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Nym Crinkle
Andrew Carpenter Wheeler (July 4, 1835 – March 10, 1903), best known by the pen name Nym Crinkle, was a 19th-century American newspaper writer, author, and drama critic. He was one of the most prolific critics of his day, known for his pungent and fierce criticism.Wright, Thomas K. ''Nym Crinkle: Gadfly Critic and Male Chauvinist'', in ''Educational Theatre Journal'', Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 370-382 Biography Early life Wheeler was born on John Street in Lower Manhattan (New York City) in 1835, and attended College of the City of New York. His journalism career started with ''The New York Times'' in 1857, before going west for a time. He joined the ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', and left to become a war correspondent during the Civil War. After a stint in Chicago, he then returned to New York for the remainder of his career. Critic After returning to New York, he first wrote under the name "Trinculo" on general topics and as a drama critic for the '' New York Leader'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Jeans (play)
''Blue Jeans'' is a melodramatic play by Joseph Arthur that opened in New York City in 1890 to great popularity. The sensation of the play is a scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill, which became one of the most imitated dramatic scenes (eventually to the point of cliche and parody). The play remained popular for decades and was made into a successful silent film in 1917, also named Blue Jeans.Bordman, Gerald Martin & Thomas S. HischaThe Oxford companion to American theatre p. 80 (3d ed 2004)Singer, BenMelodrama and modernity: early sensational cinema and its contexts pp. 183-84 (2001) Background The play made its debut on October 6, 1890, at the Fourteenth Street Theatre.Borman, Gerald MartinAmerican theatre: a chronicle of comedy and drama, 1869-1914 p.301 (1994)Brown, T. AllstonA history of the New York stage from the first performance in 1732 to 1901, Vol. II pp. 503-04 (1903) The original New York run of the play ran thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1835 Births
Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. * January 24 – Malê Revolt: African slaves of Yoruba Muslim origin revolt in Salvador, Bahia. * January 26 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon; he dies only two months later. * January 26 – Saint Paul's in Macau largely destroyed by fire after a typhoon hits. * January 30 – An assassination is attempted against United States President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States). * February 1 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. * February 20 – 1835 Concepción earthquake: Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake; the resulting tsunami destroys the neighboring city of Talcahua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Vanderpoole
Lew Vanderpoole (b. 1855 - ?) was an American writer and publisher, best known for a series of forgeries he produced in the 1880s. Biography Little is known about Vanderpoole's life outside of his literary misadventures. When the George Sand forgeries were exposed in September 1887, the ''New York Sun'' reported that Vanderpoole claimed to be 32 years old, and had a "somewhat Irish cast of features." He had slight stutter but was a "glib, plausible talker." He was reported to have been with the ''New York Tribune'' at one point, and then was "exchange editor" for the ''New York World'', and was considered a "fairly good descriptive writer, and a man of some attainments." Due to poor health, he dropped out of newspaper work around 1884, and probably concocted his schemes after that due to his financial circumstances. When arrested in September 1887, he was living in Oyster Bay outside New York City.(21 September 1887)A Literary Adventurer: Lew Vanderpoole and the George Sand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Illustrated American
''The Illustrated American'' was a weekly American periodical published from 1890 until 1900. It primarily covered current events (with illustrations), but also contained other miscellaneous content and some fiction.The Illustrated American Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Retrieved 18 April 2018Mott, Frank Luther. ''A History of American Magazines: 1885-1905'', p. 58 (1957) ("Another important weekly of the nineties was the ''Illustrated American''...") The publication has been described as the first photographic weekly news magazine in the United States. It was first published on February 22, 1890, out of offices located in New York City, selling for 25 cents an issue, or 10 dollars per year.Harris, Christopher R [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Janauschek
Fanny Janauschek (born Francesca Romana Magdalena Janauschek; July 20, 1829 – November 28, 1904) was a Czech-born American stage actress. Biography Francesca Romana Magdalena Janauschek was born on July 20, 1829, in Prague. Her mother worked as a theatre laundress and her father as a tailor. She came to the United States in 1867 and first performed at the Academy of Music in New York City, on October 9, 1867, managed by Max Maretzek. She spoke no English, only German and often worked with all English speaking casts. In three years time since arriving in the U.S. she mastered enough English dialect to communicate with American audiences and decided to make America her home. Some of her performances, especially ''Medea'', were compared to the revered Italian tragedienne Adelaide Ristori. She became famous acting in great Shakespearean parts and other famous parts. She was particularly noted for playing Meg Merrilies, a role Charlotte Cushman made famous. In 1873, Janauschek s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Lacy
