Vaudeville at the Grand and Empire This Week
A strenuous rehearsal showcases a young society leader with stage ambitions paying $1,000 to a top actor in a Claude Gillingwater impersonation. The husband’s whereabouts misleads, producing laughter and truth in a lively bill of varieties featuring Gillingwater, Van Cleve, Denton, Pete, and memories of Grieves and Fay Foster company successes.
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Grand
Australia
Claude Gillingwater
Claude Gilling Water
Fritzi Scheff
Mr. Gillingwater
van Cleve
Denton
Pete
Park Theater Presents Forty-five Minutes From Broadway
Park theater opens Thursday matinee for three nights and matinees as George M. Cohans Forty-five Minutes From Broadway headlines. Frances Gordon and Scott Welch lead a strong cast with songs like Mary Is a Grand Old Name and Fort y five Minutes From Broadway while the original company returns for the run.
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Scott Welch
The
Kid
George Cohan
Frances Gordon
the Park Theater
Mary
Broadway
New York
Cohan
Mary J. Cunard
Elizabeth Drew
Susan Chiswell
Ninon de Warenne
Eugene MacGregor
James V. Manning
James A. Davett
Harry Gwruette
Harry Wilcox
Forepaugh at Majestic Promises Strong Week and Spectacle
The Forepaugh Stock company earns wide praise for The Three of Us at the Majestic and plans a major run of The Sign of the Cross next week. The Cross features elaborate scenery and costuming, with a large cast and supernumeraries, set to meet high expectations of theatergoers this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Majestic
Rome
Nero
Melting Pot at Chicago Grand Opera House reception
A dramatic staging at the Chicago Grand Opera House Monday night drew wonderful enthusiasm. The play centers on America as a melting pot amid Jewish Russian persecutions, with Walker Whiteside delivering a delicately strong performance as the sensitive young musician. The production runs three weeks with matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
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Chicago Grand Opera House
America
New York
Kishener
Mei
Walker Whiteside
Mr. Whiteside
David Warfield
Grand Opera House
New Gayety Show Features Beside Scenes and Vaudeville
The New Gayety picture show this week earns high praise for its Talk-A-Graph feature Behind the Scenes a human interest piece full of pathos. Vaudeville numbers receive encores and manager Crose plans a strong amateur night Friday at the family playhouse.
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Gayety
Talk-A-Graph
Crose
City Births and Deaths Record for a Day
Birth notices list Robert and Stella Gardner a boy at 469 W Eighteenth Street and several other couples with infants, including Miles a girl and Green a boy. Death notices name several individuals with causes such as laryngeal cancer, tuberculosis, pneumonia, appendicitis, cerebral hemorrhage, organic heart disease, and other conditions across city addresses.
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Robert and
Stella Gardner
Eighteenth Street
Benjamin and
Elizabeth Miles
Roac Street
Solomon and
Nora Green
McCauley Street
John and
Clara Clarke
Sheffield
Green
Katy Mitchell
Twenty-second Street
Louis and
Ruby Lynn
Oxford Street
Joseph and
Mary Sullivan
Cornell Avenue
William and
Grace Eye
Oriental Street
Ger and
Cuba Clark
Kennington
Charles and
Margaret Ellis
Pennsylvania Street
Frank and
Martha Hirschman
Sutherland Avenue
Lory
Cecil Dainter
Buchanan Street
Rose Bensman
Minnesota Street
Clarence
Gladys Reece
Tac Coma Avenue
Wiliam
Bertha Hapston
City Hospital
Roberta Hi
Lewis WW. Morrell
Illinois Street
Ixntie Proctor
Mill Street
Amanda .E. Johnson
Sixteenth Street
Charles Edward Sullivan
Peter A. Forslund
Virginia Avenue
William Bonner
Robert FE. True
Harrison Street
Laura Bridgett
Franklin C. Moore
Wright Street
Libbie Williams
Lorrain Hurt
Matilda Boland
Crown Hill Cemetery
Laura McManus Fall
S. LaSalle Street
Samuel Arthur Fail
LaSalle Street
Cochran Draws Huge Crowd At Democratic Rally
The renowned orator Rourke Cochran spoke for over two hours to a packed Auditorium crowd with Republicans also listening in. He contrasted Democratic production stance with Republican wealth concentration and urged support for the Democratic congressional candidate in the Seventh district. Overflow sessions outside featured J F P Padgett and Sutherland.
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Rourke Cochran
New Yorker
Cochran
Indianapolis
Springfield
Cockran
Java
Repubilicans
Cannon
Seventh District
Congress
J. F P. Padgett
Tennessee
Sutherland
Nebraska
Salt Lake railway pumping station keepers sentenced for shooting
In San Bernardino California on October 21, Mr and Mrs John W Scott keepers of the Salt Lake railway pumping station at Dry Lake were sentenced by the district court at Pioch to serve 20 years each in the penitentiary for the brutal shooting of Joseph Webb. Webb was walking the ties when he slipped and fell at the pumping station for water. Scott ordered him off and, after refusal, returned to his bunkhouse and fired point blank blows at Webb, with Mrs Scott firing as well.
