Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-06
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One Hundred and Twenty-ffth $3.50
Playgoers in upper Manhattan
look to the stock company at Keith
& Proctor's One Hundred and Tween
ty-ffth street for a maximum of gem
uine amusement diversion at a min
imum of expense, and 1t is the proud
record of this uptown house that
prosperity runs IN an even keel nifty
two weeks in the year. A capital
sumemr attraction is offered for the
week of July 8 in the DeMille DRAMA
MEN and Women" a play that Is
rich in "reminiscences. This is the
play that was produced on October
81. 1890, and ran for 203 night at
Proctor's Twenty-third street theatre
with a memorable cast which includ-
ed: Friedrich de Belville, William
Morris, Orrin Johnson, Frank Nor
daunt, M. A. Kennedy, Odette Tyler.
Eta Hawkins, and in the unimport-
ant role of Dora, little more than a
thinking part, was cast Maude
Adams, the foremost woman star OF
today. In the famous scene of the
midnight meeting of the bank direct
ors, the identical masscive mahogany
table used on the night OF the origin
al production sixteen years ago, Will
be utilized in the Harlem Keith y
Proctor production. This tHb$As
praced the dining room of Mr.. oas0c-
TORS home these many years, and ne
was prevailed upon to loan 1t to the
Harlem company to give the desired
atmosphere to this. particular scene.
MEN and Women will require an
augmented company for its uptown
week. In addition to Misses Morgan,
Scott. Jewel, Deshon, Messrs. NC
Allister. Norton, Hawley, Cummings.
Hill. Howell, Lowe, Daley, special
engagements of additional players
will be necessary.
Twcnty-first Birthday of the Contin-
nous.
July 6 is the date fraught with un-
ommon interest in the realm or
amusements. 1t marks the twenty
first birthday of the continuous per-
formance=that remarkable nov
ton in theatriclas originated by Mr..
B. r. Keith. 1t was on July q, 1885,
at the Gaiety Museum, Boston, tnat
Mr. Keith first introduced this dar-
ing idea of a ceaseless show to the
nublic. and its success was lmmed-
late and unqualified despite h cav
iilinp Of a hordex of self-constituted
eroakers. who predicted only utter
| disaster for this bold departure from
the conventional. A new era was
| thus established in amusements, and
If marked an epoch in theatrical his
| tory. To its inventor has come an
UNPARALLELED record of progress and
success and from the singularly in
| significant beginning in an empty
! store. thirty-fve feet by fifteen feet.
with an infant phenomenonI1ttle
| Baby Alice-as the sole attraction.
has evolved the Keith vaudeville OF
| today. which prevails in almost every
| American city in all the twentieth
century completeness OF gorgeously
appointed theatres and peerless per-
formances. And in this astonishing
progress of Improvement, 1t must
not be overlooked that the vaudeville
performer, too, has advanced most
materially. In the old days, a score
of years ago, the great concerp OF the
artist was as to the frequency ana
continuity of his engagements. TO
day it is a matter of choice with MN
that he books through the United
Booking Offices of America, wnicn
now embodies both the b.. b.. Keith
Booking office Of the East and the
Western Vaudeville Association OF
! Chicago. In thus having his 81
gagements conducted through the
new United Offices in the st. James
Building, New York, the advantage
to the performer is recognized in
J stantly for he is guaranteed an I'M
interrupted tour of over 100 houses,
covering a season Of practically two
wears duration. That well nigh
marks the millennium in the vaude-
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