Saturday, 24 September 2005

The Walls of Jericho, opened at the Savoy Theatre, in New York City, on September 25, 1905 and played through February 1906, starring James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering.

   Scenes from The Walls of Jericho, opened at the Savoy Theatre, in New York City, on September 25, 1905 and played through February 1906, starring James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering.

   The New York Times :  1906/04/23  SUNDAY PLAY IN BOSTON.; Authorities Let Hackett and Mannering ...  BOSTON, April 22.—At the Tremont Theatre to-night James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering presented “The Walls of Jericho” for the benefit of the San Francisco sufferers.








Savoy Theatre, Hackett and Mannering, "The Walls of Jericho"


Wednesday, 21 September 2005

The Clansman, first performed by the Southern Amusement Co., at the Academy of Music, Norfolk, Virginia, on September 22, 1905.

Scenes from The Clansman (an American drama from his two famous novels The Leopard's Spots and The Clansman), first performed by the Southern Amusement Co. at the Academy of Music, Norfolk, Virginia, on September 22, 1905. The Clansman: an Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905, which was immediately adapted by its author as a play entitled The Clansman (1905).


The clansman - an American drama - from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman - presented by the Southern Amusement Co. (1905) (14763391714).jpg


The clansman - an American drama - from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman - presented by the Southern Amusement Co. (1905) (14579108079).jpg


The clansman - an American drama - from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman - presented by the Southern Amusement Co. (1905) (14579115538).jpg


The clansman - an American drama - from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman - presented by the Southern Amusement Co. (1905) (14765431372).jpg


The clansman - an American drama - from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman - presented by the Southern Amusement Co. (1905) (14763401424).jpg


The clansman - an American drama - from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman - presented by the Southern Amusement Co. (1905) (14579112748).jpg


Monday, 5 September 2005

Man and Superman (1901-02) written by George Bernard Shaw and produced at the Hudson Theater, New York City, in 1905-06

   Scenes from Man and Superman ( a four-act drama, premiered at the Court Theatre in London on 21 May 1905), written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced at the Hudson Theatre, New York City, where it ran for 192 performances from September 5, 1905 until 1906.

   The New York Times :  1905/09/06  A BRILLIANT COMPANY IN A BRILLIANT COMEDY; "Man and Superman ...  A BRILLIANT COMPANY IN A BRILLIANT COMEDY; "Man and Superman" Acted to Perfection at the Hudson. A REMARKABLE ENSEMBLE Robert Loraine, as a Star, Has a Supporting Company...


Clara Bloodgood stars in Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman in 1905




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Sunday, 4 September 2005

The Prince Chap, written by Edward Peple (1867-1924), and produced at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York, from September 4 to December 30, 1905, runnning for 136 performances.

A scene from The Prince Chap, written by American playwright Edward Peple (1867-1924)  and produced at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York, running for 136 performances from September 4 to December 30, 1905.





"The Prince Chap," by Edward Peple, at the Criterion Theatre, 1906


Thursday, 1 September 2005

Fiamme nell'ombra (Flames in the Shadows, a drama in three acts) and Il Cuculo (The Cuckoo, playful comedy in three acts), written by Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912), and the former produced at the Teatro Manzoni, Milan, and the latter at the Teatro Olympia, Milan, in 1905.

Scenes from Fiamme nell'ombra (Flames in the Shadows, a drama in three acts) and Il  Cuculo (The Cuckoo, a playful comedy in three acts), written by the Italian playwright Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912), and the former produced at the Teatro Manzoni, Milan, and the latter at the Teatro Olympia, Milan, in 1905.




Sunday, 21 August 2005

Mrs Warren's Profession (a play of Victorian England, 1893) written by George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced in Germany, as KItty Warren, in 1907.

A scene from Frau Warrens Beruf as Kitty Warren (Mrs Warren's Profession, a play set in Victorian England, 1893), written by English playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced by the Hebbel-Theater, directed by Richard Vallentin at the Central-Theater, Berlin, on 16 November 1907. In 1902 there was a first private performance of this play in London by the Stage Society. In 1906 the first public performances took place in New York, where the police appeared and arrested the entire stage staff.



Rosa Bertens in Kitty Warren

There she worked successfully in the naïve field and then moved to the Stadttheater in Cologne, from where she was appointed to the Deutsches Theater in Petersburg. In 1887 she joined the association of the Berlin Residenztheater, in 1894 she went to the Deutsches Theater and in 1895 back to the Residenztheater. In 1898 she moved to the Lessing Theatre, where she belonged until at least 1902. In 1911 she was a member of the Berlin Max Reinhardt Ensemble and played Iocaste alongside Ferdinand Bonn in Hofmannsthal's stage adaptation of King Oedipus.

Auferstehung (Воскресение, Resurrection also translated as The Awakening), written by Leo Tolstoy and produced probably in Berlin around 1905.

Scenes from Auferstehung (Воскресение, Resurrection or The Awakening, premiered in December 1899), written by Russian playwright Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and probably produced in Berlin around 1905. But it should be noted that the German premiere of Auferstehung, adapted by playwright Henri Bataille, was on March 24, 1903, at the Residenz-Theater in Hanover. 





Maria Rabia(Maria Labia) and Otto Marak(Otto Marak)