one third of a nation, 1938

The run closed October 22, 1938

Opened

January 17, 1938

Closed

October 22, 1938

Performances

237

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Adelphi Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 83rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it26 named

Thurlow Bergen
Ed Brandon
Clarence R Chase
Peggy Coudrey
James J Coyle
Virginia Daly
Mira Dark
Charles Deigham
Charles Dill
Joseph M Dixon
Dick Fitzgerald
Lawrence Hawley
Max Hirsch
Richard Keller
Peter King
Roy le May
Nat Loesberg
Zack Maccubbin
Pat Mccullagh
Wayne Nunn
Bernard Pate
John Pote
May Ritchie
George A Ryan
Edwin Whitner
Jennie Wren

0 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Lem Ward

Producer

Philip Barber

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for one third of a nation at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.