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Shore Acres (play)
''Shore Acres'' is four-act a play written by James A. Herne. The play debuted at McVicker's Theater in Chicago on May 23, 1892, initially under the title ''Shore Acres Subdivision''. Later in the Chicago run, it was retitled ''Uncle Nat''. In February 1893, the play opened as ''Shore Acres'' at the Boston Museum, where it ran for several months. Following the play's success in Boston, Henry C. Miner staged it on Broadway, where it opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on October 30, 1893. Cast and characters The characters and opening night cast from the Broadway production are given below: Reception ''The New York Times'' gave a positive review to the Broadway production, calling it "more than worth seeing". Critic Alan Dale gave it a positive review in ''The Evening World''. The ''New-York Tribune'' reviewer disliked Herne's use of theatrical realism, saying the play was dull and filled with an "interminable mass of insipidities and platitudes". The reviewer for the '' The S ...
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Alan Dale (critic)
Alan Dale (May 14, 1861 - May 21, 1928)Silent Film Necrology, p.116 2nd edit. c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana was an influential British theatre critic, playwright and book author of the late Victorian and early 20th Century eras. He was born Alfred J. Cohen in Birmingham England. He arrived in New York in 1887 and became a drama critic for several New York papers i.e., ''New York Evening World'', ''New York Journal'' and the ''New York American''. His reviews of plays were often negative but helped sell a lot of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. The theatre world despised Dale for his acid reviews.The Oxford Companion To American Theatre, p.180 2nd edition c.1992 by Gerald Bordman His spouse was Carrie L. Frost and they had at least one child Margaret (or Marjorie). Dale died aboard train while traveling from Plymouth to Birmingham. He had undergone several operations previously after health problems. __NOTOC__ See also *William Ernest Henley *George Bernard Shaw *Alexander Wo ...
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