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Theatre. Nights of Performance This Week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Thursday Evening, December 27, 1821. Will be Presented, a Comedy in Five acts, called Town and Country; Or, Which is Best? Written by the author of Speed the Plough, Columbus, &c. &c Mr. Plastic, Mr. Darley. ... : To which will be added, for the Second time, and Miller's Maid. Now performing at the Lyceum Theatre in London with great applause. The Miller, Mr. Burke. ..

Alternate Title:
Town and Country, or, Which is Best?; Town and Country; Which is Best?; Miller's Maid
Name:
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:
1821
Language:
English
Publisher:
[Publisher not identified]
Subject:
Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. Town and country; Saville, John Faucit, 1783-1853. Miller's maid; Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823. Miller's maid; 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); 25.8 x 17.7 cm
Geographic Subject:
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Related Place:
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Printed area measures 22.9 x 15.3 cm.; Performance date: December 27, 1821.; The miller's maid, by John Faucit Saville, founded on Bloomfield's poem.; The Chestnut Street Theatre was destroyed by fire on April 2, 1820. While the theater was being reconstructed, the players performed at the Walnut Street Theatre.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21A no. 97 in a collection of playbills housed together.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 21A no. 97
Collection:
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)