For Sale - Desperate Stages - New Brunswick's Theatre in the 1840's by Edward Mullaly tells the stories of three apparently unrelated men who ended their lives miserably after involvement in New Brunswick Theatres in Canada in the 1840"s. They were first, Thomas Hill, a Fredericton newspaper editor and playright. Second was Henry W. Preston, a threatrical troupe manager, who arrived in Fredericton in 1844. The thrid was Charles Freer, a wandering English actor and member of Preston"s threatrical troupe, who found himself working the New Brunswick stages. Thomas Hill died in poverty, Henry W. Preston jumped off a ferry landing in Albany New York, and Charles Freer in near starvation commits suicide in a tavern near London Bridge.

Desperate Stages - New Brunswick's Theatre in the 1840's by Edward Mullaly tells the stories of three apparently unrelated men who ended their lives miserably after involvement in New Brunswick Theatres in Canada in the 1840"s. They were first, Thomas Hill, a Fredericton newspaper editor and playright. Second was Henry W. Preston, a threatrical troupe manager, who arrived in Fredericton in 1844. The thrid was Charles Freer, a wandering English actor and member of Preston"s threatrical troupe, who found himself working the New Brunswick stages. Thomas Hill died in poverty, Henry W. Preston jumped off a ferry landing in Albany New York, and Charles Freer in near starvation commits suicide in a tavern near London Bridge.

Published in 1987 - appears to be a first edition. 113 pages. Good Condition.

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