Theatrical Doings Jessie Olliviers Stage Life
Essie Ollivier, a veteran prima donna, is profiled with a career spanning the Grand Opera House Chicago through the Bostonians and vaudeville. The piece traces her operatic roles, stage appearances, and prolific work recording phonograph cylinders for a Chicago firm.
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Jessie Olliviers
Home Sweet Home
Essie Ollivier
Grand Opera House
Chicago
Phyllis
Dorothy
Bostonians
Innes’ Band
Ladies’ Schubert Quartet
Boston
Frank Daniels
Little Puck
The
Mary Shaw
Marie Jansen
Boston Museum
Oakland Garden
Peake's Island
Josephine
Serpolette
Normandy
Jessie Ollivier
Miss Ollivier
Lyman Wheeler
Mass
Joseph Oppenheimer A Noted Road Manager Summary
Joseph Oppenheimer born August 18 1863 in Washington D C made his career in theater as advertising agent for Daniel Herzog and treasurer at multiple houses. He led Leavitt's Minstrels 1887 and later organized the Faylerster Burlesque company. He created Zero or a Trip to the Pole now touring vaudeville and plans to revive Fay Foster company next season.
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Joseph Oppenheimer
Washington, D.C
Daniel Herzog
Lincoln Hall
Washington, D. C
van Wyck Academy
Norfolk
Academy of Music
Richmond
James L. Kernan
Baltimore
Leavitt
Joseph Oppenheim
Zero
Mr. Oppenheimer
Fay Foster
Murder in May's Landing: Mrs Rech Found Strangled Near Grave
The body of Mrs. Martha Rech was unearthed two feet below a pine grave near May's Landing New Jersey showing death by strangulation with two handkerchiefs used. Prosecutor Perry pursues husband John Rech amid suspicions tied to a contested will and estate trust.
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Martha Rech
May’s Landing
N. J
Perry
John Rech
John Rech Weaver
Philadelphia
Bertha
Rech
Prof. Weaver
Samuel Jones
Estellville
Jones
Johnson
Lew
Red Home
Two Fiendish Husbands Admit Rail Destruction
Warren Crisswell of Macon Georgia publicly confessed to removing a rail on the Southern railway causing a February wreck that killed three and injured fifteen. He says a shotgun held by Odom Shaw forced him to act to ruin his wife and gain damages, though prosecutors question the gun claim. Shaw and his father were arrested. Shaw compromised with the railroad for injuries to his wife.
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Warren Crisswell
Macon
Southern Railway
Crisswell
Odom Shaw
Shaw
Railroad
Hobart's Bride San Francisco Belle to Wed Spoiled Darling
Miss Hannah Neil Williams, a San Francisco debutante, is set to marry Walter Hobart, famed San Francisco social figure and millionaire. The match follows a swift courtship after an army officer introduced the couple, with Hobart winning the favor of Williams and ending rivals.
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San Francisco
Hannah Neil Williams
Walter Hobart
Mr. Hobart
Hobart
Miss Williams
Rose
Juliet
Neil
San Rafael
Bay
Forsythe
Navy
New London
Baritone Anecdote Draws Laughs in Port Elizabeth
Mr Clifford Hale recalls performing in a hot room with a mixed audience of people and animals in Port Elizabeth South Africa The moment he sang Bruder gehst du hier vor uber a donkey at the door drowned the room in laughter prompting the governor's wife to convulse and the governor to advise leaving his relations at home.
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Clifford Hale
Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Bruder
Halle
Africa
Was Rather Startling Son-Papa Dialogue on a Purported Swallowing
A father and son discuss a startling tale about Mr. Brown allegedly swallowing eight schooner sized objects. The exchange questions the veracity and impact of the claim while clarifying what a schooner is.
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Papa
Pop
Mr. Brown
From Her Dearest Friend and a Series of Quips
A fragment from a column features a flirtatious engagement reveal with a joke about four suitors and a light exchange about imagination and age. It then presents brief humorous lines about a child asking a tricky question to a mother and a household coal Sifter joke about saving cinders for two tons a year.
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Mr. Wilkinson
Chicago Post
Somerville Journal
Optimist and Pessimist Define Dueling Moods
A classroom exchange quoted from the Chicago Record frames optimism as happiness amid misery and pessimism as misery amid happiness. The remark captions a humorous contrast between hopeful attitude and dour outlook.
Wit's in Battle Musicians and Other Cranks
A collage of quips and jokes from 19th century papers. The remarks mock battles, favors, bills, counterfeits, marriages and social power with wry humor. Entires feature lines about musicians, receipts, a counterfeit five dollar bill, and domestic foibles.
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Frederic Seward
Opera House
Millville
Dave Morris
California
William Farren
Massachusetts
Morris
Rose Prescott
Farren
Squire Hammond
Mrs. Manly
Tom Manly
Manly
James Hammond
Little Ned
Hammond
Kidder
Ruth
H. T. Swayne
Thomas C. Medinger
Cecil J. Lionel
Si Kidder
Charles C. Marquette
Marie Engel
Abbey and Gray Comic Opera Company
Katie Putnam
Benton Harbor
Mich
Mascagni
Anthony Hope
London
New York
Bourse
Stock Exchange
Mme
Janauschek
M. Clarette
Comedie Francaise
Olive Thanet
Theo
Paradise Alley
New Orleans
Democrat
Insite
Chicago Record
Bunting
Giley
Wilkins
New York Herald
Lustige Binetter
Chicago Tribune
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