impresario
; his Cort Circuit was one of the first national theater circuits. Along with John Considine
and Alexander Pantages
, Cort was one of the Seattle
-based entrepreneurs who parlayed their success in the years following the Klondike Gold Rush
into an impact on America's national theater scene. While Considine and Pantages focused mainly on vaudeville
, Cort focused on legitimate theater. At one time, he owned more legitimate theaters than anyone else in the United States, and he eventually became part of the New York theatrical establishment.
"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion." -- Lord Byron
"The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor". -- 17th Century account
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash." -- Attributed to, and denied by, Winston Churchill
"Where I go, I hope there's rum" - Jimmy Buffett
"But why's the rum gone?" - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
"Hide the rum." - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
"I prefer rum. Rum is good." - Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End