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EJ Phillips [Nickinson] Chronology 1830-1904

1830-   Childhood in Chatham and Hamilton Canada 
1836 John Nickinson first came to US
1848 Amateur theatrics Hamilton, Ontario 
1852- 1859 John Nickinson  Royal Lyceum Theatre Toronto 
1855  Jan. 12 Benefit for Charlotte Nickinson, The Roll of the Drum playbill, Royal Lyceum, Toronto,  Virginia and Isabella Nickinson and Miss Phillips in this romantic French military drama. Mr. Nickinson was the drum major. 
1857  Uncle Tom's Cabin 
late 1850s , Edwin Forrest   (1806- 1872) is mentioned in EJ Phillips' New York Dramatic Mirror obituary as someone she had acted with.  We have a review from an unidentified newspaper of a performance at the Metropolitan Theatre [probably Hamilton, Ontario, Canada] of his performance in Othello where "Miss Phillips' Emelia was hardly inferior, if at all, to Iago and her last scene was striking. 

Shakespearean roles in Toronto
1858 Charles Alderman Nickinson born Apr. 30, Toronto - died Sept. 1859, Pittsburgh 

May 1860 Prince of Wales Theatre [Royal Lyceum?] Toronto Roy MacGregor
Aug. 24, 1860 Christine Harriet "Hattie" Nickinson born Toronto (died  Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1946)
Mar 13, 1861 Arcade Hall, Lockport NY The Lady’s Duel [as performed at Wallack’s NY] JN as Baron Monrichard and EJP as the Countess D’Autreval. Concluding with a grand allegorical tableau vivant with John Nickinson as Washington.
Mar 15, 1861 Arcade Hall. Combined companies from Buffalo and Rochester. JN as Capt. Copp in Charles Second or the Merry Monarch and EJP as Lady Clara.
Mar 18, 1861 JN in his beautiful pathetic drama Napoleon’s Old Guard with EJP as Melanie
1861 March  EJ Phillips played Pauline in the Lady of Lyon to John Nickinsons' Col. Damas, 
May 1861 Metropolitan Theatre Octoroon  
1861 Lady Macbeth in Ottawa
Dec. 1861 Ottawa Her Majesty's Theatre Naval Engagements
c. 1862- 1865  Cincinnati 
1863 July 8 Albert Edward Nickinson born Cincinnati, Ohio (died  Pensacola, Florida, June 1948) 
Dec. 1863 EJP in Leah the Forsaken
Feb. 1864 John Nickinson dies in Cincinnati
EJP plays Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Cincinnati

Apr 14, 1865 EJP and Junius Brutus Booth Jr., Othello
c. 1865-1870 Ben DeBar, St. Louis and New Orleans
1867 2nd day of Sept.
Indianapolis engagement commenced.  EJ Phillips' Indianapolis Google Map   An 1880 Indianapolis City Directory lists 3 Fays at 230 North Tennessee Frank P a postal clerk, John J Assistant State Librarian and Louis a clerk at JA Raume  http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ICD&CISOPTR=5055&REC=12  Google maps locates this address in Danville IN, 20 miles outside of Indianapolis.
1868
Goneril in King Lear, Indianapolis

1870 June 1 Census Rockland County, New York, Ramapo  EJ Nickinson is listed with Hattie and Albert with Antonio and Christine Zavistowski.
1870 Sept 3
Children arrived in Indianapolis at 9PM on Sat. Cash account with Mr. Fay for children's board.
1871 Sept.  2nd Due Mrs. Fay children's board 

1871-1873  Lawrence Barrett Varieties Theatre, New Orleans
1873 Savannah, Lawrence Barrett as Hamlet, Willie Seymour as Osrick, EJP the Queen
Feb. 1875 Mobile Alabama with Barrett  "Our Gossip" local theatrical paper
1875 Winter in Chicago with Lawrence Barrett 
1875
joins  FF Mackay's Chestnut St. Theatre, Philadelphia
1876  Our Boys   Caste Philadelphia  

1877- 1885 Union Square Theatre Company  AM Palmer, New York

1877 Pink Dominoes  New York
  Nov The Rivals Chestnut St Theater, Philadelphia
June 1878 Chicago joined Union Square Company
1878 Danicheffs  New York
1879 Banker's Daughter  New York

1880 False Friend   Two Orphans   New York
1881 Creole  New York
1881-1882 Lights of London  New York
1882 Rantzaus  New York
1883 Climbing Pike's Peak   Aug EJP in San Francisco, Vera the Nihilist in New York City
1883-1884 STORMBEATEN  New York
1884  French Flats New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco

1885-1891 Madison Square Theatre Company   AM Palmer, New York      1885 Prisoner for Life New York  Our Society  1885-1888   Grover Cleveland's inauguration  Saints & Sinners 1885-1892 

