Garrick Theatre stage and star Grace George in Frou Frou
The Garrick Theatre hosted a three quarters full audience for Grace George in Frou Frou marking her first vocal Gilberte. The performance showed unsteady pacing from set changes but George delivered a credible, marketable portrayal amid an inexperienced cast and hurried planning.
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Garrick Theatre
Grace George
Miss George
Gilberte
Louise
Valreas
Bernhardt
Bergman
Papa Brigard
Miss Henderson
Mr. Maclaren
Henri Sartoris
Cuyler Hastings Choise
Comte de Valreas
Grace Henderson Baronne
Selene Johnson
Laure Lemmers
Baby Bernice
Harte’s Unused Play and Bourchier May Debut
The theater note mentions Bret Harte finishing a play for Arthur Bourchier shortly before his death, with title and theme undisclosed. Charles Frohman plans a new work by Captain Marshall, known for A Royal Family and The Second in Command, to be staged in New York in September.
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Minnie Ashler
Daly's
London
William Norris
Huntley Wright
Bret Harte
Arthur Bourchier
Harte
Charles Frohman
Captain Marshall
New York City
Chestnut Street theatres extend run of Lovers Lane and Youth
The closing Chestnut Street venues trimmed local indoors options. Lovers Lane enters its eighth week with no announced end. Keith's plans a full new program including at least one novelty. Girard Avenue Theatre players will keep the house open a few weeks longer opening with the melodrama Youth which once was popular.
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Chestnut Street
Lovers’ Lane
Keith's
Girard Avenue
New Week at Keith's Promises Novel Automo Act and Skits
The week’s Keith's program features Automo described as a genuine novelty and the most interesting turn since The Girl with the Auburn Hair. Williams and Tucker revive Skinny's Finish, McIntyre and Heath return with The Georgia Minstrels, and a host of acts including Alf Grant Bertie Fowler Swift Huber Fialkowski Gorman West Morrissey Rich Ferguson Watson Bush Bush Gleasons and the Rio trio are listed. Films debut at the biograph. Show runs daily 12.30 to 10.50 PM.
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Keith
Williams
Tucker
Miss Williams
McIntyre
Heath
Georgia Minstrels
Alf Grant
Bertie Fowler
Swift
Huber
Fialkowski
Gorman
West
Morrissey
Rich
Ferguson and Watson
Bush
Gleasons
Rios
M. Dally
Lovers Lane at Philadelphia Run Marks Eighth Week
The current run of Lovers Lane enters its eighth Philadelphia week with many Johnsons in the audience and a Johnsons stage reception by Millie James after the show. Soprano Gilbert Holdsworth will sing between acts as advertised. The hundredth Philadelphia performance of Clyde Fitch's play occurs Tuesday evening with ladies receiving powder-box souvenirs. Afternoon shows run Tuesday Thursday and Saturday.
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Lane
Philadelphia
Millie James
Simplicity Johnson
Johnsons
Gilbert Holdsworth
Clyde Fitch
Youth Melodrama Revival by Durban-SheelerStock Company
The Durban-Sheeler stock company revives Paul Merritts Youth as its season finale. Edwin Middleton and Drew A Morton direct with cast including Jack Webster Emma Maddern Marie Warren Nellie Callahan Ida Glenn and Captain Spratley role. Veterans Reserve Corps and Company E supernumeraries join for the battle scene with afternoon shows Wednesday and Saturday.
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Paul Merritt
Durban-Sheeler
Edwin Middleton
Drew A. Morton
Jack Webster
Thomas J. McGrane
Emma Maddern
Marie Warren
Nellie Callahan
Merritt
Ida Glenn
Miss Callahan
Spratley
Alf
Comany E
Sons of Veterans’ Reserve Corps
Tenley and Simonds Lead Theatre Show Of New Weathers
Tenley and Simonds announce as chief contributors to entertainment for the new season with Harry Wardell the little boy with the big voice billed for a specialty of coon songs. James and Fannie Farley in The Dancing Master sketch with the Mitchell Sisters, Cornwell and Hunter in a blackface turn, and the New York Comedy Four a quartet of singers and grotesques. The Sleeping Beast and the Beauty after lace will employ a score of pretty women in the ensembles. Afternoon performances will be daily.
