Notable cast for Trilby revival with Phyllis WNeilson-Terry
Joseph Brooks and the Shuberta announce a Trilby revival next month with Phyllis WNeilson-Terry in the title role. Wilton Lackaye returns as Svengali and Leo Dietrichstein appears as Zou Zou, Burr McIntosh as Taffy, Brandon Tynan as Little Billee. Daniel Frohiman’s Seven Sisters, once led by Laurette Taylor, will become a motion picture by Famous Players Film Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Brooks
The
Shuberta
Trilby
Phyllis Wneilson-Terry
Miss Terry
Lady Ursula
Wilton Lackaye
Svengali
Leo Dietrichstein
Zou Zou
Burr McIntosh
Taffy
Brandon Tynan
Little Billee
Daniel Frohiman
Laurette Taylor
Famous Players Film Company
Jane Cowl Signs Two Year Morosco Pact For LA Stock Co
Jane Cowl is contracted by Oliver Morosco for two years to head the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles this summer. She will perform in several new productions while a plan is made for her return to New York as a leading star. Her first appearance will be in Within the Law at the Burbank theater, as Morosco rehearses a new drama adapted from the French by A B Thomas titled Momarte, secured through A H Woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Cowl
Oliver Morosco
Mise Cowl
Los Angeles
Morosco
New York
Miss Cowl
Burbank Theater
Mr. Morosco
A. BE. Thomas
The Red Widow at Odeon Next Week
The Go-Ahead Girls Musical Comedy Company presents The Red Widow at the Odeon for the first three days of next week. The troupe shines with beauty wit and song and includes Lillian Leslie Joseph Smiley in The Love of Women and Isabel Rea in The Stray Shot on Monday.
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Odeon Theater
Sabin
Lillian Leslie
Joseph Smiley
Isabel Rea
First Man to Sing Lied in English at Comedy Theatre
The White Feather a European war play in English at the Comedy Theatre New York becomes a season success. It portrays a man at home who pleads with his sweetheart while uncovering German agents seeking submarine attacks. He regains his love and earns his country’s gratitude.
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Comedy Theater
New York
War Office
Welsh tenor Evan Williams to recital at Rob inson Grand
Evan Williams famed Welsh American tenor to give a recital Friday March 26 at the Robinson Grand theater under the Marcato Music Club. He will sing the English version of the Prize Song from Die Meistersinger after coaching with Anton Seidel. Williams is known for English Lied performances in Leidl concerts in New York and Brooklyn.
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Evan Williams
Robinson Grand Theater
Marcato Music Club
Williams
Anton Seidel
America
New York
Brooklyn
Anderson Dead Theatrical Manager in New York
Max C. Anderson aged 64, a veteran theatrical manager, died in New York. He spent about forty years in show business and was believed worth around 10 million dollars. He controlled 150 to 200 theaters mainly in the middle west and was linked with the Keith interests in Greater New York. Up to six years ago he served as managing director of the New York Hippodrome, run with the Shuberts.
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Max C. Anderson
New York
Mr. Anderson
Middle West
Keith
Greater
New York Hippodrome
Shuberts
New Review Scorers a Big Success at Knickerbocker
Klaw and Erlanger present a new review titled Fadts and Fancies in New York City. Glen MacDonough conceived a kaleidoscopic show where Glum and the spirits Pleasure Dancing Romance Beauty and Chance travel with Mrs. Bluebeard through scenes of New York life from a Riverside Drive glimpse to a Lenox tea house and a Long Island Venice.
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Klaw and Erlanger
Knickerbocker Theater
New York City
Glen MacDonoush
Glum
Eve
Riverside Drive
Clermont
Lenox
Newport
Venice
Long Island
Within the Law at Robinson Grand March 27
Selwyn and Company presents Bayard Weiler’s Within the Law a metropolitan drama at the Robinson Grand on March 27. A criminal confesses for a woman’s sake and goes to execution while she battles authorities, police brutality, and social crime. The strong cast supports the production quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bayard Weiler
Selwyn and Company
Robinson Grand
Bankruptcy filed by actress Marie Cahill in New York
Marie Cahill the actress and wife of Daniel V. Arthur filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in New York. She lists liabilities of 35402 and nominal assets of 23827, with action against Daniel V. Arthur as maker of notes she endorsed. Exempt assets include two beds a wardrobe wearing apparel wedding ring $250 dressing table $10 and a desk $10.
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Marie Cahill
Daniel V. Arthur
New York
Palace to Have Fun and Music This Week
Palace Players stage two evenings of comedy drama and musical comedy. A Ministers Sweetheart by Robert Wayne opens a three day run Monday with a Tuesday matinee, featuring a persecuted schoolmarm sheltered by a minister as gossips stir then resolve. The Queen of Queer Street by Hal Reid follows, a Bowery set musical drama with comic heart and Minnie Du Pree prior success.
