Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, September 25, 1869. Sixth Night of the Engagement of MR. Mr. Edwin Booth, Who will appear as Count Pescara, in the Apostate. 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. Saturday Evening, Sept. 25th, 1869, The Performance will commence at 1/4 to 8, o'clock, with Overture-"Fidelio" Beethoven, After which will be presented Richard Lalor Shiel's Tragedy, in Five Acts, of the Apostate, Count Pescara, Edwin Booth ... : To conclude with a new Domestic Drama, in Two Acts, by T. J. Williams, entitled the Peep-Show Man, Jack Trudget, the "Peep-Show Man," late Mate of the "Matchless Margaret," Chas. Walcot ..
- Alternate Title
- Apostate
- Peep-show man
- Creator
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 (actor)
- Form
- books
- broadsides (notices)
- playbills
- Castlists
- Date
- 1869
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Sheil, Richard Lalor, 1791-1851. Apostate
- Williams, Thomas J. (Thomas John), 1824-1874. Peep-show man
- Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens
- Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Theaters
- Playbills
- Geographic Subject
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Collection
- Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 22.8 x 14 cm
- Publisher
- [Publisher not identified]
- Related Place
- United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Notes
- Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.
- Performance date: September 25, 1869.
- Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 38 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."
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 38
- Provenance
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
- Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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