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"A Moral
Crime"
Playbill
with Joseph Haworth as Philippe Count
d'Albert
Columbia Theatre,
Chicago
August 3, 1885
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Joseph
Haworth & "A Moral Crime"
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After a
Chicago try-out engagement in August
of 1885, A Moral Crime opened
at New York City's Union
Square Theatre in September of the
same year. In the Elwin A. Barron and
Morgan Bates melodrama, Joseph Haworth
played Phillippe, Count d'Albert, a
young military hero in the time of
Louis XVI. Portraying the character of
Jules Garmont was Joe's close friend E.
H. Sothern. The Union Square was a
popular house and manager J. M. Hill
anticipated a success, but A Moral
Crime far exceeded his
expectations and had a long run. In the aftermath
of John McCullough's
death and the Boucicault lawsuit over Robert
Emmet, it was an important success
for Joseph Haworth and his first hit in New York as a
leading man. |
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