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Palace Players
Robert Wayne
Bowery
Hal Reid
Minnie du Pree
Noted comedians McIntyre and Heath bring dance chorus here
Noted comedians McIntyre and Heath appear soon in John Cort's production of The Ham Tree a musical comedy by George W Herbart William Jerome and Jean Schwartz hitting top box office figures in Michigan cities.
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McIntyre
Heath
Michigan
John Cort
George W. Herbart
William Jerome
Jean Schwartz
McIntyre and
Garrick Theater
Deltrose
Natural Law in rehearsal at Parsons theater Hart
John Cort stages a three act drama The Natural Law by Charles Summer in rehearsal after arrangement with Leffler and Bratton. Cast includes Howard Halli Carl Eckstrom Otto Kreuger Austin Webb Helen Holmes Maggie Halloway Fisher and Teresa Maxwell Conover. The production location is Parsons theater in Hart.
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John Cort
Leffler and Bratton
Charles Summer
Howard Halli
Carl Eckstrom
Otto Kreuger
Austin Webb
Helen Holmes
Maggie Halloway Fisher
Teresa Maxwell Conover
Parsons Theater
Hart
Barrie writes revue for Gaby Deslys in London
J M Barrie has written a burlesque revue titled Rosy Rapture or the Pride of the Beauty Chorus for Gaby Deslys produced by Charles Frohman in London. He also wrote a separate piece to precede the revue called The New Word a Fireside Scene.
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J. M. Barrie
Gaby Deslys
Charles Frohman
London
Barrie
Local music lovers look forward to March recital
The Marcato Music Club presents a concert Thursday evening March 18 in the Masonic auditorium by Sol Marcosson violinist Mrs Marcosson pianist and Dr Ian Jackson tenor. Marcosson has appeared with major clubs and at Chautauqua and is praised for artistic depth. Mrs Marcosson's pianism is noted for its secure touch and expressive runs. Dr Jackson focuses on American song in his recitals.
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Masonic
Sol Marcosson
Ian Jackson
Marcato Music Club
Marcosson
National Federation
Chautauqua
United
Jackson
Broadway Notes and London Troupe Updates
Heard in the Foyer reports stage figures preparing new productions in Chicago Cincinnati and London. Morosco and Oliver Morosco bookings list Barton de Gink and Peg O My Heart road companies plus Sir Franklin Mandel among others. Legacy of Honey Boy Evans noted as author of Standin Up the Corner.
The Round-Up Love Story at Rob inson Grand Opera House
A melodramatic Western tale plays March 19 and 20 at the Rob inson Grand Opera House featuring Indians and cowboys. Jack Payson pursues Echo Allen with Dick Lane missing, a love triangle amid a brutal Apache attack and a dramatic rescue, ending with loyalty and romance prevailing as soldiers intervene.
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Robinson Grand Opera House
West
Dick Lane
Echo Allen
Echo
Jack Payson
High Jinks on tap at the Robinson Grand theater
A lively musical farce titled High Jinks is set for the Robinson Grand theater with Otto Hauerbach as book and lyricist and Rudolf Friml supplying the score. The plot centers on a perfume that turns a coward into a lion and a prudish woman into a daredevil, prompting mistaken identity and comic pursuit across a waterfront resort.
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Arthur Hammerstein
Robinson Grand Theater
Otto Hauerbach
Rudolf’ Friml
Composta
Paris
Dre
Thorne
Dick “Wayne
Aupon
Dr. Thorne
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Clarksburg
DeParks
Edna Moorhead Bess
Nell McLeod
Count von Hogg
Harry G. Hawkins Wizzard of Oz
C. A. Spangler
American ambassa- PAOD = Jeisjerediellt- Mr. Arza Phillips
Mildred Biddle
Granvil
We John Morgan
Wild Bill Williams
Robert Cayner
Steerer
Russell Ross Susette
Gladine Stack
Roy A. Harris
Jack
Betty
Mary E. Deverick
William Coston
Katherine Fiora Nelle McCloud
Mary
Stitz
H. G. Hawkins
W. John Morgan
Robert Coyner
Russell Ross
Roy H. Harlan
Margaret Post
Edna Moorehead
Neva Kramer
Marion Welch
Ruth McConnell
Meda Moorehead
Nellie White
Julia Sturbois
Doc” Payne
Fritz Kramer
Lyle Davis
Russell Francis
C. G. Squires
Harry McNary
Olcott
Cohan & Harris
Chauncey Olcott
Oigns
Jane Gowl
Odeon
Beauty
Hed Widow
Klan
Erlanger
Anderson
Klaw and
Palace
Guy Standing
Leutenant
Vienna
Hisse de Wolfe
iOliver
Morocco
Soani
Chicago
Andy
Frank Mandel
LaSalle Opera House
Marie Tempest
Lyric Theater
Cincinnati
Edgar Selwyn
John Crewe
Globe Theater
Jackus
Nee
Dick Bi
Ime
Dick Gastte
Besgine
Jac’ Ed
Arthur. Hammerstein
Woma
Tepaz Coe
Mrs. Thorne
Friml
Matt
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