Nye and Riley
Contributors: Nye, Bill, 1850-1896; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1888
Language: eng
Description: Nye and Riley, Masonic Temple, November 17, 1888. The platform team for 1888-9 Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley. Messrs. Nye and Riley will give one of their inimitable performances in this city at Masonic Temple, Saturday evening, November 17th, 1888.
Notes: Masonic Temple, November 17, 1888.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: James Whitcomb Riley, Bill Nye.

LC copy has handwritten note: "Miss Wilson & I".

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Programme. I. Simply a personal experience / Bill Nye; title: II. Studies in Hoosier dialect / James Whitcomb Riley; title: III. At this point Mr. Nye will interfere with an anecdote; title: IV. The poetry of commonplaces / James Whitcomb Riley; title: V. A reading from one of the author's literary gems, given without notes and no gestures to speak of, [an supplementary caption after quotation] / Bill Nye; title: VI. Character sketch / James Whitcomb Riley; title: VII. A story from simple life / Bill Nye; title: VIII. Child eccentricities / James Whitcomb Riley; title: IX. Something else / Bill Nye; title: X. The educator / James Whitcomb Riley.