Theater program for a performance at the Bijou Opera House. Program includes advertisements for dozens of local businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A photograph of unidentified children in winged costumes, with "Grasston 'Kids'" and "1924" written at the top. On the back of the photo, there is a message to take the kids' picture, and handwritting that states that "sever of these people on the picture still live in this area."
Minneapolis Choral Society program listing music performed in concert at the Auditorium. The Society was assisted by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. The pieces performed were "Overture to 'The Flying Dutchman'" by Wagner; "Aria - Flower Song" from "Carmen" by Bizet; "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F major" by Liszt; and "Symphony-Cantata, 'The Hymn of Praise', Op. 52," by Mendelssohn. Also includes text of "The Hymn of Praise" and a list of Society members.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Four page program for the Minneapolis Choral Society performance of "The Messiah," held at The Auditorium on December 26, 1921, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Program includes text of Messiah and advertisement for Metropolitan Music Store.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Choral Society program listing music performed in concert at the Auditorium. The pieces performed were "March and Chorus from Tannhauser, 'Hail Bright Abode'" by Wagner; "Daybreak" by Faning; "My Lover, He Comes on the Ski" by Clough-Leighter; "Dawn" by Curran; "I Wish I Were a Tender Apple Blossom" from Old Irish; "At the Well" by Hageman; "Moonlight - Five Parts - Song" by Faning; "A Rondelay, Madrigal for Eight Parts" by Weidig; and "The New Earth" by Henry Hadley. Also includes text of "The New Earth," a list of Choral Society members, and advertisement for Metropolitan Music Store.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Orpheum Theatre program listing events from the week of April 20, 1919. Events include a Musical Program and a Concert Program for the Orpheum Travel Weekly with the Orpheum Theatre Orchestra directed by Albert Rudd; Kinograms, the visual news of all the world; the Mizuma Japs, an oriental fantasy; Jennings and Mack in "The Camouflage Taxi"; Joseph E. Bernhard presenting "Who Is She?" a comedy playlet by Willard Mack; Edwin George in A Comedy of Errors; Martin Beck presenting The Marion Morgan Dancers, in a dance drama in the time of Attila and the Huns; Buster Santos and Jacque Hays, the girls with the funny figures in "The Health Hunters"; "Birds of a Feather," a pantomimical fantasy of the forest with Bert Ford and Pauline Price; Orpheum Travel Weekly, round the world with the Orpheum Circuit's moving picture photographer. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs, and a glued newspaper clipping.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schwartz, Louis L. (author); Civic Players of Minneapolis (producers)
Date Created:
1919
Description:
The Civic Players of Minneapolis were a community theater group that organized in March 1918. Their stated purpose was "to develop the drama on a broad, democratic basis and to make Minneapolis not so much a city of theaters as a community with a playhouse." In 1919, in the wake of WWI, they performed a historical pageant entitled "Swords and Plowshares" on the steps of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The pageant was intended to theatrically illustrate history's greatest wars and to point out the "indisputable fact ... that the ideal of Democracy has been steadily struggling upward through the years of violence and stress." To highlight the success of democracy and civilization at the local level the players included the names and images of notable Minneapolis institutions, landmarks, and businesses in the front and back of their playbill. The playbill provides insight into what the people of early twentieth-century Minneapolis perceived to be their city's finest qualities and is a record of the city's most important buildings and businesses following World War I.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Program for Minneapolis Municipal Band Concert at Lake Harriet Roof Garden, with a variety of musical selections on Wednesday August 9, Thursday August 10. Friday August 11, and Saturday August 12. Most notable was the Last Opera Concert of the Season, with full chorus and orchestra performing excerpts from "Aida" and "Faust." The Minneapolis Municipal Band was directed by Joseph Sainton. Includes illustration of boats on Lake Harriet and full page ad for Gold Medal Flour.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Orpheum Theatre program listing events from the week of January 17, 1915. Events include the Orpheum Theatre Orchestra directed by Albert Rudd; Jack and Foris, the jolly Frenchmen; Cervo, piano accordionist; "Three Beautiful Types" in living representations of famous paintings designed and executed by Chas. De Soria; Big City Four, quartette stars of 1915; Valerie Bergere and her Company present "The Locks at Panama" by Edgar Allen Woolf; Lydell Rogers and Lydell in "A Native of Arkansas"; Bertish, combination of strength and agility; Orpheum Travel Weekly, round the world with the Orpheum Circuit's moving picture photographer. