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The 'opera comique' Girls Of The Orient is playing at The Cosmos Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Three hundred Edison Phonograph dealers arrive in West Orange, New Jersey, USA, to attend the first Edison Dealers Convention. The two day event includes a demonstration in which soprano Alice Verlet is accompanied by music played on an Edison Gramophone using an Edison Diamond Disc. Her performance wins a standing ovation, illustrating how realistic the music produced by the Edison technology seemed to the listeners. (Given that the audience were all Edison dealers, their enthusiasm is perhaps not too surprising). The demonstration will be repeated many times on a promotional tour of the USA.
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".
Vaudeville stars Weber And Fields open at The Palace Theatre, New York City, USA, earning $3,000 per week. Just two years earlier, they had been earning $40.
The musical comedy revue Hands Up, billed as featuring a "stage gorged with pretty girls and elaborate costumes", is playing at The 44th Street Theatre, New York City, USA.
Musical The Blue Paradise is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. A review in The Evening Journal hails it as "Replete with good music and excellent songs." The show will run on Broadway for 356 performances.
The musical revue Hip-Hip-Hooray is playing at The Hippodrome Theatre,