Jack Langrishe

Jack (John) S. Langrishe (or Colonel " Jolly " Jack ) (* 1839 in New York; † 12 December 1895 in Wardner, Idaho ) was an American actor and director of a theater group that moved through the Wild West.

Life

The Langrishe Allen St. Joseph Theatre Company played from 1859 until the early 1860s, inter alia, in Missouri, Kansas, Topeka and Junction City. Among the productions of the group included the pieces Ten Nights in a Bar Room, Lady of Lyons, Hamlet, Ingomar the Barbarian, Uncle Tom 's Cabin or Othello.

Langrishe and his wife Jenette ( also an actress ) operated from 1862 to 1876 together with Mike J. Doughterty the Colorado Denver Theatre, with over 1,000 seats. To outside of the seasons to have income, taught Langrishe in the lower part of the theater one a saloon.

1870 built Langrishe Langrishe the Opera House in Helena, Montana, which he operated until it was destroyed in 1874 by fire.

In July 1876 reached Langrishes actor troupe Deadwood. First, the group in the former brothel and saloon Bella Union occurred, but soon attracted in its own theater, the Deadwood Theatre, where the trial of Jack McCall, had been the murderer of Wild Bill Hickok held. The performances of the group were very successful, and so was the theater, which was the day also often used for court cases, soon became too small. 1878 Jack Langrishe bought a larger building, the Langrishe Theatre, in the Sherman Street to the south Dead Woods. On the stage of the new theater were, inter alia, famous greats like Fanny Price, Charlotte Cushman, Jim and Belle Gilbert, Augusta Chambers and Viola Porter to see.

1879 to the end of the gold rush, also took the success slowly. The last production of the Langrishe Theatre in Deadwood was Our American Cousin on August 14, 1879. ( The theater building was destroyed in the great fire of Deadwood on 26 September, 1879. ) Then pulled the entire theater troupe to Leadville, where they on 20 November 1880 occurred in the brand new Tabor Opera House.

1886 Langrishe was elected in Idaho Coeur d' Alene to the judge. In 1891 he was editor in chief of Wardner News.

Estelline Bennett wrote in her book Old Deadwood Days:

"The Langrishe theater left on unforgettable memory in Deadwood Gulch after three years of investigation acting as mighthave been Offered To Puritan playgoers and metropolitan critics. Jack Langrishe and his wife are the only actors in the history of theater who, givenName the choice, prefferd the mountains of the West to Broadway. "

Quote

During a snowstorm in 1876 or 1877 Jack Langrishe wrote:

Oh, the stove, the beautiful stove,

Heating the room below and above,

Broiling, roasting and keeping warm,

Beautiful stove, you can do no harm.

Fill her up to thaw your toes,

Fill ago to thaw the end of your nose,

Open the damper and let her go,

She'll soon knock the hell out of beautiful snow!

Film

In the TV series Deadwood is embodied Jack Langrishe by Scottish actor Brian Cox.

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