington
Drury Lane
English’s
Opera House
Elsie Janis
Mabel Taliaferro
Grand Opera House
Park Theater
Thurston
Colonial Theater
Alexander Carr
Empire Theater
Stage People and Theatre Links in Early 1900s Casts
Actor Victor Herbert cites Jane Grover as a potential Melba or Mary Garden type. The Motor Girl tour opens March 17 in Providence, with Boston ahead. Notables include Norma Brown replacing Lthel Green in Dick Whittington, Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes turning to music publishing, and various past stage originals linked to Irene, Honor Bright, and The Lion and the Mouse.
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Victor “Herbert
Jane Grover
Lew Field
Mary
Miss Grover
Pennsylvania
Wilkesbarre
Providence
R. I
Boston
Lthel Green
Dick Whittington
Motor Girl” Company
The Newlyweds and Their Baby Return to Park Week
The newlyweds and their baby will resume visits to the park for the latter half of the week. Thurston accompanies them as a regular guest for outdoor time and family-friendly activities.
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Thurston
The Third Degree Actor Plays Baron Housman in New York
Such a Little Queen cast features George Barnum as Baron Cosaca with Elsie Ferguson starring. Barnum helped inaugurate The Widow Jones, which catapulted May Irwin to stardom. Production dates reference Manhattan theater in Wet 1900.
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Paul Everton
Richard Breweter
Rufus Hardy
Augustus Pitouw
Garret O'Maugh
Chauncey Olcott
New York
Fourteenth Street
George Barnum
Baron Cosaca
Elsie Ferguson
Widow Jones
May Irwin
The Dinner That Proved Her Privately Brilliant
A young matron recounts a Saturday dinner aimed to impress Billy and his lawyer friend. She dresses to shine but learns the fiancé’s note confirms others saw her cleverness, while the fiancé preferred she remain not intellectual. The group debate ends with a playful jab at her self depreciation and charm.
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Billy
Emma Earl
Percy
Haitr
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E Gardener
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Idol
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Tambo
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THE
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Deep Stuff McKee
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Act
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Forepaugh Stock Company
Avenue Girls
Empire
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Richard L. Black
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Mona Raymond
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Lew Dockstader
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John Mason
Sophus Michaelis
Jack Norworth
Nora Bayes
Lilian Fitzgerald
Lulu Brawer
Minas Kitty Gordon
Sam Bernard
Miss Gordon
Luke Martin
Judge Stott
Pierre
Madison Square Theater
Dorothy Dorr
Mrs. Allen Arthur
Edith Barker
Shirley Rossmore
the Lion and the Mouse
Alice Leigh
Mrs. O’brien
Rove Stahl
Richard Munsfield
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Howard Jef
WM. Faversham
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SAMS
LEE Smubert Inc
London Drury Lane Theater
Boston Journal
Boston Herald
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Soston Transcript
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Chicago Examiner
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Bird Ballet OF
Dax
Teder
Allen
Meases, Liebler & Co
F. Marion Crawford
James O’neill
William Farnum
Minna Gale
Alex Carr
Colonial
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