Pilgrim sights and sectarian strife at Bethlehem grotto
Descriptions of Bethlehem’s Nativity site show pilgrims, monks, Greeks, Armenians, and Latin Christians vying for space and reverence. Fires, clashes, and rivalries amid the Church of the Nativity and the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre are recounted, with guards and a volatile atmosphere during Easter and other holy events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Gratts
Jesus
Jerusalem
Biathleheu
Walla
Usothin
Mohammedan Lucy
Broadway Notes on Eleanor Mayo and Stage Glamour
Eleanor Mayo daughter of Frank Mayo rises as a 19 year old beauty in King Rene's Daughter with Belati’s coaching aiming for grand opera. MacDonough and Delmonico’s works spark side chatter as Reginald de Koyen backs his librettist choice while critics skew Clyde Fitch and American Duchess amid a bustling New York season.
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Eleanor Mayo
Sterling
Frank Mayo
Reni
Julian Edwards
Miss Mayo
Signor Belfati
Wylig
Europe
Glen MacDonough
England
Willie Adouln
New York
MacDonough
Delmonico
Elizabeth Marbury
Reginald de Koyen
Harry B. Smith
Kimm
Robin Hoon
Begum
M Donough
Garden Theatre
Daly's
de Koven
Clyde Mieh
Lyceum Theater
Daniel Frohman
Inc
Mr. Fitch
Frenzied musings on love power and the cat and mouse
A sprawling reflective piece blends sexual satire with social commentary. It explores female power in relationships through labs of metaphor, likening lovers to cats and mice, and recounts friends’ marital misadventures. The narrator skewers romantic games and male bravado with sharp humor.
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Angel
Gol
Pont
Nym Crynkle
Actor’s Rise Through Comic Opera to Major Roles
The passage traces an actor’s career from light comic opera with a company to significant parts with Adelaide Neilson. It notes his first major stage engagement with Daniel Frohman’s The Fife company and later service with Charles Frohman, where he remains valued. Octaves Comey.
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Adelaide Neilson
Daniel Frohman
The
Fife
Chares Frohman
Octaves Comey
Liberal town wary of Christianity and a spiritual college
The piece recounts B H Walser founding a spiritualist college in Liberal, a town labeled liberal in name but depicted as anti Christian. It describes a community of infidels, agnostics, and various figures from mediums to hypnotists, with Walser once a Lamar lawyer who left practice to promote free thought and a large land tract for a colony.
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Ian Ten
New York 9
Astairy
Higs
Ncters
Leonard Hoyce
Henry Miller
James
A. Herne
Liberal
Walser
St. Paul
Mar
Denison
Alt
Free Thought Hall
Catalpa Park
Ws Walser
Fey
James de Ruehadan
Percoses
Madivon Allen
Theresa Allen
Hades
Misao
Greernasses
Sul Generis
Sita
Libeta
Salver
Lamar
Athelam
Barto County
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Jor
Bnd & Building
Church of the Nativity
Nativity Bureath Mare
God Earth
Tati
Reeult
Mangee
Ssavage
Utg
Carey
Reolster
New Youk
MSE
Rtfm 1S
Mprincess
SEOOT
Misa Hussein
Princess Nicotin
Princess Nicotine
Charles A. Byrne
Louis Harrison
Lillian Russell
Ina
Byrne
Harrison
Russell
W. W. Furst
Nicotine
Arthur Sullivan
Perry Averill
Misa Russell
Messrs
Canary and
Lederer
Adelina Patti
Patti
Ile
Tunis
Ak Mato
James O. Harrows
Connciflor
Empire Theater
Mr. Barrows
Toom Councilor
Barrows
San Pracisco
James D, Tans
Thodia
Annie Rooney
Chon
Esther
Samy
Velvet
Missouri
B. H. Walser
8 Spiritualistic College
Jenn
Drs
France
Ottman
Columba
Mobi
Bridgeport
Eda
Denna
Dre
Orest
Rouet Selemulfic Prise Institute
Baets
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