Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, September 24, 1869. Benefit of Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear as Claude Melnotte in Bulwer's Beautiful Play of the Lady of Lyons. 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. Change of time. Friday Evening, Sept'r 24th, 1869, The Performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-"Fidelio," Beethoven, After which will be presented Bulwer's Great Play, in 5 Acts, of the Lady of Lyons, or, Love and Pride. Claude Melnotte, Edwin Booth ... : To conclude with the American Comedy of the People's Lawyer, Robt. Howard, the People's Lawyer, Lewis Morrison ..

Alternate Title:

Lady of Lyons; People's lawyer

Contributor:

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 (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.); Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873. Lady of Lyons; Jones, J. S. (Joseph Stevens), 1811-1877. People's lawyer; 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: September 24, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 36 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. 36

Collection:

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