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The 'opera comique' Girls Of The Orient is playing at The Cosmos Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
At The Battle Of The Nek [aka The Battle of Sari Bair], part of the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey, Europe, during the First World War, two regiments of the Australian 3rd Light Horse Brigade mount a tragic and futile attack on the Ottoman trenches on a knoll known as Baby 700. The disastrous engagement leaves nearly 400 Australian cavalrymen dead. This tragic story will inspire P.J. Harvey to write her 2011 song The Colour Of The Earth.
The Passing Show Of 1915 continues its lengthy run at The Winter Garden, Broadway, New York City, USA. The show is billed as featuring "Enthralling Visions of Girls Divinely Fair".
The Chicago Band performs a concert in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA, playing popular songs, light classics and songs from musicals.
George Evans is born in Wood Green, London, England, UK. He will find success as a jazz bandleader, tenor saxophonist, composer and vocalistS.H. Gray's Vaudeville Repertorie Company is playing at The Iceland Theatre, Washington DC, USA. Performers include the singing and dancing sister team Bumbray And Willis. Miss Bumbray is desribed as "a real coon shouter" who "delivers the goods" in a show "full of fun, mirth, laughs, songs, dances and pretty girls."
The musical revue Hip-Hip-Hooray is playing at The Hippodrome Theatre,