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Best vaudeville bill at Keiths next week headlines top acts
The program features Rock and Fulton in a top dancing and singing act, Harry Gilfoil as Baron Sands with vocal impressions, Sidney Drew and company with Billys Tombstones, Cameron and Flanagan on and off novelty, the Finneys swimming stunts, Lew Hawkins with Chesterfield of Minstrelsy, and the Tom Jack Trio with instrumental novelty.
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Keith’s
Rock and Fulton
Harry Gilfoil
Sidney Drew and Company
Caweron and Flanagan
the Finneys
Lew Hawkins
Tom Sack
William Rock
Maude Fulton
Miss Fulton
New York
Boston
Cameron
Flanagan
Chesterfield
Tom Jack
Hollis Street Theatre to Stage The Lions and the Moneyed Man
The Hollis Street Theatre opens next Monday May 11 with The Lions and the Manioe a sociopolitical drama by Charles Klein about finance power and corruption. Edmund Breese and Gertrude Coghlan lead a strong cast including Malcolm Duncan Frazer Coulter Julia Hanchett Reginald Carrington and Marion Pollock Johnson with supporting players shaping the piece's brisk drama and human focus.
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Hiterto
Klein
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Ryder
Gertrude Coghlan
Shirey Rossmore
Malcolm Duncan
Jefferson Ryder
Frazer Coulter
Scott
Julia Hanchett
Mrs Ryder
Reginald Carrington
Bagley
E.A. Eberle
Senator Roberts
Marion Pollock Johnson
Daugher
Let Me Read You This Passage from Henry James
A witty exchange between a soulful boarder and a grouchy boarder unfolds as the former asks about Henry James and the latter dismisses the reading as meaningless. The brief dialogue captures a mood of literary debate in a lodging scene.
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Henry James
Curious hat sizing method described as length plus breadth over two
The Manchester Guardian notes a method for hat sizing where size equals half the sum of length and breadth. Examples show 8% by 5% yielding 7% size, with normal ovals varying and extreme cases like 8% by 7% equating to a 2% oval, while inside hats resemble a canal boat.
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Gladstone
Manchester Guardian
Finnish maid learns of kitchen order board
Mrs. Billings hires a maiden from Finland who introduces a perforated wooden board as an order list. Pegs are placed by missing items like butter eggs and sugar to trigger reorders, but Ina struggles as days pass with the board seemingly failing to trigger any orders.
Voice and Phonograph Improve Speech in Vaudeville Tale
A vaudeville performer tells how recording his talk on a phonograph led to sharper speech. He notes that practicing two months against Webster helped refine his diction, improving delivery beyond stage norms as observed by a friend on a Broadway car.
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Voice
Webster
New York Sun
Catfish Use Swim Bladder as Hearing Organ
The catfish uses its swim bladder as an ear like tympanum. The bladder connects via a tube to the esophagus and sits against the vertebral column, aiding sound detection but likely limited in range.
Use Bunks Pills For All Liver Troubles Ad Found On Island
The tale recounts Robinson Crusoe spotting footprints leading to a hill where a billboard urged use of Bunk s Pills For All Liver Troubles priced at 2 cents a bottle. Publishers refused to include the gag in the press due to advertising demands, and the book released garbled.
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Robinson Crusoe
Tfim
Bunk
Chicago Tribune
Early Egyptian monotheism and priestly esotericism
The article cites the New York American noting two Egyptian religious systems exoteric teaching for the masses and esoteric for a select few. It claims priests were the first monotheists and that Osiris served as a weak reflection of the single god worshiped by the wise.
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Egypt
Osiris
New York American
Stands for Mary and the CowRiddle
A humorous exchange noted in London Express about a boy declaring the cow stands for Mary. The Dallas News quips that some family trees bear lemons rather than fruit, reflecting a wry joke on lineage.
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Mary
London Express
Dallas News
A Comical Irish Jury Tale and Helen Keller Quote
A former Irish jury member recalls a night of deliberations ending with the stubborn juror changing his mind after discovering the whisky filled cane. The piece then presents Helen Keller on empathetic perception and learning to see with another's eyes.
