Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 174
I recalled that there had been a theatreon that site in 1761, where Hamlet wasplayed for the first time in America. Thishad been a theatre district in its time, for justaround the corner, where the lofty buildingstands opposite St. Pauls Chapel, P. T. Bar-num had his Museum and Moral LectureRoom;… … X^-^t Barnums Museum. Canal Street to go to West Broadway.There, close by the corner, on the west sideof the way, I stood before St. Alphonsuss OLD-TIME THEATRES Church, and wondered how many of thosewho passed every day knew that the finesttheatre in the America of its day had once
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