Winnipeg Theatre Listings

July 21-26, 1913

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Fine Feathers

  • H.H. Frazee's original All-Star production of Eugene Walter's masterpiece, "Fine Feathers", direct from the Astor Theatre, N.Y, with its cast of famous NY and London stars, including:
    • Robert Edison
    • Max Figman
    • Lolita Robertson
    • Wilton Lackaye
    • Rose Coghlan
    • Amelia Sumers

Winnipeg

Closed for the season

Orpheum

Elsa Ruegger

  • The world's greatest cellist, Elsa Ruegger, accompanied by violinist and director; Edmund Lichtenstein
  • The Twelve Olympia Girls are great favorites in London and are making their inaugural American tour. Landing in Montreal from Liverpool on July 9th on the ship "Tunisian", where it docks, they then made their way directly to Winnipeg. With the exquisite training which marks the best English ballet schools,they have combined many unique ideas in staging and costuming, with the result that their descriptive dances are beautiful to watch from every standpoint. "The Mirror Dance" and "The Inquisitive Moon" are among the most notable of these.
  • Jack Kennedy and company, in "A Business Proposal," by Daniel D. Carter. Supporting Mr. Kennedy are Helene Warde and Chauncey Munroe.
  • Manning, Moore and Armstrong, a trio of singing lads
  • Ethel Kirk and Billy Fogarty present a comedy song and dance turn
  • Buckley's Animals, introducing "Teddy" - atroupe of clever four foot performers whose leading comedian is a jolly little Teddy bear. The others are dogs and monkeys.
  • "Whirlwind Sculptures in Clay," otherwise known as Les Yost, are two interesting and ingeneous French sculptors, who made their way from the famous ateliers of Paris to its equally famous music halls, and all because they reinforced their cultivated artistic gifts with a faculty for eccentric humor. They made interesting character sketches in clay, and at a rapid-fire rate. They too are making their initial vaudeville appearance in Winnipeg, having just arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse from Hamburg. (another account differs in number of sculptors, ie.only one; here it is:... the rapid- fire clay modelling done by Les Yost; the French sculptor , at the Orpheum this week...Upon a board slanted against an easel there is first affixed a large body of clay, looking somewhat like the lengthwise half of an egg. With  this as a basis, M.Yost first makes it look like a clown, then likae an Indian and lastly like an old woman. He uses paints for quick facial coloring, but otherwise achieves every bit of expression -- and it is extraordinarily clever-- with his hands.)
  • Orpheum Orchestra
  • Photoplane with interesting views
  • Ladies daily souvenir matinee

Empress

Four Society Girls

  • Sammy Watson's Farmyard -Dogs, cats roosters, donkey and a little pink pig, all performing startingly original feats, making this the funniest barnyard in existence. Mr. Watson has for several years been a premier feature of the London music halls, and the Crystal Palace shows, and his influence and control over domestic animals is almost uncanny. He never uses a whip to make his actors perform, but trains them with kindness alone. The little pink pig is the prima donna of the troupe.
  • John P. Wade, the character actor and a company of selected players players in the classic playlet of southern life, "Marse Shelby's Chicken Dinner," written by Mr. Wade himself.
  • The Four Society Girls will present one of the daintiest vocal acts in vaudeville. They call themselves The Four Society Girls and under this cover hide their names, for their families are known socially from coast to coast. Three of the young women are graduates of Radcliffe college while the other is a graduate of Bryn Mawr.
  • The La Franc brothers, although head balancers, are versatile muscicians, and play upon the violin, the banjo, the guitar etc., while balanced on their heads on pedestals and other objects.
  • Hurst, Watt and Hurst are a trio of songsters
  • Ess-and-see scope and orchestra.

Strand

Miss Gertrude Galland

  • Mlle. da Mela, the human magnet, whose feats, climaxed by her world-famed achievements of telling future events, were the sensation of Hammerstein's Victoria theatre, New York City.
  • Lydell and Butterworth in "A Dark Room Oddity, " a team of character comedians, noted for Hebrew and Italian types and also famed as coon shouters of marked energy and briskness, are also featured on the new bill. This is their first appearance in Winnipeg.(see parlorsongs.com to explain "coon shouters")
  • Lawson and Nanson, bicycle, bag punching, burlesque gymnasts
  • Llittle Gertrude Galland, bubbling over with fun and with a voice of Celtic sweetness
  • The General Film company offers the following 5 reels of first run pictures:
    • "Mercy Merrick" - an Edison comedy
    • "The Great Pearl" - a Lubin drama
    • "Anonymous Love" -an Essanay comedy
    • "The Black Hand Elopement" -a Selig love story
    • "The Only Veteran in Town" -a Vitograph comedy

