Sunday, 13 October 2019

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.


From left, Lottie Venne, Charles Hawtrey, Malcolm Cherry, Gladys Cooper


Gladys Cooper as Victoria, 1919


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



Wilhelm Tell written by Friedrich Schiller (1859-1908) and performed at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus Berlin, in 1919.

A scene from the play Wilhelm Tell written by the German playwright Friedrich Schiller (1859-1908) and performed under the direction of Leopold Jessner at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus Berlin, in 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.