Many of the leaders of the Hungarian Revolution were part of this network. Fearing unrest in his own backyard, Nicholas agreed. The Magyar idealists were no match for the might of the Russian army and were crushed in August Encouraged by his parents, young Imre showed a talent for dancing.
At the age of four he was already appearing on stage. They settled in Berlin first, before moving to Paris. Having adopted the stage name Kiralfy, Imre and his younger brother Bolossy started touring Europe as Hungarian folk dancers with other members of the family. Their first foray as producers came in with the pantomime Humpty Dumpty at the Olympic Theatre, Broadway. They went on to produce extravagant stage shows with large chorus lines, elaborate costumes, and special effects.
It turned out to be an immense success. Historians consider their version of The Black Crook a prototype of the modern musical as song and dance are organically interspersed throughout a unifying story line. In Judaism, the interaction of language and music has theological significance. Melody and chant are integral parts of worship. There are specific tunes for morning, afternoon, and evening prayers.
The Torah is not read during service — it is sung. This central place of linguistic musicality in Jewish culture continued even as Yiddish supplanted Hebrew over time. Yiddish is a Germanic language with a strong Hebrew-Aramaic component and a vocabulary deriving from Slavic tongues.
Verbal mastery led to a wealth of political journalism; the emergence of a distinct theater tradition; and the molding of wordsmiths. Modern Yiddish literature developed in the nineteenth century. Newspapers served as vehicles of social emancipation by publishing serialized novels, sketches and essays.
The process of Jewish acculturation in New York was carried out through the institutions of the Yiddish language. At the same time, most newcomers saw little sense in preserving the autonomy of Yiddish and were committed to adapt English in their determination to integrate.
The stage played a crucial role in that process, while also providing the metropolis with some of its finest actors, playwrights, scenic artists, and comedians. In Romania, composer Abraham Goldfaden had begun turning popular Yiddish songs into musical plays by connecting them with story lines. Acrobats, musicians, thespians, equestrians: all aspired to appear on his stage. When the Garden burned to the ground in , it was rebuilt and re-opened ever more magnificent in , and then incorporated into the site of the Metropolitan Hotel when it was built in A devout Episcopalian, Niblo was instrumental in the founding of Calvary Episcopal Church on Park Avenue South and 21 st Street, where to this day one can sit in his pew , and see his name inscribed as donor on the large stained glass window dedicated to his dear friend and one-time pastor of Calvary, the famed cleric of mid-century America, Reverend Francis Lister Hawkes.
Niblo was a warden and vestryman of Calvary and a substantial donor over the years. Sadly, Martha King Niblo died in , childless, and William never re-married. He was said to have visited the mausoleum he built for her and their family members in on a daily basis, especially after his retirement from the theater business in Maffitt, W. Bartholomew, E. Valade, Mlle. Clara Leontine. The three grand ballets under direction of Madame Kathi Lanner [sic], with Mlle.
Pitteri , the celebrated premier danseuse. Of course you guess why I did so. Where all the world goes, I must go. I must have grown up with very erroneous ideas respecting the natural distinctions of the sexes. If Lulu be not a woman, she bears a very striking resemblance to all the representations by best authorities of our mother Eve as distinguished from the representations of our father Adam.
The popular parts of the house were crammed. At an early stage of the entertainment Lulu made her entrance. There is much that is attractive in her personal appearance.
She was effectively costumed in a rich crimson tunic and pink silk fleshings, her arms and neck being bare. She also wore pretty little shoes of white satin.
Everybody clapped her. Immediately afterwards she mounted aloft, and went through a number of feats on the trapeze, a minute description of which would sound odd enough, performed as they were by one of the fair sex. The spectators, however, were filled with wonder and delight at the grace, agility, and courage of Lulu. Her great feat, however, the one that was so much talked about at the time of her debut , is her vertical leap from the stage to a small platform, swung on ropes, about thirty feet above.
Just as the leap takes place smell screams proceed from various parts of the house, but Lu-Lu [sic] invariably alights on the platform above. How this leap is effected is a question which always causes a good deal of speculation. I have my own opinion on the subject, but I would rather that my readers who have not yet see Miss Lulu should do so, and form a perfectly independent opinion.
Managers are therefore invited to make Engagements with this World-renowned Artiste , especially in those Cities and Town[s] not yet visited by Lulu. Hodson Stanley, Business Manager, en route. BATH, October 18th, In the leap to the roof of the circus, the spring of the machinery by which she is impelled upwards failed to send her the requisite height, and she missed the cross bar.
The netting which should shoot out under her failed to work, and she fell on the edge of the platform with great violence. She was carried from the place insensible. Several persons almost fainted, and there was a general cry from the audience to lynch the manager who had introduced her. A great panic prevailed in the theatre for several minutes after the occurrence.
It is stated that Lulu is almost completely recovered from the effect of the severe fall. Eighth wonder of the World. Free List press excepted entirely suspended. It has lots none of its charm, none of its daring, none of its accuracy; and the pleasure to be derived from witnessing it is enhanced by the presence of the magnificent nets fitted up under the watchful direction of M.
Farini , and by the knowledge that all danger is thereby precluded. The upward flight through space is as startling as ever, and its accomplishment is nightly provocative of applause which we imagine may be heard at the Bank or at Kingsland-gate. Henry Lee might say…. Zazel was there off duty studying her rival, and chatting with Mr. After his retirement as an acrobat Lulu became a photographer and eventually settled in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he opened a studio.
He was shot out of a cannon. Hodson , Clara Leontine , E. She lived on her paternal estates near Richmond, Virginia, and was brought up in the mollesse of the old southern aristocracy. During the war the paternal estates wee melted in the crucible of the Confederacy, and Miss Edwin turned pluckily to self-support. First she tried literature, and became well known in the internal newspaper world as a song writer.
Then she set about writing music for her sons, and the orchestral world began to know her. She wrote waltzes and fantasias, and in all acquitted herself well. Next she took to the stage, and in two years or so from a brilliant beginning, reached the degree of manageress in her own right.
An opportune legacy has set her right pecuniarily, but it did not arrive until she had got well into the expense list of her ledger on behalf of the public amusement, and now she will appear in her new capacity as manager.
She subsequently gave her name to a theatre at Broadway, New York, which became well-known for burlesques and other popular entertainment but in December was burnt to the ground. She became a great favourite there, remaining until October She continued her career in Australia until her death in About two months ago the deceased lady was seized with an apoplectic fit on the stage of the Theatre Royal [Melbourne], which resulted in paralysis, from which she was recovering, but to-day she was seized with a second attack of apoplexy, and rapidly sank.
Holt is at present in Sydney. Lingard Leave a Comment ».
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