Past Shows - 1925 TO 1949

CHRONOLOGY of THE NATIONAL THEATRE
1925 - 1949

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1835 - 1864
1865 - 1899
1900 -1924
1950 - 1999
2000 - the present

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Abbreviations
SN refers to Stage for a Nation, Lee, Meersman, Murphy, 1985, the official history of The National.
HNNT refers to History of the New National Theatre by Alexander Hunter and J. H. Polkinhorn, November, 1954
ON refers to a series of orange notebooks containing information taken from the files of the Washington Historical Society on productions at the National beginning in 1835. Information culled from The Intelligencer newspaper files of the Martin Luther King Library. There are no program files for these entries.
Rapley Files - William W. Rapley was an owner and manager of the theatre in the 1860's and the 1870's. He was later succeeded by his son, Harry W. Rapley.

PRODUCTIONS AT DATES UNKNOWN

December 29, 1924 through January 3, 1925
LIGHTNIN’ - by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. Starring Thomas Jefferson and Jack Marvin. Directed by Winchell Smith.

1925
S. E. Cochran, Treasurer of the National Theatre, and Charles Jacobson, the latter on leave from his position of Treasurer of the the Sam H. Harris Theatre in New York, established the National Theatre Players repertoire stock company. Owen Davis directed. Charles Squires was the scenic artist.

January 11, 1925 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS – India and The Vale of Kashmir.

January 18, 1925 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS – Burma, Land of Golden Pagodas

January 25, 1925 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS – Ceylon and Singapore

February 1, 1925 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS – Siam and Borneo

February 8, 1925 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS – Java and Sumatra

February 9 through February 14, 1925
RAIN - by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, based on the W. Somerset Maugham story, “Miss Thompson.” Starring Jeanne Eagels.

February 16 through February 21, 1925
SAINT JOAN - by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Julia Arthur.

March 16 through March 21, 1925
THE RIVALS - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Cast includes Thomas A. Wise, Kenneth Thomson, Fred Eric, James T. Powers, Chauncey Olcott, Percival Vivian, George Tawde, Herbert Belmore, Mrs. Fiske, Lola Fisher, Lotus Robb and Marie Carroll.

March 22 through March 28, 1925
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

May 18 through May 24, 1925
THE NERVOUS WRECK - written by Owen Davis. Cast includes Minor Watson, Leneta Lane, Butler Hixon, Edward Arnold, Charles Halton and William McFadden. Presented by the National Theatre Players, directed by Clifford Brooke.

May 25 through June 1, 1925
JUST MARRIED -- by Adelaide Matthews. Cast includes Minor Watson and Leneta Lane. Presented by the National Theatre Players

June 2 through June 8, 1925
SO THIS IS LONDON – by George M. Cohan. Cast includes Leneta Lane, Minor Watson, Romaiel Callender, Edward Arnold. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

June 9 through June 15, 1925
SPRING CLEANING – by Frederick Lonsdale. Cast includes Leneta Lane, Minor Watson, Dorothy Tierney. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

June 16 through June 22, 1925
THE BEST PEOPLE – by Avery Hopwood and David Gray. Cast includes Dorothy Tierney, Marjorie Metcalf, Leneta Lane, Kathryn Givney. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

June 23 through June 28, 1925 [no program file]
THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING - written by John Emerson and Anita Loos. With Minor Watson.

June 27, 1925
Mr. W.H. Rapley, director of the National Theatre, came down from his summer home at Spofford Lake, N.H., for a meeting of international theatre managers in New York, and then came to Washington to check up on the National. He was "highly pleased" with the Management of the National Theatre Players, and returned promptly to New Hampshire to play golf.

June 29 through July 4, 1925
THE CHAMPION – comedy by Grant Mitchell. Cast includes Minor Watson, Leneta Lane, Edwin Arnold, Lillian Dean, Dorothy Tierney, Kathryn Givney, Edward Arnold. Directed by Clifford Brooke. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

July 6 through July 11, 1925
MEET THE WIFE – comedy by Lynn Starling. Cast includes Minor Watson, Leneta Lane, Romaine Callender, Kathryn Givney. Directed by Clifford Brooke. Presented by the National Theatre Players.`

July 13 through July 18, 1925
TWIN BEDS – comedy by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mays. Cast includes Clifford Brooke, Minor Watson, Lenata Lane, Edward Arnold and Kathryn Givney. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

July 20 through July 25, 1925
AREN’T WE ALL – comedy by Frederick Lonsdale. Cast includes Cliffor Brooke, John Glynn MacFarlane, Lenata Lane, Lillian Dean. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

July 27 through August 1, 1925
THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH – comedy by Lewis Beach. Cast includes John Glynn MacFarlane, Kathryn Givney, Lillian Dean, Romaine Callendar, Lenata Lane. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

August 3 through August 8, 1925
CHEATING CHEATERS – comedy/melodrama by Max Marcin. Cast includes Leneta Lane, John Glynn MacFarlane, Kathryn Givney, Edward Arnold, Romaine Callendar, Dorothy Tierney. Presented by the National Theatre Players.

August 10 through August 15, 1925
CHICKEN FEED

August 17 through August 22, 1925
KIKI

September 7 through September 12, 1925
VORTEX

October 25 through October 30, 1925
LADY BE GOOD – musical: book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson; music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Cast includes Fred and Adele Astaire, Bill Bailey, Sam Critcherson, Harry Howell, Edward Jephson, Viola Boles, Katherine Sacker, Fern Adair, Gerald Oliver Smith, Walter Catlett, Winifred Barry. Staged by Felix Edwardes.

November 9 through November 15, 1925
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL– A comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by George C. Tyler and staged by Basil Dean

November 24 through December 1, 1925
TIP-TOE - book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson; music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Starring Jeanette McDonald. Book staged by John Harwood; Dances and Ensembles staged by Sammy Lee; Settings designed and painted by John Wenger.

December 21 through December 26, 1925
NO, NO, NANETTE – musical comedy: book by Frank Mandel and Otto Harbach; lyrics by Otto Harbach and Irving Caesar; music by Vincent Youmans. Starring Julia Sanderson, Donald Frian, Frank Curmit and Ona Munson.

December 28, 1925 through January 2, 1926
TOPSY AND EVA - a musical comedy based on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Music and lyrics by the Duncan Sisters. Starring Edmund Fitzpatrick, Vivian Duncan and Rosetta Duncan.

1926
January 3 through January 9, 1926
GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS

January 24, 1926 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS –Vienna and the Tyrol

January 31, 1926 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS – Paris and Northern France

February 7, 1926 (Sunday)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS – London, with Rambles Through England and Scotland

March 1 through March 6, 1926
THE POOR NUT - comedy by J.C. and Elliott Nugent. Starring Elliott Nugent.

March 8 through March 12, 1926
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE - comedy by Michael Arlen. Starring Cyril Maude. Cast includes Herbert Marshall. “Positively the last appearances of Mr. Maude in Washington.”

March 14 through March 19, 1926
THE GRAB BAG - book, lyrics and music by Ed Wynn. Starring Ed Wynn.

March 21 through March 26, 1926
KID BOOTS - Starring Eddie Cantor, with Mary Eaton. Offered by Florenz Ziegfeld as "his greatest success" based on Palm Beach and Golf. Staged by Edward Royce. Book by Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach. Music by Harry Tierney. Lyrics by Joseph McCarthy.

March 28 through April 4, 1926
NO NO NANETTE - musical comedy. Starring Julia Anderson, Frank Crumit, Donald Brian, and Ona Munson.

September 20 through October 23, 1926
BEN HUR - a film based on the book by Lew Wallace. Starring Ramon Navarro and Francis X. Bushman. Film shown twice daily, with a Sunday matinee at 3 o’clock. Stage Presentation and Musical score by Major Edward Bowes, David Mendoza and William Axt.

October 24 through October 29, 1926
YOUNG WOODLEY - a play by John Van Druten. Starring Glenn Hunter and a New York cast.

1927
March 28 through April 4, 1927
TRELAWNY OF THE "WELLS" - a comedy in four acts by Arthur Pinero. Cast includes Otto Kruger, Helen Gahagan, Estelle Winwood, Peggy Wood, Lawrance d’Orsay. Staged by William Seymour.

August 15 through August 21, 1927
THE SWAN - play by Ferenc Molnar. Directed by Clifford Brooke and featuring The National Theatre Players.

August 22 through August 28, 1927
THE DONOVAN AFFAIR - a mystery thriller by Owen Davis. Directed by Clifford Brooke and featuring the National Theatre Players.

September 5 through September 10, 1927
7th HEAVEN – by Austin Strong. Directed by Clifford Brooke. Featuring the National Theatre Players.

September 11 through September 23, 1927
OLD IRONSIDES – a Paramount picture based on the story by Laurence Stallings, adapted by Harry Carr and Walter Woods. Starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft, Charles Hill Mailes, Johnny Walker, Eddie Fetherston, George Godfrey.

September 26 through October 1, 1927 (no program file)
SPRING BOARD – a new play

SHOW BOAT - World Premiere with Norma Terris as Magnolia, William Warfield as Joe

November 21 through November 26, 1927
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR – by William Shakespeare. Starring Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner, with Henrietta Crosman. Cast includes Will Geer. Produced and directed by Harrison Grey Fiske.

1928
January 30 through February 4, 1928
HONEYMOON LANE - a musical comedy by Eddie Dowling and James Hanley. Starring Eddie Dowling, with Bobbie Perkins, Martha Morton, Harry Robinson. Presented by A.N. Erlanger.

February 6 though February 11, 1928
DIPLOMACY - an English version of a play in four acts by Victorien Sardou. Cast includes Tyrone Power, William Faversham, Charles Coburn, Frances Starr, Helen Gahagan. Staged by Campbell Gullen. Presented by George C. Tyler.

February 21 through February 25, 1928
THE THREE MUSKETEERS - new operetta by Rudolf Friml, adapted from the book by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. Starring Dennis King, Joseph Macaulay, Douglas R. Dumbrille, Ditmar Poppen.

February 27 through March 3, 1928
KING OF KINGS - a film by Cecil B. de Mille.

March 19 through March 24, 1928
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER - by Oliver Goldsmith. Pauline Lord speaks the prologue which was written by David Garrick. Cast includes Fay Bainter, Lawrance d’Orsay, and Wilfrid Seagram. Staged by William Seymour. Presented by George C. Tyler.

April 9 through April 21, 1928
RIO RITA - a musical comedy produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. Title role played by Etheline Terry.

April 22 through 27, 1928
PORGY by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. Theatre Direction: A.L. Erlanger, W.H. Rapley Business Manager: S.E. Cochran "A Gentle Ballyhoo on Washington's Drama Critics" (in (program July 9, 1928) Evening Star, C.E. Nelson

July 2 through July 7, 1928
INTERFERENCE – by Roland Pertwee and Harold Dearden. A production of the National Theatre Players.

July 9 through July 14, 1928
THREE WISE FOOLS – comedy by Austin Strong. A production of the National Theatre Players.

July 16 through July 22, 1928
MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH - comedy by Anne Crawford Flexner. A production of the National Theatre Players.

July 23 through July 29, 1928
THE NIGHTCAP - a mystery melodrama by Max Marcin and Guy Bolton. A production of the National Theatre Players.

July 30 through August 5, 1928
CLARENCE - comedy by Booth Tarkington. A production of the National Theatre Players.

August 6 through August 12, 1928
WHAT ANNE BROUGHT HOME - comedy-drama by Larry E. Johnson. A production of the National Theatre Players.

August 13 through August 19, 1928
NIGHTSTICK - melodrama by John Wray, the Nugents and Elaine Sterne Carrington. A production of the National Theatre Players.

August 20 through August 26, 1928
THE HOME TOWNERS - a farce comedy by George M. Cohan. A production of the National Theatre Players.

August 27 through September 2, 1928
THE CREAKING CHAIR - a farcical mystery by Allene Tupper Wilkes. A production of the National Theatre Players.

September 3 through September 8, 1928
CRADLE SNATCHERS - by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell. A production of the National Theatre Players.

September 10 through September 15, 1928
7th HEAVEN - comedy drama by John Golden. A production of the National Theatre Players.

September 16 through October 13, 1928
WINGS - film shown twice daily. Story by John Monk Saunders; screenplay by Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton. Cast includes Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen, El Brendel, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Tucker, Gary Cooper, Gunboat Smith, Henry B. Walthal, Julia Swayne Gordon, Arlette Marchal, George Irving, Hedda Hopper, and Nigel de Brulier. Directed by William A. Wellman. B.P. Schulberg, associate producer.

October 14 through October 20, 1928
SIMBA – film by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson. Shown twice daily.

October 22 through October 27, 1928
REVOLT – by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Starring Hugh Buckler, Grace Filkins, William Lovejoy, A.G. Andrews, Paul Gilfoyle, Anita Fugazy, Askland Powell, Charlotte Denniston, Elizabeth Allen, Eunice Stoddard. Directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Presented by William Powell.

October 29 through November 3, 1928
DRACULA - dramatized by Hamilton Dean and John Balderson from the book Bram Stoker. Starring Raymond Huntley and Herbert Bunston.

November 5 through November 10, 1928
HIT THE DECK - book by Herbert Fields; music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Leo Robbin and Clifford Grey. Starring Queenie Smith and Charles Purcell.

November 12 through November 17, 1928
MACBETH - by William Shakespeare. Cast includes Lyn Harding, Margaret Anglin, William Farnum, Basil Gill. Staged by Douglas Ross. Directed by George C. Tyler.

November 19 through November 24, 1928
ROSALIE - musical comedy, with music by George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg; book by Wm. Anthony McGuire and Guy Bolton; lyrics by P.C. Wodehouse and Ira Gershwin. Starring Marilyn Miller and Jack Donahue, with Frank Morgan. A Ziegfeld production.

November 26 through December 1, 1928
WHOOPEE - a musical comedy. Starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting and Jack Gifford, a "Ziegfeld Production." Book by William Anthony McGuire, based on the comedy A Nervous Wreck by Owen Davis; music by Walter Donaldson; lyrics by Gus Kahn; scenery by Joseph Urban; dialogue staged by Wm. Anthony McGuire; costumes designed by John W. Harkrider. A Ziegfeld Production.

December 3 through December 8, 1928
THE BACHELOR FATHER - comedy by Edward Childs Carpenter. Cast includes June Walker, C. Aubrey Smith, and Geoffrey Kerr. Presented by David Belasco.

