Mary Garden in Tosca Role Chief Feature of the Week
Mary Garden headlines the Washington stage as Tosca in the new musical comedy The Sunshine Girl with Julia Sanderson in her debut star turn. The cast includes Cawthorn Mudie Vermon Irene and the Poli Players return for a strong season, signaling a year-round stock company in the capital.
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New York
Charles Frohman
Julia Sanderson
Washington
Broadway
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Miss Sanderson
Mr. Cawthorn
Alan Mudie
Castles
Vermon
Irene
Capital
Poli Players
Ralph Graves
Poli
Princial
A. H. van Buren
William T. Hoge
Indiana
Italy
Daniel Voorhees Pike
Pike
Maude Gilbert
Mark Kent
Ivanoff
Graham Veisey
Poli Organization
Mary Garden tops Washington stage week with Tosca at Chase's
Washington theaters feature Mary Garden in Puccini's Tosca at Chase's with other stars like May Irwin and Julian Eltinge also on bill. Garden's career spans Paris Opera Comique to New York and Boston triumphs including Salome and Carmen, drawing praise and controversy for her compelling performances.
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America
Boston
Baron Scarpia
Miss Garden
Aberdern
Scotland
Brooklyn
Chippee Mass
Chicago
Ing
Paris
Trabadillo
Chevater
Wid Fougere
Sybil Sanderson
Opera Comique
Mile Ripton
Charpentier
Natoma
Sumer
Grand Opera
Paria
New York Critics the Hobby of Producer Henry W. Savage
Col Henry W Savage addresses the National Press Club on overproduction in theater, critic roles, and the need for fair, competent critique. He cites weekly outlays for productions, argues for better cooperation between producers and theater managers, and warns that poor criticism drives audiences to movies.
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New York
Henry W. Savage
National Press Club
National Press
Sunshine the Broadway to Paris star shines bright
Miss Sunshine, famed for her instant vaudeville hit debut at Hammerstein’s, leads the Broadway to Paris revue at the Winter Garden New York. Also announced are Nox McCain Travel Talks offering five deluxe lectures at Columbia University, covering Grenada to the Canadian Rockies, the Balkan states, Turkey, France, and Tunisia in sequence.
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Paris
Belasco
Boston
Big Winter Garden
New York
Miss Sunshine
Hammerstein's
Shuberts
Winter Garden
Nox McCain
Columbia
Grenada
Canadian Rockies
Balkan States
Turkey
France
Monte Carlo
Tunis
Sampara
Belle Adair Leads In Western California Stage Flair
A press agent hails Belle Adair as fresh as San Jose towers and as fragile as Dresden china. The vaudeville to Broadway star is praised for sweetness and gracious charm with a soprano note that lingers, while noting she can blush, a claimed supreme asset admired by Julian Eltinge and Manager A Woods.
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Towers
San Jose
China
Dresden
Maude Adams
Belle Adair
Julian Eltinge
California
Pera
Bette Adair
Miss Adair
A. Woods
Players' Club rehearing two plays in Washington
The Players Club of Washington at 130 New York Avenue NW rehearses two musicals for February performances. Grabbe and Runne, a two act musical farce by Preston Gibson with music by Louis Jungerich Matthews opens February 19 at the Playhouse for five charity shows. Rehearsals occur daily and three nights weekly. Matthews, Princeton graduate, previously composed Twangie Club operas. Rok on Decatur of Dakota, a musical comedy by Willard Holcomb, is set at Annapolis Naval Academy. Columbia University students return to Washington with combined harp mandolin clubs for two concerts February 22 at the New Willard ballroom.
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New York Avenue Northwest
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Princeton
Mr. Gibson
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Players Club
Rok
Decatur
Dakota
Willard Holcomb
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Columbia University
New Willardsen
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