ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): JANUARY 1901

ORPHEUM THEATRE: FULTON AND ROCKWELL PLACE (1901)

This page is under construction as new images are added.

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.\

JANUARY 1901

December 31-January 5: Amphion: Hodge, Podge and Co., with Peter F. Dailey; Bijou: 8 Bells, with the Byrne Brothers; Columbia: San Toy, with Augustin Daly Musical Company; Gayety: The Floor Walkers, with Ward and Vokes; Grand Opera House: The Rebel, with Andrew Mack; Montauk: L’Aiglon, with Maude Adams; Park: (Baker Stock Company) The Lost Paradise; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Two Orphans; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum; January 7-12: Amphion: Zaza, with Mrs. Leslie Carter; Bijou: Through the Breakers; Columbia: Sweet Anne Page, with Lulu Glaser Opera Company; Grand Opera House: The Rebel, with Andrew Mack; Montauk: Foxy Quiller, with Jerome Sykes; Park: (Baker Stock Company) Lynwood; Payton’s Lee Avenue:(Payton Stock Company) Men and Women; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Gayety; January 14-19: Amphion: All on Account of Eliza, with Louis Mann, Clara Lipman; Bijou: In Old Kentucky; Columbia: Monte Cristo, with James O’Neill; Gayety: The Merry Tramps, with the Royal Lilliputians; Montauk: When We Were Twenty-One, with Nat C. Goodwin, Maxine Elliott; Park: (Baker Stock Company) Myrtle Ferns; Payton’s Lee Avenue:(Payton Stock Company) A Child of the State; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Grand Opera House; January 21-26: Amphion: The Still Alarm, with Harry Lacy; Bijou: Lost in the Desert; Columbia: A Royal Rogue, with Jefferson De Angelis; Gayety: Miss Prinnt, with Marie Dressler; Grand Opera House: The Merry Tramps, with the Royal Lilliputians; Montauk: The Gay Lord Quex, with John Hare; Park: (Baker Stock Company) Oaken Hearts; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Hazel Kirke; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum; January 28-February 2: Amphion: Vanity Fair, with Gertrude Coghlan; Bijou: At the Stroke of Twelve; Columbia: Sapho, with Olga Nethersole; Gayety: At Piney Ridge, with David Higgins; Grand Opera House: Sis Hopkins, with Rose Melville; Montauk: David Garrick, The Professor’s Love Story, The Middleman, Tom Pinch, with E.S. Willard; Park: (Baker Stock Company) Nell Gwynn; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Galley Slave; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum