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Sam Bernard (U
Sam Bernard (born Samuel Barnett, 5 June 1863 – 16 May 1927) was an English-born American vaudeville comedian who also performed in musical theatre, comic opera and burlesque and appeared in a few silent films. Life and career Bernard was born in Birmingham, England, and moved to the United States as a child. He began performing a song and dance act with his brother Dick in variety houses in Manhattan, changing their stage name from Barnett as they considered the name Bernard more "ethnic". Sam went solo in 1884, and joined B. F. Keith's theatre company in Providence, Rhode Island. After a brief tour in England, he returned to the U.S., performed in the Night Owls comedy troupe, and then became the part-owner and leading comedy actor in the French Folly Company. He was friendly with Joe Weber and Lew Fields, and in 1890 agreed to manage their troupes, the Russell Brothers Comedians and then the Vaudeville Club touring company, in which Bernard also starred. In 1896, Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan area. It is the largest UK metropolitan area outside of London. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. Located in the West Midlands region of England, approximately from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole – one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately west of the city centre. Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rollicking Girl
Sydney Rosenfeld (1855–1931) was an American playwright who wrote numerous plays, and adapted many foreign plays. Close to fifty of his creations played on Broadway. Some of his better known plays (though none achieved long-lasting popularity) included ''A House of Cards'', ''The King's Carnival'', '' The Lady, or the Tiger?'', ''The Vanderbilt Cup'', ''The Aero Club'', ''The Senator'', ''Mlle. Mischief'', ''The Mocking Bird'', ''A Man of Ideas'', ''The 20th Century Girl'', ''Jumping Jupiter'', and ''The Optimist''.(15 June 1931)Sydney Rosenfeld, Dramatist, Is Dead ''The New York Times''The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume X p. 476 (1916) Biography Rosenfeld was born to a |
Friendly Enemies (play)
''Friendly Enemies'' is a Play (theatre), play written by Aaron Hoffman and Samuel Shipman. Producer Albert H. Woods made it the debut play for his Woods Theatre in Chicago, where it opened on March 11, 1918. It played successfully in Chicago for several months before Woods opened a production on Broadway theatre, Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on July 22, 1918. Plot Henry Block and Karl Pfeifer are old friends who both immigrated to the United States from Germany. Karl's son Billy and Henry's daughter June are engaged to be married. Henry has Cultural assimilation, assimilated as a patriotic American, including changing his name from Heinrich. Karl refuses to change his name and remains a German patriot. The entry of the United States into World War I against Germany creates conflict between Karl and the others. Karl is secretly giving money to Walter Stuart to fund what Karl thinks is an effort to defuse anti-German propaganda, but Stuart is actually a German agent who uses the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Belle Of Bohemia
''The Belle of Bohemia'' is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts which opened on Broadway in 1900 before having a run on the West End of London in 1901. It was one of a series of musicals with ''Belle'' in the title that were popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the Edwardian era. Production It had been intended that ''The Belle of Bohemia'' would open at the Hyperion Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut on 22 September 1900, but the day before its scheduled opening its producer George Lederer found himself in a legal dispute as a result of which four police officers were sent to the Hyperion to ensure the production would not leave New Haven. After some legal maneuvring the production was able to go to New York where it opened at the Casino Theatre on 24 September 1900 and closed on 10 November 1900, having a run of 55 performances.John Franceschina''Harry B. Smith: Dean of American Librettists'' Routledge (2003) - Google Books Included in the cast were Lotta Faust, Virgin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In The Moon (musical)
''The Man in the Moon'' is a musical in three acts with music by composers Ludwig Engländer, Gustav Kerker and Reginald De Koven, and both book and lyrics by Louis Harrison and Stanislaus Strange. The work premiered on Broadway at the New York Theatre on April 24, 1899. The production closed after 192 performances on November 4, 1899. Produced and directed by George W. Lederer, the show used choreography by Carl Marwig, costumes by Caroline Siedle, and sets created by D. Frank Dodge, Henry E. Hoyt, St. John Lewis and Ernest Albert.Letellier, p. 1027 The cast included Sam Bernard as Conan Doyle, Marie Dressler as Viola Alum, and Christie MacDonald as Diana. University of Chicago academic Cecil Michener Smith, wrote that ''The Man in the Moon'' was "the last successful extravaganza of the 1890s", and that "the extent of popular interest in ''The Man in the Moon'' was indicated by the production of a burlesque A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to caus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casino Theatre (1900)
