THE 1920’s
1929
Scenes and Moods
(an evening of theatre and dance)
with Catherine Cale and Ruth Parks
*Sculpture of Ruth Parks by Isamu Noguchi, currently housed at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The Vegetable, or
From President to Postman
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed by Lee Strasberg
Produced by the Lennox Hill Players
with Martin K. Altman, Herman Bandes, Syd Brenner, David Kerman, Louis John Latzer, Mitchell Padraic Marcus, Harry J(ay) Marks, Eve Saxer, Jerome Seplow, Mildred P. Seplow
The Dragon
by Lady Augusta Gregory
Directed by David Elliot
Produced by The Jitney Players
with Bushnell Cheney, Harrison Dowd, David Elliott, Ferris Hartman, Alice B. Keating, William Lovejoy, Gene Magnus, Robert Parsons, Juliette Phillips, Jack Rennick, Ralph W. Shattuck, Frances Simpson, Elizabeth Zachary
*Lady Augusta Gregory, along with W.B. Yeats, was one of the founders of The Abbey Theatre, aka The National Theatre of Ireland
The Subway
by Elmer Rice
directed by Adele Gutman Nathan
produced by the Lennox Hill Players
with Peter Gwyn, Jane Hamilton and Harry J. Marks
1928
dark mirror
by Irving Stone
directed by Adele Gutman Nathan
produced by the Lennox Hill Players
with Lillian Azair, Syd Brenner and A.J. Field
The waltz of Dogs
by L. Andreyev
directed and Produced by Celia Avramo
with Jules Artfield, Samuel Baron, Antoinette Crawford, Edward Englund, Sylvia Hoffman, Harold Johnsrud, Douglas B. Krantzor, and Rudolph Lovinger
A Trip to Scarborough
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
directed by Bushnell Cheney
produced by The Jitney Players
with Bushnell Cheney, Alice B. Keating, Jack Rennick, David Elliott, Ferris Hartman, Robert P. Parsons, Julia Parlow, Elizabeth Zachary, Harrison Dowd, Frances Simpson, Gene Magnus, and William Lovejoy
Hoboken Blues
book by Michael Gold
music by Edward A. Ziman
directed by Edward Massey
sets by William Gaskin
with Lawrence Bolton, Mona Lewis, Murray Franklin, Montague Ash, Jane Barry, Herbert T. Bergman, Harold Boardley, George Bratt, Mary Doerr, Philip Epstein, Edith Frisbee, Albert Gilman, Isobel Jones, Thomas Kilmartin, Hazel Mason, Ross Matthews, Paul Morton, George N. Price, Jack Robinson and Sheba Strunsky
The International
a play, with music
by John Howard Lawson
music by Edward A. Ziman
directed by John Howard Lawson
choreographed by Don Oscar Becque
sets by John Dos Passos
costumes by Helen Johnson
with Jane Barry , Herbert T. Bergman , Lawrence Bolton , Ruth Chorpenning , Lionel Ferrend , Eduard Franz , Miriam Gumble , Felix Jacoves , Hazel Mason , Ross Matthews , George N. Price , George Tobias , Franchot Tone
*John Howard Lawson later become one of the Hollywood Ten…the group of men who refused to name names and answer the questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee
the centuries
by Em Jo Basshe
with Herman Bandes, Jane Barry, Ellen Bartlett, Herbert Bergman, Lawrence Bolton, Peter Brocco, Edwin Clare, Mary Doerr, Sylvia Feningston, Lionel Ferrend, Nelson Frank, Murray Franklin, Edward Franz, Albert Gilman, Miriam Gumble, Felix Jacoves, Marion Pollock Johnson, Max Leavitt, Mona Lewis, Cecile Lifter, Marta Proudfoot, Edward Robbin, Samuel Schneider, Sheba Strunsky, Irwin Swerdlow, Franchot Tone, Gladys Wess
New Playwrights Theatre
*Photos from the Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library
the belt
by Paul Sifton
directed by Edward Massey
with Herman Bandes, Jane Barry, Herbert Bergman, Lawrence Bolton, Edward Buckman, Gail De Hart, Lionel Ferrend, Moss Fleisig, Murray Franklin, Edward Franz, Ross Matthews, Benjamin Osipow, George N. Price, Irwin Swerdlow, Charles P. Thompson, Franchot Tone, Parker Totten, Willard Williams
New Playwrights Theatre
stigma
by Dorothy Manley and Donald Duff
with Donald Duff, Edmond Rickett Joanna Roos and Doralyne Spence
The Moon Is A Gong
(aka The Garbage Man)
by John Dos Passos
Directed by Edward Massey
Produced by Juliet Barrett Rublee
Designed by Mordecai Gorelik
with Ben Osipow, William Challee and Helen Chandler
1925
polly
by John Gay
direted by Gordon Davis & William S. Rainey
with Dorothy Brown, Richard Abbott, Maud Allan, Oscar Amundsen, Margot Andre, Zoe Barry, William Broderick, William Burke, Marion Cowen, Orde Creighton, David D’Arcy, Edmund Forde, Geneva Harrison, Michael Kilborn, Kathryn Mulholland, Eunice Osborne, Jeanne Owen, William S. Rainey, Grace Searles, Charles Trout, Helen White
adapted by Clifford Bax and Frederic Austin
American Premiere: October 10, 1925
loggerheads
by Ralph Cullinan
produced by Whitford Kane and Barry Macollum
with Whitford Kane and Gail Kane
wild birds
by Dan Totheroh
directed by John Wray
with Donald Duff, George Farren, Edmund Forde, Mina C. Gleason, Thomas MacLarnie, Mildred MacLeod, Florence Miller, Dodson L. Mitchell, Laurence Tulloch, Mildred Whitney
1924
First Production at the Cherry Lane Playhouse “Saturday Night” opened February 9, 1924
saturday night
by Robert Presnell
with Marie Chambers Directed by: William A. Rainey, Evelyn Vaughan, or Reginald Travers (The first theatrical presentation at the Cherry Lane Playhouse) Opened February 9, 1924
The Man Who Ate the Popomack
by W. J. Turner
directed by Reginald Travers
with Esther Belford, Neal Caldwell, Dennis Cleugh, Lionel Ferrend, Thurston Macauley, Ethel Martin, Walter Plunkett, William S. Rainey, Arthur William Row, Vera Tompkins, Reginald Travers, Sarah Truax, Charles Welsh-Homer, Bert Young
The Way of the World
by William Congreve
produced by the Cherry Lane Players Inc.
with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Mrs. Belford, Mrs. Bryan, Mr. Carrington, Mr. Davis, Bruce De Lette, Mr. Forde, Mrs. Hassell, Mr. Kinnell, Mrs Lee, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Owen, Mr. Pace, Mr. Rainey, Mr. St. James, Mrs. Tompkins, Mr. Trout, Mr. Tulloch
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