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The Chief Thing
Play
Comedy
Drama
Original
Broadway
Opening Date
Mar 22, 1926
Closing Date
Apr 1926
Performances
40
Play
Comedy
Drama
Original
Broadway
Open Date: Mar 22, 1926
Close Date: Apr 1926
Closed Flag: n
Is Final Week:
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Guild Theatre
(Mar 22, 1926 - Apr 1926)
Description
A play in three acts
Setting
The beginning of the Twentieth Century in Central Russia
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild
Written by
Nikolai Evreinov
; Translated by
Leo Randole
and
Herman Bernstein
Staged by
Philip Moeller
Donald Angus
Tigelin
Patricia Barron
A Fallen Woman
Alice Belmore Cliffe
Landlady in a Rooming House
Romney Brent
Petronius
Harold Clurman
Nero
Peggy Conway
Popea Sabina
Ernest Cossart
A Comedian
C. Stafford Dickens
An Actor
Dwight Frye
A Student
William Griffith
Electrician
Hildegard Holliday
Nigidia
A Deaf Mute
House Baker Jameson
Lucian
Kate Lawson
Ligia
Edith Meiser
Lady With the Dog
Esther Mitchell
Landlady's Daughter
McKay Morris
Paraklete
Edward G. Robinson
A Stage Director
Lee Strasberg
A Prompter
Willard Tobias
A Slave
Henry Travers
Retired Government Clerk
Mary True
Calvia Crispinilla
Helen Westley
A School Teacher
Estelle Winwood
A Dancer
Stanley G. Wood
The Manager of a Provincial Theatre
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild
Written by
Nikolai Evreinov
; Translated by
Leo Randole
and
Herman Bernstein
Staged by
Philip Moeller
Donald Angus
Tigelin
Patricia Barron
A Fallen Woman
Alice Belmore Cliffe
Landlady in a Rooming House
Romney Brent
Petronius
Harold Clurman
Nero
Peggy Conway
Popea Sabina
Ernest Cossart
A Comedian
C. Stafford Dickens
An Actor
Dwight Frye
A Student
William Griffith
Electrician
Hildegard Holliday
Nigidia
A Deaf Mute
House Baker Jameson
Lucian
Kate Lawson
Ligia
Edith Meiser
Lady With the Dog
Esther Mitchell
Landlady's Daughter
McKay Morris
Paraklete
Edward G. Robinson
A Stage Director
Lee Strasberg
A Prompter
Willard Tobias
A Slave
Henry Travers
Retired Government Clerk
Mary True
Calvia Crispinilla
Helen Westley
A School Teacher
Estelle Winwood
A Dancer
Stanley G. Wood
The Manager of a Provincial Theatre
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