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Oh! Oh! Delphine
''Oh! Oh! Delphine'' is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by C.M.S. McLellan and music by Ivan Caryll. It is based on the French farce ''Villa Primrose'' by Marcel Guillemaud and Georges Berr. A Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 30, 1912 and played for 258 performances. It opened in London in 1913 at the Shaftesbury Theatre The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden. Opened in 1911 as the New Prince's Theatre, it was the last theatre to be built in Shaftesbury Avenue. History The theatre was d ..., and in Australia in 1918. # Synopsis Victor Jolibeau, an artist, searches for a model for the left shoulder of a Venus he is painting. He and Alphonse Bouchotte have exchanged wives by way of the Divorce Court. Delphine leads Alphonse on a merry chase, while Simone bores Victor. The husbands are called to the colours to serve a month with their regiment at Brest. Victor ...
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Ivan Caryll
Félix Marie Henri Tilkin (12 May 1861 – 29 November 1921), better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian-born composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language, who made his career in London and later New York. He composed (or contributed to) some forty musical comedies and operettas. Caryll's career encompassed three eras of the musical theatre, and unlike some of his contemporaries, he adapted readily to each new development. After composing a few musical burlesques, his first great successes were made in light musical comedies, epitomised by the George Edwardes productions at London's Gaiety Theatre, such as ''The Shop Girl'', ''The Circus Girl'', ''The Gay Parisienne'', and ''A Runaway Girl''. He continued to write musical comedies throughout the next decade, including such hits as ''The Messenger Boy'', ''The Toreador'', ''The Girl From Kays'', ''The Earl and the Girl'', ''The Orchid'', ''The Spring Chicken'', ''The Girls of Got ...
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Georges Berr
Georges Berr (30 July 1867 – 21 July 1942) in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923. Under the pseudonyms Colias and Henry Bott he wrote several plays, particularly in collaboration with Louis Verneuil. He was Jean-Pierre Aumont's uncle. Plays Partial list of plays written or cowritten by Berr. * '' L'Amant de Madame Vidal'' * ''La Pomme'' by Verneuil and Berr * ' * 1900: ''Moins cinq...'' by Paul Gavault and Berr, Théâtre du Palais-Royal * 1901: ''L'Inconnue'' by Gavault and Berr, Théâtre du Palais-Royal * 1901: ''Madame Flirt'' by Gavault and Berr, Théâtre de l'Athénée * 1902: ''Les Aventures du capitaine Corcoran'' by Gavault, Berr and Adrien Vély, Théâtre du Châtelet * 1902: ''La Carotte'' by Berr, Paul Dehere and Marcel Guillemaud, Théâtre du Palais-Royal * 1904: ''La Dette'' by Gavault and Berr, Théâtre de l'Odéon * 1905: ''Les Merlereau'', 3 acts comedy, Théâtre des Bouff ...
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Saturday Mail
The ''Sunday Mail'' (originally titled ''The Mail'') is an Adelaide newspaper first published on 4 May 1912 by Clarence Moody. Through much of the 20th century, '' The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, '' The News'' the afternoon tabloid, ''The Sunday Mail'' a vehicle for covering weekend sport, and ''Messenger Newspapers'' covering community news. "Sunday Mail" is a business name of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd, a private company that is part of News Corp Australia, which since 2004 has been a component of the U.S. multinational mass media company, News Corp. History ''Mail'' In 1912, Clarence Moody initially set up three newspapers – the ''Sporting Mail'' (1912-1914), ''Saturday Mail'' (1912-1917), and the ''Mail''. The first two titles lasted only a few years, and the ''Mail'' itself went into liquidation in late 1914. Ownership passed briefly to George Annells and Frank Stone, and then to Herbert Syme. In May 1923 News Limited purchased the ''Mail'' an ...
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Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
The Knickerbocker Theatre, previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre, was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway (West 38th Street) in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930. In 1906, the theatre introduced the first moving electrical sign on Broadway to advertise its productions. History The 1500-seat theatre was designed by the architectural firm of J. B. McElfatrick & Co. It opened as Abbey's Theatre, named after Broadway theatre manager and producer Henry Eugene Abbey, on November 8, 1893 with a production of the melodrama ''The Countess Valeska''. In the mid-1890s, Lillian Russell starred at the theatre, including in '' The Queen of Brilliants'', a flop. Following Abbey's death in 1896, Al Hayman and the Theatrical Syndicate group took control of the theatre and rechristened it the Knickerbocker. In its early years, the theatre hosted productions of Shakespeare's plays and Edwardian musical comedy. Several of Victor Herbert's operettas prem ...
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Shaftesbury Theatre (1888)
The Shaftesbury Theatre was a theatre in central London, England, between 1888 and 1941. It was built by John Lancaster for his wife, Ellen Wallis, a well-known Shakespearean actress. The theatre was designed by C. J. Phipps and built by Messrs. Patman and Fotheringham at a cost of £20,000 and opened with a production of '' As You Like It'' on 20 October 1888. The theatre had a stage of 28' 6" square. The capacity was 1,196. It was located on the south side of Shaftesbury Avenue, just east of Gerrard Place. History The theatre's first big hit was '' The Belle of New York'' produced by the prominent Broadway producer, George W. Lederer, which opened on 12 April 1898 and ran for an extremely successful 697 performances. In 1908–09 H. B. Irving became the lessee and manager of the theatre and presented a successful season of plays. Robert Courtneidge was lessee for most of the early years of the 20th century and produced mostly comic operas and Edwardian musical comedies, in ...
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The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ...
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1912 Musicals
Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 191 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Parthia * King Vologases IV of Parthia dies after a 44-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Vologases V. China * A coalition of Chinese warlords from the east of Hangu Pass launches a punitive campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo, who seized control of the central government in 189, and held the figurehead Emperor Xian hostage. After suffering some defeats against the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo forcefully relocates the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo orders his troops to loot the tombs of the H ...
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Broadway Musicals
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the 144 extant and extinct Broadway venues use (used) the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names (12 others used neither), with many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also using the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, are the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats, located in the Theater District and the Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the thoroughfare is eponymous with the district and its collection of 41 theaters, and it is also closely identified with Times Square, only three of the theaters are located on Broadway itself (nam ...
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