Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, May 7, 1870. Saturday Afternoon, Mr. & Mrs. Barney Williams Matinee When those Great and World-Renowned Comedians will appear in Two Great Pieces, The Grand Fairy Spectacular Drama entitled the Fairy Circle, The Laughable Comedy, entitled the Custom Of The Country. Saturday Afternoon, May 7th, 1870, The performance will commence at 2 o'clk, with Overture, "Groves of Blarney," Bishop, After which an Original Legendary Drama and Fairy Spectacle, written expressly for Mr. and Mrs. Williams, entitled the Fairy Circle Or, Con O'Carolan's Dream. Note.--It is the common superstition among the Irish peasants that the person who has sufficient courage to sleep within the charmed precincts of a "Fairy Circle," will dream of the whereabouts of some rich and deeply buried treasure. These "Fairy Circles" are strange freaks of nature, perfect illustrations of their name, as accurately as if outlined by a mathematical hand. Shakspere, in his exquisite play of "The Tempest,' alludes to these Fairy Trysting Places and their occupiers, thus: "You dewy puppets That by the moonshine do their green sour ringlets make Whereof the ewe not bites." Con O'Carolan, Barney Williams ... : To conclude with the Roaring Comedy of the Custom Of The Country Or, The Yankee Help. Melissa, with Song, Mrs. Barney Williams ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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 ; v. 11 no. 262.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Grattan, H. P. (Henry Plunkett), 1808-1889. Fairy circle, or, Con O'Carolan's dream.

Walcot, Charles Melton, 1815-1868. Custom of the country.

Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.

Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Theaters.

Playbills.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Specimens.

Broadsides.

Playbills.

Castlists.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 22.8 x 14 cm

Other Title:

Fairy Circle Or, Con O'Carolan's Dream

Fairy Circle

Con O'Carolan's Dream

Custom Of The Country Or, The Yankee Help

Custom Of The Country

Yankee Help

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified], [1870]

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.

Performance date: May 7, 1870.

Local Notes:

Print Collection 8 copy has Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate which reads "The Horace Howard Furness Memorial donated by Horace Howard Furness, Jr. and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness."

Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 262 in a collection of playbills bound together.

OCLC:

956664265