Home and Beauty (a farce in three acts), known in the US as Too Many Husbands, written by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), and premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in August 1919.

   A scene from  Home and Beauty (a farce in three acts), known in the US as Too Many Husbands, written by the Britgish playwright W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), and premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in August 1919.

   Home and Beauty, known in the US as Too Many Husbands, is a farce in three acts by W. Somerset Maugham. Written in 1919, it was first seen in August of that year at the Globe Theatre, Atlantic City, USA and subsequently at the Booth Theatre, New York, under its American title. 

London production, 1919, with from left, Lottie Venne, Charles Hawtrey, Malcolm Cherry, Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper as Victoria, 1919

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Estelle Winwood in the Broadway production of Too Many Husbands, US title of Home and Beauty (1919)

The Faithful (1915) written by John Masefield and produced at the Theatre Guild, New York, under the direction of Irving Pichel and with the stage designed by Lee Simonson, in 1919

   Scenes from The Faithful (3-act-tragedy, a British interpretation of the Japanese Chushingura legend, 1915) written by the British playwright John Masefield (1878 - 1967) and produced by the Theatre Guild (founded in 1918), New York City, under the direction of Irving Pichel (1891 - 1954), with the stage designed by Lee Simonson, having run for 49 performances from Oct. 13, 1919 until January 1920. 

   This play was performed in Tokyo on May 21, 1921 as a kind of reverse import.

 

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