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Salmi Morse (né Samuel Morse; 1826 – 22 February 1884 Manhattan, New York City) was an American gold prospector and playwright.

Life

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Death

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Morse was found dead, face down, floating in the Hudson River at 88th Street on February 22, 1884. Morse had been lodging at the home of Mrs. Isabella Gault (1826–1896), a former dressmaker, at 65 West 21st Street. Late February 29, 1982, a coroner's jury in the Salmi Morse inquest, after a half-hour deliberation, returned a verdict of "accidental drowning."[1]

Theatrical works

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  • The Passion Play, in ten acts, first published in San Francisco in 1879
Morse's Passion Play was controversial from its inception.
1879, first produced in San Francisco in 1879. James O'Neill (1847–1920), father of playwrite Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953), was arrested on April 16, 1879 – three days after Easter Sunday – in San Francisco for playing the role of Jesus Christ.[2][3] David Belasco was the stage manager in San Francisco.[4]
1883: Produced again in New York March 24, 1883, on West 23rd Street, Manhattan – a theater that had been known as "the Armory," an old structure previously used a "Dr. Sause's church," on the north side of 23rd Street, at Sixth Avenue. The building ran through to 24th Street. Morse, in 1882, leased, with two hotel men, the theater and began living there. The building, after a major renovation, became known as Morse's Hall. The premier resulted in the arrest of Salmi Morse, a Jew, on a misdemeanor charge, for producing a play without a license from the New York Corporation Council, headed by New York's first Catholic Mayor, William Russell Grace, who refused to issue a license. In defense of his misdemeanor charge for performing without a license, Morse argued that it had been a private performance. Morse, in the play, attempted to represent on stage the life, crucifixion, and death of Jesus Christ. But, it came off as a satire on Christian, Jewish, and pagan themes – which in those days was blasphemous. Morse objected to calling his play sacrilegious.[5][6][7]
notes
  • Queen Margaret's Sisters on the Yellowstone
  • Morse lectures on "Jews and Jesus"

Filmography

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Director: Henry C. Vincent
Photographer: William C. Paley (1857–1924)
Producers: Richard G. Hollaman (1854–1929), Albert Grammer Eaves (1847–1900), and Thomas Edison
Cast: Frank Russell (1857–1925) (as Jesus), Frank Gaylor (as Judas), Fred Strong (as Pilate)
Curator: Museum of Modern Art[8]
Not to be confused with Oberammergau and the Passion Play of 1910, produced by Henry Ellsworth (né Harry Ellsworth Feicht; 1862–1918), filmed at the New York Hippodrome)
Henry Ellsworth Feicht, formerly manager of the Dayton (Ohio) Opera House, began a series of Lenten lectures at the Vaudeville Theatre, New York, February 29, 1904, on Oberammergau, its people, and its passion play, accompanied by moving pictures and music of its plays.[9]

Other publications

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  • San Francisco Illustrated Wasp
Vol. 4, September 20, 1879 (re-print), Forgotten Books (2017); OCLC 983928047

1908 manifest

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SS Etruria, departing July 22, 1908, from Liverpool, arriving July 30, 1908, in New York
The Girls of Gottenberg, Knickerbocker Theatre: 2 September 1908 – 28 November 1908 (103 performances)
  • James MacGibbon, manager
  • Esther Rebecca Robinson, actress
  • Ernest Cossart (1876–1951), actor
  • Warwick Wellington, actor
  • Henry Vincent (né Henry Rojas; 1877–1962), actor, mother lives at 35 Oppidans Road, London
  • Ridgwell Cullum (1867–1943), actor
  • Overton Moyle, bariton
  • Edith Kelly, actress
  • Thomas Reynolds, stage manager

Agnes Palmer

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The Middleman, "An Original Play of Modern English Life" by Henry Arthur Jones. Produced at various theatres (1890) starring E.S. Willard, Charles Harbury, Harry Cane, Sidney Booth, Maxine Elliott, Charles Mackay, Ila Irvine, J. Logan, Agnes Palmer, Royce Carleton, Harry Barfoot, Percy Winter, etc.
1900: Leading role as Lady Babbie in The Little Minister, written by J. M. Barrie; toured in 1900 and 1901, produced by Charles Frohman.
1904: When Knighthood Was in Flower, a romance revival, written by Paul Kester, from the novel by Charles Major. Empire Theatre: 2 May 1904 – May 1904 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Adelaide Alexander, Herbert Budd, George S. Christie, Thomas L. Coleman, Frank Dodge, Ralph Lewis, Thomas Lindsay, Julia Marlowe (as "Mary Tudor"), E.W. Morrison, Agnes Palmer, Tyrone Power Sr., Charles Recrem, Frank Reicher, Charles Townsend, Fred Tyler, Gwendolyn Valentine, Nella Webb, Paul Weigel, Katherine Wilson, Eugenie Woodward, J. Carrington Yates. Produced by Charles Frohman.

References

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  1. ^ "Passion's Play – The Sad Ending of the Life of Salmi Morse: The Romantic Sequel as Brought Out by the Coroner's Investigation," National Police Gazette, March 15, 1884, p. 7
  2. ^ Chapter 2: "Ben-Hur, Biblical Fan Fiction," Playing God The Bible on the Broadway Stage, by Henry Bial, PhD, University of Michigan Press (2015); OCLC 6732662924, 7830444155
  3. ^ Chapter 3: "Behold the Lamb," Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America, by Jill Stevenson, University of Michigan Press (2013); OCLC 7830523413, 6732662923
  4. ^ Chapter 5: "A Priestly Acting Pedagogy," Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914, by Kim Marra, University of Iowa Press (2009); OCLC 7830204766
  5. ^ Salmi Morse's Passion, 1879–1884: the History and Consequences of a Theatrical Obsession (dissertation), by Alan W. Nielsen, City University of New York (1989); OCLC 263157055
  6. ^ "The Passion Play" (encyclopedia article), The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press (2004); OCLC 4811173041
  7. ^ "Passions and the Passion Play: Theatre, Film and Religion in America, 1880–1900," by Charles Musser, Film History (Indiana University Press), Vol. 5, No. 4, December 1993, pps. 419–456; JSTOR 27670734; OCLC 5543980640; ISSN 0892-2160
  8. ^ The Passion Play (film), Henry C. Vincent (director), William C. Paley (photographer); Richard G. Hollaman (1854–1929), Albert Grammer Eaves (1847–1900), and Thomas Edison (producers), Frank Russell (1857–1925) (cast as Jesus), Frank Gaylor (cast as Judas), Fred Strong (cast as Pilate); curated by the Museum of Modern Art (1899); OCLC 317397887
  9. ^ "Vaudeville" (re: Henry Ellsworth Feicht), The Billboard, Vol. 16, No. 11, March 12, 1904, p. 3