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The Heart Of Maryland (play)
''The Heart of Maryland'' was a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco. The four-act melodrama set in the American Civil War opened at the Herald Square Theatre in New York on October 22, 1895 and ran for 240 performances. Mrs. Leslie Carter originated the role of Maryland Calvert and Maurice Barrymore originated the role of Col. Alan Kendrick. William Furst composed the play's incidental music. The play toured throughout the United States for several years, and was made into a silent film by the same title in 1927. Silent versions also appeared in 1915, with Mrs. Carter in her original role, and in 1921. Belasco said that the play was inspired in part by the poem '' Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight'' by Rose Hartwick Thorpe Rose Hartwick Thorpe (July 18, 1850 – July 19, 1939) was an American poet and writer, remembered largely for the narrative poem, '' Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight'' (1867), which gained national popularity. It was translated into nearl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Belasco
David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story ''Madame Butterfly'' for the stage. He launched the theatrical career of many actors, including James O'Neill, Mary Pickford, Lenore Ulric, and Barbara Stanwyck. Belasco pioneered many innovative new forms of stage lighting and special effects in order to create realism and naturalism.Osnes, Beth, and Gill, Sam. ''Acting: An International Encyclopedia'', ABC-CLIO (2001) p. 34Marker, Lise-Lone, ''David Belasco: Naturalism in the American Theater'', Princeton Univ. Press (1975) Early years David Belasco was born in 1853 in San Francisco, California, the son of Abraham H. Belasco (1830–1911) and Reyna Belasco (née Nunes, 1830–1899), Sephardic Jews who had immigrated to the United States from London's Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community during the California Gold Rush. He began working as a youth in a San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Square Theatre
The Herald Square Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, New York City, built in 1883 and closed in 1914. The site is now a highrise designed by H. Craig Severance. History The Park Theatre opened in 1883 (also known as the New Park Theatre) on the partly demolished site of the Great New York Aquarium (1876–1881), which is unrelated to the later New York Aquarium. Actor Charles E. Evans, retiring from the stage with cash in hand from the long-running success of ''A Parlor Match'', refurbished the prior Harrigan's Park Theatre as the Herald Square Theatre in 1894.Who's who on the stage p. 90 (1906) It stood at 1331 Broadway, designed by architects Rose & Stone, with about 1150 seats and with its interior furnished by the interior of the nearby [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Barrymore
Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe (21 September 1849 – 25 March 1905), known professionally by his stage name Maurice Barrymore, was an Indian-born British stage actor. He is the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family, father of John, Lionel and Ethel, and great-grandfather of actress Drew.Said that Maurice had died in Amityville, New York, pp. 21–22, 41. Early life Born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe in Amritsar, India, he was the son of William Edward Blythe, a surveyor for the British East India Company, and his wife Charlotte Matilda Chamberlayne de Tankerville. Herbert, the youngest of seven, had an older brother named Will and two sisters named Emily and Evelin. Three other siblings had died in infancy. Matilda, after a difficult pregnancy, died shortly after giving birth to Herbert on 21 September 1849. In his formative years Herbert was raised by his Aunt Amelia Blythe, his mother's sister, and later by other family members. Amelia, a Chamberlayne by birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Furst
William Wallace Furst (March 25, 1852 – July 11, 1917) was an American composer of musical theatre pieces and a music director, best remembered for supplying incidental music to theatrical productions on Broadway. Biography Furst was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied music in Baltimore, and was a church organist at the age of 14. Career Furst's comic opera ''Electric Light'' was produced and conducted by him in 1878, and for the five seasons following he received engagements as conductor of opera. By the 1880s, he was composing theatrical music for productions starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, William Faversham, Viola Allen and Mrs. Leslie Carter. He composed the music for five Shakespeare productions by Margaret Anglin at the Berkeley Stadium in California, as well as her production of ''Electra''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of Maryland (1927 Film)
