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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

Death

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."

Theatrical works

• 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. David Belasco was the stage manager in San Francisco.

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.

notes

• Queen Margaret's Sisters on the Yellowstone

• Morse lectures on "Jews and Jesus"

Filmography

• Passion Play, filmed in 1899 on the rooftop of the Grand Central Palace, New York

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

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.

Other publications

• San Francisco Illustrated Wasp

Vol. 4, September 20, 1879 (re-print), Forgotten Books (2017); OCLC 983928047

1908 manifest

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

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.