David G. Robinson (theatre pioneer)

Not to be confused with David G. Robinson (data scientist).

Dr. David G. Robinson (nicknames: "Doc"; "Yankee"), an American druggist by training, was an early theatrical pioneer in Northern California.[1] Along with others, he established the San Francisco-Sacramento-Placerville entertainment circuit of the day;[2] as well as some of San Francisco's first theaters.

He was married to Mariette (née Dorman). Both families were Colonialists; the Dormans were English army people and the Robinsons were Puritans. Great-grandfather Robinson served in Edward Braddock's ill-fated army.[3] Their son, the artist Charles Dorman Robinson, was born in East Monmouth, Maine in 1847, and soon after, the family moved to Newport, Vermont.

Robinson left for California without his family in 1848. Robinson and a partner opened the 280 seat Dramatic Museum in San Francisco in 1850; and his wife and son arrived in the same year.[4] When the Dramatic Museum burned down, he built the 2,000 seat American Theater, considered to be one of the first real theaters in the city.[1] In 1851, a citizen's committee gave Robinson $50,000 to build the Adelphi Theater. Robinson was also a partner in backing the Bryant Minstrels.[5] Robinson and a partner staged opera, minstrel, and burlesque productions, the first being a farce written by Robinson, Seeing the Elephant. Robinson also did "Yankee" impersonations,[1] gaining the nickname "Yankee" Robinson. He was a stage personality who entertained along the old Barbary Coast, setting the tone for the first generation of California popular music. He was the first of the great professional entertainers after the California Gold Rush,[2] was one of San Francisco's first Board of Aldermen, and was a member of the city's Vigilance Committee, 1851-56.[6] In 1857, he left California, appeared in Mobile, Alabama, and then vanished.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Londré, Felicia Hardison; Watermeier, Daniel J. (1 March 2000). The history of North American theater: the United States, Canada and Mexico, from pre-Columbian times to the present. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-0-8264-1233-1. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  2. ^ a b Silber, Irwin; Robinson, Earl (1967). Songs of the great American west. Courier Dover Publications. pp. 4, 104, 107–. ISBN 978-0-486-28704-1. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  3. ^ The Overland monthly (Public domain ed.). Samuel Carson. 1896. pp. 35–. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  4. ^ Lekisch, Barbara (September 2003). Embracing scenes about Lakes Tahoe & Donner: painters, illustrators & sketch artists 1855-1915. Peter Browning. pp. 152–. ISBN 978-0-944220-14-6. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  5. ^ Caughey, John Walton (1975). The California gold rush. University of California Press. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-0-520-02763-3. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  6. ^ Harper, Franklin (1913). Who's who on the Pacific Coast: a biographical compilation of notable living contemporaries west of the Rocky Mountains (Public domain ed.). Harper Pub. Co. pp. 483–. Retrieved 29 January 2012.

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