Looks Like a Big Week at the Grand Theater
A busy week opens at the Grand with diverse entertainments nightly. Tonight and tomorrow feature The Girl In the Taxi, a comedy hit. Tuesday and Wednesday present The Traveling Salesman, a well loved farce. Thursday and Friday bring Blanche Eins on her first city visit. Saturday offers Louis Mann performing The Chester at matinee and The Man Who Stood Still at night.
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Blanche Eins
Louis Mann
Chester
It Is to Laugh Phrase Origin in Louis Mann’s Routines
Louis Mann credits his mother with teaching him the line It is to laugh used in his stage German performances. The innkeeper role in The Girl From Paris features the cockney German contrast, and Mann’s German accent is lauded as outstanding in his works including The Man Who Stood Still.
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Paris
Mr. Mann
London
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Vaudeville Dream Ends In Cold Reception On Stage
In a stark vaudeville tragedy a hopeful dancer named AMABLO faces a hostile audience as the orchestra falters and the crowd roars to dismiss him with a harsh get the hook. The tale contrasts his dream of riches with a brutal, quiet tragedy backstage and a grieving mother and lover waiting in Spain.
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Consuela
America
Spain
Manuela
Ballet Victim Wounded During Shooting Act
At a We Star Friday night performance Miss Lupe Olguin was wounded when a garter shot from her leg by Texas George while performing the William Tell Jr. stunt. She smiled through applause, left the stage, then hysterics followed as she recovered. The act continued with George finishing the routine.
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We Star
William Tell Jr
Texas George
Lupe Olguin
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