Abraham Lincoln (1918) written by John Drinkwater and produced with the title role played by Frank McGlynn in New York in 1919

Scenes from Abraham Lincoln (1918) written by the British playwright John Drinkwater (1882 - 1937) and produced at the Cort Theatre, New York City, with the title role played by Frank McGlynn (1866 - 1951), having run for 193 performances from Dec. 15, 1919 until May, 1920.

 

Frank McGlynn in the Broadway production of Abraham Lincoln (1919)

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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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Die Wandlung (1917-18) written by Ernst Toller and produced at the Altes Theater, Leipzig in 1919?

   A scene from Die Wandlung (1917-18) written by the German playwright Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939) and produced at the Altes Theater, Leipzig, probably in 1919.

   The transformation. The Wrestling of a Human Being is Ernst Toller's first play. It was completed in 1918 and premiered the following year at the Berlin Tribune. After the premiere, which made Ernst Toller famous within a very short time, the play celebrated an extraordinary success with critics and audiences. According to Toller's own statement, Die Wandlung was played over 100 times in Berlin and around 35 times in Hamburg. The success of the work may have been related to the fact that it represented a revolution in the theatre in terms of content and form. 

Transformation (Die Wandlung, 1919), written by Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939) and performed by Karlheinz Martin with Fritz Kortner as the war returnee, at Die Tribüne in Berlin, on September 30, 1919.

Scenes from Die Wandlung (Transformation 1917-18), written by the German playwright Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939) and performed by Karlheinz Martin with Fritz Kortner as the war returnee, at Die Tribüne in Berlin, on September 30, 1919, under the direction of Karl Heinz Martin.

Die Wandlung written by Ernst Toller and produced by Karlheinz Martin at the Theater Die Tribüne in Berlin on September 30, 1919

A scene from Die Wandlung written by the German playwright Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939) and produced by Karlheinz Martin (1886 - 1948) at the Theater Die Tribüne in Berlin on September 30, 1919.

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) written by the French playwright Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918) and produced at theTheatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, in 1919.

   A scene from Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) written by the French playwright Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918) and produced at theTheatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, in 1919.

  Duel of Cyrano de Bergerac and the Viscount de Valvert in the Hotel de Bourgogne, scene from a production of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, 1919. 

The Sphere, 28 June 1919.