Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, September 30, 1869. Tenth night Of the Engagement of Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear as Claude Melnotte In Bulwer's Beautiful Play of the Lady of Lyons. Visitors are requested to remain seated till the close of the Play, as the noise occasioned by the impatient few, mars the pleasure of the more intellectual portion of the audience, that wish to witness the completion of the performance. Change of time, Thursday Evening, Sept. 30, 1869, The Performance wil commence at 1/4 to 8, o'clock, with Overture-"Fidelio," Beethoven, After which will be presented Bulwer's Great Play, in Five Acts, of the Lady of Lyons, or, Love and Pride. Claude Melnotte, Edwin Booth ... : To conclude with John Madison Morton's Popular Farce of My Precious Betsy. Bobtail, Owen Fawcett ..

Alternate Title:

Lady of Lyons, or, Love and pride; Lady of Lyons; Love and pride; My precious Betsy

Contributor:

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 (actor)

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1869

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873. Lady of Lyons; Morton, John Maddison, 1811-1891. My precious Betsy; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 22.8 x 14 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.; Performance date: September 30, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 42 in a collection of playbills bound together.; Print Collection 8 copy has Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate which reads "The Horace Howard Furness Memorial donated by Horace Howard Furness, Jr. and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness."

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 42

Collection:

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)