Actress Cowper and Wallack Agree to Die on Pact
New York December report reveals actress Eleanor Merron Cowper and actor James Wallack plotted to end their lives together. Wallack killed himself in Middletown on May 1, then Cowper, after arranging cremation costs and burial details, chose the Hoboken crematory and left a letter to her attorney detailing the plan and method.
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New York
Eleanor Merron Cowper
J. B. Royce
St. Regis
Commercial
Hoboken
Fresh Pond
Cane Sam
Earl
Ban on Ticket Speculators by York Aldermen
York aldermen vote 57 40 1 to repeal the sidewalk sale license for theater tickets. The change effectively ends sidewalk ticket selling. Penalty for reselling above face value remains a $50 fine or imprisonment for a few days.
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York Aldermen
New York
Board of Aldermen
Edward Vroom Plans New England Theatre Tour
Edward Vroom American actor and playwright, long a leader in Booth Barrett and Modjeska circles, now touring from London, secures bookings across New England. Season opens in Connecticut on Christmas Day, then Boston and major cities, with Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore awaiting. Easter negotiations target New York theatre. His four London successes promise a strong season. The Luck of Mac Fregor opens the tour as a love story with military atmosphere.
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Edward Vroom
Booth- Barrett and Modjeska
London
New England
Mr Vroom
Connecticut
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
New York City
Mr. Vroom
Mac Fregor
Arty Tite
The Merry Widow at Poll's theater December eve
Poll's theater hosts Henry W Savage's New York company performing The Merry Widow this evening with musical and narrative blending. Also shows All Star Yiddish Company led by Jacob Silbert and Anna Simon, and Joe Weber's travesty company offering a three act satire on The Merry Widow and The Devil with seats from 25 cents to 2 dollars and 75 cents.
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Henry W. Savage
New York
ALL Star Yiddish Company
Edwin A. Belkin
Jacob Silbert
Mme
Anna Simon
Noah J. Simon
Liza Silbert
America
Joe Weber
Poll
Poli's
Wistinee
W. Savage
Merry Widow
English Grand Opera Orchestra
Winsted Burrvile
H. E. Parsons
Poll Theater
JOE Weber Travestry Co, Inc
The
Merry Widow and the Devil All Star Company
JOE Weber Travesty Co, Inc
Charles J. Ross
Walter Jones
Grace Griswold
Albert Hart
Jacques Brothers Byrite Headlining New Vaudeville Show
The Jacques presents a lively bill led by the Brothers Byrite, a famed pantomime family, in a near thirty minute uproar. The Three Keatons rivals include Little Buster, Jingles, and Louise with matinee acts. Georgia Campers dance cyclonically with plantation songs amid scenic setups. Also featured are Frank Wallace in Alone in Old Heidelberg, George B Alexander the hobo, Darrow shadowgraphy, Carlotta the human dragon, and electrograph novelties.
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Brothers Byrite
America
Jacques
Three Keatons
Little Buster
Frank Wallace
Old Heidelberg
George B. Alexander
Stuart Darrow
Carlotta
Dee 7
al Leech
Rose Suds
Gertrude Shipman & Co
Empire Presents The Charity Ball at the Theater Tonight
The David M Hartford stock company with Miss Clare Weldon and Miss David stages Belasco and DeMille’s comedy drama The Charity Ball at the Empire. Hartford portrays John Van Buren with Lillian Seymore as Ann Crager. acts shift from St Mildred’s rectory to a charity ball at New York’s Metropolitan, then back to the church and rectory. Matinee Thursday and Saturday with tickets 10 20 30 50 cents. box office 2216.
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Empire Theater
David M. Hartford Stock Company
Clare Weldon
David
Belasco and DeMille
St Mildred’s
Metropolitan Opera House
New York City
St Mildred's
Waterbury
Plays by Amateur a Large Leavenworth Audience Saturday Evening
Tickets indicate a large Leavenworth audience will attend two amateur plays for First Church Mission Circle. Five actors perform Poor Pillboddy and eleven perform The Lippsicott Square Church Coup. Music by a string quartet De Witt Chapman Irving Granger William Pendleton Howard E Chapman. Miss Helene Cecil Tuttle directs and appears.
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Leavenworth Hall
Leavenworth
Ehurch Mission
Lippsicott Square
de Witt Chapman
Irving Granger
William K. Pendleton
Howard E. Chapman
Helene Cecil Tuttle
A Man and His Mate stage melodrama at Parsons
The Calartions Times reports H. R. Durant presented his border melodrama A Man and His Mate at Parsons's Monday evening to a fair sized but indifferent audience. Actress Hilda Spong led a weak cast with two exceptions, delivering an ordinary and insincere production centered on commonplace border incidents.
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Calartions Times
H. R. Durant
Parsons
Hilda Spong
Stage Review of a Dull Play With A Redemptive Chinese Hero
A long critical notice condemns a dreary sentimental drama about horse theft vigilantes love jealousy and murder. A Yale educated Chinese prince character redeems the piece with dramatic sacrifice to aid a couple in love. Actors miss the mark, especially Miss Spong, while Fred Sullivan and Herbert Percy deliver the only convincing performances.
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Yale
Miss Spong
Clarice
Fred A. Sullivan
Herbert Percy
Hilda Spong
The Value of Flax Seed in Medicines
The passage extols flax seed poultice and flax seed tea as a medical staple. It asserts flax seed contains valuable vegetable albumen with special efficacy in wasting diseases and coughs colds bronchitis and consumption. It appeals to physicians to trust Linonine for these ailments as further evidence.
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