The Land of Promise (A Comedy in Four Acts), written by William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) and, produced by Charles Frohman, at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City, from December 25, 1913 to March 1914, having run for 76 performances.

Scenes from The Land of Promise (A Comedy in Four Acts), written by the British playwright William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) and, produced by Charles Frohman, at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City, from December 25, 1913 to March 1914, having run for 76 performances.

1913 Broadway production of The Land of Promise with Billie Burke. 

Caption: You don't know what I went through before I came here.

1913 Broadway production of The Land of Promise with Billie Burke and Shelley Hull.  Caption: Can't you hear it, the silence of the prairie?

 Billie Burke and Shelley Hull at center, other performers unidentified.  

Caption: I'm sorry I was rude to you, Gertie.

Billie Burke and Shelley Hull. 

Caption: I'll shoot you, I'll shoot you!

Billie Burke and the unidentified performer portraying Edward Marsh.

 Caption: Nora, for goodness sake, tell me if there's anything the matter.

 Billie Burke and unidentified performer portraying Mrs. Sharp.

Caption: Thank you for speaking kindly to me, my dear.

The Legend of Leonora written by James M. Barrie (1860-1937), and first produced on December 29, 1913 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Some scenes from The Legend of Leonora written by the Scottish playwright James M. Barrie (1860-1937). The first time the play was given in America was on December 29, 1913 in Springfield, Massachusetts. It also opened at the Empire Theater on January 5, 1914.

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Within the Law (4-act-play) written by Bayard Veiller and produced at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, New York City, having run for 541 performances from Sep. 11, 1912 to Dec. 1913

Some scenes from Within the Law (4-act-play) written by the American playwright Bayard Veiller (1869 – 1943) and produced at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, New York City, having run for 541 performances from Sep. 11, 1912 to Dec. 1913.

Orme Caldara with Jane Cowl 

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Typhoon originally produced by Mr. & Mrs. Irving with their company at the Haymarket Theatre in April, 1913

   Scenes from Typhoon (From Melchior Lengyel's "Taifun"), originally produced by Mr. & Mrs. Irving with their company at the Haymarket Theatre, London, from April, 1913 to1914.

   New York Times :  1913/04/03 LONDON, April 2.—An enthusiastic audience gave a great welcome to the adaptation of Melchior Lengyel's “Typhoon,” which was produced at the Haymarket Theatre to-night.

A scene from the play Typhoon at Haymarket theatre. April 1913

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, April 5th, 1913," "Typhoon," at the Haymarket Theatre.- Mr. Laurence Irving and Miss Mabel Hackney."

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, April 12th, 1913, "Typhoon" (From Melchior Lengyel's "Taifun") at the Haymarket Theatre."

   a- The Japanese colony in Paris gathered together in the rooms of Takeramo.  The moment these people find themselves alone, freed from the presence of foreigners, they throw off their Western ways, change their dress, draw forward screens, switch off the electric lights, turn and worship the portrait of the Mikado on the wall, and then settle down without the aid of chairs to tell tales of their homes and nation. 

   b- Takeramo (Mr Laurence Irving), who is entrusted with a high and secret mission by his government is questioned as to its nature by his French mistress, Helene (Miss Mabel Hackney).  A little later, goaded by her vulgar insults, he strangles this wretched woman, but his friends insist, for the sake of his yet incomplete work, that a young Japanese named Hironari - who is only travelling for pleasure - must take the blame.

  c- The investigating judge, Benoit (Mr Arthur Whitby), is baffled by the witness Kitamaru (Mr Azooma Sheko), and Hironari's confession is accordingly believed, and a sentence of seven years' imprisonment passed upon him.

  d- At last Takeramo's work for Japan has been finished.  He has handed the manuscript to his compatriots, and has then quietly retired from his friends to the other side of a screen and taken his life as penance for the murder of Helene. The others approve the deed, and are seen seizing upon his papers lest the French police should learn the secrets of Nippon.  A drunken Polish-French poet, Takeramo's friend (Mr Leon Quartermaine), stands stunned at the news.

THEATRE Scenes from 'Typhoon' at the Haymarket, 1913

Androcles and the Lion written by George Bernard Shaw and premiered at St. James's Theatre, London, in 1913

   Two scenes from Androcles and the Lion (A Christian is saved by his devotion to an animal) written by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and premiered at St. James's Theatre, London, on 1 September 1913. 

   The play, directed by Harley Granville-Barker, opened at the St James's Theatre, London, on 1 September 1913. It ran for 66 performances.

The Emperor places his foot on the lion's head

Androcles returns from the arena arm-in-arm with the lion

Final scene, 1913 premiere

Androcles (O. P. Heggie) and the Lion (Edward Sillward): 1913 premiere

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The Turning Point produced at the St. James's Theatre, London, in 1912

A scene from The Turning Point (originally a book by Peter Le Marchant) produced at the St. James's Theatre, London, in 1912, starring Sir George Alexander as Lieutenent Colonel Felt alonside Ethe Irving as Monique.

