The Streets of New York

This five-act melodrama was written by Dion Coucicault. It was written in 1857, apparently. It seems that Maude Adams performed in it in 1880, but this is one of the dates that I am not very sure of. The following is a description of the play:

""Keep your gold! It would soil my poverty," is Lucy Fairweather's answer to Gideon Bloodgood, who has robbed her father of his fortune, and is trying to trick young Mark Livingston into marrying his daughter, Alida. Mark loves Lucy, however, and after rescuing "the papers" from a burning tenement, he finally has the money to marry her, and to break the villainous Bloodgood."(The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays edited by Bernard Sobel, 1940)

=====American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914 by Gerald Bordman; Oxford University Press, 1994=====

Yet another Boucicault opus was one of three revivals to raise their curtains on October 4. The Streets of New York (originally produced as The Poor of New York) followed Uncle Tom's Cabin into the Olympic, making that theatre the only one in New York to have offered American plays so far in the theatrical year. Of course, Boucicault had borrowed freely from a French work, so Uncle Tom remained the only purely Yankee work yet seen.