. When old New York was young . ME THEATRES The stock company struggled along for twoyears, the most notable appearance beingthat of Julia Wheatley, the first Americansinger to appear in Italian op^ra in thiscountry. The name was changed to the NationalTheatre in 1836, and in the next year J. occupied it with a company thatmade it popular for the first time. It wasburned in 1839, and immediately rebuilt, butwhen in 1841 it was again destroyed by firethat was the last of it. Passing the Temple Court in BeekmanStreet, I recalled that there had been a theatreon that site in 1761, where
. When old New York was young . ME THEATRES The stock company struggled along for twoyears, the most notable appearance beingthat of Julia Wheatley, the first Americansinger to appear in Italian op^ra in thiscountry. The name was changed to the NationalTheatre in 1836, and in the next year J. occupied it with a company thatmade it popular for the first time. It wasburned in 1839, and immediately rebuilt, butwhen in 1841 it was again destroyed by firethat was the last of it. Passing the Temple Court in BeekmanStreet, I recalled that there had been a theatreon that site in 1761, where Hamlet wasplayed for the first time in America. Thishad been a theatre district in its time, for justaround the corner, where the lofty buildingstands opposite St. Pauls Chapel, P. T. Bar-num had his Museum and Moral LectureRoom; and half a block farther along I L58] OLD-TIME THEATRES stood before another giant sky-scraper wherethe first Park Theatre had been. Walking up Broadway, I turned off at \\ h^.r ^m^ i^/-r--Ji^ ^ isj ,.. X^-^t Barnums Museum. Canal Street to go to West , close by the corner, on the west sideof the way, I stood before St. Alphonsuss OLD-TIME THEATRES Church, and wondered how many of thosewho passed every day knew that the finesttheatre in the America of its day had once
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