TheTurning Point is a book by Peter Le Marchant (Translated from the play by Henry Kistemaeckers). 

The Great Adventure written by Arnold Bennett and opened at the Kingsway Theatre, London, under the direction of Granville Barker, in 1913

   A scene from The Great Adventure (A Play of Fancy in Four Acts, 1913) written by the English playwright Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931) and opened at the Kingsway Theatre, London, under the direction of Granville Barker, in March 1913, starring Henry Ainley, Guy Rat Bone,  Claude King and Owen Mansel. It opened at the Kingsway Theatre, London on 25 March 1913, having run for 674 performances. A Broadway production in October 1913 ran for 52 performances. 

   Bennett had published a novel called Buried Alive in 1908, which he adapted for the theatre as The Great Adventure: A Play of Fancy in Four Acts. The play depicts the complications that ensue when a famous artist adopts the persona of his dead valet to escape his unwelcome celebrity.

The Malingerer (pantomime) produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, in 1913

Some scenes from The Malingerer (pantomime) produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, in 1913.

Joseph and his Brethren written by Louis N. Parker and produced by Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, London, with costumes by Percy Macquoid, in 1913 and 1914

   A scene from Joseph and his Brethren, written by the British playwright Louis N. Parker (1852 –  1944) and, produced by Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 - 1917) at His Majesty's Theatre, London, with costumes by Percy Macquoid, in 1913 and 1914.

   The play was first produced by Liebler & Company and staged by the author and Frederick Stanhope, with sets by Gates & Morange and incidental music by Arthur Farwell. It starred Brandon Tynan, with Pauline Frederick, Howard Kyle, and James O'Neill. It had its Broadway première in January 1913, running through April 1913 for 124 performances.

"Joseph and His Brethren." (The World's News (Sydney)  Saturday, January 31, 1914,  Page 5.

BY A RECENT mail came the news that "Joseph and His Brethren" had at Christmas time reached its 150th performance at His Majesty's Theatre, London. Sir Herbert Tree

had, moreover, fixed a series of special matinees suitable for children for the month of January, while the big pageant play was going so strongly that the revival of "The Darling of the Gods," which was to follow it, remained quite indefinite as regards the date of

its re-production. This remarkable and effective play is to be staged at the Theatre

Royal, Melbourne, on February 14. The members of the company who are to perform it

arrived this week by the Otway, and include Miss Ethel Warwick, Miss Dorothy Witaker,

Miss Nancy Girling, Miss Eva Moss, Messrs Malcolm Tearle, who plays Joseph, Edward

O'Neill, Frank Harvey, Hodgson Taylor, and Cecil King, who, in addition to directing the

whole production, is cast also, for the part of the baker.

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Diplomacy (an 1878 English play which is a translation and adaptation by B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott of the 1877 French play Dora by Victorien Sardou (1831 – 1908), and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, in 1913.

Scenes from  Diplomacy (an 1878 English play which is a translation and adaptation by B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott of the 1877 French play Dora by Victorien Sardou (1831 – 1908), and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, in 1913.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, April 19th, 1913, "The Revival of Sardou's "Diplomacy," at Wyndham's Theatre."

   a- Dora's wedding day.- The mingled wrath and grief of the innocent bride, Dora (Miss Gladys Cooper), after her husband has accused her on their wedding day of being a spy and of having endeavoured to ruin his career.

   b- Henru Beauclerc (Mr. Gerald du Maurier) smelling the scent on the Government document which had been stolen.  It is by the unusual character of this scent that he exonerates Dora and tracks down the real villain, Countess Zicka.

   c- Countess Zicka, (Miss Ellis Jeffreys) secretly passing to her confederate, Baron Stein (Mr. Norman Forbes), the portrait of Count Orloff, which she has stolen from Dora's album, an act which further adds to the appearance of Dora's guilt.

   d- Miss Ellis Jeffreys as the Countess Zicka, a spy, who thinks herself more sinned against than sinning.

   e- Clearing up the muddle.- Dora and her mother, the Marquise de Rio-Zares (Miss Annie Schletter), recalling their movements at the time when the plan of the fortress of Gibraltar was stolen from the deed-box of Dora's husband, Julian ;  this examination by Julian's brother Henry (Mr. Gerald du Maurier) fastens the guilt on the Countess Zika, who is soon after trapped into a confession.

Sanctuary, A Bird Masque, written by Percy MacKaye, and first performed in 1913 at the Meriden, New Hampshire Bird Sanctuary.

