|
Daddy-Long-Legs (play)
''Daddy-Long-Legs'' is a 1914 play by the American writer Jean Webster. Webster adapted it from her own 1912 epistolary novel '' Daddy-Long-Legs''. Performance history ''Daddy-Long-Legs'' debuted on Broadway at the Gaiety Theatre on September 28, 1914. The work had already been touring for four months prior to its Broadway run with Webster traveling with the production. The play was the first major success for actress Ruth Chatterton, and her portrayal of the character of Judy in this work brought her both critical acclaim and fame. Other performers in the original production included Charles Waldron as Jervis Pendleton, Cora Witherspoon as Sallie McBride, Harry Dodd as Cyrus Wycoff, Mabel Burt as Miss Pritchard, Gilda Leary Julia Pendleton, Robert Waters as Abner Parsons, Maud Erwin as Mamie, and Edward Howard as John Codman. Well received in its initial production, ''Daddy-Long-Legs'' was revived on Broadway in 1918 at Henry Miller's Theater with Ruth Chatterton and Charles Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Webster, Playwright (SAYRE 10488)
Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean Pierre Polnareff, a fictional character from ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' * Jean Luc Picard, fictional character from ''Star Trek Next Generation'' Places * Jean, Nevada, United States; a town * Jean, Oregon, United States Entertainment * Jean (dog), a female collie in silent films * "Jean" (song) (1969), by Rod McKuen, also recorded by Oliver * ''Jean Seberg'' (musical), a 1983 musical by Marvin Hamlisch Other uses * JEAN (programming language) * USS ''Jean'' (ID-1308), American cargo ship c. 1918 * Sternwheeler Jean, a 1938 paddleboat of the Willamette River See also *Jehan * * Gene (other) * Jeanne (other) * Jehanne (other) * Jeans (other) * John (other) * Valjean (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Webster
Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916), an American author whose books include ''Daddy-Long-Legs (novel), Daddy-Long-Legs'' and ''Dear Enemy (novel), Dear Enemy''. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers. Childhood Alice Jane Chandler Webster was born in Fredonia, New York. She was the eldest child of Annie Moffet Webster and Charles L. Webster, Charles Luther Webster. She lived her early childhood in a strongly matriarchal and activist setting, with her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother all living under the same roof. Her great-grandmother worked on Temperance movement, temperance issues and her grandmother on racial equality and women's suffrage. Alice's mother was niece to Mark Twai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epistolary Novel
An epistolary novel () is a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse other kinds of fictional document with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered to include novels composed of documents even if they do not include letters at all. More recently, epistolaries may include electronic documents such as recordings and radio, blog posts, and e-mails. The word '' epistolary'' is derived from Latin from the Greek word (), meaning a letter . This type of fiction is also sometimes known by the German term ''Briefroman'' or more generally as epistolary fiction. The epistolary form can be seen as adding greater realism to a story, due to the text existing diegetically within the lives of the characters. It is in particular able to demonstrate differing points of view without recourse to the device of an omniscient narrator. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daddy-Long-Legs (novel)
''Daddy-Long-Legs'' is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen. The novel was initially serialized in the April–September 1912 issues of the ''Ladies' Home Journal'', and first published in book form by The Century Company in October 1912. Plot summary Jerusha "Judy" Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were completely dependent on alms, charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron from a gravestone (she hates it and uses "Judy" instead), while her surname was selected out of the phone book. One day, after the asylum's trustees have made their monthly visit, Judy is informed by the asylum's dour matron that one of the trustees has offered to pay her way through college. He has spoken to her former t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embassy Five Theatre
The Embassy Five Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 1547 Broadway in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City from 1909 until 1982, when it was torn down. It was originally known as the Gaiety Theatre, becoming the Victoria Theatre in 1943; the theater was known as the Embassy Five Theatre for the last two years of its existence. The office building that housed the theatre, the Gaiety Building, has been called the Black Tin Pan Alley for the number of African-American songwriters who rented office space there. It was designed by Herts & Tallant and owned by George M. Cohan. The theatre introduced revolutionary concepts of a sunken orchestra (the previous configuration had the orchestra on the same level as the seats in front of the stage) and also not having pillars obstructing sight lines for the balcony. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hachette India
Hachette India is the Indian arm of the publishing company Hachette, which is owned by the French group, Lagardère Publishing. It started operations in India in 2008, and is currently the second-largest publishing house in the country, behind Penguin India Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae () of the order Sphenisciformes (). They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is equatorial, with a smal ..., for non-education books. References External links Official website {{Louis Hachette Group, state=expanded Book publishing companies of India Indian subsidiaries of foreign companies . Publishing companies established in 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Chatterton
Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviator and novelist. She was at her most popular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the same era gained prominence as an aviator, one of the few female pilots in the United States at the time. In the late 1930s, Chatterton retired from film acting but continued her career on the stage. She had several TV roles beginning in the late 1940s and became a successful novelist in the 1950s. Early life Chatterton was born in New York City on December 24, 1892 to Walter, an architect, and Lillian (née Reed) Chatterton. She was of English and French extraction. Her parents separated while she was young. Chatterton attended Mrs. Hagen's School in Pelham, New York. In 1908, Chatterton and her friends were attending a play in Washington, D.C. Chatterton later criticized the acting of the lead actress to her friends, who challenged her to become a stage actress herself or "shut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Waldron
Charles Waldron (December 24, 1874 – March 4, 1946) was an American stage and film actor, sometimes credited as Charles Waldron Sr., Chas. Waldron Sr., Charles D. Waldron or Mr. Waldron. Early life He was born and grew up in Waterford, New York. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Waldron, were themselves actors of some note, but they did not want their son to follow in their profession and tried to steer him to a career in finance. He worked in Philadelphia as a bank clerk. However, he jumped at the chance to "play the juvenile lead in ''Kidnapped''". Career Nine years of stock and a tour of Australia and New Zealand performing in ''The Virginian'' and ''The Squaw Man'' followed. In 1905, he was praised for his performance in the leading role in the play ''The Eternal City'' at San Francisco's Alcazar Theatre. He made his Broadway debut in 1907 in David Belasco's '' The Warrens of Virginia''. (His father and Belasco had been fellow actors in a Portland, Oregon company. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Witherspoon
Cora Witherspoon (January 5, 1890 – November 17, 1957) was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s. As Witherspoon's career progressed, she carved a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play ''Olympia,'' or Agatha Sousè, W.C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film '' The Bank Dick''. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of ''They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930s'' (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women." Early life Witherspoon was born in New Orleans, to Cora S. Bell and Henry Edgeworth Witherspoon. Her father was an assistant surgeon with the Confederate Army during the American C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Miller's Theater
The Stephen Sondheim Theatre, formerly Henry Miller's Theatre, is a Broadway theatre, Broadway theater at 124 West 43rd Street in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Owned by the Durst Organization and managed by the Roundabout Theatre Company, the modern 1,055-seat theater opened in 2009 at the base of the Bank of America Tower (Manhattan), Bank of America Tower. The current theater is mostly underground and was designed by Cookfox, COOKFOX, architects of the Bank of America Tower, with Adamson_Associates, Adamson Associates Architects as architect of record. It retains the landmarked facade of the original Henry Miller's Theatre, which was built in 1918 by Henry Miller (actor), Henry Miller, the actor and theatre producer, producer. The original 950-seat theater was designed in the Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style by Harry Creighton Ingalls of Ingalls & Hoffman, in conjunction with Paul R. Alle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
