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The New Yon Yonson is playing at The Grand Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. The show features Arthur Donaldson singing My Northern Home.
A musical farce, The Military Maid opens at The Savoy Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for eight performances.
The musical farce Star And Garter plays at The Victoria Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 22 performances.
The Hungarian Gypsy Band, The Chapelle Sisters (Songs and Acrobatic Dances) and McIntyre And Heath in 'Georgia Minstrels - The Personification Of Whole-souled Irresistible Fun" are among the entertainments on offer all week at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Ed F. Reynard, Ameta, Irving Jones, Bimm Bomm And Brrr, The Kelcey Sisters and Anna Morris are among the artists appearing every afternoon and evening at The Chutes And Zoo, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Cragg Family, Louise Thorndyke Boucicault And Company, Katherine Germaine, The Four Otts, Lefbre's Saxophone Quartet, Chas. H. Bradshaw And Company, Remarc And Rilay, and Hill And Silviany, are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee plays at The Grand Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Anna Held is starring in the musical comedy The Little Duchess at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. The show will run on Broadway for a total of 144 performances.
Klaw And Erlanger's Troubadours present Harry B. Smith's musical comedy The Liberty Belles at The Madison Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The Hawaiian Glee Club, Warren And Blanchard, Jessie Dale and Wincherman's Trained Bears are among the entertainments on offer at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical comedy Miss Simplicity, featuring Helen Lord, is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 56 performances.
Singer and "coon impersonator" May Henderson plays the last night in a week of shows at The Empire, Brighton, Sussex, UK.
Singer Maud Beall Price, "bizarre vocalists" Les Trois Dumonds and Piccolo's Royal Lilliputians are among the entertainments on offer at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Marie Wainwright, The Clipper Quartette, Homer Lind And Co., James H. Cullen, Fred Stuber, Papinta, Gorman And Keppler and Mr. And Mrs. Sidney Drew are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical comedy Weary Willie Walker is presented at The Star Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of just eight performances.
Fred Irwin's Big Show presents two Burlesques, Are You An Eagle and At Gay Coney, at Kernan's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
The popular musical comedy Floradora is running at The Illinois theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Blackface comedy duo McIntyre And Heath plus The Orpheum Road Show begin a week of shows at The Orpheum, San Francisco, California, USA. McIntyre And Heath were said to be the best-known, and highest paid, minstrel performers of all time. They are thought to have introduced the "buck and wing" tapdance routine as well as the song Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.
The musical comedy Nancy Brown opens at The Bijou Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run until mid-May.
"The record-breaking comedy-opera triumph" King Dodo is presented at Greene's Opera House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.The musical comedy Woodland is playing at The Van Ness Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Variety show American baritone Percy Hannan and the popular singing comedians Verno And Voyce play the third night in a week of shows as part of the entertainment on offer at The Royal Standard Music Hall, Victoria, London, UK.
The musical comedy, The Velvet Lady, with music by Victor Herbert, is playing at The Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
An "extraordinary tri-star constellation of comedy, song, dance and novelties" is presented during a week at The Hippodrome, Youngstown, Ohio, USA. The show includes "The Best Sellers - a musical fantasy based on modern fiction", and performers such as Hermine Shone, Jack Wyatt's Scotch Lads And Lassies, William Seabury and others.
The musical comedy movie Mad About Music, starring Deanna Durbin, opens at cinemas in the Netherlands, Europe.
Jonathan Richman is born in Natick, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. As founder/leader of The Modern Lovers, he will become one of the most eccentric and admired cult figures in rock music history.
Beyond The Fringe, with music and lyrics by Dudley Moore, opens at The Fortune Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Brother Dave Gardner plays in Columbia Township Auditorium, Columbia, Southern Carolina, USA.
Controversial stand-up comedian (and recording artist) Lenny Bruce is ordered to be confined at the State Rehabilitation Center at Chico, California, USA, for treatment of his drug addiction.
Roy Orbison plays at The Adelphi, Slough, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Searchers, Bob Luman, Freddie And The Dreamers, and Brian Poole And The Tremeloes.
David Frost, Millicent Martin, Lance Percival, Roy Kinnear and others release the BBC soundtrack album from the satirical tv show That Was The Week That Was on Capitol Records in Canada.At a low point in their career, Freddie And The Dreamers enter the UK singles chart with Just For You, which will peak at a disappointing No41, their third consecutive flop.
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The Moby Grape, The Fugs and The Gary Burton Quartet play the first of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA.
On his Pacific And Europe Tour, Frank Zappa plays at Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
Billy Connolly plays at The Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe.Successful Chicago-born songwriter and big band leader Al Trace dies of a stroke in Sun West Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Sun City West, Arizona, USA. He was best-known as the popularizer of the novelty song Mairzy Doats.
Continuing the recent controversy in which radio stations have been banning the 1944 classic Baby, It's Cold Outside on grounds that its lyric might constitute 'sexual harassment', San Francisco radio station KOIT restores the song to its playlist. The station had removed the song a week earlier, but after asking its listeners for opinions, the result was that 77% were opposed to the ban.
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