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Academy of Music 14th Street between 3rd Avenue and Irving Place, Built: 1854, Demolished: 1926 http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast.htm#Academy
Castle Garden,
Battery Park, Built: 1808, Demolished: 1940
Originally Fort Clinton, this round brick edifice was built on a small island just off Battery Park. As landfill expanded Manhattan's coastline, the island was subsumed into park. In 1824, the fort was roofed over and converted into an indoor garden. Renovated to serve as a concert venue in 1839, and was used by early minstrel troupes. Castle Garden became an opera house in 1847, and hosted Jenny Lind's New York debut in 1850. Five years later it became New York's immigrant depot, and was turned into an aquarium in 1895. Now owned by the U.S. government, it serves as a reception center for visitors to the Statue of Liberty. http://www.musicals101.com/bwayformer.htm#Castle
Daly's Fifth Ave. Theatre
Manhattan walking tour map http://www.neiu.edu/~rghiggin/ephem/Dalys5thAveTheatre.jpg
1221 Broadway at 30th Street, Other names: Banvard's Museum (1867), Wood's Museum (1868), Broadway (1876), Metropolitan
Built: 1867, Demolished: 1920 http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast1b.htm#Daly
Manhattan walking tour map 1430 Broadway, at 40th St,1893, Charles Frohman
1430 Broadway near 40th Street, Built: 1893, Demolished: 1953, Owned by Al Hayman http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast2.htm#Empire
Opera House
207 West 125th St. opened 1889, Oscar Hammerstein
Harlem Opera House, week of Jan. 24, 1895
Miss Olga Nethersole in Camille
Manhattan walking tour map west side of Fourth Avenue between 23rd and 24th Streets. http://www.neiu.edu/~rghiggin/ephem/Lyceum,NYC2.jpg
Lyceum (Old), 312-316 Fourth Avenue (North of 24th Street), Built: 1885, Demolished: 1902
History: The first NY theatre to be lighted entirely by electricity. http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast3b.htm#Lyceum
Square Theatre
Manhattan walking tour map 24th St. (5th and Madison) http://www.daviscrossfield.com/madison.htm
Square Theatre program 1885
Madison Square Theatre floor plan
Fifth Avenue Theatre, 27 West 28th Street (NW Corner), Also named: St. James, Madison Square, H.C. Miner's 5th Avenue Theatre, Built: 1873, Demolished: 1939?, Seats: 1,529 Note: This theatre took its name from an opera house that burned down in 1873. An 1877 renovation included a ventilation system that blew air over blocks of ice, making this the world's first air conditioned theatre. Destroyed by fire in 1891, it was rebuilt at the same location and renamed the Madison Square. Musicals: The Pirates of Penzance 1879 - US Premiere http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast2.htm#Fifth
White's Madison Square Garden Theatre
1890 1892 program, AM Palmer Manhattan walking tour map NE corner of Madison Square Garden, Madison Avenue at 27th Street, Built: 1890, Demolished: 1925, Seats: 1,200, Architects: McKim, Mead and White, Owners/Managers: Albert M. Palmer (1890-1896), Charles Frohman (1896-1915)
History: Part of the Madison Square Garden complex, this theatre booked plays, operas and musicals, becoming a favorite with fashionable audiences of the 1890s. Architect Stanford White was murdered while attending a 1906 performance in the Madison's Garden Roof summer theatre. http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast3.htm#Garden
Manhattan walking tour map 444 Broadway, between Howard and Grande, John Nickinson at 1841-1850.
Olympic (1st), 422 Broadway (between Howard & Grand Streets), Later Name: Mitchell's Olympic, Built: 1837, Demolished: 1854
History: Modeled after the London Olympic, eventual owner William Mitchell turned this into one of the most popular theatres in Manhattan. It was converted into retail space in 1852, and burned down two years later. http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast4.htm
Manhattan walking tour map Broadway & 30th, later (1891) Hoyt's Theatre, Union Square Theatre, Wallacks' Theatre (third) Broadway and Thirtieth Street (just south of Greeley Square)
Hoyt's Theater Sept. 11, 1895 Today it was rumoured, and I heard it was announced in some of yesterday's papers - that we open on the 19th in Buffalo, NY for three nights and Saturday matinee, and return to open on the 23rd at Hoyt's [Madison Square] Theatre for a run. Mr. Chas Frohman is attending rehearsals, is very pleasant and seems to be well pleased with the work of the company.
Theatre program week commencing Nov. 4, 1895
Gay Parisians
Pastors Theatre
Manhattan walking tour map "A little playhouse in the Tammany Hall Building, on the north side of 14th Street, near Third Avenue. The attractions are invariably of the variety order." (Kings NYC)
Tony Pastor, the vaudevillian, was a living summation of nineteenth-century urban entertainment. An Italian born in 1834 (or thereabouts), the son of a grocer, Pastor was an uneducated urchin who sang at temperance meetings, played tambourine in a minstrel company at Barnum's Museum on lower Broadway in 1847, and knocked around through half a dozen circuses in the 1850s, working as a singer, clown, acrobat, tumbler, dancer, and horseback rider, often all in a single show. In the early years of the Civil War, Pastor began a career as a balladeer in "concert saloons," descendants of the English music hall where the acts were often flimsy excuses for the alcohol, and the "waitress girls" considered the serving of drinks the beginning rather than the end of their job. Pastor became a beloved figure, famed for a stock of 1,500 tunes, and for his good-humored ribaldry. He sang about soused Irishmen and farcical Negroes and avenging wives and long-suffering husbands. James Traub, The Devil's Playground : A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square, 2004 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0375507884/103-8920797-5029402?_encoding=UTF8&n=283155
Tony Pastor Collection, Humanities Research Collection, Univ. of Texas Austin http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/pastor.html [1837-1908]
A letter from Albert, aged 14 to his mother mentions going to Tony Pastor's Theater.
Square Theatre
Broadway and Fourth Avenue, Built: 1870, Demolished: 1936, Owners: Sheridan Shook, Albert Palmer (1872-1883), Keith and Albee (1873-1914). History: Built for variety, the Union Square switched to legit bookings in 1872. In 1883, Keith and Albee added it to their growing vaudeville circuit -- the Four Cohans made their Manhattan debut on the opening bill. A movie house from 1914 on. http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast6.htm#Union
Washington DC, Jan 6, 1893 [Ramsey Morris] hints of being established permanently in a New York Theatre should Joseph be a hit in New York we shall remain for a longer period than three weeks. I am afraid though that the Union Square is not the right theatre for us - too far downtown now.
New York, Mar 24, 1893 In today's Herald you will see an article stating that B.F. Keith of Boston will take charge of the Union Square Theatre on April 8th. That is the end of our present engagement, but Mr. Keith & Mr. [Ramsey] Morris are in negotiation to continue Joseph for an indefinite run. Whether their efforts will be successful remains to be seen. I hope they will be.
