Showing all 12 Facts found
Click to filter results
Augusto Diaz, guitar-maker and populariser of the ukulele, suffers a disaster when his shop at 11, King Street, Chinatown, Honolulu, Hawaii, burns down. [In 2003, Dias will be inducted into the Ukulele Hall Of Fame].
An operetta double bill of The Magic Melody and At The Lower Harbour, both with music by Jacques Offenbach, opens at the American Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for eight performances.
Augusto Diaz, guitar-maker and populariser of the ukulele, suffers a disaster when his shop at 11, King Street, Chinatown, Honolulu, Hawaii, burns down. (In 2003, Dias will be inducted into the Ukelele Hall Of Fame)
Ernst Busch is born in Germany, Europe. He will find fame as an interpreter of political songs in the Berlin cabaret scene of the 1930s, and will star in the first stage production [and first film version] of Bertold Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
Chris And The Wonderful Lamp, featuring music by John Philip Sousa, is playing at Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. The show features a cast and ensemble of 100.
The Musical Comedy Two Little Lambs is playing at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The New Yon Yonson is playing at The Grand Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. The show features Arthur Donaldson singing My Northern Home.
Two musical features, Whirl-I-Gig and Barbara Fidgety, are playing at Weber And Fields' Music Hall, Broadway, New York City, USA.
David E. Hughes, inventor of the loose-contact carbon microphone, vital to telephony, broadcasting and sound recording, dies in London, UK.
Juan Tizol is born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He will find fame as a trombonist and composer, working with the orchestras of Duke Ellington and Harry James. While with Ellington, Tizol will compose Caravan and Perdido.