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Myrtle Tannehill
Myrtle Tannehill Nichols (May 18, 1886 – July 25, 1977) was an American actress on stage and in silent films. Early life Myrtle Tannehill was born into a theatrical family. Her mother was actress Maude Giroux, and her father was actor and playwright Frank Tannehill Jr. Her grandparents, Frank Tannehill Sr. and Susan (Nellie) McMurray Tannehill, were also in the theatre. Her much younger half-sister, Frances Tannehill Clark, also became an actress. Career Myrtle Tannehill's appearances on Broadway were mostly in comedies, and included roles in the plays ''Just out of College'' (1905), ''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' (1906), ''Electricity'' (1910), ''Broadway Jones'' (1912-1913), ''Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford'' (1917), '' Dear Brutus'' (1918-1919), ''The Bonehead'' (1920), ''The Broken Wing'' (1920-1921), ''The Dream Maker'' (1921-1922), '' Dodsworth'' (1934), '' The Philadelphia Story'' (1939-1940), and ''Pygmalion'' (1945-1946). In London she appeared in ''Sealed Orders'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorktown Heights, New York
Yorktown Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 1,781 at the 2010 census. History Yorktown Heights is in the town of Yorktown, New York, in northern Westchester County, 45 miles from New York City, with forty square miles of rolling hills, farmland, residential areas and light industry including the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. First settled in 1683, Yorktown was of strategic importance during the American Revolution, with the Pines Bridge crossing of the Croton River guarded by the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, an integrated unit which included African Americans and Native Americans. Yorktown was incorporated in 1788 and named in commemoration of the Franco-American decisive victory at Yorktown, Virginia. The Yorktown Heights Railroad Station, which last had passenger service on the New York Central Railroad's Putnam Division in 1958, was added to the National Register of Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colgate Theatre
''Colgate Theatre'' may refer to: * ''Colgate Theatre'' (1949 TV series), an American live dramatic anthology television series broadcast on NBC from 1949 to 1950 * ''Colgate Theatre'' (1958 TV series), an American anthology television series consisting of unsold pilot episodes broadcast on NBC in 1958 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria And Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The V&A is located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in an area known as " Albertopolis" because of its association with Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial and the major cultural institutions with which he was associated. These include the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Royal Albert Hall and Imperial College London. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. As with other national British museums, entrance is free. The V&A covers and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Enthoven
Gabrielle Enthoven (born Augusta Gabrielle Eden Romaine, 12 January 1868 – 18 August 1950) was an English playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage. In 1911, Enthoven began campaigning for the establishment of a theatrical section in one of the British museums. In 1924, the Victoria and Albert Museum accepted her private collection, at this time containing over 80,000 theatrical playbills and programmes. The material became the founding collection of the museum's theatre and performance archives. Enthoven's unparalleled knowledge of the London stage and its history earned her the sobriquet "the theatrical encyclopaedia". Early life Gabrielle Enthoven was born at 21 New Street, Spring Gardens, Westminster, London to William Govett Romaine (1815–1893) and Frances Pheobe Romaine, née Tennant (1822/3-1909). Enthoven's year of birth was incorrectly listed in the family Bible as 1870, a fact whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langhorne Burton
Langhorne Burton (25 December 1880 – 6 December 1949) was a British film actor. Filmography * '' Liberty Hall'' (1914) * ''The King's Minister'' (1914) * '' Bootle's Baby'' (1914) * ''The Difficult Way'' (1914) * '' The Treasure of Heaven'' (1916) * ''The Profligate'' (1917) * ''Daddy'' (1917) - John Melsher * '' Auld Robin Gray'' (1917) * ''Tom Jones'' (1917) * '' God and the Man'' (1918) - Christiansen * '' The Impossible Woman'' (1919) * ''Sweet and Twenty'' (1919) * '' The Amateur Gentleman'' (1920) - Barnabas Barty * '' Little Dorrit'' (1920) * '' The Children of Gibeon'' (1920) * ''Two Little Wooden Shoes'' (1920) * ''A Man's Shadow'' (1920) * ''By Berwin Banks'' (1920) * '' The Temptress'' (1920) * '' At the Villa Rose'' (1920) * ''Appearances'' (1921) - Sir