Transcribed Pages from the Charles Dickson Papers
Box 3 Binder 7: Mobile Theaters, vol. 7
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: THIS VOLUME MAINLY CONTAINS DRAWINGS OF VARIOUS PEOPLE WHO APPEARED ON MOBILE THEATRE STAGES, AS WELL AS WHAT APPEAR TO BE DATES THEY PERFORMED. THE NAMES OF THESE PEOPLE ARE LISTED, AS WELL AS PAGE NUMBER. SOME PAGES HAD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, AND THIS IS TRANSCRIBED BELOW.
1. Ethel Barrymore: 1895; Jan. 28, 1902; Nov. 12, 1910
2. Wm. G. Burton: 1834-1835 Miss Charlotte Cushman: 1835, 1850
3. Thomas D. Rice Joseph M. Field, a leading man in the Ludlow Smith Stock Company
4. Miss Ellen Tree: 1839 Miss Fannie Davenport: April 27, 1839; Feb. 4, 1850; Feb. 21, 1887
5. Noah M. Ludlow, first theatre manager in Mobile, Ala., April 7, 1825 Sol Smith, of the theatre partnership of Ludlow and Smith, 1833
6. Gentleman Jim Barrett: 1837-1838 John Vanderhoff: 1839-1839
7. Mary Ann Duff: 1833 Madame Celeste: 1833, 1836
8. Thomas Cooper: April 1827 Priscilla Cooper, daughter of Thomas Cooper
9. Tyrone Powers: 1834-1835 season
10. John Drew Sr.: 1857
11. Wm. Charles Macready: 1844 Joseph Jefferson and Julia Dean: 1845
12. Perdita Robins Jennie Lind
13.Laura Keen(e): 1867 Col. Dan Rice: 1871; April 25, 1891 14. Marquis de Lafayette: INCLUDES TYPEWRITTEN ARTICLE ON THE MARQUIS
15. James H. Hacket(t): 1839, 1844, 1855
16. The Mother of Joseph Jefferson Charles Burke, half brother of Joseph Jefferson Joseph Jefferson as Caleb Plumber
17. E.L. Davenport: 1846; “Lady of Lyons,” Feb. 19, 1856 Mrs. John [Louisa Lane] Drew Sr., grandmother of the Barrymores: 1848-1849
18. George Holland: 1831, 1850 John E. Owens: 1846; Dec. 28, 1868; Dec. 28, 1869; Jan. 11, 1870; Feb. 19, 1873; Dec. 10, 1882 (second picture of him captioned AS SALOM SHINGLE)
19. Lola Montez: 1856
20. John Howard Pane, see the sister of Ellen Tree Thackery appeared on the Mobile Theatre in the year 1856, giving a lecture of George III
21. Lotta Crabtree made her first appearance on the Mobile stage Christmas Eve, 1866. Miss Crabtree’s performances were the last in the history of the old Amphitheatre, Royal and Conti streets, which was closed in the year 1875. Miss Crabtree had long been a favorite with the Mobile audience, and it was deemed fitting that she should close the season at the old house. Mobile Daily News
22. Lawrence Barrett: Feb. 13, 1873; Feb. 2, 1874; Feb. 23, 1881; Feb. 1888 Mrs. D.P. Bowers: April 18, 1871; April 17, 1873; Feb. 1887’ Nov. 6, 1895
23. Frederick Ward: 1878, 1890, 1894, 1895, 1899, 1901, 1904, 1910 Buffalo Bice: 1875, 1912
24. Mary Anderson: Feb. 16, 1878; March 1881 Miles Levick
25. William Crane: Jan. 1880; Feb. 9, 1895; Mar 10, 1907; Mar 24, 1910
26. Wm. C. Crain Jr.: Jan. 1880 Stewart Robson: Jan. 1880; Oct. 29, 1892; Feb. 10, 1895; Feb. 18, 1898 Wm. Crane and Stewart Robson, “Dromias” Jan. 1880
27. Blind Tom: Feb. 15, 1879; May 2, 1901 Black Patti: April 2, 1899 In the operatic olio, Black Patti has great opportunities to display her wonderful voice. She sustains the principal roles of the “Grand Dutchess,” “Cariven,” “Bohemian Girl,” “Travatore,” “Lucia,” “Martha,” “Tor and Tartar,” and the “Daughter of the Regiment.” She never fails to execute genuine enthusiasm. Mobile Daily News, April 2, 1899
28. John T. Raymond: Jan.1 5, 1880 Mrs. Scott Siddons: April 19, 1880
29. Adelide Nelson: 1881 (TRANSCROBER’S NOTE: INTERNET RESEARCH FINDS AN ACTRESS BY THE NAME OF ADELAIDE NEILSON, BUT THIS ACTRESS DIED IN 1880, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER TO HAVE BEEN IN MOBILE IN 1881. WE ARE NOT SURE IF THIS IS THE SAME AS THE ACTRESS NAMED IN THIS VOLUME.) John McCollough: Feb. 17, 1881
30. Sarah Bernhardt, about 14 years of age
31. Sarah Bernhardt made four appearances on the Mobile stage: Jan. 28, 1881; Feb. 2, 1892; Mar 26, 1911; Jan. 23, 1917
