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Grace Filkins
Grace Filkins (June 3, 1865 – September 16, 1962) was an American stage actress. Early life Grace Sweetman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.George Lesoir"Grace Filkins"''The Theatre'' (October 5, 1889): 493. Her father was a rabbi."The Heroine of 'Shore Acres'" ''Munsey's Magazine'' (May 1896): 232. Career Filkins started performing in variety shows, and in the companies of Augustin Daly and Helena Modjeska. She had a long career on Broadway, appearing in shows from 1894 to 1931, including ''The Passing Show'' (1894), ''The Royal Box'' (1897-1898), ''The Brixton Burglary'' (1901), ''The Lady Across the Hall'' (1905), ''The School for Husbands'' (1905), ''The Daughters of Men'' ( ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Filkins
Grace Filkins (June 3, 1865 – September 16, 1962) was an American stage actress. Early life Grace Sweetman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.George Lesoir"Grace Filkins"''The Theatre'' (October 5, 1889): 493. Her father was a rabbi."The Heroine of 'Shore Acres'" ''Munsey's Magazine'' (May 1896): 232. Career Filkins started performing in variety shows, and in the companies of Augustin Daly and Helena Modjeska. She had a long career on Broadway, appearing in shows from 1894 to 1931, including ''The Passing Show'' (1894), ''The Royal Box'' (1897-1898), ''The Brixton Burglary'' (1901), ''The Lady Across the Hall'' (1905), ''The School for Husbands'' (1905), ''The Daughters of Men'' ( ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Filkins (Peterson's Magazine, 1896)
Grace Filkins (June 3, 1865 – September 16, 1962) was an American stage actress. Early life Grace Sweetman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.George Lesoir"Grace Filkins"''The Theatre'' (October 5, 1889): 493. Her father was a rabbi."The Heroine of 'Shore Acres'" ''Munsey's Magazine'' (May 1896): 232. Career Filkins started performing in variety shows, and in the companies of Augustin Daly and . She had a long career on Broadway, appearing in shows from 1894 to 1931, including '' |
Augustin Daly
John Augustin Daly (July 20, 1838June 7, 1899) was one of the most influential men in American theatre during his lifetime. Drama critic, theatre manager, playwright, and adapter, he became the first recognized stage director in America. He exercised a fierce and tyrannical control over all aspects of his productions. His rules of conduct for actors and actresses imposed heavy fines for late appearances and forgotten lines and earned him the title "the autocrat of the stage." He formed a permanent company in New York and opened Daly's Theatre in New York in 1879 and a second one in London in 1893. Biography Augustin Daly was born in Plymouth, North Carolina to Captain Denis Daly, a sea-captain and ship owner, and Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant John Duffy of the British Army. He was educated at Norfolk, Virginia, and in the public schools of New York City. His mother, early left a widow, brought her two boys to New York City, where they soon became frequent attendants at the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Modjeska
Helena Modrzejewska (; born Jadwiga Benda; 12 October 1840 – 8 April 1909), known professionally as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. She was successful first on the Polish stage. After emigrating to the United States (and despite her poor command of English), she also succeeded on stage in America and London. She is regarded as the greatest actress in the history of theatre in Poland. Early life Helena Modjeska was born in Kraków, Poland, on 12 October 1840. Her birth name was recorded as Jadwiga Benda, but she was later baptized Helena Opid, under her godfather's surname. Modjeska's parentage is unclear. Her mother was Józefa (Misel) Benda, the widow of a prosperous Kraków merchant, Szymon Benda. In her autobiography, Modjeska claimed that her father was a musician named Michael Opid. The Benda family did employ a music teacher named Michal Opid, who later stood as Helena's godfather, however Opid did not father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Passing Show
''The Passing Show'' was a musical revue in three acts, billed as a "topical extravaganza", with a book and lyrics by Sydney Rosenfeld and music by Ludwig Engländer and various other composers. It featured spoofs of theatrical productions of the past season. The show was presented in 1894 by George Lederer at the Casino Theatre. It was one of the first musical revues on Broadway and led the fashion for such productions. The Casino Theatre produced a revue each summer thereafter for several seasons. In 1912, Lee and Jacob J. Shubert began an annual series of elaborate Broadway revues using the name ''The Passing Show of 19XX'', designed to compete with the popular Ziegfeld Follies. Original 1894 version Although a few entertainments that could be called revues had already been presented by such showmen as John Brougham, ''The Passing Show'' was the first American revue to use the term, spelling it "review". Its now-familiar structure was to use a thin story line to link tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarsaparilla (soft Drink)
