The Man of Destiny (1897) written by George Bernard Shaw and produced at the Mimes Theatre?, USA, around 1910

A scene from The Man of Destiny (first published in 1897) written by the British playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and produced at the Mimes Theatre?, USA, under the direction of Molkmar Julian? around 1910

Glaube und Heimat (1910) written by Karl Schönherr and produced at the Deutsches Volkstheater, Wien, in 1910

   Scenes from Glaube und Heimat (first published in 1910) written by the German playwright Karl Schönherr (1867-1943) and produced at the Deutsches Volkstheater, Wien, on December 17, 1910.

   The performance was a complete success, and the play was quickly adopted by numerous theatres; the German premiere took place a few weeks later, on the eve of the Epiphany holiday, at the Munich Schauspielhaus. 

December 17, 1910

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Lady Huntworth's Experiment (a three-act comedy) written by R. C. Carton (1853 – 1928), and first presented at the Criterion Theatre, London, by Charles Wyndham, from 26 April to 13 October 1900, running for 163 performances.

   Some scenes from Lady Huntworth's Experiment (a three-act comedy) written by the English actor and playwright R. C. Carton (1853 – 1928), and first presented at the Criterion Theatre, London, by the actor-manager Charles Wyndham, from 26 April to 13 October 1900, running  for 163 performances.

   This play depicts an aristocrat working under an assumed name as a cook, and finding happiness with a retired military man. 

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, June 16th, 1900, "Lady Huntworth's Experiment" at the Criterion Theatre."

   a- Act 1.- An Accident.  Lucy Pillenger (Miss Gertrude Elliott).  The Rev. Mr. Pillenger (Mr. Lewis).

   b- Act II.- The Vicar's Room, Miss Compton.  Keziah (Miss Polly Emery), having dressed herself in her bestm inquires of Caroline Rayward (Miss Compton) whether her dress doesn't "seem to kick up a bit at the back ?"

   c- Act II.  Captain Dorvaston (Mr. Arthur Boutchier) learns to his astonishment, that his drunken acquaintance, Mr. Croyll (Mr. Dion Boucicault is the husband of the Vicar's cook (Miss Compton).

   d- Act III.- "A Spider !"   Mr. Eric Lewis., Miss Fanny Coleman., Mr. Dion Boucicault.,  Mr. Arthur Bourchier.

Act I. Scene Plot.

Scene—Back of Vicarage with Garden.

Plan of Breakfast Table.—Act I.

FACING DOWN STAGE.

Act II. Scene Plot.

Scene—Vicar's Kitchen.

Act II.

Position of Articles discovered and where placed when brought on, which must be very exact

Act III. Scene Plot.

Scene—Vicar's Study.

Original cast

Captain Dorvaston (late Bengal Cavalry) – Arthur Bourchier

Rev Audley Pillenger – Eric Lewis

Rev Henry Thoresby (his curate) – A. E. Matthews

Gandy (manservant at vicarage) – Ernest Hendrie

Newspaper boy – Reginald Denny

Mr Crayll – Dion Boucicault Jr.

Hannah Pillenger (Audley's sister) – Fanny Coleman

Lucy Pillenger (their niece) – Gertrude Elliott

Keziah (housemaid at vicarage) – Pollie Emery

Caroline Rayward (cook at vicarage) – Katherine Compton

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Grace, written by W. Somerset Maugham and produced at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, on October 15, 1910.

   A scene from Grace, written by the British playwright W. Somerset Maugham and produced at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, on October 15, 1910.

   New York Times :  1910/10/16 NEW MAUGHAM PLAY STAGED.; " Grace," Produced at Duke of York ...   LONDON, Oct. 15. -- A new play by N. Somerset Maugham was produced to-night at Charles Frohman's Duke of York's Theatre.

The issue 100 of The Play Pictorial (1910) is devoted to Grace.

Dennis Eadie & Irene Vanbrugh as Claude & Grace Insoley 

The Drawing-Room at Kenyon-Fulton

Landed Gentry (A Comedy in Four Acts) written by Somerset Maugham and produced at the Duke of York’s Theatre as Grace, on October 15, 1910.

   Landed Gentry (A Comedy in Four Acts) written by the British playwright Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) and produced at the Duke of York’s Theatre as Grace, on October 15, 1910. 

   The play was written in 1910 and performed in the same year, on October 15, at the Duke of York’s Theatre as Grace. Like The Unattainable, it was performed under a gentler title and then changed to a more telling one in the published version. 

   New York Times :  1910/10/16 · archivesNEW MAUGHAM PLAY STAGED.; " Grace," Produced at Duke of York ...  LONDON, Oct. 15. -- A new play by N. Somerset Maugham was produced to-night at Charles Frohman's Duke of York's Theatre.

Dennis Eadie & Irene Vanbrugh as Claude & Grace Insoley 

The Drawing-Room at Kenyon-Fulton, Grace by Somerset Maugham

The most dramatic scene

What should Grace do?

The Play Pictorial - Grace, W. Somerset Maugham

The Prophecy, written by Richard Ganthony (1856–1924), and performed at the Avenue Theatre, London, in 1903.

   Scenes from The Prophecy, written by the English playwright Richard Ganthony (1856–1924), and performed at the Avenue Theatre, London, on March 10, 1903.

   Richard Ganthony was an actor and playwright. He is best known as the author of the drama A Message from Mars, which premiered in 1899.

   New York Times :  1903/03/11  GANTHONY'S NEW PLAY.; " The Prophecy," with Some Faults, Well ...   LONDON, March 11.—The Times's dramatic critic, commenting upon Richard Ganthony's new play, "The Prophecy," produced at the Avenue Theatre last evening, says that it is a bold attempt to..

