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The Lottery Of Life
''The Lottery of Life'' is an 1867 play by John Brougham, one of his more popular works. Original run The play debuted at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston in September 1867,(21 October 1867)John Brougham's New Play ''Sacramento Daily Union'' and had a four week run at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in November-December 1867.(19 December 1867)Advertisement ''Evening Telegraph'' (Philadelphia) It also played in Washington, D.C. at the National Theatre in January 1868,(14 January 1868)The National Theatre ''National Republican'' played for two weeks in San Francisco, and played in Richmond, Virginia in February 1868, among other places.(3 February 1868)Amusements ''Daily Dispatch''(9 March 1968)Amusements ''New York Herald'' By early March 1868, the play's success on the road dictated it would get a run in New York.(19 March 1868)Musical and Dramatic Gossip ''Charleston Daily News'' The play had its New York debut at Wallack's Theatre on June 8, 1868, to open their "summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Wallack's Theatre
Three New York City playhouses named Wallack's Theatre played an important part in the history of American theater, as the successive homes of the Repertory theatre, stock company managed by actors James William Wallack, James W. Wallack and his son, Lester Wallack. During its 35-year lifetime, from 1852 to 1887, that company developed and held a reputation as the best theater company in the country. Each theater operated under other names and managers after (and in one case before) the Wallack company's tenure. All three are demolished. 485 Broadway James William Wallack, James W. Wallack and Lester Wallack, father and son, were 19th century actors and theater managers; that is, Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs whose business was a Repertory theatre, theatrical stock company, a troupe of actors and support personnel presenting a variety of plays in one theater. Actor-managers, such as the Wallacks, were members of their own company. Often, a manager leased a theater from it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
The Philadelphia ''Evening Telegraph'' was a newspaper published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1864 to 1918. The paper was started on January 4, 1864, by James Barclay Harding and Charles Edward Warburton. Warburton served as publisher until 1896, when he passed the newspaper and the publisher's job to Barclay Harding Warburton I. In 1911, Barclay Warburton sold the paper to Rodman Wanamaker, who ran it until it closed in 1918. Bought out by Cyrus Curtis, owner of the '' Public Ledger'', Curtis merged the ''Telegraph'' into the ''Ledger'' and thus acquired an Associated Press The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspa ... membership. The ''Ledger'' carried the full name of ''Evening Public Ledger and The Evening Telegraph'' through the end of 1918, and then dropped the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minstrel Show
The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of racist theatrical entertainment developed in the early 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that depicted people specifically of African descent. The shows were performed by mostly white people wearing blackface make-up for the purpose of playing the role of black people. There were also some African-American performers and black-only minstrel groups that formed and toured. Minstrel shows caricatured black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, and happy-go-lucky.The Coon Character , Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, Ferris State University. Retrieved 29 January 2016.John Kenrick [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Herald
The ''New York Herald'' was a large-distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between 1835 and 1924. At that point it was acquired by its smaller rival the ''New-York Tribune'' to form the '' New York Herald Tribune''. History The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett Sr., on May 6, 1835. The ''Herald'' distinguished itself from the partisan papers of the day by the policy that it published in its first issue: "We shall support no party—be the agent of no faction or coterie, and we care nothing for any election, or any candidate from president down to constable." Bennett pioneered the "extra" edition during the ''Heralds sensational coverage of the Robinson–Jewett murder case. By 1845, it was the most popular and profitable daily newspaper in the United States. In 1861, it circulated 84,000 copies and called itself "the most largely circulated journal in the world." Bennett stated that the function of a newspaper "is not to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie Germon
Mary Euphemia "Effie" Germon (June 13, 1845 – March 6, 1914) was an American stage actress of the late 19th century from Augusta, Georgia, a descendant of the Germons of Baltimore who were an old theatrical family. She excelled as a soubrette. Early life One of six siblings born to actors Greenberry Carr "Greene" Germon and Jane (''née'' Anderson) Germon, her father was the first to perform the role of Uncle Tom at the Troy Museum in the George Aiken (playwright), George Aiken adaptation of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' produced by George C. Howard. Effie Germon had two brothers. Her mother, Jane, a cousin of actor Joe Jefferson, began her career at age 8 and continued for 50 years. Effie Germon's theatrical debut was made at the Holliday Street Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1857-58 season. She played "Sally Scraggs" in ''Sketches in India''. Germon acted with both the Baltimore and Philadelphia stock companies."Effie Germon Dead At 68", ''The New York Times'', March 7, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Richardson Museum
