Exposition Park Offers Free Admission and Nightly Fun
An upcoming San Antonio open air amusement area Exposition Park rivals big city resorts with free gates a daily free concert and family friendly features. Highlights include a dance hall streetcar rides a large Texas built figure eight and a dazzling illuminated forest of lights attracting couples and visitors each evening.
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Hot Wells
Atlantic City
Coney Island
San Francisco
Denver
Texas
Exposition
San Antonio
Bathing Suits to Be Long
In London on May 3 fashion dictates longer ladies bathing dresses. Ankle length skirts replace knee length styles with full skirts and knickers worn. Freedom in swimming comes from the voluminous skirt and trousers.
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London
Lawrence at the Star Promises Military Musical Spectacle
Beginning today at 2:30 and 4 p m the Star shows an extra strong bill headlined by the Lawrence company with Mr. Lawrence famed for sounding the charge at San Juan Hill. The act features 12 military changes, buglers’ calls, Red Cross nurse costumes, battle slides, and scenery plus Barnes and Edwine in a comedy sketch. The company plans to stay all week due to the encampment, urging early attendance.
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Lawrence Company
Mr. Lawrence
San Juan Hill
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
General Funston
Aguinaldo
Red Cross
Barnes and
Edwine
New Royal Bill Brings Vaudeville Acts to Local Stage
Specialties from vaudeville's top ranks headline the Royal with Sunday matinée shows. Will H Fields and La Adelia perform a toe dancing act titled The Janitor and the Maid. Madame Zella presents trained terriers. Dalro-Frees offer Happy Hooligan's Trip to the North Pole. Richards and Romain dazzle on aerial bars and Roman rings in a daring act.
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Royal Firm
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Zella
Dalro-Frees Company
North Pole
New York
Fritz
Susan
Richards
Romain
Victor Herbert concert in San Antonio delightfully simple
The Victor Herbert orchestra wowed San Antonio at the Grand with Natoma numbers and a standout soprano Mrs. Kimball. The program highlighted simple, moving artistry under a unflashy baton, with praise for Kimball Snelling Wheeler and Croxton and for local organizers Spencer Mills and Weis.
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San Antonio
Victor Herbert
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East
America
Red Man
Mrs. Kimball
Kimball
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Wheeler
Croxton
Herbert
Messrs. Spencer and Mills
Weis
The
Crown Theater Presents Helen of Troy at the Crown
The Crown theater screens an epic on Helen of Troy with grand Greek palaces and a ten year siege culminating in the wooden horse stratagem. The production recreates scenes of ancient Greece with lavish settings and dramatic battles.
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Troy
Menelaus
Jove
Paris
Priamus
Homer
Greece
Shakespeare
Musician Who Has Led Strenuous Life
Alphonse Zelaya, son of Nicaragua’s ex president, is spotlighted in a revival of a thrilling romance. His early life spans revolutions, kidnapping, elopement with Marguerite Lee, disinheritance, and a turn to music. The piece traces his move from West Point to diplomacy, marriage, exile, and a return to performance across the United States and on tour to the Pacific coast.
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Jose Zelaya
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Republic
Alphonse
United States
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Washington
Marguerite Lee
Sidney Smith Lee
Zelaya
South America
Europe
Alhanse
States
Morrisse
Pacific Coast
Oklaho City
Seattle
Wash
Grand vaudeville bill praised by Fort Worth critic
The Fort Worth Record lauds a Grand Theatre pro am vaudeville bill with a South American prince and Indian princess act, blackface comedy, harem skirt performance, acrobats, and Zelaya the pianist delivering Moscowski and Strau, plus witty Paderewski impressions.
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Fort Worth
Vaudevillians
Indira
Polish Prince Hidden Among Northampton Residents
In Northampton Pennsylvania on May 3 authorities reveal Joseph Zsasskowsy, long seen as aloof and eccentric, is really Prince Joseph Zsasskovsky of Poland. His father, Archduke Andrew Zsasskovsky, age near ninety, is alive. Joseph, an only child, studied at the University of Warsaw and fell in love.
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Northampton
Joseph Zsasskowsy
Archduke Andrew Zsasskovsky
Joseph Zsasskovsky
Europe
University of Warsaw
Prince Joseph Fronts Royal Claim Despite Disownment
A man described as Prince Joseph, of royal birth and older siblings, wed a woman of royal rank against his father’s wishes and was disowned. His father owns real estate worth $1,000,000 in Europe. Prince Joseph works at the Atlas Cement mills, hoping to claim the estate someday as he is the sole surviving child.
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Inurope
Prince Joseph
Atlas Cement Mills
French Nobility Widow Louise Des Combes Favard Dies in Chicago
Louise Des Combes Favard a longtime Chicago resident and central figure in Illinois French social life died yesterday. Born in Cherbourg eighty six years ago she never learned English or adopted American customs and arrived with French settlers who first came to Nauvoo Ill. to purchase the village from the Mormons.
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Chicago
United States
France
Illinois
Mme
Louise Des Combes Favard
Cherbourg
Nauvoo, Ill
Salt Lake City
Children Travel Alone Across Ocean to Montana
Two young passengers on the Empress of Ireland traveling from Liverpool to Canada are 9 year old Thomas Holmes and 5 year old Rebecca Holmes. They voyage alone to Butte City, Montana to join their parents who left Dalton-in-Furness earlier. Both carry brass tablets with name age and destination.
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Liverpool
Canada
Thomas Holmes
Rebecca Holmes
Butte City
Montana
Dalton-in- Furness
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