Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters

So I finished my book proposal. Hooray! It feels really nice to end the summer by completing something major. One of the last things I did, based on the feedback from my Group Biography writing group, was add pictures to my chapter outline. It really brings the story to life. So I want to share the pictures of some of my “main characters.”

*New York Star* (October 3, 1908) Vol.1 No.1 via Wikipedia

Fred Thompson (1873-1919), co-founder of Luna Park on Coney Island, architect of the New York Hippodrome, and the only person in my book who was famous enough to have a full biography already written

*New York Tribune* (July 19, 1914) via Chronicling America

Frances Ziebarth (1879-1949), wardrobe mistress for the New York Hippodrome from 1905-1920.

Photo from *Around the World* souvenir program, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Arthur Voegtlin (1858-1919), set designer and conceptualizer of attractions, basically the artistic director from 1911-1915, came back to the Hip in 1920s to stage a pageant based on the Battle of Verdun and help design settings for Morris Gest’s Passion Play.

Carroll Fleming (1861-1930), writer of several Hippodrome shows and stage manager at the Hippodrome

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Hippodrome souvenir booklet for Hip! Hip! Hooray!" *The New York Public Library Digital Collections*. 1915. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/440c9950-2bf0-0132-63be-58d385a7bbd0

R.H. Burnside (1870-1952), stage manager for the Hippodrome and general director 1915-1923.

Murdock Pemberton (1888-1982), press agent for the Hippodrome and founder of the Algonquin Round Table

Albertina Rasch (1891-1967), prima ballerina at the Hippodrome and later choreographer of the Albertina Rasch dancers who performed between vaudeville acts in the mid-1920s