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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1908
Page
7
Robert Mantell, renowned for Shakespeare, headlines next week at Willis Wood with a program featuring Lady Macbeth and other strong roles. The Kansas City run marks Mantell as a leading interpreter since Irving and Mansfield, with supporting notes on his rise and colleagues.
Star actor Mantell presents King Lear Macbeth The Merchant of Venice Hamlet Richelieu Othello and King Richard II in a Brady backed revival. The season features matinees for schools and colleges with strong scenic settings and a long Mantell legacy in romantic then Shakespearean drama.
The Gilliss program features Strong heart’s football drama from the field, Timburg as Patrick Levey’s leading woman, Maud Earl as monitor, Elizabeth Murray singing new negro and Irish pieces in Kansas City, and a lineup including Zeno aerials, Blacksom and Burns dancing, Keogh and Ruth Francis in The Ward Heeler, plus Lew Wells with sax and dialect comedy. The Cow Puncher by Hal Reid headlines with an Arizona ranch tale of a young Eastern woman, foreman Tom Lawton, lovers, and outlaw tension.
Henrietta Vaders stars in London as Eva Lang takes the role of Nance Olden in a play touring from York. Majestic hosts Bob Manchester and the Vanity Fair Burlesquers with Twisted and Tangled and A Southern Belle, plus comedies The Automobile Agent and The Pikers. Later bills include Tempest and Sunshine, The Wheel of Love at the Grand, and Yiddish Theater at Willis Wood with Bertha Kalich, May 7 8 9.
Philadelphia Ledger speculates on rumors that Roosevelt plans to go abroad, noting many statesmen call the claim fraud and that the charge he is already at sea has circulated as a rumor.
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