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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1902
Page
4
The week features a mix of old and new acts on Broadway with Daly’s Kind Dodo drawing crowds starring Raymond Hitchcock. Mrs. Fiske’s Manhattan season wraps up after 39 weeks of performances and plans a summer rest before next season. The Eden Musée and Proctor’s Newark present wax exhibits and vaudeville, while Belasco signs Klein for a new serious drama next season.
The Sire Brothers announce the Cherry Blossom Grove opening tomorrow night with painters finishing work after a month of prep. For the first week American and European artists perform headlined by Jessie Bartlett Davis, with Billy Van the blackface artist and a roster including the Piccolo Midgets Emma Carus Les Delbosq Ernest Hogan Carl Marwig and others presenting acts and a new dance and specialty program.
The Robinson Temple Opera Company presents the second week at the Star Theatre performing Balfe's Bohemian Girl. The cast includes Louise Moore Rose Marie Campbell Susan Seabrooke John Allison Albert Maher H De Lorme J J Cluxton and Alfred Kappeler plus a forty-voice chorus.
Terrace Garden Opera Company presents Filotow's lyric opera Martha with a cast including Miss Harriet DUT and Miss Belle Thorne. Tonight Verdi's La Traviata opens the program followed by Parigio Cara and the Bella Figlia Quartet from Rigoletto performed by Miss Thorne Delamota Grafton and Messrs Bagetto Luckstone.
Tonight at St Nicholas Garden Duss stages his fourth Sunday concert featuring Edith Helena, a Southern soprano, with Xaver Reiter on French horn and Herr Charles Schuetze on harp. Helena opens with Caro Nome from Verdi's Rigoletto and also sings The Last Rose of Summer. The program differs from weekday offerings, including spirited marches as encores and a mix of classical and popular numbers.
The Greater New York Permanent Circus at Olympian Field announces a daily changing programme combining modern circus with classic one ring and vaudeville. John Foster, among the oldest living clowns, remains popular with audiences.
In Mr. Hammerstein's Paradise Gardens crowds pack the combined roofs of the Victoria and Republic Theatres nightly. A glass enclosure makes it comfortable on cool evenings. Each week brings new feats such as Goldin the magician and the Willie Brothers with Goolman's cats and dogs.
The coronation of King Edward VII on June 26 will be marked at the Knickerbocker Theatre with special recognition. The 75th performance of The Wild Rose is underway, featuring an augmented orchestra to play American and British anthems. Patrons will be invited to sing The Star Spangled Banner and God Save the King, and the auditorium will be decorated with a souvenir given to each attendee.
A dramatic work inspired by Nero and the burning of Rome advances to its first performance in the open air theatre at Manhattan Beach scheduled for Wednesday evening if weather permits.
The theatre world pages note Dave Warfield recovering to leave hospital for the Adirondacks. Mrs Leslie Carter plans a Paris and Lausanne trip returning in August to resume Du Barry. James K Hackett sails June 17 after Canada trip to stage The Crisis. Mme Anna Lankow heads to Europe with pupil Andres Schneider for Berlin engagement. Bertha Creighton to stage A Colonial Girl then six weeks at Lake Pleasant with her mother. Miss Susanne Leonard vaudeville debut at Proctor's Newark with box party from Far Rockaway. Robert Drouet buys 26 acre Brookhaven site to build as summer home after Kinderhook visit. Blanche Bates to star next season in new Belasco play but is presently ill.
Captain Walter Scott Henry of Portland with wife and seventeen month old boy lost in New York after leaving them at a downtown restaurant while locating baggage for a Europe voyage. After a long search, police aided return occurred at the Glen Island Hotel. They sail to England Wednesday aboard the Philadelphia.
George Barber nephew of McKinley’s widow and Miss Bernice La Roche wed quietly at the Church of Holy Innocents rectory after a dinner party at the Casino in the Park. The ceremony was led by Father Macnamara with guests including W C Hayward and Mrs Eugene Bashford. The couple, planning a bridal tour abroad, had kept the plans private until this week.
A group of young women employed by a dressmaker on East Thirtieth Street were robbed when Marie Pappalo of West Houston Street asked for change and the assailant grabbed her six dollar twenty cent pay envelope. Louise Daveico held the thief until police arrived.
Police arrested a man who claimed to be Charles Smith after a pursuit in which he allegedly robbed a victim on a Fifth Avenue street. He arrived from Buffalo the previous morning and refused to provide details about his identity. The pay envelope he discarded was recovered near Fifth Avenue and Thirty‑first Street.
In Hoboken and Paterson, Sarah Watson Catherine Tweedale and Catherine Martin and Mary Schnitz sought warrants for Frank de Lester’s arrest after he married and deserted each within a year. He fled to New York before officers could locate him. Fireworks and tragedy linger as another incident ends in death from gasoline fumes in a city apartment.
Acting Capt. Heerle and two detectives searched the Mulberry Street Italian district for concealed weapons. Rocco Gunita of 127 Mulberry Street was arrested for carrying a revolver at Broome and Mulberry. Salvadore Berse of 12 Prince Street and Antonio Rossario, 242 Elizabeth Street, were also arrested for revolvers and a knife with a six inch blade respectively at Elizabeth Houston and Elizabeth Spring.
In Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gaynor set aside a $1,100 verdict against Rev. Nicholas J. Hughes pastor of St Marys Church Manhattan and ordered a new trial for Mrs Bridget Dineen who claimed she gave money for safekeeping twelve years ago. Hughes testified the money was for church use and the elderly plaintiff wept as the judge noted the donation was likely in good faith.
Two Pinkerton detectives visited Coney Island police seeking information on 17 year old Josephine MacMurray of Philadelphia missing since Oct 3. Officials offered a $300 reward for her safe return. A letter claimed she was at Coney Island but gave no address. Her friend James Hartley is also missing.
Retta Lennox aged twenty eight, who lodged with Mrs Kennelly at 358 West One Hundred Twentieth Street, died after inhaling gasoline fumes while cleaning a dress in the bathroom. She collapsed unconscious on the floor. doctors could not save her. She had told Mrs Kennelly she planned to remove stains from a dress.
Magistrate Higginbotham in Lee Avenue Court Brooklyn commits James Palmer a 35 year old homeless man from Washington to jail on disorderly conduct charge. Palmer was found insensible between Broadway and Havemeyer Street and revived with ammonia then overpowered after attacking Doorman Kelly with his wooden leg. Palmer admits to shamming for shelter.
The British steam yacht Golden Eagle, a member of the royal yacht squadron, reached port this morning from Gibraltar and St. Michael's after a rough passage. She has been cruising in the Mediterranean and is chartered by Henry T. Sloane of the New York Yacht Club and owned by Sir Samuel E. Scot.
Over 400 librarians gathered at the Boston Public Library for the start of the American Library Association's twenty fourth annual conference. James J. Whitney welcomed the visitors in behalf of the library, with remarks from the Library Trustees and honorary member Charles W. Jencks.
A new play by John L. Golden and Rupert Hughes titled Round Herald Square will be presented at the Strollers Club on Tuesday evening. The cast will consist of club members and the piece is said to parody several well known Broadway figures.
Richard Stevens of the base line school defeats Stephen C. Millett of West Side Lawn Tennis Club in three straight sets at Hoboken to retain the New Jersey State Championship. Stevens dominates with precise passing strokes, while Millett's cross court replies fail to turn the match in his favor.
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