. Our theatres to-day and yesterday. NEW YORK THE H. K. FLY COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright. 19in. byTHE H. K. FLY COMPANY LIBRARV UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA CONTENTS Chapter Page I. Early Trials of the English Actor 9 II. First Advance Agent 12 III. Before the Revolution 17 IV. Actors Becoming Recognized Socially 21 V. First Summer Theatre 25 VI. The Beginning of Burlesque 31 VII. More Halls and More Theatres 36 VIII. Fourteenth Street Becomes Popular 40 IX. Period of the Civil War 44 X. The Old Booth Theatre 48 XI. Famous Minstrel House 53 XII. Present Entertainment Center Establish
. Our theatres to-day and yesterday. NEW YORK THE H. K. FLY COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright. 19in. byTHE H. K. FLY COMPANY LIBRARV UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA CONTENTS Chapter Page I. Early Trials of the English Actor 9 II. First Advance Agent 12 III. Before the Revolution 17 IV. Actors Becoming Recognized Socially 21 V. First Summer Theatre 25 VI. The Beginning of Burlesque 31 VII. More Halls and More Theatres 36 VIII. Fourteenth Street Becomes Popular 40 IX. Period of the Civil War 44 X. The Old Booth Theatre 48 XI. Famous Minstrel House 53 XII. Present Entertainment Center Established 59 XJII. Webers Music Hall Once the Imperial 63 XIV. Moving Picture Craze Develops 66 XV. Another Hammerstein Venture 71 XVI. Recent Progress 78 XVII. A Review—Minstrelsy 82 XVIII. The Moving Picture Craze 86 XIX. Sketch of Some of the Newr York Managers 90. Our Theatres To-day andYesterday CHAPTER I. EARLY TRIALS OF THE ENGLISH ACTOR. New York is to-day, in the year nineteen hundred and eleven,the recognized centre of theatrical activities in America and hasbeen for something over one hundred years. Although the firsttheatre to be erected in the city appeared in 1750 and perform-ances virere given here as early as 1732. it was not until the latterpart of the eighteenth century that New York took its place atthe head of the theatre in this country. Perhaps no other fieldof enterprise, standing for social good, has made such rapid pro-gress in local history as has the theatrical business, and only amental gymnast can appreciatingly comprehend in detail themarvelous growth that has taken place in the citys amusementsphere since the days when the only abode of entertainment wasat best a mean wooden structure, and actors were frequentlycompelled to give performances in the upper story of a building,often as not, the home of a cheese or molass
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