Letter from George Riddle to May Wright Sewall.
| Description: |
Expresses regrets over Mr. Sewalls death. Will be in St. Louis on Sunday.George Riddle (1851-1910), elocutionist and actor. He debuted in Boston in 1875 playing Romeo, and became attached to several stock companies in Boston, Philadelphia, and Montreal. From 1878 to 1881 he was an instructor of elocution at Harvard. He gave readings of literature in cities across the U.S. Among his most successful were Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream with Mendelssohns music, Byrons Manfred with Schumanns music, and Oedipus Tyrannus with the music of John K. Paine. |
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| Origin: | 1900-10-25; 1900 |
| Created By: |
Riddle, George Peabody, 1851-1910 |
| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/mws/id/1386 |
| Collection: |
May Wright Sewall Papers |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
This item is in the public domain. |
| Subjects: |
Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 Riddle, George, 1851-1910 Elocutionists |
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