1886 New York Life  1886-1889   Albert moves to Middletown  Feb Saints & Sinners, Engaged Feb-March  April Our Society  Boston  Engaged  Broken Hearts Old Love Letters, Our Society Sealed Instructions Utica, Buffalo  Chicago  McVickers Our Society  Martyr   on the train    San Francisco Al Hayman   Our Society Jim the Penman Saints & Sinners Martyr  Sacramento  Salt Lake City    Denver   Kansas City  Saints & Sinners  St. Joseph  Omaha  New York Brooklyn  Bartholdi Day Statue of Liberty dedicated    Engaged    Jim the Penman 1886-1892    Foregone Conclusion    Martyr 1886-1887  

1887  New York    April Actor's Fund Benefit, Washington DC    Grover Cleveland receives Palmer's company at the White House    Hattie's wedding    Chicago McVickers Saints  & Sinners  Haymarket Affair    Philadelphia baseball  Arch St Theatre Jim the Penman  Boston Sept  Park Theatre  baseball  Fair Fame    Margery's Lovers   New York Martyr

1888  New York    Dr. Nagle, Jacob Riis and the NY Sun    Blizzard of '88    Boston  Jim the Penman  baseball May Jack Dolman born    Philadelphia    Chicago  Palmer house  on the train    San Francisco  Al Hayman Saints & Sinner Partners Heart of Hearts Jim the Penman   Los Angeles    Salt Lake City  Ogden Cheyenne Denver  Kansas City  St. Joseph MO Omaha Chicago    Captain Swift 1888-1889    Heart of Hearts    Partners

1889  New York    Albert's engagement    Centennial of Washington's Inauguration    Boston    Cleveland    Chicago    Albert and Neppie's Thanksgiving wedding

1890   New York   Grippe  Gilbert & Sullivan's Gondoliers  Pillars of Society Wealth  Albert and Neppie set up housekeeping    Boston  Pillars of Society  Philadelphia    on the train  Nampa Idaho   Portland    Tacoma    Seattle  Saints & Sinners    San Francisco Jim the Penman Saints & Sinners  Los Angeles  Stockton Sacramento Ogden  Salt Lake City  Cheyenne  Denver   Kansas City  St. Joseph  Omaha  Saints & Sinners  Chicago    Buffalo  Hamilton   Oct Ted Nickinson born  Philadelphia  Captain Swift Saints & Sinners Jim the Penman   Middleman    Pillars of Society    Pharisee 1890-1891    Wealth 1890-1891

1891  New York  Esther Sandraz Philadelphia  Captain Swift Jim the Penman  Boston  Captain Swift  Pittsfield  Albany Social Fiction A Pair of Spectacles  New York  Wealth Pharisee  Washington DC    Baltimore    Buffalo    Pittsburgh    Philadelphia    Elizabeth Ellen Dolman born May 28  Broken Seal  Palmer's Theatre   Margaret Fleming  Jim the Penman  Esther Sandraz    Judah 

1892  New York  Broken Seal  Sarah Bernhardt's recipe for cold prevention    Actor's Fund Fair May 1892 Broken Seal Williamsburgh [Brooklyn] Chicago Ramsey Morris Frohmans  Philadelphia  June Death of Elizabeth Ellen Dolman  New York  Columbus Celebration Oct 1892  Joseph  Wilmington   Baltimore    Hartford CT    Troy  Herkimer Utica Oswego   Syracuse   Binghampton  Auburn Ithaca Rochester  Niagara Falls  Hamilton   London St. Thomas  Toronto  Detroit  Judge   Buffalo  Wheeling West Virginia  Johnstown Pa Scranton Lancaster Wilkes Barre  Joseph 1892-1893   

1893  Washington DC    Richmond VA  Norfolk Va Charleston West Virginia  Cincinnati Judge Canton Alliance Zanesville Ohio  Cleveland    Milwaukee Feb.  Janesville Wis  Rockford Ill Peoria Ill Chicago   New York March-April  Harlem Opera House  Albany, Troy, Providence RI   Boston    Philadelphia    Pittsburgh  Brooklyn  Sept Lady Windermere's Fan Harlem Charles Frohman  Buffalo  Chicago and the Columbian Exposition 1893  Milwaukee  Detroit Nov    Cleveland Cincinnati  Louisville Evansville Lafayette Peoria  St. Louis Springfield Ill Bloomington Ill Decatur Ill Terre Haute Ind South Bend Ind Grand Rapids Mich Baltimore   Depression of 1893    Judge    Lady Windermere's Fan  1893-1894  BF Keith of Boston takes over Union Square Theatre April

1894  Philadelphia  Rochester Albany  Montreal    Providence Rhode Island   Newport  New London New Haven  Rochester NY    New York  Brooklyn  Philadelphia  Newark  Chicago   Pullman Strike  St. Louis  Lady Windermere's Fan   Pittsburg, Nov 1894  Camille  Transgressor  Washington DC    Baltimore  Rochester Buffalo  Niagara Falls  Toronto    Camille  1894-1895    Romeo & Juliet    Frou-Frou    AMP Madison Garden Theatre

