Word: director
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attraction announced at the Castle Square Theatre for the coming week will make a notable event in the season's happenings, as Director Jaxon has arranged a revival of Balfe's old time favorite opera "Satanella." This tuneful work has not been heard here for a quarter of a century and there is every reason to anticipate as great a success for it as that which has always attended the same composer's "Bohemian Girl...
Last night J. D. Barney was elected a director of the H. D. A. from 1900 in place of B. Livermore, resigned...
...Castle Square Opera Company makes its second Wagnerian production the coming week, the selection of "Tannhauser" having been made by Director Jaxon with a view to gratifying the wishes of thousands of Castly Square patrons who are eager to have a further hearing of the Wagner repertoire. As was done in the "Lohengrin" production, the organization will be largely augmented to meet the demands of the opera as regards the chorus and orchestra, and some singers, new to the company, will be heard in some of the roles...
Professor John Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has recently completed an entirely new apparatus for taking X ray photographs. He has prepared the largest storage battery in the world, which consists of 10,000 cells, with a voltage of 20,000, which can be raised to 600,000 by means of an accumulator. This battery will give a flaming discharge in air, three feet in length...
...REVIVAL of Ambroise Thomss's "Mignon" is announced by General Director Jaxon as the attraction for the coming week at the Castle Square Theatre, and the selection will meet the hearty approval of the great public to which these performances appeal so successfully. In the revival the title role will be taken by Clara Lane and Carrie Roma, the latter a new member of the organization. Director Max Hirschfeld has given his usual care to the production of "Mignon" and a repetition of this opera's earlier success with the company can be confidently anticipated. "Mignon" is announced for only...