This blog is dedicated to preserving a
curated record of theatre-related images drawn from the digitized pages of the four
chief Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine of 1898-1908. The sources, as
they were called during these years: Brooklyn
Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Standard Union, and Brooklyn Daily Times. At first, only Brooklyn Life provided photos, but as
time passed the newspapers, beginning with the Citizen, abandoned their photo-based etchings and line drawings for
photos. Each entry is devoted to one or two months during the decade. A list of
the month’s offerings precedes the illustrations, most of which are identified
within the original image. The performers include not only leading players but
lesser ones, most of whose names are entirely forgotten today. Many depict burlesque
and vaudeville acts who are often listed on the ads that begin each weekly
group of images. The production lists designate titles of shows at the
legitimate theatres only; burlesque and vaudeville theatres are listed only by
name to show that they were active. If a theatre is missing it was either
permanently or temporarily closed.
It is hoped that this blog will be a useful
adjunct to a two-volume book I’m preparing for publication, ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF
THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908); Vol. I (1898-1903), Vol. II (1903-1908).
Samuel
L. Leiter
Author:
BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES (McFarland: 2024).
APRIL 1903
April 6-11: Amphion: Soldiers of Fortune, with Robert
Edeson; Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Moths; Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Camille, with
Marie Wainwright; Folly: The Old Homestead, with Denman Thompson;
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) Don Caesar de Bazan; Grand Opera House: McFadden’s
Row of Flats; Montauk: The
Comedy of Errors, with Stuart Robson; Novelty: Gypsy Jack; Park: East Lynne, with
Laura Biggar; Payton’s Fulton Street: (Payton Fulton Street Stock
Company) Hazel Kirke; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock
Company) The Rivals, with Corse Payton; Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum
Stock Company) Ten Nights in a Barroom; Vaudeville/burlesque:
Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum; April 13-18: Amphion: Way Down East; Bijou: (Spooner Stock
Company) A Bunch of Keys; Columbia:
(Greenwall Stock Company) Nathan Hale, with Howard Kyle, Florence
Smythe; Folly: McFadden’s Row of Flats; Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) Blue Jeans; Grand Opera House: Foxy
Grandpa; Montauk: The
Eternal City, with Viola Allen; Novelty: Her Marriage Vow; Park: A Little Outcast; Payton’s Fulton Street: (Payton
Fulton Street Stock Company) Romeo and Juliet; Payton’s Lee Avenue:
(Payton Stock Company) Miles Aroon; Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock
Company) Lost in the Desert;
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde
& Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum; April 20-25: Amphion: Alice
of Old Vincennes, with Gertrude Coghlan; Bijou: (Spooner Stock
Company) Toll Gate Inn; Columbia:
(Greenwall Stock Company) The Christian, with Julia Stuart;
Folly: Foxy Grandpa; Gotham:
(Gotham Elite Stock Company) My Old New Hampshire Home; Grand Opera House: Sherlock
Holmes, with Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon; Montauk: Miss
Simplicity, with Frank Daniels; Novelty: The Convict’s Daughter; Park: The Village Parson; Payton’s Fulton Street: (Payton
Fulton Street Stock Company) Peg Woffington; Payton’s Lee Avenue:
(Payton Stock Company) Thelma;
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Leah; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique,
Orpheum; April 27-May 2: Amphion: A Chinese Honeymoon, with
Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Annie Yeamans; Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The
Ironmaster; Brooklyn
Academy of Music: Twirly Whirly, The Big Little Princess,
with Weber and Fields; Willie Collier, Fay Templeton; Columbia: (Greenwall
Stock Company) More than Queen, with Roselle Knott; Folly: Primrose
and Dockstader Big Minstrels; Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) The Romany
Rye; Grand Opera
House: Sis Hopkins, with Rose Melville; Montauk: The
Unforeseen, with Margaret Anglin, Charles Richman; Novelty: The
Struggle for Life; Park: One
of the Bravest, with Charles McCarthy; Payton’s Fulton Street: (Payton
Fulton Street Stock Company) Called Back; Payton’s Lee Avenue:
(Payton Stock Company) The Sultan’s Daughter; Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) For Love and
Honor; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique,
Orpheum, Folly
1. April 6-11, 1903
2. April 13-18, 1903
3. April 20-25, 1903
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