1895  Montreal    Providence  Harlem  Chicago Milwaukee  St. Louis Indianapolis  Columbus  Cleveland  Detroit    Buffalo    Boston Cambridge  Camille  Lawrence Mass Portland Maine  Philadelphia    New York  Richard Mansfield & the Hollands  Joseph Humphreys  Buffalo  New York   Gay Parisians  1895-1897

1896 Gay Parisians   Newark  Detroit  Bicycles    Chicago    William Jennings Bryan nominated    Election 1896    on the train    San Francisco    Los Angeles    Portland  Tacoma  Victoria Vancouver    Seattle    Salt Lake City    Kansas City    Omaha    St. Louis  Decatur Ill Omaha Des Moines Burlington Iowa Davenport Cedar Rapids Dubuque Freeport Ill Milwaukee  Madison, Wisconsin  Rockford Ill  Pittsburgh  Columbus  Philadelphia    

1897  New York  Gay Parisians  Wilmington Del Lancaster PA  Harrisburg, PA  Trenton NJ Easton Pa Scranton Pa Newark  Providence  Charlotte  Asheville  Knoxville  Chattanooga  Birmingham Ala Macon Ga Savannah Ga  Charleston  Augusta Ga    Atlanta    Pensacola Fla    New Orleans   Philadelphia    Louisa Lane Drew's funeral    Melanie Dolman born

1898  Louisville    Recalled from Retirement in  A Bachelor's Romance   Broad St Theatre Philadelphia

1901  Arrival of the 20th Century        1902 Ida Vernon visits    1904  Death of Mrs. EJ Phillips    1998-present  EJ Phillips' 130 year old quilt   

Travel and "vacations" 1886-1897 Earlier years had fewer cities and longer stays

not working # weeks travel cities  travel ratio year # cities   major plays          
20 weeks travel 1.3 1886 16 cities Engaged S&S our Society Foregone Conclusion, Martyr Madison Square Theatre
10 weeks travel 2.0 1887 5 cities S&S Jim the P          
8 weeks 14 weeks travel 1.6 1888 9 cities S&S Jim the P Partners Heart of Hearts Captain Swift   Palmer's Theatre
8 weeks 6 weeks travel 1.2 1889 5 cities Captain Swift, Jim the P        
12 weeks travel 0.7 1890 18 cities S&S Jim the P Middleman Pharisee Wealth      
20 weeks 4 weeks travel 0.5 1891 9 cities Jim the P Broken Seal          
18 weeks 10 weeks travel 0.4 1892 26 cities Broken Seal Joseph       Mad Sq to Hoyts, Palmers
16 weeks 10 weeks travel 0.3 1893 33 cities LWF Joseph Judge          
20 weeks 20 weeks travel 1.1 1894 19 cities LWF Nethersole - Frou Frou, Romeo & Juliet, Transgressor    
12 weeks 13 weeks travel 0.9 1895 14 cities Nethersole Camille Gay Parisians        
26 weeks travel 0.9 1896 27 cities Gay Parisians          
40 weeks 8 weeks travel 0.4 1897 22 cities Gay Parisians          

