| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Abraham Lincoln' with photographs of members of the cast; typescript throughout gives cast lists and dates; includes programme with cast list [1940]
Performed at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 12 Oct 1918; produced by John Drinkwater; The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 19 Feb 1919 (466 performances); The Lyceum Theatre, London, 6 Jul 1921
Transferred to: The Scala, London, 24 Oct 1921 (173 performances); The Barnes Theatre, 3 Nov 1925, closing performance, 11 Nov 1925; The Princes Theatre, 23 Nov 1925, closing performance, 11 Dec 1925 (matinees only); produced by A. E. Filmer; The Old Vic Theatre, London, 15 Feb 1932 (two weeks); produced by John Drinkwater; Sadlers Wells [Mar], 1932 (one week); The Westminster Theatre, London, 16 Apr 1940; presented by the London Mask Theatre Company; directed by Henry Cass; decor by David Homan; The Playhouse Theatre, London, 13 Apr 1943; presented by Claude Soman; produced by Tyrone Guthrie
America: The Court Theatre, New York, 15 Dec 1918; revived: The Forrest Theatre, New York, 21 Oct 1929; presented by William Harris jnr; scenery, costumes and decor by Livingston Platt; staged by Gerald Cornell
Casts: Margaret Chatwin, Dorothy Massingham, J. Adrian Byrne, Joseph A. Dodd, Cathleen Orford, Mary Raby, William J. Rea, Gerald Jerome, Peter Crosswell, William Dexter, Frank Milray, Herbert Marshall, Ernest Warburton, Noel Shammon, Reginald Denham, Arnold Pilbeam, Percy Robinson, A. E. Filmer, H. Victor Tandy, Edwin Greenwood, Arthur Ewart, Richard Coke, John Darnley, Isabel Thornton, Maud Gill, E. Stewart Linder, E. Harcourt Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Gordon Allison, Leonard Shepherd, Felix Aylmer, A. C. Nighingale, Augustus Bowerman, C. H. Nichols, William Armstong, Denys Blakelock, Cecil de Lee, Saba Rayleigh, Collette O'Neill, Dirk Danielle, George Wilton, Peter Wilton, Elma Broadbridge, Dorothy Taylor, Nancy Byrne, Mona Glynne, Beatrice Filmer, Mabel Hicks, Lilian M. Revell, Mona Tandy, Susan Deddington, Lena Maitland, Beatrice Filmer, John McNally, Claude Graham, Dan F. Roe, Charles Mortimer, Ben Webster, Tristran Rawson, Slaine Mills, F. Thornton Bassett, Robert Harris, Ethel Glendinning, Phyllis Thomas, Mary Russell, Valerie Tudor, Richard Riddle, Douglas Jefferies, Robert Speaight, Ralph Richardson, Ralph Michael, Owen P. Smyth, Alaistair Sim, James Lytton, William Scott, Peter Taylor Smith, Robin Craven, Cecil Winterbottom, Stanley Young, Stuart Bull, Grenville Evos, Farquharson Small, Stephen Murray, Helen Misener, Alan Hood, Richard Caldicot, George Bishop, Godfrey Kenton, Alexis France, J. O. Twiss, Michael Gough, Stephen Murray, Tony Quinn, Beckett Bould, J. Hwfa Pryse, Charles Doe, Harold Arneil, James Ottway, Nicholas Stuart, Dorice Fordred, James Pugh, James Harcourt, Rosalind Atkinson, Herbert Lomas, Ralph Fraser, Morris Sweden, Robert Marsden, Alfred Gray, Roy Malcolm, Noel Willman, Robert Beaumont, Martin Beckwith, Kathleen Boutall, Felicity Lyster, Russell Thorndike, Clement Ashby, Arthur Perkins, Douglas Campbell, Harcourt Williams, J. Colvil Dunn, Thomas Irwin, Harold Kennedy, Florence Short, Edith Spencer, Frank McGlynn, Forrest Davis, Thomas Valden, Conrad Cantzen, Penwood Batkins, Frank Ginter, Gerald Cornell, William B. Randall, Duncan Cherry, Dwight George, Albert Durand, Robert Parsons, John C. Hickey, John Hanley, Herbert Curtis, Joseph Reed, William Norton, Alfred Moore, Mary Horne Morrison, Jennie A. Eustace, Charles H. Moore, John Omeara, Albert Phillips, George Williams, Perry Corson, Daniel Clark, Theodore Fetter, James S. Barrett, William Corbett, Thomas Spaulding, Charles Brill, Helen Miller, Edna Von Bulow, Helen Francis, Diana Hamilton, Susanne Browne, Charles Lindall, George Howard, Edward Porter |