The Sho Gun (A Comic Opera in Two Acts), written by George Ade and composed by Gustav Luders, and performed at the Grand Opera House, Seattle on December 24, 1905.

   Scenes from The Sho Gun (A Comic Opera in Two Acts), written by George Ade and composed by Gustav Luders, and performed at the Grand Opera House, Seattleon, December 24, 1905, starring William C. Weeden and Agnes Cain Brown.

  The Sho-Gun (Musical, Comedy, Opera) opened in New York City Oct 10, 1904 and played through Jan 21, 1905.

   The play is set on the fictional Korean island of Ka-Choo, the plot revolves around the arrival of William Henry Spangle, an American businessman, amidst the serene, tradition-bound island ruled by Sho-Gun Flai-Hai.

Salome, first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 9 December 1905.

   Scenes from Salome, first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 9 December 1905.

   "Salome" premiered at Dresden's Königliches Opernhaus on this day in 1905; based on Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé," the Richard Strauß opera shocked audiences at the time; here's Teresa Stratas in the finale ("Es ist kein Laut zu vernehmen")

Chavanne, Burrian and Witchch

Karel Burian, moving to Dresden, and created role of Herod in Salome, 1905

Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and produced at the Court Theatre, London, on November 28, 1905

Scenes from Major Barbara written by the British playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced at the Court Theatre, London, on November 28, 1905.

Annie Russell as Barbara, Oswalde Yorke, Clare Greet as Rummy Mitchens, Doroty Minto as Jenny

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Pelléas et Mélisande written by Maurice Maeterlinck and produced at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, in November 1905

Scenic designs by Lucien Jusseaume (French painter, 1861 - 1925) for Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande, 5-act-opera with music by Claude Debussy, 1892) written by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) and produced at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, in November 1905.

act 1, scene 2

 

act 2, scene 1

act 2, scene 3

act 3, scene 4

The Duffer written by Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919), and performed at the Comedy Theatre, London, from around November 16, 1905.

   Scenes from The Duffer written by the English playwright Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919), and performed at the Comedy Theatre, London, from around November 16, 1905.

  One of his plays, The Duffer, was about students at the Royal Academy, which was successful and enjoyed a Royal Command Performance.

(The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, September 9th, 1905)

Weedon Grossmith His Play Duffer Robert Iles David Wilson 1905

 

‘The Duffer’, Mr. Weedon Grossmith, November 16, 1905 

La Marche nuptiale (1905) written by Henry Bataille (1872-1922), and produced at Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1905

A scene from La Marche nuptiale (1905) written by the French playwright, Henry Bataille (1872-1922), and produced at  Théâtre du Vaudeville, Paris, on October 27, 1905.

Act III

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The Well of the Saints (first produced in 1905) written by John Millington Synge and painted by John S. Currie

   A stage sketch of The Well of the Saints (3-act-play, first produced at the Abbey Theatre in 1905) written by the Irish playwright John Millington Synge (1871-1909), painted by John S. Currie (American, 1897-1946).

   The Well of the Saints is a three-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre by the Irish National Theatre Society in February 1905. The setting is specified as "some lonely mountainous district in the east of Ireland one or more centuries ago."

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Scenes from The Walls of Jericho, opened at the Savoy Theatre, in New York City, on September 25, 1905 and played through February 1906, starring James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering.

   Scenes from The Walls of Jericho, opened at the Savoy Theatre, in New York City, on September 25, 1905 and played through February 1906, starring James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering.

   New York Times :  1906/04/23  SUNDAY PLAY IN BOSTON.; Authorities Let Hackett and Mannering ...  BOSTON, April 22.—At the Tremont Theatre to-night James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering presented “The Walls of Jericho” for the benefit of the San Francisco sufferers.

Savoy Theatre, Hackett and Mannering, "The Walls of Jericho"

The clansman, first performed by the Southern Amusement Co., at the Academy of Music, Norfolk, Virginia, on September 22, 1905.

   Scenes from The clansman (an American drama from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman), first performed by the Southern Amusement Co., at the Academy of Music, Norfolk, Virginia, on September 22, 1905.

   The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. that included The Leopard's Spots and The Traitor. It was influential in providing the ideology that helped support the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The novel was immediately adapted by its author as a play entitled The Clansman (1905).

Man and Superman (1901-02) written by George Bernard Shaw and produced at the Hudson Theater, New York City, in 1905-06

Two scenes from Man and Superman (1901-02) written by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced at the Hudson Theater, New York City, running for 192 performances from Sep. 5, 1905 to 1906.

Clara Bloodgood stars in Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman in 1905

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The Prince Chap, written by Edward Peple (1867-1924), and produced at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York, from September 4 to December 30, 1905, runnning for 136 performances.

A scene from The Prince Chap, written by the American playwright Edward Peple (1867-1924),  and produced at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York, from September 4 to December 30, 1905, runnning for 136 performances.

"The Prince Chap," by Edward Peple, at the Criterion Theatre, 1906

Fiamme nell'ombra (Flames in the Shadows, drama in three acts) and Il Cuculo (The Cuckoo, playful comedy in three acts), written by Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912), and the former produced at the Teatro Manzoni, Milan, and the latter at the Teatro Olympia, Milan, in 1905.

Scenes from Fiamme nell'ombra (Flames in the Shadows,  drama in three acts) and Il   Cuculo (The Cuckoo, playful comedy in three acts), written by the Italian playwright Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912), and the former produced at the Teatro Manzoni, Milan, and the latter at the Teatro Olympia, Milan, in 1905.

Mrs Warren's Profession (a play of Victorian England, 1893) written by George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced in Germany, as KItty Warren, around in 1905.

A scene from Mrs Warren's Profession (a play of Victorian England, 1893) written by the English playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced in Germany, as KItty Warren, around in 1905.

Rosa Bertens in Kitty Warren

There she worked successfully in the naïve field and then moved to the Stadttheater in Cologne, from where she was appointed to the Deutsches Theater in Petersburg. In 1887 she joined the association of the Berlin Residenztheater, in 1894 she went to the Deutsches Theater and in 1895 back to the Residenztheater. In 1898 she moved to the Lessing Theatre, where she belonged until at least 1902. In 1911 she was a member of the Berlin Max Reinhardt Ensemble and played Iocaste alongside Ferdinand Bonn in Hofmannsthal's stage adaptation of King Oedipus.

Auferstehung (Воскресение, Resurrection also translated as The Awakening), written by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), and produced probably in Berlin around 1905.

Scenes from Auferstehung (Воскресение, Resurrection also translated as The Awakening), written by the Russian playwright Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), and produced probably in Berlin around 1905.

Resurrection was first published in December 1899, and the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy.