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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-THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES
SEPTEMBER 1899
September 4-9: Bijou: Devil’s Island (opened
Saturday, September 2); Gayety: Mrs. B. O’Shaughnessy (Wash Lady),
with George Monroe (opened Saturday, September 2); Grand Opera House: Under
the Red Robe, with
Paul Cazaneuve; Montauk: The Moth and the Flame, with Herbert
Kelcey, Effie Shannon; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s,
Empire, Star; September 11-16: Bijou: The Cherry Pickers;
Columbia: Because She Loved Him So; Gayety: Under the Red Robe; Grand Opera
House: A Grip of Steel; Montauk: The Cuckoo; Vaudeville/burlesque:
Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Empire, Novelty; September 18-23: Amphion: The
Mikado, The Bohemian Girl, with Jaxon Opera Company;
Bijou: An Easy Mark; Columbia: Because She Loved Him So;
Gayety: A Grip of Steel; Grand Opera House: The White
Heather, with Rose Coghlan; Montauk: Hon. John Grigsby, with
Sol Smith Russell; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star,
Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire Theatre; September 25-30:
Bijou: The Sporting Duchess; Columbia: Because She Loved
Him So; Gayety: The White Heather, Rose Coghlan; Grand
Opera House: The Village Postmaster; Montauk: Colinette,
with Julia Marlowe; Park: The Mikado, The Bohemian Girl,
with Jaxon Opera Company; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s,
Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire Theatre
SEPTEMBER 4-9, 1899
SEPTEMBER 11-16, 1899
SEPTEMBER 18-23, 1899
SEPTEMBER 25-30, 1899
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