Albemarle Opera House - Events & Shows

 

Some of these links include PDF files that are brochures about  the performers.   These are not specifically about their performances in Albemarle.  The flyers are from:   Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century at http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/

 

1908 Season - Opening Week

According to the Stanly Enterprise these events were the first uses of the Opera House

Thursday, May 21, 1908 The Danger Signal (play)
Sunday, May 24, 1908 Sermon to graduating class of Albemarle Graded School
Monday, May 25, 1908 Graduating exercises of Albemarle Graded School
Thursday, May 28, 1908 The Danger Signal (play- repeat performance)

 


 

1908-09 Season

Monday, September 14, 1908 Polk Miller, Storyteller
Tuesday, October 6, 1908 The Clansman by Thomas Dixon
December 21, 1908 Wake Forest College Male Quartette
January 9, 1909 Barnard's Orchestra Concert Company
February 20, 1909  Luther Manship lectures
  1) "The Dialects of Nations"
 

2) "Lights and Shadows of Slavery Days"

March 1, 1909 The College Girls
Thursday, March 18, 1909 Lecture by Dr Oscar Haywood of New York

 


 

1909-10 Season

October 20, 1909 Her American Husband by the Cluxton Musical Comedy Company
Thursday January 27, 1910 Wilfred the Wizard, assisted by O'Komo the Japanese boy
January 29, 1910 Salisbury Soldier Boys
March 5, 1910 De Koven Male Quartet
Tuesday, March 15, 1910 Polk Miller, Storyteller
March 26, 1910 Tempest and Sunshine by Mary J. Holmes
Friday April 15, 1910 Enchanted Wood

                             


 

1910-11 Season

Saturday, January 21, 1911 The Sins of the Father by Thomas Dixon

                     


 

1911-12 Season

October 10, 1911

St Elmo

October 26, 1911 The Thief

                             


 

1912-13 Season

Tuesday, January 7, 1913 The Servant in the House by Charles Rand Kennedy

                


 

1913-14 Season

December 4-6, 1913 Williams Vaudeville Co. and Big Indoor Circus

May 20 & 21, 1914            

Edison's Talking Pictures

 


 

    September-December 1916          

The Opera House was leased to the managers of the Alameda Movie Theatre

while their new building was being completed.

 


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