1893 - Theater, Film

Theater, Film

Theater: Magda (Heimat) by Hermann Sudermann 1/7 at Berlin's Lessing theater; The Master Builder (Bygmester Solness) by Henrik Ibsen 1/19 at Trondheim; The Girl I Left Behind Me by David Belasco and New York Sun critic Franklin Fyler 1/25 at New York's Empire Theater, 208 perfs.; The Weavers (Die Weber) by Gerhart Hauptmann 2/26 at Berlin's Neues Theater; A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde 4/14 at London's Haymarket Theatre, with London-born actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 39 (who has leased the Haymarket since 1887), his wife, Helen Maud Tree (née Holt), 29, Henry Kimble, 113 perfs. ("The English country gentleman galloping after the fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable," I; "Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed," III); Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck 5/17 at the Bouffe Parisienne, Paris (see 1898); The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero 5/28 at the St. James's Theatre, London, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner), 28. The daughter of an Italian beauty who spoke no English when she met Tanner's father in Bombay and he no Italian, Tanner herself was married at age 20 to a man of 19; The Triumph of Death (Il trionfo della morte) by Gabriele D'Annunzio; A Parlor Match by Charles H. Hoyt 9/19 at New York's Bijou Theater, with incidental music by Percy Gaunt and others in a production staged by Chicago-born showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., 25, who has engaged orchestras and musical attractions for the Columbian Exposition and profited handsomely by exhibiting the German strong man and physical culture exponent Eugene Sandow, 26; The Beavercoat (Der Biberpelz) by Gerhart Hauptmann 9/21 at Berlin's Deutsches Theater; Hannele's Trip to Heaven (Hanneles Himmelfahrt) by Hauptmann 11/14 at Berlin's Königliches Schauspielhaus.

Fanny Kemble dies at London January 15 at age 83; playwright-poet José Zorilla y Moral at Madrid January 23 at age 75; actor Edwin Booth at New York June 7 at age 59. He gave his final performance as Hamlet 2 years ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; actor-turned-manager Charles R. Thorne dies at San Francisco December 13 at age 79.