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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
cial theatre. After Daniel Frohman left the Madison Square Theatre and opened his Lyceum (in May, 1885), and after his brother Charles (1860-1915) had opened the Empire Theatre (in January, 1893), with estimable stock companies, it became evident that two new elements confronted the American theatregoers. First, the interest in the play was largely centred in the personality of the player. Julia Marlowe, Edward H. Sothern, Otis Skinner, William Faversham, Henry Miller, Margaret Anglin, Maude Adams, James K. Hackett, Viola Allen,—all and many more came into prominence through the adoption of the star system—a system which was more firmly believed in by Charles Frohman than by his brother Daniel. But both of them began thus early to monopolize certain English dramatists, tying them up in futures, as Pinero was tied, and as, later, the English playwrights J. M. Barrie, Jones, Carton, Marshall, Davies, and their generation were signed up by Charles Frohman on his yearly trips to Londo
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
of Oregon, 137 Across America and Asia, 164 Across Russia from the Baltic to the Danube, 164 Acta Sanctorum, 174 Acton, Lord, 195 Adams, Andy, 161 Adams, Charles Follen, 26 Adams, Charles Francis, 197, 363, 459 n. Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 197, 198 Adams, Charles K., 177 Adams, Franklin P., 22 Adams, H. B., 174, 177, 178 Adams, Henry, 86, 194, 197, 198-200, 302, 490 Adams, Henry C., 442 Adams, John, 396, 453 Adams, John Quincy, 197, 346, 453, 471, 472 Adams, Maude, 279 Adams, Nehemiah, 345 Adam's diary, 20 Addison, 542, 566 Address on Alaska at Sitka, August 12, 1869, 166 Address to the inhabitants of North Carolina, an, 426 Address to the public, . . . Proposing a plan for improving Female education, 411 Address to the workingmen of New England, an, 436 Ade, George, 26, 91, 288, 289, 290 Adler (Jewish actor), 608 Adler, Karl, 583 Admirable Crichton, the, 286 Adolescence, 422 Adrea, 281, 282 Adventures of Franc