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R. H. Burnside

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Book WriterDirector 1870–1952

Robert Hubber Thorne Burnside (August 13, 1873 – September 14, 1952) was an American actor, director, producer, composer, and playwright. He was artistic director of the 5,200-seat New York Hippodrome from 1908 to 1923. He wrote and staged hundreds of dramas, musicals and theatrical spectacles.

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  • I brought W. C. Fields all the way from Australia and as good as his act was it didn’t fit in our book… [so] I cut out the entire scene. It represented the Automat Restaurant and the machinery in the scene cost $5,000, [from] which we lost also 100 costumes and also W. C. Fields. There was a riot at that rehearsal and nobody’d ever seen p…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
  • THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF IRA GERSHWIN Tryout: Reade’s Broadway Theatre, Long Branch, New Jersey, August 29, 1927; Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia, September 5, 1927. Closed without reaching New York. Music by George Gershwin. Produced by Edgar Selwyn. Book by George S. Kaufman. Book staged by R. H. Burnside. Dances staged by John Boyle. Orche…theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt

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