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Mr. Bunt
''Mr. Bunt'' is a three-act children's fantasy play by American poet, painter, playwright Ira Mallory Remsen. It was performed in the summer of 1924, at the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Novelist, and playwright John Northern Hilliard played the role of Danny, a circus clown. It was the first time a play was presented at the Forest Theater with its own music composed for it and directed by the composer Frederick Preston Search with his own orchestra. Summary On his return from Pasadena to Carmel in 1924, Remsen produced the three-act fantasy play entitled ''Mr. Bunt,'' about a imaginary playmate, which was produced at the Forest Theater from July 3rd through 5th. It won the $100 () award for the best original play submitted in the annual play contest held by the Forest Theater Society. The play was adapted for the outdoor amphitheater in Carmel-by-the-Sea. The play was similar to novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie's '' Peter Pan.'' ''Mr. Bunt'' was pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Mallory Remsen
Ira Mallory Remsen (May 11, 1876 – November 29, 1928), known locally as Rem Remsen, was an American painter, playwright and Bohemian Club member. He was the son of Dr. Ira Remsen chemist and former president of Johns Hopkins University. Remsen was the author of children's plays notably ''Inchling'' and ''Mr. Blunt'', he produced at the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in the 1920s. His studio on Dolores Street became the permanent home for the Carmel Art Association in 1933. Early life Remsen was born on May 11, 1876, in Manhattan, New York City, New York. His father was Ira Remsen (1846-1927), and his mother was Elisabeth Hilleard Mallory (1854-). He was raised and educated in Baltimore, Maryland. At the age of 20, he went to Johns Hopkins University in 1895 and was in the class of Ninety-Seven. In September 1898, he traveled to Paris, France. He studied art with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian where he won an award for his paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Northern Hilliard (1924)
John Northern Hilliard (August 18, 1872 – March 14, 1935) was an American newspaperman, poet, novelist, and playwright. Among his works is a best-selling book on magic, ''Greater Magic''. Biography John Northern Hilliard was born in Palmyra, New York, in 1872. His parents were Allen D. Hilliard (1829-1888) and Augusta B Bartells (1839–1902). His wife was Ida Louise Harrison. They had three children. Through Eugene Field he obtained his first job as a reporter on the '' Chicago Press'' at the age of 17. He covered the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, the surrender of Sitting Bull, and the bloody Johnson County War in Wyoming. On December 17, 1896, he was a dramatic critic for a Rochester newspaper. He was the last person to see magician Alexander Herrmann (also known as "Herrmann the Great") alive before his death on board a train heading to Bradford, Pennsylvania.The Master Magicians by Walter B. Gibson 1966 Hilliard was a close friend, from the early 1890s at the ''New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Plays
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
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Maurice Browne
Maurice Browne (12 February 1881 – 21 January 1955), born in Reading, England, was best known as a theater producer in the United States and the UK. The Cambridge-educated Browne was also a poet, actor, and theater director. He has been credited, along with his then-wife Ellen Van Volkenburg, with being the founder of the Little Theatre Movement in America through his work with the Chicago Little Theatre. Browne and Van Volkenburg went on to found the department of drama at the Cornish School in Seattle in 1918. Browne's greatest triumph came in 1929 when he produced '' Journey's End'', by R. C. Sherriff Robert Cedric Sherriff, FSA, FRSL (6 June 1896 – 13 November 1975) was an English writer best known for his play ''Journey's End'', which was based on his experiences as an army officer in the First World War. He wrote several plays, many nove ... in London.Browne, Maurice. ''Too Late to Lament: An Autobiography''. London, Gollancz, 1955, pp. 306-309. References *B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inchling
''Inchling'' is a three-act children's fantasy play by American poet, painter, playwright Ira Mallory Remsen. It was performed in the summer of 1922, at the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It was the most popular children's play ever performed at the Forest Theater. It played again in 1928 and 1936 at the same venue. The 1936 revival of ''Inchling'' helped overcome an accumulated debt that had taken its toll on the Forest Theater during the Great Depression in the United States, Great Depression. The play has been produced by schools and children's theater groups throughout the county, including New York and London. Summary On December 27, 1919, Ira Remsen wrote a three-act children's fantasy play called ''Inchling,'' that tells a story of Inchling and his struggle for wings. The typewritten script was 66 pages long. The Forest Theater Society's board chose it for their thirteenth season summer play. It was played for the first time on the outdoor stage of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmel Pine Cone
