Jan 1: “Side Tracked” by Jules Walters
Jan 4: “Down by the Sea” a romantic drama comedy in four acts starring Miss Fanny Curtis
Jan 9: “The Power Behind the Throne” starring Katherine Willard
Jan 11: “The Convict’s Daughter” special prices: entire lower floor 50 cents
Jan 13: “In the Palace of the King” starring Miss Helen Grantly
Jan 16: “Peck’s Bad Boy” comedy musical, prices 50c, 35c, 25c matinee 10c and 25c
Jan 18: “In a Women’s Power, A Story of a Women’s Revenge” by J. Arthur Frazer, prices: 75c, 50c, 35c, 25c
Jan 19: The Wizard of the Nile” Jules Grau’s comic opera company, prices $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c, 25c
Jan 20: “The Katzenjammer Kids” prices: 75c, 50c, 35c, 25c
Jan 25: “The Game Keeper” starring Thomas J. Smith the young singing comedian, prices 75c, 50c, 35c, 25c
Jan 29: “Uncle Josh Spruceby and the ‘Hayseed’ Band” prices 50c, 35c, 25c
Jan 30: The famous Nashville Students in unison with P. G. Lowery’s Colored Concert Band featuring Sam Lucas and Miss Pearl Crawford. Prices: matinee 10c and 25c, night 50c, 35c, 25c
Feb 1: “A Gambler’s Daughter” Feb 4: Blind Boone, blind piano player, assisted by Miss Stella May
Feb 6: “Our Goblins”, a musical comedy
Feb 9: “Wizard of Oz” prices 1st floor: $1.50, $1.00; Balcony: $1.00, 75c; Gallery: 50c (opened in Chicago June 16, 1902, moved to New York Jan 20, 1903 and ran for 293 performances. Featuring Frederick Stone, native of Kansas as the Scarecrow, David Montgomery as the Tin Woodman, Anna Laughlin as Dorothy, Charles Swain as the Wizard, Owen Westford as the Pastoria, Arthur Hill as the Cowardly Lion, Nelly Payne and the Snow Queen, Bessie Wynn as Sir Dashenoff Daily, Lotta Faust as Tryxie Tryffle, Joseph Schrode as Imogene the Cow (they used a cow since it wasn’t funny at the time to have a pet dog on stage), produced by Julian Mitchell with music by Frederick Chapin.
Feb 10: “Quincy Adams Sawyer.” The best New England Play. Prices Lower Floor: $1.75, 50c; Balcony: usual price.
Feb 12: “At Valley Forge.” Featuring Maurice Freeman, produced by W. L. Roberts
Feb 13: “The Pay Train.” Comedy drama Feb 15: “A Millionaire Tramp.” Produced by Elmer Walters
Feb 17: “The Rivals” starring Jefferson Jr. and William W. Jefferson, a brilliant comedy
Feb 19: The Great Barlow Minstrels, J. A. Coburn – manager and owner
Feb 20: “Pickings From Puck” starring Mr. Willard Simms as Sam ‘Flinders’, lyrics by Col. Sinns and music by Deniti Coolman.
Feb 24: Gideon’s Georgia Camp Meeting Company, Revival of Oldtime songs and melodies of the Cottonfields. Daily Street Parade and Free Concert.
Feb 26: “The Crisis” featuring Miss Isabell Irving
Feb 27: “The Pumpkin Huskers” produced by Lawrence Russel, comedy with street parade
Mar 3: Breckenridge Stock Co. produced by Boyd P. Joy presents “Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow” a western military comedy drama
Mar 5: “The Land of the Sky” Breckenridge Stock Co., produced by Boyd P. Joy, melodrama
Mar 6: “Nebraska” Breckenridge Stock Co., produced by Boyd P. Joy.
Mar 9: “MacBeth” starring John Griffith, produced by John M. Hickey
Mar 10: “When Knighthood was in Flower” drama, starring Roselle Knott as Mary Tuder, produced by Julia Marlow; Frank L. Perley, agent
Mar 12: “Guilty Without Crime” melodrama, Breckenridge Stock Co.
Mar 15: “Sweet…. Clover” comedy drama, starring Mr. Otis B. Thayer, supported by Miss Edna Robb
Mar 19: “Hamlet” starring Mr. Walker Whiteside
Mar 22: “A True Kentuckian” Franklin Stock Co.
Mar 23: “The Bondman” Franklin Stock Co.
Mar 25: “His First False Step” Franklin Stock Co.
Mar 26: “Hoity Toity” musical, book by Edgar Smith; music by Jno Stromberg, the original production from Weber & Field’s Music Hall, New York Mar 28: “Lady Audley’s Secret” drama, Keller Stock Co., starring Alma Viva Keller as Lady Audley, three nights
Mar 31: “A Runaway Wife” comedy, Irving French Co., three nights
Apr 5: “Queen Titania” directed by Beatrice Raymond of Chicago
Apr 7: “O’Moor’s Courtship” comedy, Irving French Co., three nights
Apr 8: “The Bondman” play, Franklin Stock Co.
Apr 9: “An Indiana Romance” play, Franklin Stock Co. Apr 11: “Birds of a Feather” operatic comedy, starring Edward Andrews, with Miss Nellie Andrews – dramatic soprano; Miss Catherine Lee – lyric soprana; Miss Florence Clayton – contralto; Miss Arlene Houtelle – contralto; Mr. F. Col. Taylor – tenor; Mr. Guy Carleton – baritone Apr 12: The Ted E Faust Minstrels
Apr 13: “Purple and Gold” musical, featuring Miss Claudia Castleton, supported by Margarethe Von der Osten, with the DeArvilles’ – famous French fencing
Apr 13: “Shamus O’Brien” comedy drama, Ervin Blunkall and His Peerless Co.
Apr 18: “Devil’s Auction” play, produced by Charles H. Yale, 22nd edition
Apr 21: “The Billionairess” musical, featuriung Miss Loraine Buchanan Apr 23: Billy Kersands’ Georgia Minstrels, with big parade
Apr 25: “The Hand of Man” comedy drama, North Bros. Comedians in Repertoir, featuring Mabel Cullen, one solid week
May 4: First American Tour of the International Bioscope Company, presenting Pantomime of Gullivers’ Travels, moving picture production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, first scenes of the Russian-Japanese War, reproduction of The Attack of Port Arthur, The Grandest Moving Picture Exhibition Ever Offered. |