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Tenley
Simonds
Harry Wardell
Coon
James
Fannie Farley
Mitchell Sisters
Cornwell
Hunter
New York Comedy Four
Resort Variety Extravaganza Welcomes Local Smeeweens
Grace Leonard Morris and Bowen head a list of contributors to the week’s resort extravaganza with specialties. Afternoon performances will air daily featuring the Barrett Brothers and sisters Paul Tom and Gertie Grimes along with Lewis Green and Alice Leslie and the Dolans.
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Grace Leonard
Morris and Bowen
Barrett Brothers
Fields and Whallen
Paul
Tom
Gertie Grimes
Lewis and Green
Alice Leslie
Dolans
Aires
Summer Parks Attract Crowds With Bandes And New Showpieces
Willow Grove Sousa leads a big crowd draw with Imperial Edward two step as main feature. Fairy Theatre magnifier sighting and four row carrousel compete with Chestnut Hill Phinney and band. Woodside Coperto holds Battles of Our Nation twice daily plus afternoon concerts. Adgie presents trained lions. Conterno today features Nearer My God to Thee My Country and other classics amid national songs.
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Willow Grove
Sousa
Marchking
Imperial Edward
Paris
Woodside
Copterno
Hie
Adgie
Conterno
Lyceum and Trocadero Theater Listings Review
Partial schedule shows evening performances on Girard Avenue and Willow Grove Park with times around 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Events include Variety Extravagante and Chestnut Bil Paykt with paid entries and limited details.
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Girard Avenue Theatre
Lyceum
Trocadero . . Inc
Rand
Willow Grove Park
Woodside
Wyndham and Irving May Act Together Next Season
London theatre gossip notes that Charles Wyndham and Sir Henry Irving may perform in a Henry Arthur Jones comedy next season amid stars such as Lena Ashwell and Oscar Asche in London and New York plans. Clyde Fitch's health and work in Salso Maggiore are described, with updates on Miss Harned and Irene Vanbrugh, and Frohman's American rights and future tours.
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Philadelphia Times
New York Times
London
Charles Wyndham
Sir Henry Irving
Henry Arthur Jones
Wyndham
Jones
Lena Ashwell
King’s Theatre
Wyndham's
Saint
Clyde Fitch
Salso Maggiore
Berne
Marr Mannering
Ethel Barrymore
Clara Bloodgood
Freddy Maldonado
Dion Boneicault
America
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Duke of York
Pinero
New York
Frohman
J. M. Barrie
Quality Street
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John Drew
Barrie
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Gilbert Parker
Charley Steele
Parker
Maurice Gray
Paris
Daniel Frohman
Walsingham Hotel
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Criterion Theatre
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Arizona
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Elizabeth Tyree
Hazleton
Captain Molly
Manhattan
Gretna Green
Richard Mansfield
Weybridge-on- Thames
A. M. Palmer
Notting Hill
France
Krejane
Imperial Theatre
Coronet Theatre
Jane Iading
Marcel Provost
Dot
Bernhardt
Three Act Comedy At The Odeon Paris Receives Mixed Reviews
The three act comedy by Sylvane and Freyer, staged at the Odeon in Paris, is criticised as light for such a prestigious house. Yet its humor and spirit are generally acknowledged. E. A. Dithmar.
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Sylvane
Freyer
Odeon
Paris
Underground thermometer records earth temperature in New York garden
In Bronx Park a copper thermograph records underground soil temperature for two weeks. Inventors Professor William Hallock and Professor D T MacDougal describe a self recording device using a copper globe and capillary, yielding weekly charts of heat at about one foot depth.
