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Windsor Theatre. Frank B. Murtha, Sole Manager. Eighth Regular Season... First Performance in New York of the Magnificent Chinese Heroic Drama, Shee-Long-Tan-Moo. (The Royal Slave)... [caption title]
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- Condition
- About very good.
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About This Item
[New York, 1889. About very good.. Broadside, 13.5 x 5.5 inches. Old folds, one closed edge tear. Broadside handbill for the Windsor Theatre on the Bowery in new York, advertising a performance of a Chinese drama. Following the caption title, the play is credited to "Koong Ming, a descendant of Confucius." There is a list of the cast of characters, notably played by Chinese actors, including Tak A Wing, "The greatest female impersonator in the world", in the role of the Princess Kung Joo. In high drama, General Yung -- married to the Princess -- goes north to fight the heathens where he is captured and forced to marry a local woman. He has a son by her, lives for five years, and returns to China to see his dying mother. While there, he learns insurrection has broken out and the Princess has fled. He returns north to gather heathen armies, march against the insurrection, and in the end is happily reunited with both his wives. The bottom of the handbill includes a diagram of the theatre's seating.
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- Bookseller
- McBride Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4171
- Title
- Windsor Theatre. Frank B. Murtha, Sole Manager. Eighth Regular Season... First Performance in New York of the Magnificent Chinese Heroic Drama, Shee-Long-Tan-Moo. (The Royal Slave)... [caption title]
- Author
- [Theatre]
- Book Condition
- Used - About very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- [New York
- Date Published
- 1889
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