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Title: Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
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Publisher: New York : W.H. Coleman
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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all. The prompter writes Messr.s. Joe Jefferson, Englishand Fi-edericks reported as being very noisy in their dressing-rooms. This is becoming a commonthing and requires notice. There were two French theatres, one in St. Peters street, and another in St. Philip street,near Royal, which were in operation from 1808 to 1811. At the latter period, Mr. John Davis, aFrench emigre from St. Domingo, built the Orleans theatre, on the square, now partly occupiedby the First District Court, near the Catholic Cathedral, and the adjoining court buildings, andengaged in Paris the first regular Opera Company that ever came into this country. Theenterprise proved a highly successful one, and upon the death of Mr. John Davis the manage-ment of the theatre devolved upon his son, Mr. Pierre Davis (now residing in France), by whomit was most ably conducted during a period of over twenty-five years. It was under his man-agement that those twin stars of the Parisian theatrical world, Mmes. Fanny EUsler and
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GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS. 141 Damoreau, were first seen and heard in New Orleans, and that the great master-pieces ofRossini, Meyerbeer, Auber, Donizetti, Herold, Mozart, Spontini and Mehul became familiar ashousehold words to the highly-refined audiences which crowded the small but elegant andcomfortable Opera House, which, after the one originally erected by Mr. John Davis had beenburnt down, was rebuilt next year. Mr. Yarney, the author of Le Chant des Girondins, and afterwards leader of LesBouffes Parisieus, the late Eugene Prevost, Mr. John, and since the war Mons. E. Calabresi,have successively wielded the baton of leader of the orchestra. In 1859, Mr. Chas. Boudousquie having some years before succeeded Mr. Davis as managerof the Orleans theatre, the building was bought at the judicial sale of the estate of JohnMcDonough by Mr. Parlange, who failed to agree with Mr. Boudousquie as to the lease of thetheatre, whereupon a new company was formed, and the present splendid edifice on Bo

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