Farrar Plans New Mozart Roles at Met with Mahler
Geraldine Farrar says she will perform Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and hopes to sing Zerlina in Don Giovanni under Gustav Mahler at the Metropolitan Opera. She discusses costume ideas, language repertoire, and training with Mme Lehmann, stressing careful, traditional presentation and personal artistic goals.
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Geraldine Farrar
Metropolitan Opera House
Gustav Mahler
Miss Farrar
Timms
Anna
Gadski
Elvira
Zerlina
Mahler
Mie. Lehmann
New York
Miss Frerrar
Berlin
Warsaw
Monte Carlo
Elias
Elizabeth
Carmen
Venus
Tannhajuser
Lilizebeth
Talk to Your Public Improve Sales Says Advice Column
A Curtis Publishing Company note urges sellers to communicate pleasantly with the public. It argues even premier goods need expressive advertising to reveal their virtues and reach four million readers through The Saturday Evening Post.
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Saturday Evening Post
Capoul Seeks Long Run at Paris Opera Comique
Capoul notes if his opera Tha Clowns is produced at the Opera Comique in Paris a year with Mr. Carré would suit. He plans to sing Tannhauser Romeo and Faust later and to seek further work with Lilli Lenmann.
Maurel in New York Recital at Carnegie Hall
Victor Maurel, famed dramatic baritone, appeared in New York for the first time since his Met era. The program mixed songs and operatic selections with dramatic arias, showcasing his diction and stagecraft despite vocal limitations. Centanin and Henrotte contributed notable accompaniment and violin solos.
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Victor Maurel
New York
Metropolitan Opera Company
Maurice Gramis
Carnegie Hall
Maurel
Yvette Guilbert
Manuel
Greig
Massenet
Tosti
Mozart
Mr. Maurel
Lagq
Mephistophele
Gourod
Faust
Vepidi
Opera Concerts Draw Light Sunday Attendance
The Sunday opera concerts drew poor crowds. Mme. Emma Eames led the Metropolitan program with arias from The Les Sluguenots and German songs, plus two English encores. Other soloists included Mme. Jacoby and Messrs Journet and Martin. Ferrari closed. At the Manhattan club program, soloists included Mmes Sigrist Koehli Aare Bresslerinoli and Gorville Réache, with Messrs Arimondi Bassi Gilibert Gianoli Galetti and Didur.
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Mme
Emma Eames
Metropolitan
Mrs. Beach
Mme. Jacoby
Messrs
Journet
Martin
Mr. Ferrari
Manhattan
T c
Mmes. Sigrist
Koeili Aare
Bressler
Schumann-Heink Plans New York Concert Tour
Mme Schumann-Heink departed Newark last night to resume concert touring and will headline a New York recital likely around March 16. If she appears at the Manhattan Opera House this season she will sing German roles such as Azucena in Trovatore while the rest of the cast performs in Italian.
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Mme. Schumann-Heink
Newak
Manhattan Opera House
New York
Sousa Concert at the Hippodrome Delights Audiences
Sousa and his band performed at the Hippodrome last evening with Lucy Allen soprano Jeannette Powers violin Herbert L Clarke cornetist. The programme featured Sousa’s The Last Days of Pompeii Strauss’s Fill Bod Br spiegel and encore The Merry Widow waltz drawing much enthusiasm.
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Sousa
Hippodrome
Lucy Allen
Jeannette Powers
Herbert L. Clarke
Pompeii
Strauss
Peggy Machree Produced in Chicago at McVicker's
Peggy Machree, an Irish comedy, had its American premiere at McVicker's in Chicago with Denis O'Sullivan in the lead. The show features new songs and beloved melodies, a tale of a marriage entered for revelry, wartime separation, and a reunion with a real priest officiating. The cast includes Ailsa Ryan Annie Yeamans Marie Welsh J. D. O'Hara Percy Teach and others. The 1740 period offers striking costuming and scenery and the audience responded with applause.
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Chicago
Peggy Machree
McVicker
Denis O'Sullivan
Ailsa Ryan
Trevor
Margaret O’driscoll
Mr. O'Sullivan
Miss Ryen
Annie Yeamans
Marie Welsh
J. D. O'Hara
Percy Teach
Pen and Brush Club Hosts Augustus Thomas at West Twenty Fourth
The Pen and Brush Club in West Twenty fourth Street gave a reception yesterday afternoon for Augustus Thomas. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and Ernest Thompson Seton, author. Thomas spoke on his play The Witching Tour and Thompson shared travel experiences. Members, all women, held a social reunion afterward.
