Winnipeg Theatre Listings

April 7-12,1913

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Walker

Mon-Tues,Apr.28-29:

Dr. Horner's Opera Co. presents Gilbert and Cellier's famous comic opera, "The Mountebanks,"with 14 principals and a chorus of 40.

Wed-Sat,Apr.30-May3:

"The Concert," 3 act comedy presented by David Balasco, with Leo Ditrichsten, Isabel Irving and twelve other players from the Belasco Theatre, NY, where this comedy played 560 times.

Winnipeg

  • The Permanent Players present the powerful western Canadian drama by Cecille DeMille, "The Royal Mounted"

Orpheum

A Persian Garden

  • "A Persian Garden,'' a miniature musical comedy, starring Louis A. Simon and Kathryn Osterman assisted by a company of 14. Edgar Allen Woolfe wrote the book and lyrics and the score was composed by Anatol Friedland. One interesting feature concerns Miss Osterman's costumes, two of which are required for each performance, and she never repeats during the entire engagement in each city.
  • Frederick Bond and Feemont Benton are jolly entertainers with a skit, "Handkerchief No.15," an absolutely new method of handling the old "mother-in-law" joke.
  • Joe Jackson, "the European Vagabond"
  • Eunice Burnham and Charles Irwin call their high-class musical turn, "A song sketch at the piano." Miss Burnham is a delightful pianist and a commedienne as well and her partner is a clever entertainer who was a former British officer and is now making his first American tour.
  • Louis London, character song studies given in costume
  • Montabo & Wells, acrobatic funosities
  • The Edison Talking Moving Pictures
  • Photoplane and Orpheum concert orchestra

Empress

Empress Acts

  • Hugh Herbert and Co. in the dramatic playlet, "The Son of Solomon" by Aaren Hoffman, described as "the music master of vaudeville." Players in this half hour drama are, Hugh Herbert, Miss Margot Williams and Thomas A. Everett.
  • Ray Thompson's High School Horses, Arabian thoroughbreds perform Occidental dances such as the turkey trot, the grizzly bear, and the Texas Tommy
  • Mae Dolly & Charles Mack, instrumentalists
  • Elliott and West, grotesque dancing boys
  • Thomas Wilton & Robert Merrick, comedy gymnasts
  • Choruscope, Empresscope, orchestra

Starland

  • photoplay:"The Spy's Defeat" consiracy at a European court prior to the Franco-German war
  • Effie Morrow and Hazel Spengler, "The Singing Girls"

Elite

  • Harry Cleveland presents, "The Goddess of Liberty" which includes a "strip poker game" wherein the players peel articles of clothing one at a time and stake them on the cards, starring: Joe Kemper; Mabel le Monaie; Harry Cleveland; Drena Mack; Heine Auerbach; Art Ralston; Emily Britton; Joe Casey

Strand

  • "Cleopatra" a six reel picture, starring, Helen Gardener

Majestic (Photoplays)

    "A Railroad Lochinvar"
  • "The Mouse and theLion," Drama of upper and lower NYC
  • "In pursuit of the Smugglers"
  • "The Counterfeit Bills," the Lambert Chase detective story
  • "Fooling Their Wives," domestic comedy
  • popular vaudeville: Mr. Wilkinson, Miss Portillo and Mr. Gilbert
  • Note: You can most always secure a seat at the matinees, but its difficult to do so at night. Always something extra at the matinees. Try 'em for a change. Open 11A.M to 11P.M.
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Lyceum

  • "The Spy's Defeat" consiracy at a European court prior to the Franco-German war
  • "Heroes One and All"
  • "hoyden's Awakening" a society drama
  • "The Indestructable Mr. Jinks"  a screaming comedy
  • "The Scimitar of the Prophet" oriental superstition

The Entertainers on this Page:

  • Dr. Horner's Opera Co
  • David Balasco
  • Leo Ditrichsten
  • Isabel Irving
  • The Permanent Players
  • Louis A. Simon
  • Kathryn Osterman
  • Frederick Bond
  • Freemont Benton
  • Joe Jackson
  • Eunice Burnham
  • Charles Irwin
  • Louis London
  • Montabo & Wells
  • Hugh Herbert and Co
  • Hugh Herbert
  • Miss Margot Williams
  • Thomas A. Everett
  • Ray Thompson's High School Horses
  • Mae Dolly & Charles Mack
  • Elliott and West
  • Thomas Wilton & Robert Merrick
  • Effie Morrow and Hazel Spengler
  • Joe Kemper
  • Mabelle Monaie
  • Harry Cleveland
  • Drena Mack
  • Heine Auerbach
  • Art Ralston
  • Emily Britton
  • Joe Casey
  • Mr. Wilkinson, Miss Portillo and Mr. Gilbert
  • Fred Lindsay

Other Events About Town

  • Pageant Play given under the auspices of the Daughters of the Empire as an official opening of the new convention hall of the Industrial bureau arranged by Miss Edna Sutherland and her army of workers.
  • Fred Lindsay, the well known Australian stock-whip man was in Winnipeg recently, on his way back, from exhibitions in Vienna, to his 5000 acre farm in Saskatchewan, telling stories of his big game hunting.
 

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