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Edmund Law Rogers, Jr.
Edmund Law Rogers, also known by the stage name Leslie Edmunds (July 1, 1850 – December 19, 1893), was an American stage actor. He was also a founding father of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Virginia. Early life Rogers was born on July 1, 1850, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Charlotte Matilda Leeds Plater and Edmund Law Rogers, a millionaire. He was a descendant and Calvert family of Mary and of Martha Washington (great-great-great-grandmother) and Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (great-grandmother). The family estate, Druid Hill, today is one of the largest city parks in North America. Rogers attended the James Kinner Academy in Baltimore, where Frank Courtney Nicodemus was one of his classmates. In 1869, Rogers enrolled in the University of Virginia where he studied architecture and became interested in acting. While at the university, Rogers, Nicodemus, and four other students started the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He also designed the fraternity's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the List of United States cities by population, 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the Metropolitan statistical areas, 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country at 2.84 million residents. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an Independent city (United States), independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the central Maryland region together with Baltimore County, Maryland, the surrounding county that shares its name. The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 160 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Americans, English Quakers, Quaker and advocate of Freedom of religion, religious freedom, and served as the capital of the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and American Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Janisch
Antonie Janisch, also known on the stage as Madame Janisch (May 9, 1848, Vienna – October 12, 1920, Vienna) was an Austrian actress. Career Antonie Janisch began her career as a teenager at the Theater an der Wien where her first significant role was as the fairy Topase in ''Die Hirschkuh'' in 1863. After an unsuccessful appearance at the Burgtheater, she pursued acting training in Berlin in 1868. When she joined the company of players at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 1869 she had a critical triumph, and was thereafter a well regarded stage actress in Austria. She returned to the Burgtheater in 1872–1873, and then briefly retired from performance after marrying Count Ludwig Arco Valley. In 1875, Antonie resumed her career at the Burgtheater where she was one of the lead actresses of the company through 1882. She then spent the next decade performing in England and the United States as well as other theaters in Germany. She made her Broadway debut in 1885 at the Madison Sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Curtis
Maurice Curtis (1849 – 1920), stage name M. B. Curtis, was an American stage actor, producer, and real estate developer, at one point tried and acquitted of a policeman's murder. He achieved fame in the title role of George H. Jessop's 1881 play ''Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer''. Biography Mauritz Bertram Strelinger was born in 1849 as proved by the entry in the Strelinger family Bible. He was born to a Jewish family in Nagy Selmetz, a Hungarian town that is now in Slovakia outside of Ruzomberok. He came to the United States in 1856 as a six year old with his family. He tried to join the Union Army as a drummer boy, but was refused due to extreme youth. He held various jobs in Detroit and then Chicago but was very drawn to the theatre. He eventually got a job at McVickers Theatre in Chicago and began a stage career. He performed in over 200 roles from low comedy to Shakespeare and always received great praise in newspaper reviews. He cut his teeth in San Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Opera House (Brooklyn)
The Grand Opera House was a theatre in Brooklyn, New York that was in operation from 1881 through 1920. The theatre was demolished in 1924 along with several adjacent buildings to make room for the A. I. Namm & Son Department Store. History The Grand Opera House was built by the firm of Barry, Fay & Lewis; a partnership which consisted of theatrical impresario Benjamin Lewis (died 1905), and Irish comedic actors Hugo Fay and Billy Barry. The theater was constructed at 14 Elm Place,Del Valle, p. 184 on the west side of the street just south of Fulton Ave.Harrison, p. 21 It was built on the former site of the Congregational Church on Elm Pl. which had been destroyed by fire in June 1880. The Grand Opera House was inaugurated on Monday, November 14, 1881, with a performance of ''Muldoon's Picnic''. Seating 2,000 people, at the time it opened it was the second largest theatre in Brooklyn; with only the Brooklyn Academy of Music surpassing its size. The theatre was purchased by the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl Eytinge
Pearl Eytinge (''née'' Wyckoff; 1854–1914) was a New York-born actress, author, producer, playwright and activist who once said "There is no vice on earth of which I have not partaken". Her addiction to drink and drugs ended her stage career and it was said of her that: "Pearl Eytinge the women slew Pearl Eytinge the artist". In later years she lectured on the dangers of drug taking. Family When Pearl’s mother, Margaret Winship Eytinge, Margaret Winship, met and later married Sol Eytinge Jr., Sol Eytinge, she had two children from previous relationships. Her son, James S. Wyckoff, kept the name of his biological father, James B. Wyckoff, whilst Pearl adopted the name of her new step-father. The Eytinge family had settled in America from the Netherlands in the first half of the 19th century, and many of them were connected with the arts – actors, writers and illustrators – the most famous being Sol’s cousin, actress Rose Eytinge. Sol was an illustrator who associated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Colonel (play)
