Contralto Graces French Grand Opera in La Favorite
The French Grand Opera House hosted a large Saturday audience as the contralto delivered a powerful yet delicate performance in La Favorite. An ovation followed with repeated curtain calls while cast members Granier Closset and Mme. Sylvestre were praised for their vocal artistry and stage presence.
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Bernand
Succesces Ves
Granigr Alphonse XI
M. Closset Balthazar
M. Silvestre Caspari
Cevccccesesse
Eternod
French Grand Opera House
Granier
La Favorite and Heart Breakers At New Orleans Theaters
Mme Fierens, a famed contralto, appears in La Favorite in New Orleans with an ovation from the audience. The Heart Breakers at the Grand feature a Saxons club plot seeking revenge on women, including Fay Munger, who is guarded in a castle until a staged romance unfolds.
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Prince Maurice of
Saxony
Fay Munger
Old Mungar
Adirondacks
Lavarenne Talks of Roles and Interview Aversion
Mme Lavarenne of M Jules Layolle's French Grand Opera company in New Orleans discusses learning under Luigini and Bernhardt in Paris and Geneva beginnings. She created roles in Pau and Montepelier, cherishes Butterfly and Tosca, and will sing Carmen at the Grand Opera house February 26 and 27.
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Mile. Beaumont
Jules Layelle
French Opera Company
New Orleans
Mme. Lavarenne
M. Jules Layolle
French Grand Opera Company
Luigini
Opera Comique
Montepelier
Bernhardt
Thais
Marguerite
Tosca
Mme. Butterfly
Carmen
Grand Opera House
Fortune Hunter star Damerel leads with 50 in supporting company
The Fortune Hunter manager singer will present George Damerel, late star of the Merry Widow, in the lead role with a company of over fifty including a Princess chorus. Josephine Cohan claims sole living actress with a bona fide chop suey recipe and can make it in a chafing dish. Her pinapple chop suey is in great demand.
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George Damerel
The
Merry Widlow
Perfect Princess Chorus
Josephine Cohan
the Fortune Hunter
The Flirting Princess Foot Standards Stir Chicago Chorus
A Barefog! Chorus in The Flirting Princess at the Grand sets new standards for chorus feet. Eight dancers, five from Chicago and one from San Francisco, perform barefoot in acts one and two as chiropodists attend to their feet. Manager Singer adds chiropodists to care for four pairs each, after initial pooling.
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Harry Bulger
Mort H. Singer
Chicago
Coryphees
Singer
Popular Tenor Joseph F Sheehan Heads To Grand Opera
Joseph F Sheehan famed American tenor thrills military audiences from Fort Russell to Cheyenne as his Sheehan English Opera Company tours. He leads the company with Henry W Savage and is nephew of Colonel Stephen Mulhall. He performs at the Grand Opera House starting Friday March 1 for three nights and a Saturday matinee.
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Joseph F. Sheehan
America
Washington
Henry W. Savage
Stephen Mulhall
U.S. A
Cheyenne
Wyo
Fort Russell
Sheehan English Opera Company
Sheehan
Grand Opera House
Baron Trenck staged by Fred C Whitney in Washington
Fred C Whitney presented the Viennese comic opera Baron Trenck with music by Felix Albini in Washington after a Philadelphia engagement. The lead Baron Trenck is sung by Herr Fritz Strumfels of the Royal Opera House Leipzig, with Blanche Duffield John Slavin Pearl Barti and Ethel Dufre Huston in the company.
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Fred C. Whitney
Baron Trenck
Felix Albini
Washington
Philadelphia
New York
Fritz Strumfels
Royal Opera House
Leipsic
Blanche Duffield
John Slavin
Pearl Barti
Ethel Dufre Huston
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Mme, Fieren
Jules Layolle
Mlle
Suzanne Beaumont
Mme. Fierens
Donizetti
Fierens
Ines
Picayune
la Favorite
Mme
Jane Lavarenne
Broilers
Miss Cohan
Winchell Smith
Nathaniel Duncan
Mev. Sheehan
ARWIY
Ladys Caldwell
Affenbach
Hoffman
I. D. Kaufman
DE Balestrier’s
Palmer and
Lewis
Rutherford & Munroe
Mitzie Admont
Royad Scope
Fred Niblo
Pike Theater
W. Houston ST
FAUST
Corsican Brothers
New Pictures
Vanity Fair
Pathe’s
Theater
Houston Street
Bartley Cushing
Harrison Grey Fiske
Orpheum
Ine
Ames Forbes
Lola Downin
Leonora Carfori
June Congreve
Louise Valentine
Carles Hastings
Irving Lancaster
Hayden Stevenson
Stanley Wood
Arthur Linden
Charles MacDonald
Charles Silvernati
Wilbur Mason
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