The Wild Duck written by playwright Henrik Ibsen and produced by Arthur Hopkins at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, in 1918, starring Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal) and Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle)

Scenes from The Wild Duck written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) and produced by Arthur Hopkins (1878 - 1950) at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, starring Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal) and Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle), having run for 32 performances from March 11 to April 1918.

Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal) and Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle) in the original Broadway production of The Wild Duck 

From left: Dodson Mitchell (Werle), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle), Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Lyster Chambers (Relling) 

Act III. Relling—"She must have pressed the pistol right against her breast and fired."

Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig) and Edward Connelly (Old Ekdal) 

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Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893) written by George Bernard Shaw, and produced by the Washington Square Players, at the Comedy Theatre, New York City, in 1918

Scenes from Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893) written by the British playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), and produced by the Washington Square Players, at the Comedy Theatre, New York City, directed by and starring Mary Shaw (American actress, 1854 - 1929), having run from March 11 until Aprril 20, 1918.

The Wild Duck written by Henrik Ibsen and produced by Arthur Hopkins at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, having run for 32 performances from March 11, 1918 to April 1918

Scenes from The Wild Duck written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) and produced by Arthur Hopkins first in the English-language at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, having run for 32 performances from March 11, 1918 to April 1918, with the cast including Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Edward Connelly (Old Ekdal), Lionel Atwill (Hjalmer Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle).

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Der Sohn (1914) written by Walter Hasenclever and produced at the Hof- and Nationaltheater Mannheim under the direction of Richard Weichert in 1918

Stage-sketches for Der Sohn (five-act successful Expressionist play, 1914) written by the German playwright Walter Hasenclever (1890 - 1940) and produced at the Hof- and Nationaltheater Mannheim under the direction of Richard Weichert (director and actor, 1880 - 1961) on January 19, 1918.

The Long Voyage Home written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill and produced by Provincetown Players at the Playwright's Theater, New York City, in 1917

   A scene from The Long Voyage Home written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953) and first produced by Provincetown Players at the Playwright's Theater, New York City, on November 2, 1917.

   The Long Voyage Home was directed by Nina Moise, whom O’Neill felt would protect his plays.  Alfred Kreymborg describes his observation of a rehearsal of the play in his autobiography:  "The stage . . . was set in a villainous bar-room.  Sailors and longshoremen were roaring and cursing in the raciest of language of the sea, cuffing and mauling one another and finally turning on one of their number and sandbagging him senseless.  Were it not for the expert characterization of each individual part, and the natural sequence of the amazing plot, that business up there would remind one of an old Bowery melodrama."

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Two scenes from Dear Brutus (1917) written by James M. Barrie, and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre in the West End, London, between 17 October 1917 and 24 August 1918

   Two scenes from Dear Brutus (1917) written by the Scottish playwright James M. Barrie (1860-1937), and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre in the West End, London,  between 17 October 1917 and 24 August 1918, running for 363 performances. 

   Dear Brutus is a fantasy play by J. M. Barrie, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life. The title is a reference to a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves"

Mary Casson - Sir Gerald du Maurier in Barries Dear Brutus

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If (1921) written by Lord Dunsany and performed on Broadway at the Little Theatre where it opened on October 25, 1927.

   A scene from If (a play in four acts, first published in 1921) written by the Irish playwright Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) and performed on Broadway at the Little Theatre where it opened on October 25, 1927 and closed November 1. 

   The production was staged by Agnes Morgan, and starred Walter Kingsford as John Beal and Margot Lester as Miralda Clement. The costumes were designed by Aline Bernstein and made by Helene Pons Studio.

   If premiered in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 30 May 1921. It ran there for a 180 performances; closing on 29 October 1921. The production starred Henry Ainley as John Beal and Gladys Cooper as Miralda Clement.

   New York Times :  1927/10/30  WIT AND CLOWNING; In "If" Dunsany Tales His Hand at Modish Satire ...   Alas, Dunsany is too much the gentleman to wear the jester's motley comfortably, and “If” emerges as a thin, trickling garden party diversion.