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Title: Life, stories, and poems of John Brougham ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Brougham, John, 1810-1880 Winter, William, 1836-1917, ed Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
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Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Burton dynasty. Wrotefor his place Dombey and Son, Bunsbys Wedding, The Confidence Man, Don Csesar de Bassoon, Van-ity Eair, The Irish Yankee, Benjamin Eranklin,Alls Fair in Love, Irish Emigrant, Haunted Man,and other unconsidered trifles. Managed Niblos Garden. Wrote Home, a domesticfairy tale, and Ambrose Germaine, for Mile. Blangy.Opened Broughams Lyceum, Dec. 23, 1850. After abrilliant commencement, the demolition of the buildingnext to the theatre gave it an unsafe appearance, whichfrightened away the audiences; and finally a very dearfriend, by an adroit but perfectly legal proceeding, gotpossession of his lease, leaving him with a load of indebt-edness which mortgaged many years of his life-work. Hehad the satisfaction, however, of paying every dollar, and,as soon as that task was accomplished, thought he was en-titled to take a holiday: so visited Europe, intending onlyto be absent a few months; but, the war occurring in themean time, he determined to remain away as long as it
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SYNOPSIS OF broughams CAREER. 65 lasted, not wishing to be a witness to the fratricidal strife.Advocated the integrity of the Union throughout, andopposed strenuously the madness of the projected dis-memberment. While at his Lyceum wrote David Copperfield, TheWorlds Fair, Faustus, Spirit of Air, Eow at theLyceum, Actress of Padua, for Miss Cushman. Whenhe was ejected from Broadway, tried the Bowery, but wasa little too refined for that lax latitude. Presented the pea-nutters with a magnificent Shakespearian revival, — mount-ing King John as it has scarcely ever been given, — Mr.and Mrs. Davenport, Wm. Wheatley, J. B. Howe, andMiss Eeignolds being in the cast, together with one hun-dred and fifty auxiliaries; scenery by Hilliard, in his beststyle. No go. Descended to the sensational, with betterresults. Wrote The Pirates of the Mississippi, whichknocked the divine Williams silly. Followed, in quicksuccession, by The Gun-maker of Moscow, The EedMask, Orion the Gold-beater, Tom and J

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