Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, April 9, 1870. Lots Of Fun for the Farewell Performance of Mr. F. S. Chanfrau Who will appear in his Celebrated Impersonation of Mose! Also, in his Great Characterization of Solon Shingle! Saturday Evening, April 9th, 1870, The performance will commence at 1/4 to eight o'clock with Overture -- "Nabucco," Rossini After which will be presented the Comic Drama, in One Act, entitled Solon Shingle Solon Shingle, F. S. Chanfrau... To be followed with the Local Sketch, in Two Acts, by B. A. Baker, Esq., of Mose; or, A Glance at New York Mose, F. S. Chanfrau... To conclude with the Succesful 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
Solon Shingle
Mose Or, A Glance at New York
Mose
Glance at New York
Peep-Show Man
Creator
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Chanfrau, Frank, 1824-1884 (actor)
Walcot, Charles Melton, 1840-1921 (actor)
Form
books
broadsides (notices)
playbills
Castlists
Date
1870
Language
English
Subject
Theaters
Playbills
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Jones, J. S. (Joseph Stevens), 1811-1877. Solon Shingle
Baker, Benjamin A., 1818-1890. Mose or, A Glance at New York
Williams, Thomas J. (Thomas John), 1824-1874. Peep-show man
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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: April 9, 1870.
Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 235 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): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3qt15
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. 235
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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