Elanson Henry Lacy, known as Harry Lacy (1853 – December 14, 1920) was an American actor, a star in his time best known for playing the role of Jack Manley in the hit play ''The Still Alarm'' in the 1880s and 1890s.(8 January 1899)Harry Lacy A Bankrupt ''The New York Times'' By 1901, it was reported that Lacy had played the part of Manley in over 1800 performances.(5 January 1901)Academy of Music ''Evening Star'' (same page also has account from Lacy as to how he became involved with Joseph Arthur to produce the play)(4 December 1898)Henry Lacey at the Orpheum ''The Herald'' (illustration)(14 November 1902)Cigars Craze Harry Lacey ''The World''(9 January 1903)Flourished A Revolver ''Pittsburgh Press'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Goodwin
Nathaniel Carl "Nat" Goodwin (July 25, 1857 – January 31, 1919) was an American actor and vaudevillian born in Boston. Life and career While clerk in a large shop Goodwin studied for the stage and made his first appearance in 1874 at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston in Stuart Robson's company as the newsboy in Joseph Bradford's ''Law in New York''. The next year he appeared at Tony Pastor's Opera House in New York City where he began his career as a vaudevillian. In 1876, he appeared at the New York Lyceum in ''Off the Stage'' where he imitated a number of popular actors of the period. In 1878, he co-founded the Boston Elks Lodge, and his association with the lodge, and that of his manager in the 1880s, George W. Floyd ''(né'' George Wood Floyd; 1853–1923), would change baseball history, giving us arguably the first role of an agent in baseball history. Floyd, in particular, would serve as a go-between, starting in 1887, between the management of the Boston National League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Wallack
John Johnstone Wallack (January 1, 1820, New York City – September 6, 1888, Stamford, Connecticut), was an American actor-manager and son of James William Wallack and Susan Johnstone. He used the stage name John Lester until October 5, 1858, when he first acted under the name Lester Wallack, which he retained the rest of his career. Biography He was born in New York but at an early age he was taken to his parents' home in London where he was reared and educated. His mother was also an actress Susan Johnstone and his father was James William Wallack a theatre producer. He had chosen a military career but became discouraged and went to Dublin where he went upon the stage. He remained for two seasons and then went to Edinburgh. Then in 1846, he appeared in London at the Haymarket Theatre under Benjamin Webster's management. There he was seen by George H. Barrett, who had come to London to engage actors for the Broadway Theatre, in New York. He made his American debut there in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Tribune
The ''New-York Tribune'' was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley. It bore the moniker ''New-York Daily Tribune'' from 1842 to 1866 before returning to its original name. From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant newspaper first of the American Whig Party, then of the Republican Party. The paper achieved a circulation of approximately 200,000 in the 1850s, making it the largest daily paper in New York City at the time. The ''Tribune''s editorials were widely read, shared, and copied in other city newspapers, helping to shape national opinion. It was one of the first papers in the north to send reporters, correspondents, and illustrators to cover the campaigns of the American Civil War. It continued as an independent daily newspaper until 1924, when it merged with the ''New York Herald''. The resulting '' New York Herald Tribune'' remained in publication until 1966. Among those who served on the paper's editorial board were Bayard Taylor, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Bordman
Gerald Martin Bordman (September 18, 1931 – May 9, 2011) was an American theatre historian, best known for authoring the reference volume ''The American Musical Theatre'', first published in 1978.Simonson, Robert (12 May 2011)Gerald Bordman, Theatre Scholar, Dies at 79 ''Playbill''Glover, William (11 January 1979)Showbiz addict compiles handbook on musical theater ''Eugene Register-Guard'' (Associated Press story) In reviewing an updated version of ''American Musical Theatre'' in 2011, ''Playbill'' wrote that the book had "altered the scope of American musical theatre history" and "remained the only book of its kind, and an invaluable one." Bordman grew up in the Wynnefield neighborhood of Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School and Lafayette College, later earning a master's degree and Ph.D. in medieval literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He published ''The American Musical Theatre'' four years after selling the family's business, Excell Chemical Products ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Dutch Church Of Sleepy Hollow
The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow ( nl, Oude Nederlandse Kerk van Sleepy Hollow), listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow), is a 17th-century stone church located on Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9) in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It and its three-acre (1.2 ha) churchyard feature prominently in Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". The churchyard is often confused with the contiguous but separate Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It is the second oldest extant church and the 15th oldest extant building in the state of New York, renovated after an 1837 fire. Some of those renovations were reversed 60 years later, and further work was done in 1960. It was listed on the Register in 1966, among the earliest properties so recognized. It had already been designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961. It is still the property of the Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns, which holds summer services there, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