    Note: The Strand, offering four acts of vaudeville and five reels of films continuously from 11a.m. until 11p.m. claims to be the only continuous theatre of its kind in Canada

Lyceum

  • "From Ignorance to Bliss" -romance
  • "The War Correspondent" -war
  • "The Noisy Six" -romantic comedy
  • "Delayed Proposals" -comedy
  • other features will be included in the program

Starland

  • Friday and Saturday - Via-Cabaret - Realistic and Exciting
  • Monday and Tuesday -  Carnegie -Alaska-Siberia- Hunting Expedition

Other Events About Town

Sells-Floto Circus Margaret Recardo

Sells-Floto Circus coming soon

Although animal acts of various kinds have have been feartures of travelling tented organizations, still they have, up to date, never reached such a state of perfection that tigers and lions would perrform in the same arena together. This season the Sells-Floto circus, which comes here on Monday, July 28th for three days, offers this marvelous feats of training as one of the features of their program.

Margaret and Captain Dutch Recardo are the names of the trainers who have succeeded in accomplishing this novel departure. They appear in a steel arena, together with six African lions and three Malay tigers, which during the past winter they have trained to perform as one family. It is not to be understood that these animals are by any means in the kindergarden stage, because they have passed that long ago. Their training is absolutely completed, so much so that they mount pedestals forming heroic groups, balance on rolling balls, see-saw, ride bicycles, jump through hoops of fire and mount galloping horses.

The Recardos enter the cage carrying no weapon or firearm of any kind. The education of these animals was accomplished with no other persuader than an ordinary buggy whip, their methods differing from all the other great trainers who have helped to make the history of the world's best menageries. Perhaps it is that the Recardos possess some strange and magic power over dumb animals. But, be that as it may, the exhibition given by them is one which, it is claimed, has never been equalled.

Barnum and Bailey  (Raising Wild Animals)

What is claimed to be the only menagerie of baby animals in the whole world will be seen in Winnipeg, July 28th with the Barnum and Bailey circus. These young and interesting animals were all born in the winter quarters of of the circus at Bridgeport, Conn. The idea of breeding wild animals in the quarters of the show was the result of the successful rearing of the baby giraffe, which the stork brought to the long-necked family several years ago. The management argued that if such delicate creatures could be successfully reared in this latitude, the hardier ones, such as lions, leopards, panthers, tigers, zebras, many varieties of the antelope, and other animals could also be bred successfully. Under the guidance of a zooligist they have succeeded to such an extent that this year the menagerie shows so many infant additions as to constitute a baby zoo. Many of these animals are very valuable, because they are fast becoming extinct. They are very hard to capture without injury, and very often die on the sea voyage.

The student of natural history will find the hour devoted to the menagerie department of great value. Among the 1200 animals are: forty elephants,thirty camels and dromedaries, twenty llamas and herds of yaks, curious cattle, all varieties of the deer, bear, cat and monkey tribes, mylghaus, ibexes, gnus, zebus, vlakvaarks, porcupines, tapirs, ant-eaters, ostriches, enus, kangaroos, hyenas, horned horses, the biggest hippopotamus, the only bi-horned rhinocerous in captivity, a man-like chimpanzee, ourang-outangs, water buffalo, caribous, seals, sealions,pecaries and warthogs.

The expense of maintaining this menagerie is immense. The giraffes are the hardest to care for. It is necessary to feed them quite often on a peculiar moss that grows only on the barks of certain trees that grow only in the African jungles. Men have to be sent there for this moss. Other animals are just as particular. Great care must be taken of them.Every day 1200 pounds of vegetables and 1000 pounds of meat are consumed in the zoo. The elephants eat hay, oats and bran in large quantities.

 The management of this show have introduced a new feature in their zoological tent. All visitors are received and conducted through the various aisles and avenues among the pens and cages by uniformed lecturers, engaged to answer all questions and impart information, while experienced trainers demonstrate strange facts.

 

 

 

 

The Entertainers on this Page:

  • Robert Edison
  • Max Figman
  • Lolita Robertson
  • Wilton Lackaye
  • Rose Coghlan
  • Amelia Sumers
  • Elsa Ruegger
  • Edmund Lichtenstein
  • Twelve Olympia Girls
  • Jack Kennedy and company
  • Helene Warde and Chauncey Munroe.
  • Manning, Moore and Armstrong
  • Ethel Kirk and
  • Billy Fogarty
  • Buckley's Animals
  • Les Yost
  • Sammy Watson's Farmyard
  • John P. Wade
  • The Four Society Girls
  • The La Franc brothers
  • Hurst, Watt and Hurst
  • Mlle. da Mela
  • Lydell and Butterworth
  • Lawson and Nanson
  • Gertrude Galland
  • Margaret and Captain Dutch Recardo

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