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.

Die Stadt der Besessenen (The City of the Possessed, An Anabaptist Play in Three Acts), witten by Wilhelm Schmidtbonn (1876-1952), and performed at the Altes Theater, Leipzig, in 1917.

A scene from Die Stadt der Besessenen (The City of the Possessed, An Anabaptist Play in Three Acts), witten by the German playwright Wilhelm Schmidtbonn (1876-1952), and performed at the Altes Theater, Leipzig, in 1917.

Failed and chased away in Leiden, Jan Bockelson, preacher of the Anabaptists, wants to give his all in Münster. The city is to become the center of Anabaptist teaching, the new Jerusalem. 

 Jan Bokelson (Kurt Stieler, 1877–1963) and Hille Feiken (the prominent actress, author, and friend of Rilke and Sigmund Freud: Ellen Delp, 1890–1990).

Masquerade (four-act-tragedy 1835) written by the Russian playwright Mikhail Lermontov (1814 - 1841), and premiered in St. Petersburg, under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 -1940), in 1917.

A scene from Masquerade (four-act-tragedy 1835) written by the Russian playwright Mikhail Lermontov (1814 - 1841), and premiered in St. Petersburg, under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 -1940), in 1917.

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A Doll’s House, directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Dorothy Phillips, in 1917.

   A Doll’s House,  directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Dorothy Phillips, in 1917.

   In the US during the silent period, four film adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House (Et dukkehjem) from 1879, were produced, all of which are considered to be lost films: a 1917 production directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Dorothy Phillips.