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Girl I Left Behind Me, The
Girl I Left Behind Me, The (1893), an “American Drama” by David Belasco and Franklin Fyles. [Empire Theatre, 208 perf.] When American soldiers disrupt a Blackfoot Indian religious ceremony, the Native Americans, led by Jack Ladru or Scar Brow ( Theodore Roberts), plan their revenge. Their hope is to cut off communication between Fort Assinaboine and Post Kennion, both in Blackfoot territory in Montana, then attack the post, which is named after General Kennion ( Frank Mordaunt). The general's daughter Kate ( Sydney Armstrong) loves one of the post's officers, Lt. Edgar Hawkesworth ( William Morris), but his rival for Kate's hand, Lt. Morton Parlow ( Nelson Wheatcroft), spreads stories of Hawkesworth's cowardice. Only when Hawkesworth rides through the hostile Indian forces to call for relief are matters set right. Seeing Kate and Hawkesworth embrace, the General comments, “This looks like—union forever.” According to Belasco, producer Charles Frohman commissioned the play in order to open the Empire Theatre with an American work on a native theme. The drama's modern editors, Glenn Hughes and George Savage, remarked, “The keynote of the play was suspense, and it was suspense par excellence that Belasco's maturing art achieved in its production.” The play was revived regularly for a decade after its premiere. Franklin FYLES (1847?–1911) was born in Troy, New York, where he began his career as a newspaperman, then served as drama critic for the New York Sun for twenty‐five years. This was his first playwriting effort, but his subsequent works were generally not so well received, though some were popular: The Governor of Kentucky (1896), Cumberland '61 (1897), A Ward of France (1897), and Kit Carson (1901). He was also the author of The Theatre and Its People (1900).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Girl I Left Behind Me, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Girl I Left Behind Me, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-GirlILeftBehindMeThe.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Girl I Left Behind Me, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-GirlILeftBehindMeThe.html |
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Girl I left behind me, The
Girl I left behind me, The. The words can be traced back to the end of the 18th cent.; so can the tune, sometimes known as Brighton Camp. It is played in the Brit. Army on occasions of departure.
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Girl I left behind me, The." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Girl I left behind me, The." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-GirlIleftbehindmeThe.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Girl I left behind me, The." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-GirlIleftbehindmeThe.html |
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