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.

   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




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

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