John Philip Kemble

would perform on stage. Other struggles these actors and actresses would have to face is that during the time of year that plays were available to go see they could have to be ready to perform in one hundred plays and need to know numerous parts. An example to show how difficult this must have been is that one actor performed in 149 plays having 47 different parts in only 177 nights. Since this was so difficult actors and actresses started having to develop a system to help their memory. Since acting was not yet perfected there was no commonly used system. Performers would have to find what worked for them. In an article found online it showed an example of this. Drury lane was opened in the spring of 1794 under the management of John Phillip Kemble. He was responsible to remember great amount in order to have the theatre run correctly. This included the superintendence of a large crew of house servants and workmen, being in control of the finances, advertising to the public, and he helped Macbeth become very popular. He would study the prologue consisting of about fifty lines and would be able to remember it in an extraordinary amount of time. This is only one case of someone in the theatre industry having a very difficult task. The amount of work that one would participate in if part of the theatre industry was incredible. Teamwork was key if theatre companies wanted to survive and the actors having to know so many parts. The performers would become very close and would…

Who Was Sousa? John Philip Sousa, also known as the “March King” lived from November 6, 1854 to March 6, 1932. Sousa was born in Washington D.C. and died at age 77 in Reading, Pennsylvania of a heart failure in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel. The day before, he had conducted a rehearsal with the Ringgold Band. They rehearsed “Stars and Stripes Forever”. His mom’s name was Maria Elisabeth Trinkaus and his dad’s name was John Anthony Sousa. Sousa married his wife, Jane van Middlesworth…

John Philip Sousa was considered the first American superstar by many. He was willing to try new things so he decided to resign from Marine Corp when he was 35 years old. He decided to start his own band called the Sousa Band. He formed a combination of the band by decided from the band that were more popular at the time. For 39 years the him and his band toured the country and the world by trains. John had been the leader of the United States Marine Band 12 years. John was starting to…

John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. on Nov.6, 1854. His father John Antonio Sousa was born in Spain, Portuguese and his mother Marie Elizabeth Trinkaus was born in Bavarian. His fame wasn’t an accident. His father was a trombonist with the United States Marine Band. By the time he was six, his musical talent had become apparent and he was enrolled for a year of solfeggio with a local Italian teacher. He was found to have absolute pitch, and so considered sufficiently gifted to begin…

John Philip Sousa was an American composer of the late Romantic era. He is most known today for his role in the American military and for his patriotic marches. Being an American composer greatly influenced his musical style, I think, as his music is very nationalistic. John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. on November 6th, 1854. His father, John Antonio Sousa, was Portuguese and his mother, Maria Elisabeth Trinkaus, was German. Sousa was the third of ten children. John Sousa began his…

the boys. Corrine was told by doctors that boys developed slower than girls. She was also told that twins developed their own language. The movie started out with the boys being children and ended when they were in high school. They did not have any form of verbal communication as children. One of the boys, Philip did however, repeat everything that he heard others say. They did not have any social interactions while at school or their home. They…

From the Private Journal of a Journey The events of American history are very much connected to the influence of American literature and what it has become today. The effects of the world around him/her mostly gather the inspiration that a writer needs, and this is how the geography and history of America have made an impact on American literature. When beginning to read From the Private Journal of a Journey by Sarah Kemble Knight I learned that it was a private note she had wrote in her journal…

from her father. In 1628 Bradstreet got married to Simon Bradstreet. Bradstreet immigrated to the new world with her husband, and parents in 1630. She had her first child in 1633. All together Bradstreet had a total of eight children. Three girls Dorothy, Sarah, and Hannah. Five boys Samuel, Simon, Mercy, Dudley, and John. Bradstreet poetry was quite conventional in style, form, and mainly dealt with history and politics. Her poetry expressed her commitment to the craft of writing. Her work…

grandeur and terror, they begin. It was 1924, at the middle of a decade-long economic boom. At the age of 25, Yale graduate Philip Fitzgerald, along with his divine girlfriend, Madeleine, journey on an afternoon train from the peaceful ambiance of New Haven, to the roaring traffic of New York City. He then settles in an inexpensive apartment condo in Brooklyn. Prior to this, he and his family were in a seven-month feud about their emigration. Philip, like any other fine gentleman, would…

In Afghanistan, boys are favored more than girls as they provided workers and soldiers. Since it is believed the Taliban (a terrorist group) are unjust in committing such evil deeds that affect a whole country and the innocent, are they naturally automatically evil? In his ted talk Philip Zimbardo-- How Ordinary People Become Monsters...Or Heroes, Philip Zimbardo reveals that bad apples are originally good, that people turn to bad, not because they are naturally “bad apples”, but because of the…