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[Com man lcat**J.Forty Years Ago—Theatrical and Musical.Eds. Com.:—There is a propensity in human nature to revert with pleasuro to the scenes of our early days, and to buildings, trees, per* sons, or anything else that will carry us back a considerable period of time. Our city hasprogressed so fast, and events and improvements have succeeded each other so rapidly, that forty years ago seems, to many of us, quite a remote period; and well it may, for most of us who are now in the prime of manhood, and engaged in active business, were then mere infants. Feeling the common propensity to ruminate on things past, and from various other considerations, I am impelled to make oar first theater, and some of its con*« comitants, the subject of a newspaper article. I have reason to think this will be acceptable to many, and particularly so to the lovers of music and the drama.Our first theater was bnilt by Joshua Collins, William Jones, Peyton S. Symmes, Samuel Q. Richardson, L. Whiteman, James Edmonson, Hara J. Glenn, Thomas R.Fosdick, N. Longworth, and Philip Yost, Jr., in theyear 1819. It stood on the south side of Columbia street, about midway between Main and Sycamore streets. It was opened for thefirst time about the 7th of June, 1820—forty years ago. There was auite a respectable company, and some of them were eminent. A little later, Ellick Drake, Miss Dennie, and Mrs. Groshon graced its boards.
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 13, 1860
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