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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1909
Page
7
Manager Gage has secured H. H. Frazee's musical play A Girl at the Helm which will be presented soon. The limited review highlights the grand finale of act one and the opening of act two as the high spots with opera like music and numerous spectacular dances including gambling themed numbers with dancers dressed as jockeys.
The act shows runners leaping hurdles on stage while three cars rigged for a scene illuminate the stage. Show girls fill three machines as dust rises and horns and lights intensify. The chorus highlights strong male voices and stage presence amid elaborate costumes.
An advertisement asserts Lane's Family Medicine Tea preserves beauty and restores roses to faded cheeks. It claims strong, guaranteed results and lists 25 cents as the price at druggists and dealers.
Grace Hayward brings a week long engagement to La Crosse Theater beginning Sunday matinee. Her repertoire includes When Knighthood Was in Flower St Elmo The New Governess The Great Question Raffles Molly Bawn Thelma Little Women The Woman and the Wife and more. New vaudeville acts will be presented plus her best dramatic line from past seasons.
The La Crosse stage will present Lena Rivers dramatized on Oct 24 portraying Slocumville from Mary J. Holmes novel. The set features Granny Nichols cottage with veranda vines and geraniums, plus a barn and horse trough in the background.
John Hart, ordered by Mayor Ori Sorensen to tally all teams pedestrians and trains at Mill street crossing and Rose street viaduct for sixteen days starting last month’s fifteenth, will appear before the state railway commission during its visit to the city on October 14.
A newspaper ad urges readers to buy Chamberlain's Liniment at twenty five cents and use a dampened flannel for chest pain backache and related troubles, claiming it is superior to plasters and cheaper.
At the regular Elks meeting a committee led by David Fairburn with F H Burgess and John Salzer was formed to arrange for Grand Ruler Sammis to visit the local lodge. A future meeting will plan the winter billiard tournament. no other business occurred.
Eugene Walters is lauded for Paid in Full an epoch making comedy drama coming to La Crosse with a selected New York cast from Astor Theatre. Fritz Williams Katherine Florence William Riley Hatch Ben F Wilson Florence Robinson Pauline Darling and George Belden star in a performance praised for its entertaining content and strong character portrayals.
Two trains collided near Balston Spa at 6 am injuring about 20 people, most seriously. Both cars were smashed in the crash.
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