DANCED HER HAIR OFF FOR CHARITY'S SAKE
A matinee vaudeville at the Plaza aided the Darrach Home for Crippled Children. Donald Brian and May Naudain staged a humorous Merry Widow act causing hair to fall in a playful spectacle. Net proceeds reached about $1,000 with Mrs. Ethel Watts Mumford Grant organizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plaza
Darrach
Donald Brian
Danilo
Merry Widow” Company
May Naudain
Brian
Ethel Watts Mumford Grant
Miss Naudain
Donald
Mr. Brian
Dolly
Edith
Beverly Sitgreaves
En Kolkér
Mme
Fidora Argilagos
Grant
Mret. Wrycherley
Nina Gordon
Frederick Norma
G. B. Dickey
Wedding Plans for Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes
The wedding of Robert Woods Bliss secretary of the American Legation at Brussels to Miss Mildred Barnes will take place on Saturday April 14 at noon in Grace Church chantry with no attendants. The bride’s mother will give her in marriage and the ceremony will be quiet for Holy Week. The couple will sail for Brussels around May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Woods Bliss
Brussels
William H. Bliss
Mildred Barnes
Grace Church Chantry
Dr. Huntington
Ridal
Bliss
Harvard
Porto Rico
Venice
St. Petersburg
Mary Underhill Wood
Merrill Edwards-Gates, Jr
Lois Homans
Edward C. Homans
William Bishop Gates
Miss Wood
William H. S. Wood
William Wood's& Co
Fifth Avenue
Bowery Savings Bank
Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore
Mr. Gates
Merrill E. Gates
Washington
Rutgers
Amherst Colleges
Eva van Cortlandt Morris
A. Newbold Morris
McDougall Hawkes
Wright Hawkes
Hawkes
Columbia
Miss Morris
Emily R. Wolff
Julius R. Wolff
Ernest A. Cardozo
West Fifty-fourth Street
Josephs and
Levy
Helen Brown Weds Sigbert Wittman at the Savoy
Miss Helen Brown daughter of Mr and Mrs Marcus Brown of this city married Sigbert Wittman last evening at the Savoy in a ceremony that united two families. The couple plans to reside locally and begin married life together following the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Savoy
Sigbert Wittman
Helen Brown
Marcus Brown
Wittman Bride and Groom Wed in Savoy Ceremony
At the Savoy last night the Rev. Dr. Rudolph Grossman officiated a wedding for the Wittman couple. The bride wore a white satin gown with rose paint and Duchess lace and carried orchids and valley lilies. Miss Mildred Brown was maid of honor, Hugo Wittman brother of the bridegroom, best man. The couple will reside in New York after a bridal trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Savoy
Rudolph Grossman
Mildred Brown
Hugo Wittman
Sibley Wedding at West End Avenue Home
Miss Aline Sibley, second daughter of Mrs. C. W. Sibley, married Charles Whann Jr. yesterday at her mother’s West End Avenue home. Adele Sibley was maid of honor. Townsend of the Church of All Angels officiated with Rev Yap De Lancey. Relatives and intimate friends attended. the couple left for a Southern tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aline Sibley
C. W. Sibley
Charles Whann, Jr
West End Avenue
First Street
Adele Sibley
de Lancey
Townsend
Church of All Angels
Schloss Stern wedding at Delmonico's in New York
Hugo N. Schloss and Miss Ruth Stern wed at 6:30 last night in Delmonico's officiated by Dr Fisher of Atlantic City. The bride wore white satin with point lace. Milton J. Schloss was best man. After a South trip the couple will live in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo N. Schloss
Ruth Stern
M. M. Stern
Hotel Majestic
Delmonico’s
Dr. Fisher
Atlantic City
Milton J. Schloss
Winthrop-Wiseman Keogh Engagement Announced
Paris dispatch reports the engagement of Harold Neilson Winthrop of New York to Winifred Keogh, elder daughter of Wiseman Keogh the British Consul at Monaco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York Times
Paris
Harold Neilson Winthrop
New York
Winifred
Wiseman Keogh
Monaco
Cowboy songs at Musicale in National Arts Club rooms
Thomas Tryon presented a Cowboy songs and folk music themed musicale at the National Arts Club featuring works by Gilbert Normand Smith Kelly and Tryon sung by Bispham Crabbé Barnhart Werrenrath and Hassall with Mary Williamson on piano. Guests included Mr. and Mrs Janvier Blashfield Poor Marquand Clark and Lady Clark Damrosch Mali de Forest Rossiter Barnum Sturgis and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Tryon