Manhattan walking tour map Third Wallacks later Palmer's Theater
Wallack's (1st), Broadway and Broome Street (SW corner), Built: 1850, Demolished: 1869, History: Built by actor John Brougham, who called it the Lyceum. Actor-manager James W. Wallack took over the house in 1852 and renamed it for himself. After Wallack left to manage his new 13th Street theatre (see below), the theatre underwent several changes of name and ownership. http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast6.htm#Wallack's1
Wallack's (2nd), Broadway at 13th Street, Later named: Germania, Star, Built: 1861, Demolished: 1901 Note: This was the second theatre to bear the name of actor-manager James W. Wallack. After Wallack's death, his son Lester managed the theatre until 1881. Later known as the Germania and the Star, it housed all sorts of productions until it was demolished to make room for a skyscraper. http://www.musicals101.com/bwaypast6.htm#Wallack's
LESTER WALLACK'S THEATRE Lester Wallack moved into his up-town theatre at the northeast corner of Thirtieth Street in February, 1881, but the building was not ready for opening until January 4, 1882. The exterior of the building has never been completely finished. Here Wallack had an excellent stock company as before; but the house never became so famous or so popular as the old Thirteenth Street theatre, perhaps, because a new generation of theatre-goers had grown up and the actor-manager was getting old. He retired from active management, and the house opened as Palmer's Theatre on October 8, 1888, to become and remain Wallack's once more on December 7, 1896. Jenkins, Stephen, The Greatest Street in the World: The Story of Broadway, 1911 http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Manhattan/Broadway/Union.html
Owen Marlowe [Virginia Nickinson's husband] and Mrs. Charles Walcott [Isabella Nickinson] were members of Wallack's Theatre Company
IV Entertainment including theaters and the Crystal Palace, http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/labeliv.htm
Section VIII Including Broadway and hotels and businesses http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/labeviii.htm
New York Public Library, R. Waddell, Moving Uptown: Nineteenth Century Views of Manhattan, 1998
Bijou Theatre The Union Square Theatre company seems to have appeared here. The Boston Athenaeum collection of theatre playbills has been helpful in tracking EJ Phillips in the years before we have letters for.
Boston Museum On Tremont Street (at 18 and 28), between Court and School Street, the oldest theatre [existing in 1883] in Boston opened in 1841, and its stock company gave their first performance in 1843. "The subterfuge of housing a theatre in a museum was not uncommon, for it allowed many otherwise puritanical people to enjoy play-going". The theatre closed in 1893. (But EJ Phillips was playing at a theatre of the same name in 1895. See letter of March 13th.) [Oxford & King's Dictionary of Boston (1883).
Edwin Booth had made his first stage appearance there (1849) and in 1878 HMS Pinafore had its first American presentation. Willie Seymour joined the Museum as stage manager in 1879, remaining for ten years [Hornblow, Theatre in America
Sept. 15, 1887 Went to Boston Museum to see Dominie's
Daughter yesterday afternoon
Detroit Mar 13, 1895 My address next week is Boston Museum
Theatre was on Washington Street, near West Street,
Boston. Built in 1854, seated 3,000. Kings
Boston, May 27, 1888 We remain here two weeks longer playing Jim [the Penman] It was decided last Thursday when A.M.P[almer] came to attend the Actors Fund benefit at the Boston Theatre
Boston Museum and Boston Theatre histories, Boston Athenaeum http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/bostontheaterhistoriesa.html
Park Theatre "A small, compact, and elegant playhouse"
(Washington Street near the corner of Boylston) " The Union
square and the Madison
square companies of New York have played long engagements."
Built in 1879, seated 1184. [Kings
Boston, May 15, 1890 I have been to witness two performances at Park Theatre. The first was Fanny Davenport in La Tosca and last Monday night -- Frederick Warde in Belphigor the Mountebank. You see I am not much given to running around much at nights.
Park Theatre History, Boston Athenaeum http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/bostontheaterhistoriesn.html
Star Theatre Sept.- Oct. 1890
Chicago's first theatre dates from 1847 Cambridge
Hooleys Theater Richard Hooley (1822-1893) Hooley's Theatre first opened in 1872.
Richard Hooley photograph http://www.ancientfaces.com/family/Photos/details/index.cfm?18435
McVicker's Theatre, Chicago The First McVicker's Theatre was built in 1857 and destroyed in the great fire. Rebuilt in 1872 and remodelled in 1885, it burnt again Aug 26, 1890, during the run of the war play Shenandoah. Rebuilt, it opened again in March 1891 with the [Joseph] Jefferson -Florence company of The Rivals.
Theatre, Chicago http://www.cinematreasures.org/theater/1798/
McVicker's Theatre photograph http://www.neiu.edu/~rghiggin/ephem/Ephemera.html
The reconstruction of Chicago's Hooley's Theater in 1882 was the first commission to generate praise for Louis Henry Sullivan independent of Adler. Louis Henry Sullivan was, said one commentator, "the master spirit directing and shaping the creation" (1) of the new interior. By the time McVicker's Theater was remodeled in 1885, Louis Henry Sullivan 's work was "the best" of its kind in Chicago, according to one critic, "superior to anything heretofore seen in any public building in this country", in the eyes of another. Famous Architects http://architect.architecture.sk/louis-henry-sullivan-architect/louis-henry-sullivan-architect.php
JH Stoddart writes in his Recollections of a Player that in 1888 the Company "began our usual summer tour, which opened at the Chicago Opera House, the first time the company had ever played in that theater.
Denver Aug. 26, 1890 See by paper this Morning that McVickers Theatre, Chicago, burnt down last night. We are to play at Hooleys.
New York, May 12, 1892 I shall stop over at the Sherman House in Chicago as we play at Hooley's Theatre House in the same block. It seems a long journey to take for one week's work but so it is.
Chicago, Oct. 19, 1893 We have very strong attractions against us but so far we have done very well. The theatre we play in is called the Schiller. It is a new theatre and very comfortable in regard to dressing rooms &c.
Schiller Theatre 1892-1960 [demolished] http://www.cinematour.com/theatres_us.php?province=IL&page=4
New York, Nov. 18, 1895 Well I was not asked to go to London, but to Chicago for a Summer Season, after this Season is over, which will not be for some time yet. The Summer Season will be for from ten to sixteen weeks at Hooley's Theatre, possibly beginning in June. So I accepted and think that will be better than going to London and perhaps getting lost in the fog.
John Nickinson was stage manager at Pike's Opera House from the early 1860's until his death in 1864.
Washington DC Jan 8, 1893 I play in Pike's Opera House, Cin'ti [Cincinnati] and think I shall stop at the Burnett House as it is the nearest to theatre.
Detroit, Nov. 15, 1893 In Cincinnati next week we play at the "Grand Opera House" so you can send [letters] there.
Pike's Opera House, Cincinnati, Great Fire of 1866, Harper's Weekly April 14, 1866 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/pics003.html
FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED New York and dated: April 14, 1866. This 16 page newspaper contains prints and text concerning the latest news of the day. Some of the prints and news in this issue include: "Burning of Pike's Opera House, Cincinnati" shows the fire company--with fire engines--in action. http://www.rarenewspapers.com/new.asp
Pike's Opera House also burned in 1903
Los Angeles, Sept. 19, 1888 Direct your letters to Theatre. A.M. Palmer, Co. At Denver, "Tabor Opera House".
Tabor Opera House, Denver, 1881 http://www.taboroperahouse.net/
The Westin Hotel is located next to the Tabor Center, a multi-use office, hotel and shopping complex. The Tabor Center is built on the site of the former Tabor Opera House named for Horace Tabor, Colorado's silver mining King. Not only famous for his wealth, Horace Tabor's life became the basis for the opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe," detailing the love triangle of him, his wife August and his true love, Baby Doe. http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/econ/group8/summit97/sites.htm
Baby Doe Tabor http://www.babydoetabor.com/
Aug. 26, 1890 There is a new large
theatre here called "The Broadway Theatre". Opera is being played
there, this being the second week. Lohengrin was the Opera last night.
