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Wilmington Dispatch

Location

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1917

Page

2

The Beauty Shop at Academy of Music Next Wednesday

The Beauty Shop, a leading musical comedy, will play at the Academy of Music with matinee and night shows on December 15. Channing Pollock Rennold Wolf and Charles Gebt created the piece with lavish costumes and three acts, set partly on an island. Dr Arbutus Budi and his creditors drive the plot, with inheritance schemes and romantic intrigue. Tickets range from five to two dollars, on sale at Elvington's. Jane Cowl stars in the Goldwyn production “The Spreading Dawn,” with a Civil War era society belle role and dramatic scenes including a theatre fire. Jimmy Duffy testified in court about a nineteen thousand ninety dollar gain.

Academy of Music Channing Pollock Rennold Wolf Charles J. Geb Careten Arbutus Budi Venus de Milo Corsica Elvington’s Miss Cowl Goldwyn Basil King Saturday Evening Post

Gus Hill's Big Minstrels Tops Local Minstrelsy

Gus Hill's Big Minstrels, a Christmas Day show at the Academy of Music, headlines the modified minstrels as the highest mark yet. The performance features elaborate costumes and impressive solo singing in the first part.

Gus Hill Academy of Music Minstrels

Gus Hill's Big Minstrel Show Receives Rave Reviews

Comedians the clever dancers and the excellent order of the musical offering are of high grade as Hill production. George Wilson with Waltz Me Again debuts a fresh budget of songs and monologue. Eddie Mazier, a popular favorite, will perform a funny act. The 60 member company is praised as the best ever.

Hill George Wilson Eddie Mazier Gus Hill

Ship Ahoy Girls" Set for Southern Tour at the Royal

The Royal presents Lew Goetz's Ship Ahoy Girls Company on its first Southern tour to Wilmington. The all Broadway talent promises a big vaudeville and specialty act week with a new repertoire of musical comedy and the largest beauty chorus yet seen on the Royal stage. The program also features the serial Jimmy Dale Alias the Gray Seal starring E. K. Lincoln with Paul Panzer and Edna Hunter in The Spreading Dawn.

Royal Lew Goetz Ahoy Girls Wilmington South The Jimmy Dale the Gray Seal E. K. Lincoln Paul Panzer Pearl White Edna Hunter

The Beauty Shop at Tulane Receives Rave Review

New Orleans Times-Picayune praises The Beauty Shop season opener at the Tulane venue. Lively cast, elaborate Corsican costumes, tuneful songs and notable dancing mark a bright, high ideals production with inclusive prices and a strong appeal for a season of unalloyed pleasure.

Beauty Shop Tulane New Orleans Times-Picayune

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