National Arts Club
Henry Gilbert
Gertrude Normand Smith
Edgar Stillman Kelly
David Bispham
Armand Crabbé
Manhattan Opera
Henry Barnhart
Beynard Werrenrath
Lila Hascall
Mary William Fson
Noble Kreider
Thomas A. Janvier
E. H. Blashfield
Henry Poor
Henry Marquand
Purdon Clark
Lady Clark
Walter Damrosch
Pierre Mali
Robert de Forest
E. K. Rossiter
W. M. Barnum
Penfields Off On Long Trip
Mr and Mrs Frederic Courtland Penfield and Mrs Weightman Walker leave on the Hamburg for Naples with two cars meeting them there. They plan two months touring Iberia to Biarritz and Paris then England in August and possibly a Nile trip to Khartoum. Penfield formerly American Minister and Consul General to Egypt may update his book Present Day Egypt after retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic Courtland Penfield
Weightman Walker
Atlantic City
Hamburg
Naples
Rome
Florence
Riviera
Spain
Iberian Peninsula
Biarritz
Sailings To Europe From Major Lines Include Prominent Passengers
North German Lloyd Kaiser Wilhelm II departs with guests led by Herbert Adams and Amedeo Bassi among many others. Hamburg line sails to Naples with Dr E B Bronson and Col H Heistock aboard. Holland America Ryndam heads to Rotterdam listing C W Antony and J S Coburn among travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert W. Adams
Comte de Belo
Princess Belloselsky
Amedeo Bassi
Baroness Biedenfeld
H. B. Brookman
Allen Curtis
A. B. Claflin
B. F. Drakenfeld
M. L. Gerstile
Charles Gillbert
Mary Garden
Théodore F. Jackson
W. S. Kernochan
W. B. Leeds
Otto Loewengard
Edward Spencer Mead
D. Neustadter
Alexander von Nuber
Chicago
George Putnam
R. H. Reid
Jacob Rothschild
Francisco de Sininaga
E. Whitney
Egerton Winthrop
W. H. Wheeler
Hamburg
Naples
E. B. Bronson
R. C. Brandt
H. W. Barrows
C. H. Cooke
Mme
Giannina Russ-Donesana
Bernard von Essen
E. D. Gordy
H. Heistock
Marshal Hale
Thomas W. Jopson
Darwin P. Kingsley
Elizabeth Marshall
Frederic Courtland Fenfield
James Brown/Potter
John G. Shedd
Edward F. Swift
W. Treitchell
Ryndam
Rotterdam
C. W. Antony
W. Batsdorf
Frank Batsdorf
Coburn
Otto von Fell
Eleanore Dubois Harris
Oscar Korn
V. J. Lyman
William O. Osborne
A. B. Bayage
Charles le Tassier
Brander Matthews Play for Charity at Waldorf
Under Wayside Workers auspices matinée and evening performances today at the Waldorf Astoria feature Frank Wilde by Brander Matthews and Miss Flipper's Holiday. Proceeds go to the Fresh Air Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brander Matthews
Tnder
Wayside
Waldorf-Astoria
Frank Wilde
Miss Flipper
Wresh Air Fund
Viennese arrival of Count Laszlo Széchényi and Countess
Count Laszlo Széchényi and the Countess reached Vienna this morning after a train stop. A large crowd gathered at the station but friends arranged for the couple to depart before the train stopped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Laszlo Széchényi
Social Scene Notes from New York Highlights
The Play Ground Association hosts a Waldorf Astoria dinner honoring Mrs. Humphry Ward with the Duchess of Marlborough among speakers. Mrs. Clarence Mackay misses the event after her aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Duer’s death. F Hopkinson Smith gives an afternoon recital at Columbia for Auxiliary 16 of Stonywold Sanitarium. The Germanistic Society of America held a Waldorf Astoria concert with Fraulein Hedwig Reicher and conductor Christian Kreins. Former President Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland plan a New York visit, staying at the Buckinghams. Other society items include engagements at the St. Regis and Gotham, and travel notes for the Pelham-Clintons and the Mauretania voyage sailing soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Play Ground Association
Waldorf-Astoria
Humphry Ward
Duchess of Marlborough
Clarence Mackay
Elizabeth Duer
Mme
Constance Lee de Pastor
Washington
Julien Jaquelin Maseen
Grover Cleveland
East Seventy-fifth Street
Baron Uxkullor
Russia
J. M. Longyear
Judith Longyear
Boston
Gotham
Tracy Dow
Virginia Hot Springs
Frederick S. Snow
Tuxedo
Herbert Carpenter
