Majestic Theater Opens With Music and Comedy
The Majestic offers a bill heavy on comedy with good music and variety. Headliner The Four Husbands is a new miniature musical comedy with a lively plot, chorus numbers, and advanced stage effects. Also featured are Too Many Chauffeurs, Longiflage duo Bensee and Baird, Doris Dara in character sketches, and Dave Roth's versatile act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Majestic Theater
Louis Simon and Company
Scot and & Yank
Bensee
Baird
Benses
Heath
Doris Dara
Dave Roth
Louis
Doris Dare
Simon
Louis Simon’ and Company
Raus
Beneee
Entertainment act by Roth with music and comedy
The piece praises Mr. Roth for his versatile act combining dancing talking piano and a one string fiddle. It highlights Rene as a unique bicgetist whose humor stems from performance rather than riding, creating entertaining spectacle in Reno.
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Roth
Reno
Rene
Hut
Reno's Comic Gag With A Bicycle
A humorous scene centers on Reno performing with a bicycle, a prop that matches his eccentric style and amplifies the comic effect of his act. The item highlights the interplay between performer and gadget in a lighthearted entertainment moment.
New York Discovers Rosa Raisa The Chicago Diva
Rosa Raisa, famed soprano of the Chicago Opera Company, earned praise in New York after a Lexington Opera House performance. Her rise began in Parma in 1913 and she credits Enrico Caruso with guiding her during a London debut, noting a large voice kept in reserve and refined with experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Minnic
Amelita Galli-Curel
New York City
Rosa Raisa
Drapatic
Chicago Opera Company
New York Herald
New York
Lexington Opera House
Mme. Galli-Curci
Mary Giarden
Raisa
Cleofonte Campanini
Parma
Italy
Philadelphia
Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Company
Miss Raisa
Campanini
Verdi
Christopher Columbo
Aida
Enrico Garuso
Covent Garden
Lonon
Lonsa
A&a
Hart Feature Opens Week At Grand
The Grand begins its week with The Bandit and the Preacher starring William S. Hart. The Modern Lorelei follows with Tyrone Power and Lois Weber. The Kaiser the Beast of Berlin opens May 6 for eight days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Grand
William S. Hart
Lorelli
Hart
Edeson
Bandit
Henry Otto
Santa Barbara Island
Frances Burnham
Jay Belasco
Lorélei
Tyrone Power
Lois Weber
Lorelei
Paul
Berlin
W. W. Canada to Retire From Vera Cruz Post
William W. Canada, the American consul at Vera Cruz, has resigned after twenty years in Mexican politics. Known as the "David Harum" to Americans and "The Little Father" to locals, he protected Americans during the Diaz era and was briefly shot while escorting residents to safety. He later aided Felix Diaz's escape as Huerta hunted him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William W. Canada
Vera Cruz
Canada
David Harum
Consular Service
Mr. Canada
Indiana
Jaume
McKinley
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Snanada
Felix Diaz
Madero
Huerta
Secret Service
Diaz
Cuba
Diamond for Liberty sale by Lady Chetwynd Rosa Lynd
Lady Chetwynd known as Rosa Lynd plans to sell a 33 carat diamond offered at 24000 dollars to fund Liberty Bonds. In a private talk with Lady Mary she argues such sacrifices rally women to triple Liberty Loan, backing democratic causes and Allied victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Chetwynd
Rosa Lynd
New York
Lady Mary
America
Germany
Cologne paper rips two German prima donnas over war stance
The Cologne Gazette condemns Frieda Hempel and Margaret Matzenauer for actions in exile. Hempel allegedly wrote to a New York paper denying she refused to sing the Star Spangled Banner while Matzenauer claims no German sympathy in the war. Both stars once drew Kaiser and King Ludwig’s praise in Berlin and Munich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Cologne Gazette
Frieda Hempel
Margaret Fatzenauer
Frau Hempel
New York
Frau Matzenauer
Metropolitan Opera House
America
Berlin
Munich
Kaisér
Ludwig
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Majestic Bill
Musam Uun
Cyhe
Dae
Jacl
Charles Nee Bensee
Baird “Longiflace
Louis Simon & CO
Paulist
Father Finn
Beethoven Hall
French Restoration Fund
Frante
Mudic
Boanwn
tat—dThos
Goggan Bros
Nager Voss Rowley
Galli- Curel
Joseph Brooks
Rhaw and Erlanger Construction Company
Brooks
Reberca
Sunnybrook
Law and
Erlunger
App
A. Brooks
Augustus PF. Gardner
Camp Wheeler
Acrich
Kaiser
American Defense Society
Broadway
Ower
REL
Willlaae
WEAN
Tyrone Power iii
Moderte Lorelei
Twe
Kaiter
W. W. Canada
Chentwynad
Robert Edeson
Gladys Brockwell
Preacher
Tyrone Powers
T Splendid
Civilization
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