1913-14: Girls, Zira, Beverly of Graustark, A Butterfly on the Wheel, The Christian, The Brute, The Girl from Rectors, Checkers, The Great Divide, Power Behind the Throne, The Deserters, Leah the Forsaken, The Volunteer Organist. The Thief, The Dairy Farm, The Eternal City, At Piney Ridge, The Soul of a Woman, The Hand of the Law, Girl in the Taxi. Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, The Virginian, The Rosary, Mary Jane's Pa, Life's Shop Window, The Wrong Way, The Gamblers, The House of Lies, He Fell in Love with His Wife, The Man on the Box, The Divorce Question, The World and His Wife, Molly Bawn, For Fair Virginia, East Lynne, One Day, The Turning Point, The Moth and the Flame, Out of the Fold, The Decoy, Man-O-War's Man, Sold for Money.
1914-15: Tess of the Storm Country, Damaged Goods, The Conspiracy, Dawn of a Tomorrow, The Fortune Hunter, The Lure, The Melting Pot, Why Women Sin, The Blue Mouse, The Yoke, Hearts Aflame, Madame. X, Wildfire, The Banker's Daughter, For Her Children's Sake, A Wife's Secret, Madame Sherry, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Little Lost Sister, The Confession, Bought and Paid For, One Day, The Traffic, A Fool There Was, Maggie Pepper, The Argyle Case, Blindness of Virtue, Today, So Much for So Much, The Climax, The Misleading Lady, The Common Law, Man of the Hour.
Published Sources:
New York Dramatic Mirror, 1912-15.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 1912-15.
Archival Resources:
Free Library of Philadelphia. American Theatre file, George Barbier file, Philadelphia Theatre index.
Philadelphia, Pennyslvania. Philadelphia Theatre Collection.
Mari Kathleen Fielder
[GREENWALL'S] AMERICAN THEATRE STOCK COMPANY. The American Theatre Stock Company ( New York, New York), also known as Greenwall's American Theatre Stock Company, was organized in the spring and summer of 1900 by theatre owner and producer Henry Greenwall, who, with his partner Albert Weis, leased the American Theatre on Eighth Avenue and Forty-second Street in Manhattan. The American, which had opened in 1893, was a 1,900-seat proscenium house that had just been vacated by the Castle Square Opera Company after a successful three-year stint of presenting opera in English at popular prices. The American Theatre Stock Company opened on September 1, 1900, with a production of The Great Ruby, a melodrama by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton.
Henry Greenwall had begun his career as a theatre manager in Galveston, Texas, in 1867, and by the turn of the century was owner of a profitable circuit of theatres in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In the early 1890s Greenwall rented office space in New York City and created a free booking service for his own and other southern theatres. When A. L. Erlanger arrived in New York with no money, Greenwall loaned him $500 and gave him free office space. Erlanger repaid his kindness by securing for himself the exclusive right to book
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