Grand Offers The Fall Of A Nation At Grand Opera House Today
The 12 day run starts today with two daily shows at 2 30 PM and 8 15 PM. Thomas H Dixon Jr s sequel to Birth of a Nation features a 20 piece orchestra led by Sir Victor Herbert with synchronized music. The drama centers on a US invasion thwarted by American women who seize enemy guns and aid the army in the Far West. Cast includes Percy Standing Lorraine Huling Arthur Shirley Paul Willis Flora MacDonald Leila Irost Phillip Gastrock and Daughters of Jael with realistic battle scenes and patriotic scoring.
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Thomas H. Dixon
Grand Opera House
Victor Herbert
United States
America
New York
Stars and Stripes
Far West
Percy Standing
Lorraine Huling
Arthur Shirley
Paul Willis
Flora MacDonald
Leila Irost
Phillip Gastrock
Jael
Emma Bunting to Open Grand Opera House Season
Emma Bunting and her stock company secure a four week engagement at the Grand Opera House under Manager Weis. The run begins Monday September 4 with Tess of the Storm Country, a New York production never seen in San Antonio, preceded by two trainloads of scenery and props.
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Emma Bunting
Weis
Grand Opera House
Miss Bunting
Ment
New York
San Antonio
East
Ithaca
Lake Cayuga
Tess
Majestic to Inaugurate Its Season August 30
The Majestic Theater will open its 1916-17 vaudeville season with matinee and night shows on August 30. The roster includes reengagements like The Bride Shop with Andy Tombes and Lola Wentworth, Brit Wood in a new act, and Mary Gray. New headliners include Joan Sawyer in Dances of the Moment and Helen Lackaye & Co. in a sketch, plus Nurseryland and Mercedes musical enigma.
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Majestic Theater
Celia Bloom
Andy Tombes
Lola Wentworth
Wood
Mary Gray
Dainty
Demure
Diero
Williams
Wolfus
Joan Sawyer
Miss Sawyer
Monsieur Randolph
Helen Lackaye & Co
Kalmar and Brown
Mercedes
Mile. Stantone
Charles Grepewin
Anna Chance
New Broadway laundress steals the show on cue
New York reports a summer Broadway moment as Annie Browne, a laundress from Tenth Avenue, unexpectedly appears in Very Good Eddie at the Casino. Her surprise entrance in Room No 9 brings down the house, prompting Ray Comstock to hire her for nightly performances alongside Anna Pavlova in a major new season.
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New York
Eddie
Annie Browne
Tenth Avenue
Alice Dovey
Annie
Miss Dovey
Arthur Aylsworth
Ziris
Bill Baker
Mr. Aynsworth
Lindy
Mr. Aylsworth
Dances for the Movies Opens at Grand Opera House
Anna Pavlova agrees to screen production of The Dumb Girl of Portici five day run begins August 27 at Grand Opera House. Pavlova notes she re shoots dances to satisfy technique. production billed as major motion picture event.
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Anna Pavlova
Portich
Grand Opera House
Pavlowa
Portici
New Plays and Stars Highlight Broadway Season
Leon Bakst to design costumes for Madge Kennedy Brady Star in a first class mystery. William A Brady plans multiple premieres including The Man Who Came Back with Mary Nash and Grace George’s repertoire start mid October. Forty eights Street Theater opens August 21 with Somebody’s luggage and Rich Man Poor Man to follow. New works from Montague Glass Jules Goodman Owen Davis Jerome K Jerome and others feature Broadway actors including Alice Brady and Robert Warwick as Jean Lafitte.
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Mr. Brady
Thos. W. Broadhurst
Robert B. Mantell
Mpetition Fromey
Peggy Wood
Long Island
Wood
Eugene
Peggy
Iss Wood
Leon Bakst
Madge Kennedy Brady
Madge Kennedy
William A. Brady
Madge
Man
George Broadhurst
Montague Glass
Jules Eckert Goodman
Mr. Glass
Owen Davis
Alice Brady
Jerome K. Jerome
Augustin Glassmire
Charles ‘Kenyon
Kindlling
Jules Robert Goodman
Robert Warwick
Jean la Fitte
Louisiana
Ice Dealers Targeted in Weights and Measures Sweep
The New York Post reports a three day campaign by the bureau of weights and measures catching 274 ice dealers violating the law requiring ice to be weighed before sale. Inspectors visited 840 dealers, examined 528 scales with only five failing, and focused on basement dealers selling ice by the piece to the poor. The effort aims to educate buyers to insist on weight rather than piece, addressing widespread defrauding on the East Side.
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Bureau of Weights and Measures
New York Post
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J. C. Nugent
Indianapolis Star
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Joel
Liberty Theatre
Los Angeles
Victor Herberts
Cort Theatre
San Francisco
Joan of Arc
Illinois Theatre
Chicago
Jary
Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dixon
Red Feather
Temptation
Francis Ford
Grace Gunard
Peg
My Husbands
Lois Weber
King of the Plains
WM. S. Hart
FOX
Theda Bara
Gold
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Alamo Plaza
Josse
Mrs. Graham
Harry Watson
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