Atlantic City
Pelham-Clintons
Mauretania
Harbor Hill
The Outlaw's Christmas melodrama reviewed
The review laments The Outlaw's Christmas a five act melodrama by Theodore Kremer at New York venue Tack Foster. It highlights a Klondike setting and a plot where the outlaw Jack Foster battles villains as a Christmas scene unfolds with a mother weapon and a hopeful ending, while noting audience sentiment and theatrical trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Kremer
New Ar
Tack Foster
Julian Noa
Kate Foster
sLida Merab
Ruby
Foster
Gussie Shires Or
Lilian Wallace Horace Harper
Daniel la Anna Robinson
Gertrude Dion Magil
Isadore Breval
Tom Sam van Maggie Quirk
May Henderson Thurston Edward White
D. Herblein Faber
Bivss
Alee E Sues
Sig Stipes
One-eyed
Jimmy
Harry Scott
Charlie Nelson
Deeks Ee Eatte
Lewis Black
Petes Kessesceseeceesossees
M. BE. oRyan
Wees
William Willis
Frank Woolford
Joe
Bill
Moll
Sal
Mr. Blaney
Maggie Quirk
Mr. Kremer
Man
Superman
Pélieas
Mélisande
Kremerit
Jack Foster
Klondike
New York
Black Pete
Kremers
The Wolf produced at Belasco Theatre Washington
The Shu berts drama The Wolf by Eugene Walter had its first stage production at the Belasco Theatre in Washington. Ida Conquest stars as Hilda with five male actors including William Courtenay Walter Hale Thomas Findlay Sheridan Block and Jack Defereaux in the cast. J Huffman staged the production with help from the author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
The
Shuberts
Belasco Theatre
Hudson Bay Country
Eugene Walter
New York
Pee Cee
Hilda
Ida Conquest
William Courtenay Walter Hale
Thomas Findlay
Sheridan Block
Jack Defereaux
J. Huffman
the Wolf
Marta at the Metropolitan Opera House
The Marta performance at the Metropolitan was revived last night after a tentative season start. Miss Bessie Abbott sang the title role and showed improvements though she struggled with high notes. Plancon returned as Plunkett while Journet had the role. Bond’s Lionella and Nancy impressed, but Barocchi as Sir Tristan disappointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marta
Metropolitan Opera House
Férrari
Metropolitan
Bessie Abbott
Mme. Sembrich
Conried Sues Dalmores Over Metropolitan Contract
The Conried Metropolitan Opera Company sues Charles Dalmorés through Frederick Sperling for breach of contract. Dalmorés must fulfill the contract or pay 2000 dollars. He signed with the Metropolitan but prior papers claimed by Hammerstein could bind him. Dalmorés sails to Europe today aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Dalmorés
Manhattan Opera House
Conried Metropolitan Opera Company
Frederick, Sperling
Dalmorés
Metropolitan
Hammerstein
Daimorés
Europe
Louis Mathot
Hammerstein Begins Demolition of Philadelphia Opera House Site
Oscar Hammerstein started tearing down the old fracra mansion to clear the site for the city’s first dedicated opera house. Arthur Hammerstein led the ceremony portending a new era for grand opera in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammerstein
Sire
New York Times
Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein
Fracra
Arthur Hammerstein
Cyril Scott to star in The Royal Mounted at Garrick Theatre
Cyril Scott appears next Monday night as a Lieutenant of the Mounted Police of Canada in The Royal Mounted. The new play, written for him by Cecil B De Mille and William C De Mille, is produced under Samuel Claggett. This marks Claggett’s first New York production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyril Scott
Garrick Theatre
The
Royal Mounted
Cecil B
William C. de Mille
Samuel Claggett
Mr. Scott
Mounted Police of
Canada
New York
Mr. Claggett
The Merry Widow 100th Night At Weber's Music Hall
The 100th performance of The Merry Widow burlesque was staged at Weber's Music Hall last night. Miss Hook of Holland closes at the Criterion Theatre on April 11. Clergymen and families attended The Servant In the House at the Savoy Theatre. Two new Girls companies form for Daly's with one to open at Garrick Chicago and another on the Pacific Coast. Frohman buys Ethel Barrymore portrait for the Empire foyer beside Maude Adams. Prof Wood tests new stage lighting at the Grand Opera House with The Blue Moon production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weber's Music Hall
