Author: Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater. Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Lessee: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Friday. One night only. Miss Chestney will make her first appearance on any stage. Friday evening, November 8, '61 the perormance will commence with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of "The Love Chase!" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the farce of "Your Life's in Danger" ...
Theater Playbill for Miss Chestney in "The Love Chase" and "Your Life's in Danger" at the Washington Theater, November 8, 1861
Author: Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater. Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Lessee: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Friday. One night only. Miss Chestney will make her first appearance on any stage. Friday evening, November 8, '61 the perormance will commence with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of "The Love Chase!" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the farce of "Your Life's in Danger" ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater. Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Lessee: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Friday. One night only. Miss Chestney will make her first appearance on any stage. Friday evening, November 8, '61 the perormance will commence with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of "The Love Chase!" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the farce of "Your Life's in Danger" ...
Theater Playbill for Miss Chestney in "The Love Chase" and "The Rough Diamond" at the Washington Theater, November 13, 1861
Author: Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater! Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Lessee: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Wednesday. Miss Chestney whose debut on Friday was a great success will make her second appearance on any stage! ... Miss Alice Placide Mann as Margery. Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, '61 the performance will commence with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of "The Love Chase!" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the farce of "The Rough Diamond!" ... On Thursday, Benefit of Mr. J.S. Sessford, on Friday, Benefit of Miss A.P. Mann. Mons. Hermann, the Great Prestidigitateur, will shortly appear.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater! Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Lessee: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Wednesday. Miss Chestney whose debut on Friday was a great success will make her second appearance on any stage! ... Miss Alice Placide Mann as Margery. Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, '61 the performance will commence with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of "The Love Chase!" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the farce of "The Rough Diamond!" ... On Thursday, Benefit of Mr. J.S. Sessford, on Friday, Benefit of Miss A.P. Mann. Mons. Hermann, the Great Prestidigitateur, will shortly appear.
Theater Playbill for Miss Chestney in "Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady" and "The Pride of the Market" at the Washington Theater, November 16, 1861
Author: Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater! Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Lessee: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Benefit and last appearance of Miss Chestney on which occasion she will appear in two characters! ... Saturday evening, Nov. 16, 1861 the performances will commence with the comedietta of "Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the comedy of "The Pride of the Market" ... On Monday, Mons. Hermann, the Great Prestidigitateur, in preparation, the greatest novelty ever seen in Washington ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater! Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Lessee: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Benefit and last appearance of Miss Chestney on which occasion she will appear in two characters! ... Saturday evening, Nov. 16, 1861 the performances will commence with the comedietta of "Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the comedy of "The Pride of the Market" ... On Monday, Mons. Hermann, the Great Prestidigitateur, in preparation, the greatest novelty ever seen in Washington ...
Theater Playbill for Miss Chestney in "London Assurance" and "The Dead Shot" at the Washington Theater, February 28, 1862
Author: Henry Polkinhorn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater! Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania Avenue. Lessee and manager: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Friday. Benefit and fifth night of Miss Chestney the successful debutatnte! On which occasion she will appear in two characters. On Friday evening, February 28, 1862, the performance will commence with the last three acts of "London Assurance" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the farce of "The Dead Shot!" ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Theater! Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania Avenue. Lessee and manager: Mr. Humphrey Bland, Acting manager: Mr. Blennerhassett, Stage manager: Mr. H. Russell, Musical director: Mr. Sandy Jamieson ... Friday. Benefit and fifth night of Miss Chestney the successful debutatnte! On which occasion she will appear in two characters. On Friday evening, February 28, 1862, the performance will commence with the last three acts of "London Assurance" ... Overture: Orchestra. To conclude with the farce of "The Dead Shot!" ...
Our American Cousin
Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
Nineteenth Century British Theatre
Author: Kenneth Richards
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317400186
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Originally published in 1971. Nineteenth-century theatre in England has been greatly neglected, although serious study would reveal that the roots of much modern drama are to be found in the experiments and extravagancies of the nineteenth-century stage. The essays collected here cover a range of topics within the world of Victorian theatre, from particular actors to particular theatres; from farce to Byron’s tragedies, plus a separate section about Shakespearean productions.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317400186
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Originally published in 1971. Nineteenth-century theatre in England has been greatly neglected, although serious study would reveal that the roots of much modern drama are to be found in the experiments and extravagancies of the nineteenth-century stage. The essays collected here cover a range of topics within the world of Victorian theatre, from particular actors to particular theatres; from farce to Byron’s tragedies, plus a separate section about Shakespearean productions.
The Player's Passion
Author: Joseph R. Roach
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472082445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472082445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage
Crossword Solver
Author: Anne Stibbs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747550754
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747550754
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.
The Tyranny of Words
Author: Stuart Chase
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544664434
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language. In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, The Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful analysis of the way we use words continues to resonate. A contemporary of the economist Thorstein Veblen and the author Upton Sinclair, Chase was a social theorist and writer who despised the imprecision of contemporary communication. Wide-ranging and erudite, this iconic volume was one of the first to condemn the overuse of abstract words and to exhort language users to employ words that make their ideas accurate, complete, and readily understood. “[A] thoroughly scholarly study of the science of the meaning of words.” —Kirkus Reviews “When thinking about words, I think about Stuart Chase’s The Tyranny of Words. It is one of those books that never lose its message.” —CounterPunch
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544664434
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language. In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, The Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful analysis of the way we use words continues to resonate. A contemporary of the economist Thorstein Veblen and the author Upton Sinclair, Chase was a social theorist and writer who despised the imprecision of contemporary communication. Wide-ranging and erudite, this iconic volume was one of the first to condemn the overuse of abstract words and to exhort language users to employ words that make their ideas accurate, complete, and readily understood. “[A] thoroughly scholarly study of the science of the meaning of words.” —Kirkus Reviews “When thinking about words, I think about Stuart Chase’s The Tyranny of Words. It is one of those books that never lose its message.” —CounterPunch