Olympic Theatre
Event Information
Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
6 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
21 Nov 1864, 7:45 PM22 Nov 1864, 7:45 PM
23 Nov 1864, 7:45 PM
24 Nov 1864, 7:45 PM
25 Nov 1864, 7:45 PM
26 Nov 1864, 7:45 PM
Program Details
First time in America for Milky White. First time Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady. The ballad “Early Love” was “composed expressly for” Milky White (see AD: NYH 11/23/64).
H. T. Craven: Milky white (comic drama in two acts)
Includes: S. Musgrave: “Early love,” ballad composed expressly for the drama (Myers)
H. T. Craven: Milky white (comic drama in two acts)
Includes: S. Musgrave: “Early love,” ballad composed expressly for the drama (Myers)
Performers and/or Works Performed
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Citations
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“Mrs. John Wood has secured a treasure in her engagement of Mr. W. Holston, an English actor, who came to this city last summer. . . .Craven’s comic drama of “Milky White”—a name which signifies nothing—introduced Mr. Holston in the character of an old dairyman, Daniel White, nicknamed Milky White.”
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“At the Olympic last week, the chief attraction was a new and original drama, in two acts, by H.T. Craven, Esq. (author of the “Chimney Corner”), entitled “Milk White.” There is a home feeling about the drama, and we are led at once to believe that the characters are drawn from life. . . .[Myers] sang the ballad of Early Love with sweetness and feeling. “Milky White” may, in our opinion, be considered as worth ‘to be continued.’”