Theater playbill for John Brougham in "Columbus el Filibustero," "Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" and "A Kiss in the Dark" at the Washington Theatre, March 29, 1858
Contributors: Brougham, John, 1810-1880; Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879; Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office; Washington Theatre (Washington, D.C. : 19th century); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office, D street, bet. 6th & 7th sts.
Published: 1858
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Other titles: Columbus el Filibustero; Most unwarrantable intrusion; Kiss in the dark; Jno. Brougham for one week more!; Most unwarrantable intrusion.
Description: Washington Theatre. Lessee Mr. Stuart ... Jno. Brougham for one week more! The immense success attending the performances of this distinguished author & actor compels the managment to announce him in a new series of his delightful original impersonations. Monday Evening, March 29th, '58 will be presented for the first time in  this city, Brougham's last new and audaciously original historical plagiaristic, ante-national, pre-patriotic, and orni-local confusion of circumstances, running through two acts and four centuries, entitled "Columbus el Filibustero!" ... Previous to the burlesque, Mr. John Brougham will again perpetrate his "Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" on Mr. Whiting. To conclude with the laughable afterpiece of a "Kiss in the Dark" ...
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

Cast: Columbus el Filibustero: Ferdinand, King of Arragon: Mr. Dunn, Juan Roderigues de Fonseca: Mr. Whiting, Fernando de Talavera: Mr. Howard, Luis de St. Angel: Mr. Jones, Alonzo De Quintanella: Jackson, Don Christoval Colon, alias Columbus: John Brougham, Diego: Mrs. Stoneall, Vasco Nunez: Mr. Moxley, Hernando Cortez: Mr. Sommers, Amerigo Vespucci: Mr. Smith, Ponce de Leon: Mr. Tomkins, Sancho Ruis: Mr. Russell, Pedro Nino: Mr. Tree, Bartolomeo: Mr. J. Whiting, Juan Perez: Mr. Brady, &c., &c.: Robinson, Isabella: Miss Tree, Columbia: Mrs. Sloan, Little Miss Kansas: Miss Constitution. All sorts of elements: New York: Miss Hall, Pennsylvania: Miss Smith, Virginia: Miss Rodgers, North Carolina: Miss Jones, Connecticut: Miss Tompkins, Vermont: Miss Dubois, Washington: Miss Jerome, Massachusetts: Miss Nixon, Marland: Miss Le Brun, New Jersey: Miss Wright, New Hampshire: Miss Logan, Rhode Island: Miss Seacore, Washington: Mr. F. Bangs.

Cast: Kiss in the dark: Selim Pettibone: Mr. J.M. Dawson, Frank Fathom: Mr. C. Howard, Mrs. Pettibone: Mrs. Stoneall, Mary: Miss Tree, Unknown Female: Miss Cross.

"In rehearsal, Brougham's famed comedies, 'Romance and Reality,' and 'The Game of Love' " ...

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).