Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, November 26, 1869. Positively the Last Night of the Brilliant Engagement of Mr. Edwin Forrest, Who will appear in Dr. Bird's Tragedy, of the Gladiator. Spartacus, Mr. Edwin Forrest, Senona, Miss Lillie, Pharsarius, Mr. Wm. Harris. 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. Friday Evening, Nov. 26th, 1869, The performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clk, with Overture-"Stradella," Flotow, After which will be performed the celebrated Tragedy, in Five Acts, by the late Dr. Robt. Montgomery Bird, expressly for Mr. Forrest, entitled the Gladiator, Spartacus, a Thracian, Edwin Forrest ..

Alternate Title:

Gladiator

Contributor:

Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872 (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.); Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854. Gladiator; 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: November 26, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 99 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. 99

Collection:

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