32. Wm. Gillette: Nov. 17, 1882, in “The Professor”; Jan. 9, 1899 in “Secret Service” Miss Annie Russell: Dec. 9, 1882; Jan. 28, 1905; Jan. 20, 1909; Nov. 8, 1913
33. Miss Fiske made her first appearance in the year 1884, as Minnie Maddern; Dec. 11-12, 1896; Mrs. Minnie [Maddern] Fiske, Oct. 27, 1908 in “Leah Kleschna” Mrs. Fiske in “Becky Sharp,” Nov. 28, 1910
34. John L. Sullivan: A slugging exhibition, April 19, 1884; Mar 21, 1893
35. Miss Clara Morris: Jan. 3, 1885; Mar 11, 1894; Mar 1895; Feb. 11, 1905 Robert Downing: Oct. 29, 1886; Dec. 28, 1887; Jan. 4, 1893; Jan. 29, 1896
36. James O’Neill, Dec. 3, 1886; Nov. 26, 1887; Jan. 14, 1898; Jan. 20, 1899; Feb. 6, 1903; Feb. 6, 1905; March 25, 1906; Mar 17, 1907; Dec. 19, 1910 Lewis James: Dec. 13, 1887; Jan.1 3, 1888; Jan. 1894; Feb. 24, 1898; Nov. 17, 1901, 1902, 1903; Feb. 11, 1905; Nov. 4, 1907
37. Miss Anna Prixley: Feb. 19, 1887; Jan. 19, 1890; Jan. 1, 1893 Miss Fannie Rice: Dec. 3, 1887; Mar 20, 1893; March 1895
38. James J. Corbet(t) with George [Honey Boy] Evans Minstrels: Sep 10, 1892; March 1, 1894; Jan. 11, 1911
39. Madame Rhea: Feb. 1887; Feb. 18, 1894 Miss Effie Ellsler: 1888, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1905, 1907 40. Miss Blanch(e) Walsh: Jan. 15, 1891; Jan. 15, 1901; Jan. 5, 1902; Mar 20, 1906; Jan 3, 1909
41. Ethel, Lionel, John, and Georgia Drew Barrymore Maurice Barrymore: July 29, 1864; Feb. 21, 1887; April 9, 1891 Maurice Barrymore, his wife Georgia [Drew] Barrymore, and Ethel, Lionel, and John Barrymore, before they made the [Barrymore] name still more famous than their parents did before their advent on the stage.
42. Lewis Morrison: Oct. 30, 1893; April 6, 1895; Dec. 13, 1898; Feb. 28, 1902; Feb. 4, 1903; Feb. 24, 1904; Dec. 5, 1905 Robert Mantell: Feb. 25, 1892; Feb. 4, 1895; Jan. 16, 1896; Dec. 7, 1907; Nov. 20, 1909; Mar 28, 1927
43. Al. G Fields: Sep 25, 1894; Oct. 14, 1894; Sep 4, 1895 Dan Emmett, Dixie himself: Oct. 4, 1895 George Primrose: Mar 18, 1892; Sep 16, 1893; Oct. 4, 1895; Mar 4, 1897; Feb. 3, 1898; Mar 18, 1899 Lew Dockstadter: April 10, 1892; Jan. 21, 1903; Jan. 31, 1905 Primrose and Dockstadter: Mar 16, 1907; Feb. 23, 1911
44. Richard Mansfield: Jan. 1893; Mar 10, 1900; Mar 14, 1903
45. Miss Marie Dressler: April 14, 1893; Feb. 21, 1898; Dec. 2, 1905; May 23, 1910; Feb. 8, 1913
46. Frank Daniels: Mar 26, 1894; Feb. 25, 1901; Oct. 25, 1902; Dec. 20, 1904; Nov. 15, 1905; Feb. 8, 1913
47. Ziegfield Follies, Lyric Theatre, Dec. 12-13, 1927 INCLUDES NEWSPAPER CLIPPING AND DRAWINGS OF RUTH ST. DENIS
48. Flo[renz] Ziegfield Jr.: Mar 25, 1894; Oct. 27, 1899; Dec. 18, 1910; Mar 23, 1914; Dec. 12, 1927 Fay Templeton: Oct. 22, 1893 Alexander Selvina: Feb. 28, 1894; Mar 4, 1895
49. Nat Goodwin: April 9, 1894; Feb. 26, 1897; Feb. 23, 1902; Feb. 14, 1904; Feb. 1907; Oct. 10, 1911
50. Olga Nethersole: Oct. 7, 1894; “A Rag and a Bone of Hair,” Dec. 8, 1906; “The Writing on the Wall,” Oct. 31, 1909
51. Kyrle Bellow: Nov. 29, 1894; Jan. 6, 1906; Dec. 9, 1909; Jan. 1, 1911 Miss Mable Page: 1895, 1911 52. Ronald Reed: Mar 9, 1895; Jan. 15, 1898 Della Fox: Feb. 29, 1896; Oct. 25, 1896; Nov. 14, 1911
53. Jefferson de Angelis: Feb. 29, 1896; Jan. 15, 1904; Mar 31, 1907; Oct. 24, 1911; Oct. 22, 1922
54. Mrs. Julia [Marlow] Faber and Robert Faber: Nov. 25, 1895; April 5, 1905; Mar 1, 1912 Miss Lillian Russell: Dec. 23, 1895; Mar 9, 1908; Feb. 14, 1911; Jan. 2, 1914
55. Otis Skinner: Dec. 20, 1895, “The Vagabond Villon”; “In Honor of the Family”; “Kismet”
56. De Wolf Hopper made his first appearance in Mobile Jan. 7, 1896; Dec. 5, 1903 “Frederic the Great” Alice Bradley, with De Wolf Hopper 1911 in “U.S.S. Pinafore” De Wolf Hopper in “El Capitan,” Dec. 18, 1897 Margaret Clark: Mar 7, 1907, “Wonderland,” with De Wolf Hopper
57. Rev. DeWitt Talmage W.J. Bryan: July 12, 1896