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New York
New York Botanical Gardens
Bronx Park
William Hallock
Columbia University
D. T. MacDougal
Botanical Gardens
MacDougal
Halleck
Drs. Hallock
Mace Dougal
Mc Mara
Chaminade Club Hosts Evening of Chamber Music
The Chaminade Club held its second concert at the Orpheus Club rooms featuring Marie B Hoskins violinist J R McNeill tenor and Theodore J Hahn bass. Performances included Liza Lehmann In a Persian Garden with Gittelson Dercum and Pulaski at piano and a Gade trio. The Philadelphia ede Club will present Smith and DeKoven’s Rob Roy at Broad Street Theatre tomorrow under Preston Ware Orem with W Preston Tyler Helen Trautwind Douglas B Macauley and Joseph Englebert in key roles.
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New Chaminade Club
Orpheus Club
Marie B. Hoskins
J. R. McNeill
Theodore J. Hahn
McNeill
Mr. Hahn
Liza Lehmann
Samuel J. Gittelson
Susanna E. Dercum
Helen Pulaski
Gertrude I. Beppelman
Agnes M. Bundy
Adele M. Zellner
Gade
David Weyl
Miss Derenum
Chadwick
A. Madlert Zellner
Elgar
The
Philadelphia
Ede Club
Smith and DeKoven
Rob Roy
Broad Street Theatre
Preston Ware Orem
W. Preston Tyler
Helen Trautwind
Jame
Douglas B. H. Macauley
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Joseph Englebert
MacWheeble
Perth
Suit Aims to Seize Adele Ritchie Property in New York
Attorney John C. Marsh for Gebbie & Co. filed a suit in Common Pleas Court No. 2 in assumpsit against Miss Adele Ritchie over a contract for a portfolio of water color portraits of stage celebrities with autographs. Attachment at the Chestnut Street Opera House failed as sheriff found no seizable goods. The firm seeks a quick judgment to move the claim to New York where Ritchie reportedly has assets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Marsh
Gebbie & Co
Common Pleas Court
Adele Ritchie
Chestnut Street Opera House
New York
Harris to Speak at Central High School Dedication
William T. Harris National Commissioner of Education will address the dedication ceremonies for Central High School on October 27. President Roosevelt was invited but could not confirm attendance. Harris has served as commissioner since 1889 after leading St. Louis schools.
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William T. Harris
Central High School
Roosevelt
Ashbridge
Harris
Harrison
St. Louis
Rush to See Coronation Sails with Packed Belgenland
A steamer from this port sailed to Liverpool crowded for Europe for the London coronation. The Belgenland carried 125 cabin passengers and every berth was taken, including Philadelphians such as Miss L. D. Alexander Mrs. M Alexander Miss Elizabeth pore De Wm J Bailey Mrs Edward Brice and other named travelers.
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Europe
London
Liverpool
L. D. Alexander
M. ©. Alexander
Elizabeth Pore
Indiana Authors Read To Aid Harrison Memorial
Public readings at English's Opera House benefit the Harrison Memorial Association. Senator Fairbanks presided as James Whitcomb Riley read excerpts including Old Man and Jim and Little Orphan Annie, with Mary H. Catherwood, George Barr McCutcheon, Chas Major, and later General Lew Wallace and others scheduled. Estimated proceeds total about $10,000 after two nights.
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Indianapolis
Harrison Memorial Association
Indiana
English’s
Opera House
Senator Fairbanks
James Whitcomb Riley
Man
Jim
Orphan Annie
Mary H. Catherwood
Round Island
George Barr McCutcheon
Graustark
Chas
Major
Thomas
Dorothy Vernon
Lew Wallace
Evaleen Stein
George Ade
Booth Tarkington
Meredith Nicholson
Dr Anna Broomall Resigns Obstetrics Chair
Dr Anna Broomall resigns as chair of obstetrics at the Women's Medical College after twenty two years. She cites advancing years and private practice load, effective September 1. A 1871 graduate, she studied in Paris and Vienna.
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Anna ET. Broomall
Women's Medical College
Broomall
Paris
Vitor
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