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