Chestnut St. Theatre. Nixon & Zimmerman, Proprietors and Managers; Geo. Kemerle, Treasurer. Charles Semple, Gas Machinist and Engineer. Wm. Clark, Master Carpenter. Geo. Hershberger, Property Master. Every Evening This Week. Matinees: Wednesday, Thursday (New Year's Day) and Saturday. Francis Wilson And Company, From The Broadway Theatre, N.Y. Presenting for the First Time Here A New Operetta In 3 Acts, Entitled The Merry Monarch; Under the management of Mr. A. H. Canby. Libretto by, J. Cheever Goodwin; Music by, Woolson Morse; Orchestration by, John Philip Sousa. Cast Of Characters. King Anso IV., the Merry Monarch, Mr. Francis Wilson ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nixon-Nirdlinger, Samuel F., 1848-1918.

Zimmerman, J. Frederick, 1840 or 1841-1925.

Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932.

Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935, actor.

Francis Wilson & Company.

Morrell Brothers, printer.

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. 103.

Print Collection 8 ; box 18 no. 104.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Goodwin, J. Cheever (John Cheever), 1850-1912. Merry monarch.

Morse, Woolson, 1858-1897. Merry monarch.

Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894. Étoile.

Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.

Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Theaters.

Playbills.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Specimens.

Broadsides.

Playbills.

Castlists.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 34.8 x 13.3 cm

Other Title:

Merry Monarch

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Morrell Brothers, Show Printers, 511-513 Arch Street, Philadelphia, [1891?]

Notes:

Printed area measures 30.8 x 10.5 cm.

Merry Monarch adapted by J. Cheever Goodwin and Woolson Morse from E. Chabrier's L'Etoile; music arranged by John Philip Sousa. Cf. Loewenberg, Annals of opera, 1970, col. 1066-7.

Local Notes:

Print Collection 8 copy has date "1/2/91" added in ms.

Print Collection 8 copy 2 has date "1/3/91" added in ms.

Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 103 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Print Collection 8 copy 2 is box 18 no. 104 in a collection of playbills housed together.

OCLC:

951908919