Behind the scenes in theater and opera world this season
Emma Calve rests on her French farm as George H. Broadhurst writes a play in thirty two days. Bassett Roe and Julia Marlowe to lead heavy roles while John Malone leaves acting for law. Collyer set to take Chimmie Finn title role replacing Hopper. Sadie Martinez and Harry Conor to play Billings in Too Much Johnson in London. Melville engaged for Bimbo of Bombay, opening mid September. Morris and Hampton star Under the Red Robe on tour. Willard secures rights from Hal Caine for The Christia Forrest. Robinson joins to support Maddern Fiske in Tess of the Durbervilles. Fiske’s The Privateer described as romantic melodrama with scenic display. Zacconi to appear in the country early next year under Rosenfed management. Walter Damroach to run a winter opera season in Philadelphia with Melba as star. Wilson Barrett to tour Australia next January, skipping America. Mrs Patrick Campbell improving at Malvern. Odell Williams to open in Portland on September 11 in a rewritten Alderman by William Gill. Emma Eames to Bayreuth for Parsifal, then to Vallombrosia for summer. Odette Tyler and R D Shepard, formerly on Wild Goose Farm, Virginia, reconsider stage return. Shepard to lead male roles and manage company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Morris
Mary Hampton
Carl
Theodore Rosenfed
Walter Damroach
Philadelphia
Melba
Wilson Barrett
Australia
America
Patrick Campbell
Great Malvern
England
Odell Williams
Portland
William Gill
Mme
Emma Eames
Bay Teuth
Mme. Wagner
Outlaw Troupe Arrested at Sunelton Camp Meeting
An outlaw, three moonshiners and two others were arrested at the Sunelton camp meeting in Kingwood, West Virginia. A public spirited man in Pogue Bluffs, Maine funds a newspaper sent to every family near Valley View, Kentucky. Dead fish wash ashore by a wagonload. William Ma honey shoots Jennings Bradshaw in Stafford Virginia revival gone wrong. Dr C P Carver of St Augustine experiments with watermelon syrup akin to maple sap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunelton
Kingwood
W. Va
Pogue Bluffs
Valley View
Austen Leigh
House of Commons
Stafford
William Mahoney
Jenning Bradshaw
C. P. Carver
St. Augustine
Lexington
Mass
London
Austria
Macnaghten
Archaeological Museum
Larissa
Constantinople
New York
Brooklyn
Comic Fragments From A Busy Street
A garbled medley of jokes and quips unfolds with quick scenes and punchlines. A ribbon clerk, a typewriter, and a prince of punchlines exchange witticisms about wages, spelling, and fortunes. A Kruger arbiter and a queen en route to Alaska pepper the sketch with humor and social ebb.
Riches End the Searcher Pace and Witty Aphorisms
A collection of satirical maxims on editors jokes love luck and social roles. It notes that riches travel and humor remains restrained when editors fail to joke. It contrasts married wealth with later praise and the varied value of travel and silence.
Observations on Neatness and Human Fortitude
The passage argues moderation in neatness as virtuous yet warns against excess narrowing perception. It likens children and planets to proximity to heaven and sun, then cautions that some claim truth is only printed speculation, urging practical acceptance. It urges studying traits to face life failures and gain benefits, contrasting with traits for triumph.
Quips on War Trade and Oddities From a Vintage Page
A string of wry observations and aphorisms cover topics from Europe’s war focus to love and patience. Pops of satire touch on England’s map ambitions, Freemasonry, and cigaret economy. A few lines speculate on Alaska and a grim forecast of Chicago lakefront fate.
Weird Facts From Around The World And Then Some
A collection of curiosities cites France’s unmarried women and men, a 95 faced clock in St Petersburg, coal output figures, tiger eye quartz, liquefied air storage limits, Hungary’s counties and cities, the British crown’s jewels, Kohinoor history, peach origins as a poisoned almond, Rome’s Coliseum dimensions and capacity, global wine production totals and leaders, plus a note on English presence in India with a wary line about peverves and cartridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
St. Petersburg
America
South Africa
Hungary
Budapest
Great Britain
Europe
Persis
Coliseum
Rome
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Switzerland
Balkan States
Argentine Republic
Chile
United States
Brasil
Australia
Cape Colon
Newton city bids for curb and paving streets 1897
City of Newton invites sealed bids for paving and curbing McDonald Street and Main Street from Spring to Mulberry with vitrified brick paving on a concrete base and portland cement curb. Bids may cover entire projects or partial blocks, with deposits and samples required. Ten percent bid bond, sealed envelopes, and city clerk offices involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
McDonald Street
Spring Street
Olive Street
Main Street
Mulberry Street
Seach Street
S Hall
Cornell
Farley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Axtell & Cox
Emma Calve
George H. Broadhurst
Mr. Wright
Bassett Roe
Julia Marlowe
John Malone
Dan Collyer
Chimmie Finn
Charles Hopper
Sadie Martinez
Harry Conor
London Garrick
Billings
Emelie Melville
Bimbo
Bombay
Mirtly
Willie
John Jingo
Commonwealths
Hawaii
Rooster
Kruger
Alaska
Seattle
Klondike
John
Prince Henri
Turin
Ronen
Patience
Andre
Senor Sagasta
Esther Weyler
Thessaly
Persia
Greece
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Lord Robe
India
Indianapolis
Ind
Ammaka
Sitka
Junea
Dyea
Yukon
FL. Wairnzy
Great Northern Railway
St. Paul
Misa
Skiff
Colorado
California
Tames
R&p
Phillips Tourists
Kanes
Oklahooma
Texas
Joan Bebaltian
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