RARE June 1909 THE THEATRE Magazine with color cover of Marguerite Clark by Bangs. FEATURES on The Stars of Tomorrow with text and photos of Lawrence Wheat, Fania Marinoff, Katherine Kaelred, E. Fernandez, Kath, De Barry; Catulle Mendes’ Last Drama: “L’Imperatrice” with scene featuring Mme. Rejane, M. De Max; Charles Frohman to Try a Repertoire Theatre; The Nursery Behind the Footlights with 2 photos of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” kids, 3 of “Tommy,” The Actor in the Street on James T. Powers with 6 photos; Hedwig Reicher: New English-Speaking Star with 3 photos; The Actor as a Benefactor on Georgie Cayvan, Georgie Lawrence; “La Furie” at the Comedie Francaise with photo of Mme. Segond-Weber as The Fury; An Actor Who Couldn’t Be a Surgeon on Frank Worthing with 3 photos; the Golden Book of Jules Massenet with 2 photos, “Manon” bill, cover score, “Le Longleur de Notre Dame” score manuscript; The Composer of “Madame Butterfly” at Home on Giacomo Puccini with photo and partial score; Where Are Our Great Actors?”
Heinrich Conreid Death with photo; Manager-Dramatist Robert Sperry with photo; Theatrical and Other Fashions with photos of Doris Keane in dinner gown, Mlle. Clairville in evening gown, model in Redfern evening gown; Mlle. Clarens in afternoon gown by Paquin, model in Laferriere dinner gown, Doris Keane in tea gown; Doris Keane in Lord & Taylor grey velvet trimmed coat; Mlle. Marly in tailored suit by Green & Co.; Plans of the New Theatre;
FULL PAGE PHOTOS of J.E Dodson; Ethel Barrymore; Wm Rock and Maud Fulton in “The Candy Shop,”
PHOTOS of Mabel Hackney in “The Incubus,” :The Scho0ol for Scandal” with Beerbohm Tree and Marie Lohr; “The Great John Ganton” with Fred Burton, Geo Fawcett, Malvina Longfellow; Elisabeth Murray; Malvina Longfellow; 3 scenes from “The Man from Mexico” with Wm Collier; “After the Matinee” presented by The Lambs with Tom Wise, Wm Collier, Hassard Short, Wallace Eddinger, Wm Harrigan, Lawrence Wheat, A. Baldwin Sloane, John Slavin; “The Gum Shoe Girl” presented by Massachusetts Volunteer Militia B Company Forst Corps Cadets with Ralph Menard, Harry Dowst, James Nichols, Carroll Swan, J. S. Alexander, H. Dwight Cushing, Walt Anderson; Chicago Atlas Club Minstrels Wm Collier in “the Patriot,” Helena Modjeska St. Viviana’s Cathedral Los Angeles funeral; 3 from “The Climax” with Wm Lewers, Leona Watson, Al Bruning, Effingham Pinto; Christine Norman; Evelyn Millard; Josephine Victor; Amelia Stone; Florence Lester; 3 of “The Writing on the Wall” with Olga Nethersole, Wm Morris, Rob T. Haines, Al Hackett; “The Blue Mouse” company dinner with Mabel Barrison, Franklin Hurley, H. Whitman Bennett, Zelda Sears, J. W. Jacobs, Harry Conor, Jameson Lee Finney, Jane Laurel, Al Hickman, John Emerson, Lucille Laverne, Liz Ariaaus, A. Toxen Worm, Rob Robertson, Sol. Manheimer; Renee Kelley; Karen Nielsen; Ray Gilmore; Mabel Snyder; Dorothy Follis; Marion Whitney; Phyllis “Sherwood; “The Red Moon” with Bob Cole, Rosomond Johnson; “The Duchess of Bluffshire” Princeton Triangle Club 4 scenes; De Witt Clinton High School Dramatic Society cast with S. E. Darby, Arthur Hornblow, John Peck, N. H. Pinto, Howard Craig and others;
PLAYS OF THE MONTH on “The Candy Shop” by Geo Hobart produced by John Golden featuring Chas Angelo, Frank Lalor, Bliss Millford, Wm Rock, Louise Dresser, Flo Morrison, Annie Yeamans, Malcolm Williams, Leslie Gaze, Maud Fulton, Kinzie Higgins, Eva Francis, Ed Lawrence, Ida Adams, Esther Brunette, Angie Weimers, Lillian Rice at Knickerbocker…
Louise Williams works hard in a part that is not funny…Leslie Gaze Seems Well Satisfied with himself…Flo Morrison massive and comic; “The Great John Ganton” by J. Hartley Manners from Arthur Eddy story at Lyric starring A. h. Van Burne, Jack Webster, Ed Emery, Fred Burton, Lucius Henderson, W. H. Sadler, Jack Barnes, Jack Leslie, Laurette Taylor, Jane Peyton, Josephine Brown, Mora Rank Geo Fawcett…Fawcett Turns himself on full force that he is almost unbearable…Ed Emery deserving a better fate…Laurette Taylor takes good casre of the love interest and is plausibly pretty; “The Writing on the Wall by Wm Hurlbutt at Savoy with Wm Morris, Olga Nethersole, J. R. Wallace, Flo Huntington, Ben Johnson, Rob T Haines, Frank Craven, Bev Sitgreaves, John Bickford, Constance Raymond
…saturated with insincerity…Nethersole has hysterics…fond of opportunities for agony in her acting; “The Gay Life” by Roy McCardell at Daly’s featuring Marie Haynes, Byron Marsh, R. J. Moy, Wm Wadsworth, Consuelo Bailey, Katherine De Barry, Violette Kimball, Tom Thorne, Frank Currier, A. S. Byron, Les Allen and more…contained enough capital acting if the plot had not been too inadequate; “The Man from Mexico” by H. A. Du Suchet at Garrice with Wm Collier, J. G. Saville, Reg Mason, Dan Mason, Rex MacDougall, James Fallen, M. L. Hackert, Tom Beauregard, Tom Martin, John Adam, Helena Garrick, Gladys Claire, Desmond Kelly, Paula Mar…Collier is an expert in this…the gentle art of peddling laughter;
“The Incubus” translated by Lawrence Irving from Eugene Brieux at Hackett featuring Laurence Irving, A. Field-Fisher, Tom Williams, John Crisp, Jr., J. P. Winter, Bertha Barlett, Beatrice Lett, Margaret Weston, Mabel Hackney…fair measure of success…Miss Hackney charming and natural…Irving capital; “The Red Moon” by Bob Cole at Majestic…vigorous and comedy chorus;
NEWS ITEMS on Anne Peacock poem to France Starr; Anna Held in “Miss Innocence,” Elsie Janis in “The Fair Co-Ed,” Mary Mannering in “Glorious Betty,” Harry Clay Blaney married to Kitty Wolfe; Miss Keim in “Hamlet,” Lena Ashwell brief bio; James Huneker new book, with photo; The Real Charles Frohman; Maude Adams as Joan of Arc; “The Love Cure” Composer: Edmund Eysler;
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CONDITION: COMPLETE 62 pages filled with early stage, theatre, motion picture productions, actors, actresses, producers, authors, industry news. Was part of bound volume, therefore bare spine, filled with great industry material, water warping.