Bronson Howard

“ Diamonds, a comedy, produced in New York September 26, 1872, and Moorcroft or The Double Wedding, a comedy, played in New York, October 17, 1874, and partly suggested by a short story by John Hay, were not so significant as The Banker's Daughter, produced first at Hooley's Theatre, Chicago, September 4, 1873, as Lillian's Last Love, and under its final title at the Union Square Theatre, New York, September 30, 1878. This play, based on the theme of a woman's self-sacrifice for her father's sake, through which she marries a man she does not love, still holds the stage. ”

“ The citizens of Charleston knew almost the exact hour at which the attack on Fort Sumter would begin, and they gathered in the gray twilight of the morning to view the bombardment as a spectacle.—Nicolay, Campaigns of the Civil War, Vol. ”

“ The first of these to be performed was a dramatization of an episode in Les Miserables under the title of Fantine, which was played in Detroit in 1864. In 1865 Mr. Howard came to New York and after he had had the usual struggles to obtain a hearing, Augustin Daly put on Saratoga at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, December 21, 1870. The play was a great success, running one hundred and one nights. It is a comedy, bordering on farce, reflecting the manners of 1870 and concerned with the adventures of Bob Sackett, who is engaged to be married to four girls at once. ”