Plaza Vaudeville Bill Promises High Talent
Commencing today at the Plaza theater a strong vaudeville bill features Mr. and Mrs. Jack McGreevy in The Village Fiddler and the Country Maid. Arthur LaVine and Company perform travesty and comedy with a wind machine and a Flying Dreadnought reference. The Paulham Team plays a bicycle basketball act. La Feydia offers a refined posing act. The Three American Troubadours provide instrumental and vocal numbers. Campbell and Campbell perform versatile songs with lavish costumes. Lester Brothers display aerial stunts and sharp comedy. The Plazascope adds new pictures with bargain matinees Tuesday and Friday and Home Product Day Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack McGreevy
Arthur Lavine & CO
Paulham
LA Feydia
Lester Brothers
Plaza Theater
Mr. McGreevy
Arthur LaVine
Wellman
Harvey, Reeves and DeHarsport
Bell
Campbell
Dixie
Terra Firma
Lester Spean
Plazascope
G. Duerler Manufacturing Company
Goose Girl stage play charms with romance and intrigue
The Goose Girl stage production, adapted from Harold Mac Grath’s novel, draws crowds with love scenes, emotion, politics, pathos and comedy. London notes report Puff replaced by Scribe in Drury Lane’s Elverywoman, reflecting American press tropes.
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Harold MacGrath
England
London
Elverywoman
Puff
Bluff and Stuff
Drury Lane
Scribe
The Heart Breakers at Grand Opera House
The Heart Breakers, a Princess theater musical comedy, follows a New York club vowed to singleness who scheme to win hearts only to see their plan unravel when George Damerel falls for Myrtle Vail. Produced by Mort H. Singer, the show features a fifty member company and lively choruses with songs like My Honolulu Honey Lou and If I Had a Hundred Hearts.
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Princess Theater
Chicago
George Damerel
Merry Widow
Myrtle Vail
Adirondacks
Mort H. Singer
Grand Opera House
Honolulu
Prank On a Basso Ends With Berth Roasting Incident
Ernest Gamble once with Milo and Verlet of the Opera Comique involved in a sleeper car joke on a Louisville to Memphis trip. A prim old maid pinned pink ribbon to her curtain misplacing it, Gamble swapped ribbons, she jumped into Thrane’s berth and shocked him, triggering a chorus of surprised cries along the car.
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Ernest Gamble
Milo
Verlet
Opera Comique
Louisville
Memphis
Mr. Thrane
Mr. Gamble
Naughty Marietta Comes to Grand Opera House this October
Naughty Marietta a two act Victor Herbert opera debuts at the Grand Oct 21 22 starring Florence Webber in the lead supported by sixty voices from Hammerstein forces. The setting is New Orleans 1780 with a forest ranger hero and a roaming countess who flees a European convent. Webber praised for a glorious soprano and engaging stage presence.
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Victor Herbert
Aida Johnson Young
Grand Opera House
Florence Webber
Hammerstein Grand Opera
New Orleans
Forest Rangers
Marietta
America
France
Bras Prique
Miss Webber
Louisiana Lou to Be Staged at Grand Opera House
The La Salle theater now LaSalle in Chicago presents Louisiana Lou under Harry Askin with a three man writing team. Adams Hough and Howard produced many past hits with Burkhardt Donaghey and Jerome providing libretto music and songs for the November 30 and December 1 engagement. Burkhardt, Howard, and Jerome are noted for earlier LaSalle successes and Broadway connections.
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LaSalle Opera House
Chicago
LaSalle Theater
Adams, Hough and Howard
Harry Askin
The
LaSalle
Mr. Askin
Grand Opera House
Addision Burkhardt
Frederick Donaghey
Ben M. Jerome
Mr. Burkhardt
New York
United States
Canada
Burkhardt
Askin
Paris
Joseph HB. Howard
Local Shriners Plan San Antonio Musical Appeal
The article recalls a berth prank that ended with a passenger apologizing after twenty minutes while others slept. It notes Mr. Gamble will perform in San Antonio on December 11 in a musical entertainment under the Shriners' Patrol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thrane
Porter
Mr. Gamble
San Antonio
Shriners’ Patrol
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Feydla
Aiso
Nici
Frederic Thompson
Elsie ST. Leon
St. Leon Family
Pony OF the Circus
Weo
Audie
Opera House
Fagen
Mpany In
Starland
Olive Vaid
Ndafcydia
Ernest Gamble, Basso
Aalilmll
Louisiania Lou
MR. and
Mrs. Jack McGreevy
Fiddler
Basket
Campbell and Campbell Comediennes
Lester Bros. Comedy
Haynes
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