SNAPDRAGON, HECTOR (Pseudonym)
The Russian Banquet. A Drama. Boston [1813]. 16mo, pp. 12.
STEARNS, CHARLES
Charles Stearns, born in Massachusetts in 1753, died 1826. He was a Unitarian clergyman, and from 1785 to his death was pastor of a church at Lincoln, in Massachusetts. He wrote many good poems, and a variety of religious works.
Dramatic Dialogues. Leominster, Mass., 1798. 12mo, pp. 540.
STOKES, J.
The Forest of Rosenwald; or, The Travellers Benighted. A Melodrama in Two Acts, as performed at the New York Theatre. New York, E. Murden, 1821. 16mo, pp. 33.
Another edition, New York, 1832. 16mo.
Played at the Park Theatre, New York, April 26, 1820, under the title of The Forest of Rosenwald; or, The Bleeding Nun.
STONE, JOHN AUGUSTUS
John Augustus Stone, an actor, born in Concord, Mass., in 1801, died near Philadelphia, Pa., June 1, 1834. His first appearance on the stage was made in Boston, and his début in New York occurred July 10, 1822, at the Park Theatre, as Old Hardy in The Belle's Stratagem, and Old Pickle in The Spoiled Child. He was for a long time identified with the Bowery and Chatham Theatres. The prize of five hundred dollars offered by Mr. Edwin Forrest for the best American play, was awarded to Mr. Stone in 1829, for his drama in verse, Metamora, long and successfully played by Mr. Forrest. He subsequently received from Mr. Forrest one thousand dollars for his drama, The Ancient Briton, which, as well as another drama from his pen, Fauntleroy, the Banker of Rome, were produced by Forrest. He was also author of La Roque, The Regicide, Tancred of Sicily, and Yankee Hill's famous play, The Knight of the Golden Fleece, always the most popular of that comedian's plays. He drowned himself in the Schuylkill River, near Philadelphia, in a fit of mental derangement. Mr. Forrest erected a very handsome monument to his memory.