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The musical play A Country Girl, or Town and Country, with music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens, is performed at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 729 performances.
A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Apollo Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a lengthy run.A production of the "musical extravaganza" The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum with music by Paul Tietjens and A.B. Sloane, plays at The Majestic Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
Haley's Band plays at 
A report in the Georgetown Courier claims that the Boston Board of Health is considering making use of the idea that music can kill mosquitos. The report describes, "a new process for lessening the evil by means of musical sounds," and adds that, "The discoverer of the new process says, 'It has been found that practical application has been effected by raising to a great number of vibrations per second the particular note to which the mosquito is most sensitively attuned. This intensified note, produced by sudden electrical impulse upon a musical instrument, causes every mosquito near to plunge headlong to the instrument and die.'”
Sharpshooter, frontierswoman and storyteller Martha Jane Cannary, better known as Calamity Jane, dies aged 51, of from inflammation of the bowels and pneumonia, at the Calloway Hotel, Terry, South Dakota, USA. The musical western movie Calamity Jane, based slightly on her life, will be released in 1953, and she will appear as a character in numerous other films and tv productions.