Aug. 29, 1890 Our business is good notwithstanding we have at the new Broadway Theatre and Comic Opera at another house against us.
The NEW COATES Coates Opera House on Diagonal Corner
Best Attractions Only
Kansas City, Mo Septr 29th 1896
Coates House and Coates Opera House, Kansas City Public Library http://www.kclibrary.org/sc/exhibits/theaters/coates.htm
Los Angeles, Sept. 19, 1888 The theatre here is very pretty, as far as the Auditorium goes, but the dressing rooms are very uncomfortable.
Aug 12, 1890 The dressing rooms at theatre were very hot last night, but that was due to the gas and want of proper ventilation. Our house was crowded and everything passed off nicely.
James H. Caldwell established a first-rate English-speaking theatre in New Orleans by 1819. Cambridge
Ben DeBar (1812-1877) had been "stage manager for Noah Ludlow and Sol Smith at the St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans, when they retired in 1843 he assumed management of their New Orleans and St. Louis theatres.
St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans, LA http://www.saengeramusements.com/theatres/nawlins/stcharle/stcharle.htm
EJ Phillips was for some years a member of the famous stock company Ben DeBar [1821-1877 HAS] at St. Louis. She went from St. Louis to New Orleans to play old lady parts at the Varieties Theatre, the leading stock theatre at New Orleans, under the management of Lawrence Barrett.(1838-1891).
Arch Street Theatre
Opened in 1828 as a rival to the Chestnut and Walnut Street Theatres in Philadelphia. The theatre's heyday began in 1861 when Mrs. John [Louisa Lane] Drew (1820-1897) established it as one of the greatest of American stock companies. The house was under her control for the next 31 years.
Drew founded the Arch St. Theatre, married Louisa Lane Drew and they were the
parents on Georgia Drew Barrymore, and grandparents of Lionel, Ethel and John.
Arch Street Theatre, 609-615 Arch Street http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/16554 Irwin R. Glazer Theater Collection, Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Aug. 29, 1887 Jim [the Penman] is to be played here in the "Arch" [Street Theatre] next Monday. Mr. Holliday will be with the party. Joe Whiting as "Jim" & Ada Dyas as "Mrs. Ralston" and Mr. [H.M.] Pitt for his old part of "Percival" This will give us rehearsals as the cast must be changed considerably.
Street Theatre
Hotel Davidson, Nov 8, 1893 Milwaukee New Years day open in Philadelphia for two or more weeks at Broad St theatre.
Philadelphia, Mar 15, 1898 I was called very unexpectedly to play a part at the Broad St. Theatre -- and everything had to be given up to that. A week ago Sunday Mr. and Mrs. [Willie] Seymour called to see me -- he being here with Mr. Sol Smith Russell who was playing a two weeks engagement at the Broad St. Theatre. We had a pleasant chat -- and he left about 6 PM and I did not suppose I should see him again. -- but as I was washing the supper dishes on Monday he came in a cab -- to ask me to go with him to the theatre to play "Clementina" in A Bachelor's Romance in place of Mrs. F.A. Pitt whose husband Mr. H.M. Pitt had died at 3 PM that day in New York and she would have to go on to New York to attend the funeral -- so I took a couple of gowns and went.
Chestnut St. Theatre The [New] Chestnut Street Theatre was built in 1862 on the north side of Chestnut Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets, a full seven blocks to the west of the old theatre, and considered by many too far removed from the theatre district to succeed. But "the rapid westward expansion of center-city Philadelphia soon made the new Chestnut Street Theatre the city's most fashionably located theatrical facility." [from?]
FF Mackay was manager of the Chestnut Street Theatre from 1875-78, along with William Gemmill (c. 1845- 1882 CDP) and J. Frederick Scott. However in 1878 severe internal difficulties began and the Company's previously favorable position (as Philadelphia's only first-class resident company) began to erode. Many of the company's best actors resigned.
Philadelphia, Dec. 20, 1893 On New Years Day we open with a Matinee [Lady Windermere's Fan] at Chestnut Street Theatre [Philadelphia] for two weeks
Concert Hall and Chestnut Street Theatre, Chestnut Street at Twelfth (north side), 1211-27 Chestnut Street, Watercolor by Benjamin R. Evans, 1879, Library Company of Philadelphia. http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/washw/images/C/C11.jpg
Chestnut Street Opera House, 1021-1029 Chestnut St. http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/14712 http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/ajnls/tsq/images/i/tsq030.jpg
New York, Mar 5, 1894 So I expect my season will close on the 1st of May. Where I do not yet know, as we have not yet heard our route: only that we close Holy Week and begin our new season at the National Theatre, Phila on Easter Monday.
Park Theatre, Broad and Fairmont Ave, Broken Seal Mar 28, 1892 for one week
Walnut Street Theatre Isabella Nickinson Walcott and her husband Charles Walcott were in this theatre company before joining Daniel Frohman's New York company in 1887
Walnut Theatre Online (1809-present) http://www.wstonline.org/about.html
Philadelphia, May 5, 1895 John [Dolman] is now the Phila correspondent of the New York "Clipper" and has to go in search of news. He visits the various theatres in town nearly every night now, and I tell him he is getting very giddy. He was rather bashful at first, but is beginning to like it.
Philadelphia Theatrical Papers 1877- 1943, Univ. of Delaware Library http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/phila.htm
Pittsburgh, Pa Novr 27th 1894 We are playing at the "Alvin" Theatre, almost adjoining this hotel [Hotel Schlosser].
Pittsburgh, Nov. 28, 1894 Here I am living next door to theatre, which is also a great rest to me, and I am beginning to feel quite like myself.
Portland, Sept. 15, 1896 We had a splendid house last night. First night in ten weeks that the theatre has been open. The Public was hungry for a show I guess. I hope this and tomorrow night's will be as well attended. Wish we were booked here for a week, Hotel and Theatre both comfortable, and only across the street from each other.
Noah Ludlow and Sol Smith established the first real theatre in St. Louis in 1835. Cambridge
EJ Phillips was for some years a member of the famous stock company Ben DeBar [1821-1877 HAS
Theater in Kansas 1858-1868, James C. Malin, Kansas Historical Quarterly, Summer 1957 http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1957/57_2_malin.htm
Cleveland, Nov. 17, 1893 Then go to St Louis. Play in the old Olympic where I used to belong to the Stock Co [with Benedict DeBar].
Cincinnati, Nov 23, 1893 On the 4th St Louis. We play at the Olympic Theatre there and I shall stop at Southern hotel which is just opposite theatre.
The Olympic Theatre closed in 1916 http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/history/cbd/architecture7.htm
Kansas City, Oct. 1, 1896 We play at a new theatre [in St. Louis] named "The Century".
Lindell Hotel, St. Louis, Oct. 4, 1896 Four blocks from theatre, which is a new one next door to Pope's old theatre which has been taken down, and a new block of buildings is being erected on the site, for stores, I guess.
Lake City
Shortly after the Mormon's arrival in Salt Lake they built a small playhouse and Brigham Young was determined to construct a first class theatre. Construction began in July 1861 and the formal opening was in March 1862. In 1870 the railroad connected Salt Lake City to both coasts and "during the next fifth years practically every notable actor of the American stage" appeared there and was the favorite of many "not only because of the enthusiasm of its audiences, but also because of the atmosphere and character of the house". [History Am Theatre]
Salt Lake City, Sept. 14, 1886 Last night we opened to a crowded house and that means something here, for the auditorium of the Mormon Theatre is pretty well as large as the Grand Opera House, NY.
