Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, April 22, 1870. Fifth Night Of The Emerald Ring, Benefit Of Mrs. Barney Williams, The Great and World-Renowned Comedians and Original Impersonators of Irish and Yankee Life, Mr. And Mrs. Barney Williams, Will appear, for the Fifth Time, in the Great Sensational Irish Darma, Written expressly for Mr. and Mrs. Williams, by John Brougham, Esq., entitled The Emerald Ring, Received Nightly by Large and Brilliant Audiences with Enthusiastic Applause. Friday Evening, April 22d, 1870, The performance will commence at eight o'clock, with Overture--To Emerald Ring, Withers, After which the successful Romantic Irish Drama, consisting of a Prologue and 3 Acts, entitled the Emerald Ring, The Piece produced with Beautiful Scenery, by G. Heilge; Machinery and Novel Mechanical Effects, etc. by Arthur Wright; Appointments, by E. Wood; Music, by Wm. Withers. Mike Macarty, Mr. Barney Williams ..

Alternate Title:

Emerald Ring

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1870

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.); Brougham, John, 1810-1880. Emerald ring; 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); 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: April 22, 1870.; 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."; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 246 in a collection of playbills bound together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 246

Collection:

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