Philadelphia Theatre. For the remainder of the Season the Curtain will rise at 7 o'clock, precisely. The Managers respectfully inform the public that Mr. Wallack is engaged for the rest of the Season, Thursday Evening, April 22, 1824, Will be presented, (not acted these 3 years) a favourite Play, called The Point of Honor; Or, a School for Soldiers. Translated from the French by Mr. C. Kemble. Chevalier St. Franc, Mr. Wood. ... : After which, the interesting Melo-Drama of the Wandering Boys; Or, the Castle of Olival. Count de Croissy, Mr. Wallack. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Contributor:

Wood, William B. (William Burke), 1779-1861, 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 21A no. 134.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854. Point of honor.

Kemble, Charles.

Kerr, John, active 1814-1834. Wandering boys; or, The castle of Olival.

Kerr, John.

Pixérécourt, R.-C. Guilbert de (René-Charles Guilbert de), 1773-1844. Pélerin blanc.

Pixérécourt, R.-C. Guilbert de.

Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.

Playbills.

Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Theaters.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Specimens.

Broadsides.

Playbills.

Castlists.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 26.3 x 18.9 cm

Other Title:

Point of Honor, or, a School for Soldiers

Point of Honor

School for Soldiers

Wandering Boys, or, the Castle of Olival

Wandering Boys

Castle of Olival

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified], [1824]

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.7 x 15.4 cm.

Performance date: April 22, 1824.

Wandering Boys, or, the Castle of Olival is an adaptation of R.C. Guilbert de Pixérécourt's Le pèlerin blanc. An opera of the same name, with music by Bishop, was produced at Covent Garden, February 24, 1814 (cf. Genest and Theat, inquisitor) A still earlier adaptation by M.M. Noah, "Paul and Alexis or The orphans of the Rhine," was acted at Charleston, S.C., in in 1812, later altered and printed at Boston, 1821, under title "The wandering boys; or The castle of Olival." The Brit. mus. Catalogue ascribes a play of the latter name in Lacy's acting drama to John Kerr. (cf. also L.C. Baker, German drama in Eng. on the N.Y. Stage, p. 96).

Local Notes:

Print Collection 8 copy is box 21A no. 134 in a collection of playbills housed together.

OCLC:

953799786