Winnipeg Theatre Listings

September 8 - 13, 1913

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Walker

"Dr. Deluxe", a stupendous musical comedy starring:

  • Oscar L. Figman
    Mr. Figman has a rarely clean-cut enunciation and an exceptionally mobile face. He can accompany his wit with almost every shade of vocal and facial expression and is inexpressably droll and original in his readings. Messrs. Cullen and Bianbridge are fortunate in having secured Mr. Figman for the stellar role in their latest venture, which by the way, is an established success from the Knickerbocker theatre, New York, and all the original scenic effects and paraphenalia will be used here.
  • Anne Tasker, the prima donna of the organization, also scored a hit here in "Madame Sherry" with her remarkably sweet voice and clever ingenue acting.
    Other able members of the company are:
  • Jessie Stoner
  • Kenneth Bradshaw
  • Mabel Vyvyan
  • Ray Kehm
  • Rita Naughton
  • Genevieve Victoria
  • Billy Kent
  • Fred Carleton
  • Everette Lehman
There is a charming beauty chorus and all the ladies are modishly gowned.
Otto Hauerbach is responsible for the libretto and Karl Hoschna the score.

Winnipeg

May Robson's Greatest Comedy Success, "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary" presented by the Permanent Players

Orpheum

Two of the best known and most popular people in American vaudeville, Sam Chip and Mary Marble, will headline the Orpheum bill this week. Although they have changed their sketch since last in Winnipeg, they are still interpreting in their own hilarious way the types of old Holland and in "The Land of Dykes" they have a vehicle that promises to become quite as famous and quite as popular as "In Old Edam" which they made one of the real classics of vaudeville stage. Herbert Hall Winslow is the author of the new sketch which is said by the critics to be even more delightful than its forerunner...(etc)

Manager Dean brings back Agnes Scott and Henry Keane in the idyllic little human symphony, "Drifting". (two lovers chat in an orchard)

The balance of the new bill is pure vaudeville:

  • Conlin, Steele and Carr promise all the vivacity, breeziness and jollity of the youth in college in the sketch which they call "Follies of Vaudeville". Conlin and Carr are expert dancers and clever singing comedians and Lillian Steele is a pretty young woman who does well everything that a muscal comedy star is expected to do. She has an effective voice.
  • "The Rehearsal" is the name of an act offered by three young men not long away from one of the big universities, who are dubbed "The Three Collegions". On a stage set to represent their room in college they do most everything that can be done in vaudeville, from gymnastics and club juggling to a very clever line of songs and dances and even a bit of more or less serious acting. These college boys have been one of the hits of the Orpheum circuit this year and should decidedly make good in Winnipeg.
  • Andrew F. Kelly, an uncommon monologist. Under a well-tailored exterior , he tells stories and "carries a most delicious Irish brogue".
  • Something quite new in gymnastics is promised by the Ankar brothers, hand balancers, who do the major portion of their work with the old-fashioned pilot wheels. These they use with quite remarkable dexterity.
  • A European performer, La Vier performs sensational feats on the trapeze, executed in an unusually quick and snappy style.

Empress

  • The Walter N. Lawrence Players present "Nature's Nobleman", a one-act drama characterization of Abraham Lincoln written by Sewell T. Tyng. The scene is laid in a little old book store on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington which Lincoln frequently visited for the purpose of purchasing rare books and also to chat with the well-informed and genial proprietor, Elihu Bradford. The period of the playlet is 1863. A cast of five well-known actors and actresses are employed in the presentaton.. Here is the cast:
    • Abraham Lincoln...Arthur Cogliser
    • Major Curtis Peyton of Virginia...Fred A. Sullivan
    • Elihu Bradford...Charles Stedman
    • Cato, Major Peyton's body servant...Al Bolland
    • Virginia Peyton, Peyton's daughter...Charlotte Julien

     

  • Following the usual custom of the Empress in observing national characteristics, they have arranged for an "American night" which will be Wednesday at the first evening show. They will offer a bright, crisp act of snappy dialogue with special songs and dances. Mr Gardner portays an exaggerated English "Johnnie" while Miss Lowrie plays a breezy Canadian girl. Both of these artistes are very well known to playgoers as they have appearedin musical comedies here, playing prominent roles.
  • A company of real dog and monkey actors is Derkins' Dog and Monkey Pantomime. No human appears on the stage during the entire act. The scene in which the pantomime is enacted is a street lined with small houses and shops with a saloon on one corner and a police station on the other. There is a dog inebriate who raises a rough house and is "run in" by a monkey "cop" - and numerous other amusing incidents.
  • Smith, Voelk and Cronin -"Lively Lyrical Lads"
  • W. J. DuBois -juggler
  • the ess-and-see scope -photoplay, preceded by a splendid overture selected by the Empress orchestra under the direction of Prof. Hugo C. Rignold

Strand

Hippodrome   Vaudeville


Mr.&Mrs.Thornton Friel

  • Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Friel -comedy sketch
  • Rehlander's Pigs - A world of Fun
  • Silber and North "The Bashful Man and the Maid"
  • Hunter and Ross 500 Pounds of Comedy
  • 5 reels of first run pictures

Majestic (Photoplays)

  • "Life or Death" - a two-part Gaumont feature showing magnificent storm scenes at sea and featuring the famous actress, Mme.Renee Coryel, of the "Comedie Francais." Paris
  • "The New Baby" - Keystone comedy
  • "Between Home and Country" - action and romance
  • Miss Billy Hodge  - Opening of limited engagement of the scintillating little character soprano.
  • Miss Dallas Romans - Continued engagement of the girl from Texas who knows how to sing the Southland songs.

Lyceum

  • "The girl and the Gangster" - Thrilling and facinating story of the underworld, in two parts.

The Entertainers on this Page:

  • Oscar L. Figman
  • Anne Tasker
  • Jessie Stoner
  • Kenneth Bradshaw
  • Mabel Vyvyan
  • Ray Kehm
  • Rita Naughton
  • Genevieve Victoria
  • Billy Kent
  • Fred Carleton
  • Everette Lehman
  • The Permanent Players
  • Sam Chip
  • Mary Marble
  • Agnes Scott
  • Henry Keane
  • Conlin, Steele and Carr
  • Lillian Steele
  • The Three Collegions
  • Andrew F. Kelly
  • Ankar brothers
  • La Vier
  • Walter N. Lawrence Players:
  • Arthur Cogliser
  • Fred A. Sullivan
  • Charles Stedman
  • Al Bolland
  • Charlotte Julien
  • John Gardner
  • Jeannette Lowrie
  • Derkins' Dog and Monkey Pantomime
  • Smith, Voelk and Cronin
  • W. J. DuBois
  • Prof. Hugo C. Rignold
  • Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Friel
  • Rehlander's Pigs
  • Silber and North
  • Hunter and Ross
  • Miss Billy Hodge
  • Miss Dallas Romans

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