Chinese Musical Comedy In Chinatown Theater Shocks San Francisco
A Pacific Coast visit reports on a Chinese musical comedy in San Francisco Chinatown. Musicians perform behind actors in a workshop, clashing cymbals and wind instruments while maidens sing falsetto. The leading man and audience reactions, stage hands, vendors, and a Joss house are described amid claims of murder in the theater and a fascination with the performers.
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Chinatown
Pacific Coast
Maidens Fair
Hamlet
Remembering the Joss House Music That Endures
A poignant reminiscence centers on a musician who cannot forget the music of the Joss house. The sound lingers in memory as an enduring influence shaping his life and craft.
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Joss House
Camps in Adirondack Summer Homes for the Wealthy
The New York Tribune surveys Adirondack summer camps, noting log cabins dominate wealthy stays with ornate furnishings. It details boathouse designs, wall treatments, and Indian rugs, plus affordable options like jute coverings, moodji mats, and rustic oak furniture.
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Adirondack Mountains
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Lake Placid
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India
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Theatres News Preview Across Fair Bank City
News notes from Fair Bank describe Their Afterpiece by Louis Weslyn with Eugene Cowles at English's Opera House. Al G Field minstrels open Thursday, then house closes until state fair week. The Roof Garden is the first part. vaudeville includes Faust acrobats and Clipper quartet. The travesty King of the Filipinos stars John Phillips and Tommy Donnelly. Marie Tempest to be starred at Duke of York's on Aug 19. McKee Rankin rehearses Nance O'Neill at Adelphi starting Sept 1. Theatrical season shows scarce openings with only eight western houses open after many Christmas premieres.
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al G. Field
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Clipper
Indianapolis
John Phillips
Tommy Donnelly
Aguinaldo
Charles Frohman
Marie Tempest
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Nance O'Neill
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Boak Knighted by King Edward Said to Dignify Nova Scotia
Genealogical note in the New York Sun reports King Edward VII knighted Robert Boak, president of Nova Scotia’s Legislative Council. Boston papers mock the idea, recalling a colorful line of old family spellings and aristocratic pretensions from Goaks to Moaks and Coaks across England and beyond.
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If Life Were All and the Shadow of Eternity
A fragmentary poem excerpt discusses grief and longing, contrasting transient sorrow with a hoped for eternal joy. It references contemplation of life, death, and the afterlife while urging endurance through sorrow. The excerpt ends with a non sequitur question about Mrs. Austins new dress, adding a humorous aside.
Eugene Cowles Sings at Fair Bank This Week
Eugene Cowles, formerly with the Alice Neilsen Opera Company and longtime basso of the Bostonians, is scheduled to perform at Fair Bank this week. His program features Reginald De Koven’s anvil song from Robin Hood era pieces.
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Concert Highlights by Victor Her bert and Ostendorf Band
A concert schedule features Victor Herbert's gypsy song Hood and Annie Laurie along with his Forgotten. Ostendorf's Band backs the program. Mr Cowles, a popular concert basso, headlines each evening and Saturday matinee, with plans to lead a concert company next season.
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Park Theatre to Stage The Darkest Hour Melodrama
Charles A. Gardner, veteran German comedian, opens the Park Theater week in Lincoln J. Carter's melodrama The Darkest Hour. Set largely on a railroad, the play builds to its climax as tension escalates toward a finish not yet described.
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Park Theater
Lincoln J. Carter
London Theaters Dark and Stage Primed for Fall Shows
Flight of the passenger train imagery opens a London dramatic update. Mr Gardner will sing Apple Blossoms and Little Bunch of Lilacs in a popular repry. The Convict's Daughter, listed last season, returns in Kentucky scenes. London theaters dark as dramatic London slows in August.
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Gardner
Kentucky
A High Tenor Anna Carey’s Hidden Musical Moment
The Boston Clef Club once hosted a humorous incident involving Anna Louise Carey and two Winch brothers. Their self written duet featured a tom cat and his son, culminating in a falsetto display that revealed Carey as the unseen singer, fooling the audience into thinking John Winch still sang.
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New York Evening Post
Anna Louise Carey
Boston Clef Club
Will
John Winch
Win Winch
John
Tom Cat
Poetic Drama Prospers Amid Theatrical Generalizations
William Archer critiques a London Leader survey of plays, arguing it misreads public taste. He defends poetic tragedy, noting recent successes like Herod and Ulysses, and calls out superficial judgments that equate popularity with artistic value.
Revival of serious drama judged by public taste
The piece argues that English audiences favor comedy and musical farce over serious plays. It notes Iris as a financial success with over 50 000 viewers, while Pinero is seen as mediocre. It claims intelligent playgoers have grown, but few good serious plays exist, and producers risk failing by ignoring public demand.
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William Archer
London Leader
England
Iris
Europe
Pinero
Silk Worms Thrive in Southern California Venture
Los Angeles Herald reports silk cocoons from Sormano's California venture near Solano are ripe for the spinning machine. He is the only commercial silk producer in Southern California, with last year's production spun and a similar amount expected. Limited by mulberry leaf supply, he hopes for more trees to boost output. The Italian-born Sormano imported bambyx-mori worms and a reeling machine to produce skeins locally. The article notes plans to expand the silk industry once food for the worms increases.
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Sormano
California
Sermano
Italy
Giuseppe Sormano
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Shacklett The Evolution of a States
Walter Barr chronicles practical politics and the lobby in a narrative to run in the Journal starting Tuesday August 18, with no Sunday Journal publication.
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