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Town And Country (play)
''Town and Country, or Which is Best?'' is an 1807 play by English playwright Thomas Morton. It was regularly performed in England and America during the 19th century. Background The play debuted at Covent Garden in London on 10 March 1807. Morton obtained a payment of £1,000 from theatre manager Thomas Harris for the script regardless of whether the play was a success, which was a notable sum for its time. John Philip Kemble played the role of Reuben Glenroy and Charles Kemble filled the role of Plastic.Booth, Michael RFront Cover Theatre in the Victorian Age p. 142 (1991)Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, Vol. II p. 1773 (3rd Ed. 1901) ("His dramas entitled "Town and Country" and "A Roland for an Oliver" still retain their place on the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (playwright)
Thomas Morton (1764 – 28 March 1838) was an England, English playwright. Life Morton was born in the city of Durham, England, Durham. He was the youngest son of John and Grace Morton of Whickham, County Durham. 26 January 1935, p. 69. After the death of his father he was educated at Soho Square school at the charge of his uncle Maddison, a stockbroker. Here amateur acting was in vogue, and Morton, who played with Joseph George Holman, acquired a taste for the theatre. He entered at Lincoln's Inn, 2 July 1784, but was not called to the bar. His first drama, ''Columbus, or A World Discovered,'' 8vo, 1792, an historical play in five acts, founded in part upon '' Les Incas '' of Marmontel, was produced with success at Covent Garden, 1 December 1792, Holman playing the part of Alonzo. ''Children i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Wallack
John Johnstone Wallack (January 1, 1820, New York City – September 6, 1888, Stamford, Connecticut), was an American actor-manager and son of James William Wallack and Susan Johnstone. He used the stage name John Lester until October 5, 1858, when he first acted under the name Lester Wallack, which he retained the rest of his career. Biography He was born in New York but at an early age he was taken to his parents' home in London where he was reared and educated. His mother was also an actress Susan Johnstone and his father was James William Wallack a theatre producer. He had chosen a military career but became discouraged and went to Dublin where he went upon the stage. He remained for two seasons and then went to Edinburgh. Then in 1846, he appeared in London at the Haymarket Theatre under Benjamin Webster's management. There he was seen by George H. Barrett, who had come to London to engage actors for the Broadway Theatre, in New York. He made his American debut there in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Daniel (writer)
George Daniel (1789–1864) was an English author of miscellaneous works and book collector. Life Daniel was born on 16 September 1789, descended from Paul Danieli, a Huguenot who settled in England in the seventeenth century. His father died when he was eight years old. After receiving an education at Thomas Hogg's boarding school in Paddington Green, he became clerk to a stockbroker in Tokenhouse Yard, and was engaged in commerce for the greater part of his life. He lived at Islington, and in 1817 he made the acquaintance of Charles Lamb and of Robert Bloomfield, both of whom were his neighbours. Until Lamb's death in 1834 Daniel frequently spent the night in his society. Daniel also cultivated actors socially, and the British Museum gained the white satin bill of the play which John Kemble on his last appearance on the stage presented to Daniel in the Covent Garden green-room, on the night of 23 June 1817. Daniel died suddenly of apoplexy, at his son's house at Stoke Newingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina George
Georgina George later Lady Oldmixon or Mrs Oldmixon (b.? – February 3, 1835) was an English singer and actress, who sang in England, then emigrated to the United States, and sang there as Mrs Oldmixon. Oxford George was born in Oxford on a date that is not known. She began four seasons of singing in Oxford when she made her debut at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, on 11 February 1779. Her father appeared on her behalf during his 1780 dispute with the cello player G.Morello, who was annoyed that Georgina had not performed in his benefit performance. London In 1783 she moved to London where she sang at the leading theatres. She sang first at Covent Garden, and then for three years at Drury Lane. She moved from just singing when she took the role of Rosetta in ''Love in a Village'' and then sang in Comus and in Artaxerxes, all by Thomas Arne. Sir John Oldmixon During the 1787–8 season she was appearing at the Royalty Theatre in East London. She appeared in ''Apollo Turn'd S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Twaits (actor)
William Twaits (25 April 1781 – 22 August 1814) was a British singer, dancer and actor-manager whose career was mostly in the United States in the early 19th-century.Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim and Edward A. Langhans''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stager Personnel in London 1660-1800'' Vol. 15 Tibbett to M. West, Southern Illinois University Press (1993) - Google Books pg. 62-63 Early career William Dunlap, in his ''History of the American Theatre'' (1832) wrote of Twaits: 'Mr. Twaits was born on the 25th of April 1781. His father died when he was very young, and he obtained admittance behind the scenes at Drury-lane, through the influence of a playmate, the son of Phillemore (John Phillemore), one of the performers. Having determined to be an actor, he stuck to the point, as (George) Colman (the younger) says, "like a rusty weather-cock", and we suppose , like most of our heroes, ran away. He commenced acting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Universal Magazine Of Knowledge And Pleasure
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Davenport