''The Colonel'' is a farce in three acts by F. C. Burnand based on Jean François Bayard's ''Le mari à la campagne'' (''The Husband in the Country''), first produced in 1844 and produced in London in 1849 by Morris Barnett, adapted as ''The Serious Family''. The story concerns the efforts of two aesthetic impostors to gain control of a family fortune by converting a man's wife and mother-in-law to follow aestheticism. He is so unhappy that he seeks the company of a widow in town. His friend, an American colonel, intervenes to persuade the wife to return to conventional behavior and obey her husband to restore domestic harmony, and the colonel marries the widow himself. ''The Colonel'' was first produced on 2 February 1881, and its initial run at the Prince of Wales's Theatre lasted for 550 performances, an extraordinary run in those days. Simultaneously, a second company was touring the British provinces with the play. On 4 October 1881, ''The Colonel'' received a comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and tenth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the nation as of 2023. Founded in 1872, the paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it was sold to ''The New York Times'' in 1993 for $1.1billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in United States history. The newspaper was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. owner John W. Henry for $70million from The New York Times Company, having lost over 90% of its value in 20 years. The chief print rival of ''The Boston Globe'' is the '' Boston Herald'', whose circulation is smaller and is shrinking faster. The newspaper is "one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Square Theatre
The Madison Square Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, on the south side of 24th Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway (which intersects Fifth Avenue near that point). It was built in 1863, operated as a theater from 1865 to 1908, and demolished in 1908 to make way for an office building. The Madison Square Theatre was the scene of important developments in stage technology, theatre design, and theatrical tour management. For about half its history it had other names including the Fifth Avenue Theatre, Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre, and Hoyt's Theatre. History Merchant and real estate magnate Amos R. Eno leased land next to his Fifth Avenue Hotel in 1862 to James Fisk Jr., who built an after-hours gold trading exchange during the U.S. Civil War. The “ regular stock exchange” found the competition disruptive and soon shut down the operation."Another Disaster.: Total Destruction of the Fifth-Avenue Theatre by Fire," ''The New York Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Clarke (actor)
George Clarke (born George O'Neill; 28 June 1840 - 3 October 1906) was an American stage actor with a career spanning five decades from the mid-1850s to 1906 (the year of his death). He was best known for his Shakespearean roles and plays of the Romantic era. Clarke was closely associated with Augustin Daly during two phases of his career. He joined Daly's company in 1869 when he established a reputation in leading roles, but left in 1874 after a disagreement between the two men. He joined with Daly again in 1887 and remained with the company, regularly performing in productions in New York and London, until Daly's death in 1899. Biography Early years George O'Neill was born on 28 June 1840 in Brooklyn, New York.Deaths ''Billboard'', 13 October 1906, page 15.John Bouvé Clapp & Edwin Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walnut Street Theatre
Walnut Street Theatre, founded in 1808 at 825 Walnut Street, on the corner of S. 9th Street in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, is the oldest operating theatre in the United States. The venue is operated by Walnut Street Theatre Company, a non-profit organization, and has three stages: the Mainstage, for the company's primary and larger productions, the Independence Studio on 3, a studio located on the building's third floor for smaller productions, and the Studio 5 on the fifth floor, which is rented out for independent productions. Design When it was first constructed in 1809, the New Circus had no stage, just a ring of sawdust marking the performance area. It was made of brick due to the Philadelphia fire code, unlike other venues built by Pepin and Breschard. It had a peaked roof and a dome with a flagpole on top of it, becoming Philadelphia's tallest building. In 1820, the dome on the building was removed for sound quality improvements. The orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States census, making it the List of municipalities in Massachusetts, tenth-largest city in the state, and the second-largest municipality in the county behind New Bedford, Massachusetts, New Bedford. It abuts the Rhode Island state line with Tiverton, Rhode Island, to its south. Located along the eastern shore of Mount Hope Bay at the mouth of the Taunton River, the city gained recognition during the 19th century as a leading textile manufacturing center in the United States. While the textile industry has long since moved on, its impact on the city's culture and landscape is still prominent. Fall River's official motto is "We'll Try", dating back to the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1843. Nicknamed The Scholarship City after Irving A. Fradkin, Irving Fradkin founded Scholarship America, Dollars for Scholars there in 1958, mayor Jasiel Correia introduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
