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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1901
Page
3
Corse Payton becomes theater owner and manager in New York, inaugurating sacred Sunday concerts amid a busy week of Topeka theater reviews and varied attractions. The piece notes Payton’s Sunday programs, orchestral highlights, and the shift toward sacred concert formats attracting audiences in Brooklyn and New York venues.
A sprawling critique traces The Successful Brooklyn Stock Company led by a manager and leading lady, noting shifts in actors and spellings of Murphy as well as Timothy Murphy. It describes Henry Dale, Etta Reed, and Henrietta Croeman within a fleet of actors, and discusses a transition toward more classical pieces and public taste reform with pay and venues in New York and Topeka.
Jeannette Gilder criticizes Augustus Thomas for Colorado produced in New York at Wallace's theater. She compares it unfavorably to Arizona, laments mis casting by Charles Frohman, and calls it old fashioned Bowery melodrama with weak plotting and uninspired performances.
A theatre review notes a scene with three pack donkeys and a horse led by Ill Miller H J Hall and Kitty Doyle who proves a skilled pistol shot and fighter. The critic mocks the play and Mr Thomas while praising producer Joseph Humphreys and manager Charles Frohman for their influence, recounting Frohman's habit of sending five staffers to every production.
Miss Bessie Abbot of Tickens family will debut as Juliette in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette at the Paris Grand Opera. Discovered by M Jeanne Henske after a chance duet with her sister, Abbot trained in New York under Frida Ashforth and Koenig before a Paris debut arranged by M Gatlhara. Her path from rural singing to a major opera stage marks a historic American ascent.
Ellen Terry plans to retire at season's end and appoint Cecelia Loftus as successor. Loftus, recently starring with E H Sothern in It Were King at Garden theater, New York, has risen to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic. Irving’s involvement cushioned negotiations, with contracts drawn up through intermediary La Rue Irving.
Baltimore audiences gave James K. Hackett a cordial reception for his new play A Chance Ambassador produced at Ford’s Opera House. The hero Karl Hensler, a Colorado native, is drawn into a fictitious European principality Bresa with love, intrigue, and peril, culminating in a triumphant rescue and sword clash. Jane Osker stars as Princess Alicia with Maude T. Roosevelt and others in the cast.
Madeline Lucette Ryley plans a new English production titled Mice and Men. Forbes Fiobertson, husband of Gertrude Fillott, will star as a scholar, scientist and philanthropist. Miss Elliott is billed as a lead actress in the London themed play set over a century ago.
Nordica arrives in Chicago for her first American tour outside grand opera. She performs a full song recital with plan to 80 song numbers, notes Nevins and Stan ton wrote a comic negro melody dearest little fellow. Manager Loudon Charlton travels with a small retinue aboard the private car Brunnhilde.
A garbled review notes imagined works and personalities from late 19th century theater. Mentions authors like Tive Mavius and Jivia Empress, actors Kirke La Shelle Shelte and De Wolf Hopper, along with legal battles over stage rights and London tours. Concerns a mix of plays, operas, and proposed productions with court actions over salaries.
An old time banking anecdote recounts a Milwaukee banker aiding a Northern West merchant with a draft on San Francisco. The banker tricks the merchant into delivering a letter, then reveals the cashing fee of twenty five cents a page, illustrating the era's financial improprieties and risks.
Western Mexico is abuzz over Pedro Alvarado of Parral Chihuahua once a poverty linked miner. Now his wealth from the Palmillo mine exceeds 1.5 million dollars with monthly income over 29,000 and a lavish lifestyle guarded by eight armed men. He plans a grand palace and funds a costly Guadalupe cathedral and a large charity hospital for the poor.
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