Frank Chanfrau
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Francis S. Chanfrau was an American actor and theatre manager in the 19th century. He began his career playing bit parts and doing impressions of star actors such as Edwin Forrest and of ethnic groups
Chanfrau as Mose, 1848
Frank Chanfrau
B'hoy and g'hal
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B'hoy and g'hal were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the A
Frank Chanfrau
…century. He began his career playing bit parts and doing impressions of star actors such as Edwin Forrest and of ethnic groups. In 1848, he appeared as a Bowery b'hoy named Mose in A Glance at New York. The play became a record-breaking hit, due largely to the Mose character, and Chanfrau spent most of the rest of…
Mary Taylor and Frank Chanfrau as a Bowery g'hal and b'hoy in A Glance at New York.