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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2163
Title'La Prisonniere' by Edouard Bourdet
Extent1 file
Date1926-1929
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'La Prisonniere', translated by Gilbert Wakefiel' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast lists and dates; photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; mentions the play was stopped by the police in New York and banned by cencers in London

Performed at The Arts Theatre Club, London, 14 Dec 1927; produced by Maurice Browne
Revived at: The Arts Theatre Club, London, 24 Nov 1929 (in the original French) as part of J. T. Grein's Cosmopolitan Theatre season; produced by Alice Gachet
France: The Femina Theatre, Paris, 11 Apr 1926; presented by Andre Gailhard
America: The Empire Theatre, New York, 19 Sep 1926 (as 'The Captive' ) (166 performances); adapted by Arthur Hornblow jnr; presented by Charles Frohman produced by Gilbert Miller

Casts: Primrose Morgan, Margaret Emden, Sylvia Willoughby, Frederick Leister, Isabel Jeans, George Hayes, Townsend Whitling, Ellen Hare, Charles Carson, Ann Trevor, Winifred Fraser, Minna Phillips, Norman Trevor, Helen Mencken, Basil Rathbone, Arthur Lewis, Ann Andrews, Arthur Wontner, Mlle Sylvie, Pierre Blanchar, Jean Worms, Arvel, Lyliane Garcin, Suzanne Dantes, Minnie Blagdon, Barbara Couper, Lorenzo Chabloz, Eveline Kiddle, Patirica Burke, Boris Ravensky, Austin Trevor, Selma vaz Dias, Evelyn Kiddle
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