''The Heart of Maryland'' (1927) is a silent film costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr. It is based on David Belasco's 1895 play '' The Heart of Maryland'' performed on Broadway. The film is the last silent version of the often filmed Victorian story, with versions having been produced in 1915 and 1921. Cast *Dolores Costello as Maryland Calvert * Jason Robards, Sr. as Maj. Alan Kendrick *Warner Richmond as Captain Fulton Thorpe *Helene Costello as Nancy *Carroll Nye as Lloyd Calvert *Charles Edward Bull as Abraham Lincoln *Erville Alderson as Maj. Gen. Kendrick *Paul Kruger as Tom Boone *Walter Rodgers as Gen. U.S. Grant *Jim Welch as Gen. Robert E. Lee *Orpha Alba as Mammy *Myrna Loy as Mulatta *Harry Northrup as Gen. Joe Hooker *Nick Cogley as Eli Stanton *Lew Short as Allan Pinkerton *Leonard Mellon as Young Stewart *Madge Hunt as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of Maryland (1915 Film)
''The Heart of Maryland'' is a lost film, lost 1915 silent film drama directed by Herbert Brenon based on David Belasco's play ''The Heart of Maryland (play), The Heart of Maryland''. Mrs. Leslie Carter, who starred in the original play on Broadway in 1895, makes her appearance in this film as the title character. Cast *Mrs. Leslie Carter – Maryland Calvert *William E. Shay – Alan Kendrick *J. Farrell MacDonald – Colonel Thorpe *Matt B. Snyder – General Hugh Kendrick *Raymond Russell – Floyd Calvert *Marcia Moore – Floyd Calver't Sweetheart *Vivian Reed (silent film actress), Vivian Reed – Dolly Grey *Doris Baker – True Blue *Herbert Brenon – Lloyd Calvert *Bert Hadley – Private Boone *Joseph Hazelton – The Sexton (*as Joe Hazelton) See also *''The Heart of Maryland (1921 film), The Heart of Maryland'' (1921) *''The Heart of Maryland (1927 film), The Heart of Maryland'' (1927) References External links * * lobby poster [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of Maryland (1921 Film)
''The Heart of Maryland'' is a lost 1921 American silent film feature produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It is based on David Belasco's 1895 play, '' The Heart of Maryland''. When Warner Brothers acquired the Vitagraph Studios in 1925, they obtained the screen rights to this property and remade the story in 1927 as '' The Heart of Maryland'' with Dolores Costello. Cast *Catherine Calvert as Maryland Calvert *Crane Wilbur as Alan Kendrick *Felix Krembs as Col. Fulton Thorpe *Ben Lyon as Bob Telfair * William Collier, Jr. as Lloyd Calvert *Warner Richmond Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spa ... as Tom Boone * Bernard Siegel as Provost-Sergeant Blount *Henry Hallam as General Kendrick *Victoria White as Nanny McNair *Marguerite Sanchez as Mrs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
''Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight'' is a narrative poem by Rose Hartwick Thorpe, written in 1867 and set in the 17th century. It was written when she was 16 years old and first published in ''Detroit Commercial Advertiser''. The poem consists of ten stanzas of six lines each, written in catalectic trochaic octameter; the ending of the last verse of each stanza is a variant of the title. Synopsis The story involves Bessie, a young woman whose lover, Basil Underwood, has been arrested, thrown in prison by the Puritans and sentenced to die that night when the curfew bell rings. Knowing that Oliver Cromwell will be late in arriving, the young woman begs the old sexton to prevent the ringing of the curfew bell. When he refuses, she climbs to the top of the bell tower and heroically risks her life by manually stopping the bell from ringing. Cromwell hears of her deed and is so moved that he issues a pardon for Underwood. Inspiration and publication The material upon which Rose Hartwick T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Rose Hartwick Thorpe (July 18, 1850 – July 19, 1939) was an American poet and writer, remembered largely for the narrative poem, '' Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight'' (1867), which gained national popularity. It was translated into nearly every language of the world, and was universally recognized as a veritable classic. Other poems followed, among them being "The Station Agent's Story," "Red Cross," and "In a Mining Town." Although a busy and prolific author, she was ill for some years. In 1888, she and her family removed to San Diego, California, living in Rosemere, Pacific Beach. Early years and education Rose Alnora Hartwick was born in Mishawaka, Indiana, July 18, 1850. She was the daughter of William Morris and Mary Louisa (Wight) Hartwick. Her father's family were artists. In 1861, her parents removed to Hillsdale County, where she grew up, attended school, and began writing at an early age. She completed her education at the high school of Litchfield, Michigan, in 1868. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays By David Belasco
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