Plays chronology  EJ Phillips' plays by title   Plays by playwrights  

nationality play bold EJP  author author 2 theatre co   ejp date to date 1st date ejp role/cast   notes script URL
British Rob Roy   Scott Walter Peacock Isaac Prince of Wales Toronto Hamilton amateur 1848 1860 1818 Helen MacGregor Diana Vernon novel http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7025
British Tragedy of Douglas Home John 1752- 1808 Hamilton amateur group 1848   1756 Mother of Young Norval    
French Pride of the market Planche James Robinson  Hamilton amateur group 1849 c 1847 Louisa de Volange    
British London Assurance Boucicault Dion Hamilton Ontario 1852   1841 Grace Harkaway   http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKctAAAAYAAJ&dq=london+assurance+boucicault&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Rivals   Sheridan Richard Brinsley Hamilton?   1852     Lydia Languish   http://books.google.com/books?id=93JbAAAAQAAJ&dq=rivals&source=gbs_navlinks_s
French Peculiar Position Scribe Eugene Royal Lyceum Toronto 1855   1837 Countess de Novara La Frontiere de Savoie http://us.macmillan.com/camilleandotherplays
British Roll of the Drum Wilks Thos Egerton Royal Lyceum Toronto 1855   1843 role not specified    
British Blessed Baby Moore J George Royal Lyceum Toronto 1856   1847 Mary Jane mother of the blessed baby x  
British? House Dog     farce Royal Lyceum Toronto 1856     Miss Melpomene    
British hunchback Knowles J Sheridan Royal Lyceum Toronto 1856   1832 Helen     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3480
British Jane Shore Rowe Nicholas Royal Lyceum Toronto 1856   1714 Alicia     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30505
British William Tell Knowles J Sheridan Royal Lyceum Toronto 1856   1825 Emma Tell's wife   http://books.google.com/books?id=HewsAAAAYAAJ&dq=william+tell+sheridan+knowles&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American    Uncle Tom's Cabin Lemon Mark Taylor Tom Royal Lyceum Toronto 1857   1852 Cassy      
American    Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe Harriet Beecher Toronto?   1860 ? 1852 Cassey     http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/uncletom/uthp.html 
American/British Charles the Second Payne John Howard Irving Washington Arcade Hall Lockport 1861   1824 Lady Clara The Merry Monarch http://books.google.com/books?id=xVSJZKaX3ScC&dq=%22charles+the+second%22+%22lady+clara%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Colleen Bawn Boucicault Dion Farrar Hall  Erie 1861   1860 Anne Chute     http://www.archive.org/stream/colleenbawnorbri00boucrich/colleenbawnorbri00boucrich_djvu.txt
British? Contentment vs. Riches farce Farrar Hall  Erie 1861   1837 Nancy or the Merry Cobbler  
British Dead Shot A Buckstone John Baldwin Metropolitan Hamilton 1861   1825 Louisa Lovetrick   http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-dead-shot-/book-CXoYcS73BUmOmL1EWvKjUQ/page1.html
British? Fairy Spectacle HRH Invisible prince Farrar Hall  Erie 1861     Winki the great buzzard    
British? Family Jars or the mistaken father farce Farrar Hall  Erie 1861   1860 Liddy Larrigan Lotta Crabtree  1867 NY
British Lady of Lyons Bulwer Lytton Edward Arcade Hall Lockport 1861   1838 Pauline     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2461
British MacBeth   Shakespeare   Ottawa 1861   1603 Lady MacBeth   http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html
British Nan the good for nothing Buckstone John Baldwin de solla? Her Majesty's Theatre 1861   1851 Nan     http://www.archive.org/stream/domesticeconomyf00lemouoft#page/n1/mode/2up
British Napoleon's Old Guard Boucicault Dion Metropolitan Hamilton 1861   1836 Melanie Havresac Napoleon's Old Guard John Nickinson http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5112817W/The_old_guard 
British Naval Engagements Dance Charles Her Majesty's Theatre 1861   1848 Mrs. Pontivex J Nickinson 1848 Olympic http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7042143M/Naval_engagements
British Octoroon   Boucicault Dion Metropolitan Hamilton Ontario 1861   1859 Dora Sunnyside a Southern belle http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/americanliterature/19c-20c%20play%20archive/octoroon-index.htm
British Perfection or the Maid of Munster Bayly Thomas Haynes Farrar Hall  Erie 1861   1830 Susan her maid   http://www.archive.org/stream/perfectionormaid00bayliala/perfectionormaid00bayliala_djvu.txt
French Royalist or Lady's Duel Scribe Eugene Legouve Arcade Hall? Lockport 1861   1851 Countess d'Autreval Kendals acted in http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12472/12472.txt
British Soldier's daughter & London Merchant Cherry Andrew Farrar Hall  Erie 1861   1804 Widow Cheerly harvardmicroform
German Stranger The von Kotzebue August Farrar Hall  Erie 1861   1797 Mrs Haller Countess  J Nickinson Solomon http://www.wattpad.com/22239-the-stranger-a-drama-in-five-acts?p=2 
