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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1908
Page
93
A traveling play titled The Travelling Salesman is set to appear at the Liberty Theatre. The production promises period stagecraft and performances by a touring troupe, with showtimes announced locally.
The Liberty Theatre resumes season with The Travelling Salesman by James Forbes starring Frank McIntyre and Gertrude Coghlan The season features Mistres Nell Rosalind in revival at the Academy of Music and other era shows across Manhattan venues.
A new theatre opens this afternoon in Dreamland ball room with the Georgia Minstrels as the principal feature. The venue seats three thousand. August 10 brings a ball by the American Life Savers Association at Dreamland. The Goethe Festival enters its second week under William A Willis. The Court of Luna attracts steady patronage at two cents per act. Julius Steger headlines the Brighton Beach Music Hall bill with The Fifth Commandment. Jack Norworth West and Ven Siclun, the Willy Pantzer group, and Max Witt's Scotch lassies support the program. Mr Pain adds novelties to his Destruction of Jerusalem and fireworks cap the year with a spectacular destruction of the ancient city of the Jews.
The fragment notes an unprecedented dispersion of the Burton Yevelogues forces across distant theaters. It emphasizes a broad geographic spread and implies coordinated but stretched operations without detailing specific locations or outcomes.
Henrietta Crosman stars in Mistress Nell presenting The Travelling Salesman as part of a weekly novelty lineup, with Monday and Thursday night programs noted.
Globe trotting travelogue plan outlined with Mr. Holmes and Oscar Bennett Depue touring via Hawaii Japan Java Sumatra Ceylon and India then via Suez Canal to Paris. Wright Kramer joins with Berlin Vienna Paris London Italy leg to prepare for five new travelogues to be presented in cities where Holmes cannot appear.
National Guard news outlines plans for the national rifle matches at Camp Perry Ohio starting August 2 with expected larger attendance. Teams from army navy marine corps and Naval Academy likely. West Point excluded. New York plans a strong presence under Col N B Thurston at Sea Girt New Jersey for a September rifle tournament. 422 decorations awarded for long service. 1,289 enlisted discharged. 2,763 dropped for various causes. enlistment gains and losses detailed.
Governor Hughes faces resistance to forming a negro regiment as enlistment rules cap unit strength. Troop 4 loses Captain Stone Phelps who resigns after moving out of the city. Court martial proposed for a second lieutenant in the 9th Regiment. Major replacements planned for ordnance and staff roles. several officers are moving into new commands within the 47th, 13th, and 10th Regiments. The 11th Company remains part of the 10th Regiment as Company I.
Dwight L. Elmendorf, abroad three months, writes from Berlin about photographing masters at the National Gallery and plans to visit Dresden, Spreewald, Black Forest, Rhine castles plus motion pictures. He describes red tape in Germany, a royal seal trick with guards, and Berlin elevators called fahrstuhls costing 10 pfennigs per use.
A man with a large head and raised brows tricks a clerk by claiming he will pay five or ten cents but hands over a dime. The clerk expects cheap cigars yet supplies the best, while the con man exits praising the taste and noting his plan worked.
Two suits began this week to partition the Sutro estate, the city’s largest private property, with heirs including San Francisco lawyers Garrett McEnerny and William S. Wheeler set to receive portions. City Hall restoration stalls, plan to replace with a steel office building eyed as taxpayers fund graft prosecutions. News covers fires, yacht deaths ruled as suicide, a planned Angel Island immigration station, fruit shipments, a Japanese theater project, and regional railway changes.
A Chicago News summary notes reinforced concrete has featured in shipbuilding since 1855 with Lambot's small boat and Gabellini's Rome vessel. Concrete ships offer low maintenance, fireproofing, form versatility, and cost about half of iron ships. Studies consider concrete armor plates for battleships, with experiments planned to test impact resistance.
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