HARPERS WEEKLY, July 11, 1857 Nice article: "Salt Lake & Its Rulers" includes prints of "Gov. Brigham Young, of Utah Territory" and "Elder Heber Kimball" and a one-third pg: "View of Salt Lake" and another one-third pg. view of "Salt Lake City, Utah Territory" and an illus. of the "New Temple to be Built at Salt Lake City" plus smaller prints of Council House, and "The Tabernacle" and a "Mormon Theatre". Nice two-thirds pg. print:
Lake City Theater, Ronald G. Walker, Utah History Encyclopedia http://historytogo.utah.gov/sltheater.html
City of San Francisco, California" http://www.rarenewspapers.com/browseissues.asp?C=harpersweekly
Thanks to the Gold Rush, theatre came to California. The first theatrical performance by professional actors was given in San Francisco in 1850. Cambridge
Baldwin Hotel and Theatre At the corner of Market and Powell Streets according to hotel stationery. Built by gambler/ entrepreneur Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin in 1875 (Sumner Bugbee, architect) Originally called Baldwin's Academy of Music, the theatre emphasized touring stars and attractions. "In 1878 Baldwin built a magnificent hotel which encompassed the playhouse and occupied the rest of the block. Virtually all the great touring performers of the day appeared in their best-known vehicles at the house ... Both hotel and theatre were destroyed by fire in 1898." [Oxford]
In the evening, by way of severe contrast [to the Mission Dolores they visited earlier that day], we went to Baldwin's Theatre, attached to the hotel of the same name and just finished. It is really the prettiest to be seen in any part of the world -- a perfect little gem, fitted up like a bonbonniere in crimson satin and gold. The six proscenium boxes on either side, and the row of French boxes at the back are marvelously pretty. Nothing could be more rich and exquisite in refinement of taste. The symmetry of the house is unmarred by rows of pillars, the galleries being suspended from the roof. California: a pleasure trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, Chapter 20, April, May, June, 1877. Mrs. Frank Leslie http://members.door.net/nbclumber/Leslie/Ch20.htm
EJ "Lucky" Baldwin http://www.socalhistory.org/Biographies/baldwin.htm(1828-1909) John Wilkman, 1999
Baldwin, Jon Wilkman
The Baldwin Hotel and Theatre burned in 1898. Albert Nickinson, in San Francisco for the Spanish American War took photographs of the ruins.
California Theatre For many years the leading theatre in San Francisco, it opened in 1869 on Bush Street, designed by SC Bugbee and Son, costing $150,000, and built for Lawrence Barrett and another actor by the head of San Francisco's Bank of California. Emphasized a resident ensemble, while its principal rival the Baldwin Theatre specialized in touring stars. The theatre burned in 1888. A replacement was built on the same site and destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.
Location: 430 Bush St between Kearny and Grant, San Francisco California State Historical Landmarks San Francisco County On this site on January 18, 1869, the California Theatre, built by William C. Ralston, opened with the following stock company: John McCullough, Lawrence Barrett, Harry Edwards, Willie Edouin, E. B. Holmes, William Mastayer, John T. Raymond, W. F. Burroughs, W. H. Sadley Smith, John Wilson, Edward J. Buckley, Mrs. Judah Emelie Melville, Elizabeth Saunders, Annette Ince, Marie E. Gordon, Sophie Edwin, Minnie Walton, and Julia Buckley. Among artists who played here were Charles W. Couldock, Edwin Adams, John Broughan, Edwin Booth, Barton Hill, Walter Montgomery, Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Adelaide Neilson, and Lotta Crabtree. This theater remained a brilliant center of drama until August 11, 1888.
at what is now 440 Bush Street http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist3/playbill.html
444 Bush Street http://www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/cal0086.asp
The first purpose built theatre in Toronto opened in December 1848. The brick building seated 750 and was lighted by gas, but awkwardly designed, eventually stopping first rate actors from coming to Toronto. The theatre burned down in January 1874. Jan. 1855 Royal Lyceum playbill
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Toronto history, Bruce Bell http://www.brucebelltours.com/html/the_great_hall_-2.html more
Lyceum Theatre John
Nickinson and EJ Phillips at the Royal Lyceum Theatre 1850's
Theatre historian Mary Shortt wrote "In later years, [John] Nickinson's period of management at the Royal Lyceum came to seem like a golden age... but in fact ... under Nickinson [it] was never more than a third-rate provincial theatre. His importance lay in the fact that for the first time he put Toronto's theatre on a genuinely professional basis, demonstrated that it could support a permanent stock company, and established the city as the leading theatrical centre in Canada West. [Shortt]
Nickinson's Royal Lyceum "offered a repertoire ranging from Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer to popular melodramas such as Uncle Tom's Cabin" Nickinson was known for his gala Christmas productions of Cinderella and Aladdin. [Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatres]
Nickinson also managed Hamilton's Metropolitan Theatre, going there with the Toronto company each year. (This must have been how he met EJ Phillips). Hard economic times, starting in 1858, led to his giving up the Royal Lyceum in 1859. He ended up as stage manager at Pike's Opera house in Cincinnati and died there in 1864. [what is this from?]
Charlotte Nickinson Morrison at the Royal Lyceum Theatre 1871-1878
Bibliography Shortt, Mary "The Royal Lyceum: part I 1848-1859", John Nickinson chapter, Master's Thesis on Toronto theatre 1809-1874 c. 1979.
National Theatre Narrative history 1835-present http://www.nationaltheatre.org/location/narrative.htm
Still an active theater, and only a block from the Willard Hotel, both theater and hotel are on Pennsylvania Ave., a short walk from the White House.
Ford's Theater may be better known (as the site of Lincoln's Assassination) but does not show up in these letters. AR Cazauran (1820-1889) AM Palmer's play reader and a celebrated play doctor wrote a once famous eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Colleague William Jason Ferguson (1841-1930) Famous as the actor who saw Lincoln shot, his stage career began at Ford's Theatre as a call boy. The construction of the Theatre supports the claim that Ferguson was the sole witness. His description has been accepted as the most reliable account of the shooting (Sat Evening Post and NY Times (Apr 18, 1915) and a book I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln (1930)
Boston Athenaeum, Theater Database http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/theatreintro.html Programs and playbills, circa 1860-1900
Broadway Theater Museum, New York http://www.directfrombway.org/
Cinema Treasures http://www.cinematreasures.org/ Mainly movie theaters, includes some theaters which began as stage theaters. Searchable
Gagey, Edmond M., The San Francisco Stage: A History, New York : Columbia University Press, 1950.
Henderson, Mary C., The City and the Theatre: New York Playhouses from Bowling Green to Times Square, Clifton NJ: James T. White & Co, 1973.
IDDB Internet Broadway DataBase, advanced search http://www.ibdb.com/advancedsearch.asp Searchable by play, person or New York theater.
Jenkins, Stephen, The Greatest Street in the World: The Story of Broadway, Old and New, From the Bowling Green to Albany, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911
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Morrison, William, Broadway Theatres: History & Architecture, Dover Publications, Inc. 1999.
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Shortt, Mary "The Royal Lyceum: part I 1848-1859", John Nickinson chapter, Master's Thesis on Toronto theatre 1809-1874 c. 1979.
van Hoogstraten, Nicholas, Lost Broadway Theaters, Princeton Architectural Press, revised edition, 1997.
