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Mary McVicker Booth
Mary Frances McVicker (born Mary Frances Runnion, also known as Mary McVicker Booth; September 17, 1848 – November 13, 1881) was an American stage actress and singer perhaps best known for her partnership with actor Edwin Booth, to whom she was married. Biography Mary Frances Runnion was born on September 17, 1848. Her mother was Harriet G. Myers Weaver Runnion. Her stepfather, J.H. McVicker, was a prominent theatre owner in the Midwestern United States, Midwest. McVicker made her stage debut in one of her stepfather's theatres in 1858. She later received positive critical attention for her performance as Eva in ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''. She performed in other productions, some of which were written for her. She performed material from ''Hamlet''. She was known for her singing; she performed with Signor Brignoli. She also did imitations of Italian opera singers and the popular French actress Rachel Félix, Rachel. McVicker left the stage to attend school when she was thirteen yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Booth
Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893) was an American stage actor and theatrical manager who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Booth's Theatre in New York. He is considered by many to be the greatest American actor of the 19th century. However, his achievements are often overshadowed in modern discourse by his relationship with his younger brother, actor John Wilkes Booth, who Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, assassinated the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Early life Booth was born in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, Bel Air, Maryland, into the Anglo-American theatrical Booth family. He was the son of the famous actor Junius Brutus Booth, an Englishman, and his mistress (later wife) Mary Ann Holmes. He was named after Edwin Forrest and Thomas Flynn (actor), Thomas Flynn, two of Junius' colleagues. He was the younger brother of Junius Brutus Booth J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwina Booth Grossman
Edwina Booth Grossman (December 9, 1861 – December 26, 1938) was an American writer and the daughter of Shakespeare in performance, Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. In 1894, she published the book ''Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, and Letters to Her and to His Friends'' in an effort to protect her father's legacy after the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Grossman's uncle, John Wilkes Booth. Early life and education Grossman was born Edwina Booth on December 9, 1861. Members of the prominent Booth family, Grossman's parents, Edwin Booth and Mary Devlin Booth, were well-known Shakespearian actors. Grossman's paternal grandfather was Junius Brutus Booth and John Wilkes Booth was her paternal uncle. Mary Devlin Booth died in 1863, when Grossman was two years old. Edwin Booth married actress Mary McVicker in 1869. Career In 1894, Grossman published a book about her father, Edwin Booth, reportedly concerned that his legacy as an acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Cos Cob, Connecticut
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American Stage Actresses
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19th-century American Actresses
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1881 Deaths
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1848 Births
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century. Ereignisblatt aus den revolutionären Märztagen 18.-19. März 1848 mit einer Barrikadenszene aus der Breiten Strasse, Berlin 01.jpg, Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin, on March 19, 1848, with the new flag of Germany Lar9 philippo 001z.jpg, French Revolution of 1848: Republican riots force King Louis-Philippe to abdicate Zeitgenössige Lithografie der Nationalversammlung in der Paulskirche.jpg, German National Assembly's meeting in St. Paul's Church Pákozdi csata.jpg, Battle of Pákozd in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 Events January–March * January 3 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playbill
''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for Audience, theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's Programme (booklet), program. ''Playbill'' was first printed in 1884 for a single theater on 21st Street in New York City. The magazine is now used at nearly every Broadway theatre as well as many Off-Broadway productions. Outside New York City, ''Playbill'' is used at theaters throughout the United States. its Magazine circulation, circulation was 4,073,680. History What is known today as ''Playbill'' started in 1884, when Frank Vance Strauss founded the New York Theatre Program Corporation specializing in printing theater programs. Strauss reimagined the concept of a theater program, making advertisements a standard feature and thus transforming what was then a leaflet into a fully designed magazine. The new format proved popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Iannone
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National Portrait Gallery (United States)
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of American artists, politicians, scientists, inventors, activists, and performers who have contributed to the nation's history, development, and culture. Along with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building. History Founding of the museum The first portrait gallery in the United States was Charles Willson Peale's ''American Pantheon'', also known as ''Peale's Collection of Portraits of American Patriots'', established in 1796. It closed after two years. In 1859, the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery in London opened, but few Americans took notice.Thompson, Bob. "Who Gets Into the National Portrait Gallery, and Why?" ''Washington Post''. June 13, 1999. The idea of a federally owned national portr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosehill Cemetery
Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1859) is a historic rural cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. At , it is the largest cemetery in the city of Chicago and its first private cemetery. The Entrance Gate and Administration Building, designed by William W. Boyington in the Gothic Revival architecture, castellated Gothic style was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Rosehill Mausoleum, also known as the Community Mausoleum, was built in 1914. It is the largest mausoleum in Chicago and features several stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Horatio N. May Chapel, completed in 1899, was designed in the English Gothic architecture, English Gothic style by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Rosehill is the final resting place of many notable individuals, including 16 Union Civil War generals, Chicago politicians, business leaders, artists, athletes, and a Vice President of the United States. Well-known names such as Oscar F. Mayer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Swing
David Swing (August 23, 1830October 3, 1894) was a United States teacher and clergyman who was the most popular Chicago preacher of his time. Early life Swing was born to Alsatian immigrant parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. Citation: Joseph Fort Newton, ''David Swing, Poet-Preacher'' (Chicago, 1909). He spent most of his boyhood on a farm and earned his schooling. He graduated from Miami University in 1852, where was Phi Delta Theta fraternity brother of Benjamin Harrison and classmate of Whitelaw Reid. Swing studied theology at Lane Seminary; and was principal of the preparatory school at Miami in 1853-1866. Career He became pastor in 1866 of the Westminster Presbyterian Church (after 1868 the Fourth Church) in Chicago, which was destroyed in the fire of 1871; he then preached in McVicker's Theatre until 1874, when a new building was completed. In April 1874, he was tried before the Presbytery of Chicago on charges of heresy preferred by Dr Francis Landey Patton, who a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
