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John Dunn (actor)
John Dunn (c. 1813 – 17 August 1875) was a comic actor who had a considerable career in Australia. History Dunn, born John Benjamin Donoghue, was a comic actor of Irish ancestry but born in Surrey, England. He studied Law for a time before abandoning it for the London stage, first playing Shakespeare, and was noticed by Charles Kean, then low comedy with David Webster Osbaldiston (1794–1850), when he came under the influence of Thomas D. Rice, whose eccentric ''Jim Crow'' routine had become hugely popular. Dunn adopted the ''Jim Crow'' character and enjoyed some success for a time, then took it to America, where again he was well received. Australia He arrived in Sydney from California with his family in mid-1856 and first appeared in ''(That) Rascal Jack'' with his daughter Rosa Dunn and Thomas Smith Bellair at the Victoria Theatre on 21 July 1856, but soon moved to Melbourne, where his first appearance was at the Theatre Royal on 3 November 1856, when he and Rosa pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald & Weekly Times
The Herald and Weekly Times Pty Ltd (HWT) is a newspaper publishing company based in Melbourne, Australia. It is owned and operated by News Pty Ltd, which as News Ltd, purchased the HWT in 1987. Newspapers The HWT's newspaper interests date back to 1840 and the launch of ''The Port Phillip Herald''. The company publishes the morning daily tabloid ''Herald Sun'', which was created in 1990 from a merger of the company's morning tabloid paper, ''The Sun News-Pictorial'', with its afternoon broadsheet paper, '' The Herald''. ''The Herald'' had a 150-year history, and ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' a 68-year history, in Melbourne. The HWT had bought ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' in 1925. The HWT also publishes ''The Weekly Times'', aimed at farmers and rural business. The HWT bought a controlling stake in '' The Advertiser'' of Adelaide in 1929. From 1929 until 1987, HWT owned and operated Melbourne radio station 3DB. In 1929, 3DB along with 3UZ participated in experimental television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier (Hobart)
''The Courier'' is a newspaper founded in 1827 in Hobart, Tasmania, as ''The Hobart Town Courier''. It changed its name to ''The Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser'' in 1839, settling on ''The Courier'' in 1840. By 1830 the newspaper was printing 750 copies per issue. In 1859 it merged with '' The Hobart Town Daily Mercury''. ''The Mercury'' is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Corp Australia and News Corp. The weekend issues of the paper are called '' Mercury on Saturday'' and ''Sunday Tasmanian''. *Title- ''The Hobart Town Mercury'' lectronic resource *Publisher- John Davies, 1857. *Description- Digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers service which allows access to historic Australian newspapers. Also available on microfilm. Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T., : National Library of Australia, 2008–2009 (Australian newspapers). Vol. 4, no. 379 (Feb. 2, 1857)-v. 6, no. 640 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cassius Williamson
James Cassius Williamson (26 August 1845 – 6 July 1913) was an American actor and later Australia's foremost impresario, founding the J. C. Williamson's theatrical and production company. Born in Pennsylvania, Williamson moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father died when he was eleven years old. He acted in amateur theatricals and joined a local theatre company as a call-boy at the age of 15, soon taking roles and eventually moving to New York where he played for several years at Wallack's Theatre and then other New York theatres. In 1871, he became the leading comedian at the California Theatre in San Francisco and the next year married comedian and actress Maggie Moore. The two found success touring in Australia, and then playing in London, the U.S. and elsewhere in a melodrama called ''Struck Oil''. In 1879, Williamson obtained the right to present ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' and then other Gilbert and Sullivan operas in Australia. He soon formed his Royal Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lazar
Samuel Lazar (1838 – 14 November 1883) was an Australian theatre manager, producer of pantomimes and operas, and occasional actor. History Lazar was a son of theatre manager John Lazar, and as a child frequently appeared on stage in his father's productions, as did his sister Rachel (c. 1827–1897), who married Andrew Moore, and was mother of theatrical agent John Moore. He served as clerk to Burnett Nathan, then for Gabriel Bennett of the firm Bennett & Fisher. In 1867 he and Bennett had a third share (with J. M. Wendt and John Temple Sagar) in building Adelaide's Theatre Royal in Hindley Street, which he managed. He faced insolvency in 1871. His big break came in March 1875 when he took J. C. Williamson and Maggie Moore's play ''Struck Oil'' to the Queen's Theatre, Sydney, which he enlarged and refurbished, then back to Adelaide's Theatre Royal. He returned to Sydney, where he was involved in building the new Theatre Royal, of which he was lessee and manager from Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Richard Harwood
Henry Richard Harwood (c. 1831 – 16 April 1898) was an Australian actor and theatre manager. History Harwood was born in London. His father, name not found (died c. 19 February 1872), was a builder and contractor, which was Harwood's profession when he emigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1852. In 1855, while on a visit to Sydney, he made his first appearance on the stage as Flavius Corunna in Payne's ''Brutus'', being staged by G. V. Brooke at the Victoria Theatre. He took on the job of prompter with the company, thereby gaining practical knowledge of stage management. He returned to Victoria, and joined a company at Ballarat, playing comic characters, such as Blueskin in ''Jack Shepherd''. He was an expert horseman, and appeared in such equestrian plays as ''Mazeppa'', ''Dick Turpin'', and ''Timor the Tartar'' at Geelong. He rejoined Brooke, playing Shakespeare parts: playing Macduff, Richmond, Brabantio, Dogberry, Holofernes, Enobarbus, and Antonio; Leonata in ''Much A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hennings
