Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan.
93
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
This was re-issued by, among other publishers, the Peoples Book Club
in Chicago (undated but probably in the original year of publication) and by Samuel French
in March 1991.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Publishing
Muriel Box
In financial panic at the outbreak of the Second World War, Muriel and Sydney Box
sold the copyright in practically all the plays we had written to date to Samuel French, Ltd. for a thousand...
Publishing
Kate Parry Frye
The play was published in French's Acting Edition in London and New York.
Frye, Kate Parry. “Introduction”. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford, Francis Boutle Publishers, pp. 9-34.
215
Samuel French
had bought the script more than a year earlier for ten pounds.
Crawford, Elizabeth, and Kate Parry Frye. The Great War: The People’s Story—Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. ITV.
No records of performances have been found.
Publishing
Harold Pinter
Faber
printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French
issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002.
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Publishing
Constance Smedley
CS
had moved smoothly from writing one-act plays for the Cotswold Players
to writing them for the first, Chelsea, incarnation of the Greenleaf Players. She wrote a number of plays for performance by the...
Reception
F. Tennyson Jesse
Billeted was a great hit with wartime audiences, running for over two hundred performances. FTJ
deemed it a very light comedy.
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
101
It appeared in print in 1920 as one of French
's Standard Library series.
An acting edition was published by Samuel French
and another edition by Collins
, both in 1951. It appeared the following year from Collins
, adapted to novel form.
Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press.
166
Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon.
285
Textual Production
Molly Keane
An acting edition was published by Samuel French
that year.
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Its failure was ascribed to coincidence in timing with John Osborne
's highly successful kitchen-sink play Look Back in Anger. That had in fact...
Textual Production
Lesley Storm
Samuel French
published the play the following year.
Textual Production
George Paston
Samuel French
published GP
's Stars: A Comedy, a one-act play in which a husband-and-wife acting duo battle over their reviews.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Timeline
1957: Dulcie Gray launched her publishing career:...
Women writers item
1957
Dulcie Gray
launched her publishing career: Samuel French
issued her playLove Affair (which had been staged the previous year) and the first of her murder mysteries, Murder on the Stairs, also appeared.
1958: Elaine Morgan's one-act play The Waiting-Room...