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. 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 1901
May 6-11: Bijou: Romance of Coon Hollow; Columbia: Ben Hur; Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Whose Baby Are You?; Gayety: Old Jed Prouty, with Richard Golden; Grand Opera House: My Lady, with Eva Tanguay; Montauk: All on Account of Eliza, with Louis Mann and Clara Lipman; Montauk: (May 7 matinee only), In a Balcony, Land of Heart’s Desire, with Otis Skinner; Eleanor Robson, Sarah Cowell LeMoyne; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Because She Loved Him So; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Woman against Woman; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty, Orpheum; May 13-18: Amphion: The Girl We Love, with Charles Dickson, Lillian Burkhart; Columbia: Ben Hur; Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Charley’s Uncle; Gayety: The Still Alarm, with Harry Lacy; Grand Opera House: (Aubrey Stock Company) The Charity Ball; Montauk: Lohengrin, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Castle Square Opera Company; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) The Two Orphans; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Hazel Kirke, A Gilded Fool; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée; May 20-25: Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) The Blundering Mr. Budds; Gayety: The Honest Blacksmith, with Robert Fitzsimmons; Grand Opera House: (Aubrey Stock Company) Men and Women; Montauk: Carmen, Faust, with Castle Square Opera Company; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Hazel Kirke, The Buckeye; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) A Runaway Wife; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée; May 26-June 1:Amphion: (Brennan Stock Company) The Hunchback; Columbia: The Merchant of Venice, with Nat C. Goodwin, Maxine Elliott (one performance, May 20); Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Nancy Hanks; Grand Opera House: (Aubrey Stock Company) We ‘Uns of Tennessee; Montauk: La Bohéme, Martha, with Castle Square Opera Company; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Barbara Frietchie; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée; June 3-8: Criterion: Vaudeville, with White Rats; Montauk: Il Trovatore, The Bohemian Girl, with Castle Square Opera Company; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Caste; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Corse Payton Stock Company replacing local Payton Stock Company; third such visit) Eagle’s Nest; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée; June 10-15: Montauk: Diplomacy, with Charles Frohman’s Empire Stock Company, including William Faversham, Margaret Anglin (June 13, one night only); Park: (Spooner Stock Company) For Fair Virginia; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Little Minister; Vaudeville/burlesque: Star, Orpheum; Criterion; June 17-22: Criterion: (Brennan Stock Company) The Arabian Nights; Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Becky Bliss, the Circus Girl; Vaudeville/burlesque: Star; June 24-29: Park: (Spooner Stock Company): “A Happy Pair,” A Child of the Regiment; Vaudeville/burlesque: Star
MAY 6-11, 1901
MAY 20-25, 190
3. May 26-June 1, 1901
MAY 27-JUNE 1, 1901
JUNE 3-8, 1901
JUNE 10-15, 1901
The summer season at Coney Island and the beaches—Bergen, Manhattan, and Brighton—was now well underway. As usual, we will take our leave of these warm-weather divertissements, mainly of vaudeville and musical comedy types, until the fall season kicks off in the next installment.
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