The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated 4 January 2019 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> From John Benjamin Morgan's PhD dissertation, " The Partnership of Stuart Robson and William H. Crane: American Comedians (New York)" , Abstract, University of Illinois, 1983: "For twelve and one-half seasons (January 1877 to May 1889), actors Stuart Robson and William H. Crane maintained a theatrical partnership which presented fourteen productions of contemporary comedies and "old comedies" to the American public. On the road and in New York, they developed into one of the most popular, financially successful, and critically acclaimed star attractions of the period. Contemporaries particularly cited two of their productions--The Comedy of Errors (1885-87) and The Henrietta (1887-89)--as standards of excellence in their field." "... Robson and Crane's partnership --largely overlooked by historians and analysts of the nineteenth century American t...