December 10 through December 15, 1928
JIM THE PENMAN - by Sir Charles Young. Starring William Faversham, Jacob Ben Ami, Reginald Mason, Lawrence D’Orsay, Frank Hearn, Harry Joyner, Charles Richman, Cecile Dixon, Marguerite St. John, Helen Lowell and Cecilia Loftus. Staged by Frederick Stanhope. Directed by George C. Tyler.

December 17 through December 22, 1928
THE BEAUX STRATAGEM - comedy by George Farquhar. Staged by the Players’ Club of New York, including James T. Powers, Frances Starr, Wallace Eddinger, Fritzi Scheff, Henry E. Dixey, Brandon Tynan, Marie Carroll, Percy Ames, Raymond Hitchcock, Wilfrid Seagram, John Westley, Minnie Dupree and Howard Kyle. Directed by George C. Tyler; staged by Howard Lindsey.

December 23 through December 29, 1928
STRANGE INTERLUDE - by Eugene O'Neill. A play in nine acts, with a dinner interval. Cast includes Ralph Morgan, Walter Vonnegut, Pauline Lord, Donald MacDonald, Harry C. Bannister, Maud Durand, Lester Sheehy, Helen Ann Hughes, and James Todd. Directed by Philip Moeller. Settings bv Jo Mielziner.

December 30, 1928 through January 4, 1929 [no program file]
WOODEN KIMONO - a mystery by John Floyd. Staged by Edward Powell.

1929
January 6 through January 11, 1929
FIORETTA – musical comedy: music by George Bagby and G. Romilli; book adapted by Charlton Andrews; staged by Clifford Brooke. Starring Leon Errol, Fannie Brice and Lionel Atwill, with Dorothy Knapp, George Houston, Theo. Karle, Jay Brennan.

January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17, 1929
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALKS - a series of Sunday afternoon travel talks on various European countries and Morocco and Algiers.

February 11 through February 16, 1929
THE HIGH ROAD - a comedy by Frederick Lonsdale. Cast includes Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, H. Reeve-Smith, Alfred Drayton. Presented by Charles Dillingham.

February 18 through February 23, 1929 [no program file]
THIS THING CALLED LOVE - a comedy. Featuring the National Theatre Players.

February 25 through March 2, 1929 [xerox only]
THE LITTLE SPITFIRE - a comedy by Myron C. Fagan. Starring Freddie Sherman, Helen Wallace, Mary Newton, and Frank Westbrook. Presented by S.E. Cochran.

March 30, 1929 [no program file]
HOLIDAY - written by Philip Barry. Washington premiere presented by the National Theatre Players Summer Repertory Company 6th Annual Season.

April 22 through April 27, 1929 [no program file]
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - presented by the National Theatre Players

September 16 through September 21, 1929 [xerox only]
THE FRONT PAGE - play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Staged by George S. Kaufman. Cast includes Cecil Holm, Allen Jenkins, Willard Robertson, John Carmody, Jack Campbell, Joseph Spurin-Calleia, Walter Baldwin, Violet Barney, Jay Wilson, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lee Tracy, Carrie Weller, Antoinette Crawford, Claude Cooper, Frances Fuller, Jessie Crommette..

October 7 through October 12, 1929 [no program file]
MARCO MILLIONS - written by Eugene O’Neill. First Theatre Guild season.

October 14 through October 19, 1929 [no program file]
VOLPONE - written by Ben Jonson - The Stefan Zweig Version

October 21 through October 26, 1929 [no program file]
R.U.R. - written by Karel Kapek

October 28 through November 2, 1929
SEVEN YEAR LOVE - a new comedy by John D. Haggart. Staged by Antoinette Perry and Brock Pemberton. Cast includes George Brent, Catherine Willard, Horace Pollack.

November 11 through November 16, 1929
CAPRICE - written by Sil-Vara. Starring Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt.

November 17 through November 23, 1929 [no program file]
HUNTING TIGERS IN INDIA - a talking film. Narrator is Commander George M. Dyott.

November 29th, 1929 [no program file]
WINGS OVER EUROPE

December 8 through December 14, 1929
VANITIES - a variety show presented by Earl Carroll.

December 30, 1929 through January 4, 1930 [xerox only]
TREVELYN’S GHOST - a farce/comedy by Dwight Taylor. Starring Phyllis Povah, Rhea Martin, Harold DeEcker and Percy Ames. Directed by A.L. Erlanger and George C. Tyler. Staged by Frederick Kerr and Dwight Taylor.

1930

BECKY SHARP - comedy

January 6 through January 11, 1930
SHERLOCK HOLMES - by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle. Starring William Gillette (his last performance in the theatre), Wallace Clark, and John Miltern. Directed by A.L. Erlanger and George C. Tyler.

January 7 through January 10, 1930 [conflicts with the previous entry, but there are separate playbills.]
PHILIP GOES FORTH - comedy by George Kelly. Starring Harry Ellerbe.

February 3 through February 8, 1930
STRANGE INTERLUDE - a play in 9 acts by Eugene O’Neill. Cast includes George Gaul, Brandon Evans, Elisabeth Risdom, Blaine Cordner, Frank Conroy, Maud Durand, Lester Sheehy, Mary Holsman, and James Todd. Directed by Philip Moeller.

February 17 through February 22, 1930
SARI - Emmerich Kalman operetta based on a book by Julius Wilhelm and Fritz Greenbaum. Starring Mitzi. Cast includes Arthur Treacher.

February 24 through March 2, 1930
SHOW BOAT - based by Edna Ferber; produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. Music by Jerome Kern; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Starring Irene Dunne, Howard Marsh, Margaret Carlisle, Charles Winninger, Eva Puck, Sammy White, Jules Bledsoe.

March 3 through March 8, 1930
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON FESTIVAL COMPANY performing plays by William Shakespeare.: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, Macbeth.

March 23 to March 29, 1930 [no program file]
JONICA - Music by Joseph Mayes. Lyrics by William Moll.

May 11, 1930
THE RIVALS - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Starring Mrs. Fiske

September 22 through September 27, 1930
PAGAN LADY - by William DuBois. Starring Lenore Ulric. Cast includes Franchot Tone, Thomas Findlay, Elise Bartless, Jane Ferrell, Leo Donnelly, Weldon Heyburn. Directed by Lewis E. Gensler.

September 28 through October 4, 1930
RIPPLES - by William Anthony McGuire. Starring Fred Stone; with Dorothy and Paula Stone. Music by Oscar Levant and Albert Sermay.

October 27 through November 1, 1930
MRS. FISKE starring in Ladies of the Jury (comedy by Fred Ballard), Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh (farce by Harry James Smith) and Becky Sharpe (comedy by Langdon Mitchell based on Vanity Fair). Company includes: Ethel Strickland, Jennette Dowling, Elsie Keene, Alice Cowan, Eleanor Gordon, William Ingersoll, Luke Conness, Kemble Knight, Vincent James, Robert Leslie, and Thomas Shearer, Sherling Oliver, Sydney Booth, Edmund Elton, Mona Smith, Marge LaRubia, Will Geer, Edward Butler, Mary Emerson.

November 3 through November 8, 1930
SUBWAY EXPRESS - by Eva K. Flint and Martha Madison. Cast includes Leo Curley.

November 10 through November 15, 1930
THE TAVERN - written and produced by George M. Cohan. Starring George M. Cohan.

November 16 through November 22, 1930
EARL CARROLL SKETCH BOOK - a revue consisting of 53 scenes by Eddie Cantor. Original New York cast, including William Demarest, Will Mahoney, and the Three Sailors.

November 24 through November 29, 1930
A KISS OF IMPORTANCE - adapted by Arthur Hornblow Jr. from a French play by Andre Picard and H.M. Harwood. Starring Basil Rathbone. Directed by Lionel Atwill

December 1 through December 6, 1930
THE APPLE CART - a new play by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Tom Powers, Violet Kemble Cooper, Claude Rains, Ernest Cossart, Jane Wheatley, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Barbara Allen, and Frederick Truesdell.

December 29, 1930 through January 3, 1931
IT’S A WISE CHILD - a comedy by Laurence E. Johnson. Cast includes Helen Lowell, Olga Krolow, Leila Bennett, George Walcott, Joseph Striker, Mildred McCoy, Minor Watson, Harlan Briggs, Sidney Toler, and Porter Hall.

1931

January 7 through January 10, 1931
PHILIP GOES FORTH - a new play by George Kelly. Cast includes Thais Lawton, Marian Barney, Thurston Hall, Dorothy Stickney, Cora Witherspoon, Harry Ellerbe, Madge Evans, Harry Gresham, Harold Webster, Ralph Urmy, Mary Gildea and Donna Pasdeloup.

January 19 through January 24, 1931
GREEN GROW THE LILACS - by Lynn Riggs. Starring Franchot Tone. Cast includes Lee Strasberg.

January 26 through January 31, 1931
AMERICA’S SWEETHEART - a musical comedy; book by Herbert Fields, music by Richard Rogers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Starring John Sheehan, Gus Shy, Inez Courtney, Jack Whiting, Harriett Lake, Jeanne Aubert.

February 15 through February 20, 1931
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE - a comedy by Preston Sturges. Cast includes John Robb, Guido Alexander, Ralph Locke, Lee Baker, George Meeker, Flobelle Fairbanks, Lino Manzoni, Jeremy Daily.

February 23 through February 27, 1931
THE LONELY WAY - a tragic comedy by Arthur Schnitzler. Cast includes Joanna Roos, Walter Coy, Ralph Roeder, Joseph Macaulay, Helen Carew, Charles Francis, Glenn Anders, Violet Kemble Cooper, Herbert Ratner, and Bretaigne Windust.

March 1 through March 6, 1931
MAKING MARY - a new musical comedy by Harold Orlob and Grace Johnson; music by Harold Lewis, lyrics by Harold Orlob. Starring June Martell, Tom Monroe, Edith Davis, Audrey Christie.

March 23 through March 28, 1931
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN - a new play by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

May 4 through May 10, 1931
DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY A production of the National Theatre Players.

May 11 through May 16, 1931
THE ROYAL FAMILY - by George Kaufman and Edna Ferber. A production of the National Theatre Players.

May 18 through May 23, 1931
THAT’S GRATITUDE - a comedy by Frank Craven. A production of the National Theatre Players.

May 25 through May 30, 1931
UP POPS THE DEVIL - a new comedy by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. A production of the National Theatre Players. Cast includes Hume Cronyn, who came to Washington while in college. Mr. Cronyn said he over-rehearsed and blew his only line.

June 1 through June 6, 1931
BIRD IN HAND - by John Drinkwater. A production of the National Theatre Players. Directed by Clifford Brook who makes his annual stage appearance.

June 8 through June 13, 1931
WHISPERING FRIENDS - a comedy by George M. Cohan. A production of the National Theatre Players.

June 15 through June 21, 1931
STRANGE INTERLUDE - by Eugene O’Neill. A production of the National Theatre Players. The nine-act play was performed in two parts with a dinner intermission. Due to the length of each performance, there were no matinees. Principal players include Nancy Sheridan, Raymond Bramley, Burke Clarke, Stanley Ridges, Forrest Orr, Adelaide Hibbard.

September 14 through September 19, 1931
PETER FLIES HIGH - a new comedy by Myron C. Fagan. Starring Glenn Hunter, Mathew Crowley, May Loane, Eileen Wilson, Adelaide Hibbard, Brian Donlev, Dulcie Cooper, Sam Wuertzell, Burke Clarke, William T. Hays, Kathryn Givney and Forrest Orr. Presented by Leonard Bergman. Stage carpenter also Forrest Orr.

September 21 through September 26, 1931
CHERRIES ARE RIPE - a new comedy by John Emerson & Anita Loos. Starring Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney. Presented by Arch Selwyn in association with Erlanger Production,Inc.

September 28 through October 4, 1931
PRIVATE LIVES - by Noel Coward. Starring Madge Kennedy and Otto Kruger. Cast includes Helen Gilligan, Hugh Huntley and Marjorie Clark.

October 5 through October 10,1931 [no program file]
THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON - by Sir James M. Barrie. Starring Walter Hampden and Fay Bainter. Cast includes Sidney Greenstreet. Directed by George C. Tyler.

October 11, 1931 through October 17, 1931
EARL CARROLL VANITIES (8TH EDITION) – a revue of 66 scenes. Cast includes Jack Benny, Harry Stockwell, Herb Williams, Chaz. Chase,

October 18 through October 23,1931
FINE AND DANDY Starring Joe Cook. Cast includes Eleanor Powell. Book by Donald Ogden Stewart. Music by Kay Swift. Lyrics by Paul Jones. Entire production directed by Morris Green.

October 25 through October 31, 1931
THREE’S A CROWD - a revue conceived and compiled by Howard Dietz. Starring Clifton Webb, Fred Allen and Libby Holman. Cast includes Fred MacMurray. Staged by Hassard Short.

November 9 through November 14, 1931
REUNION IN VIENNA - a play by Robert Sherwood. Starring the Theatre Guild Acting Company and Guest Players. Lynn Fontanne, Lloyd Nolan, Alfred Lunt.

November 16 through November 21, 1931
AS HUSBANDS GO - written by Rachel Crothers. Starring Gloria Holden and Jay Fassett.

December 7 through December 13, 1931
MR. WHISTLER - a romantic comedy by Pauline Hopkins, Sarah Curry, and A .E. Thomas. Starring Richard Hale, with Georgia Lee Hall, Donald Randolph, Reginald Carrington, Bertha Belmore. Presented by Laurence Rivers, Inc.

December 15 through December 20, 1931
MERCHANT OF VENICE - by William Shakespeare. Starring Otis Skinner and Maude Adams.

1932
January 4 through January 9, 1932
COSMOPOLITAN GRAND OPERA COMPANY -- present Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Romeo and Juliette, Hansel and Gretel, Pagliacci, Faust, and Carmen. Under the musical and artistic direction of Jacques Samossoud.

January 11 through January 16, 1932
MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA - a trilogy by Eugene O'Neill. Cast includes Judith Anderson, Walter Abel, Seth Arnold, Harry Hermsen, Beatrice Moreland, Florence Reed, Eric Kalkhurst, Bernice Elliott, Crane Wilbur, Thurston Hall, Beatrice Maude, George W. Callahan, Forrest Zimmer, Cameron King, Allan Scott, Harold Woolf, Sara Floyd, Joseph Shea and Anne Ford. Directed by Philip Moeller. Theater Guild subscription series. All three parts of the trilogy Homecoming, The Hunted and The Haunted presented in one day, with a one hour dinner break after Homecoming.

