Identifier: americanaunivers14newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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terPhiladelphia was closed against him, Mr. Doug-lass went to Annapolis, where he played anengagement extending from 3 March to 12 May1760. The company also performed in otherMaryland towns, and then invaded Rhode Island,playing engagements at Newport and Providencein 1761. In the autumn Mr. Douglass built an-other theatre in New York, in what was thenChapel (now Beekman) Street, where he gaveperformances from 19 Nov. 1761 to 26 .^pril1762. This ended his first attempt to achievethe mastery of the colonial stage. In his fewyears of management Douglass had become anactor of considerable authority, attempting suchparts as Sir John Falstaff in King Henry IV.,*and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.* In thelatter young Hallam played the lover to hismothers Juliet. In the last New York engage-ment. Mrs. Hallam, the wife of the youthfultragedian, was seen in a few parts, but the pairseparated soon afterward. It has always been understood that after hisretirement from New York in 1762 Mr. Douglass
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STAl.i; Mli;l\M>M Ink I II I. Hl.KA IAKSI lAl.. STAGE did not venture upon the Continent again until1766, when he built the Southwark Theatre inPhiladelphia. On the contrary, he appeared iuCharleston in November 1765, and remainedthere until the following April. Lewis Hallamwas not with the company, and, with the e.xcep-tion of Mrs. Douglass and Aliss Hallam, theperformers were all new to the stage. Onlythree of the new players were still with Douglasswhen he reached Philadelphia — Messrs. Woollsand Wall and Miss Wainwright. With theopening of the new theatre in Southwark, Phila-delphia, began the theatrical organization after-ward known as the Old American Company.Lewis Hallam was once more in the lead.Mr. Morris and Mrs. Harman were again withthe company. On the opening night Miss Cheerappeared as Katherine in Katherine and Petru-chio,* and subsequently succeeded to most ofthe parts previously filled by Mrs. Douglass.Mr. Woolls and Miss Wainwright were the prin-cipal singers. D

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