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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1909
Page
4
The Third Degree company mounted the old stagecoach and were carried through mountainous terrain near a slide zone. A special coach and engine moved them on to Portland while mule teams hauled scenery and other impediments. Awful, this trouper life is.
Entertainment calendar lists King Dodo Friday and Seattle Symphony second symphony concert. Also shows Vaudeville acts Chas Cherry Nick Long Cotton and Vaude Bind Tyrolean and more. Musical events include Florenz acrobats and Kreisler performances and stage shows such as The Man From Home and The Girl at The George Minatres.
Report describes a stagecoach accident near the coast en route to the city. The Third Degree Company members later reached the cavern scene after a tunnel cave in. An advance sale is mentioned in Portland, with efforts to clear traffic and recover the stalled car.
Frank Egan, former Seattle dramatic teacher now directing the Moresco Egan school in Los Angeles, notes progress including a planned system, bright prospects, and a two week stay with a ready performance. Harry Girard now heads the operatic branch with Agnes Cain Brown assisting. Billy Smith of King Dodo fame is winning a government land allotment bid. Seattle audiences will see The Bachelor and The Banker, the Thief and the Girl next week, while Frye’s Opera House recalls J Z Little’s The World from November 13, 1888.
Readable lines show performances at Seattle and Alhambra venues with actors Lois Moore and Grand. Daily listings mix Moore and Lois with venues including Orpheum Majestic Pantages. Some city names overlap Seattle Alhambra Grand and recurring shows across days.
William Friend headlines King Dodo at W Moore next week, with Eleanor Kent, Laura Millard, and Richard Lambert among a host of seasoned performers from the Grand Seattle and San Francisco Opera scenes. Notables include Ray Hitchcock, Greta Risley, Cheridah Simpson, George Hamlin, and Nick Long, along with Idalene Cotton and Jimmy Wall at the Majestic. The lengthy roster recalls engagements from 1905 to 1908 across venues in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York circuits.
After a six year gap Seattle audiences will see the comedy opera King Dodo at the Moore all next week except Friday night under manager John Cort. Joint work of Frank Pixley and Guetay Luders creators of The Burgo Master Prince of Pilsen and Woodland. Eleanor Kent and William Friend head the cast.
After four years Charles Cherry returns to town as lead in Clyde Fitchs The Bachelor at the Alhambra. The new play, not previously seen locally, follows an offset plot to Girls with Cherry in the leading role.
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra led by Henry Hadley will perform the second of eight symphonies at Moore on Friday evening with tenor George Hamlin making his second local appearance since a Ladhew Musical Club concert. Also Wright Lorimer and company present The Shepherd King at Moore before moving to the Grand for a farewell Cherry Street run. The Russell Drew stock company marks its 100th performance at The Seattle with The Banker the Thief and the Girl, a Mittenthal Brothers melodrama touring from the east.
For the week beginning tomorrow afternoon Lois presents Brown of Harvard a four act play by Aida Johnson Young set at Harvard University. Lawrence and Miss Kelton lead the cast with a boat race as a plot feature.
Jundia and the European novelty equili brists headline the opening bill at the Pantages on Monday. Otto Plecht's Tyrolean Sextette of yodlers singers and dancers features the main attraction with supporting acts including the Three Lucifers European acrobatic and dancing eccentriques Fisher Burkhart Crenyon Mileette and Murley Ardmore in trapeze and violin performances.
The Soul Kiss stars Adeline Genes under the Mittenthal Brothers at the Moore this December. Primrose’s minstrels come to the Grand next month. The Third Degree and other titles including The Vinegar Buyer and The Traveling Salesman are set for show at local houses in coming weeks. The Symphony Orchestra previews a second Sunday concert at the Moore, with The Honeymoon Trail at the Grand forthcoming and In Dreamland by Emmet Devoy at the Grand soon. Stock houses plan new season shows When Knighthood War in Flower and Why He Divorced Her.
Carl Reed, secretary to John Cort, asks friends to save lit tle green and yellow tobacco coupons from trust stores. He has 47 saved and needs 900,900 in total to obtain an upright trombone.
Beginning Monday afternoon the Orpheum presents Florence Hindley in An Afternoon at Home Eva Taylor in Dreamona Stella H Merriam and her leaping Siberian wolf hounds John Birch the man with the data the Four Floods comedy acrobats Rosa Roma violin virtuoso Myers and Rosa lariat experts and motion pictures at the Orpheum venue.
Opening Monday afternoon features Nick Long and Idalene Cotton in The Banker and the Thief followed by Myrtle Byrne and Co sharpshooting. Joe Whitehead and Flo Grierson appear in comedy and dancing with The Three Keltona in a dancing and musical offering. Jimmy Wall the minatre comedian rounds out the program.
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