January 18 through January 21, 1932 [year uncertain]
SMILING THROUGH – Vincent Youmans presents a musical version of Jane Cowl’s success. Music by Vincent Youmans; lyrics by Edward Heyman; staged by Edgar MacGregor; dances by Jack Haskell. Cast headed by Norma Terris, Ada-May; Charles Winninger and Tom Powers, with Nick Long, Jr., Dallas Welford, Michael Bartlett and Marion Ballou. Symphony orchestra under the direction of Hugo Riesenfeld.

January 25 through January 30, 1932
THE HOUSE OF CONNELLY - by Paul Green. Cast includes Franchot Tone, Fannie Belle de Knight, Elizabeth Williams, Margaret Barker, Stella Adler, Eurnice Stoddard, Morris Carnovsky, Mary Morris, Art Smith, Clifford Odets. Directed by Lee Strasberg and Cheryl Crawford. Presented by Group Theatre, Inc.

February 1 through February 6, 1932
THE BAND WAGON - a revue by George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz; music by Arthur Schwartz. Starring Fred and Adele Astaire, Frank Morgan, and Helen Broderick. Presented by Max Gordon.

February 7, 1932
AN EVENING WITH MAURICE CHEVALIER – Assisted by Jacques Fray and Mario Braggiotti. Presented by Charles Dillingham.

February 8 through February 10, 1932
CYRANO DE BERGERAC – English version by Brian Hooker from Edmond Rostand’s comedy. Starring Walter Hampden. With Katharine Warren, Mabel Moore, John D. Seymour, Reynolds Evans, Robert Hudson, and William Sauter. Staged and directed by Mr. Hampden.

February 15 through February 20, 1932
HOT-CHA – premier of a musical comedy. Starring Bert Lahr, with Buddy Rogers. Cast includes Marjorie White, Lynne Overman, June Knight, Revva Y. Reyes, June Mac Cloy, Antonio and Renee De Marcos, Tito Coral, Veloz and Yolanda. Words and music by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.

February 22 through February 27, 1932
THE SOCIAL REGISTER – a new play by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Starring Lenore Ulric, with Sidney Blackmer. Cast includes Betty Garde, Wilred Clarke, Elizabeth Johnson, Cesar Romero, Donald Stewart, Hans Hansen, Oswald Yorke and Teresa Maxwell-Conover.

March 6 to March 12, 1932
THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET – by Rudolf Beisier. Starring Katharine Cornell, George Riddell, Brenda Forbes, Margalo Gillmore, Joyce Carey, Vernon Downing, Richard Lambart, Frederick Voight, Ian Emery, Robert Champlain, Leslie Denison, Charles Waldron, Myra Hampton, Ian Wolfe, Brian Aherne, Oswald Marshall, John Buckler. Directed by Guthrie McClintic.

March 14 through March 17, 1932
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE - a new play by Bernard Shaw. Cast includes Beatrice Lillie, Ernest Cossart, Leo G. Carroll, Julius Evans, Minna Phillips, Alexander Clark Jr., Hope Williams, Hugh Sinclair, Frank Shannon, Pedro de Cordoba. A Theatre Guild production.

March 18 and 19, 1932 no program file]
EVERYBODY’S WELCOME – musical comedy for two nights only. Book by Lambert Carroll; music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Irving Kahal. Starring Frances Willams, Oscar Shaw, Ann Pennington, Harriette Lake, with Jack Sheehan and Victor Morley.

March 27 through April 2, 1932
THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER - a light opera by Oscar Straus adapted from Shaw’s “Arms and the Man.” Starring Vivienne Segal and Charles Purcell. Cast includes Sarah Edwards, Marian Palmer, Edmond Mulcahy, John Dunsmore, Allan Rogers and Theo Von Tassel.

April 4 through April 9, 1932
THE GOOD FAIRY - a new comedy by Molnar. Starring Helen Hayes, with Walter Connolly. Cast includes Paul McGrath, Salo Douday, Evelyn Roberts, Douglas Wood, Ruth Hammond and Jack Lynds.

April 12 through April 17, 1932
THE DEVIL PASSES - a comedy by Benn W. Levy. Starring Arthur Byron, Diana Wynyard, Mary Nash, Eric Blore, J. Malcom Dunn, Cecilia Loftus, Robert Loraine, Gwen Day Burroughs, and Basil Rathbone.

October 3 through October 8, 1932
LILIOM (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday matinee) by Ferenc Molnar and CAMILLE (Tuesday, Wednesday matinee, Thursday, Saturday) by Alexander Dumas Fils. Starring Eva LeGallienne and Joseph Schildkraut. Cast includes Beatrice Terry, Robert H. Gordon, Howard da Silva, Burgess Meredith.

October 10 through October 15, 1932
THE GOOD EARTH - from the novel by Pearl Buck; dramatized by Owen and Donald Davis. Starring Earle Larrimore, Henry Travers, Harold Thomas, A. Francis Karll, Kate Morgan, Sidney Greenstreet and Alla Nazimova.

October 16 through October 22, 1932
THE LAUGH PARADE - dialogue by Ed Wynn, music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young. Starring Ed Wynn.

October 23 through October 29, 1932
FORWARD MARCH - a musical revue featuring songs by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. Starring Hugh Herbert, Sally Sweet, Eric Cowley, and George Dewey Washington.

October 30 through November 4, 1932
THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE - a musical love story by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. Starring Bettina Hall and Michael Bartlett. Cast includes George Meador, Gladys Gillen. Dances staged by Albertina Rasch.

November 6 through November 12, 1932
EARL CAROOL VANITIES (ninth edition) - a musical revue with music and lyrics by Harold Adamson and Burton Lane. Starring Al Trahan, Frank Mitchell and Jack Durant.

November 14 through November 19, 1932
SHOW BOAT - adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber. Starring William Kent, Eva Puck, Sammy White, Paul Keast, Bertha Belmore, Norma Terris, Angeline Lawson, Jules Bledsoe. Music by Jerome Kern; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. A Ziegfeld production.

November 21 through November 26, 1932
ENCORE - by Victor Wittgenstein and Sheridan Gibney. Starring Ethel Barrymore. Cast includes Sebastian Braggiotti, Georgie Drew Mendum, Alfred A. Hesse, Misha Ferenzo, Siegfried Rumann, Josephine Hull, Iris Whitney, Frank Conroy, Clement Wilenchik, Margaret Linck, and Janes MacColl.

December 5 through December 10, 1932
ABBEY THEATRE IRISH PLAYERS present The Rising of the Moon (by Lady Gregory), The Playboy of the Western World (J.M. Synge), The New Gossoon (George Shields), The Whiteheaded Boy (Lennox Robinson), Juno and the Paycock (Sean O’Casey), Lathleen ni Houlihan (W.B. Yeats), and The Far Off Hills (Lennox Robinson).

December 12 through December 17, 1932
THERE’S ALWAYS JULIET - a comedy by John Van Druten. Starring Violet Heming and Roger Pryor. Cast includes Lillian Brennard Tonge and John Graham Spacey.

December 26 through December 28, 1932
THE STUDENT PRINCE - operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Allan Jones, Gertrude Lang and George Hassell

December 29 through December 31, 1932
BLOSSOM TIME - operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Cast includes Bette Davis

1933
First Subscription Season of the Theatre Guild and the American Theatre Society.

January 2 through January 7, 1933
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER performing dramatic sequences and character sketches from The Empress Eugenie and The Six Wives of Henry the VIII.

January 16 through January 22, 1933
DESIGN FOR LIVING - by Noel Coward. Starring Alfred Lund, Lynn Fontanne and Noel Coward. Staged by Noel Coward.

January 26 through January 28, 1933
CAPONSACCHI - Three evening performances and HAMLET, Saturday Matinee. Starring Walter Hampden. Caponsacchi is based on the Robert Browning poem, “The Ring and the Book, written by Arthur Goodrich and Rose A. Palmer.

January 29 through February 3, 1933
OF THEE I SING - Musical comedy based on the book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind; music George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Starring Victor Moore, Lois Moran, and William Gaxton. Cast includes George Murphy. Settings by Jo Mielziner. Presented by Sam H. Harris.

February 13 through February 25, 1933
THE GREEN PASTURES - a fable by Marc Connelly. Cast includes Richard B. Harrison. The play had an all black cast of 33 headed by Richard B. Harrison and McKinley Reeves. However, blacks were not allowed in the audience. After complaints from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the management added Special Sunday evening performances which black people could attend. Staged by the author. Presented by Laurence Rivers, Inc.

February 27 through March 3, 1933
COUNSELLOR AT LAW - by Elmer Rice. Starring Paul Muni. Cast includes Jules Garfield (later known as John Garfield).

March 6 through March 11, 1933
THE PICCOLI - an opera by Vittorio Podrecca. Starring Emilio Cabello, Thea Carugati, Giuseppe Costa, Augusto Galli, Carlo Pessina. Third play of the American Theatre Society subscription series.

March 27 through April 1, 1933
PIGEONS AND PEOPLE - Starring George M. Cohan and his own company of players.

April 3 through April 8, 1933
WHEN LADIES MEET - by Rachel Crowthers. Starring Frieda Inescourt, Selena Royle, Herbert Rawlinson, Walter Abel,Spring Bynington, Auguste Aramini. On April 5, President Roosevelt attended The National Theatre for the first time to see a performance. The President entered the box on the arm, of his son, John. The Star Spangled Banner was played.

April 17 through April 22, 1933
BEST SELLERS - adapted by Dorothy Cheston Bennett from Edouard Bourdet’s “Vient de Paraitre.” Starring Peggy Wood and Ernest Truex. Cast includes Ian Keith and George Coulouris.

May 15 through May 20, 1933
HAY FEVER - a comedy by Noel Coward. Presented by the National Theatre Players, Adelaide Hibbard, Burke Clarke, Karl Nielsen, Kathryn Givney Forrest Orr, Ona Munson, Romaine Callendar, Bernice Bartl, Donald Woods, Leona Poers and Freddie Sherman.

May 22 through May 27, 1933
ANOTHER LANGUAGE - a comedy by Rose Franken. Presented by the National Theatre Players, Adelaide Hibbard, Burke Clarke, Karl Nielsen, Kathryn Givney Forrest Orr, Ona Munson, Romaine Callendar, Bernice Bartl, Donald Woods, Leona Poers and Freddie Sherman.
September 11 through September 16, 1933
DESIGN FOR LIVING - by Noel Coward. Starring Corinne Griffith, Clifford Brook, John Litel, Robert Ober, and Bernice Bartl. Staged by Clifford Brook.

September 18 through September 23, 1933
SEVENTH HEAVEN - play by Austin Strong. Starring Helen Menken.

September 25 through September 30, 1933
CRIMINAL AT LARGE - drama by Edgar Wallace. Starring Nance O’Neil and Freddie Sherman.

October 2 through October 7, 1933
HER MAN OF WAX - a comedy adapted by Julian Thompson from the German of Walter Hasenclever, Starring Lenore Ulric. Directed by Arthur Lubin.

October 16 through October 21, 1933
HER MASTER’S VOICE - a new comedy by Clare Kummer. Starring Roland Young and Laura Hope Crews. Cast includes Frances Fuller, Elizabeth Patterson, Francis Pierlot, Frederick Perry and Josephine Williams. Staged by Worthington Miner. Presented by Max Gordon

October 23 through October 28, 1933
MARY OF SCOTLAND - a new play by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Helen Hayes, Philip Merrivale, and Helen Menken. Directed by Theresa Helburn. Third play of the American Theatre Society and Theatre Guild subscription series.

November 13 through November 18, 1933
A TRIP TO PRESSBURG – BY Leo Perutz, adapted by Harold Johnsrud and Philip Dunning. Starring Pola Negri, with Richard Whorf, Clarence Derwent and Eduardo Ciannelli. Directed by George Abbott. Fourth play of the American Theatre Society subscription season.

November 20 through November 25, 1933
ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Lewis Carroll (Monday, Thursday and Saturday nights) and ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare (Tuesday, Wednesday evening and matinee). Starring Eva LeGallienne. Cast includes Richard Waring, David Cameron.

November 27 through December 3, 1933
THE MIKADO, PIRATES OF PENZANCE AND YEOMEN OF THE GUARD - staged by Milton Aborn. Starring William Danforth, Herbert Waterous.

December 4 through December 9, 1933
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1933-34, Glorifying the American Girl - presented by Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld (Billie Burke). Music and sketches by E.Y. Harburg, Fred Allen, Harry Tuugend, H. I. Phillips, David Freedman, Vernon Duke, Arthur Swanstrom, Louis Alter, Samuel Pokrass, Ballard MacDonald, Joseph Meyer, Chris Taylor, Janes Hanley, Ann Runnell, Harold Atteridge, Robert Dolan, Dana Suess and Billy Hill.

December 11 through December 16, 1933
BITTER SWEET - music, book and lyrics by Noel Coward.

December 18 through December 23, 1933
THE LAKE - by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. Starring Katharine Hepburn. Cast includes Frances Starr, Blanche Bates, and Colin Clive. Produced and directed by Jed Harris

December 31, 1933 through January 6, 1934
TEN MINUTE ALIBI - by Anthony Armstrong. Starring Joseph Spurin-Calleia, Stiano Braggiotti, Daphne Warren Wilson, Branwell Fletcher, Osward Yorke, Reynolds Denniston, and John Williams. Directed by Herman Shumlin. Settings designed by Watson Barrett.

1934
Second Subscription Season of the Theatre Guild and the American Theatre Society.
January 8 through January 14, 1934
LET ‘EM EAT CAKE - musical sequel to “Of Thee I Sing”. Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind; music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin. Starring William Gaxton, Lois Moral and Victor Moore.

January 15 through January 21, 1934
BIOGRAPHY - a comedy by S.N. Behrman. Starring Ina Claire. Cast includes Shepperd Strudwick, Josephine Deffry, Arnold Korff, Jay Fassett, Norman Stuart, Charles Richman and Gertrude Flynn. Directed by Philip Moeller. Setting by Jo Mielziner.

January 22 through January 28, 1934
DANGEROUS CORNER - a play by J.B. Priestly, staged by Jane Wheatley. Starring Virginia Stevens. Cast includes Jane Wheatley, Beverley Bayne, Agnes George, Jack Hartley, Warren Ashe and Gavin Muir.

January 23, 1934 (afternoon)
BURTON HOLMES - presents a travel talk on Java.

January 29 through February 4, 1934
SAN CARLO OPERA COMPANY - performing La Boheme, Mme. Butterfly, Marth, Aida, Carmen, Lohengrin, Hansel and Gretel and Il Trovatore. Ticket prices ranged from $.55 to $2.20.

February 5 through February 10, 1934
DOUBLE DOOR - written by Elizabeth McFadden. Starring Mary Morris and Ann Revere as the Van But Sisters.

