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The current campus occupies buildings in the Old Germantown Academy. The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is the third-oldest school of its kind in the United States.Its founder, David G. Seixas (1788–1864), was a Philadelphia crockery maker-dealer who became concerned with the plight of impoverished deaf children who he observed on the city's streets. [1]
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Its present site, in the city's Overbrook neighborhood, was acquired in 1890. [2] Along with the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children and the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, it is one of four state-approved charter schools for blind and deaf children in Pennsylvania.
Frelich was the first deaf actor or actress to win a Tony Award. [5] Marlee Matlin played Frelich's role in the film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress . Frelich later starred in other plays written by Medoff, including The Hands of Its Enemy and Prymate . [ 3 ]
EXCLUSIVE: The story of the real-life 1988 protests at all-deaf Gallaudet University that became a watershed moment for the deaf community in the U.S. is being turned into a feature film. Jules ...
RKO began a lease on September 29, 1929 to show first-run movies. RKO’s first “talkie” motion picture, Street Girl , had its premiere at this theatre. However, the Erlanger was most famous for pre-Broadway musical stage shows such as Guys and Dolls , West Side Story , Man of La Mancha , My Fair Lady and other productions.
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The Race Street Meetinghouse is an historic and still active Quaker meetinghouse at 1515 Cherry Street in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] The meetinghouse served as the site of the Yearly Meeting of the Hicksite sect of the Religious Society of Friends, known as the Quakers, from 1857 to 1955.