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You searched for: Collection Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania) Subject Gill, William, active 1882-1897. Adonis Date 1887

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1. Chestnut St. Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; S. M. Heilburn, Business Manager. Overture, Galathea by Suppe, under the direction of H. Wannemacher. Henry E. Dixey, Suported by the Efficient Organization, Rice & Dixey's Big Burlesque Co. Edward E. Rice, Manager. After their brilliantly successful engagements covering 619 Perfo rmances in New York. 97 Nights at the Hollis St. Theatre, Boston. 100 Nights at the Gairty Theatre, London. In Messrs. Gill & Dixey's fascinating Grotesque Nightmare in Two Acts, entitled Adonis. With Original and Selected Music, and the Following Great Cast Of Characters: Adonis, An accomplished young gentleman, of undeniably good family, in as much as he can trace his ancestry back through the Genozoic, Msezoic, and Palaeozoic period, until he finds it resting on the Archaean Time. His family name, by the way, is "Marble", Mr. Henry E. Dixey ..

Contributor:: Dixey, Henry E., 1859-1943 (actor); Rice, Edward E. 1848-1924 (manager); Charter, William R. (printer)
Date:: 1887
Language:: English
Publisher:: The Charter, Printing House, 908 Filbert St
Collection:: Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Physical Location:: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 95