February 12 through February 17, 1934
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER - performing popular sketches including The Loves of Charles II, The Empress Eugenie, The Wives of Henry VIII.

February 19 through February 24, 1934
THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS - an adaptation in rhyme by Arthur Guiterman and Lawrence Langner, based on the comedy by Moliere. Starring Osgood Perkins and June Walker. Cast includes Doris Humphreys, Charles Weidman, Flora LeBreton, Parker Steward, Stuart Casey, James Jolley. Sixth play of the Theatre Guild’s American Theatre Society.

March 5 through March 10, 1934
HOLD YOUR HORSES - musical comedy based on a book by Russel Crouse and Corey Ford, with “many nonsensical additions” by Joe Cook. Starring Joe Cook, with Harriet Hoctor.

March 19 through March 24, 1934
SWEET BELLS JANGLED - written by Reginald Lawrence. Directed by William W. Schorr. Starring Jane Cowl. Cast includes Minor Watson, Mary Philips, Florence Edney, and Harold Webster.

March 25, 1934
BROOKE ACADEMY STUDENTS - Starring students from the academy in scenes from several plays.

March 26 though April 1, 1934
ANNINA - an operetta by Rudolf Frimel. Starring Maria Jeritza. Cast includes Alan Jones, Andrew Tombs, Louisa Mele, Jack Good, Harry Mestayer, Manart Kippen, Paul Haakon, Albertina Videk, Robert Lee Allen, Jules Epailly, Raymond O’Brien, Henry Rabke, Mary Hunt, Nathaniel Wagner, Marie Starner.

April 2 through April 8, 1934
RICHARD OF BORDEAUX - written by Gordon Daviott. Starring Dennis King. Cast includes Hugh Buckler, Charles Bryant, Alexander Frank and Beatrice deNeergaard.

April 23 through April 29, 1934
JIG SAW - comedy by Dawn Powell. Starring Spring Byington and Ernest Truex. Cast includes Shepperd Strudwick.

April 28 (single performance)
THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER - John Ruskin’s children’s classic. Presented by the Children’s Theatre of New York.

April 30 through May 5, 1934
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - written by Alan Child and Isabelle Loudon (a.k.a. Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Langer). Starring Romaine Callender, Raymond Bramley, Ruth Abbott, and Adelaide Hibbard.

May 7 through May 12, 1934
HER MASTER’S VOICE - comedy by Claire Kummer. Starring National Theatre Players Ruth Abbott, Adelaide Hibbard, Roy Roberts, Burke Clarke Kathryn Givney, Raymond Bramley and Mary Loane.

May 14 through May 19, 1934
WELCOME STRANGER - written by Aaron Hoffman. Production featured the National Theatre Players augmented by Robert Fischer. Directed by John McKee.

May 21 through May 26, 1934
ROAD TO ROME - a comedy by Robert E. Sherwood. Starring Freddie Sherman and the National Theatre Players.

May 28 through June 2, 1934
JIMMIE’S WOMEN - a comedy by Myron C. Fagan. Starring Roy Roberts and Ruth Abbott. A National Theatre Players production. Directed by John McKee.

June 4 through June 16, 1934
SAILOR BEWARE! - written by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. Directed by John McKee. Starring Roy Roberts and Ruth Abbott. A National Theatre Players Production. Raised the ire of some ministers but is cleared by Police Captain William Holmes of the 1st District.

June 17, 1934
BROOKE ACADEMY STUDENTS - Starring students from the academy in scenes from several plays.

October 8 through October 13, 1934
THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE - a new play by Frank B. Elser and Marc Connelly. Cast includes Henry Fonda.

October 15 through October 20, 1934
JAYHAWKER - new drama by Sinclair Lewis and Lloyd Lewis. Starring Fred Stone. Cast includes Walter C. Kelly and Carol Stone (daughter of the star).

October 22 through October 27, 1934
BRING ON THE GIRLS - an American farce by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. Starring Jack Benny.

October 29 through November 3, 1934
ROBERTA - a new musical comedy adapted from Alice Duer Miller’s novel “Gowns by Roberta.” Music by Jerome Kern; book and lyrics by Otto Harbach. Starring Fay Templeton and Sidney Greenstreet. Cast includes Odette Myrtil, Marty May and Raymond Middleton.

November 4, 1934
BALLET RUSSE Two performances only.

November 12 through November 17, 1934
AH, WILDERNESS! - a comedy by Eugene O’Neill. Starring George M. Cohan, with Jean Adair, Don Shelton, Elisha Cook Jr., Edith Emerson, Freddie Stange.

November 26 through December 1, 1934
VALLEY FORGE - written by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Phillip Merivale. Directed by John Houseman and Herbert J. Biberman.

December 3 through December 8, 1934
GATHER YE ROSEBUDS - written by Sidney Howard and Robert Littell. Starring Walter Connolly and Ernest Truex.

December 10 through December 15, 1934
ODE TO LIBERTY - adapted by Sidney Howard from Michel Duren’s Liberte Provisoire. Starry Ina Claire and Walter Slezak. Presented by Gilbert Miller.

December 31, 1934 through January 5, 1935
LABURNUM GROVE - written by J.B. Priestly. Starring Edmund Gwenn. Staged by Lewis Allen. Presented by Gilbert Miller and Lee Schubert.

1935
Third Subscription Season of the Theatre Guild and the American Theatre Society.

January 6, 1935
5 STAR SERIES Featuring: Egon Petri

January 7 through January 12, 1935
THE ABBEY THEATRE PLAYERS performing The Plough and the Stars, Drama at Inish, Juno and the Paycock, The Coiner, The Playboy of the Western World, and The White Headed Boy. The company includes Barry Fitzgerald.

January 14 through January 19, 1935
ON TO FORTUNE - world premiere. Written by Lawrence Langner and Aremina Marshall. Starring Roy Atwell, Ilka Chase and Glenn Anders. Cast includes Mary Rogers, Josephine Hull, Myron McCormick, Edward Broadley, Hugh Rennie, Worthington Miner, Ralph Locke, Edward McNamara and Frank Conlan.

January 21 through January 26, 1935
THREE MEN ON A HORSE - premiere of a new comedy by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. Starring Teddy Hart, James Lane, Millard Mitchell. Cast includes Garson Kanin, Sam Levene and Shirley Booth. Staged by George Abbott.

January 27, 1935
5 STAR SERIES Featuring: Ljungberg

January 28 through February 2, 1935
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER in four dramatic sketches: Mansion on the Hudson, The Wives of Henry VIII, the Empress Eugenie, The Loves of Charles II.

February 8, 1935
5 STAR SERIES Featuring Dorothy Sands

February 4 through February 9, 1935
DODSWORTH - written by Sinclair Lewis, dramatized by Sidney Howard. Starring Walter Huston. With Fay Bainter Directed by Robert B. Sinclair.

February 11 through February 16, 1935
AS THOUSANDS CHEER - musical by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart. Starring Dorothy Stone and Ethel Waters. Cast includes Porter Hall, Margaret Irving, Jerome Cowan, Hal Forde, Albert Carroll, and Dave Fitzgibbons. The desegregation policy was temporarily lifted for this attraction.

February 18 through February 23, 1935
D’OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY performing The Gondoliers, Trial by Jury, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard, Iolanthe. Ensemble cast is led by Martyn Green.

March 10, 1935
5 STAR SERIES Concert: Chaliapin

March 18 through March 23, 1935
L’AIGLON - by Edmond Rostand. Starring Eve LeGallienne. Produced and directed by Ms. LeGallienne.

March 24, 1935
5 STAR SERIES Concert: Stravinsky and Dushkin

March 25 through March 31, 1935
LIFE BEGINS AT EIGHT FORTY - lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin, music by Harold Arlen. Starring Bert Lahr, Roy Bolger, Luella Gear, Frances Williams. Dances by Robert Alton. Settings by Albert Johnson.

April 1 through April 6, 1935
CEILING ZERO - world premier of a drama by Frank Weed. Starring Osgood Perkins, Margaret Perry, John B. Litel. Staged by Antoinette Perry and Brock Pemberton.

April 22 through April 27, 1935
RAIN FROM HEAVEN - a new play by S. N. Behrman. Starring Jane Cowl and John Halliday. Cast includes Hancey Castle, Alice John, Judson Laire, Jay Fassett, Marshall Grant, Lily Cahill, Staats Cotsworth and Jose Ruben.

April 28 through May 4, 1935
ACCENT ON YOUTH - a new comedy by Samson Raphaelson. Starring Nancy Sheridan, Adelaide Hibbard, Warren Parker, Raymond Bramley, Ruth Lee, all members of the National Theatre Players.

May 6 though May 11, 1935
PETTICOAT FEVER - a farce by Mark Reed, based on a book by Dennis King. Starring Roy Roberts, Edwina Wise, and Karl Neilsen.

May 13 through May 18, 1935
THE BISHOP MISBEHAVES - by Frederick Jackson. J. Arthur Young, Roy Roberts, Edwina Wise, Raymond Bramley, Ruth Lee, Forrest Orr, Adelaide Hibbard, Warren Parker, George Taylor and Karl Neilsen. .Staged by Karl Neilsen.

May 20 through May 25, 1935
THE CONSTANT WIFE - a comedy by W. Somerset Maugham. Starring Ethel Barrymore and the National Players: Adelaide Hibbard, Forrest Orr, Edith Speare, Maude Howell Smith, Ruth Lee, Raymond Bramley, Roy Roberts, and Karl Neilsen.

May 27 through June 2, 1935
THE SHANGHAI GESTURE - written by John Colton. Starring Florence Reed and the National Players:

June 4 through June 9, 1935
DECLASSEE - written by Zoe Akins. Starring Ethel Barrymore.

September 25, 1935
THE CRUSADES - a Cecil B. DeMille film starring Loretta Young and Henry Wilcoxon. Cast includes Katherine deMille, Jason Robards (in two roles), Ann Sheridan

October 7 through October 12, 1935
VENUS IN SILK - a musical play written by Laurence Schwab and Lester O’Keefe. Cast includes Florenz Ames, Roy Gordon, Nancy McCord, Audrey Christie, and Gilbert Lamb. Music by Robert Stolz.

October 14 through October 19, 1935
ROMEO AND JULIET - by William Shakespeare. Starring Katherine Cornell, with Florence Reed, Ralph Richardson, Maurice Evans and Charles Waldron. Cast includes Tyrone Power. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

October 22 through October 26, 1935
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - a sentimental comedy by Helen Jerome based on the novel by Jane Austen. Staged by Robert Sinclair; settings by Jo Mielziner. Starring Helen Chandler. Produced by Max Gordon.

Washington and Boston socialite Kathleen Moran [later Robey], daughter of John J. Moran ("Oil Baron's Daughter Goes On Stage" in the news headline) was recruited to say four lines, which she forgot. She played in seven shows on Broadway and went to Hollywood where she made "14 stinkers," she recalls. She was living in Washington and attending the National at 83 years of age, in 1991.

October 27 through November 9 1935
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM - by William Shakespeare. Warner Brothers film starring Oliva de Haviland, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Jean Muir, Victor Jory, Veree Teasdale, Hugh Herbert, Anita Louise, Frank McHugh, Ross Alexander, Ina Hunter, Mickey Rooney, Hobart Cavanagh, and Grant Mitchell.

November 11 through November 16, 1935
THE GREAT WALTZ - a new musical conceived and directed by Hassard Short. Starring Lee Whitney, Guy Robertson, Ralph Magelssen, and Gladys Baxter. Book by Moss Hart; Lyrics by Desmond Carter. Music by Johann Strauss (father and son). Presented by Max Gordon.

November 18 through November 23, 1935
SWING YOUR LADY - new comedy by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. Starring Marion Warring-Manley, Ann Thomas, John Alexander, Edgar Nelson, John Butler, Walter Baldwin, Tom Faddin, Al Ochs, Horace MacMahon, Margaret English and Clara Warring.

November 24, 1935
NEWMAN TRAVELTALK – Italy

December 1, 1935
NEWMAN TRAVELTALK – Ethiopia

December 2 through December 7, 1935
ANYTHING GOES - a new musical comedy. Starring William Gaxton and Victor Moore, with Benay Venuta and Irene Delroy. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse.

December 8, 1935 (afternoon)
NEWMAN TRAVEL TALK on the South Seas.

December 9 through December 14, 1935
GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS - conceived and directed by George White. Starring Rudy Vallee, Bert Lahr, Willie and Eugene Howard, with Cliff Edwards, Gracie Barrie and Jane Cooper.

December 16 through December 21, 1935
VICTORIA REGINA - drama by Laurence Housman. Starring Helen Hayes, with Harry Plimmer, Vincent Price, George Macready. Staged and directed by Gilbert Miller.

December 30, 1935 through January 4, 1936
EARL CARROLL’S SKETCH BOOK - a revue

1936
Fourth Subscription Season of the Theatre Guild and the American Theatre Society.

January 6 through January 11, 1936
PERSONAL APPEARANCE - a comedy by Lawrence Riley. Starring Carole Arden. Cast includes Darthy Hinckley, Lora Rogers, Peggy Converse, George Blackwood, Suzanne Jackson, George Calvert, Walter N. Greaza, Paul A. Foley, Barbara Brown and Betty Amiard. Directed by Antoinette Perry.

January 12, 1936
TRUDI SCHOOL AND HER COMIC BALLET present Want Ads. Second event in the Albaugh Dance Series.

January 13 through January 18, 1936
JULIE THE GREAT - by John Taintor Foote. Starring Beth Merrill. Cast includes Louise Campbell, Morgan Farley, Mary Orr, Nicholas Joy, Kathleen Conegys, Hal Conklin, Edna Heineman, Louis Polan, Edith Gresham, Alan Goode, Maud Richmond, Damon O’Flynn, Charles Mather, Irving Stiefel, and Harry Gresham.

January 20 through January 25, 1936
CALL IT A DAY - a new comedy by Dodie Smith. Starring Philip Merivale and Gladys Cooper. Cast includes Valerie Cossart, Jeanne Dante, John Buckmaster, and Florence Williams.

January 27 through February 1, 1936
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER performing three of her one-act plays: Mansion on the Hudson, “The Wives of Henry VIII, The Loves of Charles II.

February 3 through February 8, 1936
THREE WISE FOOLS - a comedy by Austin Strong. Starring William Gillette, James Kirkwood, Charles Coburn. Cast includes Elizabeth Love, Brandon Tynan, John Blair, William Post Jr., Isabelle Irving and Sidney Booth.

