Tuesday, 3 October 2006

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), on Broadway at the Princess Theatre, running for 238 performances from October 3, 1906, to 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.

   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

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