Casino Theatre or Casino Theater may refer to: * Casino Theatre (Toronto), a burlesque theatre * Casino Theatre (Copenhagen) (1848–1937) * Casino Theatre (San Diego) * Casino Theatre (New York City) (1882–1930) * Earl Carroll Theatre or Casino Theatre, a Broadway theatre * Casino Theatre (Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania) The Casino Theatre Entertainment Center was a two-screen movie house and ice cream shop in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. This year-round family-owned and operated business, founded in 1975, was built on the site of the Casino dance hall and night ... * Casino Theatre (Gunnison, Utah) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gazette (Montreal)
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ... and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apoplexy
Apoplexy () is rupture of an internal organ and the accompanying symptoms. The term formerly referred to what is now called a stroke. Nowadays, health care professionals do not use the term, but instead specify the anatomic location of the bleeding, such as cerebral, ovarian or pituitary. Informally or metaphorically, the term ''apoplexy'' is associated with being furious, especially as "apoplectic". Historical meaning From the late 14th to the late 19th century,''OED Online'', 2010, Oxford University Press. 7 February 2011 ''apoplexy'' referred to any sudden death that began with a sudden loss of consciousness, especially one in which the victim died within a matter of seconds after losing consciousness. The word ''apoplexy'' was sometimes used to refer to the symptom of sudden loss of consciousness immediately preceding death. Ruptured aortic aneurysms, and even heart attacks and strokes were referred to as apoplexy in the past, because before the advent of medical science, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Box Revue
''Music Box Revue'' was a series of four musical theatre revues by Irving Berlin, presented from 1921 to 1925 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. The first show was staged by Hassard Short with music by Irving Berlin, and featured contributions from a number of writers including Robert Benchley Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at ''The Harvard Lampoon'' while attending Harvard University, thro .... it debuted in 1921, where it ran for 440 performances. See also *" Mysterioso Pizzicato" References * Billy Altman, ''Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley''. (New York City: W. W. Norton, 1997. ). * Internet Broadway Database: Music Box Revue'. URL accessed 6 June 2007. Musicals by Irving Berlin 1921 establishments in the United States Broadway musicals Revues {{theatre-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; yi, ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights,Starr, Larry and Waterman, Christopher, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Oxford University Press, 2009, pg. 64 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", in 1911. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. For much of his career Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano player that he could only play in the key of F-sharp; he used his custom piano equipped with a transposing lever when he needed to play in keys other than F-sharp. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance craze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre, the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not have an overarching storyline. Rather, a general theme serves as the motto for a loosely-related series of acts that alternate between solo performances and dance ensembles. Owing to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt even less restricted by middle-class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Schmaltz
''Poor Schmaltz'' is a lost 1915 American comedy silent film directed by Hugh Ford and written by Mark Swan. The film stars Sam Bernard, Robert Broderick, Conway Tearle, Dick Bernard, Ruby Hoffman and Leonore Thompson. The film was released on August 23, 1915, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast *Sam Bernard as Herman Schmaltz *Robert Broderick as Mr. Hocheimer *Conway Tearle as Jack *Dick Bernard as Count Hugo Victor von Mimmeldorf *Ruby Hoffman Ruby Hoffman (July 28, 1886 – September 22, 1973) was an American silent film and stage actress. Background Ruby Hoffman was born on July 28, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She was an actress, known for '' The Lightnin ... as Anne, Queen of the Reds *Leonore Thompson as Louise Hocheimer References External links * 1915 films 1910s English-language films Silent American comedy films 1915 comedy films Paramount Pictures films Films directed by Hugh Ford American black-and-white films Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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