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The Garden Of Allah (play)
''The Garden of Allah'' is a play written by Robert Hichens and Mary Anderson. It was based on Hichens 1904 novel of the same name. It consists of four acts and an epilogue, with a medium-sized speaking cast and slow pacing. The play is concerned with the romance between a wealthy young Englishwoman and a half-Russian, half-English man of mysterious background. The settings are various locales in French Algeria and French Tunis around 1900, particularly the oasis town of Beni-Mora, a fictional name for Biskra. The title stems from an Arabic saying that the desert is the Garden of Allah. The play was a commercial success, famed for its spectacle, with large numbers of authentic Algerian people, live animals, and complex set designs and effects. However, it was not a dramatic success; several reviewers expressed surprise that a book with so much dramatic potential was winnowed down to a few disjointed scenes. Despite the lack of drama, over 375,000 people saw it during the Broadw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hichens (writer)
Robert Hichens (Robert Smythe Hichens, 14 November 1864 – 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the " Naughty Nineties".John Sutherland. "HICHENS, Robert" in ''The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction''. 1989 Brian Stableford, "Hichens, Robert (Smythe)" in David Pringle, ed. ''St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic writers''. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1998, (pp. 268-70). Biography Hichens was born in Speldhurst in Kent, the eldest son of the Rev. Frederick Harrison Hichens, and his wife Abigail Elizabeth Smythe. He was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music and early on had a desire to be a musician. Later in life he would become music critic on ''The World'', taking the place of George Bernard Shaw. He studied at the London School of Journalism. Hichens was a great traveller. Egypt was one of his favourit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Maclaren (actor)
Ian Maclaren (1 May 1875 – 10 April 1952) was an English stage and film actor. He acted in more than thirty films in Hollywood including the 1930 war film ''Journey's End''.Goble p.424 Towards the end of his film career he was generally cast in small, uncredited parts. Partial filmography * '' Under the Red Robe'' (1923) - King Louis XIII * ''Yolanda'' (1924) - Campo Basse * '' Monsieur Beaucaire'' (1924) - Duke of Winterset * ''Journey's End'' (1930) - Lt. Osborne * ''Men on Call'' (1930) - Eric (uncredited) * '' Body and Soul'' (1931) - General Trafford-Jones * ''The Conquering Horde'' (1931) - Marvin Fletcher * ''Prestige'' (1931) - Colonel Du Flos * ''Merry-Go-Round'' (1932) - Chief Frank Hyers * ''Cleopatra'' (1934) - Cassius * ''Les Misérables'' (1935) - Head Gardener * '' False Faces'' (1935) - Reconstructionist (uncredited) * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1936) - William Pitt * '' The House of Secrets'' (1936) - Commissioner Cross * ''The Prince and the Pauper'' (1937 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madge Titheradge
Madge Titheradge (2 July 1887 14 November 1961) was an Australian-born actress who became a leading actress in the West End of London and on Broadway. She began as a child actress before the First World War, and went on to star in the 1920s and 1930s. Her range was unusually wide, including Shakespeare, pantomime, Ibsen, farce, drawing-room comedy and Ruritanian romance. Ill health forced her early retirement from the stage in 1938, and she lived in retirement until her death at her home in Surrey, aged 74. Life and career Early years, 1887–1907 Titheradge was born in Melbourne, to a theatrical English family. She was the daughter of the actor George Titheradge and his wife Alma, ''née'' Saegert (Stage name Alma Santon);Parker ''et al'', pp. 2373–2374 her younger brother Dion became an actor and playwright."Obituary: Miss Madge Titheradge", ''The Times'', 15 November 1961, p. 17 She was educated at a private school in Hampstead, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Tearle
Sir Godfrey Seymour Tearle (12 October 1884 – 9 June 1953) was a British actor who portrayed the quintessential British gentleman on stage and in both British and US films. Biography Born in New York City and brought up in Britain, he was the son of British actor/manager George Osmond Tearle (1852–1901) and American actress Marianne "Minnie" Conway (1852-1896), the brother of actor Malcolm Tearle, and the half-brother of silent film star Conway Tearle. His maternal grandmother was Sarah Crocker Conway. In 1893, he made his stage debut as young Prince Richard, Duke of York, in his father's production of ''Richard III'' and in 1908 he appeared in his first film as Romeo in ''Romeo and Juliet''. He became a Shakespearean actor of note, appearing on stage in the title roles of ''Othello'', ''Macbeth'' and ''Henry V''. His theatrical career was interrupted when he joined the Royal Artillery for a four-year stint beginning in 1915. In 1924 he starred in the West End production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drury Lane Theatre
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". For most of that time, it was one of a handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" drama in London (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the English Restoration. Initially kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawson Butt
W. Lawson Butt (4 March 1880 – 14 January 1956) was a British actor and film director of the silent era.(7 August 1915)W. Lawson Butt with Kleine ''The Moving Picture World'' Selected filmography Actor * '' The Woman Next Door'' (1915) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1916) * ''The Danger Trail'' (1917) * '' Shackled'' (1918) * ''Playthings of Passion'' (1919) * ''Desert Gold'' (1919) * '' It Happened in Paris'' (1919) * '' The Miracle Man'' (1919) (*uncredited though substantial part in film) * ''The World and Its Woman'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Letty'' (1919) * ''Earthbound'' (1920) * ''The Tiger's Coat'' (1920) * ''The Sting of the Lash'' (1921) * '' Beyond the Crossroads'' (1922) * '' The Masquerader'' (1922) * ''The Flying Dutchman'' (1923) * ''Dante's Inferno'' (1924) * '' The Chicago Fire'' (1925) * ''The Beloved Rogue'' (1927) * ''Old San Francisco ''Old San Francisco'' is a 1927 American silent historical drama film starring Dolores Costello and featuring Warner Oland. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Donnelly