John Hennings (c. 1833 – 13 October 1898) was a theatrical scene painter and theatre manager in Melbourne, Australia. He has been identified as Johann Friederich Hennings, probably born on 6 July 1835, son of Danish-born parents Johann Hennings, merchant, and his wife Caroline, née Schutze. His mother died 22 March 1894. He is not to be confused with (1838 Bremen – 1899 München), landscape painter with a considerable career in Europe. History Hennings was born in Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ..., of Danish extraction, He learned to paint in the studio of a decorative artist and received further artistic training in Düsseldorf and Vienna. He arrived in Australia in 1855 contracted to George Coppin for his new Olympic Theatre, Melbourne, Olympic Theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Stewart (actor)
Richard Stewart (24 May 1827 – 24 August 1902) was an English stage actor who settled in Australia. He is best remembered as the father of Nellie Stewart. History Stewart was born in South Shields, England and educated at Christ's Hospital, the Bluecoat school of West Sussex, England, where Coleridge and Lamb had been students. His full name was Richard Stewart Towzey (perhaps originally Towsey or Tousey), and despite using "Stewart" as his surname exclusively, the legal family name remained Towzey. In 1849 he left for the goldfields of California, then in 1852 he was in Australia, at the Sofala diggings. Fortunate or not, he made his name there as an entertainer, and was given an opening as a comedian at Sydney's Royal Victoria Theatre by Gordon Griffiths. It was there he met and in 1857 married the actress "Mrs Guerin", a widow with two daughters Docy and Maggie. They had a daughter, Nellie Stewart of international fame, and a son Richard junior, with a long career on both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Clarke
Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881) was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian, and playwright. He is best known for his 1874 novel ''For the Term of His Natural Life'', about the convict system in Australia, and widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature. It has been adapted into many plays, films and a folk opera. Biography Background and early life Marcus Clarke was born in 11 Leonard Place Kensington, London, the only son of London barrister William Hislop Clarke and Amelia Elizabeth Matthews Clarke, who died when he was just four years old. He was the nephew of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke, a Governor of Western Australia, and grandson of a retired military medical officer, Dr Andrew Clarke, who made his fortune in the West Indies and settled in Ireland. Clarke was born with his left arm at least two inches shorter than the right, which prevented him from joining the army, though he became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne General Cemetery
The Melbourne General Cemetery is a large (43 hectare) necropolis located north of the city of Melbourne in the suburb of Carlton North. The cemetery is notably the resting place of four Prime Ministers of Australia, more than any other necropolis within Australia. Former Prime Minister Harold Holt's headstone is a memorial, as his remains have never been discovered. History The cemetery was established in 1852 and opened on 1 June 1853, and the Old Melbourne Cemetery (on the site of what is now the Queen Victoria Market) was closed the next year. The grounds feature several heritage buildings, many in bluestone, including a couple of chapels and a number of cast iron pavilions. The gatehouses are particularly notable. Notable interments Prime Ministers Garden Five Prime Ministers of Australia are memorialised at Melbourne General Cemetery. Three are interred in the cemetery's 'Prime Ministers Garden': Sir Robert Menzies (including Dame Pattie Menzies), Sir John Gorto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Opera House
The Tivoli Theatre was a major performing arts venue in Melbourne's East End Theatre District, located at 249 Bourke Street. The theatre's origins dated from 1866, with various remodelling and rebuilding throughout its history. Its final building opened as the New Opera House in 1901, and was renamed the Tivoli in 1914 when it joined the Tivoli circuit. The Tivoli eventually closed in 1966. Early years In the years following the Victorian gold rush, Melbourne's population and affluence was thriving, and entertainment venues were regularly established. One such venue was the Australia Hall, a small variety show, variety theatre build above livery stables. The Australia Hall opened on 2 November 1866, and was described as "of the exceedingly unpicturesque order of architecture." It was eventually redecorated and rechristened several times, before burning down in 1869. Three years later, in 1872, a new theatre was erected on the site by Trams in Melbourne, tramway pioneer Henry Hoyt a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lygon Street
Lygon Street is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, running through the inner northern suburbs of Carlton, Carlton North, Princes Hill and Brunswick East. Lygon Street is synonymous with the Italian community of Melbourne, forming the nexus point of Little Italy. It is home to many Italian restaurants and alfresco cafés. Geography Lygon Street runs north–south through the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne. At its southernmost end, it connects to Russell Street in the Hoddle Grid; it then proceeds northward, through Carlton, Carlton North, and Brunswick East, to its intersection with Albion Street. Although the roadway itself continues, it is renamed Holmes Street for the stretch between Albion Street and Moreland Road, and later renamed again to Nicholson Street for the stretch between Moreland Road and the street's terminus at Bell Street. (Note that this is not continuous with the Nicholson Street which runs through the Melbourne CBD, Fitzroy, Carlton and B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Younge
Frederick George Younge (12 February 1825 – 6 December 1870) was an English comic actor, in Australia for six years. History Younge was born in London, a son of Richard and Sarah Elizabeth Younge. Younge and his wife Emma arrived in Melbourne in February 1858 by the ship ''Norfolk'', first playing at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, where his first success was as the butler "Blenkinsopp", in Tom Taylor's '' An Unequal Match'', starring Ellen Mortyn in the role in which Lillie Langtry made her American debut in 1882. He was a "hit" in a burlesque of ''Lalla Rookh'' as the villain "Khorsambad", not found in the poem, and "portrayed with the broadest of pencils and the strongest of colours". and James Planché's ''The Yellow Dwarf'', though he and Miss Mortimer were badly let down by the rest of the cast and the show closed after a few nights. He left the Theatre Royal in May 1859, having leased the Olympic Theatre in conjunction with his brother R. Younge. His farewell benefit was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
