Cast of "The Drunkard": Merwin Lucas, Jeffrey Williams, Larry Grenier, Nestor Paiva, Lois Hunt, Sam Ethridge, Zan Joyce, Tom Miller, Helen Westcott, Jan Duggan, Mary Tock, George Stuart, Ada Lilly, and Karl Thomas, Los Angeles, 1938
US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. "The Drunkard" is scheduled to beat the world's longest play record at 283 consecutive weeks plus one day. "Abie's Irish Rose" ran 283 weeks for the past 11 years. Photograph appears with the article, "'Drunkard' to Set New Play Record," Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec 1938: C1. The cast gathers on two tiers of the stage dressed in costumes modeled after attire in the 1850s. Text from negative sleeve: 15305 ? (cast of "The Drunkard," long running production @ Theater Mart by Galt Bell of PT Barnum's melodrama - 2000th performance in 12/38)? Text from newspaper caption: Members of the present cast of "The Drunkard" at the Theater Mart are pictured above in character: top row, left to right: Merwin Lucas, the messenger boy; Jeffrey Williams, Arden Rencelow; Larry Grenier, Draver Stevens; Nestor Paiva, Squire Cribbs; Lois Hunt, Mary; Sam Ethridge, the hero Edward Middleton; Zan Joyce, olio entertainer; Tom Miller, the bartender; Helen Westcott, Julia; and lower row: Jan Duggan, Mrs. Wilson; Mary Tock, coloratura soprano; George Stuart, Bill Dowton; Ada Lilly, Mad Agnes, and Karl Thomas, Farmer Gates. Six players of this company of 1938 were in the opening cast of five and a half years ago: Grenier, Williams, Stuart, Miss Duggan, Ethridge and Miss Lilly.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14728 ark:/21198/zz002j8cdt
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Stages (Platforms) Costumes Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles World records--California--Los Angeles Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles Actors--American--California--Los Angeles Lilly, Ada Hunt, Lois, b. 1907 or 08 Westcott, Helen, 1928-1998 Thomas, Karl Stuart, George Tock, Mary Ethridge, Sam Miller, Tom Theater Mart (Los Angeles CA) Paiva, Nestor, 1905-1966 Smith, W. H. (William Henry), 1806-1872. The Drunkard Joyce, Zan Duggan, Jan, 1881-1977 Williams, Jeffrey, b. 1861 or 66 Grenier, Laurence, 1906-1978 Lucas, Merwin, 1925-1999
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