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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1900
Page
17
The article mixes humorous anecdotes and social commentary. It notes Japanese artists traveling in America struggle with language and customs, cites a Dewey pin tale, and discusses women’s roles, sewing, suffrage views, and wartime opinions from Grand and Winter. It also highlights travel mishaps and museum exhibits appealing to women readers.
Shoppers seek Mexican opals for shirt studs and inexpensive hat settings. Mexican hats with straw brims and silver bands attract summer buyers. remnant sales and half price silks appear as milliners close early on Saturdays. The article highlights fashion notes from shirts to suits, interlining, and new Paris novelties.
A view argues extensive language training is unnecessary in early childhood, suggesting natural exposure and play support communication skills without heavy formal study. Proponents urge focus on social, motor, and cognitive development while language emerges organically over time.
The article notes a brisk national theatre scene with San Francisco and Boston thriving, two stock companies planned in New York, and dramatized novels dominating next season. It lists stars like John Drew Nat C Goodwin Ralph Stuart Georgia Welles and actors Modjeska Odette Tyler and Wilton Lackaye, with premieres starting September and appearances by Bernhardt Coquelin Hare Willard.
The Eden Musee offers cool interiors, wax figures, and cinema as visitors seek respite. Venues like Hammerstein's Victoria and New York Theatre showcase light summer acts, with Billy showings, tours, and mixed bills featuring acrobats, danseurs, clowns, magicians, and musical acts across Proctor’s venues, roof gardens, and Koster and Bial’s.
The piece surveys upcoming Saengerfests in St Paul and Brooklyn and discusses operatic news. Mascagni, Calvé, Wagner, and Bernhardt figure in chatter about politics, retirement, and stage plans. Dohnanyi's return to America excites critics as Jean de Reszke may take over Paris theater duties.
George Edwardes predicts English musical comedy will shift toward comic opera with a new Edwardes Theatre in London. Mentioned are Edward Martyn, Bernard Shaw at work, Yeats and Moore drafting Dermot and Grania prose, Yeats in verse, and returns of The School for Scandal at Haymarket with cast changes. Rip Van Winkle by Beerbohm Tree praised for scenic effects. Quo Vadis in London declines.
The Kaltenborn Concerts present the programme for the third Sunday night at St Nicholas. The listing outlines pieces to be performed and featured performers for the evening.
The Manhattan Beach season begins next Thursday with Pain and his fireworks spectacle. Audiences will glimpse Japan in Flame and Flower and observe the Japanese during one of their fete days, presented in Pain's open-air theatre with elaborate scenery and dramatic effects.
Mr. Kirby deems his work the masterpiece with Japan as backdrop. Fujiyama stands sentinel in green to the snow line while the eruption provides a great realistic effect. Advances in pyrotechnics promise wonderful effects in the spectacle.
Special to The New York Times reports rapid railroad plans in Alaska following the Klondike gold rush. Nome and Port Safety lines would give year round access to Nome, with an extension to Wild Goose Mines and a Copper River route revived by new Christiechina discoveries. The White Pass line advances toward Dawson, while Nome prospects promise substantial local and through traffic despite seasonal ice in the Bering Sea.
In Tacoma on June 16 reports from the Klondike describe a clean-up worth between 20 and 30 million dollars. Steamers Flora Sibyl and Columbia carried the Dawson mail last week, while 160 passengers on the City of Seattle brought a ton of gold but miners now sell it to banks. Two thousand Klondikers left Dawson for Nome and Koyukuk, with many more expected by steamers, as Koyukuk gains attention for rich field reports.
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