Shubert Drama Slate Reveals Vast New Productions
The Shubert Management lists forty current and upcoming dramatic and musical pieces. Highlights include The Fugi, The Little Shepherd Come, Mother of John Pax’s novel A Child, Oscar Strauss operetta The Beautiful Unknown, and Lehar’s The Star Gazier with Kalman’s Her Soldier Boy on tour. Ida Vernon marks tenth anniversary with Hodge’s company at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.
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Oscar Strauss
Leopold Jacobson
Leo Stein
Edmund Eysler
Wilmer C. Bodansky
Franz Lehar
Gazier
Emmerich Kalman
Clifton Crawford
Margaret Romaine
John Charles Thomas
Anna Held
New York
Cosmo Hamilton
Leslie Stuart
Mike
Thomas Sydney
Jerome Kern
Roland Oliver
Charles Dickson
Winter Garden
Brazil
Shubert Theatre
Broadway Attracted Cast List Mentions Several Productions
The article lists actors and titles connected to a touring dramatic program. Names include William Lodge Joseph Brooks EB A Sothern Marie Tempest Harold Brigg e Tellegen and Winthrop companies with shows such as Hobson's Choice and Just a Woman.
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William Lodge
Winthropmes
Havers
Harold Briggese
Vomuair
Hobson's Choice
Oy Tellegen
Norere
Iver
Eugene Vaer
Seven New Shubert Plays Announced With Hodges Lead
William Hodges stars in Fixing Sister at the Maxine Elliott Theatre as seven new musical plays are developed under the Shubert banner. Hodges has begun work on the project, contributing to a promising lineup.
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Shubert
William Hodges
Maxine Elliott Theatre
Shubert Tour Casts and Productions Listed
The Shubert brothers are represented on tour by Lew Fields in Step This Way. The Ble Paradise features three companies, Alone at Last has three companies, The Girl from Brazil has two, Al Jolson appears in Robinson Crusoe Jr. A second Winter Garden production titled A World of Pleasure is also noted.
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Messrs. Shubert
Lew Fields
Brazil
al Jolson
Shubert Acquire Love Thief Rights for Newark Run
The Messrs Shubert have secured American rights to The Love Thief a London Queen s Theatre comedy produced last March It will be staged in Newark early next year by the Shuberts with plans for an early run in the new year.
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Messrs. Shubert
Queen’s Theatre
London
Newark
English Singer Letty Yorke Joins Follow Me Cast
Letty Yorke has been engaged by the Messrs Shubert to play the leading female role in support of Anna Held in the forthcoming musical production Follow Me. The casting signals a high profile collaboration and a notable addition to the show’s lineup.
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Letty Yorke
Messrs. Shubert
Anna Held
Cosmo Hamilton Debuts New Musical Comedy at the Casino
English dramatist Cosmo Hamilton author of The Blindness of Virtue and Flora Della has completed a new musical comedy for SHubert and is adapting his latest novel The Sins of the Children for stage.
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Cosmo Hamilton
Flora Della
Messrs. Shubert
New Viennese Opera Title Change
The new Viennese opera by Wilmer Bodansky and Edmund Eysler, to be produced out of town next month by the Shubert brothers, has had its title changed from Lieu tenant Gus to When Two Love.
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Wilmer C. Bodansky
Edmund Eysler
Messrs. Shubert
Gus
Alone at Last extends engagement in Chicago
The Viennese musical play Alone at Last by Franz Lehar has begun a lengthy run at the Illinois Theatre in Chicago after a successful run in New York. A long tour is planned to follow the Chicago engagement.
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Franz Lehar
New York
Illinois Theatre
Chicago
Miriam Collins Cast in Leading Ingenue Roles at Maxine Elliott
Miriam Collins who plays Abbey Sexton with William S Todee in Fixing Sister at the Maxine Elliott Theatre has been under a three year contract by Mr. Hodge to appear in leading ingenue roles.
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Ida Vernon
Lady Wafton
William Madge
Maxine Elliott
Mr. Hodge
Miss Vernon
Edwin Both
Miriam Collins
Abbey Sexton
William S Todee
Maxine Elliott Theatre
Louise Mink Joins Cast of Strike the Lyre Musical
Louise Mink is added to the cast of the new musical Strike the Lyre by Thomas Sydney Harry B. Smith and Jerome Kern, currently in rehearsal under the direction of the Messrs Shubert.
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Louise Mink
Thomas Sydney
Harry B. Smith
Jerome Kern
Messrs. Shubert
McCarthy offers to cut royalties for Red Cross benefit
E H Sothern plans a tour of If I Were King under Lee Shubert direction for the British Red Cross benefit. Justin Huntley McCarthy cables an offer to halve his royalties on If I Were King due to the fundraiser.
