Park's Ten Months Season to Close This Week
The Park Theater ends its ten month season this week with Holden Comedy Company presenting Sapho and Nick o' the Woods. Vaudeville between acts. Newby Oval Park opens next week with vaudeville. Mrs Patrick Campbell plans London summer, returning in September to start new plays including Sudermann's Long Life to Life.
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Sudermann
Richard Mansfield
London
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Holden Comedy Company
Daudet
Sapho
Nick O’ the Woods
Wee
Newby Oval Park
New York
Hermann Sudermann
Berlin
Vienna
Magda
Ibsens A Dolls House in New York by Mrs Fiske
Mrs Fiske and company staged Ibsens A Dolls House at the Manhattan Theater New York on a Wednesday afternoon. The Commercial Advertiser praised the play as a masterful dramatic work with artful construction and restrained moral aims, while lauding Mrs Fiske's nuanced Nora and the strong supporting companies acting.
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Ecnes
Ibsen
Nora
Helmer
Tosen
Figman
Rank
Mrs. den
Claus Bogel
Eleanor Moretti
the Evening Post
We Are One by Aldrich Reflects Reconciled Past and Unity
A classical verse recalls healing after long years of struggle. The speaker marks a sorrowful past, heroic graves, and doubts, then proclaims national unity. Foretone tones of forgiveness and triumph emphasize shared history and renewed solidarity.
Chic and Epantant in Paris Dictionary Boost
London Telegraph notes Paris letter on chic becoming proper French after Academy approval. Epantant rises in usage as chic declines, with etymology tracing chic to Chicque, a painter David’s pupil. The piece mocks reforming dictionaries and cites fashion usage like dining at Bignon’s and reading Pall Mall Gazette. Also mentions the phrase dans le train gaining favor.
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Paris
Academy
London Pall Mall Gazette
Academie
England
David
Chicque
Bignon’s
Pall Mall Gazette
Mississippi Bubble march gains public notice by Chauncy Haines
The Mississippi Bubble two step,march by Chauncy Haines, author of Gloria, is published by Bowen Merrill Co Indianapolis and praised for merit. Whitney Warner Pub Co Detroit previously scored success with When Knighthood Was in Flower Lazarre Clo rinda Creole Belles, and expects similar popularity. Louis answers Wesley Why with a joke about a book on architecture and misdrawn plans.
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Bowen-Merrill Co
Indianapolis
Chauncey Haines
Clorinda
Gambling in Chinatown Describes San Francisco and Indianapolis casino scenes
Traveler J E Dempsey recounts Chinatown gambling in San Francisco and compares it with Indianapolis. He notes few local gaming houses, police raids, tongs, and fan-tan rooms, then profiles Chan Chung a major Chinatown gambler worth nearly a million dollars who plans to return to China to fund reforms.
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J. E. Dempsey
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Pacific Coast
Grand Hotel
Dempsey
Ezra Kendall
United States
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Oakland
Chinatown
Chan Chung
St. Louis Alley
Big Chung
China
Chung
America
France
England
Germany
Russia
Beavers Display Notable Intelligence in Colorado Dam
A Denver Academy of Science report describes a colony of about thirty beavers near Palmer Lake, El Paso County, that migrated to a new site after a dam hindered irrigation. They built a level five hundred foot dam enclosing fifteen acres, arranged efficient defenses, and used signaling with their tails. Dr Kinley and other observers credited strategic planning, rapid construction, and coordinated work despite danger, indicating advanced behavior for beavers in this Colorado locale.
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Denver Times
Academy of Science
el Paso
Palmer Lake
J. B. Kinley
Denver
Colorado
Academy of Science of Denver
Kinley
Hawes
Borchert
Beavers Build Ingenious City Dwellings With Subways
The article notes beavers constructing intricate new homes in arid regions. It compares plans with irrigation groups and ridicules a cotton picking monkey scheme. Kinley praises the beaver architecture as well suited to their materials and safe from predators.
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Beavers
Kinley
Professional indexers and scrappers in New York
A New York Evening Post piece profiles a city indexer who positions himself as a master of clipping organization. He warns against gaudy scrapbooks, favors linen or Manila hemp pages, and advocates indexing by subjects and authors over titles for durable, practical archives.
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Cleveland
Tammany
Strong
Lexow
Mazet
Rank and File. A Poem by Austin Dobson
A brief verse laments unnamed soldiers who fell in battle, honoring their sacrifice. The speaker mourns their obscurity, noting their courage and the stark glare of destiny on the rocky, starry field where they perished. The poem elevates their memory beyond names, presenting their deeds as enduring fame.
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