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.
MARCH 1900
March 5-10: Amphion: ’Round New York in 80 Minutes, with the Koster and Bial’s Big Company; Bijou: Why Smith Left Home; Columbia: Phroso, with Odette Tyler; Gayety: A Wise Guy, with Hayes and Lytton’s Comedians; Grand Opera House: Montauk: A Runaway Girl, with James T. Powers; Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Grand Opera House; March 12-17: Amphion: Das Fuenfte Rad (The Fifth Wheel), Maria Stuart, Jugendfreunde, Als Ich Wiederkam, Im Weissen Roess’l, with Heinrich Conrieds’s Irving Place Stock Company; Bijou: Across the Pacific, with Howard Hall, Harry Clay Blaney; Columbia: The Charlatan, with De Wolf Hopper; Gayety: King of the Opium Ring; Grand Opera House: Shenandoah; Montauk: The Surprises of Love; Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty; March 19-24: Amphion: The Carpet Bagger, with Tim Murphy; Bijou: The Policy Players, with Bert Williams and George Walker; Columbia: The Ameer, with Frank Daniels; Gayety: Shenandoah; Grand Opera House: By the Sad Sea Waves, with Mathews and Bulger; Montauk: The Elder Miss Blossom, with Mr. and Mrs. Kendal; Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty; March 26-31: Amphion: The Parish Priest, with Daniel Sully; Bijou: In Old Kentucky; Columbia: Erminie, with Francis Wilson, Lulu Glaser, Pauline Hall; Gayety: By the Sad Sea Waves, with Mathews and Bulger; Grand Opera House: The Gunner’s Mate; Montauk: A White Lie, A Son’s Inheritance, with Mr. and Mrs. Kendal; Vaudeville and burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty
MARCH 5-10, 1900
MARCH 11-16, 1900
MARCH 26-March 31, 1900
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