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The Girl of the Golden West is a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco, set in the California Gold Rush. The four-act melodrama opened at the old Belasco Theatre in New York on November 14, 1905 and ran for 224 performances.
Jul 23, 2007 · Once upon a time in the gold rush, there was a girl from a mining camp, the Californio bandit she loved, and a cold-hearted Sheriff who wanted them both in his power.... Famous producer David Belasco's famous play about the Old West is remembered today because it was adapted into the opera La Fanciulla del West.
Dec 4, 2006 · The girl of the golden West : novelized from the play. by. Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Publication date. c1911. Publisher. New York : Grosset & Dunlap. Collection. cdl; americana.
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It was when coming back to the mines, after a trip to Monterey, that theGirl first met him. It happened, too, just at a time when her mind wasripe to receive a lasting impression. But of all this the boys of CloudyMountain Camp heard not a word, needless to say, until long afterwards. Lolling back on the rear seat of the stage, her eyes half closed...
Not until a turn of the road hid the stage from sight did the strangerfix his gaze elsewhere. Even then it was not easy for him, and there hadbeen a moment when he was ready to throw everything to the winds andfollow it. But when on the point of doing so there suddenly flashedthrough his mind the thought of the summons that he had received. Andso, ...
The Polka Saloon! How the name stirs the blood and rouses the imagination! No need to be a Forty-Niner to picture it all as if there that night:the great high and square room lighted by candles and the warm, yellowlight of kerosene lamps; the fireplace with its huge logs blazing androaring; the faro tables with the little rings of miners around the...
In the space of six months one can do little or much harm. The youngbandit,—for he had kept his oath to his father,—flattered himselfthat he had done much. In all the mining camps of the Sierras the meremention of the name of Ramerrez brought forth execrations. Not a stagestarted out with its precious golden freight without its passengershaving mis...
Inside The Polka, not a bit more, and not a bit less sardonic—it wasthis imperturbability which made him so resistless to most people—thanhe was prior to the banishment of The Sidney Duck, the Sheriff ofManzaneta County waited patiently until the returning puppets of hiswill had had time to compose themselves. It took them merely thebriefest of per...
There was a general movement towards the bar when the fair proprietressof The Polka, who had lingered longer than usual in her little cabin ontop of the mountain, breezily entered the place by the main door. In acoarse, blue skirt, and rough, white flannel blouse, cut away and heldin place at the throat by a crimson ribbon, the Girl made a prettypi...
The first world premiere ever produced by the Metropolitan Opera took place on December 10, 1910. The opera was Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, based on The Girl of the Golden West by American playwright David Belasco, which Puccini saw on Broadway when he visited New York in 1907.
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La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West by the American author David Belasco.