Sarsaparilla (, ) is a soft drink originally made from the vine ''Smilax ornata'' (also called 'sarsaparilla') or other species of ''Smilax'' such as '' Smilax officinalis''. In most Southeast Asian countries, it is known by the common name sarsi, and the trademarks Sarsi and Sarsae. It is similar in flavour to root beer. In the US, sarsaparilla is traditionally made with birch oil rather than the tropical plant. Etymology ''Smilax ornata'', a perennial trailing vine with prickly stems that is native to Mexico and Central America, is often used as the basis for the soft drink sarsaparilla. Common names include sarsaparilla, Honduran sarsaparilla, and Jamaican sarsaparilla. It is known in Spanish as ', which is derived from the words ' meaning "bramble" (from preroman ''sarza''), and ', meaning "little grape vine". History Sarsaparilla was popular in the United States in the 19th century. According to advertisements for patent medicines of the period, it was considered to be a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931. Leaving home at the age of 14, Dressler built a career on stage in traveling theatre troupes, where she learned to appreciate her talent in making people laugh. In 1892, she started a career on Broadway that lasted into the 1920s, performing comedic roles that allowed her to improvise to get laughs. From one of her successful Broadway roles, she played the titular role in the first full-length screen comedy, '' Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1914), opposite Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. She made several shorts, but mostly worked in New York City on stage. During World War I, along with other celebrities, she helped sell Liberty bonds. In 1919, she helped organize the first union for sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Maine (ACR-1)
''Maine'' was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. U.S. newspapers, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction. The phrase, "Remember the ''Maine!'' To hell with Spain!" became a rallying cry for action. Although the ''Maine'' explosion was not a direct cause, it served as a catalyst that accelerated the events leading up to the war. ''Maine'' is described as an armored cruiser or second-class battleship, depending on the source. Commissioned in 1895, she was the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after the state of Maine. ''Maine'' and the similar battleship were both represented as an advance in American warship design, reflecting the latest European naval developments. Both ships had two gun turrets staggered ''en échelon'', and full sailing masts were omitted due to the increased reliability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Marix
Adolph Marix (April 24, 1848 – June 11, 1919), was a German-born American officer in the United States Navy, who served in the Spanish–American War. The former executive officer of the battleship ''USS Maine'', he served as recorder on the 1898 court of inquiry which investigated the ship's explosion. He eventually rose to the rank of vice admiral. In 1868, he had been the first Jewish graduate from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. Early life and career Born in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1848, Marix immigrated as a boy with his family to the United States. In 1864, he entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduating in 1868. He was the first Jewish graduate of the Naval Academy. In 1869 he was promoted to the rank of ensign, and in the following year was assigned to special duty on the USS ''Congress''. He was promoted master in 1870, served on the USS ''Canandaigua'' with the North Atlantic Squadron during 1871–1872, was commissioned Lieutenant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is one of two national cemeteries run by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington, Virginia. There are about 30 funerals conducted on weekdays and 7 held on Saturday. The other Army cemetery is in Washington, D.C. and is called the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery. All other national cemeteries are run by the National Cemetery System of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Arlington National Cemetery was established during the U.S. Civil War after the land the cemetery was built upon, Arlington Estate, was confiscated from private ownership following a tax dispute. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 2014, the Arlington National Cemetery Historic District includes the Cemetery, Arlington House, Memorial Drive, the Hemicycle, and Arlington Memorial Bridge. History George Washington Parke Custis was the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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