August 25 - 30, 1913
Walker
The runway used in "The Passing Show of 1912" at the Walker Theatre
The New York Winter Garden co. Appearing in:
"The Passing Show of 1912"
Starring:
- Trixie Friganza
- Charles H. Ross
- Adelaide the Danseuse
- J.J.Hughes
- Clarence Harvey
- The Howard Brothers
- Texas Guinan
- Louise Brunelle
- Morris and Moon
- Ernest Hare
- A score of others including its famous Beauty Chorus of sixty Broadway Favorites
A kaleidoscopic almanac in seven scenes and two acts, presenting the comic aspect of many important events, political, theatrical and otherwise.
Of course all this is done entirely in a spirit of fun, and the heros, herines, comedians and tragedians of the important plays of the year pass in review after having undergone metamorphoses which keep the audience in a continual mood of laughter. No matter if they are garbed in foreign fashion and no matter if their vernacular is twisted with relentless regularity, it is claimed that every one of these burlesques are recognised just the same, whether or not the original shows have been seen.
Among the plays travestied are "Kismet", "Bought and Paid For", "Bunty Pulls the Strings", "The Return of Peter Grimm", "The Quaker Girl", "Officer 666", The Pirates of Penzance" and "Oliver Twist".
This entertainment is so replete with novelty that it would be a difficult task to find one that ranks above the other. The harem scene in the burlesque on "Kismet" might be called most unique. The scene is handsomely appointed and decorated in oriental style. A plunge bath, twenty feet long and sixteen feet wide fills up the rear of this scene, and into this pool, not three, as in the original "Kismet "production, but sixteen beauties of the harem plunge, swim and disport aquatically. Through the medium of a series of mirrors, this sight is many times multiplied.
Another novel diversion consists in an illuminated runway which starts in the centre of the stage and crosses over the entire centre section of the theatre, ending at the rear. On this runway, the chorus at frequent intervals dart forward to sing a song, execute a dance, parade or to indulge in some other pleasantry.
Winnipeg
" A Bachelor's Romance"
in four acts by Martha Morton,
presented by The Permanent Players
Orpheum
- Lulu Glaser, the charming American comedienne. Her comedy is of the bubbling, sparkling sort and she has a great deal of magnetism...
with Thomas D. Richards, a young baritone from Colorado who has been rapidly coming to the front of late as leading man of more than one musical comedy. He has a fine voice and a good stage presence...
in: "First Love" -a playlet with music: libretto by Raymond W. Peck, lyrics by Melville Alexander, score by Friedland
- There is a striking novelty in the appearance of a full-blood South American Indian on the vaudeville stage, and Chief Caupolican, who inherits this title in the Aurocano tribe, holds a really unique position. His people long since gave up the war path, and he was sent to France as a boy, there to become educated and to have his remarkable voice cultivated. The result has been gratifying, and he is today one of the most versatile and attractive entertainers on the stage.
- Swor & Mac in "Realistic Impressions of Southern Negroes"
-Blackface comedy of the best type that comes under the head of real art. One appears as a man and the other as a woman and their comedy is copiously punctuated with singing and eccentric dancing. - "Night on the Boulevard", presented by the Langdons: Rose, Harry and Tully They have a charming scene and shortly after the rise of the curtain, the three enter in an automobile, after which there is plenty of rapid fire fun interspersed with new songs and ingenius dances.
- Now and then there appears a real child prodigy, one who is entitled to distinction among the hundreds annually featured. Such a youngster is "Georgette", known as "The little Dynamo of Vaudeville". She is the youngest of Fave De Wolfe who are known throughout the theatrical world and so comes naturally by her talents. Her principle gift lies along the lines of impersonation in which she is so clever as to have invited comparison many times with Elsie Janis. She introduces various songs with her character work.
