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The Girl Behind The Counter
''The Girl Behind the Counter'' is an Edwardian musical comedy with a book by Arthur Anderson (dramatist), Arthur Anderson and Leedham Bantock, music by Howard Talbot and lyrics by Arthur Anderson (dramatist), Arthur Anderson (and additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank).''The Girl Behind the Counter'' Guide to Musical Theatre, accessed 21 July 2011 It opened at Wyndham's Theatre on 21 April 1906, produced by Frank Curzon and directed by Austen Hurgon. The farcical musical starred Isabel Jay, C. Hayden Coffin and Lawrence Grossmith. It ran for 141 performances in the original London production, and an adaptation ran for twice that long in 1907–08 on Broadway theatre, Broadway. The Broadway production was "freely adapted and reconstructed by Edgar Smith (librettis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Jay
Isabel Emily Jay (17 October 1879 – 26 February 1927) was an English opera singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and in Edwardian musical comedies. During Jay's career, picture postcards were immensely popular, and Jay was photographed for over 400 different postcards. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music, Jay joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1897, with whom she began singing principal roles immediately, becoming the company's leading soprano in 1899, where she played leading roles in comic operas including ''The Rose of Persia, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, The Emerald Isle'' and ''Iolanthe''. She married and left the company in 1902. She returned to the West End stage in 1903 and starred in eleven musicals over the ensuing years, including ''A Country Girl, The Cingalee, Véronique, The White Chrysanthemum, The Girl Behind the Counter, Miss Hook of Holland, King of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Beban
George Beban (December 13, 1873 – October 5, 1928) was an American actor, director, writer and producer. Beban began as a child performer in San Francisco, California, and became a well-known vaudevillian and stage actor in the 1890s and 1900s. He was best known for his portrayal of Italian immigrant characters, including his starring roles in the play ''The Sign of the Rose'' and the 1915 silent film classic '' The Italian''. Though strongly associated with his Italian immigrant roles, Beban was born in San Francisco, could not speak a word of Italian and was the son of parents from Dalmatia (in modern-day Croatia) and Ireland. Early years Beban was born in San Francisco, California in 1873. He grew up on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and was one of four sons of Rocco Beban, a Dalmatian immigrant, and Johanna Dugan, from County Cork, Ireland. At age eight, he began a stage career singing with the Reed and Emerson Minstrels. His talent as a singer led to the young Beban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Naudain
Mary Arnaud "May" Naudain (October 12, 1880 – February 1923) was an American musical theatre actress and singer. Early life Naudain was born in 1880 (although some sources give it as 1872) in Burlington, Iowa, and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Thomas Nelson Naudain and Mary M. Calloway. Her father was a banker. Career Naudain appeared on Broadway in '' Babes in Toyland'' (1903–1904), ''It Happened in Nordland'' (1904–1905), ''Victor Herbert's Concert'' (1905), '' His Majesty'' (1906), ''The Little Cherub'' (1906–1907), ''The Girl Behind the Counter'' (1907–1908), ''The Girls of Gottenberg'' (1908), and '' Katinka'' (1915–1916). She made a recording, in 1916, of the hit song "Rackety-Coo" from ''Katinka''. In 1917 she sang on the vaudeville circuit with Anatole Friedland. She toured o\in vaudeville in 1918. In 1919 she sang on Broadway with The Society of American Singers in a production of ''The Gondoliers ''The Gondoliers; or, The King of Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Square Theatre
The Herald Square Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, New York City, built in 1883 and closed in 1914. The site is now a highrise designed by H. Craig Severance. History The Park Theatre opened in 1883 (also known as the New Park Theatre (Manhattan), Park Theatre) on the partly demolished site of the Great New York Aquarium (1876–1881), which is unrelated to the later New York Aquarium. Actor Charles E. Evans, retiring from the stage with cash in hand from the long-running success of ''A Parlor Match'', refurbished the prior Edward Harrigan, Harrigan's Park Theatre as the Herald Square Theatre in 1894.Who's who on the stage p. 90 (1906) It stood at 1331 Broadway, designed by architects Rose & Stone, with about 1150 seats and with its interior furnished by the interior of the nearb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Fields 1
Lew or LEW may refer to: People * Lew (given name) * Lew (surname) Places * Lew, Oxfordshire, England * River Lew, in Devon, England Transport * LEW Hennigsdorf, a rail vehicle factory in Hennigsdorf, Germany * Lew (locomotive), a British narrow gauge railway locomotive built in 1897 for the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway * Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport, by IATA airport code * Lewisham station, by National Rail station code Other uses * An ancient manor now within the parish of Northlew, Devon * Irene Lew The following is a list of characters from the '' Dead or Alive'' video game series, created by Tecmo and Team Ninja. Characters Main series Spin-off series ''Xtreme ''series Introduced in ''Dead or Alive'' Ayane Bass Armstrong Vo ..., the main female character in the ''Ninja Gaiden'' trilogy See also * * * Lou (other) * Loo (other) * Lieu (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coralie Blythe