Garrick Theatre
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Charles Frohman
Sigismund de Ivanowski
Ethel Barrymore
Jinks
Empire the
Maude Adams
Peter Pan
R. W. Wood
Johns Hopkins University
Grand Opera House
Theatres Show Mix Of Plays In City Venues
Robert Edeson presented Classmates at the Montauk after appearing in Manhattan. Rogers Brothers offered Panama at the Broadway Theatre. Wine Women and Song played at the Majestic, continuing from Circle. The Two Orphans ran at the Columbia Theatre. Cecilia Loftus headlined vaudeville at the Orpheum with many other acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Edeson
Manhattan
Lyceum Theatre
Montauk
Broadway
Rogers Brothers
Panama
Majestic Theatre
the Circle
Columbia Theatre
Cecilia Loftus
Orpheum Theatre
American Embassy Dinner Honors J Pierpont Morgan
In Rome on March 30 Lloyd C. G gave a dinner and reception honoring J Pierpont Morgan and his daughter Mrs Satterlee. Cabinet ministers ambassadors and many prominent Americans were among the guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Lloyd C. G
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mrs. Satterlee
Prof Robert Koch Sailing for New York Tonight
BERLIN March 30 Prof Robert Koch and his wife left for Bremen to take passage on the Kron Prinzessin Cecilie sailing for New York tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Robert Koch
Kronprinzess
Cecilie
New York
Prices for assorted produce rise and fall in spring table
Asparagus is 33 cents a bunch from California. Peas cost 25 cents a quart, shelled 90 cents per quart. String beans 35 cents, wax beans 25 cents. Lima baskets 1.25 per half peck. Dandelions 15 cents a quart. Beets 10 cents a bunch. Carrots 25 cents a bunch. Rhubarb three bunches for a cent? or 10 cents a bunch. Tomatoes 40 cents a quart hot house, 15 cents southern. Green peppers 5 cents each. Cauliflower 25 or 85 cents per head. Mushrooms 65 cents a pound. Artichokes 20 cents each. Jerusalem artichokes 15 cents a quart. Lettuce 10 cents a head. Chives 10 cents a root. Tarragon 15 cents, chervil 10 cents. Cucumbers 15 cents each, southern four for 25. Squashes 19 cents each or three for 25. green 7 cents a pound. Radishes 5 cents a bunch. Watercress 5 cents a bunch. Endive 30 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Bermuda
Hot House
Hothouse
Jerusalem
France
Tompkins and Tompkins Offer Wills and Probate Services
Tompkins and Tompkins, Counselors-at-Law, advertise wills and probate of wills services from their office at 156 Fifth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tompkins
Tetrazzini Signs Five Year Run With Hammerstein
Mme Luisa Tetrazzini confirms a five year contract with Oscar Hammerstein, after renewing her agreement. She plans to sail today, visit Paris for gowns, then perform in London and Ostend before a concert tour of major English cities and return to New York under Hammerstein's management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Luisa Tetrazzini
Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar Hammarstein
Mme. Tetrazzini
Times
New York
Paris
London
Covent Garden
Ostend
Milano
Leeds
Manchester
Birmingham
Eiffel Tower
Bronx Zoo
Aquarium
Jenny Lind
Metropolitan Museum
Europe
Hippodrome
Hammerstein to Europe with star singers on Kaiser Wilhelm II
Oscar Hammerstein sails for Europe aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II with Mary Garden Luisa Tetrazzini and about twenty Manhattan Opera Company singers. He says he will hire a secretary at the Grand Hotel Paris to screen access, vows limited singing offers, and hints at summer plans and further contracts to be announced in Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Hammerstein
Europe
Mary Garden
Luisa Tetrazzini
Manhattan Opera Company
Timus
Paris
Grand Hotel
Cerberus
Philadelphia
Tetrazzini
Aris
Married couples blessed in March nuptials
In two notices Sara A. Woodruff wed Emery G. Barker on March 28. Catherine M. Smith married Herman Heidrich on March 29 in Newark New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barber—Woodruff
Sara A. Woodruff
Emery G. Barker
Heidrich—Smith
Newark
N. J
Catherine M. Smith
