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The Senator (play)
''The Senator'' was a popular 1890 comedic play by David D. Lloyd and Sydney Rosenfeld, also made into a 1915 silent film. Play Rosenfeld, a prolific writer and adapter of plays, completed the play after Lloyd died; it is not known for sure how much Rosenfeld did to revise the text. He himself claimed to have made major revisions (though acknowledging the unfairness of claiming such when Lloyd could not dispute it), while some critics suggested he just made minor alterations, perhaps supposing that Rosenfeld himself was not capable of producing such fine product. After initial performances outside New York (it was first performed in St. Louis)(26 November 1889)Mr. Crane in Boston ''The New York Times'' it debuted at the Star Theatre on Broadway on January 13, 1890, and ran for 119 performances.Fisher, James & Felicia Hardison LondrThe A to Z of American Theater: Modernism p. 427 (Scarecrow Press 2008) ()(11 May 1890)The Senator's Farewell: Theodore Moss's Expensive Present To ...
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Sydney Rosenfeld
Sydney Rosenfeld (1855–1931) was an American playwright who wrote numerous plays, and adapted many foreign plays. Close to fifty of his creations played on Broadway. Some of his better known plays (though none achieved long-lasting popularity) included ''A House of Cards'', ''The King's Carnival'', '' The Lady, or the Tiger?'', ''The Vanderbilt Cup'', ''The Aero Club'', ''The Senator'', ''Mlle. Mischief'', ''The Mocking Bird'', ''A Man of Ideas'', ''The 20th Century Girl'', ''Jumping Jupiter'', and ''The Optimist''.(15 June 1931)Sydney Rosenfeld, Dramatist, Is Dead ''The New York Times''The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume X
p. 476 (1916)


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1890 Plays
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Philip Hahn
Philip Hahn (1884-August 4, 1976) was an American actor. He was in silent films including the lead role in '' The Price He Paid'', an adaptation of an Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem, and '' The Dancer's Peril''. According to ''Motography'' he was a painter in Amsterdam until he went color blind. Filmography *'' The Price He Paid'' (1914) *''The Nightingale (1914 film)'' *''The Garden of Lies'' (1915) *'' The Senator'' (1915) as Count Ernst von Strahl in the film adaptation *'' The Bachelor's Romance'' (1915) *''The Woman's Law'' (1916) *''The Scarlet Oath'' (1916) also titled ''The Other Sister'' *''Playing with Fire (1916 film) ''Playing with Fire'' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Francis J. Grandon, starring Olga Petrova, and released by Metro Pictures. It is now considered to be a lost film. Cast * Olga Petrova as Jean Serian (as Mme. Petrova) ...'' *'' The Dancer's Peril'' (1917), as Grand Duke Alexis References External linksPhilip HahnInternet Movie Da ...
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James Neill (actor)
James F. Neill (September 29, 1860 – March 16, 1931) was an American stage actor and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1913 and 1930. Biography Graduated from the University of Georgia in 1882, James Neill immediately embarked on a theatrical career which spanned nearly fifty years with stage appearances in every state in the Union, the territories (including Hawaii), and the provinces of Canada, in addition to film appearances in the studios of many of the major early Hollywood producers. "The occasion of spring vacation during his senior year at the University of Georgia was marked by the first amateur theatrical appearance of young James F. Neill. The April 11, 1882, program for the Savannah Theatre included a listing of the Veteran Guard Cadets, a 'military drill team and chorus,' as part of the evening’s entertainment provided by the Ford Dramatic Amateur Society. Neill listed this as his 'first appearance on any stage, as one ...
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Harry Braham
Henry Nathaniel Braham (13 September 1850 – 21 September 1923) was a British music hall comic vocalist and actor. He toured with vaudeville impresario Tony Pastor in the 1870s and was a leading low comedian with American actor-manager William H. Crane for five years acting the part of Baron Ling Ching the Chinese Ambassador in Crane's most celebrated play, '' The Senator''. He acted on Broadway in the light opera ''Sergeant Kitty'' with Virginia Earle, and then in silent film where he played Cameron's faithful servant (uncredited) in DW Griffith's controversial epic ''The Birth of a Nation''. Early life and career Braham was born in 1850 in West Street in the rookery of Seven Dials in London, to artist Nathaniel Henry Braham and Susan Dorothy Frost, his father was Jewish, his mother Anglican and this interfaith marriage caused a split in the family when they married at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 11 November 1848. Braham had two younger brothers, Charles who became an acrobat u ...
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Henry Bergman
Henry Bergman (February 23, 1868 – October 22, 1946) was an American actor of stage and film, known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin. Biography Born in San Francisco, California, Bergman acted in live theatre, appearing in ''Henrietta'' in 1888 at the Hollis Street Theatre in Boston and in the touring production of '' The Senator'' in 1892 and 1893. He made his Broadway debut in 1899 appearing with Anna Held in ''Papa's Wife'', the musical hit of the year. He made his first film appearance with the L-KO Kompany in 1914 at the age of forty-six. In 1916, Bergman started working with Charlie Chaplin, beginning with '' The Floorwalker''. For the rest of his career, Bergman remained a character actor for Chaplin and worked as a studio assistant, including Assistant Director. He played in many Chaplin shorts and later features, including '' The Pawnshop'', '' The Immigrant'', '' A Dog's Life'', ''The Gold Rush'', '' The Circus'', and '' City Lights''. Bergman's last o ...
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