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DOLLS' HOUSE A RARE BLEND OF COLORS FLORINE CRAGWELL SELLS A RAINBOW OF LITTLE PEOPLE
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MASHPEE - An elderly white man once walked into Florine Cragwell's
tiny shop called My Dolls to buy dolls for his grandchildren. He
began by counting the white dolls. He pointed, gazed past the darker
dolls, pointed again at another white doll, and uttered the next
number in sequence.
Finally, he stopped and asked, "Why do you have these white dolls?
You can get these anywhere."
"I told him we are all God's children," recalls Cragwell, 68,
whose store specializes in dolls of color. "White is a color."
Florine Cragwell has found a niche and a mission. In this little
gray box of a building about ...
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Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies
; ...three star actresses--Augustin Daly and Ada Rehan, Charles...Ada Rehan, who forced Daly (despite his opposition...a company manager like Daly, but the commercial producer...controlled theatre of Augustin Daly, Adams was free...
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Pleasures of Sex and Tech
Magazine article from: Novel
; ...Pleasures of Sex and Tech NICHOLAS DALY, Literature, Technology...Further, we enjoy it. Nicholas Daly's incisive book makes clear...stage in popular culture (3). Daly explains that from the Victorian...considers plays by Boucicault and Augustin Daly. He includes references...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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19TH-CENTURY `UNDER THE GASLIGHT' WILL BARREL DOWN MODERN TRACKS.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...anyway. Also, Victorian playwright/impresario Augustin Daly wants a stretch of the Hudson River, enough for a rowboat...barreling toward him. What could be more exciting? Augustin Daly (or perhaps his brother, Joseph, who was his anonymous...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Francesco Chiaromonte, composer and teacher, 1809; John Augustin Daly, playwright and theatrical manager, 1838; Max Liebermann...Carl Ludwig Emil Aarestrup, poet, 1856; Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer, painter, 1888; Sir Richard Wallace...
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Kim Marra. Strange Duets: Impresarios & Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama
; ...xiii-xxii) and contains eight sections: "Pioneering on the Theatrical Frontier: Augustin Daly's Early Ventures" (1-30); "A Troubled Republic: Daly and His Leading Ladies" (31-72); "Birds of a Feather: The Queer Theatrical Empire...
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EMOTIONS, OVERACTING HAVE A FIELD DAY IN `UNDER THE GASLIGHT'.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...touching. ``Under the Gaslight'' is an 1867 melodrama by Augustin Daly, a nearly forgotten genius who ``dominated the theatrical...the Gaslight,'' one of some 100 plays attributed to Daly, is generally considered to be his masterpiece. A 19th...
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Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, eds. Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama
; ...function of museums; by Kim Marra on the actor/manager Augustin Daly and his relationship with the actress Ada Rehan; by Lee...s Gustavus Vasa at the Federal Street Theater and John Daly Burk's Bunker Hill, or the Death of General Warren...
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Lost debut novel of Wilkie Collins in print at last
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...plots. It seems he gave the bound holograph to his friend Augustin Daly, an American theatrical impresario and an avid collector of such material. After Daly's death in 1899, it was sold for $23 to bookseller...
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The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Magazine article from: Gender Forum
; ...inclusivism as universal principles of progress. Valman's analysis of Rebecca's literary afterlife in works by Augustin Daly and Anthony Trollope, among others, leads to the identification of a pattern in which "narratives ostensibly about...
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Sister Carrie. (The People's Light and Theater Company, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...plot. Carrie's interpretation of a leading role in an amateur production of a popular melodrama of the period, Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight, leaves her two competing swains, Hurstwood and the salesman Charles Drouet, almost sick...
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