A HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE: ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY (1898-1908): OCTOBER 1907

Anna Held.

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).

OCTOBER 1907

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

September 30-October 5:
Bijou: Dublin Dan, the Irish Detective* (Barney Gilmore)
Blaney’s Amphion: Jessie Left the Village*
Broadway: Brown of Harvard (Henry Woodruff)
Columbia: It’s Never Too Late to Mend; or, the Wanderer’s Return*
Folly: Gambler of the West*
Majestic: A Lucky Dog (Nat M. Wills)
Montauk: Fascinating Flora* (Adele Ritchie)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Old Orchard
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Man’s Broken Promise
Royal Italian Theatre: War in the Time of Peace (Guerro in Tempo di Pace); Hamlet
Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham

October 7-12:
Bijou: Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl
Blaney’s Amphion: A Fugitive from Justice*
Broadway: The Boys of Company B* (John Barrymore)
Columbia: Wild Nell, A Child of the Regiment (Vivian Prescott)
Folly: The Burglar and the Lady (James J. Corbett)
Majestic: Shore Acres (Digby Bell)
Montauk: The Parisian Model* (Anna Held)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Leah, the Forsaken
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Her Only Crime
Royal Italian Theatre: Hamlet; The Merchant of Venice
Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham

October 14-19:
Bijou: Through Death Valley*
Blaney’s Amphion: Kidnapped for Revenge (Will H. Vedder)
Broadway: The Tattooed Man* (Frank Daniels)
Columbia: The Way of the Transgressor
Folly: Fallen By the Wayside*
Majestic: The Spoilers*
Montauk: The Follies of 1907* (a.k.a. The Ziegfeld Follies)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Men and Women
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Man of Mystery
Royal Italian Theatre: The Merchant of Venice; A Celebrated Case
Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham

October 21-26:
Bijou: The Banker, the Thief and the Girl* (Joseph Morris)
Blaney’s Amphion: Through Death Valley*
Broadway: Divorçons (Grace George)
Columbia: Bunco in Arizona* (Lillian Mortimer)
Folly: Edna, the Pretty Typewriter (Edith Browning)
Majestic: At Yale*
Montauk: Lola, from Berlin* (Lulu Glaser)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Janice Meredith
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Crown of Thorns
Royal Italian Theatre: The Lamplighter (L’Ampionaro dil Porto); Othello
Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Novelty, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Grand Opera House, Gotham

October 28-November 2:
Bijou: The Little Organ Grinder*
Blaney’s Amphion: Dublin Dan, the Irish Detective (Barney Gilmore)
Broadway: The Follies of 1907
Columbia: The Convict and the Girl
Folly: A Lucky Dog (Nat M. Wills)
Majestic: The Earl and the Girl
Montauk: The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer (Sam Bernard)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Undertow
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Woman Against Woman
Royal Italian Theatre: ?