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/. 

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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.