Volume 1 — FIRST VENTURE IN NEW YORK.
Reading edition
The success gained in Chicago and other cities relieved the Belasco-Herne triumvirate from immediate pecuniary embarrassment, and notwithstanding the existence of a latent and growing antagonism the path to fortune seemed to have opened for them. From Chicago, after two weeks at Hooley’s Theatre, those managers carried their play to New York, an opening having been obtained through the agency of Brooks & Dickson (Joseph Brooks [1849-1916] and James B—— Dickson, now [1917] business manager for Robert B. Mantell), and “Hearts of Oak” was presented, for the first time in the metropolis, March 29, 1880, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre, then opened under the management of Edward E. Rice and Jacob Nunnemacher. This was the cast:
Terry DennisonJames A. Herne.
Ruby DarrellHarry Mainhall.
Uncle DavyWilliam H. Crompton.
Mr. EllinghamJ. W. Dean.
Owen GarrowayH. M. Brown.
Foreman of the MillJ. S. Andrews.
Clerk of the MillWilliam Lawrence.
Will BartonLillie Hamilton.
ChrystalKatherine Corcoran.
Aunt BetsyHenrietta Bert Osborne.
Little ChrystalAlice Hamilton.
TawdreyDollie Hamilton.
Mr. ParkerMr. Harvey.
TomJ. Sherman.
SleuthT. Gossman.
The BabyHerself.