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Stuart O'Brien (stage)
Stuart O'Brien (1833 – 25 August 1883) was an Irish-born actor and manager in Australia. History Francis Stuart O'Brien was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and was brought to England as a child. In 1851 he left for America, and began acting professionally with J. W. Wallack's company, briefly adopting the stage name Frank Stuart. He arrived in Victoria, Australia in 1854, and did not appear on stage for a year or so, then in 1856 he joined H. T. Craven and William Henry Stephens, W. H. Stephens at the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney in a company that included G. V. Brooke, Robert Heir (died 27 February 1868) and Mrs. Robert Heir (aka Fanny Cathcart), James Milne (actor), James Milne, Francis Belfield (died 13 April 1883), Mrs. Crosby (Mrs. Eigenshank), Harry Edwards (actor), Harry Edwards, E. Wright, W. H. Walker, R. P. Whitworth, Mrs. Winterbottom, Miss Amy Howard and Mrs H. T. Craven. He founded his own troupe, touring the New South Wales goldfields and New Zealand then returned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Tipperary
County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is Ireland's largest inland county and shares a border with 8 counties, more than any other. The population of the county was 159,553 at the 2016 census. The largest towns are Clonmel, Nenagh and Thurles. Tipperary County Council is the local authority for the county. In 1838, County Tipperary was divided into two ridings, North and South. From 1899 until 2014, they had their own county councils. They were unified under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, which came into effect following the 2014 local elections on 3 June 2014. Geography Tipperary is the sixth-largest of the 32 counties by area and the 12th largest by population. It is the third-largest of Munster's 6 counties by both size and popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watts Phillips
Watts Phillips (16 November 1825 – 2 December 1874) was an English illustrator, novelist and playwright best known for his play ''The Dead Heart'', which served as a model for Charles Dickens' ''A Tale of Two Cities''. In a memoir, his sister Emma recalled that he had “many difficulties” in his life and waged “a gallant struggle against chequered fortune.” She described him as a “bright and buoyant character”, “a really brilliant, energetic man, who had many gifts and accomplishments, with a cheerful, undaunted spirit, which to the last helped him to encounter trials, and a vein of humour which was as much at the service of his friends as it was to that of the public.” Emma also noted that “at times he sank into fits of despondency, from which he suffered much.” A friend wrote of him that, “Few men were quicker of temper, more bitter and sarcastic in anger – and very few were so ready to forget and forgive…he could never sleep after a quarrel…until th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1833 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. * February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria. * February 16 – The United States Supreme Court hands down its landmark decision of Barron v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. * March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. April–June * April 1 – General Antonio López de Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico by the legislatures of 16 of the 18 Mexican states. During his frequent absences from office to fight on the battlefield, Santa Anna turns the duties of government over to his vice president, Valentín Gómez Farías. * April 18 – Over 300 delegates from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland travel to the office of the Prime Minister, the Earl Grey, to cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Dramatic And Musical Association
The Australasian Dramatic and Musical Association (ADMA) was a friendly society in Australia and New Zealand. It was founded in 1871 at the instigation of George Coppin, and initially was confined to the colony of Victoria. Its objects were: *1. To provide a home for the aged and infirm *2. A fund for charity *3. A provident institution *4. Museum and library The provident fund was entirely dependent on members' subscriptions; the other aspects were reliant on support from the general public. The inaugural committee included wardens: George Coppin, Julius Siede, William Pitt, Joseph Simmons, George Chapman, Richard Capper, Lachlan McGewan, John Hennings, William S. Lyster, Henry B. Wilton, Frederick Coppin, John Dunn, and Henry Walter Scott. A controversy arose in 1872 when the name of the Governor of Victoria (Viscount Canterbury) was removed from the free list of some theatres in the colony at the behest of the Association. It was held by the Association that his inclus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Meilhac
Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's ''Manon''. Biography Meilhac was born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in 1830. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and comédies en vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront. About 1860, Meilhac met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years. Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet's ''Carmen''. However, Meilhac's work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy. The most successful collaborations with Offenbach are ''La belle Hélène'' (1864), '' Barbe-bleue'' (1866), '' La Vie parisienne'' (1866), ''La Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and on the works of Jacques Offenbach. Biography Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris. His father, Léon Halévy (1802–1883), was a civil servant and a clever and versatile writer, who tried almost every branch of literature—prose and verse, vaudeville, drama, history—without, however, achieving decisive success in any. His uncle, Fromental Halévy, was a noted composer of opera; hence the double and early connection of Ludovic Halévy with the Parisian stage. His father had converted from Judaism to Christianity prior to his marriage with Alexandrine Lebas, daughter of a Christian architect. At the age of six, Halévy might have been seen playing in that ''Foyer de la danse'' with which he was to make his readers so familiar, and, when a boy of twelve, he would often, on a Sunday night, on his way back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pringle Burnett
