New Vaudeville and Grand Park bills in week
Miss Amelia Bingham stars in A Modern Magdalene at English's with Wilton Lackaye and Henry E. Dixey among cast. Park and Empire present The Village Postmaster at Park Theater with Joseph Wheelock. The Black Vipers to follow. Ballerini troupe, The New Coachman sketch, and other vaudeville acts fill the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park and Empire
Ballerinis
Mlle
Clara Bellerini
Park Theater
New York
Chicago
Joseph Wheelock
The All Around Athlete Ideal in Modern Gymnastics
The piece surveys athletic development among performers and sportsmen, praising varied training to build all round strength. It cites Nevarro and Arcos acts, the Martinettis, Les Agels, Balerrini, Locokos, and Duncan Ross, noting how specialization can hinder overall fitness and suggesting broader conditioning for track, football, and rowing prospects. It references Brokaw’s surf rescue tragedy and quotes Louis W. Buckley on training choices and physique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Agels
Clara Balerrini
Arcos
Locokos
Young Brokaw
Asbury Park
Duncan Ross
Ross
Fred Plaisted
Louis W. Buckley
The
Grand
Chicago Herald
Theatre gossip and Norfolk city notes from a 19th century column
Ezra Kendall and various actors are discussed as they tour and plan seasons in New York Chicago and Indianapolis. Paula Edwardes joins a new musical comedy My Fiancee. Richard Mansfield will present Julius Caesar in Chicago and New York. Norfolk described as a growing Southern city with hotels churches mills and shipyards reflecting postwar progress.
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Paula Edwardes
the Defender
New York
A. H. Chamberlyn
Meridian
Delaware
Indiana
Norfolk
M. E
Allegheny Mountains
Florida
Cuba
New South
Future of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in doubt this week
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra board will meet this week to decide if the ensemble will continue. Letters from musicians in other cities seek the directorship, including violinist Kocian. The piece questions the value of a three concert season and notes past struggles with rehearsals and needing to hire out of town players. Jaroslav Kostan is set to give eighty concerts starting November 2 in New York. he is a bohemian born violinist.
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Rudolph Aronson
New York
Daniel Frohman
Frohman
Kubelik
Aronson
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Board of
Schneider
Bke
Indianapolis Orchestra
Indianapolis
Jaroslav Kostan
Bohem
Empire Week Entertainment by Tiger Lilies Comedy Troupe
The Empire presents a varied program this week with the Tiger Lilies performing a farce with a chorus of twenty young women and a corps of comedians. vaudeville features include Miss Garrity singers and dancers the three Poles acrobats the Deonzo brothers barrel jumpers Black and Kooper McRae and Wyatt dancers and Cooper and Reynolds comedians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Empire
Tiger Lilies
Giants of Strength and the Human Body in Ancient Folklore
The article reflects on legendary strongmen and compares modern gymnasts with biblical Samson. It highlights Paul Martinetti as a remarkably developed forearm master, recounting a troupe's daring feats such as a rider on a wire bicycle held by teeth and acrobats performing hand stands on pedestals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sameon
Sandows
Hercules
Samsons
Paul Martinetti
Samson
Not Coming to America Audrey as a Pinу Duse sails to New York
Notes of the stage report Signor D Annunzio will not tour the United States this season Eleanora Duse and her company depart Genoa for New York sailing Oct 7 They will rehearse in Boston before opening their season Oct 21 D Annunzio plans to limit readings while actor John Mason may join the Audrey dramatization if released from Elsie de Wolfe contract Miss Selene Johnson will play Audrey in Richmond Nov 7 Glen Macdonough writes a Newport life satire with a young man puzzled by crowd behavior
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis A. Simon
Grace Gardner
Seymour Rose
Walter Lee
Rae and
Broesche
Lew Hawkins
Zelma Rawlston
Vera King
Bryan
Nadine
Ireland
Eleanora Duse
Genoa
New York
Signora Duse
Boston
D'Annunzio
Signora Duses
John Mason
Mary Johnsston
Audrey
Elsie de Wolfe
Selene Johnson
Richmond
Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera
The Sword of the King drama and Norfolk port notes
Mish Nrista Crosman debuts The Sword of the King with Maurice Campbell and partners outside the theatrical syndicate and plans for Park Theater. Norfolk showcases top terminal facilities, coal docks at Lambert Point, and heavy freight growth by the Pocahontas region line, plus recreation near Hampton Roads and Cape Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Crosman
Maurice Campbell
Harrison Gray Fiske
James K. Hackett
the Park Theater
Mrs. Fiske
Indianapolis
Norfolk
New York
Europe
Norfolk & Western
Lambert Point
Pocahontas
West Virginia
Atlantic Seaboard
Moser River
Laker
Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Bay
Cape Henry
Ocean View
Virginia
James
Elizabeth
Nansemond
Sept
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BILLS
Haddon Chambers
Amelia Bingham
Haddon Charbers
Miss Bingham
Wilton Lackaye
Henry E. Dixey
Joseph Holland
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Hobart Bosworth
Alfred Fisher
Madge Carr Cooke
Lucille Spinney
Adele Farrington
John Drew
Katinka Jenkine
Brinker
Katinka
Eric Hargreaves
Albert Lindsey
Lindsey
Hargreaves
the Grand
Nevarro
Martinettis
Casion
Ezra Kendall
Rose Coghlan
Pinero
Mrs. Tanqueray
Eo Kyrie Bellew
Julius Caesar
Richard Mansfield
Grand Opera House
Herald Square Theater
Mansfield
Brutus
Ian
Blanche Walsh
Hamilcar
Maeterlinck
Monna Vanna
Stanislaus Stange
Miss Walsh
Flaubert
Salammba
London
Ee Henry Miller
England
Melun
Charles
Indianapolis Journal
Elizabeth River
Kocian
Empire
Alice Nevada
Tiger Lilies Company
Signor D'Annunzio
America
Mish
Nrista Crosman
Pietro Mascag
Mascagni
Prague Conservatory
Sevcik
Dvorak
Jan Kubelik
Conservatory
Vienna
Berlin
Paris
Edward Greig
Antigone
Peer Gynt
James Brown Potter
Temple of Music
Convention Hall
Buffalo
Duss
New York City
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