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A Persian Princess
''A Persian Princess'' is an oriental-themed Edwardian musical comedy in two acts, with a book by Leedham Bantock and P. J. Barrow, lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Sidney Jones, with additional numbers by Marie Horne. It premiered on 27 April 1909 at the Queen's Theatre in London."''A Persian Princess'', The New Musical Play, by Sydney Jones, at the Queen's Theatre", ''The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'', 1 May 1909, p. 326 Despite its experienced and highly regarded cast the show opened to poor reviews and had a short run of 68 performances, closing on 3 July 1909. Roles and original cast *Princess Yolene (King Khayyam's Daughter) – Ruth Vincent *King Khayyam – George Graves *Zingarie (a Clove Gatherer) – Carrie MooreRichards, Leann''The First Merry Widow: a biography of Carrie Moore''(2011), Google Books, accessed 16 April 2019 *Prince Hassan (Son of King Khayyam) – Clarence Blakiston *Prince Omar (Son of King Khayyam) – Noel Fleming *Ujujube (King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Persian Princess
''A Persian Princess'' is an oriental-themed Edwardian musical comedy in two acts, with a book by Leedham Bantock and P. J. Barrow, lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Sidney Jones, with additional numbers by Marie Horne. It premiered on 27 April 1909 at the Queen's Theatre in London."''A Persian Princess'', The New Musical Play, by Sydney Jones, at the Queen's Theatre", ''The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'', 1 May 1909, p. 326 Despite its experienced and highly regarded cast the show opened to poor reviews and had a short run of 68 performances, closing on 3 July 1909. Roles and original cast *Princess Yolene (King Khayyam's Daughter) – Ruth Vincent *King Khayyam – George Graves *Zingarie (a Clove Gatherer) – Carrie MooreRichards, Leann''The First Merry Widow: a biography of Carrie Moore''(2011), Google Books, accessed 16 April 2019 *Prince Hassan (Son of King Khayyam) – Clarence Blakiston *Prince Omar (Son of King Khayyam) – Noel Fleming *Ujujube (King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Blakiston
Clarence Blakiston (23 April 1864 – 21 March 1943) was a British film and stage actor, comedian and singer who during his career across five decades played the title role in the Sherlock Holmes parody ''Sheerluck Jones, or Why D’Gillette Him Off'' at Terry's Theatre (1901–02) which ran for 138 performances and who appeared in the original production of ''The Admirable Crichton'' at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1902. Early life He was born at Giggleswick in North Yorkshire in England, one of five children of Marie Jane ''née'' Simon (1825–1908) and John Richard Blakiston (1829–1917), HM Chief Inspector of Schools and Headmaster of Giggleswick School (1858–1866). In 1880 aged 16 Clarence Blakiston joined the Merchant Navy (United Kingdom), Merchant Navy as an apprentice at Cardiff while in 1884 he was awarded a Certificate of Competency to serve as Second Mate. In 1888 he married Glasgow-born Clementina Lindsay ''née'' Low (1864–1936) and they had a daughter, Marie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Musicals
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipknot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Compositions
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipknot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Score Cover A Persian Princess 1909
Score or scorer may refer to: *Test score, the result of an exam or test Business * Score Digital, now part of Bauer Radio * Score Entertainment, a former American trading card design and manufacturing company * Score Media, a former Canadian media company Mathematics *Score (statistics), a quantity in statistics *Score, a quantity of twenty ( 20) units *Raw score, an original datum that has not been transformed *Score test, a statistical test * Scorer's function, solutions to differential equations *Scoring rule, measuring the accuracy of probabilistic predictions *Standard score, a quantity derived from the raw score * Score, a period of 20 years Science and technology * Single colour reflectometry (SCORE), an optical technique for monitoring biomolecular interactions Arts, entertainment, and media * Event score, written or printed instructions for a visual art performance Films * ''Score'' (1974 film), an American adult film * ''Score'' (2016 film), a documentary * '' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Rochester
The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Rochester enrolls approximately 6,800 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. Its 158 buildings house over 200 academic majors. According to the National Science Foundation, Rochester spent more than $397 million on research and development in 2020, ranking it 66th in the nation. With approximately 28,000 full-time employees, the university is the largest private employer in Upstate New York and the 7th largest in all of New York State. The College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is home to departments and divisions of note. The Institute of Optics was founded in 1929 through a grant from Eastman Kodak and Bausch and Lomb as the first educational program in the US devoted exclusively to optics, awards approximately half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Bracey
