AMUSEMENT NOTES (09-08-1908)

AMUSEMENT NOTES.

F. Ziegfeld, Jr.’s musical revue, “The Follies of 1908,” was presented downstairs in the New York Theatre for the first time last night, where it will be seen for four weeks.  Nora Bayes gave a burlesque of the Salome dance.

Julia Allen, a young American singer, will make her debut in New York to-night as Gilda in “Rigoletto” at the American Theatre.  M. Barri, a new lyric tenor, will also be brought forward as the Duke.

Cheridah Simpson will shortly return to vaudeville, offering a pianologue and songs at the Percy Williams houses.

John B. Park, a comedian of the “Mary’s Lamb” company, has been engaged by F. Ziegfeld for “The Soul Kiss.”
Originally published in The New York Times on Tuesday, September 8, 1908