Show EARLY HISTORY OF THE DRAMA In Shakespeare's time printed bills were stuck on posts post on which the title of the play was announced but neither the name of the tho author nor those of the actors Queen Quee Elizabeth paid twenty poun pounds s sto to have a special performance of Hope r The Swan theater one earliest playhouses in London was able to hold persons In Tn the tho Elizabethan period the theaters theaters the the- aters in England Englan had only one entrance no doubt for the purpose of simplifying the collection of the fees and rendering it difficult for the public to slip into the tho theater wit without ou p paying ying The performances at Athens in ancient ancient ancient an an- Greece be began bekan an at dawn and as several piel pieces es were produced one ono after the other these performances lasted the whole day clay On the days that the performances performances per per- were given i en all work was sus sus- t v put off imprisoned debtors set Ct free and 1011 arrests strictly prohibited Hed Long before fore sunrise sunrise sun sun- rise thousands of people assembled an and outside the theater noisy crowds row 19 of men women und and nd children congregated all nil bent hent upon enjoying themselves and eager agel to obtain the best seats scats Many i 6 rt t ff f f f 1 Jt 1 Y Mt i ti 4 I i f Jf sr J a A S It Y A p w r r 0 k t MISS BLANCHE DOUGLAS Who will appear as Tennessee in Pardner at the Grand next week of them brought their food with them and in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people copious quantities of fiery Greek wine was given to impecunious impe citizens by wily authors who endeavored to buy the applause of ofa a discriminating p public bh Queen Elizabeth advised all actors to I place themselves under the protection of f i N t WILLARD MACK I Who will appear as Caleb Swan a gambler in Pardner at atthe atthe atthe the Grand next week I some baron or other noble lest they be he adjudged ed and deemed rogues and Ya vaga- vaga a andL bands The Tie The forst foreign actor to play in England was an Italian comedian n. n who went to London in in January January January Jan Jan- uary 1577 Among the most famous fatuous of the first plays lays ever eer produced in England were I A A Dead Mans Man's Fortune Tamar Cam Gam Frederick and asilea and The The Seven Seyen Deadly Sins I Among the early arly actresses on the English Engish stage Joan Woodward oo ward was the most famous e eThe The ancient Greek th theatrical manager manager mana mann ger frer was known as a while the Greek term for the actor was Hypo- Hypo krites Sophocles before comin b becoming a a. poet was an indifferent actor A Polus the most famous actor in ancient ancient an an- Greece was wag the teacher of rhetoric rhetoric rhetoric rhet rhet- oric to Demosthenes |