February 10 through February 15, 1936
DEAR OLD DARLING - a comedy starring George M. Cohan. Cast includes Ruth Shepley, Charles D. Brown, Joseph Sweeney, Ben Lackland, Theresa Maxwell Conover, Walter Gilbert, Reynolds Denniston, Marion Shockley, Edna Holland, Joseph R. Garry, Forrest Orr, Jack Williams and Dan Carey.

February 17 through February 22, 1936
BLOSSOM TIME - operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Helen Arnold and George Trabert.

February 24 through February 29, 1936
SWEET ALOES - written by Jay Mallory. Starring Evelyn Laye. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie. Cast includes Rex Harrison.

March 9 through March 14, 1936
IDIOT’S DELIGHT - a new play by Robert Sherwood. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Directed by Bretaigne Windust.

March 16 through March 21, 1936
PORGY AND BESS - music by George Gershwin. Todd Duncan as Porgy; Ann Brown as Bess; John W. Bubbles as Sportin Life; Warren Coleman as Crown. Directed by Roben Mamoulian. Dr. Ralph Bunche, head of Howard University’s Political Science Department, obtained a special exception for blacks to attend the performances.

March 23 through March 28, 1936
AT HOME ABROAD - a musical holiday by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. Starring Beatrice Lillie and Ethel Waters. Cast includes Herb Williams and Mitzi Mayfair; with Reginald Gardiner, Paul Haakon, Vera Allen, Nina Whitney, John McCauley, and Robert Schaffer.

March 30 through April 4, 1936
WINTERSET - by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Burgess Meredith. Cast includes Margo, Lee Baker, Myron McCormick, Harold Johnsrud, Billy Quinn, Theodore Hecht, Morton L. Stevens, Anatole W. Inogradoff, Abner Biberman, Helen Winn, and John Phillber. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

April 5 through April 12, 1936
TOBACCO ROAD - developed for the stage by Jack Kirkland from the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring Henry Hull. Cast includes Donald Barry, Mary Servoss, Pauline Drake, Hallene Hill, Leon Ames, Dick Lee, Priscilla Knowles, Heila Stoddard, Howard Banks and Fiske O’Hara.

April 13 through April 18, 1936
CYRANO DE BERGERAC - by Edmund Rostand. Starring Walter Hampden who staged and directed the performance. Cast includes Katherine Warren, Ernest Rowan, William Sauter, Robert Schnitzer, C. Norman Hammond, G. Hannam Clark, Wilton Graff.

May 4 through May 9, 1936
GHOSTS - by Henrik Ibsen. Starring Nazimova, who directed by production. Cast includes Beatrice deNeergaard, Raymond O’Brien, McKay Morris, and Harry Ellerbe.

May 10 through May 16, 1936
THREE MEN ON A HORSE - a new comedy by John Cecil Holm and George Abbottt. Starring Jack Sheehan, Ruth Lee, Matt Briggs, Owen Martin, Harry Davenport, Mary Lone, Saul Z. Martell, William Foran, Grandon Rhodes, Eleanor Audley, Spencer Fleming, Chandos Sweet, Harold Grau, Marjorie Jarecki, and Leigh Whipper.

May 17 through May 23, 1936
TOBACCO ROAD - developed for the stage by Jack Kirkland from the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring Henry Hull. Cast includes Donald Barry, Mary Servoss, Pauline Drake, Hallene Hill, Leon Ames, Dick Lee, Priscilla Knowles, Heila Stoddard, Howard Banks and Fiske O’Hara.

June 10, 1936
MILDRED’S JUNIOR FOLLIES OF 1936. Routines and dances by Mildred Bargagni.

September 28 through October 3, 1936
ST. HELENA - by R.C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis. Starring Maurice Evans as Napoleon. Cast includes Barry Sullivan. Staged by Robert B. Sinclair; setting by Jo Mielziner. S. E. Cochran, Manager. Opening night marked the start of the 101st season of the National Theatre.

October 5 through October 10, 1936
AND STARS REMAIN - a new comedy by Julius and Philip G. Epstein. Starring Clifton Webb and Helen Gahagan. Cast includes Claudia Morgan, Mary Sargeant, Richard Barbie, Charles Richman, Suzanne Jackson, Ben Smith and Edgar Kent. Staged by Philip Moeller; setting designed by Aline Bernstein. Orchestra: $2.75; Balcony 4 rows: $2.20; next r rows: $1.65; last 4 rows: $1.10; 2nd Balc.: 85 cents.

October 11, 1936
JOOSS EUROPEAN BALLET – a dance company from England. Presented by William A. Albaugh.

October 12 through October 16, 1936
END OF SUMMER - S.N. Behrman's new comedy. Starring Ina Claire and Osgood Perkins. Cast includes Shepperd Strudwick, Jean Adair, Susan Fox, Clarence Rock, Nicholas Joy, Van Heflin, Clifford Brooke, and Stiano Braggiotti. Directed by Philip Moeller; setting by Lee Simonson

October 19 through October 25, 1936
FIRST LADY - a comedy by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman. Starring Jane Cowl. Staged by Mr. Kaufman; settings by Donald Oenslager.

October 26 through October 31, 1936
PLUMES IN THE DUST - written by Sophie Treadwell. Starring Henry Hull as Edgar Allan Poe. Staged by Arthur Hopkins; production designed by Woodman Thompson.

November 2 through November 7, 1936
ETHAN FROME - a dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, suggested by a previous dramatization by Lowell Barrington. Starring Pauline Lord, with Earle Larimore. Staged by Karl Nielson

November 9 through November 21, 1936
TONIGHT AT EIGHT-THIRTY - nine plays by Noel Coward, performed in groups of three: Hands Across the Sea, the Astonished Heart, and Red Peppers; We Were Dancing, Fumed Oak, and Shadow Play; Ways and Means, Still Life, and Family Album. Starring Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence.

November 24 through November 28, 1936
THE WINGLESS VICTORY - premier performance of a work by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Katherine Cornell. Cast includes Mary Michael, Kent Smith, Arthur Chatterton, John Winthrop, Effie Shannon, Myron McCormick, Lois Jameson, Ruth Matteson, Barry Kelly, Theodore Pleadwell, Walter Abel, Helen Zelinskaya, Clare Howard, John Winthrop, Victor Colton, and Franklin Davis. Staged by Guthrie McClintic [Miss Cornell's husband]. Settings and Costumes by Jo Mielziner., with Myron Mccormick and Walter Abel. Presented by Katherine Cornell.

November 30 through December 5, 1936
NAUGHTY MARIETTA - Victor Herbert's musical masterpiece. Starring Ilse Marvenga. Book and Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young. Production directed and staged by Edward J. Scanlon. Settings by Watson Barrett. Dances staged by Selma Sharron. Orchestra under direction of William Ortman. A John Shubert production, presented by the Messrs. Shubert.

December 7 through December 12, 1936
THE SHOW IS ON - Vincent Minelli's new musical. Starring Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr. Cast includes Reginald Gardiner, Mitzie Mayfair, Paul Haakon, Gracie Barrie, Charles Walters, Vera Allen, John McCauley, Evelyn Thawl, Ralph Riggs and Marie Carroll. Music and Lyrics mostly by Vernon Duke and Ted Fetter, with numerous others including Dietz & Schwartz; George and Ira Gershwin; Harberg and Arlen; Rogers and Hart. Sketches mostly by David Freedman and Moss Hart.

December 14 through December 19, 1936
OTHELLO - by William Shakespeare. Starring Walter Huston. Cast includes Nan Sutherland, Robert Keith, Natalie Hall, A.P. Kaye, and Edward Fielding. Directed by Robert Edmund Jones.

December 21 through December 26, 1936
BOY MEETS GIRL - a new play by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Cast includes Marie Brown, Roy Roberts, Owen Martin, Richard Waring, Fleming Ward, Jean Casto, Byron Shores, and Douglas Gerard. Staged by George Abbott. Settings by Arne Lundborg. Presented by Mr. Abbott.

December 28, 1936 through January 2, 1937
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS - a new play by Marguerite Veiller. Staged by John Hayden. Settings by G.E. Calthrop. Starring Elena Maramova, Earle Larimore and Frances Starr. Presented by B.A. Meyer.

1937
Fifth Subscription Season of the Theatre Guild and the American Theatre Society.

January 4 through January 9, 1937
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR - drama by Lillian Hellman. Starring Connie Nickerson, Aline McDermott, Elizabeth Seckel, Liberty Dick, Jacqueline Rousling, Elizabeth Irvin, Margaret English, Florence McGee, Katherine Emery, Ann Revere, and Blaine Cordner. Presented by Herman Shumlin.

January 11 through January 16, 1937
FREDERIKA - Franz Lehar's new operetta. Starring Dennis King, Helen Gleason and Ernest Truex. Staged and Directed by Hassard Short. American Adaptation and Lyrics by Edward Eliscu. Choreography by Chester Hale. Settings by Watson Barrett.

January 18 through January 30, 1937
D’OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY -- The Gondoliers, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Trial by Jury, Pirates of Penzance, Cox and Box, HMS Pinafore, Patience, Yeoman of the Guard. Ensemble cast is headed by Martyn Green.

February 1 through February 7, 1937
HAMLET - written by William Shakespeare. Starring John Gielgud (Hamlet) and Judith Anderson (Gertrude), with Arthur Byron (Polonius) and Lillian Gish (Ophelia). Staged by Guthrie McClintic. Settings and Costumes by Jo Mielziner. Presented by Mr. McClintic. Edmund O'Brien played Marcellus and the second grave digger.

February 8 through February 13, 1937
REFLECTED GLORY - comedy by George Kelly. Starring Tallulah Bankhead. Staged by Mr. Kelly. Settings designed by Norman Rock. Presented by Lee Shubert in association with Homer Curran. At one performance, Miss Bankhead, at her curtain call, blew a kiss to her father, who was then the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

February 15, 1937
DEAD END - by Sidney Kingsley. Produced by Norman Bel Geddes.

February 22 through February 27, 1937
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - based on the Jane Austin novel. Starring Murial Kirkland, Molly Pearson, Lowell Gilmore, Eugenie Rawls, Evelyn Byrd, Robert Connes, Philip Tonge, Staats Cotsworth, David Orrick, J. Plumpton Wilson, Esther Mitchell, Helen Strickland, Chouteau Dyer, Frances Brandt and Vera Fuller-Mullerish. Directed by Robert Sinclair. Presented by Max Gordon.

March 1 through March 6, 1937
STORM OVER PATSY - a comedy by Bruno Frank. Starring Sara Allgood, Roger Livesey. Cast includes Claudia Morgan and Ian MacLean.

March 6, 1937
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM by Douglas Wiggins. Single Saturday Morning performance for children.

March 8 through March 14, 1937
ON YOUR TOES - by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott. Starring Ray Bolger, Luella Gear and Tamara Geva. With Doris Carson and Monty Woolley. Also Dave Jones, Ethel Hampton, Tyrone Kearny, Robert Sydney, Betty Jane Smith, David Morris, Gertrude Magee, Demetrios Velin, William Wadsworth, Robert Sidney, Fred Danieli, Basil Galahoff, Harold Haskin, Guy Stanton, Jack Quinn, George Church, Guy Stanton. Staged by Worthington Minor. Cheorography by George Balanchine. Settings designed by Jo Mielziner. Costumes designed by Irene Sharaff. Orchestra under direction of Ray Kavanaugh. Entire production under the supervision of Dwight Deere Wiman.

March 15 through March 20, 1937
BOY MEETS GIRL - by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Produced by George Abbott. Cast includes Clinton Sundberg, Larry Fletcher, Donald MacDonald, Charles Wagenheim, Frank Fenton, Queena Bilotti, Virginia Wallace, Nigel Blake, Sydney Andrews, Stanley Gorham, Betty Field, Rhea Cook, Erskine Sandord, Craig Adams, Edison Rice, John Koch, Ratricia Palmer Horace Cooper.

Possibly at National:
HIS EXCELLENCY by Leslie Reade. Staged by Edward Clarke Lilley. Setting by Watson Barrett. With John Williams. Presented by George Bushar and John Tuerk.

March 22 through March 27, 1937
JANE EYRE - Helen Jerome's dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's novel. Starring Katherine Hepburn. With Viola Roache, Philippa Bevans, Dennis Hoey and Patricia Peardon. Also Teresa Dale, Irving Morrow, Teresa Guerini, Shirley Dale, Katharine Stewart, Wallace Widdecombe, Wilfrid Seagram, Boyd Davis, Doris Dalton, Marga Ann Deighton and Tom Powers. Presented by The Theatre Guild. Production directed by Worthington Minor. Settings and Costumes designed by Lee Simonson. Presented by the Theatre Guild, Inc. Production under the personal supervision of Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langer and Worthington Minor.

March 29 through April 3, 1937
THE GREAT WALTZ - music by Johann Strauss (Father and Son). Book by Moss Hart. "Production conceived and directed by Hassard Short. Starring Gladys Clark and Earle McVeigh. Lighting, Staging, Scenic and Mechanical Effects Created by Hassard Short." Dances and Ballets by Albertina Rasch. Settings by Albert Johnson. Costumes by Doris Zinkeisen. Orchestra under the direction of George Hirst. Presented by Max Gordon.

May 3 through May 8, 1937:
RUTH DRAPER IN HER CHARACTER SKETCHES -- Each night, Ruth Draper performed a series of sketches, including Opening a Bazaar; In County Kerry; Three Women and Mr. Clifford; In a Church in Italy.

May 10 through May 15, 1937
THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1937 – Starring Fannie Brice and Bobby Clark. With Leota Lane, Marcella Swanson, Cass Daley, Hugh Camerson, Marvin Lawler, James Farrell.

May 16 through May 22, 1937
LOST HORIZON – twice daily showings of the film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Ronald Colman.

Edmond Plohn took over from Steve Cochran as Manager sometime during this year. The program format changed slightly at this point, which may be evidence of the changeover.

September 13 through September 18, 1937
BROTHER RAT - comedy by John Monks, Jr., and Fred F. Finklehoffe. Directed by George Abbott. Settings by Cieker & Robbins. Presented by Mr. Abbott. With Eddie Bracken and Gary Merrill.

September 20 through September 25, 1937
SUSAN AND GOD - by Rachel Crothers. Starring Gertrude Lawrence with Osgood Perkins. Also Nancy Kelly.

October 4 through October 16, 1937
MADAME BOVARY - Gatson Baty's dramatization of Flaubert's novel. Starring Constance Cummings. With Ernest Thesiger, Eric Portman and Carl Harbord; others in the cast include Viola Roache, Harold Vermilyea, Eda Heineman, Arthur Chatterton, Alice Belmore-Cliffe, O.Z. Whitehead, Valerie Cossart, and John O’Connor. Play adapted and directed by Benn W. Levy. Settings and Costumes Designed by Lee Simonson. (Settings adapted from the original production of Gaston Baty.) Presented by The Theatre Guild. Production under the supervision of Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langer and Benn W. Levy.

