Theatrical Topics on Foreign Actors in New York
A survey of New York theatre noting foreign stars and productions that stay in the city, including Agnes Sorma in last spring and Hein rich Conreid in Irving Place. Sol Smith Russell’s pathos in A Bachelor’s Romance is praised while Martha Morton’s play suffers a weak last act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Agnes Formu
Johannis
New York
Heinrich Conreid
Irving Place
Europe
Agnes Sorma
Germany
Sol Smith Ruegsell
Silvia
Annie Russell
Ward
Martha Morton
Sol Smith Russell
Morton
Theatrical Season Notes Include Do Blasphemous Johannis and Jones
The season features Suderman's Johannis with Salome and Herodias in a five act drama on John the Baptist, banned in Germany, plus George H Broadhurst's What Happened to Jones a successful Manhattan run. Also discussed are Change Alley by Rosemary writers and Julie Opp in The Princess and the Butterfly with Fay Davis at the Lyceum.
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Irving
America
Tts
Woodwenthias
New York
TSOS
Sudermiann
John the Baptist
Maida
Heleny Modjeska
Sarah Bernhardt
Eleonora Duse
Germany
Armorica
Johannis
Suderman
Herod
Herod the Great
Judea
Herodias
Duaist
Rau Forma
Salome
Jerusalem
Saldine
Jotun
John
Christ
Jones
George H. Broadhurst
Manhattan Theatre
Bijou
Boun Cire
Theatest Pinero Eames
Daniel Frohminds
Lyceum
Tris Play
London
George Alexander
Bourillon Prefers Coffee After Races
Bourillon, the celebrated French sprinter, rejects special diets and drinks hot black coffee after hard races. He believes in training and normal habits rather than dietary fads.
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Bourillon
Filigree Work Attracts Attention In White Heat Of Fashion
An article notes filigree work could create new labor for deft workers. A Philadelphia Times piece describes a city fair booth showing native filigree jewelry inspired by Italian designs. The craft uses delicate wires, no soldering, and appeals to women and even teachers for children.
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Philadelphia Times
Italy
Scanimavin
Genoa
Malta
Paris prison era ends as reforms transform old jail
The Great Paris prison Miaozini Mazas known for the cellitar system borrowed from Philadelphia will fade like Pelish Pentonville. Early tenants included Coupe d Etat victims and escape attempts were nearly impossible. Pierre Charreau in 1860 tunneled into sewers to river exit but returned exhausted to his cell.
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Mazas
Paris
Pelish Pentonville
Philadelphia
Pierre Charreau
Victor Hugo
Automatic deer portrait captured by midnight camera
A new automatic photography arrangement by Charles Hughes of Red Bluff California enables a deer to trigger a camera at midnight. The device uses a sensitive thread and magnesium flash to open the camera and expose the film as the animal moves along a trail.
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Charles Hughes
Red Bua
German Doctor Links Late Hours to Longevity
A German doctor who studied long-lived individuals reports a majority aged over eighty kept late hours. Eight of ten octogenarians stayed up until the small hours and rose late, suggesting a correlation between sleeping patterns and extreme age.
German War Office Plans Prosthetic Teeth for Soldiers
The German war office has decided to provide artificial teeth to rich soldiers as needed.
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German War Office
Odd Parade of Names and Notions From A Turbulent Dispatch
Paragraphs touch on rescue of Miss Cisneros from a New York journal disruption, Emperor William’s wheel aversion, and reforms in Georgia’s penal system. Items mention Mima Goldman in St. Louis, Col Nelle Ely of Goy, Bob Taylor’s upcoming marriage, a Tammany reform quip, Missouri train robbery as capital offense, Maude Gonne’s reception, Nat Goodwin’s Shylock, Mississippi senator’s money clout, and a Paris jury acquittal of confessed criminals.
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Miss Cisneros
New York
William
Georgia
Mima Goldman
St. Louis
Col. Nelle Ely
Goy
Bob Taylor
Tammany
Missouri
Maude Gonne
Nat Goodwin
Shylock
Shylocks
Nat
Mississippi
Chicago
Sub-Treasury in Wall Street a Historic Fortress
New York readers recall the Sub-Treasury on Wall Street built as a fortress with three to five foot thick stone walls a stone roof and iron shutters. The site of Washington’s oath stands on Pine Street with a bronze Washington statue atop massive steps and a preserved brown sandstone slab from Federal Hall inside mahogany and glass.
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New York
Sub-Treasury
Wall Street
Broadway
Federal Hall
Washington
United States
Irom
Pine Street
Chamber of Commerce of
New York City
George Washington
Bad Spelling a Dianane
A medical authority claims bad spelling stems from a disease affecting brain and nerves. Patients write or for to, omit first letters in short words, and distort many one syllable terms. Some cases involve longer words, challenging comprehension. not always tied to education.
From the Summit of Mount Diablo Pheasant Sighted?
From Mount Diablo summit observers report a curious pheasant sighting near the peak trails. The note highlights unusual wildlife activity in the park area and invites hikers to report any additional sightings to park staff.
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Mount Diablo
California
Fortified Sub-Treasury and Monumental Shadow Phenomena
A detailed description blends a supposedly impregnable sub-treasury with defensive features like Gatling guns loopholes and turrets, then shifts to a tour of Wall Street interiors showing vaults, currency redemption, and destruction of mutilated notes. The article concludes with explanations of illusions casting long, colored shadows on mountains and deserts at certain sun angles.
