Wartime stage and concert notes in old New York listings
Readable items show a mix of theater forecasts and performances. Stars like Marguerite, Witten-Lackaye, and George Barbier are referenced with productions including Le Lac des Cynges and The Littlest Rebel. Columbia travelogues headline January 21 while Burns and Ames plot The Litt Theater with Electra and new plays. The Cosmos previews a Sunday concert with Manuel leading the orchestra and six specialties.
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Cosmos
Onmiler Dig
A. 4
Manuel
Flolow
Rachmaninoff
Sig. Badoletti
Argos
Richard Harding Davis
LITERARY DANGE REPLACES CLASSIC Ballet Faces and Figures
The Wiesenthal sisters Grete, Klas, and Berta redefine ballet with literary aims, combining bird dances and Grete at the piano with Berta narrating wind tales. They blend dramatic storytelling with exotic motifs, moving Vienna audiences toward a new, intellectual appreciation of dance.
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Assoluta
Coryphees
Thes Wiesenthal
Vienna
Ielidora Dungan
Maud
Allan
Schlome
Ruth St. Denis
Wiesenthal
Grete
Klas
Berta
Wigsenthal
Elsa
Gréte
Iewba
Mendelssohn
Wiesenthal Sisters
Berta Wiesenthal
Roaland
John Drew’s company finds joy in East Hampton rehearsals
The Frohman star John Drew spends summers at East Hampton guiding his company in a bright, flowered hall with ocean breezes. They work, play, and rehearse amid tennis golf swimming and sailing, with officers arranging carriages for the ladies to avoid roadside loneliness. Leo Slezak, a famed Metropolitan Opera tenor, will give a notable concert, following a remarkable rise from Moravia born in 1877 to Covent Garden and the Metropolitan. Convention Hall offers three daily skating sessions during the holiday week, with reduced morning and afternoon prices for school children and free skate use, plus nightly exhibitions by Prof George de Vera and an augmented orchestra. a grand masquerade skating carnival is set for January 10 with prizes.
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John Drew
Mr. Drew
East Hampton
Frohman
Leo Slezak
Metropolitan Opera
Slezak
Mahriseh-Schenberg
Moravia
Robinson
Brunn
Lohengrin
Convention Hall
Washington
George de Vera
First Shakespeare Tribute Questions Shakespeare Authorship
The piece discusses E H Sothern and Julia Marlowe in Shakespearean repertoire and counters W H Edwards Shaksper not Shakespeare claiming no contemporaries named Shakespeare as author. It cites Francis Meres 1598 and lists Shakespeare works as evidence of contemporary recognition.
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Julia Marlowe
Shakespeare
W. H. Edwards
Edwards
Francis Meres
Wits Treasury
Euphorbus
Pythagoras
Ovid
Venus
Adonis
Lucrece
Plautus
Seneca
Henry the Fourth
John
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Eptus Stolo
Plautae
Vesella's Band to Play National Concert Sunday
National-Vessella's Band draws keen interest for a Sunday December 31 show at the National. Vessella, famed composer and bandleader, has hits like Bessie on the Boardwalk and Forever and For Age, with sales over 100,000. His new operetta The Boarding School Girl is featured as the latest creation. Gate receipts for seats have begun.
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Vessella
National
Becaise
Bessie
Vesseila
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