October 18 through October 22, 1937
AMPHITRYON 38 - Jean Giraudoux's comedy adapted by S.N. Behrman. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Directed by Bretaigne Windust. Production conceived and supervised by Mr. Lunt and Miss Fontaine. Settings designed by Lee Simonson. Costumes designed by Vanentina. Music comoposed and conducted by Samuel L. Barlow. With Richard Whorf, George Meader, Sidney Greenstreet, Alan Hewitt, Barry Thompson, Kathleen Roland, Jacqueline Paige, Ernestine de Becker, and Edith King.

October 25 through October 30, 1937
LEANING ON LETTY - from "Post Road" by Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell. Starring Charlotte Greenwood. Staged and directed by Russell Fillmore. With Russell Fillmore.

November 1 through November 6, 1937
TOVARICH - by Jaques Deval. English text by Robert E. Sherwood. Starring Marta Abba (wife or mistress of Luigi Pirandello) and Rudolph Forster. Staged by Gilbert Miller. Production Designed by Raymond Sovey. With James E. Truex, Cecil Humphreys.

November 8 through November 13, 1937
STAGE DOOR - comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Starring Joan Bennett (by arrangement with Walter Wanger). Settings by Donald Oenslager. Presented by Sam H. Harris.

November 15 through November 20, 1937
THE GHOST OF YANKEE DOODLE - Sidney Howard's new play. Starring Ethel Barrymore and Dudley Digges. Production directed by John Cromwell. Production designed by Woodman Thompson. Production under the supervision of Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langer and John Cromwell. Presented by The Theatre Guild.

November 22 through November 27, 1937
TO BE CONTINUED - a comedy by Charles George. Starring Luella Gear. Directed by Melville Burke. Settings Designed and Executed by Cleon Throckmorton. With Ruth Chorpenning. Presented by Morris Green and James J. Fero.

November 29 through December 4, 1937
KING RICHARD II - by William Shakespeare. Starring Maurice Evans. Staged by Margaret Webster. Art Director- David Ffolkes. Incidental Music by Herbert Menges. Arranged by Rupert Graves. With Rhys Williams, Philip Truex.

December 27, 1937 through January 1, 1938
SPRING THAW - new comedy by Clare Kummer. Starring Roland Young. Staged by Eddie Sobol. Settings by Donald Oenslager. Costumes supervised by Bianca Stroock. Presented by Max Gordon.

1938
Sixth Subscription Season of the Theatre Guild and the American Theatre Society.

January 3 through January 8, 1938
SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE - new play by Paul Vincent Carroll. Starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke, with Sara Allgood and Julie Haydon. Presented by Eddie Dowling.

January 10 through January 15, 1938
IF I WERE YOU - new farce by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. Starring Constance Cummings. Suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's. With Bernard Lee and Betty Field. Produced by Mr. Fox.

January 23, 1938
BETWEEN THE DEVIL Command Performance for President Roosevelt's Birthday. The Howard Dietz-Arthur Schwartz. Musical Comedy starring Jack Buchannan, Evelyn Laye and Adele Dixon. Staged by Hassard Short. Settings by Albert Johnson. Book staged by John Hayden. Dances and Principals' Numbers arranged by Robert Alton. Costumes designed by Kiviette. With Charles Walters, Vilma Ebsen, William Kendall, The Debonairs, and the Tune Twisters.

January 24 through January 28, 1938.
ROOM SERVICE - written by John Murray and Allen Boretz. Directed by George Abbott. Setting by Cirker and Roberts. With John Carmody. Presented by Mr. Abbott.

January 31 through February 5, 1938
ONCE IS ENOUGH - written by Frederick Lonsdale. Starring Ina Claire, a Washington resident, who studied at the Minnie Hawke school with Helen Hayes. Cast includes Hugh Williams, Viola Keats, Austin Trevor, Archibald Batty, Eric Cowley, Margaret Vyner, Walter Piers, Nancy Ryan, Rosalind Ivan, John Williams, and Winfred Seagram. Staged by Gilbert Miller. Setting Designed by Raymond Sovey.

February 7 through February 12, 1938
SAVE ME THE WALTZ - a comedy by Katherine Dayton. Staged by Robert B. Sinclair. Settings by Jo Mielziner. Costumes by John Hambleton. With Mady Christians, Brenda Forbes. Produced by Max Gordon (in association with Sam H. Harris)

February 14 through February 19, 1938
JULIUS CAESAR - Orson Welles' modern production of the play by William Shakespeare. Staged by Orson Welles. No designers listed. Presented by Alex Yokel. With Edmund O'Brien, Tom Powers, Lawrence Fletcher, Herbert Ranson, Alan Craig, Muriel Brassler, and Morgan Farley.

February 21 through February 26, 1938
EDNA HIS WIFE - Starring Cornelia Otis Skinner in her own adaptation of the novel by Margaret Ayer Barnes. Settings by Donald Oenslager. Costumes designed by Helen Pons. Music by Elliott Jacoby. A one-woman show in which Miss Skinner played eight different women in eleven monologue scenes.

February 25 (matinee), 1938
JOOSS BALLET - performing “The Seven Heroes,” “A Ball in Old Vienna” and “The Mirror.”

March 14 through March 19, 1938
WHITEOAKS – written by Mazo de la Roche. Starring Ethel Barrymore, with Stephen Haggard. Directed by Stephen Haggard. Settings designed by Norris Houghton.

March 21 through March 26, 1938
YOU NEVER KNOW – new musical by Cole Porter. Starring Clifton Webb, Lupe Velez and Libby Holman. Cast includes Toby Wing, Charles Kemper, George Dobbs, Catherine Crawford, Roger Stearns and Rex O”Malley. Book adapted and directed and additional Lyrics added by Rowland Leigh.

April 4 through April 9, 1938
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU – the Pulitzer Prize Play of 1937 by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Cast includes Aldrich Bowker, Eva Condon, Charlotte Walker, Emma Bunting, Bobbe Arnst, Margaret Callaghan, Henry Richards, Ross Hertz. Settings by Donald Oenslager. [No director listed.] Presented by Sam H. Harris.

April 11 through April 16, 1938
THE WOMEN – written by Clare Boothe. With Lois Wilson, Celeste Holm, Dorrit Kelton and others. Staged by Robert B. Sinclair. Settings by Jo Mielziner. Costumes supervised by John Hambleton.

April 18 through April 23, 1938
THREE WALTZES – musical by Clare Kummer and Rowland Leigh, based from the play of Paul Knepler and Armin Robinson. Starring Kitty Carlisle, Michael Bartlett and Glenn Anders. Cast includes Marguerita Sylva, Ann Andrews and Ruth Hammond. Music by the Strauss family. Staged and directed by Hassard Short. Costumes Designed by Connie De Pinna. Settings by Watson Barratt. Dances Staged by Chester Hale. Produced by the Messrs. Shubert.

April 25 through April 30, 1938
YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER – comedy by Mark Reed. Starring Lucile Watson, Violet Heming and Nicholas Joy. Cast includes Halia Stoddard and Charles Bryant. Presented and staged by Alfred de Liagre, Jr. Setting by Raymond Sovey.

May 2 through May 7, 1938
TOBACCO ROAD – adapted by Jack Kirkland from the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring John Barton, Leora Thatcher, Patricia Quinn, Kay Thorne, Pitt Herbert, Sonda Johnson, William Bishop and Dick Lee. Directed by Anthony Brown.

May 9 through May 14, 1938
THE STAR WAGON – written by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish. Cast includes Russell Collins, Mildred Natwick, Jane Buchanan, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Riggs, Barry Kelly, J. Arthur Young. Staged and presented by Guthrie McClintic. Production designed by Jo Mielziner.

May 16 through May 21, 1938
THE ABBEY THEATRE PLAYERS performing Far Off Hills, Juno and the Paycock, The New Gosson, The Playboy of the Western World, The Rising of the Moon, The Silver Jubilee, Riders to the Sea, The Plough and the Stars, and Drama at Inish.

September 19 through September 24, 1938
KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE -- a new comedy by Clare Boothe. Directed by Antoinette Perry. Settings by John Root. Starring Helen Claire, Benay Venuta, Edwin Nicander, John Alexander, Philip Ober, Millard Mitchell, Sheldon Leonard, Frank Wilson, Hugh Marlowe, Carmel White, Lex Lindsay, Ollie Burgoyne, and Wyman Holmes.

September 26 through October 1, 1938
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU – comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Starring Eva Condon, Patty Littell, Frances E. Williams, John Prescott, Joseph Allenton, Donald Sharpe, John Marriott, Clarence Oliver, Katherine Stevens, Robert Perry, Alan Brixley, Emma Bunting, William Jeffrey, Alice Baker and Rene Roberti. Presented by Sam H. Harris.

October 3 through October 8, 1938
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS – new play by Robert E. Sherwood. Starring Raymond Massey. With Howard DaSilva, John Payne (Robert Lincoln). Directed by Elmer Rice. Settings by Jo Mielziner. Presented by The Playwrights Company: Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood.

October 10 through October 15, 1938
KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY – premier of a new musical comedy: book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson; music by Kurt Weill.Starring Walter Huston, with Ray Middleton, George Watts, Richard Kollmar. Entire production staged by Joshua Logan. Production designed by Jo Mielziner. Presented by The Playwrights Company: Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood.

October 17 through October 22, 1938
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT – a musical revue by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Starring George M. Cohan. Cast includes Marian Greene, Bijou Fernandez, Joseph Allen, Paul Parke, Margaret Sande, Marie Louis Dana, Taylor Holmes, and Florenz Ames. Choreography by Charles Weidman. Book staged by Mr. Kaufman. Presented by Sam H. Harris.

October 31 through November 5, 1938
YANKEE FABLE - written by Lewis Meltzer. Starring Ina Claire with Henry Daniell. Staged by Otto L. Preminger. Setting by Harry Horner. Cast includes Barry Sullivan, Robert Strauss. Presented by Cheryl Crawford.

November7 through November 12, 1938
THE SEA GULL - written by Anton Chekhov. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Translated by Stark Young. Directed by Robert Milton. Settings and costumes designed by Robert Edmond Jones. With Uta Hagen, Edith King, George Meader, Richard Whorf, Sidney Greenstreet, Margaret Waller and John Barclay. Presented by The Theatre Guild, Inc.

November 14 through November 19, 1938
HEROD AND MARIAMNE - written by Clemence Dane. Starring Katherine Cornell. Adapted from the German Classic by Friedrich Hebbel. With Fritz Kortner, McKay Morris, Florence Reed, and Kent Smith. Directed by Guthrie McClintic (Miss Cornell's husband). Also with John Kerr, Mildred Dunnock (Alexandra's slave). Presented by Katherine Cornell.

November 21 through November 26, 1938
I AM DIFFERENT - written by Zoe Akins. Starring Tallulah Bankhead. Adapted from a play by Lili Hatvany. With Fritzi Scheff, John Emery, Glenn Anders, Ara Gerald, Margaret Seddon. Play directed by Thomas Mitchell. Sets designed and executed by Kay Nielsen. Miss Bankhead's dresses designed by Orry Kelly. Presented by Lee Shubert in association with Jos. M. Gaites.

November 28 through December 3, 1938
GOLDEN BOY - written by Clifford Odets. Directed by Harold Clurman. Settings by Mordecai Gorelik. Starring Frances Farmer, with Elia Kazan, Roman Bohnan, Phoebe Brand, and Lee J. Cobb. Presented by The Group Theatre.

December 5 through December 10, 1938
PINS AND NEEDLES - a musical revue with music and lyrics by Harold J. Rome. Cast drawn from the ILGWU Players.

December 12 through December 17, 1938
OUR TOWN - written by Thornton Wilder. Starring Frank Craven. Production by Mr. [Jed] Harris. Technical Direction by Raymond Sovey. Costumes Designed by Helene Pons. (No director listed) With Evelyn Varden, Helen Carew, Thomas W. Ross, James Spotswood, Dorothy McGuire, John Craven, Tom Fadden. Teresa Wright is one of the townspeople. Presented by Jed Harris.

December 26 through December 31, 1938
THE WOMEN - a comedy by Clare Boothe. Cast includes Lois Wilson, Delma Byron, Miriam Battista, Laura Pierpont, Dorothy Draper, Alice Buchanan. Produced by Max Gordon.

Date unknown:
CINDERELLA - presented by The Clare Tree Major Children’s Theatre of New York.

1939
Seventh Season of the Theatre Guild and the American Theatre Society.
January 9 through January 15, 1939
SET TO MUSIC – review by Noel Coward. Starring Beatrice Lillie with Richard Haydn, Eva Ortega, Penelope Dudley Ward, Hugh French, Gladys Henson, Bronson Dudley, Moya, Nugent, and Maidie Andrews. Staged by Noel Coward.

January 16 through January 22, 1939
VICTORIA REGINA – by Laurence Housman. Starring Helen Hayes, with Werner Bateman , Abraham Sofaer, James Gibson, Charles Francis, Alexander Clark, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Babbette Feist, Oswald Marshall and Tom Woods. Staged by Gilbert Miller.

January 23 through January 28, 1939
BACHELOR BORN – comedy by Ian Hay. Starring Edward Fielding with Leslie Barrie, Marcella Swanson, Philip Tonge, Josephine Brown, Francis Compton, Jane Sterling, Betty Moran, Virginia Barton, Bertram Tanswell, Stephen Ker-Appleby, Mary orr and Richard Temple. Staged by Frederick Leister. Settings by Watson Barrett. With Jack Merivale. Presented by Milton Shubert in association with Ruth Selwyn.

January 16, 1939, afternoon
ARGENTINITA and her Spanish Ensemble – Principal dancers: Antonio Triana and Pilar Lopez. Guitar: Carlos Montoya. Piano: Rogelio Machado.

January 28, 1939 [no program file]
PETER PAN – presented by the Clare Tree Major Children’s Theatre of New York.

January 29 - Command Performance
For President Roosevelt's Birthday Celebration. M.C. Hazen, General Chairman, in association with The Playhouse Compoany and the National Theatre Directors, as part of the National Birthday Celebration. OUTWARD BOUND - by Sutton Vane, the "Current Broadway Sensation" which is now being presented in The playhouse Theatre, New York, starring Laurette Taylor (Mrs. Midgit) and Florence Reed (Mrs. Clivedon-Banks), with Helen Chandler, Alexander Kirkland, Vincent Price (Rev. William Duke), Bramwell Fletcher, Thomas Chalmers, Morgan Farley, Louis Hector. Directed by Otto L. Preminger. Settings by Watson Barratt. Presented by The Playhouse Company.