The Sid Richardson Museum is located in historic Sundance Square in Fort Worth, Texas, and features permanent and special exhibitions of paintings by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, as well as other late 19th and early 20th-century artists who worked in the American West. The works reflect both the artistic visions and realities of the American West, and were part of the personal collection of the late oilman and philanthropist, Sid Williams Richardson, (1891-1959). The paintings were acquired by him primarily through Newhouse Galleries in New York from 1942 until 1959. In addition to Remington and Russell, the collection includes works by Oscar E. Berninghaus, Charles F. Browne, Edwin W. Deming, William Gilbert Gaul, Peter Hurd, Frank Tenney Johnson, William R. Leigh, Peter Moran and Charles Schreyvogel. Opened in 1982, the museum is housed in a replica of an 1895 building in an area of restored turn-of-the-century buildings in downtown Fort Worth. The site was ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fisher (actor)
Charles Fisher (1816 – June 11, 1891) was an Anglo-American stage actor and comedian. Born to a prolific theatrical family from Norfolk, England, Fisher went on to find success as an actor in different parts of England, and then from 1852 onwards in New York City where he worked as a highly regarded performer for almost 40 years in the companies of William E. Burton, Laura Keene, James William Walluck, and Augustin Daly. Arguably his best-known parts were Triplet in ''Masks and Faces'', Sir Peter Teazle in ''The School for Scandal'', Jacques in ''As You Like It'', and Graves in ''Money''. Early life Fisher was born in Suffolk, England to a family of actors and performers who ran a travelling theatre company, Norfolk and Suffolk Company of Comedians (1792-1844), established by Fisher's grandfather David Fisher (I). The family owned, managed and performed in 13 theatres across Norfolk and Suffolk, with family members forming the majority of the cast and crew. His parents, Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars) , image_map = , mapsize = 250 px , map_caption = Location within Virginia , pushpin_map = Virginia#USA , pushpin_label = Richmond , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Virginia##Location within the contiguous United States , pushpin_relief = yes , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = U.S. state, State , subdivision_name1 = , established_date = 1742 , , named_for = Richmond, London, Richmond, United Kingdom , government_type = , leader_title = List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia, Mayor , leader_name = Levar Stoney (Democratic Party (United States), D) , total_type = City , area_magnitude = 1 E8 , area_total_sq_mi = 62.57 , area_land_sq_mi = 59.92 , area_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brougham
John Brougham (9 May 1814 – 7 June 1880) was an Irish-American actor and dramatist. Biography He was born at Dublin. His father was an amateur painter, and died young. His mother was the daughter of a Huguenot, whom political adversity had forced into exile. John was the eldest of three children. The other two died in youth, and, the father being dead and the widowed mother left penniless, the surviving boy was reared in the family and home of an uncle. He was prepared for college at an academy at Trim, County Meath, twenty miles from Dublin, and subsequently was sent to Trinity College Dublin. There he acquired classical learning, and formed interesting and useful associations and acquaintances; and there also he became interested in private theatricals. Brougham fell in with a crowd that put on their own shows, cast by drawing parts out of a hat. Though he most always traded off larger roles so he could pay attention to his studies, Brougham took quite an interest in actin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Republican (newspaper)
The ''National Republican'' (1860–1888) was an American, English-language daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. History The paper was founded in November 1860 upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as the first United States President from the Republican Party. It was started by newspaperman William J. Murtagh, who had been with the Abolitionist ''National Era'', with investment from Hanscom and Weston, to be a pro-Lincoln administration paper. Though most associated with Murtagh, the paper's additional founders were Lewis Clephane, Martin Buell, and William Blanchard. Clephane later wrote that the paper was started "as a necessity, to represent the Republican Party of the city, and not with any hope of being remunerative." Murtagh sold to Almon M. Clapp in 1877. Clapp, who had founded the '' Buffalo Express'' in 1846, had most recently been Public Printer of the United States. He owned the paper until 1880., Evening Star'' A group headed by Elias W. Fox bought th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Theatre (Washington, D
National Theatre or National Theater may refer to: Africa *Ethiopian National Theatre, Addis Ababa *National Theatre of Ghana, Accra *Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi *National Arts Theatre, Lagos, Nigeria *National Theatre of Somalia, Mogadishu *National Theatre (Sudan), Omdurman * National Theatre of Tunisia, Tunis *National Theatre of Uganda, Kampala Asia Japan *National Theatre of Japan, Tokyo *New National Theatre Tokyo * National Noh Theatre, Tokyo * National Bunraku Theatre, Osaka * National Theater Okinawa, Urasoe, designed by Shin Takamatsu Other Asian countries * National Theatre of Yangon, Burma *Preah Suramarit National Theatre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia *Habima Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel *Palestinian National Theatre, Jerusalem *National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan *National Theatre, Singapore *National Theater of Korea, Seoul, South Korea *National Theatre (Thailand) Oceania *National Theatre, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia *National Theatre, Melbourne, Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
