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New Theatre. Mr. Mathews' Second Night. Wednesday Evening, February 26, 1823, Will be presented George Colman's admired Comedy, of the Poor Gentleman. Ollapod, Mr. Mathews. ... : To which will be added, the admired Farce of The Sleep Walker; Or, Which is the Lady? Somno, Mr. Mathews, in which character he will introduce the Comic Song of "The Humours of a London Play House;" And will give his Imitations of the following celebrated performers'. Mr. Kemble as Penruddock and Cardinal Woolsey. Mr. Cooke as Sir Pertinax M'Sycophant. Mr. Munden as Sir Abel Handy. Mr. Fawcett as Job Thornberry. Mr. Blanchard as Sir Simon Rochdale. Mr. Bannister as Walter, in Children in the Wood. Mr. Kean as Richard the Third. Mr. Young as Hamlet, &c. &c. Sir Patrick Maguire, Mr. Burke. ...

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Contributor:
Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835, actor.
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Print Collection 8 ; box 18 no. 64.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Colman, George, 1762-1836. Poor gentleman.
Colman, George.
Oulton, Walley Chamberlain, 1770?-1820?. Sleep-walker, or, Which is the lady?.
Oulton, Walley Chamberlain.
Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.
Playbills.
Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Theaters.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Genre:
Specimens.
Broadsides.
Playbills.
Castlists.
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 30.9 x 18.9 cm
Other Title:
Poor Gentleman
Sleep Walker, or, Which is the Lady
Sleep Walker
Which is the Lady
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified], [1823]
Notes:
Printed area measures 30.1 x 15.3 cm.
Performance date: February 26, 1823.
Local Notes:
Print Collection 8 copy imperfect: closely cropped at bottom margin, with some loss of text.
Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 64 in a collection of playbills housed together.
OCLC:
951539682

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