Dorothy Agnes Donnelly (January 28, 1876 - January 3, 1928) was an actress, playwright, librettist, producer, and director. After a decade-long acting career that included several notable roles on Broadway, she turned to writing plays, musicals and operettas, including more than a dozen on Broadway including several long-running successes. Her most famous libretto was ''The Student Prince'' (1924), in collaboration with composer Sigmund Romberg. Life and career Donnelly was born January 28, 1876, in Brooklyn, New York, to Thomas Lester Donnelly (1832–1880), the manager of the Grand Opera House in New York, and his wife Sarah (née Williams). Donnelly attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York. She began acting on Broadway in 1901, playing the title role in '' Candida''. She made famous the play ''Madame X'' on the Broadway stage in 1910 and in a 1916 silent film. She is the subject of a 1999 book by Lorraine McLean ''Dorothy Donnelly: A Life in the Theatre''. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boston Theatre
:''See Federal Street Theatre for an earlier theatre known also as the Boston Theatre'' The Boston Theatre was a theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. It was first built in 1854 and operated as a theatre until 1925. Productions included performances by Thurlow Bergen, Charles A. Bigelow, Edwin Booth, Anna Held, James O'Neill Jennie Kimball, and others. Images Image:1854 BostonTheatre Bostonian1894 v1 no1.png, Boston Theatre street view, ca.1854 Image:BostonTheatre3 Midgley SightsInBoston.png, Interior, ca.1850s Image:BostonTheatre BalPict.JPG, ''Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...'' at the Boston Theatre, 1850s Image:1869 WestSt Nanitz map Boston detail BPL10490.png, Detail of 1869 map of Boston, showing Boston Theatre on Washington Street Image:1899 BostonTheat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrest Theatre
The Forrest Theatre is a live theatre venue at 1114 Walnut Street Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has a seating capacity of 1,851 and is managed by The Shubert Organization."The Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia" Shubert Organization Retrieved 29 March 2009. The original Forrest Theatre was on Broad and Sansom Street but demolished it and replaced it in 1928 with the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building (now the Wells Fargo Building). The new the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Enterprise Tower
The Alcoa Building (a.k.a. the Regional Enterprise Tower) is a skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was completed in 1953 and has 31 floors. It is the 15th tallest building in the city and is adjacent to Mellon Square. A unique radiant heating and cooling system is contained in the ceiling: since there are no pipes, radiators, or air conditioning units along the exterior walls, an additional of rentable space was gained. Also, the windows rotate 360 degrees so they can be washed from the inside. Originally the headquarters for the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), the unique aluminum walls of the building are 1/8 inch thick, which gives the building a very light weight and economical design. It was the first skyscraper with an all-aluminum facade. Upon ALCOA's 2001 relocation to a new headquarters building on Pittsburgh's North Shore near PNC Park, the old ALCOA Building became a home to government entities, regional nonprofits and small start-up comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippodrome Theater (Cleveland, Ohio)
The Hippodrome Theater was located at 720 Euclid Ave in Cleveland, Ohio. In its day, it was a very lavish theater and ranked as one of the world's greatest playhouses. Performers appearing at the Hipprodome included Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, Al Jolson Al Jolson (born Eizer Yoelson; June 9, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-American Jewish singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, and was self-billed ..., and John McCormack. The auditorium had two balconies and seating for 3,548. The stage of the Hippodrome could handle large productions and measured 130' wide, 104' deep, 110' high. It also included a water tank for water spectacles. The Hippodrome was demolished in 1981 to make way for a parking lot. Theatres in Cleveland Theatres completed in 1907 Buildings and structures demolished in 1981 Demolished theatres in the United States Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati Music Hall
Music Hall, commonly known as Cincinnati Music Hall, is a classical music performance hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, completed in 1878. It serves as the home for the Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, May Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. In January 1975, it was recognized as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior for its distinctive Venetian Gothic architecture. The building was designed with a dual purpose – to house musical activities in its central auditorium and industrial exhibitions in its side wings. It is located at 1241 Elm Street, across from the historic Washington Park in Over-the-Rhine, minutes from the center of the downtown area. Music Hall was built over a pauper's cemetery, which has helped fuel its reputation as one of the most haunted places in America. In June 2014, Music Hall was included on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of America's 11 most endang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
