This is the sixth in a summer series designed to edify and entertain you with the camera and the sometimes-pen of editor/publisher Burr McIntosh. Text in this issue was written by Paul Thompson. This post focuses on:
The Burr-McIntosh Monthly • Vol. 11, No. 42 • Sept. 1906
JULIA SANDERSON has been playing in The Tourists, a musical comedy by R. H. Burnsides, music by Gustav Kerker, whose New York premier was celebrated on Labor Day at the Majestic Theater. This piece was produced in Philadelphia last spring and subsequently sent to Boston for a highly successful run. Miss Sanderson first came to Broadway’s notice in Fantana, another musical comedy which ran for several months at the Lyric Theater, New York, in 1905. It is proposed to star this young woman in a piece called The Motor Girl later this coming season.
ADELE von OHL was a conspicuous member of the New York Hippodrome last spring in the spectacular production A Society Circus. Under the stage name of Champion she rode a white horse and performed the dangerous feat of plunging into the Hippodrome tank in the course of the play. She comes of a family, all of the women of which are clever in handling horses. Her mother has conducted a riding academy at various times and a younger sister is famed not only through New Jersey but elsewhere as a horse breaker, both her experience and that of Miss Adele having been secured in the west on ranches where they lived.
DORIS KEANE first came to Broadway notice in September 1905, playing an ingenue role in support of John Drew in Augustus Thomas’s play Delancey. Miss Keane received her training for the stage in a New York dramatic school and it was due to her personal attractiveness and cleverness in playing a part in one of the annual graduation productions of this school that led Charles Frohman to give her an opportunity in the company of his star.
VIOLA ALLEN has once more forsaken the modern playwright for Shakespeare and this coming year is to play in the latter’s Cymbeline. The season of 1905-06 she starred in Clyde Fitch’s play The Toast of the Town, playing the role of the famous actress, Betty Singleton.
LOTTA FAUST is the wife of Ritchie Long, a tenor singer very well known in Broadway musical comedy productions. Miss Faust probably made her first and greatest hit in Babes in Toyland, Victor Herbert’s tuneful musical comedy, which was staged at the Majestic Theater in New York. She subsequently appeared in Wonderland by the same author, which piece, however, did not meet with the same measure of success that had attended Babes in Toyland. She was to be featured in a revival of a musical comedy called The Land of Nod, which was put on at the Grand Opera House in Chicago last July, but was prevented at the last moment from playing this part on account of illness.
JEAN GERARDI is an internationally famous cellist. His first tour of the United States was almost a decade ago when he was hailed as a child prodigy. Since then, he has made frequent visits to this country and is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. He was born in Leige, Belgium, in June 1878. He has played in virtually every civilized country. He is the possessor of an artistic temperament and a splendid technique, has a large repertoire, and though his first fame was that of a child prodigy, he has won still greater praise as a finished artist.
TWO ADDITIONAL PANELS were included in this issue.
The first is self-explanatory:
And if you lived in New York in 1907, you would recognize immediately this popular comic actor, DeWolfe Hopper. (See my earlier posts on the life and loves of DeWolfe Hopper, Husband of His Country.)
Just "Click the Pix" to enlarge.
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