The price of 'An Octoroon'
In the Chicago of 1860, when there barely was a Chicago, McVicker's Theater had what this newspaper called "a rousing hit" with a production of "The Octoroon," a spectacular melodrama by an diminutive, round-faced Irishman called Dion Boucicault. It was all about the travails of Zoe, a Southern...
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