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outoftowninac · 2 years

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THE PELICAN

1925

The Pelican is a play in four acts by F. Tennyson Jesse and H.M. Harwood. It was originally produced by A.H. Woods and staged by Fred Kerr starring Margaret Lawrence.

The play is a stirring drama of Wanda Heriot, a wife who does not measure up to the high ideals of the ancient English family she married into. With her child, Robin, she is cast out. The child is wrongly declared illegitimate and Wanda goes to France, where by hard work she brings up the child. At the age of seventeen, Robin visits England and the heritage of his ancient English family comes out in him. with a desire to enter the English Army. To satisfy this desire, the mother consents that his father be asked to aid him, and the father finds out that he falsely accused his wife, that the boy Is his, and prevails on Wanda to remarry him so that the boy can be considered his heir. At first she refuses, She has fallen In love with a Frenchman and is engaged to marry him, but like the pelican of the legend, she gives up her life of happiness for her boy.

"The female pelican will pluck her breast to feed her young with her own blood." ~ PROGRAM NOTE

The play originated in London at the Ambassadors Theatre in January 1925.

The Pelican premiered in the US at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City on September 14, 1925. It immediately moved to Broadway.

The play opened on Broadway on September 21, 1925 at the Times Square Theatre, a venue that opened in 1920 and closed after the stock market crash of 1929. On October 19th the play moved to the Plymouth Theatre (now the Gerald Schoenfeld) where it closed on November 14th after 65 performances.

In 1926, a silent film was made of the play titled Marriage License? The role originated by Margaret Lawrence was taken by Alma Rubens. The cast also included Walter Pidgeon. In the UK, the film was still known as The Pelican.

The film premiered in Atlantic City at the Virginia Theatre on the Boardwalk on September 11, 1926.

On June 9, 1929, Margaret Lawrence was shot dead by actor Louis Bennison in a murder-suicide after a drunken lover's quarrel.

#The Pelican #Margaret Lawrence #AH Woods #Atlantic City #Plymouth Theatre #Broadway Play #Broadway #Virginia Theatre #Boardwalk #Marriage License #1925 #Times Square Theatre

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broadwaydivastournament · 26 days

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This is who you voted against, by the way.

Hollywood Reporter interview with Patti LuPone - April 3, 2024

#patti lupone #i need this displayed on a times square billboard #no even better i need someone to hang a giant banner from the majestic theatre directly across the street from the st. james

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twoheadedfilmfan · 8 months

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A Goofy Movie playing in Time Square, 1995.

#a goofy movie #disney #1995 #1990’s #90s #movie theaters #movie theatres #time square #nyc #new york city #90s movies #90s cinema #90s animation #90s disney #beauty and the beast

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visit-new-york · 1 year

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The Empire Theatre is on the south side of 42nd Street, between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue near the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

234 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036

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kittensceilidh · 5 hours

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Now I'm settled into the airport, here is my masterpost of the Good Omens locations I managed to visit during my week in London thanks to @fuckyeahgoodomens and their fantastic Good Omens filming locations map

1. The Globe Theater (S1E3)

2. St. James Park bench (S1E1)

3. Duke of York Monument stairs (S1E1)

4. Battersea Park bandstand (S1E3)

5. Battersea Park walking path (S1E4)

6. Corner of Berwick St. and Broadwick St. in Soho that was copied for the layout of the Soho set and used in as the real world site of Aziraphale's bookshop on the Earth globe (S2E2)

7. Criterion/Masala Zone restaurant used for the Ritz (S1E6)

8. Tavistock Square used for Berkeley Square for the body swap scene (S1E6)

9. Enterprise pub where Crowley drinks after the bookshop fire (S1E5)

10. Sky Garden used for top floor of Heaven

#good omens #good omens bts #good omens filming locations #london #soho #st james park #battersea park #the globe theatre #Tavistock Square #Berkeley Square #london soho #neil gaiman #i think i have the episode numbers right #please correct me if I'm wrong #i have a terrible time remembering what happened in which episodes

