Toscanini Conducts Gotterdammerung At The Met
Wagner’s Gotterdammerung was staged at the Metropolitan Opera House with Arturo Toscanini conducting from memory. Noted soloists included Mme Fremstad as Brünnhilde, Mr Schmedes as Siegfried, and Mme Fornia as Gutrune, with strong Rhine Daughters and Norns, while several scenes were altered for a single evening performance. The show drew a large audience and earned widespread applause for overall energy and dramatic force despite some vocal and pacing tensions.
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Mischa Elman Debuts with Russian Symphony at Carnegie Hall
Mischa Elman, 19, appeared with the Russian Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. He performed Tschaikowsky's Violin Concerto and Wieniawski's Souvenir de Moscow, displaying abundant temperament and technique. The second movement of Tschaikowsky showed his poetic imagination and warmth, marking him as a matured, promising artist beyond child prodigy status.
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Russian Symphony Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
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Tschaikovsky
Wieniawski
Moscow
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Gillette Play for Benefit at Liberty Theatre
A benefit performance of William Gillette's They will be held at the Liberty Theatre on Friday afternoon December 18. Mary Ryan reprises the title role, supported by much of the original Chicago cast, in the latest Gillette drama following Clarice.
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Liberty Theatre
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Chicago
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New York
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Nazimova Injured In Doll's House Stage Accident
Special to The New York Times from Lincoln Nebraska reports Mme Nazimova sustaining a sprained right arm after a fall during the first act as Nora Helmer in the Doll's House at the Oliver Theatre. The incident appeared staged until curtain fell. A doctor treated her and the performance continued with her arm in a sling.
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New York Times
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Neb
Mme. Nazimova
Oliver Theatre
Nora Helmer
Dodson Mitchell
Thorvald Helmer
Chorus Girls Seek $50,000 Damages in Two Trials
Two chorus girls sued for damages in the Supreme Court over stage injuries. Mayme Micheltree of the Babes in Toyland company seeks $25,000 from Stair & Wilbur over a December 1902 staircase fall at the Majestic Theatre. Jeanette J Hahn claims $25,000 from the Metropolitan Opera House Company for injuries from a bridge collapse on a Carmen stage set in December 1905. Trials continued.
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Babes In Toyland
Majestic Theatre
Stair & Wilbur
Majestic
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Metropolitan Opera House
Two Hundredth Performance of The Three Twins at Herald Square
The two hundredth performance of The Three Twins at Herald Square Theatre featured a new second act finale and drew several encores. Next week at the Colonial Theatre Ruth Allen makes her New York vaudeville debut in Ruth Allen and the London Johnnies. The Australian tour of Margaret Anglin ends December 18 in Sydney before sailing to Egypt. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts hosts its third season matinee on December 18 at the Empire Theatre with a program of one-acts and La Mariotte. The Actors Fund of America trustees plan a registry office for actors, with the Broadway Theatre hosting the benefit today from 1:80 PM to 5:30 PM.
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Sydney
Egypt
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la Mariotte
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Gas man burglar who robbed hundreds surrenders at HQ
John Brady, once out of work with a wife and seven children, confessed at Police Headquarters after days of visitors identified him as a gas man burglar who had posed to inspect meters. Inspector McCafferty recovered valuables worth thousands from Brady’s pawn tickets. Brady apologized to witnesses, including Mrs. Yeager who confronted him during the arrest.
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Wagner
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McCafferty
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West Fifty-first Street
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Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn
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Tenth Street
Dr. Fisher to Talk on Tuberculosis Prevention
Yale professor Dr. Irving Fisher will deliver an address on The Prevention of Tuberculosis at Pilgrim Church Madison Avenue and 121st Street next Sunday evening. The talk is part of the city wide tuberculosis crusade.
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Pilgrim Church
Madison Avenue
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Mystery of a Missing Western Rider James E Lawler
Syracuse police report a suitcase and clothing found in a Baldwinsville swamp. A letter addressed to James E Lawler from T E Lawler of New York implicates his mother's death. Lawler, a Western horseman, vanished after attending Syracuse Grand Circuit races in 1907. brother Thomas Lawler at Amsterdam Avenue says no enemies and little money involved.
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Nobel Peace Prize Awards To Arnoldson And Bajer
Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to IK P Arnoldson of Sweden and M F Bajer of Denmark. Arnoldson plans to use the prize money to organize an international demonstration for peace against war. King Gustave spoke after the prize distribution noting the exchange prize totals $38,565.
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