ACT I--2:00 A. M._The play's the thing

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_FERENC MOLNAR_

THE PLAY’S

THE THING

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_Adapted from the Hungarian

By_ P. G. WODEHOUSE

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BRENTANO’S

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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

THE PLAY’S THE THING

THE CHARACTERS

SANDOR TURAI, A Famous Dramatist

MANSKY, His Collaborator

ALBERT ADAM, A Young Composer

ILONA SZABO, A Prima Donna

ALMADY, A Leading Actor

JOHANN DWORNITSCHEK, A Footman

MELL, The Count’s Secretary

TWO LACKEYS.

The action takes place in a room in a castle on the Italian Riviera, on

a Saturday in summer.

ACT I--2:00 A. M.