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Book/Printed Material The pleasure seekers American Memory cited title: Pleasure seekers, an entirely new jumble of jollification in two acts

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Title

  • The pleasure seekers

Other Title

  • American Memory cited title: Pleasure seekers, an entirely new jumble of jollification in two acts

Summary

  • Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., David Belasco & Sam S. and Lee Shubert, proprietors and managers, direction of Sam S. and Lee Shubert (Inc.), L. Stoddard Taylor, manager. Lew Fields and Marcus Loew present "The Pleasure Seekers," an entirely new jumble of jollification in two acts. Book by Edgar Smith, music and lyrics by E. Ray Goetz, production staged by William J. Wilson. Orchestra under the direction of Paul Schindler.

Names

  • Elliott, Gertrude, -1950
  • Fields, Lew, 1867-1941
  • Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, Sir, 1853-1937
  • Goetz, E. Ray (Edward Ray), 1886-1954
  • Loew, Marcus, 1870-1927
  • Schindler, Paul
  • Smith, Edgar, 1857-1938
  • Wilson, William J., approximately 1874-1936
  • Belasco Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
  • Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1914.

Headings

  • -  United States--District of Columbia--Washington

Genre

  • Theater programs--1914
  • Theater programs--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  "Belasco Theatre. This week: 'The Pleasure Seekers' Next week": 'Forbes-Robertson'. Season of 1913-1914, volume 9, number 24"--Cover.
  • -  "Next week, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. The greatest English-speaking actor. Farewell of Forbes-Robertson (positively his last visit to Washington) with Gertrude Elliott"--p. 6.
  • -  Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., week of Monday, March 9, [1914] matinees Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
  • -  Cast: Hugh Cameron, Harry Cooper, Bobby North, Vera Michelena, Max Rogers, William Montgomery, Virginia Evans, Clay Smith, Sally Daly, Florence Moore, Myrtle Gilbert, Flo May.
  • -  Members of the chorus: Shirley Forsyth, Rita Bates, Lillian Harris, Viola Williams, Margaret Hoban, Bessie Hoban, Marie Olcott, Dorothy Landers, May Morrell, Mabel Landers, Edna Britton, Maude Le Roy, Noma Clifford, Harriett Miller, Nora May, Mary Murrell, Ruth Harris, Gertie O'Connor, Bermah Brokaw, Lillian Helm, Irma Dixon, Alice Statten, Annie Russell, Kittie Carpenter, Olive Fargo, Minna Kaufman, Adele Clark, Elizabeth Parfrey, Alice Fitch, Mary Purcell, L. Taylor, Marie Parton, Daisy Lowell, Ruth Copley, Maud Estee, Daisy Statton, Mazie Keane, Blanche Barnes, Helen Paine, Maud Powell, May Francis, Ada Holt, Margie Cogan, Myrtle Ross, Florence Cripps, Ara Martin, Grace Falk, Florence Dean, Edna Moore, Jay Melville, Milton Silbe, Eric Krebs, August Reese, Joe Rogers, Ben Kinngoff, Frank Wayne, Bernard Edwards, James Coder, Joe McGrath, Irwin Gruhl, Philip Sohlke, Sherman Miller, John Weldon, Victor Bozart, Rogers McKenna, Howard Stevens, Ed. Stokes, Robert Dillon, Lew Turner, Thomas Hawmer, George Borwosky, Fred Baekman, Will McIlhenny, Walter Fiske, Gustave Wargans, Charles Butler, Arthur Beach, William Snyder, Paul De Monde, Fred Barnes.
  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
  • -  Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc
  • -  LC copy found loose in Thr E miscellany, unfiled.
  • -  Thr. E/P, Box 13, folder 15

Medium

  • 1 v. (theater program).

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN2093 .A44 1877 no. Thr. E/P

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2012659247

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Elliott, Gertrude, -1950, Lew Fields, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, E. Ray Goetz, Marcus Loew, Paul Schindler, Edgar Smith, William J Wilson, Belasco Theatre, and Theater Playbills And Programs Collection. The Pleasure Seekers. 1914. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2012659247/.

APA citation style:

Elliott, G., Fields, L., Forbes-Robertson, J., Goetz, E. R., Loew, M., Schindler, P. [...] Theater Playbills And Programs Collection. (1914) The Pleasure Seekers. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2012659247/.

MLA citation style:

Elliott, Gertrude, -1950, et al. The Pleasure Seekers. 1914. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2012659247/>.