Park and Empire Theaters Offer Melodrama and Minstrels this Week
The Park opens with Dangerous Women starring Leighton Leigh and a strong cast while the week features a grand variety bill including Jacques Inaudl the French math whiz at the Grand Opera House. Also on the program are The Half-way House by Ezra Kendall, Carmen selections, Rigoletto, Faust and Trovatore renditions, a new sketch Why Doogan Swore Off, Clarente quintet, Ida Russell, and World and Hastings. The Empire presents Eight Bells with the Byrne Brothers, plus Bohemian Burlesquers and living pictures U S Cruiser Bohemia and A Bowery Ball. The Elks stage their annual minstrel show with Joseph E Bell as interlocutor.
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Jacques Inaudl
Grand Opera House
Perkins Fisher
Ezra Kendall
Delaur- Debrimont
Lucia
Faust
Trovatore
Mark Murphy
Doogan
Clarente
Ida Russell
World and Hasting
Leighton Leigh
Harry Buckier
F. O. Barrows
Eugene Santley
Elizabeth Baker
Annie Rischer
Iva Merlyn
Nita Francis
Byrne Brothers
Rush Bronson
Bronson
Pose
Elks Show Promises Varied Entertainment Features
Rehearsals for a lively Elks entertainment include jokes by Porter Rubens Sourbier and Powell Hessling Krauss on one end of a semi circle. A quintet and chorus led by Mrs. Walter Fugate will perform songs with a Southern dance by Daugherty Hosea and eight assistants. Helen Springsteen solos, Louise Dresser and Jack Norworth contribute, with Norworth and Dresser coming from Pittsburg to boost the event. The show promises many other features of exceptional interest.
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Harry Porter
George Rubens
Edward Sourbier
J. Russell Powell
Tif’ Hessling
Paul Krauss
Homer van Wie
Samuel Adams
Tiarry Murburger
Arnold Spencer
Robert Paddock
Walter Fugate
Charles Daugherty
Robert Hosea
Helen Springsteen
Louise Dresser
Jack Norworth
Anna Held presents The Little Duchess at English's next week
Anna Held and her company star in the musical comedy The Little Duchess at English's on Monday and Tuesday nights. Harry B. Smith wrote the book and Reginald De Koven the music. Scenes set at Paris and Ostend with elaborate songs and dances.
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Anna Held
Little Duchess
English’s
Harry B. Smith
Reginald de Koven
Paris
Ostend
Miss Held
Charles Bigelow
George
Tack Norworth in Elka Minstrels at English's
The Elka Minstrels play at English's features Marton and Joseph Herbert with Harry B. Smith’s comedy. Kian and Er Langers Troubadours perform as the tale unfolds at a girls seminary. Masked burglars disrupt a pie scene prompting expulsions and a farcical turn.
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Tack Norworth
Harry BR. Smith
Kian & Erlanger
Troubadours
Vane
London Theatrical Week Tightens Despite Quiet Schedule
London theater news notes few new plays as major shows wrap runs. The Girl from Maxim's continues to draw crowds despite sharp reviews. Are You a Mason? ends at Shaftesbury tonight and reopens March 31. Globe Theatre closes for demolition as Julia Neilson and Fred Terry tour with Sweet Nell of Old Drury. Kitty Grey and A Chinese Honeymoon hit 226th performances next week. Frohman secures Garrick for Bernhardt and Coquelin in June. He now holds eight leading London play interests.
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London
Criterion Theater
America
Shaftesbury Theater
Royalty Theater
Old Globe Theater
Julia Neilson
Fred Terry
Sweet Nell
Old Drury
Kitty Grey
The
Apollo
Strand
Charles Frohman
Garrick Theater
Sarah Bernhardt
Coquelin
Mr. Frohman
Frohman eyes province theater network expansion
The Daily Chronicle notes Lionel Frohman may soon direct a chain of provincial theaters extending to Aberdeen, after declining London offers to stay focused on current duties. Preparations at the Lyceum for Sir Henry Irving’s Faust involve new scenery and lighting, while The Egoist may be dramatized this year. Beerbohm Tree prospers with Ulysses and comments on Mrs. Brown Potter.
