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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1916
Page
41
Veterans of the stage join Eddie Carr and Lillian Herlein in a new Majestic bill opening Wednesday. The skit The Office Boy promises lively comedy and a rollicking start to the program with a splendid company delivering lively performances.
The lineup features Carol Person as Dora in A Regular Army Man and Willing Bentley Willing in Those Scrappy Coons. Actants include Lilian Herlein One Woman Fashion Show, Eddie Carr The Office Boy, Fred and Adele Astaire new songs and dances, The Three Misses Stewart, and the comedy acrobats Heras and Preston with Fast and Funny.
A first class Japanese dramatic company led by Mme Sodayakko Kawakami plans a London visit followed by a tour of major U S cities. The troupe of twenty will perform a repertoire of Japanese plays in the language and stage style of Japan. Kawakami previously visited the U S with her late husband Otajiro Kawakami.
Miss Emma Bunting recovers and resumes at the Grand opera house with Watch Your Step and A Woman's Way. The ragtime Berlin comedy features vivid color sets, a capable cast, and resumed Sunday matinee performances through November 26 after a dengue illness and a brief theater closure.
Richard Walton Tully begins rehearsals next week for a new play by John Hunter Booth. Guy Bates Post, who starred three years in Omar the Tentmaker, will be presented shortly in New York in a role described as exceedingly ...
Mr Tully announces a strong supporting company for Less Than Dust starring Mary Pickford. Contracts are signed with Louis Calvert, famed Shaw interpreter, and Thais Lawton to play the heroine. Calvert last starred in Major Barbara and The Earth in New York. Lawton, a leading woman, recently acted with John Drew and linked to the New Theater Company. The production opens November 6.
The era’s vaudeville slate lists Al G Barnes Wild Animal Circus at the Grand and Beethoven Hall shows by Miss Bunting on Oct 28–29, with Al H Wilson at the Majestic on Nov 6–7 under Grand management. Al G Fields Minstrels and Emma Bunting Company appear Nov 11–12 at the Grand and Beethoven Hall. Watch Your Step showcases syncopated score, one-step dances, fox-trot scenes, Helen Dryden costumes, and Irvin Berlin ragtime melodies.
Vera Fuller Mellish, third generation in revivals, to play Anne Page with Thomas A. Wise as Falstaff. Grandmother Rose La Clerck played Mistress Page at Sadler Wells around 1855, father Fuller Mellish acted Page at the Criterion last spring. Laurette Taylor stars in The Harp of Life. Edward Knoblock’s Paganini features George Arliss at the Criterion. Olcott returns in Honest John O’Brien by George M. Cohan.
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