Amusements at the Grand Next Week Feature Top Vaudeville Acts
Sam Chip and Mary Marie headlining in In Old Edam a quaint musical comedy skit. Will Rogers and Bison City Quartette will perform. Mack and Marcus cartoonists create a wordless Evolution sketch. America's Dancing Trio Frobel and Ruge aerialists from Switzerland. Hughes S Musical trio and Florence Wilson also appear. Kinodrome pictures The Chivalrous Beggar and Life on a French Training Ship shown. Final receptions follow matinee and evening shows. curtain falls season 1808-09 with Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Chip
Chip
Mary Marbie
Mr. Chip
Old
Edam
Channing Pollock
Old Edam
Colonial Theater
New York
Zuder Zee
Will Rogers
America
Europe
Bison ‘City
Mack and
Marcus
San Francisco Chronicle
The
Philadelphia Enquirer
Florence Wilson
Comedienne
Indianapolis
Bergen Plummer
Forepaugh Stock Company Closes Season at Majestic
The Forepaugh players bid farewell on the Majestic stage linking a festive closing with flowers and warm welcomes. The season ends on a high note despite a subdued business climate, praised for its unity between audience and troupe and a remarkable lineup for next year.
Holden to Stage Five Act Drama Margaret of the Ellises
The Holden stock company presents Margaret of the Ellises by Eleanor Le Croix Faiz at Park Theatre. The melodrama set near Bloomington Ill follows Margaret’s fall from quiet life to city temptations, a web of romance with Phillip Bradford and Dr. James Preston ending in tragedy as Bradford goes blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Theater
Margaret of the Ellises
Holden Stock Company
Eleanor le Croix Faiz
Margaret
Phillip Bradford
Stella Ducham
Bradford
Eleanor LE Croix Flaig
Holden, Stock “ “Company
Marie Curt
The Blue Mouse comes to Indianapolis Majestic theater
The farce The Blue Mouse the Shuberts plan four Indianapolis performances after a New York hit adaptation by Clyde Fitch. The plot features a flirtatious president, a secretary, a Blue Mouse impersonating a wife, and a chaotic mix up in two acts with a Salome costume gag. Cast includes Elsa Ryan Albert Gran Charles Wyngate Lily Hall Elinor McEwen Samuel Reed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Rollett
Blue Mouse
Lewellyn
Elsa Ryan
Albert Gran
Charles Wyngate
Lily Hall
Elinor McEwen
Samuel Reed
Margaret as title role in dramatic revival staging
Marié Curtis plays Margaret and Ray Whitaker portrays Philip Diracford in a lavish production. The culminating scene features a reconciliatory embrace as the curtain falls on a highly stirring moment. Box parties organized by Mrs. Flaig’s friends accompany the premiere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret
Marié Curtis
Philip Diracford
Ray Whitaker
Mrs. Flaig
New Gayety to Stage Weekly Vaudeville at New Theatre
A stock company led by William Beam will produce weekly afterpieces with vaudeville and motion pictures at the New Gayety theater starting next week. The Bijou Comedy trio and Miss Caroline Fulham will headline, with Bob McLaughlin and others rounding out the bill. Colored amateurs perform Wednesday evenings and white amateurs Friday. children admitted after noon for 5 cents.