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Daily Chronicle
London
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Aberdeen
Lyceum Theater
Sir Henry Irving
Faust
Geo. J. Meredith
Beerbohm Tree
Ulysses
Brown Potter
Associated Press
Mrs. Potter
Bernhardt-Mendes
Sarah
Henry Irving sails for London with 70 in company
New York reports Henry Irving and his company of seventy aboard the Minneapolis bound for London on March 22. Irving says he enjoyed a splendid time in the United States and hopes to return in 194 but no return date has been settled.
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New York
Henry Irving
London
Minneapolis
Irving
United States
Dining Car Waiters Face Hard Times in Chicago
Chicago Record Herald reports dining car waiters endure shrinking tips and fading smiles as passengers withhold gratuities, altering the mood and earnings aboard trains. The piece describes waning tips and growing concern among staff about their financial outlook.
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Chicago Record Herald
Officials order dining car protections on Santa Fe line
Jacques Inoum performs in a vaudeville sketch at the Grand while the scene hints at a cost of living decree. Santa Fe officials issue an order to dining car conductors to shield passengers from negligent service, a blow Watters says ends a major income source.
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Jacques Inoum
the Grand
Ancy
Harvey
Santa Fe
Watters
Supreme Court ruling shields villages from private water extortion
The Supreme Court decision supports municipalities like Skaneateles New York in resisting private water firms seeking higher hydrant rates. When the village refused service the hydrants were cut off and the village built its own plant. The ruling upholds a municipality's right to protect itself from a corporation created by it.
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Buffalo Express
Supreme Court of the United States
Skaneateles
N. Y
Poetic Rhapsody on the Laborer in The Era
A fragmentary verse passage discusses the tension between a poet’s dream of celestial splendor and the toil of workers. It contrasts the muse’s ascent with the hammering, rasp of labor that awakens the sleeper before dawn, leaving the worker deprived of the music of the spheres. John Troland, in the Era.
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John Troland
Behind the Vaudeville Curtain at Grand Opera House
Manager Rush Bronson oversees brisk stage changes and cast politics as vaudeville acts, singers, and dancers perform with sharp timing. He explains how acts travel solo, the harsh need to captivate in twenty minutes, and the pay scale from top stars to lower acts at West Coast circuits.
Spring Festival Programme by Thomas Orchestra at Tomlinson Hall
Boone McKee announces a Paderewski recital at Tomlinson Hall on Friday April 11 as part of the spring music festival. The programme features Tchaikowski Pathetic Symphony, Weber aria, Sibelius songs, Wagner and Grieg selections, with Electa Gifford and Gertrude May Stein among soloists. Railroads offer reduced rates. tickets go on sale at Starr piano store.
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Ignace Paderewski
Tomlinson Halls
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Maniu
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Tomlinson Hall
Tchaikowski
Chicago
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St. Petersburg
Weber
Charles W. Clark
Electa Gifford
Detibes
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Felix Weingartner
Wagner
Grieg
Olaf Trygvasson
Mr. Clark
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The
Caesar Frank
Dvorak
Jean d'Arc
Miss Stein
Massenet
Starr Piano
Newton Claypool
Pennsylvania Street
Nixon Irish Identity in New York Press
The New York Press notes Nixon’s Irish roots and his political hunger, arguing he acts like a natural politician who fits both Irish and Democrat Irish stereotypes, illustrating a strong ethnic identity in his public persona.
Doctor Counsels Chess as Aid to Sleeplessness
Yonkers Statesman reports a medical columnist suggesting chess as a mental exercise to ease insomnia. The piece notes a cautious tone, advising regular practice and moderation while highlighting the potential calming effects of strategic play.
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