Irving and Terry prepare for their American tour

2 October 1883 · Otago Daily Times

Bram Stoker Estate account

Estate summary

This theatre-news column describes the London farewell to Irving’s company and outlines the forthcoming American tour with Ellen Terry. It reports enthusiastic audiences, the advance shipment of scenery and the actors’ planned separate New York debuts in The Bells and Much Ado About Nothing. The itinerary then names Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, St Louis, Cincinnati and Washington, with a possible later New York farewell. The report helps show the publicity and logistical scale of the first tour. It is an advance announcement: it cannot by itself establish that every proposed engagement occurred on the stated dates. Bram is not named in the relevant passage.

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Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Benedick and Beatrice — Irving and Terry as Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, a production named in the planned tour. Not a photograph of the tour.Library of Congress LCCN 97514042, chromolithograph; downloaded via Wikimedia Commons.