American    Leah the Forsaken Daly Augustin Daly? Cincinnati 1863   1863 Dame Gertrude   http://books.google.com/books?id=HwUZAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22leah+the+forsaken%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare     1864     Juliet Cincinnati 1864    
British Othello   Shakespeare Pike's Opera Cincinnati 1865 1850x E Forrest 1603 Emilia Junius Brutus Booth Jr was Iago http://books.google.com/books?id=Cx8sAAAAYAAJ&dq=othello&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British King Lear   Shakespeare Indianapolis   1868   1603 Goneril     http://books.google.com/books?id=WvgqAAAAMAAJ&dq=king+lear&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Hamlet   Shakespeare Lawrence Barrett 1873   1599 Queen Gertrude Savannah http://books.google.com/books?id=sfp4WY8id1cC&dq=hamlet&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Henry VIII   Shakespeare Lawrence Barrett 1873 ? 1623 Queen Katharine [or Aragon] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2258
British Money   Bulwer Lytton Edward Lawrence Barrett 1873 ? 1840 Lady Franklin   http://books.google.com/books?id=Jnw0AAAAMAAJ&dq=money+bulwer+lytton&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Our Gossip?   Mobile AL Lawrence Barrett 1875     ?      
      Chicago Lawrence Barrett 1875            
British Caste   Robertson Thomas Wm Chestnut St Girard Philadelphia 1876 1895 1867 Marquise de St Maur six plays http://books.google.com/books?id=ph_D4cNSeFEC&vq=caste&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American    Our Boys   Byron Henry James Chestnut St Phila 1876   1875 Clarissa Champney an elderly young lady http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Our-boys-comedy-three-acts/book-ZpX5ibcAR0ayx4lUceAZgg/page1.html 
French Celebrated case A Corman & D'Ennery Union Square 1877 ? 1877 Duchess      
French Pink Dominos Hennequin Alfred Delacour Alfred Union Square 1877   1877 Mrs  Joskin Tubbs   http://books.google.com/books?id=EYEvAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Rivals   Sheridan Richard Brinsley Chestnut St Philadelphia 1877   1775 Mrs Malaprop    
British School for Scandal Sheridan Richard Brinsley Union Square? 1877 ? 1777 Lady Teazle Mrs Candour http://books.google.com/books?id=6gMJAAAAQAAJ&dq=school+for+scandal&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American    Banker's daughter Howard Bronson AR Cazauran union square 1878 1883 1878 Mrs Fanny Holcombe banker's daughter's widowed aunt
French Danicheffs Dumas Alexandre fils union square   Wallacks 1878 1881 1877 Countess Danicheff Harvard NY Public 
French Camille   Dumas Alexandre fils Union Square Olga Nethersole 1879 1881 1894-1895 1848 Madame Prudence mgt Marcus Mayer http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1608
French Daniel Rochat Sardou Victorien Cazauran AR union square 1880   1881 Mrs Powers   http://books.google.com/books?id=zdIRAAAAYAAJ&dq=daniel+rochat&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British False Friend Fawcett Edgar union square 1880   1880 Lady Ogden NY Public LC  & microform microform
French French flats Chivot M Henri Union Square 1880 1884 1879 Marchioness Bianca adapted AR Cazauran
French Two Orphans D'Ennery Adolphe Jackson N hart Union Square 1880 DVD Fic Newton 1874 Countess   E Corman trans Hart Jackson http://books.google.com/books?id=YYYRAAAAYAAJ&dq=two+orphans+Adolphe+d%E2%80%99Ennery+and+Eug%C3%A8ne+Cormon&source=gbs_navlinks_s 
British Conscience Lancaster AE Magnus Julian Union Square 1881   1876 Tabitha Trump? replaced Marie Wilkins
French Creole The D'Ennery Adolphe Cazauran AR union square   1881   1881 Countess de Maillepre    
French Felicia or Woman's Love Belot Adolphe Cazauran AR Union Square 1881   1881 Eleanor Mornay AR Cazauran adaptation
British Lights O London Sims George Robert Union Square 1881 1882 1881 Mrs Jarvis   821.08 LIGHTS Lights o London * other Victorian plays 1995 
Rivals   Sheridan Richard Brinsley Union Square? 1881 ?   Julia Melville      
American    Rosedale or the Rifle Ball Hanley Edward Bruce Wallacks   1881   1863 Mother Mix an old gypsy queen?  
French Rantzaus The Erckmann Emilie Cazauran AR Union Square 1882   1882 Marianne Florence Alexandre Chatrian http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_cIAAAAQAAJ&dq=rantzaus&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Storm beaten Buchanan Robert Williams Union Square 1883 1884 1883 Dame Christiansen mother Maud Harrison McKee Rankin
French Duprez & Son Bankers & Brokers D'Ennery Adolphe Union Square 1884   1857 Suzanne      
American    Separation Campbell Bartley Union Square Boston 1884   1884 Mamie Maxwell mentioned in Recollections of a Player
French Three wives to one husband Grenet Dancourt Ernest Union Square 1884   1881 Mrs Batterby mentioned Recollections of a player
British Prisoner for Life Bourgeois Anicet Union Square 1885   1885 Mme Marguerite adapted Louis Nathan from Stella 
British Saints & Sinners Jones Henry Arthur Madison Square 1885 1892 1884 Lydia minister's housekeeper http://books.google.com/books?id=cDpMAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s 
