The Chronicles of Baltimore; Being a Complete History of Baltimore Town and Baltimore City from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Tragedy. Farce. Orphan; or the Unhappy Marriage. The King and the Miller of Mansfield. Gamester. The Citizen. Venice Preserved; or a Plot Dis- Beaux' Stratagem. covered. The Contrivances. The Revenge. The Busy-Body. Tamerlane I be Great. Thomas and Sally. Gustavus Vasa. The Ghost. Mahomet the Impostor. The Mayor of Garratt. Jane Shore. The Devil Upon Two Sticks. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Wapping Landlady. Romeo and Juliet. After the Revolutionary War terminated Messrs. Hallam and Henry returned to Philadelphia; but the people received the runaways with frowns, and many would have willingly continued the prohibition of stage-plays, which the caution of the first Continental Congress had so effectually recommended. After a short stay in Philadelphia the company removed to New York, and while there the managers caused a theatre to be erected in Baltimore, between the town and Point, near Pratt and Albemarle streets, on the lot where the old Trinity Church now stands. On the 17th of August, 1786, the theatre was opened. This was a new soil for the players to cultivate, and their harvest was proportionally great. Their Southern friends received them with smiles, and they continued their efforts in the new theatre until the beginning of October, when they proceeded to Richmond, Va. The Maryland Gazette of Tuesday, August 22, 1786, says: " On Thursday last was opened the new Theatre on Philpot's Hill, belonging to Messrs. Hallam and Henry, where the Old American Company performed that celebrated Comedy, The School for Scandal. The principal characters were so admirably well-sustained as to give entire satisfaction to the audience, and, indeed, the exertions of the whole company were such, that we have never before seen any Theatrical Exhibition in...