Storied London concert notes feature Marie Hall and Kruse works
Miss Marie Hall offers Adagio and Presto by Spohr with former master Prof. Johann Kruse at the Pops, plus Bach Air in G. The Kruse Quartet performs an Air and Variations in B flat. The London Choral Society at Queen’s Hall presents Elijah led by Arthur Fagge, with Ffrangcon Davies and Grover shining. St George's Choral Society under W. Henry Thomas also performs in Tufnell Park. Henry Wood travels to America, while Herr Emil Paul conducts Queen’s Hall Orchestra in Wood’s absence. Various new songs and compositions appear, praising Eva Lonsdale, Ellen Wright, Lena Carrington, and others in a bustling era of English concert life.
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Marie Hall
St. James's Ball
Herr Bevclk
Praguy
Johann Kruse
Spohr
Bach
Kruse
Donald F. Tovey
New London Choral Society
Queen’s Hall
Elijah
Arthur Fagge
Ffrangcon Davies
Herbert Grover
Henry J. Wood
American
New York Philharmonic Society
Boston
Wood
Longland
Charce
Emil Paul
Professor Kruse
Felix Weingartner
Henry Coward
Sheffield
Gerontius
Liszt
Pauper Relief Figures for England and London
End of October pauper relief in England and Wales reached 718,927 with 225,870 indoor cases. England and Wales population was 33,578,338 giving 21.5 per 1,000. London had 109,697 cases, 70,830 indoor, rate 23.8 per 1,000.
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England
Wales
London
A Man Wao Preparep His Own Grave in King’s Cliffe
A native and resident of King’s Cliffe William Sharpe was buried in the parish churchyard on Monday. His headstone, erected in 1896 to perpetuate his memory, drew visitors who saw him placing flowers on his grave for years. The Poor Man’s Lawyer reports 602 interviews with the poor, detailing disputes, debts, and assaults. The Earl of Westmoreland sells Apethorpe estate near Peterborough to Leonard Brassey, an 8000 acre historic property long held by the Westmoreland family.
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Wm. Shuarpa
King’s Cliffe
Northamptonshire
Barr
Westmoreland
Earl of Westmoreland
South Africa
Northampton
Apethorpe
Leonard Brassey
Peterborough
Theestmoreland
Public Amusements At London Theatres Featured
The Girl from Kay's departs Apollo after a long run, to a new home with Willie Edouin and Aubrey Fitzgerald in Merry Acrobats. Carrie Moore sings Hiawatha and Miss Kate Cutler remains Nora Chalmers while Margate and Hippodrome acts entertain, including Busth’s fifteen plunging elephants in The Golden Princess and the Elephant Hunters with advanced stage mechanics.
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Apollo
Kay
London
Willie Edouin
Hoggenheimer
Aubrey Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Air ‘ Hiawathe
Carrie Moore
Ellen
Milly Legarde
Misa Kate Cutler
Nora Chalmers
Luis Brasfield
W. Cheesman
London Hippodrome
Frank Parker
Eephantsa
Great Ormond Street Hospital sale aids charity events
Sra being sold at double prices for the benefit of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. It is under the atronage of the Duchess of Fife and the Duke of Fife president of the hospital. Iattle Mary at Wyndham's reaches its 100th performance on Monday. A Chinese Honeymoon will be played at the Strand for the 900th time on Tuesday. The Shakspere festival at Stratford-on-Avon in April will again be under the direction of Mr. F. Benson, and will extend over three weeks. A festive scene was presented at Covent Garden on Friday night, when Mesers Readie and Forsyth have another of their fancy dress balls. The attendance was large, and the costumes rich and warie. Mr. W. Clarkson, of Wellington-street, for prizes for North Pole, Cleopatra, Fairy Godmother, Arlequina, and others. The next ball is fixed for the 1st inst, Miss Maude Danks, a well-known actress and concert vocalist, was married on Tuesday at Rottingdean parish church to Lieut. Harold Russell, RN. Miss Daisy Thimw, who took the part of one of the heroines in The Flood at Drury Lane, was married on Tuesday to Mr. John Tresahar, who represented the Earl of Sutton in the same piece. The bridegroom is now playing in The Schoolgirl at the Prince of Wales.
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Ormond Street Hospital
Duchess of Fife
Duke of Fife
Wyndham’s
Strand
Stratford-on- Avon
F. 2. Benson
Covent Garden
Mesers
Readie
Forsyth
Warie
W. Clarkson
Wellington-street
North Pole
Cleopatra
Maude Danks
Rottingdean
Harold Russell
Daisy Thimw
Drury Lane
John Tresahar
Earl of Sutton
Prince of Wales
Christmas Productions Week Programage Listings
A dated listing of Christmas productions across London venues Monday to Saturday. The notices show multiple theatres presenting fairy tales, pantomimes, and variety acts such as Cinderella, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Robinson Crusoe, Dick Whittington, Babes in the Wood, Aladdin, and The Forty Thieves, with afternoons and evenings across venues like Britannia, Apollo, Adelphi, Lyric, Crystal Palace, and others, plus national sports exhibition.
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Furnam Grand
Drury Laws
Humpty-Dumpty
Court
Snowdrop
Brer Rabbit
Kennington
Crown
Little Red Riding Hood
Alexandra
Broadway
Mxtropote
Kine’s
Surgery
StanpaRrp
Dauston
OnymPia
London Showbill Highlights At Alhambra And More
Entertainment notes from London venues include Willie Hail and Frances debuting at the Alhambra, a Empire ballet divertissement by George Edwardes with Mile. Gente, Albert Chevalier returning to the ranity stage, and KE V Page booking wrestler Heckenschmidt at Brixton Empress. Other draws include Permane's Siberian bears, Three Romas, Boisset troupe, Will Evans, Maggie Ducgan, and Marie Lloyd at Tivoli. Leo Stormon preaches on politics, Edna May and Ahmed Madrali in sporting bouts, with a Walthamstow palace private view forthcoming and Henri Gros elected president of the Music Hall Benevolent Fund.
