Iroquois Theatre, Randolph Between State and Dearborn Sts., Chicago: Souvenir Programme : Dedicatory Performance, November 23, 1903 : Opening Attraction, Klaw & Erlanger's Mr. Blue BeardPress of Rand, McNally & Company, 1903 - 93 páginas |
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Iroquois Theatre, Randolph Between State and Dearborn Sts., Chicago ... Iroquois Theater (Chicago, Ill.) Vista de fragmentos - 1903 |
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Página 15 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame, if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that, comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime, two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched...
Página 15 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms that the player, when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is ; or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.
Página 32 - Ye say, their cone-like cabins, That clustered o'er the vale, Have fled away, like withered leaves Before the Autumn gale; But their memory liveth on your hills, Their baptism on your shore, Your everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore.
Página 38 - The village presents no cheering prospect, as, notwithstanding its antiquity, it consists of but few huts, inhabited by a miserable race of men, scarcely equal to the Indians from whom they are descended. Their log or bark houses are low, filthy and disgusting, displaying not the least trace of comfort...
Página 38 - Chicagou' to be the residence of a powerful chief of the Miamis. The number of trails centering all at this spot, and their apparent antiquity, indicate that this was probably for a long while the site of a large Indian village. As a place of business, it offers no inducement to the settler; for the whole annual amount of the trade on the lake did not exceed the cargo of five or six schooners, even at the time when the garrison received its supplies from Mackinaw.
Página 57 - I was the comic singer of this party, making myself useful in small parts and first villagers, now and then doing duty as a Roman senator, at the back, wrapped in a clean hotel sheet, with my head just peering over the profile banquet tables. I was just nine years old. I was found useful as Albert and Duke of York. In those days the audience used to throw money on the stage, either for comic songs or dances ; and oh, with that thoughtful prudence which has characterized...
Página 57 - ... myself useful in small parts and first villagers, now and then doing duty as a Roman senator, at the back, wrapped in a clean hotel sheet, with my head just peering over the profile banquet tables. I was just nine years old. I was found useful as Albert and Duke of York. In those days the audience used to throw money on the stage, either for comic songs or dances ; and oh, with that thoughtful prudence which has characterized my after-life, how I used to lengthen out the verses ! The stars during...
Página 57 - ... peering over the profile banquet tables. I was just nine years old. I was found useful as Albert and Duke of York. In those days the audience used to throw money on the stage, either for comic songs or dances. And oh ! ( with that thoughtful prudence which has characterized my after ..life) how I used to lengthen out the verses.
Página 71 - wake.me.up.when.Kirby.dies stripe.' There was a small handful of half.breeds, a sprinkling" of lieutenants from the army, one or two worn.out paymasters. The pit was full of sailors, with occasionally a wharf rat ; but for fresh.water tars there was a wonderful effusion of salt water.
Página 39 - ... lead and make use of a red-hot iron to convey the same to his mouth. "Mr. Bowers will introduce many very amusing feats of ventriloquism and legerdemain, many of which are original and too numerous to mention. Admittance, 50 cents ; children half price. Performance to commence at early candle-light. Seats will be reserved for ladies and every attention paid to the comfort and convenience of the spectators. Tickets to be had at the bar.