Brown, T. Allston A history of the New York stage from the first performance in 1732 to 1901 (v.3)

(New York :  Dodd, Mead and Co.,  1903.)

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THE  BROADWAY  THEATRE
 

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The Elder . . Henry Clay Barnabee
Miles Standish . . Eugene Cowles
John Alden . . . Edward H. Hoff
Hobomok . . . Geo. Frothingham
Lovesby Montague . . Mena Cleary
Magistrate......Peter Lang
 

Sergeant .
Sentry . .
PrisciUa
Masconoma
Primrose .
Dame Prudence
 

. . . Harry Dale
Clement Herschel
. . Margaret Reid
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Bertha Waltzinger
. Josephine Bartlett
 

On afternoon of Feb. 9 there was a performance in aid of the
poor of this city. " Ogallallas " was first sung Feb. 12, and con¬
tinued for one week. The libretto was by Young E. Allison, music
by Henry Waller.    The cast was:

Buckskin Joe .... Clem Herschel

Edith.....Camille d'Arville

Minnetoa .... Flora Finlayson
Hepzibah Small . . Josephine Bartlett
Kate     ....      Lillian Hawthorne

Cosita.....Lola Hawthorne

Laura.....Georgie Newell
 

Arthur Cambridge
Prof. Andover
War Cloud
Cardenas   .    .

Mississinewa .
Wickliff
 

.    .     Tom Karl
H. C. Barnabee
W. H. Macdonald
Eugene Cowles
George Frothingham
.    .    .  Peter Lang
Commander United States forces

W. A. Howland

*'Robin Hood" was revived Feb. 19. The Bostonians ended
their engagement March 17. The theatre was closed the week of
March 19. " Utopia, or The Flowers of Progress," was seen for
the first time in America March 26.

"Tabasco," May 14, 1894, by R. A. Barnet and George W.
Chadwick.    The cast was:
 

Hot-Head Ham Pasha. Walter Allen
Marco    ....     James F. Sheehan

Ben-hid-Den.....Otis Harlan

Robusto Hawkins    .      Robert E. Ball

Lander......Edgar Smith

A Sel .... George W. Thomas
Mah-omelet . . . . A. K. Deagen
General Mahomed . . . G. Barden
Major General Mahomed H. C. Davis
Lieutenant General Mahomed

Arthur Concors
 

Adjutant General Mahomed

Wilfrid Ariing
Ambassador .... W. A. Lavine
Attendant .... James S- Murray
Ben-Abea-Ab-der-N'Hassen

H. B. Fairchild

Fatima.....Catherine Linyard

Lola........Elvia Croix

Has-Been-A .... Rosa Cooke
Saa-Dee-Hassem . Grace Vaughan
Francais     .    .   Thomas Q. Seabrooke
 

Seabrooke's real name is Thos. Quigley.

The house was closed June 23.    The next season began Sept. 3,
with " Dr. Syntax," the cast of which was :
 

Dr. Syntax     .    .    .   De Wolf Hopper

Jack Alden.....Cyril Scott

Lord Lawntennis . . Alfred Klein
Arthur Barrington . Edmund Stanley
Professor Scowles   .    . Thomas Guise

Bobs......Louis Schrader

Merope Mallow  Edna Wallace Hopper
 

Zenobia Tropics .    .    .   Alice Hosmer

Niobe Marsh .    .     Bertha Waltzinger
Psyche Persimmons

Jennie Goldthwaite
Pansy Pickle .... Lillian Relma
Sally Dimple . . . Louise Campbell
Circe Slatepencil.    .    -   Leonie Dueth
 

On Oct. 19, during the second act of this play, De Wolf Hopper
dislocated his arm and the audience was dismissed.    He reappeared
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