Majestic Vaudeville Bill With Opera Stars
Metropolitan opera stars headline at the Majestic through today with The New Producer and Visions in Fairyland plus Adler and Arlene A New Idea and others. The Interstate Playhouse features The Little Speculator with George Whiting and Sadie Burt, and Homer Miles in An Innocent Bystander with Five Antwerp Girls and other acts on the bill.
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Metropolitan Grand Opera
Majestic Theater
Interstate Playhouse
Homer Miles
Fifth Avenue
New York
Miles
Antwerp
Scot
Yank
Charles Bensee
Florence Baird
Bensee
Miss Baird
Heath
Baird
Rice
Sully
Scott
Elkins
Faye
American impressions from Sir Herbert Trees visit to New York and California
Sir Herbert Tree offers impressions of America from New York and California. He praises New York architecture and nightlife while noting American music’s rise and the moving picture industry’s potential. He cites hospitality toward English visitors and compares American modern life to England’s past.
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London
Herbert Tree
America
Sir Herbert
New York
New York City
Broadway
California
England
Griffith
Macbeth
James Barrie
Daily of the People
Stage turning to American writers
New York urged a shift toward American plays and playwrights as the war era accelerates domestic drama. Henry E. Dixey argues our life provides rich plots from democracy and mobility, with English and European imports fading in prominence and Americans gaining cultural voice.
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New York
Henry E. Dixey
John Drew
The
Empire
Olga Nethersole
Ibsen
London
America
England
France
Young chaplain uses gramophone gag on shipboard magic show
A naval chaplain aboard a battleship aims to entertain sailors with a Bible slide show and music. When Adam and Eve slides fail to fit, a sailor cues a gramophone, producing the line There is Only One Girl in This World for Me, to audience delight and officer consternation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallowell
Gramophone
New York Times
Sothern Plans Charity Tour For Red Cross Support
E H Sothern to perform twenty week tour of Justin Huntly McCarthy play If I Were King to raise funds for the British Red Cross. Lee Shubert backs the venture with 25 percent of profits. Sothern covers expenses and will announce nightly receipts. Mrs Sothern urged the project. they postpone moving to England to aid the Red Cross in America.
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E. H. Sothern
Justin Huntly McCarthy
British Red Cross
Lee Shubert
Mr. Sothern
England
Bluebird Stars Carter De Haven in The Wrong Door
Carter De Haven and Flora Parker De Haven lead the Bluebird Photoplay The Wrong Door at the Pearl today. The couple, popular on screen, quickly won favor without airs and signed a long term contract after an initial short engagement.
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Bluebird
Pearl
Carter de Haven
Flora Parker de Haven
Pearl Theater
Moving Picture World
Bluebird Company
Glasspane theft at curb draws crowd outside shop
A glassmaker's van delivers a large plate glass pane to a shop window. As workers lift the pane, a crowd watches while two young men comment that the pane will not be dropped, then decide to leave.
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Bill
Rochester Post-Express
Emma Bunting to Appear in a Crook Play
Emma Bunting brings Within the Law to the Grand Opera House as the Bunting Company stages the crook drama famed on Broadway. Miss Bunting portrays Aggie Lynch with wit and ingenuity while George Whitaker appears as Richard Gilder amid strong cast and lavish scenery. Matinees are 3 o clock Wednesday and Saturday to accommodate a 1 o clock Baseball Player Board show.
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Emma Bunting
Grand Opera House
South
Bunting
Middle West
Broadway
Underworld
Miss Bunting
Aggie Lynch
George Whitaker
Richard Gilder
Gilder
Mary Turner
Inspector Burke
Fifth Avenue
Albert Vess
Bunting Company
Burke
Eva Sargent
Joel Friedkin
Joe Garson
Forger
Dip
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Majestic Bill
Edgar Allan Woolf
Bert
Betty Wheeler
Majestic
Charles Ray
Bessie Barriscale
William Desmond
Enid Markey
Danny
C. Gardner Sullivan
Miss Barriscale
Keystone
Interstate
Phone Crockett
Orpheum
Keith
Chas. Ray and
WM. Desmond
U.S.A
Geo. Whiting
Sadie Burt
Edgar Allen Wolf
Cree
Charles Frohman
Taceny
Otrand
Houston St
Theater
Houston Street
Paris
Crook Detective
Marian Sais and True Boardman
From
Frisco
Jeff
Seminate Union House
Metro
Margaeret Snow
Mary McLaren
Ormi Hawley
Earl Metcalf
Sothern
Queen Theater
Alamo Plaza
Joske’s
Union Motion Picture Theater
Sic
Liberty
Harry Watson
Essanay
Red Feather
Ben Wilson
Selig Tribune Late News
George Klein
Billie
Gloria
WM. Collier
Razetone
Chester Conklin
Country Store
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