A Dictionary of the Drama; A Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest Times to the Present
A Dictionary of the Drama; A Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest Times to the Present
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...The Irish Mimic' (q.v.); (2) the lover of Blondinette in L. Buckingham's 'Little Bed Riding Hood' (q.v.). Colinette. A play adapted by H. Our Carleton from the French, and performed in America with Miss Julia Marlowe in the title part. Collaborators, The. A "dramatic joke " in one act, by C. H Addon Chambers, first ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...The Irish Mimic' (q.v.); (2) the lover of Blondinette in L. Buckingham's 'Little Bed Riding Hood' (q.v.). Colinette. A play adapted by H. Our Carleton from the French, and performed in America with Miss Julia Marlowe in the title part. Collaborators, The. A "dramatic joke " in one act, by C. H Addon Chambers, first performed at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on January 7,1892. Collars and Caffs. A musical farcical comedy, by Henri R. French, Theatre Royal, Birkenhead. November 30,1883. produced--and first performed in London at the Adelphi Theatre, September 10,1860, with the author as M tiles ua Coppaleen, J. Billington as Hardress Crtgan, Mrs. Billington as Mrs. Oregon, Miss Agnes Robertson (Mrs. Boucicault) as Eily O'Connor, Mrs. Alfred Mellon (Miss Woolgar) as Anne Chute, E. Falconer as Danny Mann, and David Fisher as Eyrie Daly. The play was performed for three hundred and sixty nights consecutively--at that time "one of the longest runs on record." "When I wrote 'The Colleen Bawn, '" says the author, "I invented the Irish drama. It was original in form, in material, in treatment, and in dialogue." Henry Morley wrote of it that "it owes much to the genius of Gerald Griffin, who contrived the story, and most to the constructive tact of the dramatist, in whose hands every situation is effective, and from whom every phrase tells upon the audience." The play was revived at the Adelphi in November, 1864, with Collins as Myles, R. Phillips as Danny Mann, Miss Henrietta Sims as Eily, Mrs. A. Mellon as Anne; at the Gaiety in May, 1872, with the Boucicaults, W. R'gnold, and Miss Lydia Foote; at the Adelphi in 1876, with W. Terriss as Hardress, J G. Shore as Kyrle, S. Emery as Danny, J C. Williamson as Myles, Mrs...
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