New Chestnut St. Theatre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Wheatley. Stage Manager, Mr. J. B. Wright. Immense Success Of the Celebrated Irish Comedian and Vocalist, Mr. Collins! Who will appear as Carrickfergus. Mr. Wm. Wheatley In HIs Original Character of Captain Henri de Lagardere. Wednesday Evening, Sept'r 9th, 1863, Will be presented the Grand Drama, in Three Acts and a Prologue, by John Brougham, entitled The Duke's Motto. Carrickfergus, Mr. Collins ..

Alternate Title:

Duke's Motto

Contributor:

Wheatley, William, 1816-1876 (actor); Collins, John, 1811-1874 (actor); Wright, J. B. (John B.), 1814- (stage manager)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1863

Language:

English

Publisher:

U. S. Job Print, Ledger Buildings, Philadelphia

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Brougham, John, 1810-1880. Duke's Motto; Féval, Paul, 1816-1887. Bossu; 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); 23.9 x 11.6 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 23.2 x 10.2 cm.; Performance date: September 9, 1863.; "Duke's Motto" based on Paul Féval's novel "Le Bossu."; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 112 in a collection of playbills housed together.; Print Collection 8 copy has bookplate, on verso of pastedown, with text "No. 16 Yds" under image of female statue.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 112

Collection:

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