Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, November 30, 1869. Great Success of Enoch Arden. The celebrated Drama, in Five Acts, written by Arthur Matthison, Esq., for Edwin Booth's Theatre, N. York, entitled Enoch Arden, Founded on Alfred Tennyson's great Poem. Tuesday Evening, Nov. 30th, 1869, The performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clk, with Overture-"Il Pirato," Suppe, After which will be presented the Drama, in 5 Acts, by Arthur Matthison, Esq., of Enoch Arden, With New Scenery by G. Heilge. Machinery by Arthur Wright and Assistants. Properties by E. Wood and Assistants. New Music by E. Mollenhauer and Simon Hassler. Enoch Arden, Chas. Walcot ... : To conclude with Buckstone's Laughable Comedietta of the Happiest Day of my Life. Mr. Gillman, Owen Fawcett ..

Alternate Title:

Enoch Arden; Happiest day of my life

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.); Matthison, Arthur, 1826-1883. Enoch Arden; Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879. Happiest day of my life; 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:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.; Performance date: November 30, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 103 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. 103

Collection:

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