MLR
's The Altar of Friendship, another mixture of melodrama and comedy, was first produced at the Hollis Street Theatre
in Boston with John Mason
in the lead role in what was to be...
Performance of text
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
She wrote this for American comedian Nat C. Goodwin
, and he went on to tour it with his company in Australia for three months. He then performed the play for two weeks at Hooley's Theatre
Performance of text
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
This play was adapted as a novel published by G. W. Dillingham
in 1898.
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
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On stage it continued to notch up successes. On 19 June 1899 Goodwin
opened in it at the Duke of York's Theatre
Performance of text
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Later it opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
in New York, starring Goodwin
and Elliott
, directed by Ryley herself. This production had fifty performances in New York.
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
72-74, 97
A Londonproduction opened on...
Textual Production
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Ten years before MLR
's drama, another sharing its title and subject matter was the first adult play by J. M. Barrie
to reach the stage. MLR originally gave her script to Nat Goodwin
...