Mary Ann Davenport ée Harvey(1759 – 8 May 1843) was a British Shakespearean actress. Life She was born at Launceston, Cornwall. She first appeared on the stage at Bath in December 1784, as Lappet in Henry Fielding's ''The Miser''. After two seasons at Bath she performed in Exeter and Bristol, where in 1786 she married George Gosling Davenport (1758?–1814), a provincial actor. They later worked at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin, and at Covent Garden. In 1806 she appeared as Lady Denny in Henry VIII (play) with Sarah Siddons as Queen Katherine, John Philip Kemble as Cardinal Wolsey. Her husband’s acting talents were unequal to hers, though he was regarded as a useful member of the company, serving as secretary to the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund until he retired in 1812. After his death, Mary Ann lived in seclusion with her daughter. In 1817 she appeared again as Lady Denny in Henry VIII when the painting by Benjamin Burnell was created for an exhibition at the Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Mattocks
Isabella Mattocks (1746 – June 25, 1826) was a British actress and singer. Early life Hallam (later Mattocks) was baptised in Whitechapel in 1746 by Lewis and Sarah Hallam Douglass. Her father and her uncle William were also actors.Jared Brown, ‘Hallam, Lewis (1714?–1756?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 7 Feb 2015/ref> Her grandfather Thomas Hallam had been part of the Drury Lane company when he was killed in a dispute with fellow actor Charles Macklin during a performance. When her father and William decided to try acting in America they took three of Isabella's siblings, but she was left in the care of her aunt, Ann, and her husband John Barrington in England. In 1762 she made her debut in the adult role of Juliet. For most of her childhood except for a few years at school she played small parts in the productions of the Covent Garden company of actors. When she was sixteen she joined the company and in 1765 she marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Glover
Julia Betterton Glover (8 January 1779 – 16 July 1850) was an Irish-born stage actress well known for her comic roles in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Biography Glover was born Julia Butterton in 1779 or 1781 in Newry, Ireland. In London in 1800 she married Samuel Glover the son of an industrial family from Birmingham. "Betterton" was not her real name, despite her father`s promotion of the fiction. She was born Julianna Butterton in Newry, Ireland, the daughter of the town`s theatre manager William Butterton. His venture failed and he decided there would be financial benefit to him if her name were changed to "Betterton", claiming links to a famous actor and long dead Thomas Betterton. With this deception he and his family travelled round the theatres and the young Julia was acclaimed as an infant acting prodigy in York, the West Country, Bath and elsewhere. At age 9 she made her debut in Scotland at the Dumfries Theatre Royal in 1790, and at age 16 she made her deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Emery (English Actor)
John Emery (1777–1822), was an English actor. Emery was born at Sunderland, 22 September 1777, and obtained a rudimentary education at Ecclesfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father, Mackle Emery (died 18 May 1825), was a country actor, and his mother, as Mrs. Emery, sen., appeared 6 July 1802 at the Haymarket Theatre as Dame Ashfield in Morton's ''Speed the Plough'', and subsequently played at Covent Garden Theatre. From musician to actor Emery was brought up for a musician, and when twelve years of age was in the orchestra at the Brighton Theatre. At this house he made his first appearance as Old Crazy in the farce of ''Peeping Tom'' by O'Keeffe.’ John Bernard says that in the summer of 1792 Mr. and Mrs. Emery and their son John, a lad of about seventeen, who played a fiddle in the orchestra and occasionally went on in small parts, were with him at Teignmouth, again at Dover, where young Emery played country boys, and again in 1793 at Plymouth. Bernard claims to ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Murray (Scottish Actor)
Charles Murray (1754–1821) was a Scottish actor and dramatist. Life The son of Sir John Murray of Broughton, he was born at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire. He spent some time in France, studied pharmacy and surgery in London, and went surgeon's mate on some Mediterranean voyages. Stage career After playing as an amateur in Liverpool Murray went, with an introduction from Younger, the theatre manager there, to Tate Wilkinson of the York circuit. He made his first professional stage appearance at York, under the name of Raymur, and playing Carlos in '' Love Makes a Man'' ( Colley Cibber). A quarrel in a tavern in Wakefield in September 1776 lost him his position. After further time at sea Murray acted under his own name with Griffiths at Norwich. On 8 October 1785, as Sir Giles Overreach in '' A New Way to pay Old Debts'', he made his first appearance in Bath. Here he remained until 1796, playing a great variety of parts. His wife Mrs. Murray occasionally played with him, and on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fawcett (actor)
John Fawcett (29 August 1768 – 13 March 1837) was an English actor and playwright. John Fawcett was the son of York, Dublin and London actor John Fawcett (d. 1793) and his wife Sarah Plaw. His interest in following his father's career were thwarted by the latter, who sent him to St Paul's School in 1776, then placed him in a London apprenticeship with a linen draper, but young John ran away at the age of eighteen and joined Charles Mates' theatrical company at Margate. Appearing under the name of Foote, he debuted as Courtall in '' The Belle's Stratagem''. He then went to Tunbridge Wells, billed under his own name, and was recommended to Tate Wilkinson, whose York company Fawcett then joined, first appearing 24 May 1787. Though viewed as having promise, he proved a minor disappointment in dramatic roles but found success in comedic parts. On 5 May 1788, he married actress Susan Moore, who had previously been in a long-term relationship with recently-deceased fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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