Don written by Rudolf Beiser and produced at the New Theatre, New York City, from Dec. 30, 1909 to 1910

Scenes from Don written by the English playwright Rudolf Beiser (1878 - 1942) and produced at the New Theatre, New York City, from Dec. 30, 1909 to 1910, featuring Louis Calvert as Albert Thompsett and E. M. Holland as Canon Bonnington.

Rector's study

The set of the Rector's study in Act III 

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The Concert (Das Konzert, Comedy), written by Hermann Bahr (1863 - 1934), and premiered at the Lessing Theater in Berlin on December 23, 1909.

   Scenes from The Concert (Das Konzert, Comedy), written by the Austrian playwright Hermann Bahr (1863 - 1934), and premiered at the Lessing Theater in Berlin on December 23, 1909.

   The Concert is Hermann Bahr's most successful comedy. The premiere took place on 23 December 1909 in Berlin under the direction of Otto Brahm at the Lessing Theatre, as well as simultaneously at the Royal Schauspielhaus in Dresden and at the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt am Main.

Emanuel Reicher and Otto Gebühr in The Concert 

Miss Marcuerite Leslie as Eva Wharton

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A Month in the Country (Месяц в деревне, Mesiats v derevne, 1909), written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), directed by Konstantin Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre, and opend on 22 December, 1909.

   Scenes from A Month in the Country (Месяц в деревне, Mesiats v derevne, 1909), written by the Russian playwright Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), directed by Konstantin Stanislavski at the  Moscow Art Theatre, and opend on 22 December, 1909.

   The Moscow Art Theatre production A Month in the Country was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski (who alternated the role of Rakitin with Vasili Kachalov) and Ivan Moskvin. Olga Knipper played Natalya, Nikolai Massalitinov was her husband, Islayev, and Maria Samarova was his mother, Anna. Richard Boleslavsky played Belyaev, with Lydia Koreneva as Verochka. The rest of the cast included Elena Muratova as Lizaveta, Nikolai Zvantsev as Schaaf, Ilya Uralov as Bolshintsov, Vladimir Gribunin as Shpigelsky, I. V. Lazarev as Matvei, and Lyubov Dmitrevskaya as Katya. Scenic design was by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. This was the first production in which Stanislavski made use of his emerging 'system' of acting, much to the general distress of the actors, and Knipper in particular.

Maria Samarova in A Month in the Country, 1909, Moscow Art Theatre (MAT)

Russian postcard, no. 831. Maria Samaroba as Anna in 'A Month in the Country' 

Lydia Koreneva and Richard Boleslavsky in A Month in the Country (1909)

 Konstantin Stanislavski (left) and Olga Knipper (right)

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