One Hundred Wives Trade Card, circa 1885 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
One Hundred Wives Trade Card, circa 1885 / Shook Photos
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| 説明 | Date: Circa 1885Source Type: Trade CardPublisher, Printer, Photographer: J. M. W. Jones Stationery & Printing CompanyPostmark: Note ApplicableCollection: Steven R. ShookRemark: In 1880, One Hundred Wives, a play Gilbert A. Pierce co-wrote with James B. Runnion was released.One Hundred Wives was billed as "comedy-drama." The play captured the widespread anti-Mormon sentiment prevalent at the time and was strongly centered on the Mormon practice of plural marriage (polygamy).Numerous theater companies produced the play, the most notable being the Gosche-Hopper Company, which was co-owned and operated by DeWolf Hopper. Hopper was a rather famous actor and, ironically, married six times. One of his wives was gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. DeWolf Hopper is perhaps most famous for his recitation of Ernest Lawrence Thayer's Casey at the Bat.The play was considered very successful until 1890 when the Latter-day Saints banned plural marriages. Unable to capitalize on anti-Mormon sentiment, production companies stopped producing the play. However, in 1907 the play was revived and produced for several years before it once again disappeared from the American stage. Gilbert Ashville Pierce was born in East Otto, Cattaraugus County, New York, on January 11, 1839. He would move with his parents to Tassinong, Porter County, Indiana, in 1856. On April 23, 1861, Pierce enlisted in Company H 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. By the end of the Civil War, Pierce was commissioned a colonel and served as Inspector of the Quartermaster's Department for the United States Army.After the war, Pierce returned to Porter County and resided in Valparaiso where he started practicing law. He would later become editor for the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper. He would write several books and plays, with One Hundred Wives being one of his more successful productions.The similarities between John B. Runnion and Pierce are uncanny. Runnion was a native of Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Like Pierce, Runnion attended the "old" University of Chicago, quite possibly at the same time as Pierce. Runnion would enlist as a West Virginian volunteer cavalry regiment for the Union Army at the beginning of the Civil War and, like Pierce, rise to the rank of colonel. Runnion was a fellow employee of Pierce's at the Chicago Inter Ocean when One Hundred Wives was written.After the war, Runnion traveled to Europe and earned a degree in law from the University of Berlin. He would return to United States to become an associate editor of the Chicago Times, managing the literary and fine arts departments of that newspaper. From 1872 to 1874, Runnion would be the managing editor of The Chicago Tribune; he would conclude his career with the Kansas City Star.Copyright 2018. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook. |
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