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Serena Williams and Liezel Huber, ranked No.1 in singles and doubles, respectively will take part in a benefit in Louisiana during the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's off season to raise money for AIDS charities. Williams and Huber will join Anna Kournikova, Andy Roddick and a number of current and former tennis stars at the Advanta WTT Smash Hits on December 8.
Sponsored by the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), the fundraiser is set to take place on the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge and will be co-hosted by Elton John and Billie Jean King. John is scheduled to take part in a celebrity doubles match that will open the LSU event. At the event, players will form two teams and play the World Team Tennis format, which consists of six sets, including one set of men's and women's singles, one set of men's and women's doubles and two sets of mixed doubles. The team with the most games wins the event.
Williams, Huber and company will be joining an all-star lineup of tennis greats at LSU, including former world No.1 Lindsay Davenport and men's former world No.2 Tommy Haas, amongst others. In addition to raising funds for the EJAF, the event raises funds for Baton Rouge area AIDS charities.
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who wouldn't love this series?! haha. I mean, it's just so good you just want to read it over and over again! :)
who wouldn't love this series?! haha. I mean, it's just so good you just want to read it over and over again! :)
With the success of the release of Gabriel's Inferno and Gabriel's Rapture, Sylvain Reynard did an interview with the THESUBCLUB books.
What is your biggest fear about success?
This is a very good question. I'm afraid I don't quite know how to answer it except to say that whatever my fears, I choose to live each day to the best of my ability and to try to leave the past behind.
You can read the whole interview of Mr. Reynard here: http://thesubclubbooks.com/?p=606
"As a prelude to the evening's bedroom activities, Gabriel finally showed Julia the security footage from their date at the Royal Ontario Museum.
The footage began with Gabriel and Julia admiring Fra Filippo Lippi's painting Madonna with the Child and Two Angels. Gabriel stood behind her, his arms wrapped snugly around her waist….
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I give this book, and the series, a FIVE STAR!
I'll just keep this short.
Reading Gabriel's Inferno and Gabriel's Rapture was surely an experience. I've felt the surge of emotions that the characters felt. I was so caught up in the story. In Gabriel's Rapture, I found myself shedding tears when Gabriel and Julianne broke up. I was even crying harder when Gabriel "saw" his mom, Grace, and his daughter, Maia. It was a very emotional scene for me. I couldn't stop crying that night that I had to stop and compose myself for a while before resuming. And when I came in the last few chapters, I was so lost in the emotions that the two main characters felt. Their joy at finally finding their way back at each others arms and planning on to stay forever.
Gabriel's Inferno and Gabriel's Rapture are such an amazing books. You'll find yourself lost in the world of Gabriel and Julianne, feeling every raw emotions they felt. From the first time they met to their reunion to losing each other once again to finally being able to spend the rest of their lives with each other.
Thank you Sylvain Reynard for bringing to this world such a wonderful story. I enjoyed it more than you can even imagine.
I am so looking forward for a third book, hopefully there would be.
I'll start this blog with my book review on Gabriel's Inferno and Gabriel's Rapture.
It was 1:15am last August 9, 2012 when I finished reading this book.
I decided to read this out of curiosity. I Google as to what this book is about, and found out that it also started as a Twilight fan fiction, just like one of my favorite series, The Fifty Shades trilogy.
I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS BOOK! It was an amazing experience reading Gabriel's Inferno. I was captivated by the love story that surrounds the two main characters, Gabriel and Julianne. They felt real to me. It was like I can see the scenes played right in front of me. Not just only their love but at how they reciprocate or like compliment each other. And I wanted more and more.
When I read, I don't read so I can criticize how it was made, the writing and all that stuff. I read because I enjoyed being able to experience another life, even though it's a life of a fictional character.
Reading this book, I found myself, staying late at night because I simply cannot put the book down. I was hooked from the beginning.
Two lost souls, wounded by their past, searching for a place to find love.
Enchanting, captivating and beautiful. That's how I would describe the story. It was worth reading. Every chapter is just an experience to read.
I'm almost done with the second book, Gabriel's Rapture, and whatever the feelings I felt while reading the first one, it doubled. I just cannot put it down.


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Sky Ferreira might not have an album out yet (or possibly ever) but it hasn't stopped her being the queen of the magazine. The gorgeous "Everything Is Embarrassing" singer adds Fader to her long list of cover shoots. It goes without saying that she looks absolutely flawless, so let's focus on the mag's other cover person.
Mac Miller could possibly do with a private tutorial from Miss Tyra because I highly doubt 'face slap' is encouraged in the modeling handbook. However, he sure knows how to rock a sweater. See their individual covers and behind-the-scenes footage from both shoots after the jump.
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Feeding baby elephants to inmates? What kind of fuckery is this? »
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I'm posting the video above to illustrate what complicated and emotional animals elephants are. The video is about a poor little baby elephant that lost its family and is totally depressed. Elephants have strong feelings of mourning and loss and as sad as this baby is, I imagine it's got to be at least that traumatic for an adult elephant to lose a calf.
Why am I talking about this? Because there is a proposition in Zimbabwe to cull baby elephants and feed them to prisoners. The world is going crazy!
Wildlife conservationists are not into this plan. From the Zimbabwe Independent:
Johnny Rodrigues of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force slammed the proposal, arguing that the move would result in the extinction of elephants and in the long result in the "killing" of the tourism industry.
He said: "This is the most dangerous thing that they will be doing if approved. One of the biggest foreign currency earners in the country is tourism. How then can we steal from our own heritage? Why are we selling our future heritage down the drain? We should be looking after these intelligent animals so that they are not killed. Government should actually be putting in harsh laws to protect these animals."
Rodrigues said despite claims by authorities that there were 100,000 elephants in the country, the number had gone down to less than 35,000.
I don't know shit about the Zimbabwe prison system and it sounds like it is not a good situation (that seems to be a theme in prison systems) but really? Baby elephants? There has got to be an alternative. Some reports are saying the prisoners haven't had meat in four years—I haven't had meat in 11 and I'm just fine! But seriously, I don't feel bad for them, not for lack of meat that is (I generally feel bad for prisoners because I'm always worried they were innocent. Hurricane, guys, HURRICANE). You don't need meat to reach any nutritional requirements prisoners are lacking. I feel like this really comes from some idea that people have a god-given right to have meat, like it's abusive to deny people meat. That whole concept is ridiculous. There's a lot of abuse that goes on in prisons but making people eat vegetarian is not one of them.
I don't have a solution but come on, there has to be something else they can do! They could be trailblazers with some innovative sustainable farming set-up! Though according to the Independent, they don't have enough money for prison uniforms so I don't know if that's feasible but it could be cool! And pay for itself in the long run! Maybe Amnesty International can step in or something! Just ANYTHING besides culling baby mother-loving elephants, please. For goodness' sake.
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Bob Parsons is a real piece of shit, and now he's a fucking liar, too. It's just SO repulsive that he's trying to spin this elephant murdering thing into a food access issue:
Unbelievable. From my calculations, the absolute BARE BONES MINIMUM you can spend on an elephant murdering murder tour of murder in Zimbabwe is $21,000. Do you know how many fucking hungry people you can feed with $21,000?! To give a comparison, Food fo Life Global can feed over 100 meals for $100. That's 2.1 million meals for the price of his elephant-killing safari. (UPDATE: My numbers were wrong, they can do 100 meals for $30, so it's actually 69,930 meals. That's still insanely more than one dead elephant can provide.) (UPDATE 2: I just heard from Paul Turner, the international director of Food for Life Global, he says meals average 15 cents, so really that's about 140,000 meals!) And that's a low estimate that doesn't include his plane ticket, taxes, fees, whatever the fuck else these rich murdering pieces of shit pay to murder legally.