American    Artist's Daughter Barnes  Wm Elliott Union Square 1886   1885 Mme De Vaux Nanette Ponchon?
British Engaged   Gilbert WS   Madison Square 1886   1877 Mrs McFarlane   http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/other_gilbert/engaged/engaged.pdf 
American    Foregone Conclusion Howells Wm Dean Madison Square 1886 novel 1874 Mrs. Vervain orig called Priest & Painter http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7839 
British Jim the Penman Young Charles Madison square 1886 1892 1886 Lady Dunscombe Dartmouth  
French Martyr AR Cazauran adapt Sullivan Edwards Grundy Sydney D'Ennery Adolphe Madison Square Palmer's Co 1886 1887 1886 Madame de la Marche EJL Tarbe-des Sablons http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_04501/cihm_04501_djvu.txt
French Our Society Pailleron M Edouard  Stuart Clinton Madison Square 1886   1882 Mrs Spencer Katharine Harvard microform
French Fair Fame   Stuart Clinton Dumas fils Madison Square 1887   1887 Mrs Preston    
American    Margery's Lovers Matthews James Brander Madison Square 1887   1884 Mrs Webster    
American    Social Scandal Robertson Peter Madison Square 1887   1887 in 1st and last act only role?  
British Welcome Little Stranger Jones Henry Arthur Madison Square Chicago 1887   1885 EJP part?   George Giddens?
British/Austrian Captain Swift Chambers Chas Haddon Madison Square 1888   1888 Lady Staunton Dion Boucicault http://books.google.com/books?id=v-c2AAAAIAAJ&dq=captain+swift+chambers&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Heart of Hearts Jones Henry Arthur Madison Square 1888   1887 Lady Clarissa Fitzralph Dowager of Avonthorpe
British Partners   Buchanan Robert Williams Madison Square 1888   1881 Lady Silverdale Alphonse Daudet adapted from
British Richard III   Shakespeare     1889 ? 1591 Queen Elizabeth Woodville http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1597-richard-iii.html
Richard III   Shakespeare     1889 ?   Duchess of York    
Richard III   Shakespeare     1889 ?   Lady Anne Neville    
British Her Father Rose Edward Douglas John Madison square 1890   1889        
British Middleman Jones Henry Arthur Palmer's Theatre 1890   1889 Mrs Chandler   http://books.google.com/books?id=cIMpAQAAIAAJ&dq=henry+arthur+jones+middleman&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Pharisee   Watson Malcolm Wallis Mrs Lancaster Madison Square 1890 1891 1890 Miss Maxwell    
Norwegian Pillars of Society Ibsen Hendrik Madison Square 1890   1877 rehearsed but never produced  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2296
British Wealth   Jones Henry Arthur Palmer's theatre Madison Square 1890 1891 1889 Mrs Palfreyman    
French Esther Sandraz Belot Adolphe Palmer's Theatre Madison square? 1891   1888 Mme Fourcanade Lilly Langtry played in
British Judah   Jones Henry Arthur Madison square 1891   1890 Mrs Pratt?     http://books.google.com/books?id=UBkhRfxbPSMC&dq=judah+henry+arthur+jones&source=gbs_navlinks_s
French Broken Seal Busnach Wm Bertrand Grundy Sydney Palmer's Theatre 1892   1890 Madelaine French peasant housekeeper Sydney Grundy adapted
British Joseph Bordman Watson Malcolm Ramsey Morris 1892 1893 1890 Mrs Horace Bellingham adapt Leon Gandillot Fernand C Noceur
American ?   Judge   Law Arthur   Ramsey Morris DC Cincinnati 1893   1893 only in the last act New Eng rural comedy Elsie deWolfe
British Lady Windermere's Fan Wilde Oscar Palmer's Theatre 1893 1894 1892 Duchess of Berwick   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/790
French Frou Frou   Halevey Ludovic Meilhac Henri Olga Nethersole 1894   1870 only in briefly   http://books.google.com/books?id=6opLAAAAIAAJ&dq=frou+frou&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare Olga Nethersole 1894   1591 Nurse     http://books.google.com/books?id=moYNAAAAYAAJ&dq=romeo+and+juliet&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Transgressor Gatti AW Gattie? Palmer's Theatre 1894   1894 Mrs Woodville  Boston Olga Nethersole
French Gay Parisians Feydeau Georges Frohman Charles 1895 1897 1894 Angelique Pinglet Maurice Desvailliere  Hotel Paradisio
British She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith Oliver     1895 ? 1773 Mrs Hardcastle   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/383
American    Bachelor's Romance Morton Martha Broad St? Philadelphia  1898   1896 Clementina replaced Mrs. Pitt when Mrs. Pitt Died http://books.google.com/books?id=Tvs_AAAAYAAJ&dq=A+Bachelor's+Romance+by+Martha+Morton&source=gbs_navlinks_s 
British As you Like it Shakespeare   date unknown   1599 Celia     http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/As_You_Like_It/
British Clandestine Marriage Garrick David George Colman date unknown   1776 Mrs Heidelberg   http://www.archive.org/stream/clandestinemarri00colmrich/clandestinemarri00colmrich_djvu.txt
British Comedy of Errors Shakespeare   date unknown   earliest Adriana wife of Antipholus http://shakespeare.mit.edu/comedy_errors/index.html
British Coriolanus Shakespeare   date unknown   1605 Volumnia, mother of Coriolanus http://publicliterature.org/books/coriolanus/1
