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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/.
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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)
According to the Stanly Enterprise the above events were the first uses
of the Opera House
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
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
Saturday, January 21,
1911 The
Sins of the Father by Thomas
Dixon
October 10,
1911 St Elmo
October 26,
1911 The Thief
Tuesday, January 7,
1913
The Servant in the House by Charles Rand Kennedy
December 4-6,
1913 Williams Vaudeville Co. and Big Indoor Circus
Wednesday, May 20,
1914 Edison's Talking Pictures
Thursday, May 21,
1914
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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