He's also saying that he's helping thin the elephant herd so that they don't infringe on the resources of locals. OMG WHAT LOLZ. There are much more humane ways to do this, from contraception to electric fences. In fact, murdering elephants might have the exact opposite effect, as other ellies race to procreate.
Let's face it, the easy solution to help your desperately poor country is to invite bloated westerners in to murder your animals. It's one of the few resources Zimbabwe has and so it makes sense that they use it, however I'm curious how much of that money actually trickles down to the majority of its people. If there was a better way to make money off elephants in Zimbabwe, they might explore it. Kinda like how gorilla organizations are making it more valuable to keep gorillas alive than dead. But you know, who is going to pay $21,000 for an elephant safari if it means that you don't get to kill one? Probably nobody. After all, there are always elephants in zoos and circuses! My favorite excuse for why westerners need to come in and murder the elephants to save Zimbabweans is from British surgeon, Benjamin Chang. "The army could have done the cull themselves but they don't have the right guns. You can't use an automatic rifle, that would just be cruel," he said. WHAT A GOOD GUY.
These excuses are so fucking low. I would almost have more respect for Parsons (lie) if he were just honest about what the fuck he's doing. He wanted the high of hunting and murdering an innocent animal. Don't make excuses, Bob. You're just the average piece of American shit going through a mid-life crisis and since you have way too much money, you do whatever the fuck you want. Thems the facts.
We've switched our domain registrar, and suggest you do the same. Namecheap has a deal going where they donate money to Save the Elephants (coupon code "BYEBYEGD"). Also, A Small Orange has at least one veggie person on staff (yay!), and promises to never go kill an elephant and are donating 33 percent of your domain purchase to ellies (coupon code "weloveelephants"). Both offers are good through the end of the day today, so do it to it.
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PHOENIX (AP) - Jury selection is expected to wrap up Tuesday in the retrial of an Arizona man charged with killing nine people in 1991 at a Buddhist temple in metro Phoenix.
Lawyers are expected to make opening statements Wednesday in the Johnathan A. Doody's retrial.
Doody is accused of participating in the August 1991 slayings at the Wat Promkunaram temple in one of Arizona's most notorious murder cases.
He was convicted in 1993 and sentenced to 281 years in prison, but an appeals court threw out his conviction in 2011 after ruling that investigators improperly obtained his confession.
He was put on trial again in August, but a judge declared a mistrial Oct. 24 after jurors failed to reach a verdict.
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The year in film was one with no in-between: You were either the type to see an independent or franchise/sequel movie. January began the year with a slow start, with forgettables like Gangster Squad and Struck by Lightning. It wasn't until March that plotlines finally started to seem memorable (e.g. Stoker, I'm So Excited and Spring Breakers). Summer, of course, offered us the requisite blockbusters like Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel. But it wasn't until the end of the year that some of the best movies of the year came out (with its fair share of some of the worst ones).
Spring Breakers: No other film has so boldly gone in the dark, twisted territory of Spring Breakers and managed to make it all seem mainstream. James Franco's portrayal of Alien (based on rapper Riff Raff) is also one of the most inspired of 2013.
Drinking Buddies: Subtle, nuanced and unexpected, Drinking Buddies takes a new approach to exploring the "friend" relationship between men and women. It's also the best movie Olivia Wilde has ever been in.
Short Term 12: Although the plot of Short Term 12 is somewhat slow-paced, it is the performance from Brie Larson that makes the film seem fresh and innovative. Themes of repression are expressed with glaring clarity in Cretton's script as he unravels the reasoning for his main character's emotional wall.
I'm So Excited: Pedro Almodóvar's penchant for farce shines through in this unlikely airplane comedy that spares no expense on delightfully offending. It proves, once again, that the auteur has just as much of a gift for the comedic as the dramatic.
Blue Jasmine: And, speaking of auteurs, Woody Allen also showcased his continued writing and directorial skill with the highly cerebral Blue Jasmine. The writing, paired with Cate Blanchett's incredible performance, makes this film by far one of Allen's (and the year's) best.
It's A Disaster: One of the simplest films of the year in terms of structure and storyline, It's A Disaster highlights the notion that no one is ever who you think they are, and their true personality will invariably shine through at the worst possible moment.
Only God Forgives: Although the presence of this film on the "Best" side of the list may polarize some people, the second collaboration between Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling is a beautiful one. And then there's Kristin Scott Thomas to consider.
American Hustle: David O. Russell has outdone himself with American Hustle, which might actually be better than Silver Linings Playbook for the costuming alone. Also Jennifer Lawrence cleaning and singing manically to "Live and Let Die" is one of the most memorable scenes of 2013.
Stoker: Park Chan-wook may be forever held to the standard of Oldboy, but the controlled nature of Stoker leaves you on edge for the entirety of the film, making this one of the most elegant and uncomfortable movies of 2013.
Inside Llewyn Davis: It will make you cry. It won't make you laugh. But for anyone who has ever known the endless battle of trying to be an artist, it is the most accurate film ever made.
Side Effects: As Steven Soderbergh's alleged final film, Side Effects holds a special place in 2013 releases. Plus, you get to see Rooney Mara stab Channing Tatum.
Nebraska: There's no better person to show us the simple dreams of Midwestern folk than Alexander Payne, whose penchant for making lengthy films never seems to bother me.
Dallas Buyers Club: Matthew McConaughey got thin, Jared Leto dressed in drag. What more could you possibly want from a film apart from the frequent playing of T. Rex (which is also a staple of Dallas Buyers Club)?
So, with the best behind us, let's take a look at the worst.
The Fifth Estate: The only one who cares about Julian Assange is Julian Assange. And this much is apparent in the slow-moving biopic about the founder of Wikileaks.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone: Sometimes, getting together a group of comedians for a movie is the worst possible idea for both critical and commercial success.
Disconnect: The only thing more unenjoyable than movies that try too hard to be comical are movies that try too hard to be intellectual.While it has its thematic moments of importance, Disconnect is largely a faux astute movie.
Now You See Me: Although this was one of the highest grossing films of the year, Now You See Me served as eye candy more than anything else. So naturally, there's going to be a sequel.
The Internship: Theoretically, another movie pairing Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson would seem foolproof, but The Internship is primarily a Google promotion with a thin story masking it. Wedding Crashers 2 would have been preferable.
The Canyons: A collaboration between Lindsay Lohan and Bret Easton Ellis is all I could have dreamed of, but the result was what amounted to a soft core porn shot on an iPhone.
The To Do List: The To Do List was supposed to be the answer to the female sex comedy genre, but ultimately ended up proving that said genre should still be entrusted to Judd Apatow.
We're The Millers: Jennifer Aniston continues to make bad movies on the side while selling water and moisturizer as her main occupation.
Jobs: Ashton Kutcher had one chance to show that he could handle a biopic. But maybe they should have just left the role of computer geek to Jesse Eisenberg again.
Thanks for Sharing: Pink and Gwyneth Paltrow in a movie together is bad enough. But Mark Ruffalo as a sex addict is also pretty rank.
