Theater and Music

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Across
  1. 2. one of the first musical groups to have its own nationally broadcast radio show
  2. 6. nation's most popular, and its most prolific, songwriter
  3. 8. was a regular stop for big-name acts on tour
  4. 10. America's most popular comic actor of the late 1800s
  5. 11. west of Sixth Street was for a while the largest in North America
  6. 12. trained horses and preformed tricks
  7. 14. in the 1830s became the first American theater to replace candles with gaslight
  8. 15. leap frog as his theme song
  9. 17. training ground for comedians, playwrights, and actors
  10. 18. first American to make a living out of writing songs
  11. 19. composed hundreds of marches, many of which he gave away or sold for less than a dollar.
Down
  1. 1. director of a brass band of professional musicians
  2. 3. known for writing beautiful melody and virtuous lyrics
  3. 4. ability to produce limitless copies from a single master recording
  4. 5. house located in lancaster
  5. 7. "Professor" toured northeastern PA showing a coal mine
  6. 9. theaters in Titusville, Pithole City, and other oil-region towns were all part of the
  7. 10. half song writing duo with ray evans
  8. 13. brought his circus and trick-riding act to Philadelphia in 1792
  9. 16. comes in many forms such as lullabies