Vaudeville season ends at Grand with top acts this week
Indianapolis vaudeville at the Grand Opera House closes its season with a strong bill featuring Mrs Dan McAvoy Hengler sisters Olympia Desval and others. The Majestic presents Rosa lind in As You Like It with Miss Spinney and Arvine. Park hosts Holden Stock in The Cowboy and the Lady ahead of Zaza with Cec il Owen and Marie Curtis in lead roles.
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Forepaugh Stock Company
Majestic Theater
Indianapolis
Grand Opera House
Grand
Dan McAvoy
Hengler
Olympia Desval
Garvie and Thomason
Eva Taylor
Majestic
Rosalind
Julia Marlowe
Ethel Barrymore
Viola Allen
Maude Adams
Miss Spinney
Holden Stock Company
Sterling
Nat C. Goodwin
Maxine Eliott
Teddy North
Colorado
Silverville
Col
Quick Foot
Jim
Weston
Holden Company
Leslie Carter
Fragmented line hints at overheard intimate scene
The readable text shows a character named Weston engaged in a private act while another character, described as a half breed, overhears. Details are fragmented and no clear outcome or setting is provided.
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Weston
Her
White City to Open as Decoration Day Crowd Flocks In
White City at Broad River will open next Saturday with free band concerts both afternoon and evening. Memorial day turnout is expected large due to few downtown amusements. The park shines this summer and White River hosts many canoes boats and power launches as visitors seek shade and comfort near Indianapolis. Fair Bank opens Monday with music and Mrs Tron plans to waive fees.
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White City
Broad Rivale
White River
Indianapolis
Fair Bank
Fairview Park Program by Indianapolis Military Band
The Indianapolis Military Band performs Sunday afternoon at Fairview Park featuring selections from Graffito, The Red Mill, and favorites like For Every Day Is Ladies Day With Me and Moonbeams Shining. The program includes The Streets of New York, Home Sweet Home, The Campbells Are Coming, God Save the Queen, and other overtures and marches.
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Indianapolis
Fairview ,Park
Washington
Red Mill
Herbert
Isle of Dreams
John
New Yorks
Baetens
Garryowen
British Grenadiers
The
Campbells
God Save the Queen
Cne Britannia
Ostendorf's Band to Open Summer Vaudeville Week at Fair Bank
Ostendorf's 30 piece orchestra opens a week of band concerts and free vaudeville at Fair Bank with foreign act Minnie Middleton's Military Girls. A reviewer praised the quartet’s blending harmonies and military costumes. Mrs. Tron books top bands for a season of outdoor shows aimed to surpass prior years.
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Ostendorf
Minnie Middleton
Military Girls
Fair Bank
World Known Soloists Lead National Saengerbund Festival in Indianapolis
Indianapolis hosts the thirty-second North American Saengerbund festival June 17 to 20 with 122 choruses from 29 cities, a 5,000 seat Colosseum stage, and five concerts. Soloists Madame Schumann-Heink David Bispham Marie Rappold Adolf Muehlman headline with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch.
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Indianapolis
New York Symphony Orchestra
Walter Damrosch
Saengerbund
Colosseum
Fire Crage
Ceeeee
Max Bruch
Barytone
Jaeger
Cece Cece
Mohr
Redbeard
Sean
Podbertski
Schulz
Benoit
Werner
Mendelsgohn
Salehbates Waetele
Ss. F. Smith
Maennerchor Hall
Alexander Ernestinoff
Musikverein
Louis Ehrgott
Maennerchor
Schumann-Heink
David Bispham
Marie Rappold
Adolf Muehlman
Metropolitan Opera Company
Camera Eye and Index Brain
A Brooklyn note recalls Detective William P. Sheridan known as the man with camera eyes. He is said to have stored in memory the face and name of every soldier visible to him, likened to the muster roll of Napoleon’s army, with estimates of up to one hundred thousand men.
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Napoleon
Russia
William P. Sheridan
Mulberry Street
Broadway Magazine
Editorial dispute over mislabeling an athlete’s title
A reader confronts the sporting editor in a daily journal, denying being the well known lightweight champion and explaining he is a coal dealer. The exchange highlights a mistaken reference from a recent athletic entertainment and the editor’s prompt clarification.
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Daily Journal
Sporting Editor
London Telegraph
Gasoline stove explosion injures Mrs. Schaffer
Mrs Frances Schaffer of 1002 S Meridian Street was burned about the face and hands when a gasoline stove exploded at home. The incident occurred in the morning and authorities investigated the cause.
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Frances Schaffer
S. Meridian Street
Sns.atier d
Wonderland Park Announces Open with Eight New Shows
Wonderland park opens Saturday offering eight new shows blending band music and vaudeville. Manager Wicks has crews on double shifts to ready the venue featuring The Old Swimmin Hole and The Battle Royals among attractions. The lineup includes Delaur Frend Ooper PART I Blue Jackets Merry Widow and multiple song hits with marching tunes and novelty acts.
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Wonderland Park
Wicks
Riley
Brewater
Ray
Manikins
OP Soneag
Delaur Frend Ooper
Blue Jackets
Bennett Selection
The
Merry Widow
Wol Rewesdage
Franz Lehar
SUPPS
Bendix “Vandershoot
F. H. Losey
Remick
Lampe
O’brien
Rebecca
Sahara
H. Kling
Zate Ae Piccolo
Kari- H. Kaiser
Walter Hamilton
Paul Lin
Mercedes
Forgetful patient recalls past appendix removal
A man from a small town in York County presented with appendicitis symptoms and underwent surgery only to learn the appendix had already been removed. He explained after waking from ether that he remembered a prior similar operation two years earlier.
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York County
Kennebec Journal
Wisconsin merchant relays odd pay date from Swedish clerk
A Wisconsin merchant sends a Swedish clerk to collect payments. The clerk reports unhelpful excuses with names Yim Yonson Yim Oleson and BHI Pack promising payment in January. The boss notes this as the first time Bill set a date to pay, though the clerk clarifies it refers to a very cold day in January.
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Yim Yonson
Yim Oleson
Harper's Weekly
Domineering Wife Drives Man to Desperate Course
A Philadelphia Ledger snippet shows a Chicago settlement worker questioning a prisoner about his motive. The man laments marrying a new wife, while the jailer notes the true culprit was the elder wife, described as domineering and extravagant, prompting the extreme decision.
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Chicago
Philadelphia Ledger
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Greater Priteburg
A. Anthony
Hyacinth
Coney Island
Tivo
Njubilee
Yevbeveey Williams
Atte -Bendix
Spink Hall
Hoffman Kiss
San Francisco Bay
Brother Noah" Sorensen
Ox Howard Tourner
Ernest Michaelis
Losey
Fair Bank Park
Fairview Park
Bobbs-Merrill
Maud Humphrey
Maxine Beliott
Plains
Ay Incomparable Company
Park Theater
E. B. McCulloch
Anna Hosea
Zazaa
Hoosier
James Whitcomb Riley
the Flatiron
Delour
Grand Opera Trio
Sleight’s Military Band
Cime Pioyees
Forepaugh Stock CO
Shakespere
Middleton
Indianapolis Military Band
J. W. Sleight
Wisconsin
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