While there may have been some terrible movies released in 2013, it was overall an impressive year for cinema, and one that makes 2014 have a lot to live up to.


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Our What's On listings now show events by their date, making them easier to find. Click the links below to choose the listing for your area and find out what events are on near you this week. If you would like to see your biking event listed please email the details with a contact phone number to email@example.com. All listings ...
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Your company name?H-C TravelYear established?1994Which countries do you operate in?Adventure tours in India, Bhutan, Tibet, Australia and Costa RicaWhat's your most popular tour?Himalayan High Roads. We are also offering a 20th anniversary 'Himalayan Mountains and Lakes' invitation tour, and a 'Ladies of Ladakh' tour led by world adventurer Tiffany Coates, in summer 2014What's included in the cost?Royal Enfield motorcycle with ...
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6th-9th September 2012 Santa Pod Raceway is the home of adrenaline-fuelled European Drag Racing and the European Finals is the last round of the prestigious, televised FIA Championships. This is the most exciting event of the year as the fastest drag cars and bikes from across the continent battle it out to be the best. Close to 300 teams in ...
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Just come home from a great day out at the Manchester Motorcycle and Custom Show. There were some drool-worthy motorcycles on show, good coffee, that tantilizing smell of fried onions, bacon, and burgers which were a delight to sample. Parking was good and the show was well organised. Some great stalls selling everything you need to customise/clean/polish your own motorcycle. ...
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The 666 Run Sunday is being held on 30th October 2011 to mark the Poppy Appeal launch in Manchester. The itinerary for the run is to meet before 9am at the Petre Arms pub, Whalley New Road, Lanhgo Blackburn, BB6 8AB to depart at 9.45am to ride 30 miles (no motorway) to Manchester Cathedral for a service and the launch ...
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If you thought the Bulldog Bash was all about booze, long hair and rock music, you'd be wrong! Much as these three are essential ingredients for the UK biking festival, this year there's a major-league line-up of DJs rocking the dance tent once the sun goes down – including none other than Lady Ga-Ga's best friend and DJ, Lady Starlight. ...
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Goodwood Festival of Speed is a must for bike and car enthusiasts alike and takes place from July 1-3. Lord March throws open thegrounds of his Sussex estate with the driveway to his stately home being converted into a hill-climb packed full of stars from past and present. Veteran racer and museum owner, Sammy Miller, can be seen riding alongside ...
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Ken Kesey in 2014: Furthur Goes To Brooklynby Levi Asher on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 08:04 pm
If you're on the east coast of the USA these days, you might catch a painted bus called Furthur running up and down the seaboard. This colorful vehicle is named after the original Furthur that took novelist Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs and the rest of the Merry Pranksters across the country on a famous road trip 50 years ago. I caught up with Zane Kesey and the giant rolling metaphor he designed for his father when they finally rolled into Brooklyn, New York last month.
Melanie and the Nickel Songby Levi Asher on Thursday, June 26, 2014 11:32 pm
Sometimes shuffle mode on my iPhone really comes through for me. I was having a pretty bad day yesterday, and it found a song that cheered me up.
I was having a bad day for a few different reasons. The biggest is something that's been going on for a while now. An older member of my family -- a person who I really care about and have always had a great relationship with -- has been stricken with a cruel health problem, and is suffering a lot.
This kind of ordeal puts other problems in a certain perspective, but not necessarily a perspective that's helpful. For instance, I've been looking forward to celebrating the 20th anniversary of this website on July 23rd, but I've also been feeling very frustrated about my progress as a writer. During those poisonous moments in which everything on Earth seems pointless, I can only see this blog as a symptom of my chronic need to be idiosyncratic at any cost, and thus as a bizarre monument to my own lifelong failure.
Well, okay. Failure's been in the air, and not just for me: failure to communicate, failure to reach, failure to deliver. Failure seems to have been trending lately, at least in my corner of the universe. An insane incident occurred yesterday involving one of my favorite people in the literary world, a person who must have been soaking in his own psychological poisons during the same moments that I was too. Everything turned out okay, but for a few moments the incident got frightening, and after it was over it all seemed like a sign of a sort of general despair among many of my writer friends, all of whom have moments in which we feel desperately starved for connection and validation. Another friend who was caught in this whirlwind summarized her takeaway from yesterday's public drama with this accurate tweet:
Wilderness, 1864by Levi Asher on Monday, May 5, 2014 10:45 am
Exactly 150 years today, the most grueling and relentless eight days of the Civil War in the United States of America began. These are the opening days of the Overland Campaign, in which two armies rampaged south through north-central Virginia in their final race towards Richmond, capital city of the Confederacy. They stopped frequently along the way to try to kill each other.
The Overland Campaign was recently featured in the TV series House of Cards. The crooked politician played by Kevin Spacey visits a newly dedicated (and fictional) battlefield park dedicated to the Overland Campaign, and meets a reenactor costumed as his own doomed Rebel ancestor. In real life, the park is known as the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Battlefield, and despite the House of Cards fabrication, it's not dedicated just to the Overland Campaign: there were so many fights in this region that Wilderness and Spotsylvania have to share space with Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, where major battles were fought in 1862 and 1963.
Those were also critical and immense conflagrations, but Civil War experts know the Overland Campaign was the greatest match of them all, because it was in these battles -- Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Yellow Tavern, Cold Harbor -- that General Ulysses S. Grant faced General Robert E. Lee directly for the first time. This was the big one, the championship between the two top teams. This was the Finals, and it was a hell of a fight.
A Rite of Springby Levi Asher on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 09:32 pm
"The people dance passionately on the earth, sanctifying it and becoming one with it."
-- Igor Stravinsky
I'm sure it's a hipster affectation of mine: I try to listen to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring every year when the Spring Equinox comes around. It's a hipster affectation because I don't really know much about classical music, and I can't deny that what thrills me most about this music is not the work itself but the knowledge that it caused a riot in Paris on May 29, 1913 when it was first performed. A riot in an theatre -- that's my idea of a rite of Spring.
The music sounds primal today, though it's hard to imagine how it could have caused a riot. In fact, it was not the music as much as the ballet, daringly choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that caused the sensation. Le Sacre du Printemps was a Russian debut in France, and as such a symbolic meeting between two nations that would one year later go to war together against Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey.
While I've heard the music often, I've never seen the work performed, and I've only just become aware of a Joffrey Ballet video that presents Stravinsky's music and Nijinsky's ballet in context -- Pictures of Pagan Russia is the subtitle -- so that we can get a better idea of what the whole sensation was about. Here's the first of three parts; you can click through from this one to the next two.
The Great Lost Rock Memoir: Inside Out by Nick Masonby Levi Asher on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 04:17 pm
It's because I respect musicians who bravely venture into the dark literary territory of autobiography that I am so fascinated by musical memoirs. It's also why I'm sometimes critical of them. I have high standards regarding what a good memoir should be.
My standards are high but simple. An autobiography of a musician or any other artist must be written in a voice that feels distinct and artistic. It must tell a coherent story in chronological form. Most importantly, a good memoir must tell the truth.
On these terms, I criticized Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace for lacking story coherence, and for substituting undercooked present-tense for thoughtful past-tense. I knocked Steve Tyler's Does The Noise In My Head Bother You? for an inconsistent voice: the first few chapters about Steve's childhood and teenage years were very well written, but once Steve grew up and got famous the book shifted in tone to something like a People magazine interview about his rock star lifestyle. That ain't memoir.
