Passing Events of Week 16 at the Belasco Theater
A mixed review notes M Messinger’s Passsing Events is pretty and dainty though lacking plot. Singers Ruth Vincent, Kitty Gordon, Lena Maitland praised. La Haye’s Coquenard seen as shaped for American audiences. The Ben Greet Shakespeare venture at Belasco draws large crowds. notes on Elizabethan stage practice, scenery, and archaic references frame a broader theater week.
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Paris
Messager
Mr. Rea
Mile
Solanges
Miss Valli- Valli
Belasco
Furness
Variorum
Spedding
Theseus
Macbeth at the theatre praised for faithful Shakespearean direction
Fred F. Schrader notes Greet's production of Macbeth captures the bard's spirit with minimal staging. Diction quirks aside, performances were well attended, and demand required an extra matinee Friday. Schrader credits Greet and his sand company for a harmonious, focused rendition that elevates the play above typical productions.
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Greet
Macbeth
Fred F. Schrader
The Embassy Ball comedy at the Waldorf theater
Augustus Thomas presents The Embassy Ball with Daniel Frohman backing Lawrance D Orsay as star. Plot centers on American visitors in Paris, a bicycle license mix up, and a British attaché. love triangles involve a Washington girl, an Oregon senator’s daughter, and a widow’s son. Scenes around Dupont Circle and Arlington Hotel. Cyril Mands to play Nathaniel Berry in Shore Acres at Waldorf Theater in London.
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Augustus Thomas
Daniel Frohman
Lawrance D'Orsay
Paris
Washington
Parle
Bois Boulogne
Meerle
Oregon
Statesman
W National Canvital
St. Fatershurs
Overton
St. Petersburg
Mortimer Larimer
Dupont Circle
Arlington Hotel
Cyril Mands
Nathaniel Berry
Shore Acres
Schuberts
Waldorf Theater
London
Shuberts
Notes of the Stage Return to New York Theatre Scene
Theatre gossip covers Harry Woodruff, Henry Miller forces, Svengali role in Prisby, Fitzsimmer’s stage return, Maude Fealy at Daly's, Julia Herne, Paula Edwards comedietta, Bernard Shaw hit at Daly's, 100th Hair and the Girl at Casino, Jefferson rest in Florida, Klein to write Parsifal, Ethel Barrymore benefit Miss Civilization, Sousa opera The Free Lance, Amelle Rives Augustine drama, Eiva Davenport recovery, Bernhardt Philadelphia success, Bernhardt Camille Worcester, Edger Davenport cast in The Galloper, Margaret Bourne leading Melbourne MacDowell, Miss Bourne’s Sothern-Marlowe links, Henrietta Creaman Madel ine Mary You Like 113h, Malcolm Dunn Orlando, Eva Whitford illness, Robert Downing Hank Monk, Margaret Anglin road tour, House of Silence delayed to 28, Fealy lead at Daly's, Violet Kimball marriage, Nellie Nichols rise, Mary Van Buren Cousin Louisa, Ellis Jeffreys to Vanderfelt, Adolade Arnold Shubert Veronique, Bertha Galland illness, May Irwin offered lectures on cookery, Maude Feruly vaudeville debut Capital ya Labor, Wilstach brothers at Shuberts, Mizpah production in Baltimore.
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Paula Edwards
Bernard Shaw
James Corbett
Daly's
Casino Theater
Thomas Jefferson
Nery Rip van Winkle
Florida
Charles Klein
the Lion and the Mouse
Metropolitan Opera House
Shakespeare in Washington Draws Fresh Theatrical Praise
Ben Greet and his players wow Washington with four Shakespearean plays Macbeth Julius Caesar Much Ado About Nothing and The Merchant of Venice The crowd includes many young faces as teachers push Shakespeare for schools and the season is hailed as a reversal of the era’s drier fare with praise for Greet’s Elizabethan staging and public education efforts.
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Sappho
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Ceil
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Julius Canser
London
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Thansger
Career of Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke, famed Irish statesman and defender of the common people, was born in Dublin on January 1 1730, studied at Trinity College, and rose to prominence in Parliament. He married Mary Nugent and served as a leading figure in England’s political life until his death at age sixty eight on July 9. He was esteemed for integrity, loyalty to friends, and affection for children and family.
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Oerur
Mary Nugent
House of Commons
Thope
Minfa
Texas Delegation to Attend Mexicana Opening at Belasco
Congress from Texas plans to attend the Belasco Theater premiere of Mexicana shining a light on Clara Driscoll custodian of the Alamo and librettist of the show. Her efforts saved the historic mission from destruction and earned the Texas legislature’s thanks. Driscoll will sit in the audience Monday night.
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Belasco
Texas
Congress
Misa Clara Driscoll
San Antonio
Driscoll
Vanderbilt Cup on stage drives Broadway motor mania
Franklin Fyles reviews a week of automobile centered entertainments in New York theaters. The Vanderbilt Cup spectacle leads, featuring Elsie Janis and Barney Oldfield with a vivid race dramatization. Other items include The Road Burner and The Lightning Conductor with car stunts and a chorus of vaudeville acts.
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Washington Post
New York
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Richard Harding
Davis
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James K. Hackett
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Henry Miller
Raymond Hitchcock
Bertha Kalich Captivates Chicago at Garrick Theatre
Bertha Kalich under Harrison Grey Fiske drew high praise for Maeterlinck's Manna Vanna in Chicago. Reviews lauded her as a great artist with unusual appeal, predicting wide influence on American theater. Simultaneously Mrs. Fiske's Hedda Gabler in Boston drew packed houses, prompting tremont Theatre to extend seating and turn away hundreds.
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Chicago
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Maeterlinck
Mme. Kalich
Garrick Theater
Tribune
W. H. Hubbard
Boston
Hedda Gabler
Ada Rehan Wins Her Suit In Daly Estate Case
Ada Rehan, resting during a season, learned the referee ruling that one fifth of the income from Daly's Theater in London belongs to her, as originally intended, yielding profits exceeding 1500 dollars. The Daly estate matter has one remaining open claim. she has received full settlement for all other claims.
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New York
Boston
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America
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Livinia Shannon
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re_ cent date
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London
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