Pioneer western playbills.
Contributors: Fenton, Frank L.; Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner.; Book Club of California.; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Keepsake series (Book Club of California) ;; 1951.
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 1951
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Playbills -- West (U.S.); Theater -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Notes: "Number fourteen in the series of keepsakes issued to the Book Club of California, consists of facsimiles [laid in] of twelve important early western theatre programs ... The accompanying texts are written by various authorities ... Limited to eight hundred and fifty copies"--Colophon.
Table of contents: title: No. 1. A performance of Camille with Julia Dean Hayne; title: no. 2. A performance of Mazeppa with Adah Isaacs Menken; title: no. 3. The grand opening of the California Theater, San Francisco, January 18, 1869; title: no. 4. The appearance of Lotta in Little Nell and the marchioness; title: no. 5. The appearance of Laura Keene in London assurance; title: no. 6. A performance of As you like it with Annette Ince and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.; title: no. 7. A performance at Topliffe's Theater, Virginia City, Nevada, September 22, 1862; title: no. 8. The first American performance of La boheme at the "New" Los Angeles Theater, Los Angeles, October, 1897; title: no. 9.  The first dramatic presentation in San Francisco, The wife, a tale of Mantua; title: no. 10. The first performance on the Pacific coast of H.M.S. Pinafore with Alice Oates; title: no. 11. Farewell complimentary testimonial to Stephen Massett "Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville"; title: no. 12. The appearance of Lola Montez at the American Theater, San Francisco, June 2, 1853.