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London
Telegraph
Tim
Helen Keller
Century
Sheridan mocks dog centered theatre anecdote
Sheridan jokes about a touring piece The Caravan or The Driver and the Dog after a dog earns public favor. Reynolds claims he is the dog to Sheridan's quip and the audience laughs. Dignum confides illness could end the run but Sheridan misinterprets as fear of the dog’s health.
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Reynolds
Dignum
Life plant of Gua Duloupe grows new plants from leaf tears
A plant nicknamed the life plant forms white root like tentacles from leaf margins when pinned in a warm room. A new plant spruces up in a week or two to two or three inches, then replaces the old leaf. Cultivation yields red and yellow blossoms, likened to Mexico’s everlasting plant.
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Guadeloupe
Mexico
Questioning Strict Sleep Schedules in London Graphic
A critique suggests we overregulate sleep with fixed hours and routines. The author compares to a dog taking naps when convenient and questions the need to retire only when sleepy, advocating fewer rigid somniferous plans.
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Ashby-Sterryn London Graphic
Beauty not always beauty at the Hats Metropolitan
In New York the critic Cary debates beauty with Monks at the Hats Metropolitan Opera House. The line prompts Cary to remark Ninety nine times out of a hundred, highlighting a sharp exchange on art and perception.
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Ther and Partierre
Cary
New York. Tribune
Threats and taunts in old papers reveal silhouettes of conflict
An assortment of sharp phrases from historical clippings shows heated exchanges. A pu gilist threatens an antagonist with strangling imagery while a motherly boast about six children surfaces in a separate exchange, reflecting the era's blunt, sensational tone.
Willie's First Kiss to Uncle Johnn and Wash Face
An agitated mother orders her infant son Willie to kiss his Uncle Johnn after a sudden appearance by a wealthy relative. The scene shifts to a domestic moment as she insists he wash his face promptly.
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Willie
Johnn
London Telegraph
The Wonders of Oysters in Cambridge Suppers
A humorous sketch on oyster lore from Thackery to Longfellow. Thackerdy mocks price labels while Howells and Lowell explore oyster psychology. A pepper anecdote at Longfellow’s Cambridge circle reveals the playful debate over oysters and pepper.
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Thackerdy
William Dean Howells
Longfellow
Cambridge
James Russell Lowell
Lowell
Grandma's Destination In Doubt
A five year old girl Ethel resists a promise of heaven as her grandmother urges piety. When asked if she wants to go to heaven Ethel hesitates and cites missing her grandmother. The exchange ends with the child expressing a desire to visit her grandmother in heaven.
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Ethel
Grandma
Glittering badge identifies unknown tramp as Lady Maccabee
An uninjured stray picks up a glittering object, pins it to his coat, then collides with a freight train and is found to bear a badge identifying him as a Lady Maccabee. The yardmaster's assistant reports the badge to the dispatcher who then informs the authorities.
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Raiilroad
Patrick Doyle
Doyle
Patrick
Lady Maccabee
The Bride Cometh Poem Translation Featured
Con fucius poetry translated in Orient Review presents a 500 year old Chinese poem titled The Bride Cometh. The verses describe a turtledove and magpie nest as symbols of a bridegroom and marriage procession with chariots carriages and a lifelong guest journeying to love.
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Confucius
The
Orient Review
Turtledove
Notable London Barrister Defends Cook for Murder
A famous London barrister once defended a cook accused of poisoning his master and won an acquittal. The cook thanked him and asked how to repay him, but the lawyer warned never to cook for him. The note also recalls quips about graft and curiosity and quotes Trollope on writing.
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London
Trollope
Long and Short. Ain't Nothin' F'r An Appetite
Path finder notes a witty saying about appetite and travel humor. The quotation contrasts long and short meals with a sly remark on a wife, suggesting a cultural or humorous snippet rather than a full news item.
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