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Pen and Brush Club
Augustus Thomas
West Twenty-fourth Street
Readings of Macbeth by Mrs Le Moyne Extended
In view of favorable reception the Browning readings are expanded with two more performances of Macbeth. The Lyceum Theatre will host the second reading tomorrow afternoon with the third and fourth set for Friday and Tuesday January 14.
Curtain Raiser at Madison Square Theatre for Miss Grey
A week from today Katherine Grey appears at Madison Square Theatre in The Reckoning curtain raiser Literature presented before the regular show. The new piece by Schnitzler translates by Charles Genung and is staged under Walter N. Lawrence.
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Miss Grey
Katherine Grey
Madison Square Theatre
Walter N. Lawrence
Schnitzler
Charles Genung
The Posters Cast Reveals Maude Adams in Lead Role
Theatrical notes state Maude Adams will portray the principal character in The Posters for the first time, scheduled for a Wednesday evening debut on January fifteenth. Harpist Zoe Cheshire has been engaged by Thomas W. Ryley for his new production Funabishi opening soon at the Casino.
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Zoe Cheshire
Thomas W. Ryley
Maude Adams
Miss Amy Grant Delivers Readings in Studio
Miss Amy Grant presented a musical reading yesterday afternoon in her studio assisted by pianist Adolf Glose. The Zellmann Philharmonic Orchestra, a fifty‑piece Harlem ensemble, offered its second concert at the West End Theatre with Nathania Anspacher, soprano, as soloist.
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Amy Grant
Adolf Glose
Zellmann Philharmonic Orchestra
Harlem
West End
Nathania Anspacher
Rent Strikers Clash With Police Across East Side
Riots fueled by a rent strike drew police reserves to Madison and East Eleventh streets as tenants flaunted red and American flags. Arrests included Morris Chasin and family. fines issued in Night Court. A Crisis Conference planned anti arrest sheets and a Bowery benefit was offered to aid funds.
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Madison Street
East Fifth Street
Union Market
Eldridge Street
East Eleventh Street
Abraham Loewenthal
Madison Avenue
Loewenthal
Lieut. Hall
Leving, O’brien
George Miller
Morris Chasin
Charles Bauman
Max Lichtenstein
David Choriz
Chortz
Oliceman Eving
Chasin
East Twifth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Buregeon
East Thirteenth Street
East Sixth Street
Our Young Friends
Eighth Assembly District
Grand Street
Socialist
Hudson County
West Hoboken
Tyson Hill
Jersey City
People’s Theatre
Bowery
Yiddish Stock Company
Friars Seek Own Home to House Expanding Honorary Group
The Friars, an association of theatrical agents and newspaper men, plans a dedicated clubhouse after rapid growth from about 800 members. They currently meet at Keen's Chop House and in a Knickerbocker Theatre Building room, with Abbott announcing a benefit from Shubert and Anderson to furnish funds. The group, with a countrywide membership and several thousand dollars in the treasury, recently incorporated and adopted a constitution.
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Resent
Keen
Knickerbocker Theatre
al. Hayman
Abbott
Shubert & Anderson
Miss Mukle Begins Western Tour Despite Injury
Miss May Mukle English cellist starts a Western tour after New Year injury to forehead and eye. Physician says bones bruised and recovery may take weeks with dressings. She jokes she can play with one eye and will keep engagements even with eyes shut if needed.
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Miss May Mukle
Miss Mukle
Rev Dr Kaiser Dies Aged 68 In Baltimore
The Rev Dr Alois Kaiser longtime cantor of Oheb Shalom Temple died of heart disease in Baltimore at 68. Austrian born he led Hebrew services worldwide, an honorary member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis since 1895 and held multiple Jewish organizational roles including president of the Society of American Cantors and Hebrew Education Society.
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Baltimore
Alois Kaiser
Oheb Shalom Temple
B. Felsenthal
Chicago
Benjamin Szold
G. Gottheil I
New York
Hebrew Ladies’ Sewing Society
Alliance Israelite Universelle
Jewish Publication Society
Jewish Encyclopedia
longtime Brookdale pastor Rev William Bogardus dies
The Rev. William E. Bogardus pastor of the Brookdale Dutch Reformed Church for fifteen years died at the Bellevue Avenue parsonage after weeks of illness. Born in Cohoes New York he was seventy three and a direct descendant of Everardus Borgardus. He served as a Civil War chaplain and helped found the Montclair Heights Reformed Church. Survived by a widow.
