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Chestnut St. Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; S. M. Heilburn, Business Manager. Overture, Galathea by Suppe, under the direction of H. Wannemacher. Henry E. Dixey, Suported by the Efficient Organization, Rice & Dixey's Big Burlesque Co. Edward E. Rice, Manager. After their brilliantly successful engagements covering 619 Perfo rmances in New York. 97 Nights at the Hollis St. Theatre, Boston. 100 Nights at the Gairty Theatre, London. In Messrs. Gill & Dixey's fascinating Grotesque Nightmare in Two Acts, entitled Adonis. With Original and Selected Music, and the Following Great Cast Of Characters: Adonis, An accomplished young gentleman, of undeniably good family, in as much as he can trace his ancestry back through the Genozoic, Msezoic, and Palaeozoic period, until he finds it resting on the Archaean Time. His family name, by the way, is "Marble", Mr. Henry E. Dixey ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 95
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Series:
- Print Collection 8 ; box 18 no. 95.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Gill, William, active 1882-1897. Adonis.
- Gill, William.
- Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.
- Playbills.
- Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Theaters.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Broadsides.
- Playbills.
- Castlists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 28.3 x 12.4 cm
- Other Title:
- Adonis
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The Charter, Printing House, 908 Filbert St., [1887?]
- Notes:
- Printed area measures 26.1 x 9.9 cm.
- Local Notes:
- Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 95 in a collection of playbills housed together.
- OCLC:
- 951905457
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