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This blog is dedicated to preserving a curated record of theatre-related clippings drawn from the digitized pages of the four chief Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine of 1898-1908. Those sources, as they were called during these years, are: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Standard Union, and Brooklyn Daily Times. At first, only Brooklyn Life printed photos; as time passed, the newspapers, beginning with the Citizen, abandoned 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 that are often listed on the heading 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.\
FEBRUARY 1901
February 4-9: Amphion: Lost River; Bijou: Across the Pacific, with Harry Clay Blaney; Columbia: Arizona; Gayety: The Rebel, with Andrew Mack; Grand Opera House: At Piney Ridge, with David Higgins, Gloria Waldron; Montauk: A Royal Family, with Annie Russell; Park: (Baker Stock Company) Mr. Jim; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Wife (opening night cancelled; A Private Secretary put on instead; The Wife opened on Wednesday); Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum; February 11-16: Amphion: The Night of the Fourth, with Mathews and Bulger; Bijou: The Still Alarm, with Harry Lacy; Brooklyn Academy of Music: Mistress Nell, with Henrietta Crosman (three nights only); Columbia: The Burgomaster; Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Captain Letterblair; Gayety: McFadden’s Row of Flats; Grand Opera House: The Dairy Farm; Montauk: A Royal Family, with Annie Russell; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) A Soldier of the Empire; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum; February 18-23: Amphion: Unleavened Bread; Bijou: An African King; Brooklyn Academy of Music: Humpty Dumpty, with James A. Adams’s Pantomime Company; Columbia: Self and Lady, with Charles Frohman’s Comedians; Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) The Girl I Left Behind Me; Gayety: In Old Kentucky; Grand Opera House: McFadden’s Row of Flats; Montauk: Madge Smith, with May Irwin; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) That Girl from Texas; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Banker’s Daughter; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum; February 25-March 2: Amphion: East Lynne; Bijou: The Mormon Wife; Columbia: Quo Vadis; Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Under Two Flags; Gayety: A Wise Guy, with Maggie Cline; Grand Opera House: Lost River; Montauk: Janice Meredith, with Mary Mannering; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) A Fair Rebel; Payton’s Stock Company: (Payton Stock Company) L’Aiglon, the Son of Napoleon; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum
FEBRUARY 4-9, 1901
FEBRUARY 11-16, 1901
FEBRUARY 18-23, 1901
FEBRUARY 25-MARCH 2, 1901
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