 Scenes from Sanctuary, A Bird Masque, written by the American dramatist Percy MacKaye (1875–1956), and first performed in 1913 at the Meriden, New Hampshire Bird Sanctuary.

Sanctuary, A Bird Masque

Juliet Barrett Rublee as a dancer for The Masque, 1914

Juliet Barrett Rublee as Tacita the dryad, in a 1913 rehearsal for Sanctuary, A Bird Masque

Sanctuary, A Bird Masque, by Percy MacKaye, in rehearsal for first performance at the Meriden Bird Club 

Scene from Sanctuary: A Bird Masque, by Percy MacKaye, in rehearsal for first performance at the Meriden Bird Club sanctuary dedication in New Hampshire

Das vierte Gebot (The Fourth Commandment, 4-act-play, premiered in 1877) written by Ludwig Anzengruber and produced at Berlin Königgrätzer Str. in 1913?

A scene from Das vierte Gebot (The Fourth Commandment, 4-act-play, premiered in 1877) written by the German playwright Ludwig Anzengruber (1839 - 1889) and produced at the Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße, Berlin, in 1913.

Alt- Heidelberg (Old Heidelberg, 1901) written by Wilhelm Meyer- Förster and produced in Tokyo, Japan in 1913

A scene from Alt- Heidelberg (Old Heidelberg, 1901) written by the German playwright Wilhelm Meyer- Förster (1862 - 1934) and produced in Tokyo, Japan in 1913.

Potash and Perlmutter (three-act play), written by Montague Glass and Charles Klein, and produced by Albert H. Woods on Broadway, where it opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on August 16, 1913.

   Scenes from Potash and Perlmutter (three-act play), written by Montague Glass and Charles Klein, based on earlier short stories written by Glass, and produced by Albert H. Woods on Broadway, where it opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on August 16, 1913. 

   The play is a comedy featuring the characters Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter, who are business partners in the garment industry. The play opened on August 16, 1913 and ended on September 1, 1915, at George M. Cohan's Theatre, New York, and ran for 441 performances on Broadway. 

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Fine Feathers produced by H.H. Farzee at the The Bronx Opera House on August 30, 1913

A scene from Fine Feathers, produced by H.H. Farzee at the Cort Theatre in Chicago August 12, 1912 and then at the The Bronx Opera House on August 30, 1913, with Cohan, Harris and Woods' plan to offer Broadway plays at popular prices. It's a scene long to be remembered as the crowd gathers around the entrance. 

Robert Edeson as Robert Reynolds and Lolita Robertson as Jane Reynolds in 1912 for the original stage production of Fine Feathers at the Cort Theatre in Chicago

Characters

John Brand: The businessman

Robert Reynolds: The husband

Dick Mead: The friend

Jane Reynolds: The wife

Mrs. Collins: The neighbor

Frieda: The hired girl

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A scene from The Fugitive (a play in four acts), written by John Galsworthy (1867-1933) and premiered on September 16, 1913, at London's Court Theatre.

A scene from The Fugitive (a play in four acts), written by the English playwright John Galsworthy (1867-1933) and premiered on September 16, 1913, at London's Court Theatre. Later, the venue was moved to the Prince of Wales's Theatre.

 Irene Rooke as Clare Desmond in John Galsworthy's 'The Fugitive' 1913

Some scenes from Panthea written by Mr. Monckton Hoffe (1880-1951), and performed at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1913.

Some scenes from Panthea written by the Irish playwright Mr. Monckton Hoffe (1880-1951), and performed at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1913.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, June 21st, 1913, "Panthea," by Mr. Monckton Hoffs, at the Ambassadors Theatre.

   a- The two Bohemians meet.- Panthea (Miss Lillemor Holvorsen) has been wrecked on the coast of Northumberland, and is being sheltered by the narrow-minded and priggish family of the Mordaunts.  She turns with contempt from them all except Gerard Mordaunt (Mr. Leon Quartermaine), in whom she finds a spirit so congeneal and reciprocal that within half an hour of their meeting she has induced him to elope with her,  Gerard leaving his appallingly exemplary wife for ever.

   b- It is two years later, and Panthea, who is still with Gerard, is seen thinking out how to get the latter'a opera produced, since the lack of recognition accorded to his genius is wrecking her lover's health.  It is the wicked Baron who comes forward at this juncture with infamous suggestions to that end.

   c- The reception of Panthea from the wreck in to the chilly Mordaunt household.

   d- Panthea kills the Baron de Duisitort (Mr. C. V. France) on finding that he has revealed to Gerard the sacrifice she has made in order to get her lover's opera produced.

   e- The death of the lovers.- Gerard has forgiven Panthea for yielding for his sake to the Baron, but as the police are on the heroine's track for the latter's murder, these two children of passion make an end of all their troubles by taking poison and dying in each other's arms.