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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1900
Page
3
Miss Hilda Clark has been engaged as the leading soprano for the Boston Opera Company. She is expected to debut in the forthcoming season with the company and takes the role of principal female artist amid high expectations.
Leavenworth born singer Mini Hilda Clark abandons church choir roots for Boston study, joins The Bostonian operatic company after success in Princess Bonnie. She alternates roles in The Beretude and Maddy Marian in Robin Hood, with plans to be heard as the prima donna of The Boston ions. Relatives preserve her Leavenworth origins as her career unfolds from a small town to the New York stage.
Paris reports outline generous terms for Mme Bernhardt and Edmond Rostand as they plan a major tour. Bernhardt earns $1,000 per performance plus a share of receipts beyond a threshold and full personal expenses. Rostand receives 1 percent of results with potential total returns around $55,200, while Coquelin and others obtain specified percentages.
A reminiscence recounts Jerome Sykes forming The Alcazar Opera company with nine performers and a chorus in Kansas City. They toured Texas and Mexico briefly before a manager’s choices and legal fears halted the troupe, with Punch Wheeler dead and the Mexican authorities wary of a provocative title.
The morning and night performances mark a bygone era with Sykes and Wheeler’s original Ermine production drawing crowds and a promised return date. Sykes jokes with actors, Wheeler moves to railroad work in Chicago, while Klaw Erlander’s Foxy Quiller is touted for next season. Helena Modjeska’s art scene contrasts with her persona as a star.
A Western manager narrates what is billed as the most remarkable performance on record. A Baron Munchausen toured with his company last week, arriving in Ron o Nevada. The tale centers on an extraordinary, largely improbable feat that left local audiences startled and amused by the performer's flair for fabrication.
A narrator insists the fault lies with him not the painter. He plans proof as a painted counterfeit draws closer to the original. The actress Modjeska and the Irving portrait become indistinguishable, a revelatory moment of identical expressions and artistic imitation.
A long reminiscence in Dramatic Mirror recounts a summer afternoon on a Lone Island station where a fourteen year old boy sharpens pencils with a knife and chats with the writer. The piece then shifts to a tale about Augustus Hell and a memory system mockingly majoring on stage life, mixing recollection with a comic dinner, a birthday toast, and a chaotic rehearsal featuring lines from The Lady of Lyons and speeches from Teste Gteer.
The article chronicles a flurry of theatre notes in the Rocky Ford region, detailing performances and personnel. It mentions Hazel Kirke and local audience reactions, plus shifts in casts, contracts, and upcoming productions by multiple companies and managers, including Frohman and Belasco, with names like Janice Meredith, Blanche Walsh, and Nance O'Neil highlighted.
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