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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1901
Page
2
Plats players inaugurate a seven day run across three venues with matinees at Grand and Third Avenue theaters. All shows are crowded as T Daniel Frawley’s Secret Service returns to Segot. The farce follows Kate the bell boy and a hotel lawn scene ending in comic exposure.
Audience roar marks a successful revival as The Bell Hoy company tours from New York to San Francisco. Nightly crowds suggest the show will break box office records across major cities.
Seharm's Octaroons opened at Third Avenue yesterday afternoon as King Rastus. The ensemble is among the cleverest colored artists ever gathered in the United States. The show blends ragtime farce and near comic opera with strong singing and chorus work.
The Grand Opera House and Third Avenue present a week of shows including The Bell Boy King Rastus and Madame Sans Gene, with matinees on Saturdays. Reviewers praise The Bell Boy and King Rastus for their humor and specialties while Madame Sans Gene draws crowds. other performances include Madame Lana Gene and various vaudeville acts. Local notes discuss ciliary muscle function and a medical diagram.
The Secret Service at the Beattle theater last evening presented a Civil War Richmond setting with T. Dante Frawley as the Northern spy hero. His Captain Thorne performance impressed, supported by Miss Mary Van Buren and Miss Pearl Landers. Next Sunday Seattle theater features The Belle of New York with Beulah Dodge and Mae Sallor and a cast including B. J. Connelly and James Darling.
Manager John Cort brings a company of color ed entertainers to the Grand for a Sunday matinee and week long run. The troupe numbers thirty artists including Creoles and offers a refined minstrelsy burlesque style with each member presented as an artist in their own right.
Northern Lights will be produced at the Third Avenue Theater next week with a Sunday matinee January 13. The melodrama, by the same company that staged Quo Vadis, includes new actors for this mammoth production and is set around a Northwestern military camp amid Brule Indian uprising at an American fort. A love story threads the action with thrilling scenes.
Sir Redver Buller argues that ordinary Boers can spot an approaching man from two miles, while civilians like Germany Atkins have limited vision. An authority notes improved eyesight among war officers returning home, attributing gains to clear air and battlefield experience.
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