Coralie Blythe (born Caroline Maud Blyth; 28 January 1881 – 24 July 1928), was an English actress and singer, who is best remembered for her numerous postcard photos and her roles in Edwardian musical comedy. Although she never became a big star, she worked steadily in London's West End and in British provincial theatres from her teen years until after World War I, especially for producer George Edwardes, and had a few roles in America. She sometimes performed with her husband, Lawrence Grossmith, and her brother, Vernon Castle. Early life and career Born in Bow in London, she was the eldest of three children of William Thomas Blyth (born 1857), a publican, and his wife Jane (née Finley) (1862–1897), an actress. Her brother was the dancer Vernon Castle."Miss Coralie Blyth", ''The Times'', 27 July 1928, p. 16 Blythe's early theatrical appearances included West End roles replacing Marie Studholme as Gladys Stourton in the Edwardian musical ''A Gaiety Girl'' (1894) and in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Dainton
Marie Dainton (8 June c. 1881 – 1 February 1938) was an actress of the Victorian and Edwardian eras who appeared regularly in both music halls and in dramatic theatre. Early career Dainton was born in Russia, apparently in 1881, but other sources cite 1877. Her father was Robert E. Sharlach, and her mother was the English actress and singer Jenny Dawson (d. 1936). Dainton made her stage debut on 24 March 1894 at York Theatre Royal in ''Little Red Riding Hood''. In this show, she gave imitations of well-known theatrical personalities, and this gift for mimicry became her trademark. Dainton became a versatile performer in various theatrical genres, including musical comedy, pantomime and revue.Dainton on 'Footlights Notes' Dainton made her first London appearance at the Metropolitan music hall i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Englefield
Violet Englefield (1881 – 22 March 1946) (born as Maud Violet Englefield) was a British actress and singer known for her musical theatre performances in London's West End and on Broadway in the first two decades of the 20th century. Career Born in Hounslow, she was the daughter of Joel Englefield (1846-1912), an army bandmaster, and Ellen Cashel Cross (née Bevan); all of their children were trained musicians. In 1904 she had an illegitimate son, Juan Englefield, with the actor Harry Chart. It is not known what became of the child. Englefield's British acting credits included ''Dick Whittington'' (1899) at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, during which she played a violin solo which was "a conspicuous feature of the performance", playing the Prince in the pantomime ''Cinderella'' at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh (1906), Millie Mostyn in ''The Girl Behind the Counter'' at Wyndham's Theatre (1906–07), the lead role of Bess Moore in ''The Bad Girl of the Family'' at the Elepha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Mills
Horace Mills (1 September 1864 – 14 August 1941) was a British singer, actor and dramatist who specialised in playing pantomime dames in the early 20th-century. Born in Portsea in Portsmouth in 1864, he was the oldest of six children born to Elizabeth Ann ''née'' Jolly and Herbert James Mills, a Colonel in the Ordnance Supply Board.Horace Mills in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns Register 1754–1932 Theatre career He co-wrote the book for the musical play ''Miss Esmeralda'' (1887) to music by Meyer Lutz and first performed at the Gaiety Theatre in London. His stage appearances include Bertie Fitz Bunnyon in ''As Large as Life'' (1890) at Terry's Theatre, Remendado in ''Carmen up to Data'' (1890) at the Gaiety Theatre Tom Edge in ''Zephyr'' (1891) at the Avenue Theatre, touring in '' The Circus Girl'' (1897), Widow Twankey in ''Aladdin'' at the Prince’s Theatre in Manchester (1900) with Ada Reeve and G. P. Huntley, in the Comedy Oddity ‘Mash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Allandale
Fred Allandale (4 July 1872 – 23 December 1921) was a British musical comedy actor, comedian and producer. Biography Allandale was born Frederick Arnold in Camberwell, London, on 4 July 1872, the son of Alfred Arnold and Sophia Hudson. He was the grandson of the Irish comedian James Hudson. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and worked as an accountant. Performing using the stage name of Fred Allandale, his first stage appearance was in The Geisha at the Theatre Royal Lincoln on 7 February 1898, playing Lieutenant Cuningham. On 28 August 1905, he played Bobbie Scott in The Blue Moon at the Lyric Theatre. He toured with the comedy sketch The Soldier and the Girl. He also produced his own Pierrot Company in Blackpool. His second wife was the musical comedy actress Maie Ash. Allandale died on 23 December 1921 in Birmingham from a heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bennett Scott
Bennett Scott (12 October 1871 – 1 June 1930)Richard Anthony Baker, ''British Music Hall: an illustrated history'', Pen & Sword, 2014, , pp.154-156 was an English writer of music hall songs. Born in London, of Jewish background, he started working in warehouses, but in 1894 advertised his services as a provider of "good songs and catchy melodies... at a guinea a time." His first major success came with "I've Made Up My Mind to Sail Away" (1902), sung by Tom Costello. He established a working partnership with fellow songwriter A. J. Mills. They set up the Star Music Company, and together wrote "By the Side of the Zuider Zee" (1906, performed by Fanny Fields); "Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor)" (1908, performed by Hetty King), "Fall In and Follow Me" (1910, performed by Whit Cunliffe), "When I Take My Morning Promenade" (1912, performed by Marie Lloyd), and "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
