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- Description:
- Program booklet for performances of"The Intimate Strangers," featuring Billie Burke at New Detroit Opera House during the week of April 4, 1922; both covers missing; front page: advertisement for B. Siegel Company; illustration of woman in dress with fan and scarf facing backwards; "An Entire New Display of Late Spring Garments"; back page: advertisements for David Belais' White Gold and Florentine Room of Hotel Addison; illustration of Florentine Room in Hotel Addison, couples dining and dancing; other advertisements included throughout.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program for a performance of the plays, "Uncle's Will!" and "Champagne and Oysters" held on April, 29th, 1885, and billed within as possibly "the last in history of the Detroit Opera House." The program consists of three cardstock and one cloth disc bound by a piece of beige braided string. The cover consists of a beige, pink, and golden frame through with an engraving of Charles A. Shaw, printed on the cloth disc below is visible. Beneath the frame, the cloth disc is also printed with the signature, "Yours Truly, C.A. Shaw." The engraving is credited to Aldine Printing. The second cardstock to which the cloth disc is glued at the top bares and engraving of the exterior of the Detroit Opera House on the recto and a passage entitled, "Farewell," on the verso. The passage concerns the history of the Opera House, and the present whereabouts of the cast of its first production, "London Assurance," on March 29, 1869. The final disc contains the program for the two plays on the recto. An image of a winged head from which tears fall onto a phrase partially obscured by tape, beginning with the word, "farewell," is printed in gold and blue on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program booklet for a vaudeville performance at the Temple Theatre the week of January 23, 1922. The Temple Theatre Orchestra; Brown, Gardiner, and Trahan; Al Haig and Earl LaVere; Frank Ellis; Daisy Nellis; James J. Morton; William L. Gibson and Regina Connelli; Clara Howard; Eddie Leonard; Binns and Grill; and the Temple Film Review are billed. The program also contains information about upcoming performances, including the following week's appearance by "Babe" Ruth, and numerous advertisements. The cover contains a green image of a frieze of a procession of performers above a stage curtain. Reviews, quotations, drawings, and other notes are handwritten in blue pen beside the entry for each act from someone who notes they were "at the Temple for our graduation movie."
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program booklet for a performance by I.J. Paderewski at the Arcadia Auditorium on January 9, 1923, presented by the Philharmonic-Central Concert Company. A picture of the exterior of the auditorium is on the cover, and information about the performance, as well as upcoming performance and advertisements, are contained within. An insert flyer for Bush and Lane pianos is also inside.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program booklet for a vaudeville performance at the Temple Theatre the week of August 14, 1911; program features a list of acts that will be performing as well as a number of advertisements; front cover features a color illustration of a young woman with a bow in her hair holding a fan looking back at the viewer as well as that of a minstrel playing a lute; at center "Temple Theatre, Detroit's Home of Vaudeville"; advertisement for Traver-Bird Co. at bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program booklet for performances of "The 'Widow' Shannon," by the Bonstelle Company at the Garrick Theatre beginning the week of July 9, 1923; color cover with illustration of a woman in period dress with two servants framed by an oval; in small oval underneath "Arriving at the play in the time of David Garrick"; "Direction of Lee and J.J. Shubert;" back cover: advertisement for "The Brunswick Shop"; illustration of storefront with illustration of large record behind "The Shop with a Record behind it"; Printed by the Theatre Program Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Souvenir program booklet for the Detroit Star Course of Entertainment at the Auditorium, detailing the 1893-1893 schedule of concerts, lectures, and literary readings at Schwankovsky's Music House; front cover features a large gold star at the center, surrounded by the title against a green background; numerous advertisements contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program for performance of "Cyrano de Bergerac" starring Francis Wilson at the Detroit Opera House beginning January 8, 1900; contains cast list, scene synopses, musical program, and house staff list; front cover is red, white, and black; features large crest with "Detroit Opera House" at center and two Classically dressed men on either side playing musical instruments
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Half-folded, single-side program for a production of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" at the Garrick Theatre during the week of April 22, 1907. "The Awakening" is announced as the theater's next attraction. The program is printed in black on olive green paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for a production of "The Auctioneer," at the Detroit Opera House beginning April 14, 1902. An illustration of a man in historical costume leaning beside an oil lamp beneath a banner that incorporates the masks of comedy and tragedy is on the cover. Information on the production and numerous advertisements--including ones for Siegel's, Newcomb, Endicott, and Company, the Russell House Restaurant and Cafe, the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company, Stroh's, Edward W. Alexander and Company umbrellas, Sanders', and the Grinnell Brothers--are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society