Herman Heidrich
Obituary Notices From New York Area March 1908
A column of funeral notices and obituaries for March 29 to March 31 1908 lists Ellen Foy Emma Litchfield Henry Kassebart Oscar Eisenmann Virginia FitzGerald William Ford Nathalie Fort Jerusha Halsey Harris Hayden James Healy Charles Husted Sara Lande William McMurtry Frederick Meeker Maria Milbank Christine Patten Anna Perry Sarah Smith Louise Taylor Emma Thackeray Frances Waller Elizabeth Whitson and others with service locations and interment details across New York New Jersey Connecticut and Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. D. Russell
East Chester
N. Y
Grand Central Station
New Haven
R. R
Hayden
Philadelphia
Harris H. Hayden
New York City
Congregational Church
Windsor Locks
Conn
Mary J. Husted
Lande
Sara (Rubinsky
M. Boas Lande
Lexington Av
M. McMurtry
William McMurtry
Newton
N. J
New York
Meeker
Rye
Frederick Wood Meeker
Samuel A
Mary C. Meeker
Abby Leaming
Naval Militia
Frederick W. Meeker
Naval ‘Eo Association
Herbe LL. Satterlee
Edward T. McLaughein
Milbank
Maria Louisa
Robert Milbank
Patten
Christine T. Patten
Col. W. Patten
U. S. Army
Perry
Hartford
West Tath St
Taylor
Louise T. Taylor
Benjamin A. Taylor
Louise Todd
West 87Th Street
Thackray
Emma Shaurman
Richard Thackray
Whitson
Flushing
Elizabeth T
Jacob H. Whitson
James B. Hillyer
Sanford Avenue
Obituary notices list deaths across New York and New Jersey
Dates and addresses accompany numerous funeral notices. Names include Augiste Couard Catherine Dillon Bridget Dowd Bridget Dunn Jacobus Emmons Carrie Finden Julie Finke Edmund W. Firmin Thomas F. Graham Lillian A. Hanna Fannie J. Haradon Bridget Hartigan Margaret Honeywell John J. Hollahan Mary Healy Conrad Keim William T. Knapp August Kremp Jane Leckie John M Lopez William Peters Ursula Randhare Josephine Reinwald Eleanor Rhoads Dorothea Robst Margaret Rush Maria Sieke Henry Simmons Johannes Sitter Daniel Toolin Veronica Wagner Frederick Wodey Henry Young Louis A. Ziegler and others, with locations in Brooklyn Newark Hoboken and Hoboken. Funeral times noted for many.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salomon Heyman
Hollahan
Babylon
LA L
John J. Hollahan
Honeywell
Wythe
Brooklyn
Mairgaret Honeywell
Johnson
Margaret Johnson
St. A
Kayser
Jefferson St
Hoboken
Henriette W. Kayser
Keegan
Manhasset Place
Mery Keegan
Keim
Spring St
West Hoboken
Conrad Keim
Knapp
Newark
N. Ji
August Kremp
Leckie
Atlantic Av
Jane Leckie
Lopez
West 144Th St
John M Lopez
Lubkemann
North 11Th St
Brookelyn
William Lubkemann
McGoldrick
Josephine A. McGoldrick
Nolan
South 6Th Av
Mount Verenon
Mary J. Nolan
Oster
Eagle Av
Bronx
Anton Oster
A. M. Pfer
Boonton
N. J
Jacob N. Peer
Peters
Halsey St
Brooklym
William Peters
Randhare
Grove St
Ursula Randhare
Reinwald
East 10Th St
Josephine Reinwald
Harrison
Daneiel Toolin
Wagner
West
Veronica Wagner
M. Wodey
Astor St
Jug
Frederick Wodey
Young
Broad St
N. Jug
Henry Young
Ziegler
Belleville
Louis A. Ziegler
In Memoriam Schiffer and Allison
In memory of my beloved husband, our father and grandfather Schiffer who departed this life March 1, 1900. Allison Mass in memory of Caspar at the Roman Catholic Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allison
Caspar Ahi
Hie Gishbed Roman Catholic Church
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Charity
Waltz
Barnes
Gates-Wood
Norway
North Atlantic
Scott
Nature
Wiann—Sibley
Harold N. Winthrop
Cowboy Songs AT Musicale
Penfields
Nile
Sailing For
Szechenyis
Social Notes
the Outlaw
Bessie Abott
Conried Sues Dalmores
Philadelphia Opera
Brooklyn Amusements
Prof
Trirazzini
Knickerbocker
Dine Avenue
Edward Brandus
James P. Sife
Fifth Avenue Cor
45Th Street
Time of Sale Illustrated
Tae
William Clausen
35Th
86Th Sts
James P. Silo
Montross Gallery
Lth Ave
35Th St
Educational Alliance
Superintendent Educational Alliance
Mast Broadway
City
L. E. Waterman Company
York
Mantell
Hjackson
Elgu
Bird
Dresden S&t
Peter A. Clarke
Coleman
West 78Th St
Ee A. Coleman
Auguste Couard
Dunn
Harrison, N. J
Bridget Dunn
Findon
Clifton Av
Carrie Finden
Woodlawn Cemetery
Harlem
Webster
Jerome Avenue
Gramercy
East
Undertakers
Frank E. Campbell
Chelsea
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