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Henry Blossom
Henry Martyn Blossom Jr. (May 10, 1866 – March 23, 1919) was an American writer, playwright, novelist, opera librettist, and lyricist. He first gained wide attention for his second novel, '' Checkers: A Hard Luck Story'' (1896), which was successfully adapted by Blossom into a 1903 Broadway play, ''Checkers''. It was Blossom's first stage work and his first critical success in the theatre. The play in turn was adapted by others creatives into two silent films, one in 1913 and the other in 1919, and the play was the basis for the 1920 Broadway musical ''Honey Girl''. ''Checkers'' was soon followed by Blossom's first critical success as a lyricist, the comic opera '' The Yankee Consul'' (1903), on which he collaborated with fellow Saint Louis resident and composer Alfred G. Robyn. This work was also adapted into a silent film in 1921. He later collaborated with Robyn again; writing the book and lyrics for their 1912 musical '' All for the Ladies''. Blossom had a lengthy and fru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Reading (process), reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from Poet, poets. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. William Shakespeare is amongst the most famous playwrights in literature, both in England and across the world. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English , from Old English ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word ''wikt:wwright'' is an archaic English term for a Artisan, craftsperson or builder (as in a wheelwright or Wagon, cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form — a play. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Century Girl
''The Century Girl'' is a musical comedy revue with music by Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin, and lyrics by Henry Blossom and Berlin. It opened November 6, 1916, at the Century Theatre on Broadway and ran until April 28, 1917, totaling 200 performances. Rather than having a cohesive plot, the show was a mixture of musical and vaudeville performances. Production Charles Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. produced the show. Staging was by Edward Royce, Leon Errol, and Ned Wayburn, with set design by Joseph Urban. Max Hoffman directed the orchestra. The show had a runtime of over four hours. On its opening night, the show began at 8:25pm and ended at 12:58am. This was actually an improvement from the show's time prior to its premiere. It had originally been scheduled to open on October 16, but was delayed in order to cut down the show while maintaining the lineup of actors and performers. Cuts continued to be made after the premiere, resulting in several actors, including Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checkers (1919 Film)
''Checkers'' is a 1919 American silent melodrama film, directed by Richard Stanton. There are no known archival holdings of the film, so it is presumably a lost film. The film is based on the screenplay with the same name by Henry Blossom. Mazie LaShelle Hunt and Marjorie Seely Blossom, the widows of Kirke La Shelle and Henry Blossom respectively, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against Fox Film regarding the sale of the film. Cast list * Thomas Carrigan as Checkers * Jean Acker as Pert Barlow * Ellen Cassidy as Alva Romaine * Robert Elliott as Arthur Kendall * Tammany Young as Push Miller * Bertram Marburgh as Judge Barlow * Edward Sedgwick as Pete * Peggy Worth as Sadie Martin * Frank Beamish as Colonel Warren * Freeman Barnes as Sam Wah * Gene Bucus as Chinese girl * Juliet Crane as A girl of the slums * Anna Neilson as Hag * Dorothy Orth as Ballet dancer * Bret Black as boy Reception The Film Daily gave it a positive review in July 1920, stating that it as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Thomas
Augustus Thomas (January 8, 1857 – August 12, 1934) was an American playwright. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri and son of a medical doctor, Thomas worked a number of jobs including as a page in the 41st Congress, studying law, and gaining some practical railway work experience before he turned to journalism and became editor of the Kansas City ''Mirror'' in 1889. Thomas had been writing since his teens when he wrote plays and even organized a small theatrical touring company. Thomas was hired to work as an assistant at Pope's Theatre in St. Louis. During this time, he wrote a one-act play called ''Editha's Burglar'', based on a short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett called ''The Burglar''. After touring in the play, he expanded the show to four acts, renamed it ''The Burglar'', and was able to get Maurice Barrymore to play the title role. Subsequently, he was hired to succeed Dion Boucicault adapting foreign plays for the Madison Square Theatre. His first successful p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence McGill