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New Gayety Theater
William Beam
Pike
Caroline Fulham
Girl With the
Golden Voice
Bob McLaughlin
The
Laugh Factory
New Gayet
Gayety Stack Company
Fire Orpheum to Feature Indian vaudeville acts next week
The Orpheum will present moving pictures of Custer’s last fight narrated by two seasoned chiefs, Chief Ocalla Fire and Chief Little Bear, with an interpreter. The show will include full war dress and painted Indians, plus Stribling the concert baritone in a new repertoire and the grammaphone’s new acts. About 5000 feet of animated pictures accompany the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Orpheum
Custer
Ocalla Fire
Little Bear
Bose
Little Big Horn
Harasmuse Stribling
Grammaphone
English's The English presents new pro gram next week
The English's company brings Stanley and Wood in Twice a Hero as the headliners with promise to entertain and cure blues. Count Salermo the Great Little Man will perform monologue and jokes, smaller than Tom Thumb, a draw for children. Miss Helen Gray offers new illustrated song repertoire, while motion pictures remain new and premiering. The house has been full all week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley
Wood
T. H. Salermo
Tom Thumb
Helen Gray
Riverside Park grand opening to feature band concert
Riverside amusement park resumes plans for a Sunday grand opening after two weather delays. The Indianapolis Military Band will perform on the double eight platform with popular airs such as Down in Jungle Town Merry Widow Rainbow and more. The Old Mill coaster scenery and arcade machines have been refreshed and refreshments will be available. Dancing and more attractions are on the program under manager A W Colter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Amusement Park
Indianapolis Military Band
Jungle Town
Penny Arcade
A. W. Colter
Washington
Lehar
Willams
Offenbach
Dublin
Theatrical News on West and Circus Man Opens Summer Show
The article notes Hian and Erlanger closing a contract for Senator West with Henry Beach Needham, tied to Roosevelt's meme and a Washington and middle west political plot with a love story. Maclyn Arbuckle backs The Circus Man by Eugene Presbrey after reading it in Cleveland, praising Presbrey’s dramatization of Squire Phin. The Boy and the Girl will headline at the New Amsterdam theater atop Aerial Gardens with Marie Dressler in a lavish production opening the first week of June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hian & Erlanger
Henry Beach Needham
Senator West
Roosevelt
Washington
Middle West
Aerial Gardens
New Amsterdam Theater
New York
Marie Dressler
Klaw & Erlanger
Major Broadway voices bound for Europe and New York
The article lists Harriet Stan don Marie Gerson Madeline Marshall Barney Bernard Tobey fJ.yons Eddie Heron and Robert Fantus. Adeline Genee sails for London with four special matinee shows and plans to visit Denmark before returning to New York for rehearsals of a new Klaw & Erlanger musical. Lillian Russell and her company head east after touring the Pacific coast. Joseph Brooks to stage The Widow's Might with Edmund Day. Ben-Hur closes in Ann Arbor. Little Nemo ends Chicago tour and will tour the South this fall. Maclyn Arbuckle rests at a St Lawrence river farm before Circus Wa n rehearsals in August. Klaw & Erlanger announce Steeplechasers next season in New York. Theodore Roberts summers at Bayonne between boat trips. Lillian Russell tours Europe. Bisgon's Midarme is under Henry W. Savage’s New York studios with four acts expected by June. Next season Henry E. Dixey in Mary Jane's Pa on Savage tours. Chicago engagement thriving possibly through July. The Merry Widow closes Chicago run next month marking a long New York company vacation. The Prince of Pilsen stands as a rival American operatic success. A new Merry Widow company continues through summer into next season. Over $200,000 in royalties will be sent abroad by Henry W. Savage on July 1.
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Adeline Genee
London
Miss Genee
His Majesty’s Theater
Denmark
New York
Kiaw & Erlanger
Bisgon
Henry W. Savage
Henry E. Dixey
Mary Jane
Dixey
Chicago
Colonial Theater
Mr. Savage
Beta Theta Pi Banquet Promises Big Evening
The District IX Beta Theta Pi banquet, under Indianapolis Alumni, will be May 22 at the Columbia Club. Officers’ terms expire in May with a new election after the dinner. Past officers include President Will Omelvena and Secretary Walter Pray. Webb Adams is district chief. Pray reports Betas statewide will attend, with over 200 expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beta Theta Pi
Indianapolis
Columbia Club
Will A. Omelvena
Warren D. Oakes
Emory. Spencer
Walter J. Pray
Webb
Adams
Walter Pray
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Grand Opera House
Majestic Theater
Forepaugh Stock Company
Majestic
Cody
Pga
Roberts, Hayes & Roberts
the Swell
Lady
Girl
Bison City
Messie
Milo
Girard
Hale
Frobel & Rage
Kinodrome
Mack & Marcus
K Hughes
Verentite
Shuberts
Clyde Fitch
Nes
Windy City
NEW York Company
Riverside Park
Maclyn Arbuckle
Joseph Brooks
Arizona Desert
Eugene Presbrey
Cleveland
Mr. Fresbrey
Holman Day
Squire Phin
Es Park Theater
the Holden Stock CO
Miss Marie Curtis
Indianapolis Military Band Scenic Railway
Old Mill
Laughner’s
Carmody’s
Liz Stanley
Ippera
Teddy
Holy Lands
Egypt
C. I. Fletcher
Order of Eagles
Tomlinson Hall
ST. Paul
Paragon
Groome
Harriet Standon
Marie Gerson
Madeline Marshall
Barney Bernard
Tobey fJ.yons
Eddie Heron
Robert Fantus
Lillian Russell
Pacific Coast
Edmund Day
Ann Arbor
South
St. Lawrence River
Oldensburg
Brelatvre and Heath
H. A. DuSouchet
Theodore Roberts
Bayonne
Ajestic
Forepaugh Sockk CO
Indianapali Alemmoon
Daily
Ali
Marvelous Eddy
Bally
Illinois
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