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词条 Henry B. Harris
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  1. Life

  2. Selected productions

  3. Notes

  4. References

  5. External links

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Henry Birkhardt Harris (December 1, 1866 – April 15, 1912) was a Broadway producer and theatre owner who died in the sinking of {{RMS|Titanic}}. His wife was actress Renee Harris, who was injured in a fall on the Grand Staircase of Titanic. She survived the sinking and lived until 1969.

Life

Harris was the son of William Harris Sr., a founder of the Theatrical Syndicate in the 1890s and Rachel Harris (née) Freefield.[1][2] He had a younger brother, William Harris Jr.[3] Harris was born in St. Louis in 1866 and was a young boy when the family moved to Boston.[4][5] He began his career selling song books in the theater lobby as a young man in St. Louis. When the family moved to Boston, young Harris began selling song books in the lobby of the Howard Athenaeum.[5] He married Irene Wallach, a legal secretary from Washington, D. C. with an interest in the theater on October 22, 1899.[6][7][8]{{efn|Irene Wallach Harris took over her husband's business after his death. She was initially assisted by her father-in-law and her brother-in law, William.[3][9][10]}}

Harris worked for his father in the theatrical business in Boston for a number of years before starting out on his own producing plays in 1901.[11] He managed such stars as Amelia Bingham and Robert Edeson.[7] In 1906, Harris became the owner of the Hackett Theatre on 42nd Street.[4] The theater was later renamed the Harris Theatre, to honor William Harris Sr.[12] He leased and managed the Hudson Theatre in New York[4] and in 1911 built the Folies Bergère Theatre.[13][14][15] The Folies Bergère was an attempt to emulate the success of its Parisian namesake. By September 1911 it had failed swiftly and heavily: Harris lost a reported $100,000 on the venture.[16]

By April 1912 he was in London, arranging future performances of Maggie Pepper by Charles Klein with his star artiste Rose Stahl and the original American cast from the Harris Theatre.[22]{{efn|Charles Klein also died in a well-known maritime disaster, the sinking of Lusitania in 1915.}} The play was made into a 1919 film of the same name. Harris also acquired the US rights to The Miracle, the world's first full-colour narrative feature film which had been showing at the Royal Opera House.[17]

Harris was one of the 1,500 who died in Titanic{{'}}s sinking on April 15, 1912.[1] A survivor's eyewitness account suggests that Harris went to his death needlessly. Mrs. Emil Taussig and her husband, along with the Harrises, went to the deck as they felt the collision. After the women had been placed in a lifeboat, there was still room for other passengers. When Harris and Taussig attempted to enter the lifeboat, both men were threatened with revolvers. Mrs. Taussig said this boat was lowered with empty seats aboard it; she and her daughter were passengers on this lifeboat.[18][19] She said when she last saw Henry Harris and her husband, both were standing side by side as they waved goodbye to their loved ones aboard the lifeboats.[19]

Although she had broken her elbow in a fall on Titanic{{'}}s grand staircase earlier in the day, Irene Harris had somehow managed to leave the lifeboat before it was lowered.[8][20] Hoping to be able to leave Titanic with her husband, she remained until the last lifeboat was being readied. Fifteen minutes after it was lowered into the water, Titanic sank.[21] Mrs. Harris was rescued by the ship {{RMS|Carpathia}}. She cabled the Hudson Theatre from the ship, saying that her husband was not among those on board, but hoped he had been saved by another rescue vessel.[11] A story was circulated that Harris had been rescued by another ship and had wired his New York office to that effect, but this proved to be untrue.[22] His body was lost at sea. If it was recovered and brought to Halifax by one of the cable ships sent out to look for bodies, it was never identified as such.[23]

Selected productions

  • Soldiers of Fortune (1901)
  • Strongheart (1905)
  • The Lion and the Mouse (1905)[3]
  • The Chorus Lady (1906) (made star of Rose Stahl)[3]
  • The Struggle Everlasting (1907)
  • The Traveling Salesman (1908)
  • Pierre of the Plains (1908)
  • The Third Degree (1909) (made star of Helen Ware)[3]
  • Such a Little Queen (1909) (made star of Elsie Ferguson)[3]
  • A Skylark (1910) (with May de Sousa)
  • The Arab (1911)
  • Strongheart (1914)