Lawrence B. McGill (1866–1928) was an American actor and director. At the turn of the 20th century, he was a leading man for Keystone Dramatic Company. He produced stage plays and then went on to act and direct films. He also worked for the New York Reliance-Mutual Company. Career Lawrence McGill was a director, writer, and actor. McGill and Gertrude Shipman played a "dandy repertoire of plays" for Keystone Dramatic Company in opera houses across Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey starting by November 1899. In 1909, McGill began producing plays, with Gertrude as the leading lady and Richard Gordon (actor), Richard Gordon her new leading man, at the Lyric Theater in Buffalo, New York. They opened with ''Dorothy Hernan of Haddon Hall'', an Elizabethan period piece. Shipman operated the Gertrude Shipman and Associated Players for other players for McGill's production. McGill acted in and produced silent films between 1909 and 1918. He was the director-in-chief of All-Star Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eustace Hale Ball
Eustace Hale Ball (1881 - 1931) was a writer, screenwriter, and director of short films in the United States. He wrote ''The Voice on the Wire'', ''Bubbles from Gotham's Pierian Spring'', ''Traffic In Souls: A Novel Of Crime And Its Cure'', and ''The Gaucho''. An interview with him was published in a 1917 edition of ''The Editor''. Books *''A Handbook for Scenario Writer's'' (1913) *''The Art of the Photoplay'' (1913) *''Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure'' (1914) *''Photoplay Scenarios: How to Write and Sell Them'' (1915) *''The Voice on the Wire'' (1915) *''Mollie: A Novel'' (1926) *''The Scarlet Fox'' Grosset and Dunlap, New York (1927) *''The Gaucho'', Grosset and Dunlap, New York (1928), a novelization of the screen play *'' The Legion of the Condemned'', novelization (1928) Filmography *''Robin Hood (1912 film)'', scenario *'' Checkers (1913 film)'', scenario with Larence McGill *''The Voice on the Wire ''The Voice on the Wire'' is a 1917 American action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas W
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel), a 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586. It is the second-oldest university press after Cambridge University Press, which was founded in 1534. It is a department of the University of Oxford. It is governed by a group of 15 academics, the Delegates of the Press, appointed by the Vice Chancellor, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. The Delegates of the Press are led by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University Press has had a similar governance structure since the 17th century. The press is located on Walton Street, Oxford, Walton Street, Oxford, opposite Somerville College, Oxford, Somerville College, in the inner suburb of Jericho, Oxford, Jericho. ... [...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] |
Zoel Parenteau
Zoel Parenteau (April 9, 1883 – September 13, 1972) was an American composer, arranger, and music director. He is best remembered for his work as a Broadway composer. Biography Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Parenteau studied music composition with Ernest Bloch. A resident of Pittsburgh, he was the music director for the Nirella Orchestra; the name for a Pittsburgh band founded by its star clarinetist Danny Nirella who was also a composer of many popular marches. In 1915 his comic opera ''The Lady of Luzon'' premiered in Pittsburgh. He also composed the scores for the Broadway musicals ''The Amber Empress'' (1916, lyrics and book by Pulitzer Prize winner Marc Connelly) and '' Follow the Girl'' (1918, lyrics and book by Henry Blossom). His first work on Broadway was contributing music to the 1915 Charles Dillingham revue ''Hip! Hip! Hooray!''. He also contributed the song "Someday I'll Find Your Words" and incidental music to David Belasco's 1928 play ''Kiki''; a song which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Hubbell
John Raymond Hubbell (June 1, 1879 – December 13, 1954) was an American writer, composer and lyricist. He is best known for the popular song, " Poor Butterfly". Life and career Hubbell was born in Urbana, Ohio. He attended schools in Urbana and studied music in Chicago, where he formed a dance band. He worked for Charles K. Harris Publishers as a staff arranger and pianist. His first compositions for stage musicals Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement ... were the songs for ''Chow Chow'' (lyrics and book by Addison Burkhardt), which ran for 127 performances in Chicago in 1902. Renamed and revised as The Runaways (musical), ''The Runaways'' in 1903, the show ran for 167 days in New York and then toured for several years. Hubbell began composing music for the Zi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Stuart
Leslie Stuart (15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928) born Thomas Augustine Barrett was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show ''Florodora'' (1899) and many popular songs. He began in Manchester as a church organist, for 14 years, and taught music while beginning to compose church music and secular songs in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, he began to promote and conduct orchestral and vocal concerts of popular and theatre music as "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concerts". He began to focus his composition on music hall, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre, such as pantomimes and London shows touring through Manchester; and ballads such as "Soldiers of the King". Stuart later campaigned against the interpolation of new songs into musical theatre scores and for better enforcement of musical copyrights. In 1895, Stuart began to write songs for George Edwardes's London shows at the Gaiety Theatre, Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