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Nomenon
Teneriffe
Hertz Mountains
Pambamarca
Peru
Ben Lomond
Scotland
Mexican Justice Quick to Act in Sonora Serial Shooting
A paymaster with six to seven thousand dollars is robbed and murdered in Sonora. Local police capture the robbers but a magistrate releases them. The government then intervenes and federal forces shoot the robbers, the acquitting magistrate, and others connected, totaling sixteen executions.
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San Francisco
Mexico
United States
Sonora
Dead as a door nail phrase explained in hardware lore
A note on the saying Dead as a door nail describing the door plate struck by knocks. It explains the belief the plate wore out from repeated hammer blows and suggests possible revival of the phrase in modern times.
Wolves of Russia Consume Massive Livestock Losses
Russian wolves reportedly prey on 180000 head of cattle 560000 sheep and 100000 dogs annually, signaling severe impact on farming communities and livestock numbers.
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Russia
First New York Revival Echoes Through Hippodrome
A Ladies' Home Journal writer recalls the 1876 Moody and Sankey revival in New York. Sermons drew 7,000 to 8,000 daily crowds with as many as 60,000 visiting during the ten week period from February to April.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
New York City
New York
Moody and Sankey
Moody
Prices Paid Modern Authors Hymns Pay Better Than Novel
The Pall Mall Gazette lists top current author earnings with Kipling earning up to 11,000 for The Seven Seas and 750 per Barrack-Room Ballads, while other writers like Gladstone, Conan Doyle, Ward, MacLaren, Haggard, Daudet, Zola, Ruskin, Swinburne, Browning, Tennyson, and Moody show varied royalties and large sums for major works and hymns, reflecting high modern author prices.
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Rudyard Kipling
Pall Mall Gazette
Seven Seas
Anthony Hope
Gladstone
Conan Doyle
Rodney Stone
Humphrey Ward
Robert Elsmere
David Grieve
Marcella
George Tressady
Bessie Castrell
Ian Maclaren
Rider Haggard
Swinburne
Browning
Tennyson
Macmillans
Myr. Moody
Venetian Decline Sparks Beauty Loss and Pity
An artist returns from Venice to report the queen city of the Adriatic is being badly modernized. Old stone bridges are replaced by iron ones and palaces are covered in plaster stucco due to poverty. Crumbling Doge's Palace stones are replaced at cost, private owners cannot afford repairs, Venice decays in damp climate, risking its lure for artists and foreign visitors.
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Venice
Boston Transcript
Queen of the
Adriatic
Florence
Frost Proof Water Pipes for Frozen Supply
The Frostproof Water Pipe syndicate of Birmingham forms to market a non bursting water pipe. Samples show no leakage after artificial freezing, as sections filled with water were hermetically sealed and tested under heavy pressure.
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Frostproof Water Pipe Syndicate of
Birmingham
The Wheat King of Argentina
An Italian immigrant named Guazone dominates vast wheat lands in southern Buenos Ayres province Argentina his 66 270 acre farm employs thousands of workers each paid a share of profits and upon harvest fills over 3000 railway trucks with grain.
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Argentina
Guazone
Buenos Ayres
Girl Fells Robber With Unexpected Blow
Miss Josie Murphy of San Jose California confronted a highwayman on a San Fernando street near Locust. She did not scream but struck him a severe blow to the face. the robber fell and was left dazed as she continued home. No further pursuit or sighting is recorded.
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Josie Murphy
San Jose
Cal
Miss Murphy
San Fernando Street
Locust
Weather vane symbols in colonial New England history
The oldest weather indicators in New England included cocks trumpeters simple plates disks and arrows and the sacred codfish. Boston used cocks or broad arrows on old churches while the Province House bore a statue of an Indian with bow and arrow. Prints of New Amsterdam show gilded cocks and arrows atop churches and houses.
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New England
Boston
Province House
Gage
New Amsterdam
Free Farms of 160 Acres in Canadian West Alleges High Wheat Yield
An old notice touts free 160 acre farms in Alberta and Manitoba with Manitoba Hard wheat and a claimed 86 bushels per acre. It advertises transportation details and a pamphlet on dairying and wheat raising from C. J. Brown Guton, 2382 Clark Street, Chicago. The ad concludes with a quip about love and war.
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Manitoba
Alberta
C. J. Brown Guton
Clark Street
Chicago
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Rosemary
Mr. Sothern
Charles Wyndham
Farbamete
Sab Smith Bresedd Sdinyss
David Hales
Nox
Silva
Mt Neg
Julie Opp
St. James Theater
Fay Davis
Fay Zuliani
Bohemia
East Side
Mrs. Ware
Agniss Sora
Miaozini
Hatel
NEW York Sub-Treasury
Dianane
Laust
Department
New York and Treasury
Gotham
Wheat King
San Jose, Cal
Bird Island
Minn
Tate
Norman Hickox
Hood
Ower
Ker
A. J. Tower
Mass
Howe
Borden & Selleck CO
Lake Street
Sprankle & Hayward, Migs
Kendallville, Ind
U.S
Glu
Solu Associa
Betz
Phila
Pas
O'Farrell
New York Avenue
Washington, D. C
Franklin, Curtiss & Co
Great Northern
Lux
Bileen
W. E. Smith & CO
Buffalo
Territ
O.T. Baldoser
Roseville
N. Y
Sina Farina
D. C
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