A vaudeville performance based on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady” in 1906.

   A vaudeville performance based on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady” in 1906.

   In 1906 The Journal of the English Folk Song Society published a piece on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady.” Some enterprising female entertainer encountered the article and realized the story might be used as a great vaudeville piece about the evils of card play and alcohol.

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The Great Divide (a prose play) written by William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910), on Broadway at the Princess Theatre, running for 238 performances from October 3, 1906, to March 24, 1907.

    Scenes from The Great Divide (a prose play) written by the Ameerican playwright William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910), performed on Broadway at the Princess Theatre, running for 238 performances from October 3, 1906 until March 24, 1907.

  The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906, and then on Broadway at the Princess Theatre, running for 238 performances from October 3, 1906, to March 24, 1907.

   The New York Times :  1917/02/08  'THE GREAT DIVIDE' REVIVED; Henry Miller Acts Again His Role ...   Henry Miller, who first presented the play in October of 1906 in the old Princess Theatre, acted again his original role of Stephen Ghent, and in a brief curtain speech demanded by the...

   The play explores the conflict between the puritanical values of the eastern United States and the spirit of individualism found on the western frontier. 

Henry Miller, H.B. Walthall, Margaret Anglin, Robert Cummings, The Great Divide, Act I.

Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin in The Great Divide, Act II

Hjältar (Heroes) performed at the Svenska teatern, Stockholm, in 1906.

Scenes from Hjältar (Heroes) performed at the Svenska teatern, Stockholm, in 1906.

Astri Torsell as Raina and Gunnar Klintberg as Sergius in Hjältar at Svenska teatern 1906

John Isak Riègo (1852-1912) in Hjältar