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| Ground plan for new theatre to be built this year at 651 Fulton Street, which would be the Majestic Theatre, still in operation as the BAM Harvey. |
This blog is dedicated to preserving a
curated record of theatre-related images drawn from the digitized pages of the four
chief Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine of 1898-1908. The sources, as
they were called during these years: Brooklyn
Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Standard Union, and Brooklyn Daily Times. At first, only Brooklyn Life provided photos, but as
time passed the newspapers, beginning with the Citizen, abandoned their 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 who are often listed on the ads that begin 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 (McFarland: 2024).
FEBRUARY 1903
February 2-7: Amphion: The Vinegar Buyer, with Ezra Kendall;
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Rival Candidates; Columbia: (Greenwall Stock
Company) Up York State; Folly: Spotless
Town; Gotham: (Elite Stock
Company) The Still Alarm; Grand
Opera House: Old Limerick Town, with Chauncey Olcott; Montauk: Julius Caesar, with
Richard Mansfield; Novelty: Beyond Pardon, with Lavinia Shannon;
Park: A Thoroughbred Tramp;
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) She Stoops to
Conquer; Payton’s Fulton Street: (Payton Fulton Street Company) Friends;
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Woman against Woman; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety,
Unique; February 9-14: Amphion: The Consul, with Louis Mann;
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Blue Jeans; Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Hamlet, with
Creston Clarke; Folly: Lost River; Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) My Partner; Grand Opera House: The
Liberty Belles, with Harry Gilfoil; Montauk: “Carrots” and A Country Mouse, with Ethel Barrymore;
Novelty: Hearts Adrift; Park: Lost
in the Desert; Payton’s Lee
Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Uncle Dan’l; Payton’s Fulton Street:
(Payton Fulton Street Company) May Blossom; Phillips’ Lyceum:
(Lyceum Stock Company); In Louisiana; Vaudeville/burlesque:
Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique; February 16-21: Amphion: The Bonnie Brier Bush, with
J.H. Stoddart; Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Hearts Aflame; Columbia: (Greenwall Stock
Company) Oliver Twist, with Elita Proctor Otis; Folly: Liberty
Belles, with Harry Gilfoil; Gotham:
(Elite Stock Company) Monte Cristo; Grand Opera House: The Volunteer Organist; Montauk: The Cavalier,
Julia Marlowe; Novelty: On the Suwanee River; Park: The Price of Honor; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Power
of the Press; Payton’s
Fulton Street: (Payton Fulton Street Company) Camille; Phillips’
Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Gunner’s Mate; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety,
Unique; February 23-28: Amphion: Dolly Varden, with
Lulu Glaser; Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Gunner’s Mate; Columbia: (Greenwall Stock
Company) Resurrection, with Elita Proctor Otis; Folly: Old
Kentucky; Gotham: (Elite
Stock Company) A Rough Rider’s Romance; Grand Opera House: The Bold Soger Boy, with Andrew
Mack; Montauk: The Altar of Friendship, with Nat C. Goodwin, Maxine
Elliott; Novelty: Tracy, the Outlaw; Park: The Peddler, Joe Walsh; Payton’s Lee Avenue:
(Payton Stock Company) Resurrection; Payton’s Fulton Street: (Payton Fulton Street Company) Woman
Against Woman; Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Through the
Breakers; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde &
Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique
1. February 2-7, 1903
2. February 9-14, 1903
3. February 16-21, 1903
4. February 23-28, 1903
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