“When the Gardens opened for the 1901 season, patrons noticed that a beautiful fountain had been added, and new animals had become part of the zoo, among them a family of monkeys, an Egyptian camel and baby mountain sheep. New and elaborate electrical lighting gave added
Blance Walsh came to the theatre for a four-week engagement that would eventually turn into her summer as the star of the Stock company. “Her engagement as a stock star led to the resignation of Hobart Bosworth, leading man of the company…. ‘he believed he had been engaged as leading man of a stock company, not to support a star.’ Robert Lowe, who had been Miss Walsh’s leading man in the past, cut short his summer vacation and headed west to assume the leading man role at Elitch.”
[Borrillo, T. A. (2012). Denver’s historic Elitch Theatre: A nostalgic journey (a history of its times). Colorado. p. 47-48]
Theatre Staff:
- Mary Elitch Long, Proprietor and Manager
- T. D. Long, Business Manager
- Walter Clarke Bellows, Stage Director
Resident Company:
- Eleanor Moretti
- Rose Beaudet
- Deronda Mayo
- Katherine Field
- Esther Lyon
- Hobart Bosworth
- Robert Lowe
- John T. Sullivan
- Verner Clarges
- Charles Wyngate
- Oscar Eagle
- John Daly Murphy
- Harry Willard
- Walter Bromley
- Charles Mylott
- Forrest Flood
Productions:
- Week of May 27: The Charity Ball, by David Belasco and Henry C. DeMille (1889).
- Week of June 3: The Senator, by David Lloyd and Sidney Rosenfield (1889).
- Week of June 11: Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand (1898)
- Week of June 18: Too Much Johnson, by William Gillette (1894).
- Week of June 25: Trilby, by Gerald Du Maurier, adapted by Charles Nedler (Apr. 15, 1895).
- Week of July 2: Alabama, by Augustus Thomas (1891).
- Week of July 9: The Ironmaster, by J. W. Prichard, from the French of George Ohnet. Frederick Perry joined the resident company.
- Week of July 16: Madame Sans-Gêne, by Victorien Sardou (1895).
- Week of July 23: Diplomacy, by Victorian Sardon (1878)
- Week of July 30: Cyrano de Bergerac (popular repeat production).
- Week of Aug. 6: Camille. By Alexandre Dumas, fils (1854).
- Week of Aug. 13: A Scrap of Paper, by Victorien Sardou (Sunday matinee through Wednesday evening). Madame Sans-Gene, by Victorien Sardou (Thursday evening through Saturday evening).
- Week of Aug. 20: The Private Secretary, by william Gillette. Maude Fealy joined the company as leading lady.
- Week of Aug. 27: The Masked Ball, by Clyde Fitch (1892).