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Alhambra
Willie Hail
Frances
London
Empire
George Edwardes
Mile. Gente
Albert Chevalier
Ranity
Hammersmith and Camberwe
KE. V. Page
Heckenschmidt
Brixton Empress
Metropolitan
Permane
Arthur Lloyd and
Maggie Ducgan
Boisset
Will Evans
Ray Wallace
Tom Leamore
Queenie Lawrence
Paragon
Harry Lauder
Atrena
McKay
Leo Stormont
Alice Pierce
Edna May
Ahmed Madrali
Marie Lloyd
Philip Yorke
Mule
Pilar Morin
Open verdicts in two city fires at Salisbury square and New Street Square
Inquests led by Dr. Waldo found the Salisbury square blaze origins on the first floor but no conclusive cause, with smoking suspected by Superintendent Feerton and witnesses Paskina and Fox. A second inquest into a 23rd ult fire at Leighton Son and Hodge bookbinders found no clear origin, but urged safer ingress and egress and enclosed fire-resisting lifts with shutters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldo
Salisbury Square
Messrs
Leighton, Son
Hodge
Newstreet Square
City
Police accident after brake failure injures officer and driver
A wagon carrying policemen from Poplar to an athletic meet overturned when a wheel failed. Police constable Longhurst suffers a knee fracture and driver James Brooks also injured. The item then shifts to an unrelated advertisement for CUTICURA remedies.
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Poplar
Longhurst
James Brooks
Archishop Addresses Education Act Clash At London Elections
The Archbishop of Canterbury argues the education act is sound in principle and urges clear explanations to voters. He notes state gains from private school use and backs electing candidates who will serve all interests, as London County Council races loom and bishops urge churchmen to mobilize.
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Lord Ashcombe
Canterbury
Free Church Council
Difford
London County Council
London
Rochester
Deaths and memorial notes from the era in brief
Obituaries record Florence Baird Smith daughter of Thomas de Quincey and widow of a Delhi siege planner. Edward Cowey president of the York shire Miners Association dies at Crofton near Wakefield aged 64, a colliery worker since age seven and founder of the Miners Federation. Clifford Harrison famed reciter dies at Hastings after early stage ambitions, later excelling in elocution. Captain Thomas Foz, survivor of a major South American earthquake, dies at Dartmouth aged 70. The Stupy of Economics notes Justice Buckley considering a £501 annual Cambridge scholarship for political economy to mark Merchant Taylors’ School anniversary. A lecture at St James’s Hall discusses Barrie and Pinero in relation to physiology and appetite.
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Florence Baird Smith
Thomas de Quincey
Delhi
Edward Cowey
Yorkshire Miners’ Association
Crofton
Wakefield
Monkwearmouth
Miners’ Federation
Clifford Harrison
Hastings
Justice Buckley
Jaylors
Cambridge
Merchant Taylors’ School
Andrew Wilson
St. James’s’ Hall
Barrie
Little Mary
G. Keith
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St. George’s
G. Ricordi and Co
Ellen Wright
Francois Coppée
Gertrude Moberley
Eva Lonsdale
Alberto Degger
Lena Carrington
E. Teschemacher
Walter H. Arnold
Blanche de Freyval
Doris Hayman
Jefferyn
Gladys Mitchell Bruce
W. E. Cornabé
Love
Percy Jacrow
Joscelyn Noel
Herbert W. Reeve
Frank Lambert
BE. Teschemacher
H. Carey
Clifford Essex
Margot
C. H. Bovill
Kennedy Russell
P. B. Braham
Marguérite
Alfred Mallard
Comedy Theatre
Crown Theatre
Margate
Walter Stephens
Charley Renshaw
Messie
Charles Indermere
William Holles
Irve Hayman
Meta Pelham
Charles Langley
Doré
C. Goldsborough Anderson
Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Garrick
Prince of Walesa
Sir
Henry Irving
Brooklyn
New York
William Winter
Philadelphia
Sir Henry
Waterloo
Willard
St. James's
George Alexander
France
Mr. Alexander
Jon James’s
Dreas
Hans “Andersen
Adelphi
Davidson Knowles
Wilson Barrett
Barrett
Nero
Shepherd
St James’s
Heywood Hardy
B. W. Leader
Sir W. Beechey
Lord Duncan
Royal Academy
H. T. Wells
J. A. Horsley
Frierve
Indhe
Channel
Hannibal
Majestic
Magnificent
Jupiter
Poe
Doria
Pactelum
Cherry Girl
Britannia
Alice
GarRicx
Hans Andersen
Madame Sherry
Hiproprome
Lawrance
Channell
King’s Bench
the Kins Vy
R. A. Gillespie
Boardman and Sons
West Ham
Messrs. Boardman
Lord George Hamilton
London Municipal Society
George Elven
George
Glorue Elven
Uhet and Mead
Land-strest
Croydon
Elven
Guy's Hospital
Goulheard
Yoluz
Bone
Jay
James Aml II
Great Western Road
Chaltenhaim
Sias
Ellen Clissold
Banner-street
Leeds-read
Bradford
Joseph Hinchliffer
Jollington-Park
Lonaun
Lollington Park
Lundon
Natures
Skule
Mesara
Boota
Taylors
Asti
Rosalind
Defona
E. Skuse
Harrow-road
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