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San Bernardino
Cal
John W. Scott
Salt Lake Railway
Dry Lake
Pioch
Ae. Webb
Tie
Scott
Webb
Seven Babies Seized From Religious Sect Home
The Lumane society will open an investigation Wednesday after seven babies found at 1403 Sixteenth Street in a Christian Spiritualistic church home are evaluated for removal. Capt Hyland Tir imine Taspertors Shineard Merrill and Pfafflin visited, noting a mixed group of residents. The case centers on alleged cruelties and origins traced to Springfield O.
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The
Lumane Society
Sixteenth Street
Merchants Backed in Effort for County City Reform
Urged by the Indianapolis Merchants' association, a reform crusade advances with committees named by the Civic League Commercial Club Manufacturers' Association and Merchants' association to press remedial legislation and fight corruption. Banking leaders reportedly ready to cooperate. Committee members include T. C. Day James Faglesfield W S Moffett Dr H W Ridpath and others.
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Indianapolis Merchants’ Association
Civic League
T. CC. Day
James Faglesfield
W. S. Moffett
H. W. Ridpath
Commercial Cluy
Lvans Woollen
A. Hendrickson
W. J. Mooney
G. A. Schnull
Manufacturers’ Association
W. M. Taylor
C. Atkins
H. C. Smith
J. B. Lilly
Merchants’ Association
F. M. Ayres
Henry Kahn
Ferdinand Mayer
W. ©. Robbs
Marriages Listed For Several Local Couples
Pearley Shaver wed Verna M. Rice and Carl H. Westerfield married Laura M. Kinklin. James H Eller united with Katherine F. Mc Means. Charles W. Cartmell and Ethel H. Porter. Elvin Wise tied with Anna Phelan. Joseph A. Robertson married Ola V. Alexander. James Wilson wed Clara M. Davids.
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Pearley Shaver
Verna M. Rice
Carl H. Westerfield
Laura M. Kinklin
James H., Eller
Katherine F. McMeans
Charles W. Cartmell
Ethel H. Porter
Elvin Wise
Anna Phelan
Joseph A. Robertson
Ola V. Alexander
James Wilson
Clara M. Davids
Judge orders grants jury probe in twixtell cases
In Bloomington Judge Wilson instructed the grants jury to investigate the tw ixtell cases. In Fairmount Alta Baldwin 1% poured oil on fire and died from burns. In Shaeleyville Ate Ken nds, 33, died of typhoid fever. In Fairmount George Holloway two years old, son of Arthur, was killed by a Pennsylvania train. Richmond program sued for meeting of the State Federation of Commercial Clubs to be held Nov 18 and 19. Evansville John B Harper 82 died at home yesterday. Fort Wayne two Kaiser sisters set to wed Simon Helsmeier and George Felsmeier. South Bend Jousedi Sepota held on bail for shooting Rosa Varga.
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Fairmount
Richmond
State Federation of Commercial Clubs
Frederick Dittmer Killed by Engine
Frederick Dittmer was fatally injured by a switch engine at Keystone avenue and the C H and Fr tracks. He died en route to St Vincent's hospital after the Wednesday morning accident.
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Frederick Dittmer
Pleasant Street
Keystone Avenue
St. Vincent's Hospital
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Jersey
Taggart
Empire
Grieves
Fay Foster Company
Majestic Theater
John Grieves
Carlyn Strelitz
Claude Gillingwater & CO
Joseph Webb
Scot T
GEO. T. Evans & Son, Makers
Indianapolis, Ind
Nora Davis
Christian Spiitualistic Church
Capt. Hyland
Tir
Imine Taspertors
Shineard Merrill and
Ds. Charities
A. Pfafflin
Humwane Society
Tirs
Devise Vroman
Fio
Wees
Springfield. O
Park
Geo. M. Cohan
Park: Theater
Pacific Coast
F. E. Hine
North Ninols Street
Indiana
California
Tolshe
Mexico
Montana
Oregon
Washington
British Columbia
Washington Street
C. C. Clark
Chea
Chicago
Toledo
Detroit
Farmers Protective Dairy Association
East South Street
Phoanes—New
Prospect
Ods
Commercial Club
Mer
Chants’ Association
Board of Trade
Central Labor Union and
Clear
Ing House Association
Castoria
Serleyville
George Morris
Thomas Botts
Bloomington
Wilson
Grants
Alta
Shaeleyvilee
Dsiss
Evansvilele
John B. Harper
Fort Wayne —Tourorrew
Amani
Mi.Kaiser
Sophia M. Kaiser
Simon. Helsmeier
George H. Felsmeier
South Bend
Jousedi Sepota
Rosa Varga
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