Posters for The Two Orphans ; The Two Orphans was one of the greatest theatrical successes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Les deux orphelines was written by the French dramatists Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon, and its first presentation was at the Theatre Porte St. Martin, Paris, in January 1874. Due to a previous misunderstanding, D'Ennery felt indebted to A. M. Palmer and Jackson N. Hart of the Union Square Theatre and by way of compensation granted them the U. S. production rights of the play. Translated into English and adapted by Jackson N. Hart, it was produced for the first time in that New York theatre, on December 21, 1874, where it enjoyed a tremendously successful run of 180 performances
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Posters for The Two Orphans ; The Two Orphans was one of the greatest theatrical successes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Les deux orphelines was written by the French dramatists Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon, and its first presentation was at the Theatre Porte St. Martin, Paris, in January 1874. Due to a previous misunderstanding, D'Ennery felt indebted to A. M. Palmer and Jackson N. Hart of the Union Square Theatre and by way of compensation granted them the U. S. production rights of the play. Translated into English and adapted by Jackson N. Hart, it was produced for the first time in that New York theatre, on December 21, 1874, where it enjoyed a tremendously successful run of 180 performances
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