A board of directors was established and a president elected (the first recorded president is John Sweeney ’73, elected on October 3, 1872). In this year the society was officially organized. As the society wrote in their program for the “Dramatic Exhibition” of 1857, we “have spared no pains to select for the occasion plays calculated to entertain the curious and the learned.” In 1871 a permanent stage was installed in the First Division study hall (now Dealy Hall) and the curtain and the proscenium were painted by an Italian scholastic visiting the college. The programs were long but this did not displease the audience. The platform would be brought forth again and again for another fifteen years. At the conclusion of the performance the set and stage were taken apart and stored away until another play called them forth again. The sets were constructed by the students and mounted to a platform at the north end of the study hall. John’s Dramatic Society (later renamed the Mimes and Mummers) was born. But it was on December 8th, 1855, when he took the part of Falstaff in Henry IV and Mynheer Hans Hoogdfit in The Seven Clerks that the St. He would be best remembered for his performances with his wife, Isabella Nickinson, and their long association with the Lyceum Theater from 1887 to 1899. His first brush with fame in 1864 was in the part of Horatio in Edwin Booth’s famous hundred-night run of Hamlet in New York. His father was an actor and Charles would follow in his father’s footsteps, becoming the first but certainly not the only “Mime” to choose a career in the theater. A young student by the name of Charles M. John’s College and the Mimes weren’t the Mimes but the St.
encouraged the students to “unite in giving dramatic entertainments.” Fordham University wasn’t Fordham but St. It all began in 1855 when President Remigius Tellier, S.J.
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