Saturday, 31 January 2009

The Dancing Girl (a drama in four acts), written by the English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929), and performed at His Majesty's Theatre, London, in February 1909.

Scenes from The Dancing Girl (a drama in four acts), written by the English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929), and performed at His Majesty's Theatre, London, in February 1909.


The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, February 27th 1909,  "The Revival of "The Dancing Girl," by Henry Arthur Jones at His Majesty's Theatre.
a- The Heroic John Christison (Mr. Basil Gill) in the thrall of his temptress, Drusilla Ives (Miss Alice Crawford).
b- The Dissipated Duke of Guisebury (Mr. Tree), having lost his fortune and the love of his "Dancing Girl," resolves to commit suicide, but is stayed by the hand of his better angel, Sybil Crake (Miss Marie Lohr).
c- "The Last Feast."- The stern parent from primitive Endellion, David Ives (Mr. Louis Calvert), comes to London, and denounces his daughter Drusilla ("The Dancing Girl") for her "Immoral Conduct" in dancing before a mixed crowd of Society people.



Tuesday, 27 January 2009

An Englishman's Home, by Guy du Maurier, and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre, first played at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, on 27 January and went on to be a long-running success.

   Scenes from An Englishman's Home, by Guy du Maurier, and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre, first played at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, on 27 January 1909, and went on to be a long-running success.

   An Englishman's Home is a threat-of-invasion play  first produced in 1909. The title is a reference to the expression "an Englishman's home is his castle".
   An Englishman's Home caused a sensation in London when it appeared anonymously, under the name "A Patriot", in 1909. The writer Guy du Maurier was a regular officer in the British Army, who had seen active service during the South African War and who was to be killed in France in 1915



The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, February 6th 1909, "An Englishman's Home," By a Patriot, at Wyndham's Theatre.


Thursday, 8 January 2009

Penelope written by William Somerset Maugham ( 1874 – 1965), and produced at the Comedy Theatre, London, from January 9, 1909, running 246 performances.

   Scenes from Penelope written by the English playwreight  William Somerset Maugham ( 1874 – 1965),  and produced at the Comedy Theatre, London,  from January 9, 1909, running 246 performances. 

   LONDON, Jan. 9. — "Penelope," a comedy in three acts, by W. Somerset Maugham, produced at the Comedy Theatre to-night by Charles Frohman and Arthur Chudleigh. 



"Penelope", Starring Marie Tempest, Norma Whalley, Graham Browne, Eric Lewis




   In the United States, Penelope written by the British playwreight  W. Somerset Maugham, and produced by Charles Frohman, at  the Lyceum Theatre, New York, from Dece. 13, 1909 to Jan. 1910, running 48 performances.