Notes

{{Notelist}}

References

1. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9196449/henry_b_harris_obit/|title=Henry B. Harris|publisher=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|page=5|date=April 16, 1913|accessdate=February 26, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=9mRaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176#v=onepage&q=rachel%20freefield%20harris The Jews of the Titanic: A Reflection of the Jewish World on the Epic Disaster], by Eli Moskowitz p.176 c.2018 {{ISBN|978-1-938015-96-0}} eBook:978-1-938015-97-7
3. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9196908/william_harris_jr/|title=Who Is William Harris Jr.?|page=8|date=November 8, 1920|publisher=Courier-News|accessdate=February 26, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
4. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9197688/henry_b_harris_bristol_banner/|title=Henry B. Harris|publisher=Bristol Banner|page=6|date=April 26, 1912|accessdate=February 26, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
5. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AKrM%5FpkCrFEzv2A&cid=3A599D9C0D4AF47E&id=3A599D9C0D4AF47E%211706&parId=3A599D9C0D4AF47E%21157&o=OneUp|title=Henry B. Harris, Theatrical Manager--Remarkable Career of Man Who Started Peddling Song Books|date=April 26, 1908|page=10|publisher=Pensacola Journal|accessdate=February 26, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15254512/henry_harris_and_renee_married_in_ny/|title=The World of Society|page=8|date=October 19, 1899|publisher=Evening Star|accessdate=November 21, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
7. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9198644/henry_b_harris_pittsburgh/|title=Henry B. Harris|publisher=Pittsburgh Press|page=3|date=April 17, 1912|accessdate=February 26, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
8. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/09/03/archives/renee-harris-93-first-woman-to-produce-plays-here-is-dead.html|title=Renee Harris, 93, First Woman To Produce Plays Here, Is Dead|publisher=New York Times|page=47|date=September 3, 1969|accessdate=February 27, 2017}}{subscription required)
9. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9199362/mrs_henry_b_harris_1927/|title=Woman's Place in the Theatre|author=Greene, Mabel|page=98|publisher=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=April 3, 1927|accessdate=February 26, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
10. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9202502/work_continued/|title=Sequel to a Story of Two Politicians|publisher=Anaconda Standard|date=May 31, 1912|page=8|accessdate=February 27, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
11. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9196673/henry_b_harris_lost/|title=Theater Owner and Producer, Who Sailed on Titanic, Not Listed With Survivors|page=2|date=April 18, 1912|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=February 26, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
12. ^{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/11/26/104695350.pdf|title=William Harris, Sr., Stage Veteran Dies|date=November 26, 1915|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=February 27, 2017}}
13. ^The Oxford Companion To American Theatre, 2nd edition by Gerald Bordman, c. 1992 page 323; by The Oxford University Press
14. ^Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976 c. 1976, volume 2 page 1103 originally published by John Parker annually, 1976 version published by Gale Research
15. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=tpafAAAAMAAJ&jp=PA156#v=onepage Who's who in music and drama: an encyclopedia biography of notable men by Dixie Hines & Harry Prescott Hanaford, page 156, c. 1914]
16. ^{{cite journal |title=Folies Bergere experiment reaching an end tomorrow |journal=Variety |volume=XXIV |issue=4 |place=New York |date=30 September 1911 |page=1 |accessdate=9 September 2017 |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2015/Variety/Variety%201912/Variety%201912%20-%200010.pdf}}
17. ^1 [https://newspaperarchive.com/we-hope-celebrity-clipping-apr-11-1912-468931/ Miss Stahl's Return], The Standard (London), 11 April 1912, p. 5, col. 2. via Newspaperarchive.com {{Open access}}
18. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9200159/threat_revolvers/|title=Threatened with Revolvers|publisher=Courier-Journal|page=1|date=April 20, 1912|accessdate=February 27, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
19. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9200180/revolvers_2/|title=Threatened with revolvers 2|publisher=Courier-Journal|page=2|date=April 20, 1912|accessdate=February 27, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
20. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9200141/mrs_harris_account/|title=Mrs. Henry B. Harris|publisher=Courier-Journal|page=1|date=April 20, 1912|accessdate=February 27, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
21. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9202910/mrs_harris_last_boat/|title=Ismay Was Not in Last Boat|page=3|date=April 23, 1912|publisher=Salt Lake Tribune|accessdate=February 27, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
22. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1742047/the_new_york_times/|title=Many Inquiries for H. B. Harris|page=1|publisher=New York Times|date=April 17, 1912|accessdate=February 27, 2017|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
23. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/henry-birkhardt-harris.html|title=Henry Birkhardt Harris|publisher=Encyclopedia Titanica|accessdate=February 27, 2017}}

External links

{{Commons category|Henry B. Harris}}
  • {{IBDB name|22246|Henry B. Harris}}
  • {{IBDB name|376468|The Estate of Henry B. Harris}}
  • Henry B. Harris; findagrave.com database
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20170227142142/http://www.broadwaydame.com/uploads/gallery_image/5951/medium_Mrs._Henry_B._Harris_press_photo.jpg an aged Rene Harris in 1959 with a portrait of Henry B. Harris on the wall]
  • article on Renee Harris with 1919 photo
  • portraits of Henry B. Harris; [https://archive.is/20130620232713/http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sayre&CISOPTR=3122&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 #1], #2
  • portraits of Henry and also Renee Harris(Wisconsin Historical Society)
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