| Great Britain 1895 (Nov) Cover to Elizabeth Marbury Empire Theatre Building NY
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| Cover addressed to Miss Elizabeth Marbury, Empire Theatre Buildings, Broadway & 40th Street, New York USA with QV 2½d Mauve on Blue Stamps with Squared Circle cancellation "BEDFORD STSO/7 PM/NO 4/1895" and backstamped "P.O.N.Y./K/11-18-95/S.D.(?)/PAID ALL" and sender`s oval stamp "MR ALFRED MOUL/19 SACKVILLE ST/PICADILLY/LONDON W." The Empire Theatre opened in 1893 with a performance of The Girl I Left Behind Me by David Belasco. In February 1927 actress Gail Kane and others were arrested following a performance of The Captive, which was considered indecent and a violation of Section 1140A of the New York City Criminal Code. The Empire continued to present both original plays and revivals, including the English premiere of The Threepenny Opera in 1933, until 1953. Its final show, The Time of the Cuckoo, closed May 30, 1953 after 263 performances. In the same month, the theatre hosted a benefit celebrating the sixty-year history of the Empire. Elisabeth "Bessie" Marbury (June 19, 1856 – January 22, 1933)[1] was a pioneering American theatrical and literary agent and producer who represented prominent theatrical performers and writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and helped shape business methods of the modern commercial theater. She was the longtime companion of Elsie de Wolfe (later known as Lady Mendl), a prominent socialite and famous interior decorator. Marbury`s clients ranged from the French Academy of Letters to playwrights Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw; to the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle. She was an early promoter of African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance. She also played an instrumental role in developing the modern "Book Musical" that audiences came to know as defining "Broadway" in the 20th century, notably of Cole Porter`s first musical, See America First,[5] and Jerome Kern (Nobody Home (1915), Very Good, Eddie (1915), and Love O` Mike (1917))through her American Play company.
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Item #: INV-113473
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