MacGibbon, James. “Note to the 1978 Reprint”. The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith, Penguin, 1985, p. 12.
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Performance of text
Harriett Jay
Robert Buchanan
and HJ
's co-written, three-act comedy The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown opened at the Vaudeville Theatre
in London. Jay used a pseudonym, Charles Marlowe, for this and all later co-written...
Performance of text
Harriett Jay
Charles Marlowe's (HJ
's) and Robert Buchanan
's co-written comedy Shopwalker opened at the Vaudeville Theatre
in London (where Jay had often acted), and it did well.
The title is sometimes given as...
Performance of text
Enid Bagnold
Since it was directed by David O. Selznick
, who had recently produced Gone with the Wind (1939), the play drew a number of Hollywood stars and writers on the first night. It was not...
Performance of text
Githa Sowerby
Rutherford and Son by GS
re-opened at London's Little Theatre
. It became a critical success, and moved on to the Vaudeville
, bringing its total run to 133 performances.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
166, 130
Performance of text
Henrik Ibsen
HI
's play Rosmersholm had its first London performance, at the Vaudeville Theatre
; London also saw the English premieres of Ghosts and Hedda Gabler during this year.
McFarlane, James, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge University Press, 1994.