The Merchant of Venice, 'supported by an English-speaking company' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed on the English language stage in May 1903, starring Jacob P. Adler in the role of Shylock.

   Scenes from The Merchant of Venice, 'supported by an English-speaking company' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed on the English language stage in May 1903, starring Jacob P. Adler in the role of Shylock.

   Yiddish-theatre great Jacob P. Adler made his first appearance on the English language stage in May 1903, playing Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The production, which toured Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and finally New York, where it ran for months in multiple theatres. The run was so successful taht Adler returned to Broadway in 1905 in a repeat polyglot production, albeit with a different English-speaking cast.

The merchant of Venice, starring] Jacob P. Adler

Merchant of Venice, Jacob P. Adler

Jacob P. Adler (far right) as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice 

The Merchant of Venice [starring] Jacob P. Adler 

The Little Countess, written by Octave Feuillet and performed at the Avenue Theatre, London, in 1903.

Scenes from The Little Countess, written by the French dramatist Octave Feuillet (1821-1890), and performed at the Avenue Theatre, London, in 1903.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, May 16th, 1903, "The Little Countess" at the Avenue Theatre.

1- Nina (Liss Joan Burnett).  Sadie  (Miss Annie Hughes).   Lord Budleigh (Mr. Ben Webster). Sadie "How do you do, Lord Budleigh."- Act I.

2- Sadie  (Miss Annie Hughes).  Jack Scarlett (Mr. Frederick Kerr).  Lady hermione Browne  (Miss Suzanne Sheldon).  Charlotte Countess of Budleigh  (Mrs. George Canninge).

Scarlett.  "I'll be weak and change my mind,  I will stay."- Act II.

3- Nina (Miss Joan Burnett).  Charlotte Countess of Budleigh  (Mrs. Geo. Canninge).  Lady hermioni  (Miss Suzanne Sheldon.  Sadie (Miss Annie Hughes).  Faulkner  (Mr. Latimer).  Jack Scarlett  (Mr. Frederick Kerr).  Lady Hermioni : "Mr. Scarlett, you won't forget to write down the shop where you get that delicious cream for the hands."- Act III.