British Gamester The Moore Edward   date unknown   1753 Mrs Beverly     http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16267/16267-h/16267-h.htm
British King John   Shakespeare   date unknown   1595 Elinor mother of King John http://shakespeare.mit.edu/john/full.html
British Love's Sacrifice Lovell George W   date unknown 1842 1632 Margaret Elmore, Hermione de Vermont
French Lucretia Borgia Hugo Victor     date unknown   1833 Lucretia      
British Merchant of Venice Shakespeare   date unknown   1596 Portia     http://www.bartleby.com/70/index19.html
British Merry Wives of Windsor Shakespeare   date unknown   1602 Mrs [Mistress?] Page    
Othello   Shakespeare   date unknown     Desdemona      
Pisarro   Collins Charles James?   date unknown   1856 Elinor and Cora   http://books.google.com/books?id=lzoWAAAAYAAJ&dq=pizarro+elinor+cora&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare   date unknown   1590 Katharine the shrew   http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/william_shakespeare/the_taming_of_the_shrew/
British Twelfth Night Shakespeare   date unknown   1601 Olivia     http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/TN_Navigator/
British Venice Preserved Otway Thomas   date unknown   1682 Belvidera     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30934
    Shakespeare .   .   . 31 roles in 19 plays 19 roles in 15 plays known so far
  last revised Nov 5 2011       .     58 roles in 43 non Shakespeare plays   
French Fanchon the cricket birch Pfeiffer charlotte Chas Dickens Ben DeBar Laura Keenes 1864   1861 Old fadet Maggie Mitchell John Nickinson
French Article 47 or breaking the ban Belot Adolphe Daly Augustin Daly's  union square 1872 1882 1871 Clara Morris Owen Fawcett WJ LeMoyne Mrs GH Gilbert Geo DeVere 
British Esmerelda   Burnett Frances Hodgson Gillette wm Madison Square 1882 novel 1877 Annie Russell    
British New Magdalen Collins Wilkie  Union Square 1882   1882 James O'Neill Clara Morris Owen Fawcett http://books.google.com/books/about/The_new_Magdalen.html?id=Udy96leN9sYC
French Count of Monte Cristo Dumas Alexandre père Union Square 1883 Wallack 1848 James O'Neill Fechter version http://books.google.com/books?id=xVSJZKaX3ScC&dq=%22charles+the+second%22+%22lady+clara%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Vera the Nihilist Wilde Oscar Union Square 1883   1883 Marie Prescott   http://users.belgacom.net/wilde/woman2.html
American Fatal letter   Cazauran AR Union Square 1884   1884 Charles Walcott    
American One Touch of Nature Webster Benjamin Madison Square 1884   1859 JH Stoddart Maud Harrison  
French Diplomacy   Sardou Victorien Wallacks   1885 1891 1878 Frederic Robinson Rose & Charles Coghlan 
American Sealed Instructions Verplanck Julia Campbell Madison Square HM Pitt 1885   1885 Annie Russell JH Stoddart Wm LeMoyne
British Broken Hearts Gilbert WS   Madison Square 1886   1884 Agnes Booth Maud Harrison http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/html/broken_hearts_synopsis.html
American Held by the enemy Gillette William Madison square 1886   1885 George Parks Katharine Kidder first Civil War drama
Austrian Ingomar the barbarian Halm fried rich Lovell Maria Bowery Theatre 1886 1842 1842 Mary Anderson   http://books.google.com/books?id=iH9bkr4MRigC&dq=ingomar+the+barbarian&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Mikado   Gilbert & Sullivan D'Oyly Carte   1886 1896 1885 Richard Mansfield   http://books.google.com/books?id=5ts4AQAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Arthur+Sullivan%22+mikado&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American Old Love Letters Howard Bronson Madison Square 1886   1878 Agnes Booth Joseph Whiting http://books.google.com/books?id=-QET1aE-KUgC&dq=old+love+letters+bronson+howard&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American/British Prince Karl   Gunter Archibald Clavering Madison Square 1886   1886 Richard Mansfield   http://books.google.com/books?id=4fM0AAAAMAAJ&dq=prince+karl+gunter&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American Vim Widow Bedott Burgess Neil   Boston 1886   1883 Neil Burgess    
British Barrister   Fenn Geo Manville Darnley James Henry Madison Square 1887   1887 EL Davenport Wm Seymour  
American Dominie's Daughter Lloyd David Demarest Wallacks   1887   1887 Mme Ponisi H Kelcey K Bellew  
American Elaine   Lathrop George Parsons Edwards Harry Madison Square 1887   1887 A Russell A Salvini adapted from Tennyson
British Fashion In the Fashion Dolara Selina Madison Square 1887   1887 Eben Plympton    
American Old Homestead Thompson Denman Denman Thompson 1887 1890 1886 Denman Thompson   http://books.google.com/books?id=R5MiAAAAMAAJ&dq=old+homestead+denman+thompson&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American Wife The   Belasco David Deville Henry C Lyceum Daniel Frohman 1887   1887 Georgia Cayvan    
French La Tosca   Sardou Victorien Broadway Theatre 1888   1887 Fanny Davenport Sarah Bernhardt http://www.archive.org/details/toscaanoperaint00sardgoog
