Edwin R Weeks Company Chautauqua Entertainment
Edwin R Weeks heads a versatile Chautauqua program with impersonations, monologues, sketches, and musical numbers. The company features Taft Bryan Wilson Roosevelt Deacon Maybe and others, plus Miss Lula Sinclair on violin, delivering rapid changes and broad appeal to audiences.
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Harmony Concert Company to Perform at Chautauqua
A four member Harmony Concert Company, noted for versatility and moving programs, will appear at Chautauqua season. Each musician handles multiple instruments, delivering a broad mix of classical and popular tunes. The group’s experience spans bands and symphony orchestras, promising a thoroughly enjoyable feature.
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Harmony Concert Company
Harmony Concert Party
Buy Season Tickets for Advance Access
A clipped Chicago Tribune note promotes season tickets as the cheapest option. A dialogue excerpt features a character Derling selling food and asking a riddle while a maiden urges clarity, noting a nineteen year old man never engaged before.
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Chicago Tribune
Sunday Moral Motto Contest Teaches Inner Cleanliness
A Sunday school teacher offered a prize for the best motto teaching personal purity. A pupil printed a placard reading Shine los idea, found on Tony's bootblack stand outside a corner bar room. The exchange highlights moral instruction and a pointed example of outward versus inward cleanliness.
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New York Sun
Ernest Wray Oneal to Speak at Chautauqua Season
The Chautauqua season brings Ernest Wray Oneal to the podium. A renowned orator praised for clarity and insight, he combines deep thought with simple expression to engage audiences and convey lofty purposes. He has long been a favorite on the public platform.
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Riner Sisters Return for Chautauqua Engagement
The Riner Sisters, famed entertainers, are engaged for a return date on the Chautauqua circuit. They promise a lively afternoon and evening program with Miss Bernice Lathrop providing musical whistle. The duo, known for humor and popular appeal, aims to shake up audiences with a distinct act across weekday performances.
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Bernice Lathrop
Thavin's Band and Grand Opera Stars on Chautauqua Bill
Thavins band returns to the Chautauqua circuit for a third season with forty players and a twelve voice chorus of grand opera stars. The troupe will perform scenes from Lovely Golda and feature full-band musical numbers with opera elements, including Mme Bertossi and other noted soloists. The program promises premier vocal displays and a wide range of masterworks brought to local audiences.
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Keith Vawter
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Mme Bertoss
Lombardo Opera Company
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Boston Opera Company
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Welsh Doctore Odd Fees and Poppy Symbolism
The piece notes Welsh monarchs paid doctors on a scale with 180 pence for dangerous wounds and maintenance during cure, plus bloodstained garments. It also traces the poppy as a funeral emblem across India and ancient Egyptian tomb representations. A Washington Star quip reflects on the tone of manners in disputes and favors.
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London Chronicle
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Veiled Ladies and the Hidden Female Writers
A discussion of three men who won literary acclaim under feminine pseudonyms. The piece reveals Laurence Hynnan and Algernon Cliffor’s secret identities, noting public fascination with a woman author and the revelation that a renowned poet hid behind male disguise, amid chatter in London literary circles.
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Laurence Hiignan
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Algernon Clairfes
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London
He Caught the Khedive and Won a Royal Machinery Purchase
A breezy American, EK Alexander Mowell, describing his interview with the Khedive of Egypt after being invited through a consular link. The tale notes the Khedive’s interest in improved agricultural machinery and a final order for several thousand dollars of American gear, earned through lively persuasion by a spirited compatriot.
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