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CURIOSITIES OF THE AMERICAN STAGE
LAURENCE HUTTON
Illustrated
New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1891
This book, as its name implies, is a series of chapters from the annals of the American Theatre; and it considers Plays and Players more particularly in their less familiar aspects. It does not pretend to be critical; and the greatest care has been taken to verify all the facts it contains , in order that it may appeal to the small but select band of specialists known as Dramatic Collectors, as well as to those influential members of the community who are glad to call themselves Old Play-goers.
The chapters upon "The American Stage Negro," upon "The American Burlesque," and upon a "A Century of American Hamlets," appeared originally in HARPER'S MAGAZINE; the others have been printed, in part, in other periodicals, but as now published they have all been rewritten, elaborated, and extended.
A double Index--personal as well as local--makes the book easily available for reference; and it will lend itself readily to extra illustration. It is intended to instruct as well as to entertain.
LAURENCE HUTTON.
THE PLAYERS, 1890.
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G. W. P. Custis 9
Edwin Forrest 11
John McCullough 15
Major Andr? 21
J. H. Hackett 27
Frank Mayo as Davy Crockett 33
William J. Florence as Bardwell Slote 37
John T. Raymond 41
Neil Burgess as the Widow Bedott 45
F. S. Chanfrau as Mose 49
Epes Sargent 55
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie 61
Edgar Fawcett 73
Brander Matthews 77
Bronson Howard 81
Charles Dibdin as Mungo 91
Ira Aldridge as Othello 95
Old Play-bill 97
Andrew Jackson Allen 103
Ralph Keeler 107
P. T. Barnum 109
John B. Gough 113
Thomas D. Rice as Jim Crow 116
Thomas D. Rice 118
James Roberts 120
George Washington Dixon 121
Mr. Dixon as Zip Coon 123
Daniel Emmett 125
Charles White 127
Edwin P. Christy 131
George Christy 133
George Swayne Buckley 137
Eph Horn 139
Jerry Bryant 140
Nelse Seymour 140
Dan Bryant 141
Stephen C. Foster 143
Mrs. Hallam 156
Mark Smith as Mrs. Normer 159
William Mitchell as Richard Number Three 161
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