Sidney Bracey (born Sidney Bracy; 18 December 1877 – 5 August 1942) was an Australian-born American actor. After a stage career in Australia, on Broadway and in Britain, he performed in more than 320 films between 1909 and 1942. Early life and stage career Bracey was born in Melbourne, Victoria, with the name Sidney Bracy, later changing the spelling of his last name. He was the son of Welsh tenor Henry Bracy and English actress Clara T. Bracy. His aunt was the actress and dancer Lydia Thompson. He was educated at Melbourne University.Bowers, David Q"Bracy, Sidney: Volume III: Biographies" ''Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History'', 1995, accessed March 30, 2020 He began his stage career in Australia in the 1890s, with J. C. Williamson's comic opera companies. On Broadway, in 1900, he appeared as the tenor lead, Yussuf, in the first American production of ''The Rose of Persia'' at Daly's Theatre in New York. He then moved to England, appearing as Moreno in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Fitzgerald
Aubrey Fitzgerald (1874–1968) was a British actor. In 1909 he played El Tabloid in '' A Persian Princess'' at the Queen's Theatre in London. Selected filmography * ''One Arabian Night'' (1923) * '' Little Miss Nobody'' (1923) * ''Hutch Stirs 'em Up'' (1923) * '' The Last Witness'' (1925) * '' Nell Gwyn'' (1926) * '' The King's Highway'' (1927) * '' The Glad Eye'' (1927) * ''Widecombe Fair'' (1928) * ''Harmony Heaven'' (1930) * '' The Great Gay Road'' (1931) * ''Goodnight, Vienna'' (1932) * ''Discord'' (1933) * '' The Little Damozel'' (1933) * ''Peg of Old Drury'' (1935) * '' Squibs'' (1935) * '' Chick'' (1936) * ''Jury's Evidence'' (1936) * '' When Knights Were Bold'' (1936) * ''Song of the Forge ''Song of the Forge'' is a 1937 British musical film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Stanley Holloway, Lawrence Grossmith and Eleanor Fayre. The screenplay concerns an elderly blacksmith who refuses assistance from his wealthy son in spi ...'' (1937) * '' Cross My Heart'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Mills
Horace Mills (1 September 1864 – 14 August 1941) was a British singer, actor and dramatist who specialised in playing pantomime dames in the early 20th-century. Born in Portsea in Portsmouth in 1864, he was the oldest of six children born to Elizabeth Ann ''née'' Jolly and Herbert James Mills, a Colonel in the Ordnance Supply Board.Horace Mills in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns Register 1754–1932 Theatre career He co-wrote the book for the musical play '' Miss Esmeralda'' (1887) to music by Meyer Lutz and first performed at the Gaiety Theatre in London. His stage appearances include Bertie Fitz Bunnyon in ''As Large as Life'' (1890) at Terry's Theatre, Remendado in ''Carmen up to Data'' (1890) at the Gaiety Theatre Tom Edge in ''Zephyr'' (1891) at the Avenue Theatre, touring in ''The Circus Girl'' (1897), Widow Twankey in ''Aladdin'' at the Prince’s Theatre in Manchester (1900) with Ada Reeve and G. P. Huntley, in the Comedy Oddity ‘Mash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Moore
Carrie Moore (31 July 1882 – 5 September 1956) was an Australian actress who achieved fame on the Australian and British stage. She was born Caroline Ellen Moore in Geelong, Victoria, on 31 July 1882, the third of the nine children of Robert William Moore, a labourer and Mary née Wyatt. She first appeared on stage in Geelong in local amateur productions. By late 1895, she had successfully auditioned for J. C. Williamson and was appearing in the Christmas pantomime, ''Djin Djin'', attracting positive reviews. After successfully understudying in 1897 and 1898, Moore performed for Williamson's "Royal Comic Opera Company" in a number of leading roles. In a highly publicized case she took Ernest Tyson to court alleging "breach of promise", in August 1901. The matter was settled out of court. In July 1903 she left Australia for England, where she appeared for producer George Edwardes. For five years she performed on the London stage and in provincial theatre, becoming "a muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardian Musical Comedy
Edwardian musical comedy was a form of British musical theatre that extended beyond the reign of King Edward VII in both directions, beginning in the early 1890s, when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas' dominance had ended, until the rise of the American musicals by Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin and Cole Porter following the First World War. Between '' In Town'' in 1892 and ''The Maid of the Mountains'', premiering in 1917, this new style of musical theatre became dominant on the musical stage in Britain and the rest of the English-speaking world. The popularity of ''In Town'' and ''A Gaiety Girl'' (1893), led to an astonishing number of hits over the next three decades, the most successful of which included '' The Shop Girl'' (1894), '' The Geisha'' (1896), ''Florodora'' (1899), '' A Chinese Honeymoon'' (1901), '' The Earl and the Girl'' (1903), '' The Arcadians'' (1909), ''Our Miss Gibbs'' (1909), ''The Quaker Girl'' (1910), ''Betty'' (1914), ''Chu Chin Chow'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Graves (actor)
George Windsor Graves (1 January 1876 – 2 April 1949) was an English comic actor. Although he could neither sing nor dance,"The Comedy Old Man and His Troubles" ''The New York Times'', 3 February 1907 he became a leading comedian in Edwardian musical comedy, musical comedies, adapting the French and Viennese ''opéra-bouffe'' style of light comic relief into a broader comedy popular with English audiences of the period. His comic portrayals did much to ensure the West End theatre, West End success of ''Véronique (operetta), Véronique'' (1904) ''The Little Michus'' (1905; for which he invented the Gazeka), and ''The Merry Widow'' (1907). In addition to musical comedy, operettas and revues, Graves specialised in pantomime and music hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
