The Unknown Purple, 1918

The run dates incomplete

Opened

September 14, 1918

Closed

Unknown

Performances

273

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Lyric Theatre

Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and carry a performance count, this is the 58th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Who was in it11 named

Herbert Ashton
Richard Bennett
Curtis Benton
Earle Brown
E L Duane
Lorraine Frost
Marion Kerby
Arthur le Vien
Helen Mackellar
Frank Mccormack
Edward van Sloan

0 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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

Charles H. Smith

Producer

Roland West

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 The Unknown Purple at all.
• When it closed.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.