William B. Gill: From the Goldfields to Broadway

Contents

• Series Introduction Introduction
• 1. Who Was Willie Gill?
• 2. From the Goldfields of Melbourne (and Back Again)
• 3. A Comic Star at Home
• 4. On the Road to Calcutta
• 5. Grand Varieties and Great Expectations
• 6. A Sojourn in American Goldfields
• 7. A Broadway Debut and Colville's Follies
• 8. From Babes to Goblins: Willie's First American Hits
• 9. Plays Made to Order
• 10. Adonis
• 11. From Hits to Flops
• 12. From Pantomine to Sentimental Comedy: Arcadia to Old Jed Prouty
• 13. Star Vehicles
• 14. Last Hits
• 15. Final Curtain
• 16. Endnotes
• 17. Index