William Rutherford * ''Moth and Rust'' (1921) * '' The Bonnie Brier Bush'' (1921) - John Carmichael * ''Who Is the Man?'' (1924) - Albert Arnault * '' Marriage License?'' (1926) * ''The City of a Thousand Delights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stock Market Crash Of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its aftereffects. The Great Crash is mostly associated with October 24, 1929, called ''Black Thursday'', the day of the largest sell-off of shares in U.S. history, and October 29, 1929, called ''Black Tuesday'', when investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. The crash, which followed the London Stock Exchange's crash of September, signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Background The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, was a time of wealth and excess. Building on post-war optimism, rural Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace La Rue
Grace La Rue (born Stella Parsons; April 23, 1882 – March 13, 1956) was an American actress, singer, and vaudeville headliner. Early life Grace La Rue was born Stella Parsons in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 23, 1882, to Lucy L. Parsons. Career La Rue began her career as a teenager, working with a traveling tent show. Her later performances included being part of the team Burke and La Rue, with her first husband, Charles Burke. One of their numbers was a minstrel piece titled "Grace La Rue and her Inky Dinks". She soon broke away from the act - and Burke - to appear in musical comedy. La Rue performed in a number of productions on Broadway debuting in ''The Tourists'' in 1906. She also appeared in ''The Blue Moon'' (1906), ''Molly May'' (1910), ''Betsy'' (1911), and the 1907 and 1908 ''Ziegfeld Follies''. In 1909, she married Byron (The Millionaire Kid) Chandler in Bennington, Vermont. The marriage broke up in 1914 when La Rue divorced, alleging that Chandler was unfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Oaker
Wilhelmina "Minnie" Dorothy Peper (June 17, 1878 — January 15, 1960), known professionally as Jane Oaker, was an American theatre actress. Early life Wilhelmina Dorothy Peper was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Christian C. Peper, a wealthy tobacco manufacturer.Johnson Briscoe''The actors' birthday book''(Moffat, Yard and Company 1908): 145. Peper attended Vassar College, and the New York School of Dramatic Art. "I am ready to assert most positively and from personal observation that a big bank account is of the greatest importance in pushing a girl forward in a dramatic career," she wrote of her wealthy background, adding "a trunkful of imported toggery will give the rich girl an opportunity to appear in one of those coveted roles that calls for no more talent than a series of handsome gowns." Career Oaker started on the stage in the 1900, as Hermia in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lights Out (radio Show)
''Lights Out'' is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural. Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of ''Lights Out'' aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. ''Lights Out'' was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating '' Suspense'' and ''Inner Sanctum''. History The Wyllis Cooper era In the fall of 1933, NBC writer Wyllis Cooper conceived the idea of "a midnight mystery serial to catch the attention of the listeners at the witching hour." The idea was to offer listeners a dramatic program late at night, at a time when the competition was mostly airing music. At some point, the serial concept was dropped in favor of an anthology format emphasizing crime thrillers and the supernatural. The first series of shows (each 15 minutes long) ran on a local NBC station, WENR, at midnig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hale Hamilton
Hale Rice Hamilton (February 28, 1880 – May 19, 1942) was an American actor, writer and producer. Biography Hamilton was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1880. (His birth year is sometimes listed as either 1879 or 1883.) Hamilton's Broadway debut was in ''Don Caesar's Return'' (1901). He was married to three actresses, Jane Oaker, Myrtle Tannehill, and Grace La Rue. Tannehill sued Hamilton, accusing him of being lured away from her by La Rue.''Silent Film Necrology'' 2nd edition p. 223 c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1942 in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography *'' Her Painted Hero'' (1915, Short) - A Matinee Idol *'' The Winning of Beatrice'' (1918) - Robert Howard *'' Opportunity'' (1918) - Anthony Fry *'' Five Thousand an Hour'' (1918) - Johnny Gamble *'' The Return of Mary'' (1918, Writer) *''Johnny-on-the-Spot'' (1919) - Johnny Rutledge *'' That's Good'' (1919) (with Grace La Rue) - Marcellus Starr *'' After His Own Heart'' (1919) - Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
