Winnipeg Theatre Listings

May 26-31, 1913

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Walker

Mary Boland, John Drew in The Perplexed Husband

Mon Tues Wed

  • "The Perplexed Husband" by Alfred Sutro, starring:
    • John Drew
    • Mary Boland
    • Hubert Druce
    • Alice John
    • Nina Sevening
      This four act comedy created a great sensation in London when it was first produced this year because of its satirical attack upon women suffrage and the amusing situations that arise when "the new woman" is confronted with that almost unknown being, "the new man."

Blanche Bates

Thurs Fri Sat

  • Blanche Bates in the London success, "The Witness For the Defense" by A.E. Mason. Miss Bates is a handsome woman, and she is just as natural off the stage as on, which is saying that her art is so perfect one does not realize that it is art at all. Whether she plays in roaring comedy, like "Nobody's Widow," or in emotional drama, like "The Fighting Hope," or in something quaint, unreal and ideal, like "The Darling of the Gods," she is always convincing. It was her interpretation of the leading role in the playlet, "Mme. Butterfly," that inspired the grand opera of that name.
    The story of the play is a complex one and begins in the hills of India with a background such as Rudyard Kipling might have limned. An unhappy woman, the wife of a civil service officer, made desperate by her bruite of a husband, kills him. A lover of her happy, youthful days, suspects her of the deed but does not know that she actually committed the murder, and so skillfully does testify in her behalf at the trial that she wins an aquittal. Later in England on the verge of a happy marriage with a young officer in the British army, her fiance's family suspect that she was guilty and question "the witness for the defense" who again saves the day for her. The play abounds in vital human interest.

Winnipeg

Just Out of College

  • The Permanent Players present the comedy, "Just out of College"

Orpheum

Irene Franklin

  • America's no better beloved singer comedienne Irene Franklin tops the bill. Dainty, "different" and altogether charming little "Red-Head", she has been a success ever since a tiny child. Accompanied on the piano by Burt Greene.
  • Theodore Bendix, the distinguished composer and conductor. With Mr. Bendix are Michael Bernstein, Jaques Shore and Arthur Nernstein.
  • Fred Watson and Reno Santos, song, dance, comedy
  • "The Girl from Childs". playlet written byArchie Colby and presented by Hal Davis, Inez Macauley and their company.
  • Moran and Wiser, a boomerang hat throwing novelty in which they take all manner of headgear and manipulate it so dexterously that it returns boomerang style after having travelled long distances through the house. Both men are comedians and have an attractive way of putting their turn across.
  • Josephine McIntyre and Bob Harty, Sugarplum girl and Marshmallow boy
  • The Carson Brothers, two famous Swedish athletes, a demonstration of strength and symmetry with replicas of famous groups in marble.
  • a new series of talking moving pictures by Edison
  • photoplane and orchestra

Empress

The Cavaliers

  • "The Cavaliers", claimed to be the most sumptuous production ever offered in popular-priced vaudeville, with ten musical artists, all from grand opera companies and the baronial hall in which the story is laid is a scenic triumph.
  • "Easy Money", playlet by Edward Owinge Towne, with George E. Richards.This sketch is a condensed version of Towne's famous comedy, "Other People's Money" from a decade ago.
  • Lacey Sampson and Mabel Douglas, comedy team
  • Lewis Golden and Harry West working on a radical change in stage dancing
  • "The Savoys" and their acrobatic bull terriers
  • an admirable feature from the Empresscope

Strand

  • "Whose Little Girl Are You," an international musical farce, presented by a company of 25, aided by a carload of scenic effects. The production is in keeping and fully up to the standards of the musical comedies seen at the Main St. house for the past four weeks, or in other words, since the Wolfolk-Allerdt circuit took the Strand under its wing.

Lyceum (Photoplays)

Hazel McLaskey

  • A special holiday program, featuring soprano Hazel McLaskey and also a splendid variety of first-class motion pictures:
  • "The Winning Hand", a western
  • "Shipping a Clock," comedy
  • Fake Soldiers," comedy

Elite

  • Beginning next Monday, the Elite theatre will be occupied as a vaudeville house, instead of musical comedy, and four large acts from one of the large booking agencies in Chicago will be seen.
  • "The Good Ship Nancy Lee" will be seen for the last time tonight by the Elite Musical Comedy company, which is leaving the city tomorrow for the east.

The Entertainers on this Page:

  • John Drew
  • Mary Boland
  • Hubert Druce
  • Alice John
  • Nina Sevening
  • Blanche Bates
  • Permanent Players
  • Irene Franklin
  • Burt Greene
  • Theodore Bendix
  • Michael Bernstein
  • Jaques Shore
  • Arthur Nernstein.
  • Fred Watson
  • Reno Santos
  • Hal Davis
  • Inez Macauley
  • and their company.
  • Moran and Wiser
  • Josephine McIntyre
  • Bob Harty
  • The Carson Brothers
  • Lacey Sampson
  • Mabel Douglas
  • Lewis Golden
  • Harry West
  • The Savoys
  • Hazel McLaskey
  • Miss Edna Sutherland
  • Mary L. Robertson
  • Eugene Ysaye
  • Guy Weadick

Other Events About Town

Eugene Ysaye

Miss Edna Sutherland will present "The Blue Bird" with musical accompaniment by Miss Mary L. Robertson at Augustine Church Guild Hall

Eugene Ysaye, the king of all violinists, plays in Central Congregational church Thursday evening

Guy Weadick, manager and promotor of the Calgary stampede last year and the Winnipeg stampede this summer, himself a fancy roper touring the globe giving exhibitions.

Guy Weadick

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