Notable Event as Salvini Booth Star in Othello
The New York Academy of Music hosted Shakespeare's Othello with Signor Salvini and Edwin Booth. Critics noted Salvini's powerful, pictorial style and Booth’s restrained, rapid delivery. The two formed a pragmatic compromise swapping roles for different nights. The piece also profiles eccentric actress Clara Morris and her reclusive habits between performances.
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Academy of Music
New York
Sig. Salvini
Edwin Booth
Nym Crinkle
Salvini
Academy
Mr. Booth
Lewis
Signor Salvini
Inco
Gooth
Emilia
Booth
Hamlet
England
America
Opera vs Concert Singing According to Clara Nellogg
The interview contrasts opera and concert singing. Nellogg notes opera offers built in drama, costumes, and audience sympathy, while concert singing requires shaping mood without story or stage cues, making it more exhausting and challenging to win audience understanding. She warns against relying on spectacular effects.
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Clara Louise Nellogg
Playwrights Banter Sparks Two Hour Nighttime Debate
An overheard sidewalk exchange near Union Square and the Morton House has two men debating a draft play. The reviewer notes the script runs about two hours and suggests shifting start and end times to fit a tighter performance.
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Union Square
Morton
New England Rumor Column Mentions Artists and Opera
Green Roane Gossip notes Marcaner Matai hovering over New England while Den Launry, a French actor, considers a U S return. New York season totals 126 grand opera performances with 18 Italian, 52 German, 56 English.
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Marcaner Matai
New England
Ann Mus
Gro
S. Esigiur
Haurope
den Launry
America
Cuaha Moras
Morrison
Canada
Baker Ann Parnon
Missip Pauwink
Herr Seidl
LhLMANISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN
A survey of political maneuvering around John Tyler and Daniel Webster includes cabinet shifts and resignations. It notes Cushing’s brief rejection as Treasury nominee, Webster’s friction with Whigs, and later reconciliation as Webster resumes influence in Washington. The piece adds anecdotes about Edwards and other public figures, plus editorials on reading aloud.
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John Tyler
Daniel Webster
Mr. Everett
China
Congress
Webster
Court of St. James
Everett
Canton
Trendon
Fyler
Texas
Cushing
Treasury
Pernard
Massachusetts
Senate
Henry A. Wise
France
Mr. Webster
Washington
Supreme Court
Coventry
John Minor Botts
Judge Mangum
North Carolina
Freesoll
Abbott Lawrence
Mgr. Webster
Senator Ewing
Sherman
Jackson
United States Bank
Ohio
Tom Solitude Ewing
Ewing
Cowper
Alexander Selkirk
John P. Hale
New Hampshire
Henry Clay
Mr. Hale
United States Senate
Elizabeth Zane Heroine and Other Folksy Tales
A collage of short children’s columns and features recounts Elizabeth Zane’s frontier courage with a poem and moral vignettes. It includes two boys sharing a sermon, Stella Vinton’s honesty lesson, a fable about an old woman mill, and light quips on humor and wisdom.
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Paul Revere
John Burns
Wheeling
Elizabeth Zane
John S. Adan
St. Nicholas
Political Parties A Brief History of American Parties
A concise history tracks Federalists and Anti Federalists, the rise and fall of the Whigs, and the birth of the Republican Party amid the era of good feeling. It notes Jeffersonian roots, Jacksonian shifts, and minor parties that faded with time as slavery reshaped politics. Time is money, but how little store we put by it.
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Stella Vinton
Jesus
Baker Street
Stella
Apolda
Thuringen
Klappred
Grinder
Kappred
the Christian Weekly
The
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Republic
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Adams
James Madison
England
Hartford
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Whig Party
General Jackson
United States Bank
Martin van Buren
Harrison
Tyler
Congress
James K Polk
Texas
Mexico
General Taylor
Liberty Party
Free Soil Party
Republican Party
Winfield Scott
Pierce
Lincoln
American Or Know Nothing Party
Constitutional Union
Anti-Masonic
Greenback
Prohibition
I Iter Ocean
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Mitchell Capital
Mitchell, Dak
Booth and
Othio
Clara Morris
Nussia
Indianapolis
Hendricks
Miss Morris
Clara
New York Mail and
Barpress
Green Roane
Ben
Parley
House of Representatives
Polk
Tennersea
Wilmot
Alaska
Maine
David Crockett
David Crocker
Jefferson Davis
Blakely Hall
Madison Avenue
Ninth Street
Papa
Shakspeare
Milton
Grascow Theatrical Company
OLD Woman Mill
Maaiden
Eddie
Harry
Mamma
Baby
Jane
Virth
Kitty
New York Advocate
National Weekly
John
Doslon
PRI
Ury Joo
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