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stefontv1 · 1 year

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HELLO MY FRIENDS! Your host for this evening, BALAN, have come with a little announcement. I've been in a very interactive mood lately. So I urge you all to ask me all your thought provoking questions. It can be about anything darlings. And I will be more than delighted to answer all your wonderful ponderings in a fabulous video. Ask away and ENJOY THE SHOW! Adieu

#artwork #cartoon #art #youtube #voiceover #balan #balan wonderworld #balan theatre #questions #character qna #qna time #qna #funny #fun #fun stuff #square enix #video games #video game

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voca1ion · 2 months

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Front and back of a 1923 Times Square Theatre playbill.

#history #nyc history #new york city #nyc #1920s #vintage nyc #broadway history #playbill #broadway #broadway theatre #times square #voca1ion

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girlwiththegreenhat · 1 year

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hey why is The Rialto Square Theatre the literal actual prettiest place in the fucking world

#liz blogs #rialto square theatre #architecture #neo baroque #(walks into this building) (is struck the fuck down in awe and wonder and amazement and starts running into people #because i am so absolutely amazed about Architecture that i cant see where im going)#need to take a tour need to take a tour need to take a tour need to take a tour need to t #all the gold foil... is real 24k gold foil...#i want to live in a house that looks like this #why did we stop building things that look like this #i've never been so enthralled looking at a ceiling before #weeps about a building #vintage #1920s #rents this place out just to wander aimlessly around for 6 hours #im too good for both men and marriage but if i weren't i would get married here #my brothers friend did that #i am so. insane #8 year old me coming here for an elementary school play for the first time: ohh this must be what new york is like #24 year old me coming here forgetting its the same place: ohhh this must be what new york is like

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gotankgo · 1 year

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«1987 - Harris Theatre (1914-1994) and Tad's (228 W 42nd St) $4.99 steak.

The majority of businesses evicted by Eminent Domain early 1990s were decades-old family businesses like Tad's, legit theatres and Broadway promoters. Tad's was replaced by Madam Tussaud's (2000).

Tad's was previously Italian Kitchen still open 1971+. This Tad's opened by 1974. The building once also housed Hubert's Museum (1925-1968) next door, replaced by Playland until 1977, followed by Peepland.»

#death wish 3 #I love death wish 3 #my favorite death wish film #1987 #Harris Theatre #nyc #times square #new york

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carcarrot · 1 year

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tour 😵‍💫

#LOSING MY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!#ohhhhh boy here we go .#oh god oh man etc #WAIT kicking and biting the nyc venue is different. from last year .#guys i am begging you why are you making me go all the way to the 70s. you just couldnt have made it easy #and made it near times square #like i get it. this is a nicer area. nicer theatre i get it!!! i just gotta get there #ohhh its time to start figuring it all out

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frogteethblogteeth · 1 year

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Stage photograph of the December scene in the ballet All the Year Round, created for the Alhambra Theatre, London, 21 January 1904

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travsd · 1 year

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For New Year's Eve: The Story of Times Square

For New Year’s Eve: The Story of Times Square

We pen this on New Year’s Eve, the one night of the year more than any other when all eyes are pointed in the direction of Times Square, the Crossroads of the World. I used to have a post on the topic; I have no idea where it went! But it’s fairly fresh in my mind, having prepared a walking tour of the area, and so I’ll draw from that for your edification. Read it now — you’ll have a headache…

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#Broadway #history #theater #theatre #Times Square #vaudeville

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simon-x-billy · 2 years

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Precisely why Simon will never set foot on 42nd street.

Fleet week! Saddle up, sailor.

Bottom left: The girl in black standing closest in foreground is entirely responsible for exposing me to my now-favorite band (twenty øne pilots) and I will never get a chance to thank her. I never even caught her name. She talked about them the way a musician talks about their favorite bands, and I knew. I just knew.

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theatretalks · 2 years

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Times Square, 1938

Photograph by Arthur W. Grumbine (1901-1998):

Grumbine donated his photographs to The New-York Historical Society.