Front matter
Reading edition
FERENC MOLNAR
THE PLAY’S THE THING
Adapted from the Hungarian
By P. G. WODEHOUSE
BRENTANO’S
Publishers New York
COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY CHARLES FROHMAN, INC.
All rights, including stage, motion picture, and amateur production, are reserved. No performance or public reading may be given without the written consent of the author, or his recognized agents. Application should be made to the author, in care of Charles Frohman, Inc.
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On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language. The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926. It was produced by Holbrook Blinn with the following cast:—
SANDOR TURAI Holbrook Blinn
MANSKY Hubert Druce
ALBERT ADAM Edward Crandall
ILONA SZABO Catherine Dale Owen
ALMADY Reginald Owen
JOHANN DWORNITSCHEK Ralph Nairn
MELL Claud Allister
LACKEYS { Stephen Kendal
{ John Gerard