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Carthy
King
Lee Shubert
Benfit
British Red Cross
E. H. Sothern
Justin Huntley McCarthy
Mr. Sothern
Police Night at Maxine Elliott’s Theatre
Next Thursday police officers will attend in a body to watch William Hodge perform in Fixing Sister at Maxine Elliott’s Theatre. The audience will witness a dramatic police raid on a gambling party, providing a thrilling climax to the third act.
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Maxine Elliott
William Hodge
German Ship Breaks Blockade Despite Heavy Damage
A German freight steamer ran the blockade under heavy fire, taking about 100 hits mostly aft and below the waterline. Four to five centimeter guns caused most damage, with some 5-8 inch shots. The crew patched hull breaches with beans wood and cement to stay afloat, leaving only 150 tons of coal aboard.
Ragtime Calisthenics Adds to Castles in the Air Show
Vera Reehm and Ruth Murphy, noted girl athletes, join The Bull Ring act in Castles in the Air atop the Forty Fourth Street Theatre after their feature in The Passing Show of 1916 at the Winter Garden.
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Vera Reehm
Ruth Murphy
Winter Garden
Bull Ring
Castles In the Air
Lieutenant Gus to Debut at Shubert Theatre
The Messrs. Shubert rehearse Lieutenant Gus a new Viennese operetta by Will ner Bodansky and Edmund Eyssler. After an out of town premiere in mid November it will be staged in a Shubert theatre in New York. Bodansky authored Alone at Last and Eyssler composed The Blue Paradise Vettra Violetta and other musical works.
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Messrs
Shubert
Gus
Willner
Bodansky
Edmund Eyssler
Shuberthheatres
New York
Eyvsier
Southern rehearsals begin for the Justin Huntley Mc
E. H. Southern started rehearsals yesterday for the Justin Huntley Mc a likely stage or musical project. The article notes initial practice sessions and early preparations for the production.
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E. H.” Southern
Justin Huntley Mc
Marie Sails Through British Blockade After Shelling ordeal
The Marie of the Hansa Line, loaded with cargo, left Germany in January and faced shelling by English warships near German East Africa. After narrowly escaping a naval chase, the ship docked in Batavia and later vanished at dawn. The British consul orders blacklisting shipyards that repair German vessels, provoking Dutch officials who defend English actions.
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Marie
Hansa Line
Germany
Sudi River
German Africa
German East Africa
Batavia
Strait of Sunda
Dutch East India
England
Priok
Terrific combat ranges on to get Carso plateau
Italian forces face limits on the Carso plateau as frontal assaults against Austrian fortifications falter. Despite artillery superiority, their storming attacks on the heights fail, though occasional breaches occur in trench sections.
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Carso Plateau
Carso
Tanks Painted to Blend with Landscape
London reports that British caterpillar armored cars are painted in blotches and stripes to blend with the landscape at distance. Malcolm Rose, a New Zealand press correspondent, cites Lieutenant-Colonel Solomon J. Solomon as the designer directing these effects.
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London
Malcolm Rose
New Zealand
Solomon J. Solomon
Clash on the Isonzo and Carso Heights in brutal siege
The passage describes renewed Austro-Hungarian and Italian clashes on the Isonzo and Carso fronts. Artillery bombardment, mining, and tunnel warfare rage as both sides dig under trenches and blast granite fortifications. Soldiers endure fierce, protracted combat where terrain shapes brutal fighting and stubborn defense.
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Carso
France
Russia
Isonzo
Carso Heights
Japan Sees Record American Visitors This Winter
Officials report unprecedented American tourism demand as Japan records strong war era profits. C. IE. Benjamin notes high advance bookings for Pacific Ocean Services and predicts Pacific steamship lines will reach capacity for months. Toyo Kisen Kaisha and Thomas Cook & Son executives confirm booming travel prospects and limited transport capacity. War prosperity reflected in sixty eight Japanese firms with profits $46.2 million on $227.5 million capital, led by shipping firms with 69 percent returns.
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Thomas Cook & Son
Japan
Turkey plans great new university modeled on German system
Budapest reports the Turkish government is preparing a grand university modeled after German learning. German Austrian and Hungarian educators will lead early teaching. Professors from Berlin Munich and Vienna are in Ankara drafting plans. Lecturers will teach partly in Turkish and partly in German.
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Budapest
Constantinople
Az Est
Berlin
Munich
Vienna
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