British Bed of Roses Jones Henry Arthur Madison Square 1889            
Norwegian Doll's house Ibsen Hendrik Jones HA Palmers Theatre 1889   1884   Breaking a butterfly http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542
American Man of the World Thomas Augustus Madison square 1889   1883 M Barrymore Aunt Jack curtain raiser
French Samson   Daly Augustin Ipollito D'Aste Palmers Theatre 1889   1889 Salvini? from the French M Bisson http://books.google.com/books?id=DQkuAAAAYAAJ&dq=samson+ippolito+d'aste&source=gbs_navlinks_s
French Belphegor the Mountebank Webb Charles d'Ennery     1890 Boston 1889 Frederick Warde x  
British City Directory Potter Paul Meredith     1890   1889 Mrs Leslie carter    
British gondoliers   Gilbert & Sullivan D'Oyly Carte Park Theatre NY 1890   1889 George Temple   http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/gondoliers/html/index.html
British HMS pinafore Gilbert & Sullivan D'Oyly Carte union square 1890   1878 Thomas Whiffen   http://books.google.com/books?id=fKMNAAAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Arthur+Sullivan%22+pinafore&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American Master and Man Pettit Henry Alfred Sims George R  Palmers Theatre 1890   1889 Richard Mansfield    
French Pair of Spectacles Grundy Sydney Labiche Madison Square 1890   1890 JH Stoddart EM Holland Walden Ramsey http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6550736M/A_pair_of_spectacles
British Patience   Gilbert & Sullivan D'Oyly Carte   1890   1881 Lillian Russell   http://books.google.com/books?id=4iA9AAAAYAAJ&dq=gilbert+and+sullivan+patience&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American Alabama   Thomas Augustus Madison Square 1891   1891 M Barrymore  JH Stoddart EM Holland http://books.google.com/books?id=5fsRAAAAYAAJ&dq=alabama+augustus+thomas&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Canadian Dinner at eight Ritchie John Almon Madison Square 1891   1891 Maud Harrison curtain raiser
American Margaret Fleming Herne James A Palmers Theatre 1891   1890 Katharine Corcoran Herne  
British Social Fiction Watson Malcolm Wallis Mrs Lancaster Madison Square 1891   1891        
Irish Sunlight & Shadow Carton Richard annals   1891   1890 Maud Harrison Maurice Barrymore  http://books.google.com/books?id=72OCwmjl9rMC&dq=%22sunlight+and+shadow%22+carton&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American Trip to Chinatown Hoyt Charles Palmers Theatre 1891 Broadway 1890 Harry Conor    
American Aristocracy   Howard Bronson Palmers Theatre 1892   1892 Viola Allen      
British Aunt Jack   Lumley Ralph Madison Square 1892   1889 M Barrymore Agnes Booth If you want to know the time ask a policeman
German Lost Paradise Fulda Ludwig Deville Henry C Procter's Theatre 1892   1892 Frank Mordaunt Maude Adams, Odette Tyler http://books.google.com/books?id=jAMTAAAAYAAJ&dq=Lost+Paradise+by+Ludwig+Fulda,&source=gbs_navlinks_s 
French Masked Ball   Bisson Alexander Carre Albert Palmer's   1892   1892 Maude Adams John Drew Clyde Fitch adapted
American Col carter of Cartersville Thomas Augustus Smith Henry Smith F Hopkinson Palmers Theatre 1893   1892 EM Holland     http://books.google.com/books?id=rBoOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA299&lpg=PA299&dq=col+carter+of+cartersville+augustus+thomas&source=bl&ots=gDStp565UF&sig=6D9AX7TW1BCsNrELb7CXtyqPFJk&hl=en&ei=VNnjTcLYH8b00gHP3MyaBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false 
British Woman of no importance Wilde Oscar   Fifth Ave Theatre 1893   1893 Maud Harrison M Barrymore Mrs DP Bowers http://books.google.com/books?id=hiZ_cdwjm60C&dq=woman+of+no+importance&source=gbs_navlinks_s
British Gaiety Girl   Greenbank Harry Jones Sidney Marcus Mayer 1894   1893 Rutland Barrington    
British New Woman Grundy Sydney Palmers Theatre 1894   1894 EM Holland Annie Russell http://books.google.com/books?id=XWQ7AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22new+woman%22+Sydney+grundy&source=gbs_navlinks_s
American Girl I left behind me Belasco David Fyles Franklin Empire theatre  Frohman 1895   1893 Maud Harrison    
British Trilby   Dumaurier George  Potter Paul Garden Theatre 1895   1895 Virginia Harned novel turned into play http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605601.txt
American Charley's aunt Thomas Brandon Standard Theatre 1896   1892 Harry Woodruff    
British Prisoner of Zenda Rose Edward Edward Hope Lyceum   1896 novel 1895 James Hackett Sothern EH   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/95
French too much Johnson Gillette William Ordonneau  Frohmans   1896   1894 William Gillette    
British Beside the bonnie briar bush MacLaren Ian McArthur James   1898     JH Stoddart     http://books.google.com/books?id=VWkRAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22beside+the+bonnie+brier+bush%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s  
British Sporting Duchess Harris Augustus Charles Frohman 1898   1895 JH Stoddart Agnes Booth orig Derby Winner title

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