Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, September 15, 1869. Immense success of the New and Romantic Drama, Last Week Of the Engagement of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Who will appear in her last Great Success, Clara Melville, in the New Sensational Play Received Nightly with Shouts of Laughter and Applause, entitled "Snare," In which is embodied one of those startling Romances which only occur in real life, and prove that "Truth is Stranger than Fiction" - Supported by Mr. J. C. M'Collom, Wednesday Evening, Sept. 15, 1869, The Performance will commence at 8 o'clk, with Overture-"Festival," Thomas, After which will be presented, for the 3d time in Philadelphia, an original Drama, written expressly for Mrs. Bowers by Edmund Falconer, Esq., Author of "Peep O'Day," "Fire Fly," "Men of the Day," &c. entitled Snare, or, What Can't Money Do? Clara Melville, Wife of Henry Melville, Mrs. D. P. Bowers ..

Alternate Title
Snare, or, What can't money do?
Snare
What can't money do?
Creator
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bowers, D. P., Mrs., 1830-1895 (actor)
McCollom, J. C. (James C.) (actor)
Form
books
broadsides (notices)
playbills
Castlists
Date
1869
Language
English
Subject
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Falconer, Edmund, 1814-1879. Snare
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 15, 1869.
Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 28 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."
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. 28
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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