The ''Carmel Pine Cone'' is a weekly newspaper serving the city of Carmel-by-the-Sea and the surrounding Monterey Peninsula, Carmel Valley and Big Sur region of Monterey County in central California. Despite not having a digital presence, a PDF of the printed newspaper is available weekly online. The Pine Cone celebrated its centennial edition in February 2015. History The Pine Cone was founded in 1915 by William Overstreet who proclaimed in the first four-page edition of 300 copies, "we are here to stay!" By 1924, the Pine Cone moved into the De Yoe Building, opposite of the Carmel Post Office. Overstreet sold the paper in 1926 to J.A. Easton. The offices move to the Goold Building from 1970 to 2000. In 1926 writer and activist Perry Newberry was the editor of the Pine Cone and successfully ran for the office of city trustee, the equivalent of mayor. By 1929 members of the local arts community, including Argyll Campbell were elected to the Carmel Board of Trustees at the same ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Aiken Flanders
Paul Aiken Flanders (1890 – September 21, 1944), was an American businessman, real estate developer, and Lieutenant in the United States Navy. He developed '' Outlands'' in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He founded the Carmel Land Company that developed Hatton Fields, an unincorporated community southeast of downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea. Early life Flanders was born in 1890, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lewis Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago. He took his post-graduate studies at the Darmstadter Technical Hochscule in Germany prior to World War I. During the war, he was lieutenant in the United States Navy, commander of submarine chasers in the North Sea from Inverness Mine Deopot, Scotland. He saw service in Russia after the Armistice of 11 November 1918 and remained in the United States Navy Reserve in the 1920s and 1930s. Flanders married Gladys Marjorie Johnson (1889–1915) on October 2, 1912, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles King Van Riper
Charles King Van Riper (September 8, 1891 – April 16, 1964) was an American newspaperman, writer, and playwright, best known for writing short stories for nationally circulated magazines, and as the founder of the Abalone League, the first organized softball league in the Western United States. He went on to build a successful ship-model shop and showroom in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. 285 of his ship models and archival materials are now part of the South Street Seaport Museum. Early life Van Riper's father was Anthony B. Van Riper (1862-1917) of Paterson, New Jersey. He founded the silk manufacturer firm of Frost & Van Riper with his partner Harry B. Frost, for twenty-five years before his death. Van Riper was a graduate of Rutgers College, class of 1913. Van Riper did newspaper work for New York and New Jersey newspapers until World War I, when he entered the United States Army Air Service. Van Riper was married to Helen Dorothy Ordway (1893-1965) and they had one ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periaktos
A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Greek language, Greek word meaning ''revolving'') is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scene (drama), scenes. It was first mentioned in Plato's ''Republic'', in the story, "Allegory of a Cave" (c. 375 BCE), but its most intense use began in History of theatre#Italian Commedia dell'arte and Renaissance, Renaissance theatre, as a result of the work of important theatrical designers, such as Nicola Sabbatini (1574–1654). It consists of a revolving solid equilateral triangular Prism (geometry), prism made of wood. On each of its three faces, a different scene is painted, so that, by quickly revolving the periaktos, another face can appear to the audience. Other solid polygons can be used, such as cubes, but triangular prisms offer the best combination of simplicity, speed and number of scenes per device. A series of periaktoi positioned one after the other along the stage's depth can produce the illusion of a longer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Theater
The Forest Theater is an historic amphitheater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Founded in 1910, it is one of the oldest outdoor theaters west of the Rockies. Actor/director Herbert Heron is generally cited as the founder and driving force, and poet/novelist Mary Austin is often credited with suggesting the idea. As first envisioned, original works by California authors, children's theatre, and the plays of Shakespeare were the primary focus. Since its inception, a variety of artists and theatre groups have presented plays, pageants, musical offerings and other performances on the outdoor stage, and the facility's smaller indoor theatre and school. History Forest Theater Society Herbert Heron came to Carmel in 1908. He had worked extensively on the stage in Los Angeles and came from a background of writers and dramatists. On a visit from Los Angeles, Heron fell in love with the village by the sea. He soon settled in Carmel, bringing with him his young bride Opal Heron, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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