OCTOBER 1898

 This site is under construction.

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.

OCTOBER 1898

OCTOBER 1898

 

October 3-8: Amphion: Cavalleria Rusticana, I’Pagliacci, Carmen, The Masked Ball, Faust, Il Trovatore, with Royal Italian Opera Company; Bijou: The School for Scandal, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, with Louis James, Frederick Warde, Katherine Kidder; Columbia: The Idol’s Eye, with Frank Daniels; Gayety: West’s Minstrelsy; Montauk: The Bride Elect; Grand Opera House: Natural Gas; Park: Lost in New York; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star; October 10-15: Amphion: The Meddler, with Stuart Robson; Bijou: Shall We Forgive Her?, East Lynne, with Marie Wainwright; Columbia: The Tree of Knowledge, with James K. Hackett; Gayety: Grand Opera House: Tempest Tossed;  Montauk: A Virginia Courtship, with William H. Crane; Park: Confusion; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star; October 17-22, 1898: Amphion: The Belle of New York, with Dan Daly; Bijou: In Old Kentucky; Columbia: The Serenade, Robin Hood, with the Bostonians; Gayety: Tempest Tossed; Grand Opera House: Monte Cristo, When Greek Meets Greek, with James O’Neill; Montauk: Uncle Dick, with Sol Smith Russell; Park: (Park Stock Company) All the Comforts of Home; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star; October 24-29, 1898: Amphion: War Correspondent, with Burr McIntosh; Bijou: John Martin’s Secret; Columbia: The Old Homestead, with Denman Thompson; Gayety: Monte Cristo, When Greek Meets Greek, with James O’Neill; Grand Opera House: A Hot Old Time, with Johnny and Emma Ray; Montauk: Cyrano de Bergerac, with Ada Rehan, Charles Richman; Park: All the Comforts of Home; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

OCTOBER 3-8, 1898

OCTOBER 10-15, 1898

OCTOBER 16-21, 1898

OCTOBER 24-29, 1898

SEPTEMBER 1898

 This site is under construction. 

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.

SEPTEMBER 1898

August 29-September 3: Montauk: What Happened to Jones; Park (Grover Stock Company): How Brown Was Hypnotized (opened Saturday, August 27);Vaudeville/burlesque: Star, Brooklyn Music Hall; September 5-10: Bijou: The Dawn of Freedom (opened Saturday, September 3); Gayety: An Enemy to the King (opened Saturday, September 3); Grand Opera House: A Sure Cure (opened, Saturday, September 3); Montauk: A Stranger in New York; Park (Grover Stock Company): The Open Gate, The New Private Secretary; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s (opened Saturday, September 3), Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star; September 12-17: Bijou: The Grip of Steel; Gayety: A Sure Cure; Grand Opera House: My Friend from India; Montauk: The Belle of New York, with Dan Daly; Park (Grover Stock Company): Our Boarding House; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star; September 19-24: Amphion: The Telegraph Girl; Bijou: Two Little Vagrants; Gayety: My Friend from India; Grand Opera House: At Piney Ridge; Montauk: The White Heather; Park (Grover Stock Company): Saints and Sinners, with J.H. Stoddart; Vaudeville/ burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star; September 26-October 1: Amphion: Diplomacy, with Mary Shaw; Bijou: Going to the Races; Columbia: The Meddler, with Stuart Robson; Gayety: At Piney Ridge, with David Higgins; Grand Opera House: William H. West Minstrelsy Company; Montauk: The White Heather; Park (Grover Stock Company): Lost in New York; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

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SEPTEMBER 19-24, 1898

SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 1, 1898