LOUIS LEAVITT JAMES - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 12/31/1865 CO-SIGNED BY: FRANK J. EVANS, GEORGE JOHN WOOD - HFSID 304554
Price: $200.00
GEORGE J. WOOD, LOUIS L. JAMES and FRANK J. EVANS
All three 19th century thespians sign an album leaf, with James
adding a sentiment.
Autograph Quotation signed: "When this you see, Remember me
-/Louis Leavitt James/Dec. 31st, 1865", "F. J. Evans", and on verso
"Geo. John Wood", 5¼x7¾. LOUIS L. JAMES (1842-1916) began his
professional stage career with a Louisville stock company in 1863, moving to
Philadelphia in 1872. In 1886 he formed his own company, specializing in road
tours of Shakespeare's plays. He appeared in five Broadway revivals between
1899 and 1905: two each by Shakespeare (Macbeth, A Winter's Tale)
and Sheridan (The Rivals, School for Scandal), and Oliver
Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. Producer and theatre manager GEORGE
JOHN WOOD had his own New York theatre, Wood's Museum and Metropolitan,
which ran 30 burlesque productions between 1868 and 1872. Wood ran into trouble
when his sister and law and former employee Olivia Logan launched a "morals"
campaign against burlesque in general and Wood in particular, resulting
eventually in the closing of Wood's theatre. FRANK J. EVANS appeared in
one of Wood's productions, Flock Flock (1869), a burlesque extravaganza
with a book by Rita Sangalli. Lightly frayed at left edge. Lightly toned.
Lightly creased. Light foxing. Lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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