NOVEMBER 1907

This blog is dedicated to preserving a record of Brooklyn theatre theatre-related images based largely on publication in nearly a half-dozen contemporary Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine (Brooklyn Life) of 1898-1908. It also lists the week-by-week productions at each legitimate theatre from January 1898 through December 1908. It is adapted from my earlier blog, BROOKLYN THEATRE FROM 1898: AN ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY and is intended as a supplement to a forthcoming two-volume book also called ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908).

The book covers everything related to Brooklyn theatre during the first decade of the former city's first decade as a borough of Greater New York, including plays, playhouses, productions, people, producing policies, scandals, lawsuits, fires, accidents, brawls, ethnic theatres, crimes, religious attacks, rivalry with Manhattan, and so on. The focus is on legitimate theatre, but considerable attention is paid to developments in vaudeville and burlesque as well. 

To find a specific month, please use the search box in the upper left corner. May-June and August-September are always joined, so searches for one of those months should be, for example, May-June 1906.

Samuel L. Leiter

Author: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES (McFarland: 2024). 

NOVEMBER 1907                              

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

November 4-9:
Bijou: The Ninety and Nine (Bayone Whipple)
Blaney’s Amphion: The Rocky Mountain Express*
Broadway: The Spring Chicken (Richard Carle)
Columbia: A Millionaire’s Revenge
Folly: At Yale (Leila Dell Lennon)
Majestic: The Umpire* (Joseph Whitehead)
Montauk: The Straight Road* (Blanche Walsh)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Sag Harbor
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Ruled Off the Turf
Royal Italian: (Maiori Stock Company) ?
Shubert: The Girl of the Golden West (Blanche Bates)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham

November 11-16:
Bijou: The Gambler of the West
Blaney’s Amphion: The Cowboy and the Squaw
Broadway: Mary’s Lamb* (Harry Conor)
Columbia: The Four Corners of the Earth
Folly: The Ninety and Nine (Bayone Whipple)
Majestic: King Casey* (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Montauk: Anna Karenina* (Virginia Harned)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Siberia
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Woman’s Struggle
Royal Italian: (Maiori Stock Company) Macbeth (November 15, 16)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham, Lubin’s Park

November 18-23:
Bijou: Around the Clock
Blaney’s Amphion: Custer’s Last Fight
Broadway: The Ranger* (Dustin Farnum, Mary Boland)
Columbia: A Midnight Escape
Folly: Patsy in Politics (Billy B. Van)
Majestic: The Power that Governs* (Creston Clarke)
Montauk: The Road to Yesterday (Minnie Dupree)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Prodigal Son
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) By Right of Sword
Royal Italian: (Maiori Stock Company) Macbeth (November 19, 20)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham, Lubin’s Park

November 25-30:
Bijou: Convict 999
Blaney’s Amphion: Eight Bells (the Byrne Brothers)
Broadway: The Parisian Model (Anna Held)
Columbia: The Life of an Actress* (Leila Dell Lennon)
Folly: King Casey (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Majestic: The Old Homestead
Montauk: When Knights Were Bold* (Francis Wilson)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Mistress Nell
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) At the World’s Mercy
Royal Italian: (Maiori Stock Company) ?
Shubert: (Clarendon Stock Company) The Love Route

Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham, Lubin’s Park

May 4-9, 1908

Bijou: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Campbell Stratton

Blaney’s: The Girl and the Detective, with Cecil Spooner

Broadway: The Parisian Model, with Anna Held

Columbia: Dora Thorne, with Corinne Snell

Folly: The County Fair, with Neil Burgess

Gotham: (Fuller Stock Company) The Plunger

Majestic: Buster Brown

Montauk: The Top o’ the World, with George W. Monroe

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Lee Avenue Stock Company) The Road to Yesterday

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Strange Adventures of Mrs. Brown

Vaudeville and burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Park

May 11-16, 1908

Bijou: Human Hearts

Broadway: Sapho, Carmen, with Olga Nethersole 

Folly: (shifts to vaudeville)

Gotham: (Fuller Stock Company) Shore Acres

Majestic: The Bishop’s Carriage, with Edna May Spooner

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Lee Avenue Stock Company) Old Heidelberg

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Princess of Patches 

Vaudeville and burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Folly

May 18-23, 1908

Broadway: The Clansman

Folly: Bandanna Land, with Williams and Walker

Gotham: (Fuller Stock Company) Anna Karenina

Majestic: The Three of Us, Edna May Spooner

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Lee Avenue Stock Company) Zira

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Slaves of Russia

Vaudeville and burlesque: Olympic, Orpheum, Star, Gayety

May 25-31, 1908

Broadway: The Man of the Hour

Majestic: The Governor and the Boss, with Edna May Spooner

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Lee Avenue Stock Company) The Girl from Williamsburg

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Parish Priest

Vaudeville and burlesque: Orpheum, Star, Gayety

June 2-7, 1908

Majestic: The Marriage of William Ashe, with Edna May Spooner

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Lee Avenue Stock Company) The Pearl of Savoy, with Corse Payton

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Nobody’s Darling, with Madeleine Clark

Vaudeville and burlesque: Orpheum, Star, Gayety

June 9-14, 1908

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Lee Avenue Stock Company) Brown of Harvard

Vaudeville and burlesque: Orpheum, Star, Gayety

A few additional summertime beach resort amusement photos for 1908.

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Samuel L. Leiter

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre), Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Drama Desk voter. Author/editor of 31 books. Most recent: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE (2024); MEIJI KABUKI (2022); KABUKI AT THE CROSSROADS (2014). Selected others: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEW YORK STAGE, 1920-1930, 1930-1940, 1940-1950; SHAKESPEARE AROUND THE GLOBE; FROM BELASCO TO BROOK; FROM STANISLAVSKY TO BARRAULT; THE GREAT STAGE DIRECTORS; FROZEN MOMENTS; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN THEATRE; HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE TRADITIONAL THEATRE; THE ART OF KABUKI; KABUKI PLAYS ON STAGE (4 vols.), etc. “Back-translations”: THE LION KING, AIDA, and WICKED for Tokyo productions. Blogs: KABUKI WOOGIE and THEATRE'S LEITER SIDE. Regular contributor: THEATER PIZZAZZ, THEATER LIFE. slleiter@gmail.com

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