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Orpheum Theatre program listing events from the week of September 20, 1914. Events include the Orpheum Theatre Orchestra directed by Albert Rudd; Libby and Barton, thrills and fun on tires; Jane Ward and Billie Cullen offer a polite pianosongalog; Billy "Swede" Hall and Jennie Colborn in Mr. Hall's comedy protean oddity, "Made Good"; Tony Hunting and Corinne Francis in "A Love Lozenger"; Gertrude Hoffman in Gertrude Hoffman's Revue, which includes "The Argentine Tango" with Senor Enrico Muris, "It Isn't That Way Anymore," "Zobeide's Dream," Harry Lauder, "Gaby Dubarry," "In the Japanese Garden," "The Belle Girls," and Isadora Duncan. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Orpheum Theatre program listing events from the week of February 8, 1914. Events include the Orpheum Theatre Orchestra directed by Albert Rudd; Woodward's Posing Dogs; Clara Inge, eccentric comedienne; Musical Cuttys, the world's greatest musical family; Harry Gilfoil, in his original character; Miss Olga Nethersole, in the third act of "Sapho" by Clyde Fitch, from the novel by M. Alphonse Daudet and the play by Duadet and Belot; Mr. David Bisphan, the renowned baritone; Chung Hwa Four, Chinese exponents of harmony and fun; Frank Hanlon and Mike Hanlon, acrobatic physical marvels; two new photo plays, "Her Sideshow Sweetheart" and "Pat's Revenge" directed by W.L. Landon. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Miles Hippodrome Theatre advertising "continuous Motion Pictures and Vaudeville" from 12 noon to 5 P.M. Programs include "Miles Hippodrome Orchestra," Bonsetti Troupe - Modern Acrobats, Sadie Sherman and Her Original Creation - Phototypes, Aulen and Flight - Those Minstrel Boys, Jacobs and Slattery Present "Maxim's Models" in living reproduction of famous paintings, Paris Green - Green Songs, Green Jokes, and Green in Name, Francesco Creatore and his famous "Italian Banda Verdi" in a program of Classic and Popular selections, and Projectodrome - Pictures Deluxe. Program includes numerous advertisements for Minneapolis businesses, with illustrations and photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of November 17, 1912: "The Blue Bird" by Maurice Maeterlinck. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of November 3, 1912: "The Mikado," "The Pirates of Penzance," "H.M.S. Pinafore," and "Patience" by Sir W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of October 6, 1912: "The Bird of Paradise" an Hawaiian romance by Richard Walton Tully. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of May 5, 1912: "Excuse Me" a Pullman carnival in three sections by Rupert Hughes. Also advertisement.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of April 8, 1912: Shakespearean repertoire "Taming of the Shrew," "Macbeth," "The Merchant of Venice," Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "As You Like It," and "Twelfth Night" including famous actors E.H. Sothern (Edward Hugh Sothern) and Julia Marlowe (Sarah Frances Frost). Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs, and a list of theatrical stars appearing.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of April 8, 1912: "Taming of the Shrew," "Macbeth," "The Merchant of Venice," "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "As You Like It," and "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare. Also advertisement.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of March 17, 1912: "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe Verdi, "La Boheme" by Giacomo Puccini, "Lakme" by Leo Delibes, "Faust" by Charles Gounod, "Madame Butterfly" by Puccini, "Manon" by Jules Massenet, "Thais" by Massenet, "Carmen" by Georges Bizet, and "La Tosca" by Puccini. Also advertisement.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of March 11, 1912: "Little Women" by Marian de Forest after the story by Louisa M. Alcott. Also advertisement. Single clipping.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of March 3, 1912: "The Chocolate Soldier" an opera bouffe in three acts by Oscar Straus. Single clipping.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the weeks of January 14, 1912 and January 21, 1912: "The Pink Lady" an adaption from Le Satyre by Georges Berr and Marcel Guillemand, "A Night Out" by May Robson and T.C. Dazey, and "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary." Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs. Incomplete program.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of December 24, 1911: "As a Man Thinks" by Augustus Thomas with "America's foremost actor" John Mason. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Orpheum Theatre program listing events in December 1911 from the notable engagement of Dr. Ludwig Wllner for "Translation of Songs," Coenraad V. Bos, accompanist. Number 1 Erlknig by Franz Schubert (Goethe); Number 2 Ein Weib by Christian Sindig (Heine); Number 3 Caecilie by Richard Strauss (H. Hart); Number 4 Die Beiden Grenadiere by Robert Schumann (Heine); Number 5 Der Doppelgnger by Franz Schubert (Heine); Number 6 Ich Grolle Nicht by Robert Schumann (Heine); Number 7 Wanderlied by Robert Schumann (J. Kerner); Number 8 Der Rattenfaenger by Hugo Wolf (Goethe); Number 9 Das Lied des Steinklopfers by Richard Strauss (Henckell); Number 10 Der Handkuss by Oscar C. Posa (Liliencron); Number 11 Der Sieger by H. Kaun (Drescher); Number 12 Drei Wanderer by Hans Hermann (Busse).
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library