The Mommy and the Humming Bird at the Metropolitan
The St Paul Daily News notes the play The Mommy and the Humming Bird at the Metropolitan theatre opens with an intricate plot about Lord Lumley whose wife is entangled with an Italian foe. Gilmore shines as Lord Lumley with strong restraint and moments of visible emotion. The production draws a large audience and is deemed worth seeing with a May 24 showing at Stewards over a house.
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St. Paul
Lord Lumley
London
Guiseppe
Sig. D'Orelli
Mr. Gilmore
D'Oyelli
Sells Floto Circus in Seattle Stirs Mixed Reviews
The Star criticizes Sells Floto for low prices and alleged laxity in grafting while noting crowds turned away at the big tent. Report praises equestrian acts and top clowns, with the Nelson family and the Borsines highlighted as standout acts. The show arrives in La Grande on June 1 with unchanged popular pricing and expanded size.
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Seattle
Tammen
Nelson
Borsines
Theatre world voices and tours loom in spring season
A sweep of entertainment moves from Europe to North America with Sewell and Alice Neilson abroad, Albert Chevalier on a Canadian tour, George W. Hobart finishing a new play, and 180 stock companies lining spring and summer. The Shuberts back an opera company in St Louis, Tetrazzini to perform in Boston Opera at 1600 dollars, Patti Rosa in vaudeville, Nordica invited to sing in Berlin, plus plans for Booth Tarkington adaptation and Maude Fealy leading a Salt Lake stock company. Three thousand six hundred singers join the Saenger fest in Milwaukee. Marie Tempest premieres Lilly the Bill Topper in a new play as audiences await the season.
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Meién Sewell
Alice Neilson
Europe
Pigs le Pics
Albert Chevalier
George W. Hobart
Shuberts
Joseph Sheehan
St. Loui
Tetrazzini
Boston Opera Company
Lillian Greenville
Chicago Opera Company
Paris
Patti Rosa
E. S& Willard
Brutus
London
Ralph Delmore i
Harry Spingold
Mme
Nordica
Berlin
Isolde
Edwin Arden
Booth Tarkington
Canaan
Maude Fealy
Salt Lake City
Milwaukee
Lilly
Marie Tempest
City of La Grande Seeks Bids for Elm Street Bitulithic Pavement
The city invites sealed bids by 8 PM May 24 1911 for 3050 square yards of Elm street bitulithic pavement plus excavation curbing and drainage per plans on file. Each bid must include 5 percent certified check. bids may be rejected. Warren Brothers agreement allows licensing of bidders to use its patents. La Grande Oregon May 19 1911 C M Humphreys Recorder.
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la Grande
Oregon
Elm Street
Washington Avenue
Warren Bros.’ Company
Warren Brothers’ Company
Lcense
C. M. Humphreys
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