. Players and plays of the last quarter century; an historical summary of causes and a critical review of conditions as existing in the American theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. eum,New York. For the season of 1852-53, Flor-ence was at the old Broadway Theatre, and itwas during this engagement that he marriedMrs. Littell, a dancer, whose maiden name wasMalvina Pray, and who was a sister of Williams. Shortly after, Mr. and started out for themselves, playingYankee girl and Irish boy characters in imi-tation of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. One 266 Players
. Players and plays of the last quarter century; an historical summary of causes and a critical review of conditions as existing in the American theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. eum,New York. For the season of 1852-53, Flor-ence was at the old Broadway Theatre, and itwas during this engagement that he marriedMrs. Littell, a dancer, whose maiden name wasMalvina Pray, and who was a sister of Williams. Shortly after, Mr. and started out for themselves, playingYankee girl and Irish boy characters in imi-tation of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. One 266 Players and Plays of their most popular plays was The IrishEmigrant. Occasionally also they took partin burlesques. In 1S56, they appeared suc-cessfully in London. In 1861, Florence actedCaptain Cuttle and Toodle at Wallacks, andin 1863 he played Bob Brierly in The Ticket-of-Leave Man at the Winter Garden. In1867, ^^^ produced Caste at Wallacks,Florence playing DAlroy, Mrs. FlorencePolly Eccles, and Mrs. G. H. Gilbert theMarquise St. Maur. The greatest of the Flor-ence successes was The Mighty Dollar, byBenjamin E. Woolf, which was first acted atthe Park Theatre, New York, on September6, JOHN BROUGHAM
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