- Kluting's Entertainers -performing pigeons, rabbits, cats and dogs
- "The Pumpkin Girl" by: Sutton, McIntyre and Sutton
The scene shows a cornfield with ripe pumpkins and from one of these there steps a dainty girl. Her male companions are clever acrobats and the three have an entertaining medley of singing and dancing.
Empress
The Mission Garden
- "The Mission Garden" -an American operetta, written and presented by Cecil B. de Mille; music and lyrics by Robert Bowers and Grant Stuart
with Nellie Brewster
-twelve cast- cowboys, greasers, soldiers and adventurers - Folly at its height
Clayton and Drew Players present
the Shakespearian Travesty:
"Othello Outdone"
-elaborate scenic effects, cast of eight including:
- Harry E. Allen... Othello
- Lillian R. Drew... Desdemona
- Murray Clayton... Lago
- Charles Peters... "Morphine"
- Frank Sends... "Doplous"
- "Sam at the Circus" by Gruet and Gruet (Al & Jack) The scene of the skit is laid just outside the main entrance of one of the big tent shows. Sam has been promised two tickets of admission if he will carry water for the camels and elephants. He gradually begins to realize that elephants and camels are regular water gluttons and his portrayal of the "tired coon" is a rare bit of humorous character work.
- Clarence Oliver in songs and stories
- Tom O'Brian and Madalon Lear in clever mimicry
Strand
Miss Rosamond Martin with Samual Liebert at the Strand
- Mr. Samuel Liebert and Company in a new musical playlet:
"After the Wedding" by Addison Burkhart
It is claimed that Liebert is giving one of the best character drawings of the American Russian Jew to be seen on the stage at the present time. Liebert is one of the famous "old-timers", nevertheless of those by-gone days of the Casino theatre on Broadway, when Lillian Russell, Pauline Hall, Fanny Rice and a number of others used him as a "prop" baby. - Something out of the ordinary has been secured in Harry Holman's novelty "Frogman". Mr Holman has a contortion act which involves the participant in the most intricate shapes in order to pass in and out of the rings that form one of the features of his act.
- five reels of first run pictures
Majestic
Photoplays:
Tonight All Comedy
- "The Firebugs" A two reel screaming parody on the ancient comic paper subject of the fondness of certain types of Israelites, to light a fire when he finds that insurance might mean more money than ordinary business.
- "Waiting for Hubby"
- others
Monday and Tuesday:
- "Tigris" -The biggest and most pretentious European production of the year. A four reel melodrama from Paris. A story of the Paris police and "Tigris", the most celebrated of the gentlemanly criminals who flourish in the French capital. Hundreds of characters figure in this wonderful story of crime and plunder with the inevitable conclusion when the master criminal makes his one fatal slip.
- "Her Honeymoon" -comedy
- Everybody Loves a Thin Girl" -comedy
- Miss Lillian Burkin -contralto singing "Sunshine and Roses"
The Entertainers on this Page
- The New York Winter Garden co.
- Trixie Friganza
- Charles H. Ross
- Adelaide the Danseuse
- J.J.Hughes
- Clarence Harvey
- Texas Guinan
- The Howard Brothers
- Louise Brunelle
- Morris and Moon
- Ernest Hare
- The Permanent Players
- Lulu Glaser
- Thomas D. Richards
- Chief Caupolican
- Swor & Mac
- Langdons: Rose, Harry and Tully
- "Georgette" The little Dynamo of Vaudeville
- Fave De Wolfe
- Kluting's Entertainers
- Sutton, McIntyre and Sutton
- Cecil B. de Mille
- Nellie Brewster
- Clayton and Drew Players
- Harry E. Allen... Othello
- Lillian R. Drew... Desdemona
- Murray Clayton... Lago
- Charles Peters... "Morphine"
- Frank Sends... "Doplous"
- Gruet and Gruet (Al & Jack)
- Clarence Oliver
- Tom O'Brian and Madalon Lear
- Mr. Samuel Liebert and Company
- Miss Rosamond Martin
- Harry Holman
- Miss Lillian Burkin
- Miss Dallas Romans