Actor Charles Manley acting at Ford's?

[Tom Bogar]

(01-31-2014 01:25 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Most theaters had stock companies. Do you think some of these claims came from those types of actors? Did Ford's have such a system, and is there a list of them for the 1865 season?

That may have been the case with some, Laurie, since John Ford continually rotated his large, intermingled stock company actors among his (at the time) five theaters (Washington, Baltimore, Cumberland, Alexandria, and Philadelphia). But most of the false claimants I encountered did not appear anywhere on my master list of his 1864-65 company (I can post the whole list, but it's pretty long).