City Museum, Fifth And Callowhill Streets. Lessees, Messrs. Sherzer & Zulich; Stage Manager, Mr. Lewis Baker; Benefit Of the eminent American Tragedian and Comedian, Mr. J. E. Murdoch Who will ... occasion in Two Of HIs Best Characters As Evelyn And Vapid. Mrs. Alexina Fisher Baker As Clara Douglas And Marianne. Observe this Unusual Combination of Attractions This (Friday) Evening, Nov. 30, 1855, The performance will commence with Bulwer's Comedy, in 5 Acts, called Money "'Tis a very good world we live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or get a man's own, 'Tis a very worst world that ever was known." Alfred Evelyn, Mr. J. E. Murdoch ... : To conclude with Reynolds' dashing Comedy, in 3 Acts, called the Dramatist Or, Die All, Die Nobly. Vapid, the Dramatist, Mr. J. E. Murdoch ..

Alternate Title:

Money; Dramatist Or, Die All, Die Nobly; Dramatist; Die All, Die Nobly

Name:

City Museum

Date:

1855

Language:

English

Publisher:

Brown's Steam-Power Job Printing Office, Ledger Buildings, Philad'a

Subject:

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873. Money; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 55.9 x 23.8 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 53.2 x 19.7 cm.; Performance date: November 30, 1855.; Print Collection 8 copy imperfect: torn at bottom left corner, with some loss of text.; Print Collection 8 copy is oversize no. 6 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 oversize no. 6

Collection:

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