Stars to Be Featured at Grand This Week
San Antonio's Grand Opera House offers a week of Annie Russell in She Stoops to Conquer and The Rivals, Elsie St. Leon in Polly of the Circus, and an all star cast led by Robert Edeson Wilton Lackaye Rose Coghlan Max Figman Lolita Robertson Lydia Dickson in Fine Feathers plus Roy Fox players presenting St Elmo.
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Annie Russell
Elsie St. Leon
Robert Edeson
Rose Coghlan
Wilton Lackaye
Max Figman
Lolita Robertson
Lydia Dickson
San Antonio
the Grand
Sidney Weis
Polly
Circus
Fine Feathers
Eugene Walters
St. Elmo
Roy Fox Players
Jess E. Zink
Fox Players
Ainslee
Constance Skinner
New York
Grand Opera House
Miss Skinner
Sheridan
Shakespeare
Goldsmith
Thirty-ninth Street
Miss Russell
Pepys
Kate Hardcastle
Fred Permain
Fine Feathers to Be Toted by All Star Cast at Grand
The New Orleans Daily States notes an all star lineup for Fine Feathers at the Grand with Friday Saturday and Sunday nights and a Saturday matinee. Eugene Walters wrote the tragedy of domestic life and its moral lessons as a critique of American wives and bourgeois life. The cast includes Robert Edeson Wilton Lackaye Rose Coghlan Lolita Robertson and Max Figman, a notable assemblage of stars. The play hinges on a husband coerced by his wife into a ruinous scheme that ends in catastrophe with a dam collapse and a desperate, silent exit by the husband.
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New Orleans
Eugene Walters
Tulane
Walters
Strindbergism
Magdalen
Wall Street
Tinker Bell
Robert Edeson
Wilton Lackaye
Rose Coghlan
Lolita Robertson
Max Figman
Chicago
Plaza offers two act comedy bill for San Antonio
Plaza management credits success to entertaining high quality bills and affordable prices. The matinee today features King's Comedy Circus headed by Jupiter the dwarf donkey with dogs assisting. Hap and Flo Farnell return with their nonsensical humor and local favorites DeVaro and Zameter join the lineup for a full afternoon and evening show in the heart of the shopping district.
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Plaza
San Antonio
King's Comedy Circus
Jupiter
I Hap
Flo Farnell
DeVaro
Zameter
Comedy Bill Showcases Varied Acts and Musical Talent
An exhibition features triple horizontal bars act by Chevalier and Richardson with comedy songs and a witty pianologue. Herbert Swift performs a blackface comedy musical act while Miss Janet Tate sings metropolitan hits. Bright comedy pictures round out the all comedy bill.
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Chevalier
Richardson
Herbert Swift
Janet Tate
Good Comedy Pictures
Long Tour Booked For May Irwin In Widow by Proxy
The Lieb ler Company schedules a route for May Irwin in Widow by Proxy covering sixty cities before March. She performs in the Southeast Far South Texas Pacific Coast Northwest and Western Canada and debuts in Chicago later in the season. Also notes Weber and Fields filming in New York with Kinemacolor and a private Haley showing. Lew Fields laughs, Joe Weber stays grim.
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May Irwin
Liebler Company
Comedienne
Miss Irwin
Southeast
Texas
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Canada
Southwest
Chicago
Misa Irwin
San Antonio
Kinemacolor Pictures
Mecca Building
New York
Haley
Lew Fields
Joe Weber
Lew
Ches
Joe
Sothern and Marlowe to Star in Grand Opera House Program
Frank J. Wilstach, Marlowe's manager, announces upcoming appearances Friday and Saturday December 26 27 at the Grand Opera House. The program includes Taming of the Shrew, If I Were King, and Romeo and Juliet with Sothern and Miss Marlowe headlining a large touring company.
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Sothern
Marlowe
E. H. Sothern
Julia. Marlowe
Frank J. Wilstach
Grand Opera House
Mr. Wilstach
Shakespeare
Mr. Sothern
Francis Wilson
Justin Huntley ‘McCarthy
Miss Marlowe
Katherin
Petruchio
Stage reformers and actors in jail records show few inmates
The piece notes stage reformers have no sympathy for the people on stage and cites jail statistics finding only 11 actors in prison nationwide. It also mentions Billie Burke appearing soon in Somerset Maugham's comedy The Land of Promise.
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United States
Billie Burke
Somerset Maugham
Ching Ling Foo to Star in Hoffman's Grand Revue
Magician Ching Ling Foo joins Gertrude Hoffman's revue at the Grand for December 15 16. The elder illusionist tours America after twelve years and plans to retire soon. His company includes jugglers contortionists and Miss Chee Toy with a mix of Chinese and American entertainment.
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Ching Ling Foo
Gertrude Hoffman
America
China
Miss Chee Toy
the Grand
Wigwam No 1 Presents Warner and Bison Features
At Wigwam No 1 on Alamo plaza two big features headline today. The Madonna of the Slums shows the Paris underworld while The Treasure of the Devil's Veil keeps audiences hooked. A single reel Oh You Pearl stars Pearl White. Tomorrow night promises the best country store yet with surprises and a second feature Lady Babee featuring Barbara Tennert.
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Warner
Wigwam No. 1
Alamo Plaza
Pearl
Pearl White
Paris
Lady Babee
Barbara Tennert
De Luxe Service at Wigwam No 2 on Houston Street
Six reels of the famous De Luxe service are shown at Wigwam No 2 on Houston Street today. The program includes Edison two reel comedy Why Girls Leave Home Vita graph comedy and a strong Selig two reel feature The Escape of Jim Dolan a play.
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Wigwam No. 2
Houston Street
Selig
Jim Dolan
Edison
Vitagraph
Theaters Preview Open West Airs and Berths
A vivid scene describes an open west shown as vital and dramatic. The Hermit’s Ruse is praised as the finest photoplay seen. Belasco rehearses The Secret with Frances Starr to open in New York for holiday season.
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David Belasco
Henri Bernstein
Frances Starr
New York
Mr. Belasco
David Warfield
Man
Manners Updates on New Play Wreckage
J Hartley Manners battles managers pushing for Peg o My Heart style works. His new drama Wreckage, a fierce attack on drug habit, will be finished by the start of next year.
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J. Hartley Manners
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Big Jim
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King’s Comedy Circus
Weber
Fields
Jess S. Zink
Roy Fox
St. Ilmo
Roy E. Fox
Augusta J. Evans
Jess S. Zink AS
NEW York Company
Cosmopolitan Magazine
W. P. Eaton
American Magazine
Joseph P. Tumulty
Wilson
Priges
Frederick Thompson
ST. Leon Family
Real Circus
H. H. Frazee
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