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A Romantic Drama, in Four Acts Entitiled: The Scarlet Letter, Dramatized From Nathaniel Hawthorne's Massively Romance (Classic Reprint)
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Exterior of a Prison, painted on flat. The building represents an old-fashioned wooden structure with wooden steps, leading up to an oaken door, with iron cross~bars across the centre. Black back ing used. On each side of the door are small windows with iron bars. On the right of the door, painted on the scene, is a rose bush, in full bloom, running up the face of the house. On each side of the house is a rough stone-wall eight feet high, with sharp iron pickets running along its top. Trees are seen beyond as if standing in the prison yard. The scene is strong in character. A crowd of men, women, squaws and children are discovered stand ing and sitting around in groups. Mistress Small, Gossip, Mary Mercy, Master Townsman, Rawson and others, Standing in centre of stage.
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Gabriel Harrison was an American actor. He was well-known for his play as the title character in Shakespeare's Othello. He was also prominent as a photographer, playwright, painter and writer; he opened numerous playhouses and Harrison & Hill photo gallery Brooklyn.
Background
Gabriel Harrison was born on March 25, 1818 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Charles P. Harrison, also an artist and engraver, and Elizabeth (Foster) Harrison, but he grew up in New York, whither his father removed in 1824.
He was of English descent. John Harrison, his great-grandfather, received an award from the British government for the invention of an important chronometer. His maternal grandfather wove the coronation robes of George III. William Harrison, grandfather, engraver to the Bank of England and mapengraver to the East India Company, came to America in 1794 to engrave notes for the State Bank of Pennsylvania.
At his home in Reade Street the elder Harrison kept open house for men of letters and the arts. He remembered playing under the piano when the great Malibran was practising, and - a precocious, impressionable child - listening to the talk of Fitz-Greene Halleck, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and John Howard Payne.
Education
At eleven Harrison scraped acquaintance with the aged Aaron Burr, who taught him to read aloud.
Career
At fourteen Harrison saw Forrest act and was "wild for the stage. " At seventeen he won amateur success with the American Histrionic Society, and at eighteen wrote a play.
His professional debut was made in 1838 at the National Theatre, Washington, as Othello to the elder Wallack's Iago and the Desdemona of Emma Wheatley. In 1845 he was supporting Charles Kean at the old Park Theatre, New York. Meanwhile, he had temporarily abandoned the stage for gainful occupations. He experimented successfully with Daguerre's newly perfected process, making portraits on silver which later won medals at the Crystal Palace, 1851, and the New York World's Fair of 1853.
In 1843 he opened a general store at the corner of Broadway and Prince Street. Here the impecunious Poe discovered him. Harrison later pictured himself and Halleck drying Poe's coat over a flour barrel while they plied the hungry poet with crackers and cheese, port and pleasant talk, in a sung nook among the tea chests. Harrison became one of Poe's few intimates.
While he was president of the White Eagle Club which aided Polk's election, Poe wrote for him a rousing campaign song. From 1848 Harrison was identified with Brooklyn, becoming a force in the dramatic, musical, and art life of the city.
He moved to Brooklyn in 1851, opened his own gallery in Brooklyn in 1852, and remained in photography until the early 1860s. His notable photographs include a daguerreotype of Walt Whitman that was engraved in the title page of Leaves of Grass, and California News, a daguerreotype noted for its staged narrative rather than being a simple portrait.
In 1853 he founded the Brooklyn Dramatic Academy, forming companies which played in towns about New York. In 1863 he opened the first established playhouse in Brooklyn, the Park Theatre, where he introduced his original device of concealed footlights. Here, in wartime, he launched the first American opera company with Theodore Thomas as conductor, scoring an artistic but scarcely a financial success. Thereafter he was often lessee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, appearing with William Florence, Matilda Heron, and James W. Wallack.
As secretary of the Brooklyn Academy of Design (1867), he promoted its free art schools. He helped to organize the Faust Club of actors, musicians, and authors (1872), and developed a dramatic department in the Long Island Historical Society, to which he gave his library of plays and manuscripts.
By his publication of The Life and Writings of John Howard Payne (1875), he aroused interest in the poet which resulted in the bringing of his body from Tunis to the United States. From boyhood devoted to painting, in landscape and portraiture, Harrison often sold his work to further some civic cause. He prepared a biography, Edwin Forrest, the Actor and the Man, which was privately printed in 1889, and painted a portrait of Forrest, his lifelong friend, as Coriolanus. He contributed the chapter on drama, music, and the fine arts to Stiles's history of Kings County, and was the author of several plays, including Melanthia, a tragedy written in 1866 for Matilda Heron. In 1878 he appeared as Roger Chillingworth in his own dramatization of The Scarlet Letter.
After a nervous illness persisting seven years, he gave his later life to the teaching of elocution and acting. He died of old age in Brooklyn.