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, March 28th, 1903, "The Prophecy" at the Avenue Theatre."

1- The peasant, David, who has been fascinated and ridiculed by Winelfin, the aristocratic beauty, for her own amusement, breaks out into revolt at her capricious cruelty, and the guests at the castle, regarding the forester as a dangerous savage, approach to attack him.

Mr. Aubrey Mallalieu, as Vlademar.   Miss Constance Collier, as Winelfin.   Mr. Frank Mills, as David.

2- Winelfin befooling her peasant guest, David, with the result shown in our first illustration on page.

Winelfin : "I will put a cap on your head that will teach you more in a minute than i can tell in a year."

3- The twins Daniel and David, discovering that Winelfin has protested her love for each of them, quarrel for the first time in their lives.  Winelfin, whose affection, although genuine enough, is equally divided between the pair, declares, to avoid bloodshed, that she has never loved one or the other, but only made sport of them for her entertainment.          

Daniel  (Mr. Lyn Harding) : "This is a trick to stay our hands."

Winelfin : "It is the truth, to stay your hands."

The Blue Bird (1908) by Maurice Maeterlink and produced at the New Theater in 1910

   Scenes from The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu, A play in two acts, 1908) by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlink (1862 - 1949) and produced by Messrs. Shubert (Lee and J. J.) at the New Theater and Majestic Theatre, New York, from October 1, 1910 to January 21, 1911.

   New Theatre (Oct 01, 1910 - Nov 07, 1910) and 

   Majestic Theatre (Nov 08, 1910 - Jan 21, 1911)

Robert Homans as "Bread" in the Broadway production of The Blue Bird, 1910

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Le Carnaval des enfants written by Saint-Georges de Bouhélier and directed by Pitef? at the Théâtre des Arts, Paris, on November 25, 1910

A scene from the play Le Carnaval des enfants (The Children's Carnival) written by the French playwright Saint-Georges de Bouhélier (1876-1947) and directed by Pitef? at the Théâtre des Arts, Paris, on November 25, 1910.

"Il obtint son plus grand succès avec Le Carnaval des enfants, pièce créée au Théâtre des Arts en 1910, et jouée par la suite à l'Odéon et à la Comédie-Française."

Little Women, performed as Theatre Advertising Show, at the Majestic Theatre, Boston, around 1910.

   A scene from Little Women, performed as Theatre Advertising Show, at the Majestic Theatre, Boston, around 1910. 

   Little Women is a classic American novel written by Boston author Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888). It tells the story of four sisters as they come of age during the American Civil War in Boston. 

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, Boston

Little Women, Jo Sacrifices Her Hair, Playhouse Theatre NYC

Nobody's Daughter written by George Paston and produced in London, in 1910

A scene from Nobody's Daughter (A play in four acts), written by the British playwright George Paston (1860 - 1936) and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, on September 3, 1910, featuring Sydney Valentine, Gerald Du Maurier and Lillian Braithwaite (1873 - 1948).

Sydney Valentine, Gerald Du Maurier and Lillian Braithwaite in George Paston's 'Nobody's Daughter'

Henry VIII (All Is True) written by the English playwright William Shakespeare and produced at His Majesty's Theatre, starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree, in 1910

Scenes from Henry VIII (All Is True) written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and produced at His Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1910, starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree (English actor and theatre manager, 1852 - 1917) and Violet Vanbrugh. Tree's longest-running revival, Henry VIII, ran for a sensational 254 consecutive performances from September 1, 1910 to April 8, 1911.

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Passers By written by C. Haddon Chambers produced at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in 1910 - 1911

   Scenes from Passers By written by the Australia-born dramatist C. Haddon Chambers (1860 – 1921), and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, in 1910 to 1911.

   New York Times : 1911/04/16 ·WORK BY HADDON CHAMBERS.; " Passers-By," Produced at Wyndham ...   Miss Irene Vanbrugh and Mr. Gerald Du Maurier are the principal players in Passers-By," a four-act play by C. Haddon Chambers, which has been well received at Wyndham's Theatre.

1910 Gerald du Maurier in  Passers By Mayer Wyndhams Theatre

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Ivanhoe written by the Scottish playwright Sir Walter Scott and produced in 1910, starring Charles Garry & Dora Barton

   Some scenes from Ivanhoe written by the Scottish playwright Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) and produced in 1910, starring Charles Garry and Dora Barton (1880 - 1966). This perforemance may be the one stated below.

   The Beecham Opera Company's first Covent Garden Season (1910) in A Mingled Chime by Sir Thomas Beecham.  The programme was made up of Electra, A Village Romeo and Juliet, Ivanhoe, Tristan und Isolde, The Wreckers, Carmen, Hänsel und Gretel, and L'Enfant Prodigue.

   Afterwards, apart from two performances in Sir Thomas Beecham's 1910 season at the Royal Opera House, Ivanhoe disappeared from the professional repertory, except for a week of performances in New York City at the Park Theatre by The Society of American Singers in 1919. The opera was broadcast twice on BBC Radio in 1929, with the London Wireless Orchestra conducted by Percy Pitt, who had conducted the 1910 performances.

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Macbeth written by William Shakespeare and produced with Frank Benson as Macbeth, Constance Benson as Lady Macbeth, and Murray Carrington as Banquo, in 1910

A scene from Macbeth written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and produced with Frank Benson as Macbeth, Constance Benson as Lady Macbeth, and Murray Carrington as Banquo, in 1910.

Parasites performed at the Globe Theatre, London, in 1910.

Some scenes from Parasites performed at the Globe Theatre, London, in 1910.

The Sketch, May 25, 1910

ARTHUR BOURCHIER as Col Bridau in Parasites at Globe Theatre, 1910