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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1910
Page
6
The Orpheum offers two strong acts this week with Gladys Lockwood and Paul Mactarty plus The Night Birds. Herbert’s The Teller features solid chorus and a capable cast led by Sandor and Clifton, while other sketches and the one acts provide mixed results.
The Roma Saxophone Quartet and the Van Kaathoven Four perform stylish numbers in Dutch costumes at the Pantages stage. Aerial contortion acts and lively selections by The Shaveye troupe entertain, while Cecil and Avery, G. and G. Auer, and Heten Lowe provide varied novelty acts. The Majestic theatre opened a new bill with humor and song drawing steady crowds.
The audience saw a variety show with strong women acts and a noted soloist Mina Koenen. Dutch contralto Tilly Koenen will perform at the sixth Beethoven symphony concert of the Battle Symphony Orchestra at the Moore Theatre, singing Ah Perfide and Hymnus among other pieces, praised by the London Standard for dramatic range and expressive depth.
W. P. Cullen manager of the Alaskan company learned by telegram that his wife Ruth White Cullen died Sunday. He left for New York after receiving the news as death came before he could start his journey. Ruth White was known to theatre audiences for performances in The Burgomaster and The Tenderfoot companies.
A look at actresses who balance motherhood with fame highlights Lillian Albertson Mrs Abraham Levey and others. The piece notes pregnancies and children among Mae Irving Jude Opp and Madge Carr Cocke as women in theatre who share center stage with real life families.
Cleveland abandons efforts to abolish a theatre nuisance as fragments of city policy are reposted. The resignation notes audiences will be welcomed from the first act onward despite ongoing issues with fate and theater congestion.
United Press reports Richard Carle comedian and Joe Toohey tragedian suspended from the Lambs Club after a dinner disruption. A chili sauce incident led to Carle dancing atop a bar filled with $3,000 worth of glass as onlookers gasped and debated the club’s reaction.
That night the ordinance forbade managers to seat patrons arriving after the curtain rise. The law proved a complete failure as described in the account.
Portland dispatch reports Captain Henry Kenitser and his wife, San Francisco pioneers, had their ashes scattered in the Pacific by their close friend Captain George Bridgem of the steamship Ascension. The ceremony occurred near Good Friday at latitude 49.51 N, longitude 124.38 W, with flags at half mast and no religious rites.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure promising instant relief from piles and rectal disease. It offers a free trial by mail, urges purchase at a 56 cent box, and cites immediate reduction of congestion and sores with claims of widespread adoption. The copy targets sufferers with varying severities and provides Marshall Michigan address for samples.
A brief theater moment reports a stout, fatherly man in the audience reacting to Aunt Mary a scene during May Robson’s Aunt Mary play. A child’s demand for a bath prompts a light exchange heard across the footlights.
A fragmented report notes Monaco shifting from a monarchy toward a republic with universal suffrage. Authorities aim to elect a parliament or municipal council, marking a significant political transformation in the European state.
President Taft mourns the death of Associate Justice Brewer describing him as an able judge. The death reduces the Supreme Court to seven active justices with Justice Moody ill. Lloyd Bowers the solicitor general is expected to be appointed to fill the vacancy.
Jackson March 26 a grand jury indicted L C Dulaney a planter of Leachueena county for offering a bribe to state Senator Theodore Bilbo to vote for Senator Percy for the U S senate. The jury refused to indict Bilbo for taking the bribe and a high legislative expulsion resolution against Bilbo awaits action. Bilbo admits receiving the money.
Albert Hansen is a Jeweler and Piret and Cherry operate an Optical Department. The brief notice identifiers indicate these names as business entries.
The speaker claims he took the matter to secure indisputable evidence that bribery influenced the alliance against Former Governor Vardaman in the senate vote and accuses Senator Percy of winning through bought votes. He also notes the cost of following cheap advice.
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