Today I'm going to tell you about a memoir that I bet you never heard of, even though there's a good chance you dearly love the legendary rock band the author of this autobiography played drums for.
The Century of William S. Burroughsby Levi Asher on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:00 pm
He was the oldest of the major Beat Generation writers. That's why William S. Burroughs is today the first Beat writer to celebrate a centennial.
Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914. He arrived on this planet the same year as the First World War.
Some people don't call Burroughs a Beat writer, because they prefer to think of him as a postmodern experimentalist, or a psychic investigator, or a political activist. He was those things too, but of course he was a Beat writer.
Philosophy Weekend: Wealth and Envyby Levi Asher on Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:33 am
A video that's been making the rounds about a clueless super-wealthy plutocrat who compares America's treatment of the rich to the Holocaust and brags about his wristwatch that's worth "a six-pack of Rolexes" has got me to thinking. The most revealing thing about this video is the boyish excitement this 80-year-old former investor seems to feel about his expensive watch. He, like some others who argue for pro-wealth policies, seems to think that liberals and progressives who want to tackle the problem of income inequality are suffering from Rolex envy.
I wonder what it would feel like to wish for an expensive watch. I don't know how much a Rolex costs, but I've never remotely yearned for one, and if I owned a Rolex I wouldn't want to wear it. I don't wear a wristwatch at all, and really don't understand why anyone does. An expensive watch doesn't strike me as an attractive object the way that, say, an agate or a piece of ocean glass is. Gold and silver are not my favorite colors. And when I want to know what time it is, I just look at my phone.
And yet I've heard from economic conservatives that economic progressives like me must envy the rich. I really don't think most of us do. The lifestyle of luxury is not always attractive, even when it is curious. At most, most of us envy the freedom that would come with a moderate amount of wealth, and that's as far as the envy goes.
David Amram Remembers Pete Seegerby Levi Asher on Thursday, January 30, 2014 03:41 pm
After Pete Seeger died last week, I remembered that the last glimpse I'd had of the great folksinger was a video of his Broadway march in support of Occupy Wall Street in October 2011, with his friends Arlo Guthrie and David Amram in tow. Here's what that looked like:
Dave Van Ronk Remembers Pete Seegerby Levi Asher on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:33 am
I noticed something strange when I read folksinger Dave Van Ronk's awesome autobiography a few weeks ago. The gruff ethnomusicologist remembered most of his old friends with sarcasm and bittersweet wit ... but he had nothing but full-throated words of love for Pete Seeger, his elder journeyman who has just died at the age of 94. Van Ronk honors him in this book by reprinting in full a column he wrote in 1958 in the early folk music zine Caravan.
Van Ronk's article must be understood in the context of the small, fervent community of working Greenwich Village folksingers in the late 1950s, just before Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan would arrive to blow up the scene. Among these earnest young artists, the music of an established and (already then) older folksinger like Pete Seeger might seem corny. Seeger's strong left-wing opinions might also seem oppressively rigid or tradition-bound to a younger crowd. This critical attitude is the attitude Van Ronk is countering here, in what amounts to a contrarian thinkpiece from 1958.
The Great Lost Folk Memoir: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronkby Levi Asher on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 06:56 pm
Dave Van Ronk's The Mayor of MacDougal Street is a constructed autobiography, pieced together by the singer's friend and admirer Elijah Wald after Van Ronk died of cancer in 2002. Elijah Wald is a roots-music scholar who has also written books like How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music. Eleven years later, the book he produced from interview recordings and memoir fragments would have given Van Ronk the pleasure of seeing his name pop up in lights as a primary source for the new Coen Brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis.
Dave Van Ronk would have relished the irony, because his failed flirtations with fame became legendary by the time he died. Flirtation with fame provides the primary plotline for Inside Llewyn Davis, a movie I got excited about when I first heard of its Dave Van Ronk connection, and enjoyed very much when I finally got to see it.
I don't always love a Coen Brothers movie (especially, for instance, when it's a Coen Brothers movie of a Cormac McCarthy novel), but I do always love the music in a Coen Brothers movie. Inside Llewyn Davis is a bonanza of great folk tunes, and the soundtrack is especially rewarding for displaying the wide variety of musical styles of the early 1960s folk boom: Irish brother groups, sea shanty singers, "early music" experts, Appalachian authentics, Beat poets, corny comedians, harmony crewcut groups. Despite the great music, Inside LLewyn Davis isn't quite as spectacular a snapshot of 1960s Greenwich Village culture as their previous O Brother Where Art Thou? was of 1930s Mississippi Delta blues and bluegrass culture. It's a sadder and smaller movie than O Brother, but the film's connection to Van Ronk's Mayor of MacDougal Street amounts to a surprising honor for this little-known but important musician.


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A track made by me,
Instrumental my best brother/best friend [Charles Mason] put together.
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As a amatuer at this so I'm not good at describing specific genres, but it sounded creepy like the Supernatural meets House Music so I ran with it.
Been away from Tumblr dabbling in a little music. Here's what I [Shaky Vision] have been messing with.
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Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican born South African singer, songwriter, composer and band leader, who became a popular jazz crooner during the British dance band era of the 1930s and later worked in the United States. He recorded more than 1,000 records between 1927 and 1941. His most popular songs include "Midnight, the Stars and You", "Goodnight, Sweetheart", "The Very Thought of You", "Guilty" and "Love Is the Sweetest Thing".
Born in Lourenço Marques in the then-Portuguese colony of Mozambique, Bowlly gained his musical experience singing for a dance band led by Edgar Adeler on a tour of South Africa, Rhodesia, India and Indonesia during the mid-1920s. He was then employed by Jimmy Liquime to perform in India, Calcutta, Singapore and the Raffles Hotel. In 1928, he arrived in the United Kingdom and briefly worked with Percival Mackey's band before being made redundant due to the 1930s depression. In 1930, he was spotted and signed to accompany Roy Fox's and Ray Noble's orchestras that November. The signing with Noble led to a successful association between the two that resulted in more than 500 records being produced over a four-year period.


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- Toon Render 102: Create
Cartoon Style Renders in Poser
- Toon Lines 102: Creating
Better Outlines for
Poser Cartoon Renders
- Sketch Render 101
- Moving to Poser from
Daz Studio 101: Part 1
- Moving to Poser from
Daz Studio 102: Part 2
- Moving to Poser from
Daz Studio 103: Part 3
- Moving to Poser from
Daz Studio 104: Part 4
One of our most successful Poser Artists, Charles Taylor of Nerd3D Graphics, has been using Poser for almost fifteen years. He's created some of the most useful accessory props and tools for Poser. He's also great at explaining how Poser works. To help new users like you get started with Poser he's produced a series of short free videos that will help teach you Poser in easy to understand language and simple steps.
Watch these videos to really master Poser. It might seem hard at first, but after going through these videos you'll have a better understanding of Poser and 3D. What will you create with Poser? The only limit is your imagination!
Poser Interface 101
This quick video tour of the Poser 3D Software interface will teach the basics of what each main feature or tool controls so you can start posing 3D models and creating characters.
Webinars for Advanced Users
If you're an advanced user who's a little further along in your Poser mastery, be sure to check out our free webinar series. One of most popular webinars to date would be: "Artistic Posing Techniques for 3D Humans using Poser".
To see all the Poser webinars, be sure to check out our webinar page.