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Anne Clarke (theatre Manager)
Anne Clarke née Remans (born 1806), was a pioneering actress, singer and theatre manager in Tasmania, Australia, significant as the first woman to manage an Australian theatre, being director of the Theatre Royal, Hobart, in 1840–1847. Life Anne Remans and fellow-actress Dinah Rudelhoff were brought out to Tasmania from England in 1834 under a sponsorship scheme, and first appeared with J. P. Deane's company, which at the time was playing at the Argyle Rooms in Hobart. Deane was early criticised for unfairly monopolizing their services. This was just one year after the introduction of professional theatre in Tasmania by the travelling company of Samson and Cordelia Cameron from England, and only two years after the first professional performance in Australia, at Barnett Levey's Royal Hotel in Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Aust ...
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Theatre Royal, Hobart
Theatre Royal is an historic performing arts venue in central Hobart, Tasmania. It is the oldest continually operating theatre in Australia; Noël Coward once called it "a dream of a theatre" and Laurence Olivier launched a national appeal for its reconstruction in the 1940s. History 1834–1856, Construction and early years In 1834, Peter Degraves, founder of Cascade Brewery, and a group of Hobart citizens purchased dock-side land for the purpose of building a public theatre. Architect John Lee Archer created a provincial Georgian design and the first stone was laid that year. The location was not ideal for future gentry audiences; it was in a rough and foul-smelling area near an abattoir, brothels, factories, and pubs. The architect accommodated the local population by creating an entrance through a neighbouring pub directly into the theatre's pit seating, colloquially known as "the Shades." When a national economic downturn caused most of the original investors to pull o ...
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Howson Family
The Howson family was a show-business dynasty founded in Australia, several of whose members went on to further success in America, London and Europe. Family Francis Howson (1794 – 13 April 1863) was an English pianist, arranger and voice coach. He married Sarah Sophie Tanner (1796 – 5 November 1839). Their children were given instruction in music and singing, with satisfactory results, particularly their daughter Emma and sons Frank and John. In 1841 his sons Frank, John, and Henry were recruited by theatre manager Anne Clarke, who needed talent for her theatre in Hobart, Tasmania, and together with Frank's wife Emma and child, left on the ship ''Sydney'', arriving in Hobart on 28 January 1842. They were joined on 21 August 1843 by "W. Howson" and "A. Howson" on the bark ''Eamont'' The first has been identified as William Edwin and the second as Alfred, about whom nothing has been found. On 2 March 1844 they were joined by their father Francis, two youngest brothers Frederick ...
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19th-century Australian Businesswomen
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ...
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Women Theatre Managers And Producers
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19th-century Theatre Managers
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ...
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Australian Women Theatre Directors
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19th-century Australian Actresses
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ...
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Year Of Death Missing
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1806 Births
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Mrs W
MRS, Mrs, or mrs may refer to: Acronyms * ICAO code for Air Marshall Islands, an airline based in Majuro, Marshall Islands * Magnetic resonance spectroscopy * Mammography reporting software, used to manage data related to radiologist interpretation of mammographic images * Mandibular repositioning splint * Marginal rate of substitution, in economics * Maritime Reaction Squadron, a unit of the South African Navy * Market Research Society * Postal code for Marsa, Malta * IATA code for Marseille Provence Airport * Materials Research Society * Melbourne Rectangular Stadium * Minimal recursion semantics * Modified Rankin Scale, to measure disability after stroke * Station code for Monks Risborough railway station, England * Sandinista Renovation Movement (), a political party in Nicaragua * MRS Logística, a freight rail company in Brazil * MRS suit, breathing apparatus, see Siebe Gorman rebreather equipments * Molecular Recognition Section as a Drug prefix, ''e.g.'' MRS5698. * MRS ...
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Theodosia Stirling
Theodosia Stirling or Theodosia Yates Stirling is a name that has been attached to the contralto born Theodosia Yates (1815 – 19 July 1904), who had a considerable career on the Australian stage as, successively, "Mrs Stirling", "Mrs Guerin", and "Mrs Stewart". She is perhaps best known as the mother of Nellie Stewart. Career Stirling was an actor and singer of some note in London before leaving for the colonies in a company recruited by Anne Clarke to perform at the Theatre Royal, Hobart in 1841–42, alongside Jerome Carandini, John Howson and Frank Howson of the celebrated Howson family, and was engaged there for three years. She was described as the prima donna of the Theatre Royal in Tasmania. John Cargher, ''Opera and ballet in Australia'', p. 4, Cassell Australia, 1977 She and Clarke supplemented their modest door takings by offering musical tuition. She left Tasmania in 1845 and initiated a successful career as an actor and opera singer in Sydney, where she was engage ...
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