Mary Andersons Debut and McCullough Anecdotes On Stage
The piece recounts Mary Anderson’s first major appearance as Juliet in Louisville aided by manager Barney Macauley who required her to fill seats by promoting tickets with help from editors like Watterson. It also recalls Edwin McCullough’s Richmond anecdote of a zealous amateur actress collapsing into melodrama, provoking a roaring, amused audience.
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Mary Anderson
Louisville
Kentucky
Juliet
William Griffiths
Romeo
Barney Macauley
Cincinnati
Macauley
Barney
Old Barney
Watterson
Mr. Macauley
New York
Griffiths
Pittsburgh Dispatch
McCullough
Amateuyr
Cleveland
Richmond
Lady of
Lyons
Claude Melnotte
Lake
Como
Bulwer
Prithee
Paris
Arthur
Washington
Judge Gray
Waite
Senator Dawes
George Bancroft
Representative Harris
Booth Ideas and Edwins Call for Better Actors
Edwin Booth argues that American theatre fails to gain dignity due to actors’ contempt for knowledge and self aggrandizement. He recalls Trving at the Lyceum Theater praising cooperative casting and notes his own financial loss from Booths Theater due to lack of public support and neglect of a dramatic library.
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Edwin Booth
New York
Trving
Lyceum
Booth’s
Stage Scene Turns Bitter in Loud Theatre Reverie
The performer McCullough bursts into laughter during a romantic scene. The young woman refuses to smile, then glares and tugs his hair, scolding him for laughing at a vulgar remark. He regains his role, face conveying pain as the act continues.
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McCullough
The Propmter Behind the Curtain
A portrait of the theater prompter as the unseen, overworked linchpin of productions. The piece notes his constant movement, reliance on memory, and frequent blame when cues fail, highlighting his low recognition despite crucial role.
Green-thon Tally Mam and the Odessan Tenor’s Rise
Mme Modrzejewska is identified as Green-thon Tally Mam. Miss Clara Monnis discusses seeking fortune in London in spring. Mirrzwinski the tenor, after limited success in America, provokes great Odessa enthusiasm. Marup Minter plans to ask her father to let her perform with his play and to test paternal affections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mam
Mopsisxa
Mme. Modrzejewska
Clara Monnis
London
Mirrzwinski
America
Odessa
Marup Minter
Reminiscences of Public Men and School Days
The piece recalls John Cr. Rives, his public service, and the Civil War era, along with anecdotes about Corwin and Hoar Gray dinner. It also features BILL NYE’S SCHOOL DAYS with humorous childhood episodes, somnambulism at military school, and distant memory of Boston boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senator Hoar
Justice Gray
Supreme Court
Wormsley
Senator Sumner
Charles Sumner
Samuel Hooper
Sumner
Bill Nye
Boston
Nye
The Colonel Bidderly and the Hot Springs Printer Scheme
Arkansaw Traveler recounts Colonel John Bidderly a famed but cash-strapped journalist who ran a small Hot Springs daily. He charmed printers while gambling away office funds, leaving workers unpaid despite promising pay, until the six week haul yielded only 2.30 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bidderly
Arkansaw
Hot Springs
Hank Beasely
Colonel Bidderly
Atlantic
Pacific
The German Railroad and The Modern Dairy Oddities
A humorous look at a German railroad engineer with forty nine years of accident free service. The piece jokes about how danger could arise if fatigue sets in and the train moves too fast. A brief quip from Puck notes a girl boasting the pump out there gives milk after observing a farmer pour into a can.
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Germany
R. J. Burdette
Brooklyn Hagle
Esteamagewagonhausbundeswassmeister
Sweitrackagesteamwagonausgeroundhausmitswansigdoors
Puck
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Aurelia Sentinel
K Edwin Booth
Booth Ideas
Ren. Perley Poore
John ©. Rives
Gen. Jackson
Treasury
White House
Frank Blair
Congress
Globe
Fortune
John Cr. Rives
Order of the Bee
Corwin
Lincoln
Arkansaw Traveler
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