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Detail of “Marionette Theater, New York.” No date. George Grantham Bain Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. [ //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.00318 ] A 1911 review gives the theater owner and script writer’s name as Antonio Parisi and identifies this tradition as Sicilian. The figures pictured resemble famous Sicilian marionettes popular from the middle ages to the present. See the review here: Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 15 Jan. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
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The [New York] Sun., May 17, 1908, Second Section, Page 11, Image 27, top of Col. 4-5
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"PUPPETS TO TEACH HISTORY;
ITALIAN MARIQNETTE PLAYS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS.
Signor Parisi's Shew the Kind of Thing New York Children Need, so Charlemagne and His Paladins Will Emerge From the Obscurity of the Sicilian Colony.

The Elizabeth street marionettes have at last won recognition from the American public. For ten years Signor Antonio Parisi, lately of Messina, has chanted the songs of Roland and clashed his wooden manikins for his countrymen alone. Except for the restless explorer of foreign colonies or the stray newspaper reporter, he has been unknown and unsought by Americans.

Still, he has never given up the dream of his boyhood that some day the American people would appreciate his art and would come to love the legends of Charlemagne, which are the passion of his life. His long delayed success has come at a dramatic moment, for rival shows have depleted his audiences of late.
Penny wonders and moving picture shows have invaded the quarter to attract the rising generation. And now, when the Parisi fortunes run low. Nunzio, the sixteen-year-old-son, whose brush has embellished the dingy little theatre at 258 Elizabeth street, has discovered that if he is to be a great artist like Raphael and Michael Angelo he must study at a school, which costs money.

Just at his crisis the drama committee of the People's Institute, which lays a guiding hand on the theatregoing of the public school children, has discovered that. the marionettes will fill a long felt want in the instruction and entertainment of the New York schoolchild. Accordingly Parisi and his puppets are deserting the Sicilian quarter, not for the Gay White Way, to be sure, but for a retreat near Washington Square, which will be more accessible to the 800.000 school children and their teachers.

For the appreciative People's Institute is going to treat the marionettes just as it has "The Top o' the World" and "The Toy Maker of Nuremberg." It is going to advertise them in the public schools and issue half price tickets for teachers and children. According to Fred R. Conant, secretary of the drama committee. it is difficult to find plays among the Broadway attractions suitable for the pupils of the elementary schools.
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The Catholic Telegraph, Volume LXXV, Number 38, 20 September 1906
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"There came to light yesterday a letter of resignation written to Major Edward T. McCrystal, the New York county president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, by the Right Rev. Msgr. Charles McCready, in which Msgr. McCready announces his resignation as county chaplain of the organization because of what the Monsignor terms “a slight” given Archbishop Farley at the A. O. H. national convention at Saratoga last month. Msgr. McCready is the rector of the Holy Cross Church in West Forty-second street and has been the county chaplain of the local Hibernians for several years."

THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS
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"An Irish Catholic sensibility synthesizing the continued resonance of Irish nationalism with navigation of the inequities of New York City’s Gilded Age capitalistic order characterized the lengthy (thirty-seven years) pastorate of Charles McCready, who became rector at Holy Cross in September 1877. Born in Letterkenny, Ulster, in 1837, McCready began studies for the priesthood in Ireland at Maynooth but came to the United States in 1864, where he completed his seminary studies at Mount Saint Mary’s, Emmitsburg, Maryland. New York Archbishop John McCloskey ordained McCready in Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1866.
Shaped like many of his parishioners by the searing experience of the famine which occurred during his boyhood years and by the on-going struggle against British rule, McCready along with many Irish-born clergy and laity was an ardent supporter of Irish nationalist causes, a means of expressing an exile’s longing for Ireland and of constructing an Irish national consciousness within a community of Irish and Irish Americans in the United States."