Who was Sidney Rose?

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Who was Sidney Rose?

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1Randy_Hierodule
Editado: Mar 19, 2008, 2:41 pm

I do not know if this is the right place to ask this question, but here goes: can anyone tell me who Sidney Rose was and what his role was in the NYC production of Simon Gantillon's Maya (1927 or 28)?

Yale informs me he was working on a book about the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, and it appears he wrote a few letters to the Times over the years - but that's all I have come up with. Thank you.

2Arthur_Miller
Dic 17, 2009, 5:46 pm

Alas, I do not come bearing the information sought, but rather wish to add to the query.

In the process of organizing a collection relating to U.S. theater from Garrett H. Leverton (1896-1949), I am searching too for information on Sidney Rose, this time as the author of a 154-page carbon typescript of a monograph, "Edward Harrigan and His Plays." Harrigan (1844-1911), wrote local-color/ethnic plays in partnership with Tony Hart (1855-1891), 1878-ca. 1885 (Wiki). An actor, he also wrote on his own through 1896, according to the Leverton Rose manuscript.

Leverton edited one of the 1940 vols. (8) of the "America's Lost Plays" series, Princeton U. Press, led by Barrett H. Clark. So he may have read this typescript in connection with that WPA era project. I can't find any other reference to this work or for that matter to Rose on Google or Worldcat (OCLC).

A Sidney Rose did write a NYT story, June 19, 1927 (Sunday, drama section, x2), about the forty-year history of a Broadway theater being demolished. I've not yet gone to the microfilm to see if there is mention of Harrigan here.