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Thus ran an editorial in Harper's Weekly for Oct. 10, 1857. As uncannily close to present economic conditions as the Harper's editorial is The Streets of New York by Dion Boucicault, which also first saw the light of day in 1857. Revived with a triumphantly light touch by the New York Repertory Company, The Streets of New York is many a cut above any theatrical resurrection seen in and about Manhattan for seasons...
...Lloyd Shine. 76, English actor, producer; friend of Shaw, Barrie, King Edward VII, Sir Henry Dickens (barrister son of Novelist Dickens); of Bright's disease, in Manhattan. Once he gave half a bob (12?) to a street urchin named Charles Chaplin. He played approximately 2,000 times in Boucicault's The Shaughraun...
Actor Smith. "As late as 1916, when I was sheriff of New York, the parish needed funds, so we produced Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the basement of the church. I played Corry Kinchela. the villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City of New York. ... I have often said that my prominence in them [amateur theatricals] played no small part in bringing me to the attention of the people of my neighborhood, which, unquestionably, in time to come, had something to do with my elections...
Died. Dion Boucicault, 70, of Hurley, Buckinghamshire, England, actor, producer; at Hurley...
...ominous in black, was supported by a company sharing her earnestness and schooled by her to simplicity of gesture and the slow pace of portentous happenings. Their execution fell short of hers? Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barrymore) slipping sometimes into picayune realism in the role of Chrysothemis, Ruth Holt Boucicault being a trifle shallow as foul Clytemnestra. But lack of preparation was their ample excuse. That their few flaws would soon be remedied seemed likely when, the play's two-day run being highly acclaimed, it was moved into the Al Jolson Theatre for an indefinite...