Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, September 16, 1869. Last Night of the New and Romantic Drama, Last Week Of the Engagement of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Who will appear in her last Great Success, Clara Melville, in the New Sensational Play Received Nightly with Shouts of Laughter and Applause, entitled "Snare," In which is embodied one of those startling Romances which only occur in real life, and prove that "Truth is Stranger than Fiction" - Supported by Mr. J. C. M'Collom, Thursday Evening, Sept. 16th, 1869, The Performance will commence at 8 o'clk, with Overture-"Festival," Thomas, After which will be presented, for the 4th time in Philadelphia, an original Drama, written expressly for Mrs. Bowers by Edmund Falconer, Esq., Author of "Peep O'Day," "Fire Fly," "Men of the Day," &c., entitled Snare, or, What Can't Money Do? Clara Melville, Wife of Henry Melville, Mrs. D. P. Bowers ..

Alternate Title:

Snare, or, What can't money do?; Snare; What can't money do?

Contributor:

Bowers, D. P., Mrs., 1830-1895 (actor); McCollom, J. C. (James C.) (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.); Falconer, Edmund, 1814-1879. Snare; 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 16, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 29 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. 29

Collection:

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