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The Naughty Wife
''The Naughty Wife'', originally titled ''Losing Eloise'', is a farce in 3 acts by Fred Jackson. It was adapted into the 1919 silent film ''Let's Elope''. Performance history The play premiered on Broadway at the Harris Theatre on November 17, 1917, with the name ''Losing Eloise''. The play's producers, brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, retitled the show ''The Naughty Wife'' three weeks into its Broadway run with the hope of increasing box office sales with a more salacious title. A sex farce, the original production starred Violet Heming as Eloise Farrington, Charles Cherry as Hilary Farrington, Francis Byrne as Darryl McKnight, Charles Harbury as Bishop Kennelly, Lucile Watson as Nora Gail, Ethel Intropidi as Annette, Charles Mather as Thompson, and S. Harry Irvine as Carter. The play finished its Broadway run in January 1918 after 78 performances, after which the play went on tour throughout the United States with one of its earlier stops being the Park Square Theatre in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farce
Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense; satire, parody, and mockery of real-life situations, people, events, and interactions; unlikely and humorous instances of miscommunication; ludicrous, improbable, and exaggerated characters; and broadly stylized performances. Genre Despite involving absurd situations and characters, the genre generally maintains at least a slight degree of realism and narrative continuity within the context of the irrational or ludicrous situations, often distinguishing it from completely absurdist or fantastical genres. Farces are often episodic or short in duration, often being set in one specific location where all events occur. Farces have historically been performed for the stage and film. Historical context The term ''farce'' is deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Heming
Violet Heming (27 January 1895 – 4 July 1981) was an English stage and screen actress. Her name sometimes appeared as Violet Hemming in newspapers. Biography Born Violet Hemming in Leeds, Yorkshire, she was the daughter of Alfred Hemming who appeared in silent films and Mabel Allen. Heming began a stage career in 1908, appearing as Carrie Crews in ''Fluffy Ruffles''. She appeared in her first motion picture, a short film for Thanhouser Film Company, in 1910. In 1913, she appeared with George Arliss in the play ''Disraeli''. In September 1925, ''Variety'' reported that Heming would appear in a "playlet" for the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system. Though Heming appeared in several films and television throughout the decades, she is best remembered as a dependable Broadway star with a long list of theatrical credits.''Silent Film Necrology'', 2nd Edit. by Eugene Michael Vazzana, p.238; c.2001(mention of mother being Mabel Allen) She died on 4 July 1981. Partial fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Plays
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Virgin Islands, Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti-prostitution drive in Prostitution in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Broadway Database
The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It was conceived and created by Karen Hauser in 1996 and is operated by the Research Department of The Broadway League, a trade association for the North American commercial theatre community. This comprehensive history of Broadway provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre in the 18th century up to today. Details include cast and creative lists for opening night and current day, song lists, awards and other interesting facts about every Broadway production. Other features of IBDB include an extensive archive of photos from past and present Broadway productions, headshots, links to cast recordings on iTunes or Amazon, gross and attendance information. Its mission was to be an interactive, user-friendly, searchable database for League members, journalists, researchers, and Broadway fans. The League recently added Broadway Touring shows t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston. Founded in 1872, the paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it was sold to ''The New York Times'' in 1993 for $1.1billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in U.S. history. The newspaper was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool owner John W. Henry for $70million from The New York Times Company, having lost over 90% of its value in 20 years. The newspaper has been noted as "one of the nation's most prestigious papers." In 1967, ''The Boston Globe'' became the first major paper in the U.S. to come out against the Vietnam War. The paper's 2002 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Square Theatre (Boston)
The Park Square Theatre was a theatre in Park Square in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by architect Clarence Blackall. It opened January 19, 1914, as the Cort Theatre, named for impresario John Cort. It was his first theatrical venue in Boston. In August 1915 the Cort Theatre was purchased by Archibald and Edgar Selwyn and renamed the Park Square Theatre."Park Sq. Theatre renamed Selwyn after its owners." Boston Globe, June 11, 1921 In 1921 it was renamed the Selwyn Theatre, one of many Selwyn theatres in the United States. In time the building was replaced by a parking garage. Shows The Cort Theatre opened Monday, January 19, 1914, with the musical comedy, ''When Dreams Come True''. Joseph Santley starred, reprising his role in the Broadway production. Other shows include the following: * '' Twin Beds'' * James Forbes' ''The Show Shop'', with George Sidney and Zelda Sears * Roi Cooper Megrue's ''Under Fire'', with William CourtenayBoston Globe, Feb. 4, 1916 * Edgar Selwyn's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucile Watson
