Field Minstrels Lead New Season At English's Park
The season opens with the Al G. Field minstrels at English's Park next Thursday. With A G Field, Harry Shunk, Tommy Donnelly, John Blackford and Billy Cawley, the company marks its eighteenth year and promises strong vaudeville adds, a new musical finale in Fountain Park, and a vivid melodrama A Human Slave. East Lynn follows with Inez Forman and John Dillon in a careful staging.
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English’s
al G. Field Minstrels
Manager Field
Field Minstrels
United States
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Field Company
Columbus
Indianapolis
A. G. Field
Harry Shunk
Tommy Donnelly
John Blackford
Billy Cawley
Shunk
East
Dumont’s
Minstrels
Philadelphia
Paul la Lond
Field
Rees Prosser
Matthew Keefe
Joseph E. Blamphin
William H. Atkinson
George Pearce
Thomas McKenna
B. B. Bathrick
Frank I. Minch
Doc Quigsey
Tommy Hyde
Lester Fairman
Tommy O'Dell
Leighs
Parrento
Pasteurs
Walton Brothers
Mignani
Fountain Park
Cutler
William L. Roberts
Chicago
W. H. Dehrman
J. J. Hyland
James McElhern
Sylvester
William K. Madden
Sam Burton
Olive Martin
Nellie Dunber
Edna Reming
East Lynn
the Park
Inez Forman
S& Youngs
Isabelle
Vine
J. F. Crosby
Ada Gray
Miss Forman
Ant
Vetern
John Dillon
Hoosier capital vaudeville season opens September first
AL G field writes that Indianapolis crowds will greet King Dodo with extra pretty girls as the Grand Opera House reopens after remodeling. Livingston and Minor from Chicago paint new exterior and interior scenes and several drops while a strong vaudeville lineup awaits. The Empire reopens soon with Bowery Burlesquers as first attraction after recent decor work.
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Indianapolis
Hoosier
Dodo
Grand Opera House
Messrs. Livingston and Minor
Auditorium Theater
Chicago
Grand
Empire
Bowery Burlesquers
Grand Empire Theater plans large burlesque and opera season
MISS INEZ FOREMAN headlines a season of lavish entertainments in Indianapolis as Klaw & Erlanger unveil the Drury Lane spectacle The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast with 300 performers and 12% stage hands, plus the Four Seasons ballet cost 325000. Maude Adams stars in The Pretty Sister of Jose with Frohman. George Ade debuts The County Chairman, a rural love story set in Antioch. Bertie Duke, Tyrone Power and Rose Caghan are listed for upcoming New York productions.
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Klaw & Erlanger
Drury Lane
America
Broadway
New York
London
Charles Frohman
Maude Adams
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jose
Spain
Miss Adams
Frohman
John Drew
New Empire Theater
George Ade
Savage
Indiana
Ade
Antioch
Missieippi
Abduction from the Seraglio in Met Opera Revival
Met Opera in New York considers Mozart Abduction from the Seraglio for next season to precede L Estranger, which is too short for a full program. Madame Lillian Blauvelt Pendleton arrives from Europe to rest at Bar Harbor before a late October concert tour in England. Lee Shubert aims to cast Blauvelt in comic opera next season.
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Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Mozart
the Seraglio
Vincent D'Indy
Lillian Blauvelt
W. F. Pendleton
Europe
New England
Bar Harbor
England
Lee Shubert
Madame Blauvelt
Stage notes and cast changes for Indianapolis season
The article lists operatic talents including Gertrude Bennyson Adelaide Norwood and Madame Jennie Norelli as prima donnas for Castle Square Grand Opera Company with Savage. It notes Madame Norelli born in Stockholm and trained at the State Conservatory and Covent Garden engagement. It mentions Twelfth Night incidental music by Robert C Jenkins and remarks on wages of German musicians and conductors. It also covers Cosima Wagner opposing Parsifal performances in New York and reveals the Kansas City origin of Hiawatha composer Charles Daniels and a rumored marriage to Ruth Peebles of the Prince of Pilsen troupe.
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Henry W. Savage
Castle Square Grand Opera Company
Indianapolis
Gertrude Bennyson
Adelaide Norwood
Jennie Norelli
Madame Norelli
Savage
Stockholm
London
Covent Garden
Berlin
Milan
Viola Allen
Shakspeare
Robert C. Jenkins
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Jenkins
Beaumont and Fletcher
Ben Jonson
Charles
Herman Ritter
Germany
Nikisch
Weingartner
Strauss
Provincal
Ratibor
Cosima Wagner
New York
New York Evening Post
Wagner
Bayreuth
Rhine
Hiawatha
Nell Maret
Charles Daniels
Kansas City
Longfellow
Daniels
Kansas
Ruth Peebles
Prince of Pilsen” Opera Company
Miss Peebles
The Horseless Age and the Grand Marshal
A New York Sun piece quotes Mr. Goezieton pondering the fate of the grand marshal as power driven vehicles replace horses. He imagines the grand marshal’s sash and rosette, the horse, and wonders what will preserve the marshal’s glamour when no horses remain.
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New York Sun
Mr. Goezieton
Litany of a Troubled Mind Prayer Fragment
Fragmentary litany expresses burdened hearts and minds asking the Lord for mercy and care. Unclear names and context show religious devotional wording rather than a news item.
Afternoon concerts by Indianapolis Military Band at three parks
In Indianapolis, afternoon and evening concerts will be given today at Fairview Riverside Brookside and Spades parks by military bands under H W Klausmann Miller and Arndt with a diverse program including marches overtures medleys and solos The King and Queen diving horses will perform daily Week park board funds sponsor free shows at city parks Professor Harper comments on university status and tax challenges.
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Indianapolis
H. W. Klausmann
Maschera
Largo
Nicholas Rembusch
Peggy
Paris
Georgia
Stradella
Mediey
Dolly Varden
Park Board
Riverside
Mayer
Seies
Lazarra
Brookside Park
Miller's City Band
Laurendean
Hermann Arndt
Spades Park
Steele
Witmark
Bendix Waitz
Blanke Cornet
Rollinson Ben Schreckengost
de Koven
Eugene Intermezzo
Mousine
Mills
Wea
Smith
Mr. Dooley
Jerome and Schwartz
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