Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, April 7, 1870. Last Night But Two Of the Brilliant Engagement of the Great Delineator of Specialties. Mr. F. S. Chanfrau Who will appear in his New and Highly Successful Play, of Kit, Or the Arkansas Traveler; And Jeremiah Clip In Mr. Chanfrau's Abridged Version of the Widow's Victim, in which he will give his Celebrated Imitations of Great Artists. Thursday Evening, April 7th, 1870, The performance will commence at 1/4 to eight o'clock, with Overture -- "Nabucco," Rossini After which will be presented an Original Drama, entitled Kit Or, The Arkansas Traveler, A Drama contained in a Prologue and 4 Acts. Personages in the Prologue. Kit Redding, F. S. Chanfrau... To conclude with Chanfrau's Abridged Version of Widow's Victim: Jeremiah Clip, Mr F. S. Chanfrau...
- Publication:
- Philadelphia : [Publisher not identified], [1870]
- Format/Description:
- Book
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 22.8 x 14 cm - Series:
- Print Collection 8 ; v. 11 no. 232.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3409n - Status/Location:
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- Other Title:
- Kit, Or the Arkansas Traveler
Kit
Arkansas Traveler
Widow's Victim - Subjects:
- Theaters.
Playbills.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).
De Walden, Thomas Blaides, 1811-1873. Kit Or, The Arkansas Traveler.
Spencer, Edward, 1834-1883. Kit Or, The Arkansas Traveler.
Widow's Victim.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens.
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. - Form/Genre:
- Specimens.
Broadsides.
Playbills.
Castlists. - Place of Publication:
- United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
- Notes:
- Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.
Performance date: April 7, 1870 - Local notes:
- Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 232 in a collection of playbills bound together.
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." - Penn Provenance:
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy) - Penn Chronology:
- 1870
- Contributor:
- Chanfrau, Frank, 1824-1884, actor.
Walcot, Charles Melton, 1840-1921, actor.
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 956444736