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N. Y
Hawthorne
Cuddebackville
Pleasant Plains
Saddle River
Oakland
Fairfield
N. J
Newbury
Everardus Borgardus
Bogardus
Montclair Heights
Death of E. K. MacGillivray Father of Mrs Frank Gilmore
E K MacGillivray aged 69 died Saturday in a Leeda hospital West Seventy-fourth Street after a brief illness. Born in Areroaph Scotland he came to America at 15 and worked as a diamond expert in Ottawa before moving to Chicago forty years ago. For FR Forfrager jewelry he led a Chicago branch for six years. He had one daughter who married actor Frank Gilmore. Funeral from daughter’s home 836 West End Avenue at 12 20 today.
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E. K. MacGillivray
Frank Gilmore
Leeda
West Seventy-fourth
Mr. MacGillivray
Areroaph
Scotland
Ottawa
Canada
Chicago
F. W
N. Y
Helen F
William D
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Mercer
Sabina Dox
William V. J
Rebecca
Dox Mercer
St. Paul's Church
Waterloo
Jeremiah J. Murphy
Catherine Murphy
Bune
Pri- Wa
Cana- East
O'Kreefe
Asbury Park
Catherine
William O'Keefe
Church of Holy Spirit
Agburr Park
Old Cathedral Cemetery
Rhinelander
West 48Th Street
Wiliam Rhinelander
St. Bartholomew's Church
Madison Avenue
Forty-fourth Street
Jeanuery
Ritchie
Brooklyn
David Ritchie
Matthew L. Ritchie
Bushwick Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Bushwick Avy
Madison St
Pyramid Lodge
A. M
Union
AR. M
Seaman
Henry Billonp
Bement
Staten Island
St. Louis
Terry
Margaret Terry
Reverend John Funke Dies in New Jersey
The Rev. John Gerhard Funke rector of St Marys Church Dover New Jersey died yesterday afternoon in St Marys Hospital West Hoboken after cancer treatment The funeral will be in Dover on Wednesday Born February 24 1848 in Kappenburg Germany he came to America in 1874 at the invitation of Archbishop Corrigan Bishops and priests were at his bedside at his death
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John Gerhard Funke
St. Mary’s Church
Dover
N. J
St. Mary's Hospital
West Hoboken
Father Funke
J.o'connor
Newark
Waite
Seton Hall Seminary
Father Joch
Denville
Kappenburg
Germany
America
Corrigan
Reverend James M Crowell Dies at 80
Philadelphia obituary notes the passing of the Rev. James M. Crowell a lifelong Presbyterian leader. He served as President of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church and Secretary of Missions of the American Sunday School Union, and sat on Princeton University's Board of Trustees. He was a Princeton graduate and a member of the class of the era.
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Philadelphia
James M. Crowell
Presbyterian Church
West Philadelphia
The
American Sunday School Union
Princeton University
Princeton
Elea
Death of Wilson H. Fairbank Former Expo Commissioner
Warren Mass January 5 Wilson H Fairbank formerly Massachusetts commissioner to the Portland Exposition and later the Jamestown Exposition died at his home at age 71 He served as a superintendent of construction for telegraph companies between 1864 and 1891 and built thousands of miles of line across the country
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Warren
Mass
Wilson H. Fairbank
Massachusetts
Portland, Ore
Jamestown
Notable Obituaries of New London and Newark Figures
Rubert P. Boss of New London and several prominent New Jersey and Boston residents died yesterday or Saturday night. The list includes Mrs. C M Lane mother of Franklin M Lans on the Inter State Commerce Commission, Mrs. Mary Woodruff of Newark, Mrs Esther Barton Axtell of Newark, Albert August Mack Syracuse professor and composer, Mrs Sering P Dunham of Trenton, Edward J Donovan Boston City Clerk, Mrs Eleanor Halsted Brooklyn social figure, and architect G Harold Mansfield of New York City. Funeral and residence details noted for several, with ages and birthplaces.
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Chadwick Avenue
Newark
N. J
Albert August Mack
Th College of Fine Arts
Syracuse University
Hospital of the Good Shepherd
Syracuse
Trenton
West State Street
Anna Bergen
Rokefield
Dunham
Somerville
Edward J. Donovan
Boston
Massachusetts
Internal Revenue
Cleveland
Eleanor Osgood Halsted
Frank R. Halsted
Jefferson Avenue
Brooklyn
Halsted
New York City
Gilbert S. Osgood
Gertrude Derby
St. George's Episcopal Church
Harold. Mansfield
Clinton & Russell
West 135Th Street
Delos Mansfield
Mansfield
Nyack
N. Y
Tower says secret marriage and plot damaged his life
Albert E. Tower in Poughkeepsie accuses wife and sister of forcing a secret marriage after his first wife’s death. He says settlement demands and publicity ruined him, vowing to fight suit. Mrs. Tower describes being frozen out and disputes revolver claims, noting financial woes and reduced allowances.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Albert E. Tower
Grace
O. m
Aarge
A. E. Tower
Tower
New York
Knickerbocker Trust Company
the Waldorf
Chulius Turns Poet in City Hall Cellar
In a fragmentary city scene Julius the manager recites verses about a barber Schmidt and his wife Lena after the Brooklyn bank failure. Paddy Ryan counsels hope, urging Schmidt to start anew and save. The piece blends dialect humor with a somber 금융 loss and family impact.
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Julius
City Hall
Zitzier
Mr. Zitzler
Schmidt
Schmitt
Lena
Birth Announcements Across Families
A series of birth notices lists new arrivals: Furtsch a son to Amson and spouse. Crabenstein a daughter to Joseph and spouse. Harris a daughter to J M Harris. Hill a son to L Hill. Isaacs a daughter to Isintore and spouse. Levene a son to Louis Levene. Solomon a daughter to Morris Solomon and spouse.
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Levene
Louis Levene
Solomon
Morris Solomon
Marriages listed in Englewood and Mount Vernon notices
A series of marriage notices dated December 25 to January 8 list brides and grooms including Miriam Kesner and Max Berkowitz, Nan Constance Brande and Levin T. Brown, Mary Spence Conover and Edward Vernon Brush, Catherine Gansevoort Hurlbut and Robert Maxwell Clarke, Lillian Cohn and Emanuel Cohen, and Edna Hann Strauss with Louie Lang Strauss, among others. Other entries record Dec dates for Cohen Decker Daub Cohen Dreyfuss Wetzer, Keane Dobson, Keirns Loosman, Conroy Krumm Laguna Silk Lopez, and Whittaker Madden.
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Perkowitz
Kesner
Miriam Kesner
Max Berkowitz
Brown—Brande
Nan Constance Brande
Levin T. Brown
Brush-Conover
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Mary Spence Conover
Edward Vernon Brush
Burns—Finley
Mary E. Finley
James ¥. Burns
Clarke—Hurleut
Catherine Gansevoort Hurlbut
Robert Maxwell Clarke
Cohen—Cohn
Lillian Cohn
Emanuel Cohen
Cohen—Decker
Alexander Cohen
Gertrude Decker
Daub—Cohen
Willam Daub
Gertrude E. Cohen
Dreyfuss—Wetzler
Rosa Wetzler
Camille
Dreyfuss
Keane
Dobson
Frances A. Dobson
Edmund B. Keane
Keirns
Loosman
Arline R. Loosman
Samuel F. Keirns
Vrumm
Conroy
Lillie Cecelia
George F. Krumm
Laguna
Silk
Anna E. Silk
Adolph Laguna
Loeb—Drreyfuss
Eugenie Dreyfuss
Edmund Loeb
Madden—Whittaker
Emily _B. Whittaker
George M. Madden
Roskam
Many Happenings in Brooklyn Deaths and Funerals
Notices list multiple obituaries and funeral plans from Jan 4 to Jan 8 1908 across Brooklyn and New York including Charlotte F Braisted at 191 Taylor St Brooklyn NY Mrs W E Beardsley. Matilda Ellison at Newburg NY. Augusta Dwight Ferris of Lakewood NJ. Eleanor Gertrude Halsted of Brooklyn. Elizabeth Brownson Ker. Martha Lamson. John J McDermott. Jeremiah Murphy. Catherine O Kreefe. Margaret Terry.
