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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1897
Page
4
Maywood residents discuss church services and week of prayer, announce school opening January 3 1897 and plans for a Proviso Base Ball team. Local clubs hold meetings at Pavillion and Nichols residence while social events include dances, dinners, and Shakespeare lectures.
Folliott Paget succeeds Rose Coghlan as Sporting Duchess and Carrie Radcliffe plays Lotta in Pawn Ticket 210. Haverly organises a minstrel company while Eleanor Calhoun acts Clorinda Wildair in A Lady of Quality. Jefferson donated a painting to Brooklyn Institute. Beerbohm Tree to revive A Man's Shadow in London. Whis Rising to present Why in vaudeville by Bure McIntosh. M Aiounet-Sully may retire to a home in southern France. Grace Vaughn to play Queen of Burlesque for Hoyt after A Black Sheep. Perley to star J I Stoddart in Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush. Ysaye buys Hercules Stradivarius for winter tour.
Classified notice from The Dominion Company inviting gentlemen or ladies to travel for a steady position based in Illinois. Monthly compensation of 003.08 plus expenses. Refer encs and enclose self addressed stamped envelope to Department Y in Chicago.
Mc Vicker's theater starts a week of variety led by Kellar the famed magician and conjurer with "The Mystery of Lassa" and other illusions, followed by "A Bachelor's Honeymoon" and a cast of noted performers, acrobats, and vaudeville acts. The bill features Mrs Kellar, spiritualist feats, and a mix of music, comedy, and exotic acts. The season also promises new revivals and elaborate stage effects, plus a 5:30 to 6:30 intermission for ventilation.
The coming attraction af fer previews Mr Joseph Murphy as the best delmettor of high-grade Irish character now before the public. He sings dances with Irish grace and brogue is sincere and correct in his plays Kerry Gow and Shaun Rhue, deemed masterpieces of Irish dramatic literature.
Lillian Burkhart will star at Slaymarket next week backed by Daryl Wilber in the one act comedy Dropping a Hint. Mary Norman headlines with a repertoire of feminine character portrayals and Eastward acclaim from Chicago theatergoers. The program features Ward and Curran with the Bowery sketch Slines and Remington Joe and Nellie Doner the LaPorte sisters the Clarice sisters the Maginleys and more leading acts.
Harry Williams company of vaudeville artists and comedians led by Sam Scribner will perform at the Olympic next week. The program features top novelty acts with Clifford and Huth as headliners and promises high class entertainment.
The article mentions Nipling authorizing a dramatic adaptation and a London syndicate attempting to buy a hotel for a government deal. It also reports mushroom poisoning research, its nerve and heart effects, an atropine antidote, and a method to extract muscarine for medicinal use.
The Berliners tell many tales of Mommsen's absent mindedness including not recognizing his own son and asking his name to quiet him on a tram from Charlottenburg. It is rumored he once placed his first baby in a waste paper basket and covered it up.
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