Park Theater Opens With When the Bell Tolls and Two Little Waifs
The Park Theater in Indianapolis launches its 1984 season with the English melodrama When the Bell Tolls and follows with Lincoln J. Carter's Two Little Waifs starring Stanley and Lamb. The venue boasts a rebuilt stage, improved ventilation, and a fresh slate of big musical and dramatic offerings featuring Louise McCullom, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Blanche Walsh, and notable actors including Forbes Robertson and E. H. Sothern.
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Foreign musical stars and new works eyed for American stage
London reports highlight Berlin baritone Otto Goritz joining the Metropolitan Opera in New York after Hamburg work. News also covers Cantata Hiawatha’s new title The Atonement, Greek opera Hymenaios, and plans for Jacques Thibaud and other stars to tour America. Strauss, Grieg praise, Parsifal staging, and Wagner festival notes fill the arts page.
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Hamburg
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New York
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Salamis
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Indianapolis
Posthumous Hugo Wolf work touring German houses
Hugo Wolf posthumous songs circulate in Germany and Austria with productions in Mannheim Graz and Prague and plans under way in Munich while Vienna Opera House slated for production. A bust of Sir Arthur Sullivan was unveiled on the Victoria Embankment fronting the Savoy Theatre with Duchess of Argyle and W S Gilbert attending. Conried sent a cable to his U S representative amid a shifting European music scene.
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Graz
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Munich
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Victoria Embankment
London
Savoy Theater
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Eugene Cowles Coming to Fairview Park Concerts
Two star vocalists to headline the final week of specially engaged soloists at Fairview Park in Indianapolis. Bass singer Eugene Cowles returns for a second appearance, joined by contralto Carrie Rothchild-Sapinsky. Conductor William Barnes curates a public week of band programmes and select operatic and concert pieces featuring Cowles, Sapinsky, and the Indianapolis Military Band under H. W. Klaussman.
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Indianapolis
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Fairview Park
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Brookside Park Concert by Mayer's Military Band Schedule
Brookside Park hosts Mayer's Military Band with a program including selections and intermezzos such as Pizzicato March Dixie Girl Clorinda Sue Gypsy Medley The Mississippi Bubbl Antics of the Ants Jolly General and The Golden Wand plus overtures and dances. Miller's City Band will perform at Spades Park with pieces like The Jolly General Sunrise in Georgia Cecilia Faust and Just Remember.
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Clorinda
Sue
Alabama Blossom
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Gypsy Rile
Spades Park
Jolly General
Georgia
Cecilia
Faust
Agene
Heck Shows This Week at Washington Street Grounds
The Heck shows bring a four hundred person combination circus theater and carnival to Indianapolis on West Washington street grounds. Opening night is tomorrow with daily performances and a vast array of free attractions including Woodford’s dog pony and monkey circus and the Weltzmans on the high wire.
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Cairo
Mlle
Aria
Swann Pass Deception Told By An Impersonator
An editor of the Richmond Wig funds a traveler to Washington by using Swann’s rail pass. The impersonator swears identity, endures repeated checks by a conductor who questions Swann’s status, and finally meets the editor in the next car, while Swann and the conductor mock the ruse.
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Very Properly Snubbed Sermon Sparked Heresy Charge
Rev W S Rainsford recalls a snub from an aristocratic Philadelphia woman who disliked his habit of saying Deo volente God willing before actions The exchange occurred after he told her he would dine with her if he were spared and she retorted If you're dead I'll not expect you.
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St. George's
New York
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Atchison Globe News: Feld kirchner Children Draw Crowd
An Atchison audience was shown a provocative act featuring a local allure titled Millenna in poses plastique. The curtain revealed a monk-like figure in a staged display, with calcium light on the act, while Stella Bilmek, formerly married to Joe Bilimek, is mentioned in connection to the event.
Atchison Audience Reacts to Woman in Tights on Stage
In a modest Atchison town, Mrs. Bilimek appeared on stage wearing pink tights, heavy paint, a golden wig, rhinestones, and ribbons. The crowd fell silent for ten minutes except for two interludes when a calcium light revealed roses and the American flag. Applause followed a flash of George Washington’s image, provoking questions about propriety and patriotism.
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Sol Dier
George Washington
The Odorouss Mint in Fields Gardens and Markets
The Odorouss Mint thrives in fields, waste places, and old gardens with pungent foliage. Mint leaves serve as a medicine chest in plants and as flavoring in sauces and cocktails, with home remedies for headaches bad breath and fatigue, plus mint julep preparations and a temperance cordial, including drying methods for winter use.
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Justice Brewer Recalled For Sharing Work On Camping Trip
A fragment recalls a hunting trip with Justice Brewer of the U S Supreme Court. The narrator notes Brewer carried his share of wood and water, contrasting it with a lazy companion, illustrating the idea that a party member who shirks duties is quickly labeled a boy.
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Supreme Court of United States
Kent
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