Word: wallack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
...shown in the exhibit, the first Boston production of the play was given at the old Federal Street Theatre in 1819 with James W. Wallack in the leading role. The last time that it was presented was in 1930 when it appeared at the Hollis Theatre with George Hayes as the principal player...
Died. Mrs. Lewis Morrison (Rose Wood), 82, oldtime actress, grandmother of the cinemacting Sisters Bennett (Constance, Barbara & Joan); of old age; in Tenafly, N. J. She played many a leading role with Joseph Jefferson in such productions as Rip Van Winkle, The Rivals, starred in Lester Wallack's stock company...
...Washington last week, one Edith Wallack, plump, easy-going housewife of 26, packed her husband off to work, her two children off to school, then sat down to glance through a New York newspaper before starting on the breakfast dishes. In the paper that day there was printed a unique notice: Wanted, a soprano to sing Ai'da. . . . Margaret Matzenauer, famed contralto, had been engaged to sing the role of Amneris (Egyptian princess) with an otherwise obscure troupe in Manhattan's gaudy Mecca Temple on May 9. But to get itself a soprano for the slave girl...
...Guns. At Wallack's Theatre in Manhattan, called by a punster "the flophouse" because of the many failures it has housed, opened last week a piece called Guns. The first act was laid in a speakeasy in Manhattan, the second in a speakeasy in Chicago, the third at the Mexican border. Charlie O'Connor, Chicago racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined...