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De Wolf Hopper will appear in 100 Wives

Description: Image of a three-quarter-length portrait of actor De Wolf Hopper standing with arms folded in formal dress; with date sheet for a March 2, [1882], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises Hopper in the Mormon-focused melodrama "100 Wives" written by Gil Pierce and James B. Runnion.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1881
Call number: priJLC_ENT_002531
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

100 Wives

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Image of a crowd of men and women, presumably Mormons in a wagon train, standing in a clearing in a forest with an older woman and girl in tattered clothes embracing at center, with a basket, a campfire with a pot cooking above, covered wagons, horses, and trunks, nearby, and the mountains and trees visible in the distance; fragment of a date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the Mormon-focused melodrama "100 Wives" written by Gil Pierce and James B. Runnion.

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"On Broadway" by Clay M. Greene & Ben Teal Management Harry Williams : Maggie Cline

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Image of a three-quarter-length portrait American vaudeville singer and actor Maggie Cline in formal dress wearing a hat with blue flowers, gloves, and a belt with a butterfly decoration; the poster advertises the melodrama "On Broadway" written by Clay Greene and Ben Teal.

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The new baby : a howling success chaperoned by David De Wolf

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Image of a stressed father and two smiling female nannies trying to hold seven squirming infants and children in their arms, while they pull each other's hair and cry; the poster advertises the comedy "The New Baby" adapted by English actor and stage manager Arthur Bourchier from the German play "Der Rabenvater" by H. Fischer and Joseph Jarn.

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Carrie Swain : "Ah! There!"

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Image of the smiling face of American actor Carrie Swain bursting through torn paper; the poster presumably advertises the comedic melodrama "Cad, the Tomboy" written by Leonard Grover.

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Lena Aberle : in Ouida a great production

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Image of a head-and-shoulders profile portrait of actor Lena Aberle in a formal dress and wearing earrings with flowers along bottom; the poster advertises the melodrama "Ouida, or a Woman's Vengeance."

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Hal. Reid’s beautiful play Human Hearts direction of Henry C. Miner : Bertha Belle Westbrooke

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Bertha Belle Westbrooke (also spelled Bertha Belle Westbrook); the poster advertises the melodrama "Human Hearts" written by Hal Reid.

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De Wolf Hopper will appear in 100 Wives

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