Lackaye and Hackett on drama craft in theater review
The article profiles AY Wilton Lackaye and James K. Hackett, tracing Lackaye’s rise from Davenport company to star status and his view that craft and learning are essential for lasting success. It contrasts Hackett’s stance that drama and literature intertwine, arguing that acting value sustains a work beyond its literary merit.
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Sheridan Knowles
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Fritzi Scheff Early Life and Musical Rise
Rita Soeff was born into a musical atmosphere with a noted singer mother in Vietnam. Her father praised her innate melody from infancy. At age five she joined a church choir, showed prima donna instincts, and left a rehearsal after being told to slow down. By eight she was viewed as a prodigy, and by ten she embarked on an opera career that led to America and contic opera.
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Vietnima
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Contic Opera
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Alktrurta
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Marguerite Clark
Marguerite
Edna Wallace
Bessie Clifford
West Point
Cheekfawa
Sassyland
Bessie
Tom
Harry
Wrothe
Wilingville
Impane Asylum
Harry Williams Aaron Hoffman
Egbert van Alstne
Porto Domingo
Curtain
Watson
Rickel
Franklin Pyle
Stage Notes Highlight Stars and Tours in New York
Robert T. Haines lands role in The Darling of the Gods while Lillian Russell debuts in vaudeville at a Proctor house. Olga Nethersole and Marie Cahill are teased for Moonshine and The Crossing. Fritzi Scheff, Emma Calve and others loom in a bustling New York theatre season with tours and new productions.
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Robert T. Haines
Kara
Lillian Russell
Proctor Houses
New York
Alice Nielsen
England
Washington
John Blair
Nicholas Tempie
Winston Churchil
Cleveland
Robert V. Ferguson
M. de St. Gre
Violet Houk
Gertrude Hoffman
Marie Cahill
Dragon Fly and Belasco Legacy Highlight Long's Career
John Luther Long, co author with Edward Childs Carpenter, visits New York to supervise revisions of The Dragon Fly and discuss his collaboration with David Belasco. The interview covers Longs shift from law to fiction, Mme Butterfly, The Darling of the Gods, Adrea, and Belascos stage craft and vitality.
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Brillant
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Edward Childs Carpenter
J. Long
Mr. Carpenter
David Belasco
Mme. Butterfly
Adrea
Mr. Belasco
Washington
Belasco-Long
Jong Hoed
Blanche Bates
Puccini
London
United States
Percy Haswell
la Scalla
Milan
Belasco
Marie B. Schrader
How Crank's New Comedy Came to Be Written
An account of how The American Lord evolved from a joke among writers Charles T. Carey George H. Broadhurst and Crane with a stage actor guiding collaboration. They toyed with making Crane President then British nobility, landing on a Western heir to an English title forcing him to adapt to American ways.
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Mr. Belasco
David
Adrea
Belasco
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Mr. Crane
Charles T. Carey
George H. Broadhurst
Crane
Mr. Broadhurst
Mr. Darey
New York
Washington
Mr. Dazey
Mr Dazey
Broadhurst
England
Charles Frohman
Verdi's Rigolette in English a big success in New York
Henry W Savage's English grand opera company offered Verdi's Rigoletto in New York with strong performances by Joseph Sheehan Winfred Got Gertrude Bennyson and Rita Newman. Conductor Emanuel led a handsome scenic production and the season opened with Ada and Lohengrin among other revivals and new stagings stressing stronger ensembles and cross country plans.
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New York
Boston
Joseph Sheehan
America
Winfred Got
Gertrude Bennyson
Gilda
Mme. Melba
Rita Newman
Maddalena
Emanuel
English Grand Opera Company
Ada
Mme. Gerena
Francis Maclennan
Tannhauser
Puccini
Dixey and Boswell in a bustling New York stage mix
Washington Post correspondent reviews a Madison Square Theater program featuring Henry E. Dixey in The Man on the Box, with Carlotta Nilsson and the ensemble. The piece also covers Chauncey Olcott as Edmund Burke, De Wolf Hopper in Happyland, and the rough but popular Tom Dick and Harry, noting production style, star power, and crowd-pleasing moments amid comic opera and farce.
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The
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Washington
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A. M. Palmer
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de Wolf Hopper
Chauncey Olcott
Harry Watson
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Hke
de Koven
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Melia Bergen
Shubert
Frederic Ranken
Weber-Fields Music Hall
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