Lucile Watson (May 27, 1879 – June 24, 1962) was a Canadian actress, long based in the United States. She was "famous for her roles of formidable dowagers." Early years Watson was born in Quebec and raised in Ottawa, the daughter of an officer in the British Army. Despite his wishes, she traveled to New York City and enrolled in a dramatic school. Career Watson began her career on the stage debuting on Broadway in the play ''Hearts Aflame'' in 1902. Her next play was ''The Girl with Green Eyes'', the first of several Clyde Fitch stories. At the end of 1903, Watson appeared in Fitch's ''Glad of It''. This play featured several young performers, including Watson who moved to major Broadway or motion picture prominence: Robert Warwick, John Barrymore, Thomas Meighan, and Grant Mitchell. For the rest of the decade, she appeared in several more Fitch stories into the 1910s. Fitch died in 1909. Watson was primarily a stage actress, appearing in 39 Broadway plays. She starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Harbury
Edward Charles Herring ( – 1928), known on the stage as Charles Harbury was an English-born stage actor with a long list of Broadway support and or character credits. He appeared in productions starring E. H. Sothern, Virginia Harned, Ethel Barrymore and Mrs. Fiske to name a few. He died in upstate New York and was buried in a charity plot at Kensico Cemetery. Selected stage productions *''Captain Lettarblair'' (1892) *''The Manoeuvres of Jane'' (1899-1900) (with Mary Mannering) *''When Knighthood Was in Flower'' (1901) (with Julia Marlowe) *''Sunday'' (1904) (w/Ethel Barrymore) *''The World and His Wife'' (1908) *''Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh'' (1911) (with Mrs. Fiske) *''The Return from Jerusalem'' (1912) *''Oliver Twist'' (1912) (with Marie Doro, Constance Collier) *''Three Faces East'' (1918) *''Launcelot and Elaine'' (1921) *''The Merchant of Venice'' (1922–23) (with David Warfield) References External links * *Charles Harburywith Ethel Barrymore in "Sunday", 1904 (New York H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cherry
Charles Cameron Cherry (19 November 1872 – 2 September 1931) was a British born actor. He was born to James Frederick Cherry (died 1883) and his wife, Lady Emily Louisa Haworth-Leslie (died 1936) at Greenwich, Kent, England. His mother was a relation to Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes. He spent a large part of his career in the United States often as leading man to many beautiful star actresses i.e. Elsie de Wolfe, Maxine Elliott, Ethel Barrymore, Marie Doro and Elsie Ferguson. He appeared in two silent motion pictures, ''The Mummy and the Hummingbird ''The Mummy and the Humming Bird'' is a lost 1915 American drama silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey ...'' (1915) and ''Passers By'' (1916). His sisters were Miriam Audrey Cherry (died 1954) (Mrs. Herbert Owen-Taylor) and Gladys Cherry (1881–1965) (Mrs. George O. S. Pringle), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex Farce
A bedroom farce or sex farce is a type of light comedy, which centres on the sexual pairings and recombinations of characters as they move through improbable plots and slamming doors. Overview The most famous bedroom farceur is probably Georges Feydeau, whose collections of coincidences, slamming doors, and ridiculous dialogue delighted Paris in the 1890s and are now considered forerunners to the Theatre of the Absurd. The Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler took bedroom farce to its highest dramatic level in his ''La Ronde'', which in ten bedroom scenes connect the highest and lowest of Vienna. Some of the English Aldwych farces by Ben Travers which were popular in the 1920s and 1930s have aspects of "bedroom farce", e.g. ''A Cuckoo in the Nest'' or ''Rookery Nook''. However, in each case the sharing of a bedroom or house turns out to have an innocent explanation. In modern times, Woody Allen's ''A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'' (1982) presents aspects of the bedroom farc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick J
Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode *Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) Austria * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans Baden * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden Bohemia * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia Britain * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain Brandenburg/Prussia * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Margrave of Brandenburg * Frederick William, Elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale University Press publishes approximately 300 new hardcover and 150 new paperback books annually and has a backlist of about 5,000 books in print. Its books have won five National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards and eight Pulitzer Prizes. The press maintains offices in New Haven, Connecticut and London, England. Yale is the only American university press with a full-scale publishing operation in Europe. It was a co-founder of the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Harvard University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Series and publishing programs Yale Series of Younger Poets Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition has published the first collection of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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