Douglass, David Reference library
Peter Davis
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
..., David ( d.1786 ) Anglo-American actor-manager . Although little is known of his early life, it seems that Douglass first appeared in Jamaica in the late 1740s as part of an English troupe ( see Caribbean theatre, anglophone ). Sometime between 1754 and 1758 he married the widow of Lewis Hallam , head of the first professional company to tour British North America. As the company's new actor-manager, Douglass played the Atlantic seaboard in 1758 . He built the Southwark in Philadelphia , the first permanent playhouse in the USA, and the...
Douglass, David Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
..., David (?– 1786 ), American actor-manager who in 1758 met and married the widow of the elder Hallam in Jamaica. Amalgamating his actors with hers, he took them back to New York, named them the American Company , and built first a temporary theatre on Cruger's Wharf, another in Beekman Street, and finally a permanent one in John Street . He was also responsible for the erection of the first permanent theatre in the United States, the Southwark in Philadelphia , and for theatres in a number of towns which he visited. Under Douglass's management...
Douglass, David (1786) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
..., David (d. 1786 ), manager and actor . The Englishman began his theatrical career when, at the last minute, he was selected to supervise a new company to play in Jamaica. By coincidence, a company led by Lewis Hallam Sr. was also playing on the island, so the troupes merged, Hallam died, and Douglass married Mrs. Hallam . The company came to New York in 1758 , where it built a new playhouse, and soon was traveling up and down the coast playing in Philadelphia, Annapolis, Newport, and elsewhere. Douglass was not a distinguished actor (by...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
..., David Bates ( 1790–1849 ) American military-engineer who designed the layouts of Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NYC ( 1838–48 —four times the size of Père-Lachaise , Paris), and Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, NY ( 1841–5 ). He deserves to be considered as one of America’s foremost pioneers of landscape- architecture in the first half of C19. J.Curl ( 2004 )...
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Fenner Douglass, Barbara Owen, Barbara Owen, and David Fuller
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
...‘The Harpsichord Culture in Bach’s Environs’, Bach Perspectives , vol.4, ed. R. Stinson and G. Butler (Lincoln, 1999), 57–77 J. Koster : ‘A Netherlandish Harpsichord of 1658 Re-examined’, GSJ , vol.53 (2000), 117–39 Fenner Douglass / Barbara Owen (I, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7); Barbara Owen (I, 6, 8); David Fuller (II) ...
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