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W. E. Beardsley
Taylor St. Brooklymn
Charlotte F. Braisted
William H. Braisted
I . Ferris
Lakewood
Frederick Haid
Old California Av
Px Halsted
Jefferson Bor
Brooklyn
Elleanor Gertrude Halsted
Frank R. Halsted
Gertrude Derby
Gilbert ¥. Osgood
Logrock
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Ker
Elizabeth Brownson
David Ker
New Tberta
Lamsow
Liberty
Martha
E. QO. Leonson
Genevaln
Obituary notices (Jan. 4) for Brooklyn and Manhattan residents
Brooklyn and New York City obituaries list many residents with ages and funeral dates. Names include Gertrude Adier, James P Pugot, Mary J Barry, Paula Kennett, Edward T Cronin, Bridget Daly, Patrick J Eagen, James D Fisher, Otto Friedlander, Ferdinand Cortelyou, Alexander Godman, Eleanor Halsted, Minne Hefner, Arthur Kulin, Max Loewy, Mary McGuire, Margaret McNulty, Bella Manning, Eleanor O’Brien, Edward Noonan, Grace Penson, Elizabeth Weil, and others, with addresses across Brooklyn and Manhattan and funeral plans in early January.
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Adiler
East Sixtieth Street
Gecirade Adier
Bagot
Macon Street
Brooktyn
James’ P Pugot
Barry
Berger
West Twenty-first Street
News 4
Maria Jane Berger
Pip Mingham
Tedford AW
Crook
Edla Mirmingham
Mr. Purke
Hherine Burke
Bower
Brooklyn
Simon Bower
Ageri
West 10Th
Alexander G. Clenahan
Cortelyou
Nestranml Av
Brookeyn
Ferdinand
Cortlyou
Escdo Cronin
Eeen
Fan
Edward T. Cronin
Daly
Freeman St. Is
Bridget Daly
M. Eagen
Bergen St
Brookton
Patrick J. Eagen
Fisher
Port Richmond
James D. Fisher
Fried
East S5th St
Joseph ‘Fried
Friedlander
East Brest
Otto Friedlander
Tf Gehrkens
Gehrkens
Glavekopy
Glauckopf
Goopman
West 144Th St
Alexander Godman
Gordon
Pulton
Charles H. Gordon
West Hoth St
Elizabeth HR. Hall
Halsted
Jefferson Av
Hirokirts
Eleanor G. Halsted
Hollenberg
Br Nicholas Av
Broontyn
Tico- Tiollenberg
Fiufner
Madiser Sf
Minne
D. Hefner
Oea
Arthur Kulin
Sa Loewy
Putnam Aw
McAllister
Weettiett
AE Pou
Mathilde McAllister
Macgilt
Tvray
West End
Jam
E. K. MacGillivray
Ase Aoe
Mei Tre
Hunts Lam
Himaisa
Jane
Mary McGuire
McNulty
Westchester
Wilhelmine -Merckle
Aret
Edward J. Noonan
Otrie
Douglass St
Lizabeth A. O'Brien
Dim Herta
St. Branklin
Eleanor O'Casor
Pexson
Sheffield Av
Milan
Hibrace C. Penson
Zac
Pest
St. Ocean
Jen Phillips
Becker
Hambure Avepee
Wilhelmine EF. Recker
Ne. Sheehan
Frankfort
Thomas Sheehan
M. Snerpecor
John Snedecor
N. J
Minnie S. Tagstare
Tay Lur
Weert
Anna M. Taylor
Stre Thorntow
East
Mary A. Thornton
Weil
Elmhurst
Eliabetha Weil
PT Weisuerber
East Lath St
Ihliza Weisserber
Anigs J. Willits
Deaths of Dr Elijah Craven and Mary Louise Whitney
Special to The New York Limgs Philadelphia report notes Dr Elijah Richardson Craven former General Assembly moderator died at home aged 81. He resigned as Presbyterian Board of Publication secretary four years ago after seventeen years in that post and led Third Presbyterian Church Newark for 33 years. Also in New Orleans Mary Louise Morgan Whitney, widow of Charles A Whitney, dies aged 73, reputedly the Souths wealthiest woman, connected with Morgan’s Louisiana Texas Railroad.
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New York
Philadelphia
Jar
Elijah Richardson
Craven
Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Board of Publication
Py Snag
Newark
N. J
Princeton University
Board of Trustees
Mary Louise Whitney
New Orleans
Mary Louise Morgan Whitney
South
In memoriam notices for Wiltam Shelley and Michael Ward
Notices of remembrance for Wiltam Shelley who died January 1 and Michael J Ward whose death was observed with a Mass at the Church of St Francis Xavier on January 6. Also a memory entry for Max Wolfs dated January 31, 1904.
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Sheltley
Wiltam Shelley
Ward
St. Francis Xavier
Michael J. Ward
Wolff
Max
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