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grasshopper (play)
A grasshopper is a common type of herbivorous insect. Grasshopper or grasshoppers may also refer to: Companies * Martins Bank, or the Grasshopper (1730–1760), a private bank in London * Grasshopper Manufacture, a video game company * The Grasshopper Company, an American manufacturer of lawn mowers and related implements Drinks * Grasshopper (cocktail) * Grasshöpper Wheat Ale, produced by Big Rock Brewery Films * ''The Grasshopper'' (1955 film), a Soviet drama * ''The Grasshopper'' (1970 film), a drama starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown * ''Grasshoppers'' (Cavallette), a 1990 short animated film * ''Grasshopper'' (film), a 2015 Japanese thriller starring Toma Ikuta, Tadanobu Asano and Ryosuke Yamada Literature * Grasshopper (character), several characters in Marvel Comics * ''Grasshopper'' (novel), by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) * "The Grasshopper" (short story), 1892, by Anton Chekhov Military * * Grasshopper (robot weather station), developed by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Lee (British Actress)
Jennie Lee (c. 1854 – 3 May 1930) was a Victorian Era English stage actress, singer and dancer whose career was largely entwined with the title role in ''Jo'', a melodrama her husband, John Pringle Burnett, wove around a relatively minor character from the Charles Dickens novel, ''Bleak House''. She made her stage debut in London at an early age and found success in New York and San Francisco not long afterwards. Lee may have first starred in ''Jo'' around 1874 during her tenure at San Francisco's California Theatre, but her real success came with the play's London debut on 22 February 1876 at the Globe Theatre in Newcastle Street. ''Jo'' ran for many months at the Globe and other London venues before embarking for several seasons on tours of the British Isles, a return to North America, tours of Australia and New Zealand and later revivals in Britain. Reduced circumstances over her final years forced Lee to seek assistance from an actor's pension fund subsidised in part by p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Struck Oil
''Struck Oil'' is an 1874 play set during the American Civil War and a 1919 Australian silent film, now considered lost. The play, which introduced Maggie Moore to Australian theatre-goers, was popular with the Australian public and the basis of J. C. Williamson's success as a theatre entrepreneur. A film based on the play and directed by Franklyn Barrett was produced in 1919. Plot John Stofel is a Dutch shoemaker who has settled in America, and has a daughter, Lizzie. During the US Civil War, John goes off to fight, in the place of a cowardly deacon who gives him the title deed of a farm. John returns from the war wounded and insane. Oil is discovered on the farm and the deacon tries to take the land back. However, John regains his memory, finds the hidden title deed and the deacon is forced to give up his claim to the Stofels. The play Origins J. C. Williamson was an American leading actor who had toured Australia and just married Maggie Moore when he read a one-act play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost In London (play)
''Lost in London'' (also known as ''Lost in London LIVE'') is a 2017 American independent biographical comedy-drama film written, starring, and directed by Woody Harrelson in his directorial debut. The film also stars Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson. The film was shot and screened live in select theatres on 19 January 2017. It is the first time a film was live broadcast into theatres. Cast * Woody Harrelson as himself * Eleanor Matsuura as Laura Louie, Woody's wife * Owen Wilson as himself * Zrinka Cvitešić as Suen * Willie Nelson as himself * Louisa Harland as Stella * Martin McCann as Paddy * Sean Power as Dave * Amir El-Masry as Omar * David Mumeni as Alan * David Avery as Sayed * Nathan Willcocks as Eugene * Bono as himself (voice) * Ali Hewson as herself (voice) * Daniel Radcliffe as himself Development The idea for the film came to Harrelson following a night out at Chinawhite, a club in Soho, in 2002. He broke an ashtray in a London taxi, which led to his bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Holmes (theatre)
Harry Holmes may refer to: * Harry Holmes (boxer) * Harry Holmes (footballer) (1908–1993), English footballer * Hap Holmes (Harry George Holmes, 1888–1941), Canadian ice hockey player * Harry W. Holmes (1896–1986), activist for Esperanto * Harry Holmes, a character in the TV series ''Hustle'', played by Martin Kemp Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961) is an English musician and actor, best known as the bassist in the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in ''EastEnders''. He is the younger brother of Gary Kemp, who is also a ... See also * Henry Holmes (other) * Harold Holmes (other) {{hndis, Holmes, Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
