Isthmian Canal Move Advances as Roosevelt Signs Bill
The story recounts President Roosevelt signing the Panama Canal bill after Congress approved construction. It covers earlier French failures, Mexican and Colombian concessions, and American plans to complete a tide or lock canal across the Isthmus of Panama with a forty six mile route and fourteen hour transit time.
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Lykens and Party Benefits At Two New York Theatres
Two benefits announced for July 6 and Sunday night at Herald Square Theatre. The New York Theatre event supports William L. Lykens with entertainers Sam Bernard Thomas Q. Seabrooke George F. Golden Jessie Bartlett Davis Eddie Foy and Henry E. Dixey. The Herald Square show benefits William Parry with acts Raymond Hitchcock Walter Jones Cheridah Simpson Isabelle Underwood and Joe Welsh.
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New York
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George F. Golden
Jessie Bartlett Davis
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Henry E. Dixey
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William Parry
Metropolitan Opera House
Raymond Hitchcock
Walter Jones
Cheridah Simpson
Isabelle Underwood
Joe Welsh
Opening of the Circle Auditorium and Kaltenborn Orchestra
The Circle Auditorium formerly the Circle Music Hall opened last evening. The feature is the Kaltenborn Orchestra with forty five musicians led by Franz Kaltenborn for a thirteen week concert series.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor at Her Majesty’s Theatre
London critics laud Beerbohm Tree’s revival as commercially savvy yet faithful. Falstaff’s bulk and Miss Terry and Mrs Kendal as the merry wives draw praise while other old roles meet varied reception. Sarah Bernhardt’s Francesca da Rimini also receives strong notice for acting and spectacle.
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Plays and Players Frohman Files Madison Square Theatre Casts
Charles Frohman in Paris engages Margaret Gordon for The New Clown at Madison Square Theatre opening in September. Jessie Busley Jameson Lee Finney and Lloyd D Aubigny contracts, with Maud Lillian Berri to sing in The Sultan of Sulu. Isabel Irving ahead of Nantucket summer. Amy Lee to star in Mile Hawkins. Helen Grantly to headline next season. Amelia Bingham to open Wilnewroes in Kansas City.
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Virginia
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Henrietta
Isabel Irving
Virginia Carvel
James K. Hackett
Siasconset
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Miss Irving
Amy Lee
Girard Avenue Theatre
Philadelsitet
George Kite
Mile ’Awkins
Amelia Bingham
Kansas City
Entertainments Prep for Summer Visitors in New Theatres
Revival of theatre rumors feeds plans for multiple stages including Berkeley Lyceum site 107 113 West Thirty first Street and West Thirty fourth Street for Rice Amusement. Independent Booking Agency teases a list while weather boosts box office. The Defender opens Herald Square Theatre with a nautical spoof featuring Sir Thomas Teaton and Hilda Shipton amid a cast of stage names.
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Dear Girls
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Aimee Ashmore
Blanche King
Jessie Canvass
Paula Edwardes
Pearl of Pekin at Terrace Garden Opera House
At Terrace Garden and its Opera House adjunct on East Fifty-eighth Street the week’s attraction features C A Byrne and Louis Harrison’s opera The Pearl of Pekin. Doug Lass Flint stars as Harrison, with expanded chorus and orchestra and a principal cast led by Miss Belle Thorne and Miss Ella Devine Finette among others.
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Glover Angelique
The New Boy and Nominee Lead Proctor Stock at Theatres
Proctor stock company headlines The New Boy at Fifth Avenue Theatre with Frederic Bond. Harlem show features The Nominee with Frederic Truesdell among supporting names. Summer vaudeville at Twenty-third Street promises Fiske and McDonough, Carmella Sisters, and Gordon Eldrith. Newark showcases Alice Shaw whistling act. New York Comedy Four among acts. Keith’s Theatre bills Sis Hopkins's Sister with Ida Melville and others. Hammerstein adds Picolo Midgets wrestling and Johnson brothers entertainment. Paradise Gardens hosts new acts.
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Charles M. Seay
William Gerald
Beatrice Morgan
Florence Leslie
Bessie Lea Listina
Johnny Williams
Cauina Sisters
Midels
Nellie Florida
Harry Eester
Twenty-third Street Theatre
Fiske and McDonough
Waltz
Ardell
Carmella Sisters
Gordon Eldridh
Mimic
Newark
Alice Shaw
New York
Fisher and Clark
Keith
Ida Melville
Company
Sis Hopkins
Miss Melville
de Villiers
Jordan and Welch
Farrell-Taylor
Arthur Deming
Miss Amyrssland
Joe
Nellie Doner
Johnson and Wells
Haight and Dean
Si Stebbins
Union Square
Hammerstein’s
Paradise Gardens
Picolo
Johnson Bthers
Proctor Theatres
Fifth Avenue
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Twenty-third Street
Plays That Hold The Wild Rose At Knickerbocker Nears Eightieth
The Wild Rose at the Knickerbocker nears its eightieth performance with plans to run all summer. Music by Ludwig Englander, lyrics by Harry B. Smith and George W. Hobart, features Eddie Foy and Irene Bentley among others. King Dodo at Daly's continues its long run, while Miss Simplicity fills the Manhattan Beach slot and A Chinese Honeymoon at the Casino adds two new favorites. Sousa at the New Star and The Chaperons moving at New York Theatre highlight a busy variety bill with Walter Jones and Eva Tanguay among top names.
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Harry B. Smith
George W. Hobart
Ludwig Englander
Eddie Foy
Irene Bentley
Marie Cahill
Katie Barry
London
Miss Angeles
Weber & Fields’s
Mrs. Yeamans
Thomas Q. Seabrooke
New York Theatre
Cherry Blossom Grove
Walter Jones
Trixie Friganza
Harry Conor
Eva Tanguay
Soprano Frida Ricci Makes American Opera Debut Tonight
Senorita Frida Ricci from the Scala Milan will bow to an American audience at Terrace Garden with Senor Vincenzo Morelli and Terrace Garden Opera principals and chorus. She and Morelli recently returned from South America. A program of scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor and the Mad Scene from Donizetti anchors the concert, with Duss and his band performing at St Nicholas Garden if rain interrupts the roof concert.
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Harlem West End Theatre Nears Roof Completion
Harlem's new theatre West End on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street near Eighth Avenue nears completion with roof soon and interior work to start. The contract targets opening on the scheduled Saturday date in September.
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Japan by Night postponed to July 7 at Madison Square Roof Garden
The opening of Japan by Night is delayed due to decorations at Madison Square Roof Garden. Princess Kiku arrives from Tokio under contract to Kushibiki & Auri to perform multiple trapeze spins.
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