MAY-JUNE 1900

 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.

MAY-JUNE 1900

April 30-May 5: Bijou: Shore Acres; Columbia: Coralie and Co., Dressmakers; Gayety: Man’s Enemy; Grand Opera House: The Parisian Woman, Jim, the Penman, A Gigantic Liar, Sapho, The Prodigal Daughter, Drifted Apart, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, Diplomacy, Aristocracy, The Plunger, A Child of State, My Kentucky Home, with Corse Payton’s Comedy Company;  ; Montauk: The Maneuvers of Jane; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty; May 7-12: Bijou: Yon Yonson, with Gus Hill; Gayety: Across the Pacific, with Howard Hall, Howard Clay Blaney; Grand Opera House: McFadden’s Row of Flats; Montauk: light opera season with Castle Square Opera Company; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty; May14-19: Bijou: The City of New York, with Annie Ward Tiffany; Brooklyn Academy of Music: Quo Vadis; Gayety: Sapho, with Alberta Gallatin; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty; May 21-26: Brooklyn Academy of Music: Quo Vadis; May 28-June 2: Brooklyn Academy of Music: Quo Vadis; Grand Opera House: Sapho, with Alberta Gallatin

  APRIL 30-MAY 5, 1900

MAY 7-12, 1900

MAY 14-19, 1900

MAY 21-26, 1900

22.  May 28-June 2, 1900

 

At this point, with the nearly complete lack of theatrical advertising, we can consider the regular theatre season closed and the summer season at the beach theatres, not shown here, under way.