February 6 through February 11, 1939
OF MICE AND MEN – by John Steinbeck. Starring Claire Luce and Guy Robertson, with Edward Andrews, John F.Hamilton, Thomas Findlay, Lester Damon, Grant Mills, Charles Slattery, Clarence J. Straight, Jr. and Leigh Whipper. Staged by George S. Kaufman. Presented by Sam H. Harris.

February 13 through February 18, 1939
WHAT A LIFE – comedy by Clifford Goldsmith. Starring Eddie Bracken, with Hope Landin, William Mendrek, Stasia Wilson, William Blees, Fred Clarke. Directed by George Abbott.

February 20 through February 26, 1939
TOBACCO ROAD – by Jack Kirkland based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring John Barton with Sara Perry, Patricia Quinn, Sheila Brent, Norman Budd, William Dorme, Dick Lee, Lillian Ardell, Alan Jason, Eugenia Wilson and Walter Ayers. Directed by Anthony Brown.

March 4, 1939 [no program file]
THE LITTLE PRINCESS – presented by The Clare Tree Major Children’s Theatre of New York.

March 6 through March 11, 1939
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY – comedy by Philip Barry. Starring Katherine Hepburn, with Nicholas Joy, Van Heflin, Shirley Booth, Joseph Cotten. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Presented by The Theatre Guild.

March 13 through March 18, 1939
SHAKESPEARE'S CHRONICLES -- FIVE KINGS – Starring Burgess Meredith and Orson Welles. With Robert Speight, Johm Emery, Lora Baxter, Morris Ankrum, Edgar Barrier, Lawrence Fletcher. Production by Orson Welles. The Theatre Guild presents The Mercury Theatre.

March 20 through March 26, 1939
CANDIDA – by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Katherine Cornell with Dorothy Sands, Onslow Stevens, A.P.Kaye, John Cromwell and Phillip Faversham. Staged by George Somnes

March 24, 1939 [no program file]
THE BLOND MARIE – Trudi Schoop and her comic ballet.

March 27 through April 2, 1939
MY DEAR CHILDREN – comedy by Catherine Turney and Jerry Horwin. Starring John Barrymore with Elaine Barrie, Tala Birell, Phillip Reed, Dorothy McGuire, Lois Hall, Lloyd Gough, Arnold Korff. Directed by Otto L Preminger.

April 3 through April 8, 1939
D’OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY presents Trial by Jury, The Pirates of Penzance, The Gondoliers, Iolanthe, Patience, The Yeomen of the Guard, Cox and Box, H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado. Ensemble cast is headed by Martyn Green.

April 8, 1939
THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER – presented by The Clare Tree Major Children’s Theatre of New York.

April 10 through April 16, 1939
SKYLARK – written and directed by Samson Raphaelson. Starring Gertrude Lawrence with Glenn Anders, Lee Patrick and Donald Cook.

April 17 through April 23, 1939
THE MOTHER – written by Karel Capek. Starring Nazimova with Reginald Bach, Montgomery Clift, Stephen Appleby, Carl Johnson, Don Richardson, Alan Briley, Tom Palmer and Edward Broadley. Directed by Miles Malleson.

April 24 through April 30, 1939
HAMLET AND HENRY IV – by William Shakespeare. Starring Maurice Evans with Mady Christians, Henry Edwards, Whitford KaneWesley Addie and Edmond O’Brien. Staged by Margaret Webster.

May 1 through May 6, 1939
I MARRIED AN ANGEL -- a musical adpated from a play by John Vaszary based on book by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart; lyrics by Lorenz Hart and music by Richard Rodgers. Starring Dennis King, Vera Zorina, Vivienne Segal and Walter Slazak with Audrey Christie and Charles Walters. Presented by Dwight Deere Wiman.

October 2 through October 7, 1939
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW – by William Shakespeare presented by The Theatre Guild, Inc. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne with Sydney Greenstreet, Richard Wharf, Francis Compton, Edith King, Albert Carroll, S. Thomas Gomez and Alan Hewitt.

October 9 through October 14, 1939
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN – by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. Starring Helen Hayes and Philip Merrivale. Cast includes Evelyn Verden, Robert Keith, William Lynn, Connie Gilchrist, Joseph Sweeney, Roy Roberts, Frank Conlan, George Watts, Pat Harrington, Martin Wolfson, and Jacqueline Paige. Staged by Charles MacArthur.

October 16 through October 21,1939
MARGIN FOR ERROR – pre-Broadway production, written by Clare Boothe. Cast includes Bert Lytell, Sam Levene, Bramwell Fletcher, Elspeth Eric, Leif Erikson, Philip Coolidge, Edward McNamara, and Evelyn Wahle. Directed by Otto L. Preminger.

October 23 through October 28, 1939
VERY WARM FOR MAY – new musical comedy by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Cast includes Jack Whiting, Eve Arden, Hiram Sherman, Grace McDonald, Hollace Shaw, Donald Bryan, and Frances Mercer. Production staged and designed by Vincent Minnelli.

October 30 through November 4, 1939
LEAVE IT TO ME – new musical comedy based on a play by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Starring Sophie Tucker, William Gaxton, Victor Moore, with Edward H. Robins, Alexandro Asro, Eugene Sigaloff, Joseph Kallini. Staged by Samuel Spewack.

November 6 through November 11, 1939
OUTWARD BOUND – comedy/drama by Sutton Vane. Starring Laurette Taylor and Florence Reed. Cast includes Harry Ellerbe, Louis Hector, Morgan Farley, Diana Barrymore, Reynolds Denniston, Henry Richards, Stephen Courtleigh, and William Brady.

November 13 through November 18, 1939
FARM OF THREE ECHOES – new play by Noel Langley. Starring Ethel Barrymore. Cast includes Dean Jagger, McKay Morris, Ann Dere, William B. Mack, Victor Esker, Priscilla Newton, John Griggs and Nancy Sheridan. Staged by Arthur Hopkins.

November 20 through November 25, 1939
MADAME WILL YOU WALK? – new comedy by Sidney Howard. Starring George M. Cohan. Cast includes Peggy Conklin, Arthur Kennedy, Sara Allgood, Kennan Wynn, Birdie Nichols. Directed by Margaret Webster.

November 27 through December 2, 1939
KISS THE BOYS GOOD-BYE – a comedy by Clare Boothe. Cast includes Lucia Lull, Philip Ober, Edwin Nicander, Loring Smith, Carmel White, Henry Norell, Alan Handley, Yukona Cameron, Lex Lindsay, Ollie Burgoyne, and Morris McKinney. Directed by Antoinette Perry.

December 4 through December 9, 1939
THE WHITE STEED -- a comedy by Paul Vincent Carroll. Cast includes Whiteford Kane, Gertrude Flynn, Tom Bate, William Cragin, Grace Mills, Farrell Pelly, Ralph Cullinan, Thomas Patrick Dylan, Elizabeth Malone, and Grania O’Malley. Directed by Hugh Hunt. Presented by Eddie Dowling.

December 11 through December 16, 1939
HOT MIKADO – musical staged by Hassard Short. Starring Bill Robinson. Cast includes Maurice Cooper, James A. Lillard, Maurice Ellis, Freddie Robinson, Alice Harris, Rosetta LeNoire, Pearle Harrison, John Jackson, Rose Brown, and Larry Seymour.

December 20, 1939
RUTH DRAPER’S CHARACTER SKETCHES – benefit performance for the Commission for Polish Relief.

December 25 through December 30, 1939
THE WHITE PLUME – a musical play based on Cyrano de Bergerac; music by Samuel D. Pokrass and Vernon Duke. Starring George Houston and Ruby Mercer, with Fred Sherman, Hal Forde, Cast includes Cornell Wilde. Directed by George Houston.

1940
January 8 through January 13, 1940
THREE AFTER THREE – musical: original play by Guy Bolton; musical adaptation by Guy Bolton, Parke Levy, and Alan Lipscott; lyrics by Johnny Mercer; music by Hoagie Carmichel. Starring Simone Simon, Mitzi Green, Jack Whiting, Mary Brian, Frances Williams, Art Jarrett, Marty May, Dudley and Bostic, The Martins, and Stepin Fetchit. Staged by Fred de Cordova.

January 15 through January 20, 1940
SAN CARLO OPERA COMPANY – performing Aida, Rigoletto, Faust, Carmen, LaTraviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Madam Butterfly, and Il Travatore.

January 22 through January 27, 1940
MAMBA’S DAUGHTERS – a play by Dorothy and DuBois Heyward. Starring Ethel Waters; with Freddi Washington, Maude Russell, Willie Bryant, Alberta Hunter, Georgia Burke, Robert Thomsen, J. Rosamond Johnson, and Ethel Purnello. Featuring a song, “Lonesome Walls,” by Jerome Kern with lyrics by DuBois Heyward. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

January 28, 1940
LIFE WITH FATHER – performed for President Roosevelt’s Birthday Celebration. Starring Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney.

January 29 through February 3,1940
SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY –romantic comedy by Benn Levy. Starring Edward Everett Horton; with Gordon Richards, Barbara Brown, Marjorie Lord, and Sally McMorrow.

February 5 through February 10, 1940
THE LITTLE FOXES – written by Lillian Hellman. Starring Tallulah Bankhead; with Patricia Collinge and Frank Conroy. Cast includes Abbie Mitchell, John Marriott, Carl Benton Reid, Dan Duryea, Lee Barker, Charles Dingle and Eugenia Rawls. Staged by Herman Shumlin.

February 12 through February 17, 1940
TOBACCO ROAD – drama by Jack Kirkland, based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring John Barton, Sara Perry, Mary Perry, Pitt Herbert, Dick Lee, Lillian Ardell, Walter Ayers, Edgar Hinton, Eugenia Wilson, Sheila Brent, and David Houman. Directed by Anthony Brown.

February 19 through February 24, 1940
NO TIME FOR COMEDY – comedy by S.N. Behrman. Starring Katherine Cornell, with Francis Lederer, Margalo Gillmore, John Williams, Tom Helmore, Larry Fletcher and Gee Gee James. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

February 26 through March 2, 1940
AN EVENING WITH CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER – performing three plays Edna His Wife, The Loves of Charles the Second, and The Empress Eugenie. Miss Skinner dramatized each play.

March 4 through March 9, 1940
THE STREETS OF PARIS – revue: music by Jimmy McHugh; lyrics by Al Dubin. Starring Bobby Clark, Luella Gear, Abbott and Costello, Carmen Miranda, “Think a Drink” Hoffman.

March 11 through March 16, 1940
KEY LARGO – drama by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Paul Muni, with Helen Beverly, Frederick Tozere, Ralph Theadore, Charles Ellis, Averill Harris, Tom Ewell, Ethel Jackson, Karl Malden, Joseph Pevney, William Challee, and Ruth March. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

March 18 through March 23, 1940
LADY IN WAITING – comedy by Margery Sharp. Starring Gladys George, with Alan Napier, Carol Curtis-Brown, Mary V. Heberden, Steven Kerr Appleby, Michelette Burani, Ethel Morrison, and Leonard Penn. Directed by Antoinette Perry.

March 25 through March 30, 1940
HEAVENLY EXPRESS – by Albert Bein. Starring John Garfield, with Aline MacMahon, Harry Carey, Philip Loeb, Russell Collins, and Art Smith. Cast includes Burl Ives. Directed by Robert Lewis.

April 1 through April 6, 1940
MARGIN FOR ERROR – comedy melodrama by Clare Boothe. Starring Doris Dudley, Sheldon Leonard, Kurt Katch, Morgan Farley, Alexander Clark, Don Terry, Cyrilla Dorne, John McKee. Directed by Otto Preminger.

April 8 through April 27, 1940
THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT – by Robert E. Sherwood. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, with Sidney Greenstreet and Richard Whorf. Cast includes Montgomery Clift, Thomas Gomez. Staged by Alfred Lunt.

April 29 through May 4, 1940
THE RETURN OF THE VAGABOND – melodramatic satire. Starring George M. Cohan, with McKay Morris, Joe Verdi, Florenz Ames, Edward McNamara, Donald McClelland, George Leach, Celeste Holm, Marie Louise Dana, E.J. Blunkall, John Cherry, John Morny, Leslie Hunt, Fred Herrick, Gretchen Davidson and George W. Smith.

May 6 through May 11, 1940
LOUISIANA PURCHASE – musical: music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Morrie Riskind based on a story by B.G. DeSylva, ballet by George Ballenchine. Starring William Gaxton, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, with Irene Bordoni, Carol Bruce, Nick Long Jr., April Ames, Ralph Riggs and Edward H. Robbins. Staged by Edgar McGregor.

September 23 through September 28, 1940
PINS AND NEEDLES – a new musical revue with the I.L.G.W.U Players. Music and lyrics by Harold J. Rome. Cast includes Harry Clark, Fritz Kuhn, Millie Weitz, Berni Gould, Jean Nicita, Gene Barry. Staged by Robert H. Gordon.

October 7 through October 12, 1940 [no program file]
TIME OF YOUR LIFE – comedy by William Saroyan. Starring Eddie Dowling and Julie Haydon, with Edward Andrews, Tom Tully, Arthur Hunnicut, Leo Chalzel, Grover Burgess, William Bendix, Eva Leonard Boyne, Arnold Ainsworth, Marilyn Monk and Ann Brodie. Staged by Eddie Dowling and William Saroyan.

October 14 through October 19,1940
SUZANNA AND THE ELDERS – comedy by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall. Starring Morris Carnovsky, Haila Stoddard, Howard Freeman, Lois Hall, Royal Beal, Tom Ewell, Theodore Newton, Philip Coolidge, Frances Bavier and Paul Ballantyne. Cast includes Lloyd Bridges. Staged by Worthington Miner.

October 21 through October 26, 1940
LADIES IN RETIREMENT – mystery/thriller by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham. Starring Flora Robson. Cast includes Estelle Winwood, Isobel Elsom and Patrick O’Moore. Staged by Reginald Denham.

October 28 through November 2, 1940
PYGMALION - by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Ruth Chatterton, Barry Thomson, Alice John, Richard Temple, Haydon Rorke, Dennis Hoey, Eleanor Wilson. Directed by Auriol Lee.

November 4 through November 9, 1940
GLAMOUR PREFERRED – comedy by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements; pre-Broadway run. With Glan Langan, Flora Campbell, Louis Sorkin, Maidel Turner, Lex Lindsay, Robert Craven, Henry Vincent, Elisie Mae Gordon, Henry Levin, Wyn Cahoon. Directed by Antoinette Perry.

November 11 through November 16, 1940
NIGHT OF LOVE – musical play: music by Robert Stolz, adapted by Roland Lee from a play by Lili Haivani. Starring Helen Gleason, John Lodge and Marguerite Namara. Staged by Barri O’Daniels.

November 18 through November 23, 1940
THE CORN IS GREEN – drama by Emlyn Williams. Starring Ethel Barrymore. Cast includes Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock, Edmund Breon, Richard Waring, Thelma Schnee, Rosalind Ivan, Gwyneth Hughes and Sayre Crawley. Staged by Harold Shumlin.

November 25 through November 30, 1940
DU BARRY WAS A LADY – musical comedy based on a book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DaSilva; music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Starring Bert Lahr, with Frances Williams, Benny Baker, Ronald Graham, Ruth Bond and Oscar Ragland. Staged by Edgar MacGregor.

December 2 through December 7, 1940
OFF THE RECORD – by Parke Levy and Alan Lipscott. Starring Bruce Cabot, Betty Furness, Hugh O’Connell, Mary Brian, and Dennie Moore. Staged by Anton Bundsmann

December 9 through December 14, 1940
OUT WEST IT’S DIFFERENT – comedy by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Starring Claire Trevor, with Sam Levene, Keenan Wynn, Charles DeSheim, Martin Blaine, William Sands and Doro Merande. Staged by Sam Levene and Samuel Spewack.

December 16 through December 28, 1940
FLIGHT TO THE WEST – drama by Elmer Rice. Starring Betty Field, Arnold Moss, Paul Hernreid and Hugh Marlowe. Cast includes Karl Malden and Kevin McCarthy. Staged by Elmer Rice.

December 30, 1940 through January 5, 1941
YOKEL BOY – musical comedy based on the book by Lou Brown; music and lyrics by Lew Brown, Charlie Tobias, Sam H. Stept. Starring Joe Penner, with Cass Daley, Sammy White, Evelyn Daw, Lou Hern, Jane Matthews, William Talman, Dort Kelton, Jack Fairbanks. Staged by Edgar MacGregor.

1941
January 6 through January 12, 1941
MR. AND MRS. NORTH – comedy by Owen Davis from the stories by Frances and Richard Lockridge. Starring Peggy Conklin and Albert Hackett, with Millard Mitchell, Philip Ober, Owen Davis, Jr., Barbara Wooddell. Directed by Alfred de Liagre, Jr.

January 13 through January 17, 1941
THE CREAM IN THE WELL – by Lynn Riggs. Starring Martha Sleeper and Mary Morris. Cast includes Virginia Campbell, Ralph Theodore, Perry Wilson, Myron McCormick, Lief Erickson, Harry Bratsburg. Staged by Martin Gabel.

January 19 through January 25, 1941
SAN CARLO OPERA COMPANY – presents La Traviata, Carmen, Madame Butterfly, Martha, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Rigoletto, Aida, Faust, Il Trovatore.

January 26, 1941
OLD ACQUAINTANCE – by John Van Druten. Starring Jane Cowl and Peggy Wood, with Kent Smith, Adele Longmire, Anna Franklin, Edna West, Hunter Gardner. Staged by Auriol Lee. Command Performance attended by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to celebrate his 59th Birthday. The cast and a small group of friends were entertained for supper at The White House after the performance.

January 27 through February 1, 1941
CLAUDIA – written and directed by Rose Franken. Starring Frances Starr, Dorothy McGuire, and Donald Cook. Cast includes Adrienne Gessner, Frank Tweddell, John Williams, Olga Baclanova, Audrey Ridgewell.

February 3 through February 8, 1941
THE MALE ANIMAL – a comedy by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent. Starring Elliott Nugent, with Leon Ames and Elizabeth Love. Staged by Harold Shumlin.

February 10 through February 15, 1941
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE – comedy written by William Saroyan. Starring Eddie Dowling and Julia Haydon. Cast includes Edward Andrews, Leo Chalzel, Arthur Hunnicutt, Fred Kelly, Reginald Beane, Charles Cane, Hene Damur, John Ferrell, William Bendix. Staged by William Saroyan and Eddie Dowling.

February 17 through February 22, 1941
TOBACCO ROAD – adapted by Jack Kirkland from the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring John Barton, Sarah Perry, Eugenia Wilson, Dick Lee, Lillian Ardell and Walter Ayers. Directed by Anthony Brown.

February 24 through March 8, 1941
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER – comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Starring Alexander Woollcott. Cast includes Edith Atwater, Doris Nolan, Erik Rhodes, Teddy Hart, Lea Penman, Clyde Fillmore, Minnie Dupree, Lyle Betteger, Joseph Marks, Walter Coy, Arthur Griffin, Janet Fox, Mrs. Priestly Morrison, James Truex, Sidney Grant, Gretchen Davidson, Jeanne Wardley Margaret Gaynor and William Layton. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

March 10 through March 15, 1941
TWELFTH NIGHT – by William Shakespeare. Starring Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans. Cast includes June Walker, Mark Smith, Sophie Stewart and Donald Burr. Staged by Theresa Helburn.

March 17 through March 22, 1941
THE LITTLE FOXES – by Lillian Hellman. Starring Tallulah Bankhead. Cast includes Frank Conroy, Abbie Mitchell, John Marriott, Marie Carroll, Carl Benton Reid, Dan Duryea, Lee Baker, Charles Dingle, Eugenia Rawls. Staged by Herman Shumlin.

March 24 through March 29, 1941
A REVUE OF SKETCHES, DANCES AND MUSIC – Starring Ruth Draper and Paul Draper. Accompanied by Earl Fox at the piano.

April 7 through April 12, 1941
BLOSSOM TIME – operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Everett Marshall. Cast includesTruman Gaige, Driskill Wolfe, Betti Davis, Joseph Toner, Marjorie Ford, Gracie Worth, Fred Sherman, Robert Lange, Petty Pearsall, Doug Leavitt, Frank Hornaday, Shirley Weber, Zella Russell, Dorothy Garnett, Harry K. Morton, Zelda Russell and Ruth Haidt.

April 14 through April 19, 1941
THEATRE – comedy by Somerset Maughan and Guy Bolton. Starring Cornelia Otis Skinner. Cast includes Wendy Atkin, Robert Burton, Leslie Austen, Viola Roache, Arthur Margetson, Frederick Bradlee, Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Mason, Carl Harbord, Ralph Bunker, Joan Wetmore, Jack Merivale and Stanley Harrison. Directed by Robert Milton.

April 21 through April 26, 1941
HOPE FOR A HARVEST – by Sophie Treadwell. Starring Frederic March, Florence Eldridge and Alan Reed. Cast includes Helen Carew, Judy Parrish, Arthur Franz, John Morny, Shelley Hull, Edith King, and Doro Merande. Staged by Lester Vail.

April 28 through May 3, 1941
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE – a drama by Carl Zuckmayer and Fritz Kortner. Starring Dudley Digges, Walter Slezak, Alexander Knox, Karen Morely, Wesley Addey, Arlene Francis, Flora Campbell, Art Smith. Staged by Worthington Miner.

May 5 through May 10, 1941
THE STUDENT PRINCE – operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Ralph Magelssen and Barbara Scully. Cast includes Joseph Macaulay, Detmar Poppin, Bill Kent, Doris Patston, Leonard Ceeley, Melissa Mason, Nina Varela.

May 11, 1941
ACTORS ALL STAR BENEFIT – presented by Actors Fund of America. Stars appearing include Gracie Fields, Jane Cowl, Vera Zorina, Sheila Barrett, Mary Jane Walsh, Al Trahan, and Dennis King.

August 25 through August 30, 1941
THE WOOKEY – by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Starring Edmund Gwenn. Cast includes Carol Goodner, Heather Angel, Norah Howard, Horace McNally, Victor Beecroft, Olive Reeves-Smith, George Sturgeon, Charles Francis, Roland Bottomley, Henry Mowbray, Neil Fitzgerald and Sean Dillon. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair.

September 1 through September 6, 1941
TWO STORY HOUSE – comedy by Parker W. Fennelly. Starring Frederic Tozere, Howard Freeman, Margaret Callahan, George Matthews, Percy Kilbride. Staged by Antoinette Perry. Presented by Brock W. Pemberton.

September 8 through September 13, 1941
BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER – musical: music by Sammy Fain; lyrics by Jack Yellen and Irving Kahal. Starring Ed Wynn; with Dave Apollon, Jaye Martin, Marjorie Gainsworth, and The D’Ivons.

September 15 through September 20, 1941
SEPARATE ROOMS – by Joseph Carole and Alan Dinehart. Starring Alan Dinehart, Anna Sten and Lyle Talbot. Cast includes Lionel Ince, Kirk Brown, Warren Douglas, Virginia Smith, Madora Keene. Directed by Alan Dinehart.

September 22 through September 27, 1941
THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA – by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Katherine Cornell. With Bramwell Fletcher, Colin Keith-Johnston, Cecil Humphreys, Ralph Forbes, Clarence Dervent, Whitford Kane, Barry Jones. (Gregory Peck played a minor role as the Secretary). Directed by Ms. Cornell’s husband, Guthrie McClintic.

September 29 through October 4, 1941
HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS – a revue: book by Guy Bolton, Matt Brooks and Eddie Davis; music by Burton Lane. Starring Al Jolson, with Eunice Healey, Lee Dixon, Herman Timberg Jr., Colette Lyons, Sid Merion, and Joseph Vitale. Staged by Edgar MacGregor.

October 6 through October 19, 1941
CANDLE IN THE WIND – by Maxwell Anderson. Starring Helen Hayes. Cast includes Stiano Braggiotti, Evelyn Varden, John Wengraf, Tonio Selwart, Philip White, Joseph Wiseman, and Lotte Lenya (making her first appearance on the American stage). Pre-Broadway production. Directed by Alfred Lunt.

October 20 through October 25, 1941
THE LAND IS BRIGHT – by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Starring Martha Sleeper, Phyllis Povah, Leon Ames, Arnold Moss, Diana Barrymore, Hugh Marlowe, Ralph Theodore, K.T. Stephens, Florie Campbell and Louise Larabee. Dickie Van Patten played Timothy Kincaid. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

October 27 through November 1, 1941
BLITHE SPIRIT – a farce by Noel Coward. Starring Clifton Webb, Peggy Wood, Lenore Corbett, and Mildred Natwick. Cast includes Philip Tonge, Phyllis Joyce and Jacqueline Clark. Presented and directed by John C. Wilson.

November 3 through November 8, 1941
JUNIOR MISS – comedy by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields, based on the stories of Sally Benson. Starring Barbara Robbins, Philip Ober, Alexander Kirkland, and Francesca Bruning. Staged by Moss Hart.

November 10 through November 15, 1941
PAPA IS ALL – comedy by Patterson Greene. Starring Jessie Royce Landis and Carl Benton Reid; with Dorothy Sands, Celeste Holm, Royal Beal, and Emmett Rogers. Staged by Frank Carrington and Agnes Morgan.

November 17 through November 22, 1941
THE RIVALS – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Starring Mary Boland, Bobby Clark, and Walter Hampden. Cast includes Helen Ford, Donald Burr, Halia Stoddard, Philip Bourneuf. Staged by Eva LaGallienne.

November 24 through November 29, 1941
GOLDEN WINGS – new play by William Jay and Guy Bolton. Starring Signe Hasso, Lloyd Gough, Owen Lamont, and Faye Wray. Cast includes Lloyd Gough, Margot Stevenson, Hughie Green, Gerald Savory, Evan Thomas, Lowell Gilmore. Staged by Robert Milton.

December 1 through December 13, 1941
THE STUDENT PRINCE – operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Robert Davis and Barbara Scully, with Detmar Poppen, Nina Varela, William Kent, Jay Presson, Joanne Tree, Alex Alexander, William Castle and Lloyd Harris.

December 15 through December 20, 1941
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERA COMPANY – performing Mikado, Iolanthe, Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, and HMS Pinafore. Featured performers include Florenz Ames, John Hendricks, Morton Bowe, Bertram Peacock and Robert Pitkin.

December 22, 1941 through January 3, 1942
PAL JOEY – musical by Rogers and Hart based on the play by John O’Hara. Starring Vivienne Segal and George Tapps. Cast includes David Burns, Vivian Allen, Anne Blair, Mildred Todd, Shirley Paige, Averell Harris, John Clarke, James Lane and Cliff Dunstan. Staged by George Abbott.

1942
Scott Kirkpatrick, later to become theatre manager, came to the theatre to work in public relations. He stayed until the theatre closed in 1948.

January 5 through January 17, 1942
HELLZAPOPPIN – a revue by Olsen and Johnson. With Billy House and Eddie Garr.

January 19 through January 24, 1942
THE FLOWERS OF VIRTUE – new comedy by Mark Connelly. Starring Frank Craven. Cast includes Isobel Elsom, Kathryn Givney, S. Thomas Gomez, Vladimir Sokoloff, Virginia Lederer, Leon Belasco, Peter Beauvais, Jess Barker. Directed by Mark Connelly.

January 26 through January 30, 1942
TOBACCO ROAD – based on the book by Erskine Caldwell. Starring John Barton, Sara Perry, Vinnie Phillips, Robert Rose, Merryl Boyden, William Bishop, Sondra Johnson, Dick Lee, Lillian Ardell, Edwin Walter and William Robertson. Directed by Anthony Brown.

January 25, 1942
Command Performance of WATCH ON THE RHINE to honor FDR’s Birthday. Rather somber event: 2nd year of war. Starring Lucille Watson, Paul Lucas and Mady Christians. Cast includes George Coulouris, John Lodge, Helen Trenholme, Eda Heinemann, Frank Wilson, Peter Fernandez, Eric Roberts, and Ann Blythe.

February 1 through February 7, 1942
SAN CARLO OPERA COMPANY – performing Carmen, Rigaletto, Aida, Hansel and Gretel, Tosca, Faust, Martha and La Traviata. Carlo Peroni, music director.

February 9 through February 14, 1942
“PLAN M” – a new play by James Edward Grant. Starring Len Doyle, Lumsden Hair, A.P. Kaye, Margery Maude, Ann Burr, Reynolds Denniston, Douglas Gilmore, Joanna Duncan, Ellis Irving, Stapleton Kent, Guy Spaull, Stewart Casey, Thaddeus Suski and Neil Fitzgerald. Directed by Marion Gering.

February 16 through February 21, 1942
ANGEL STREET – by Patrick Hamilton. Starring Sylvia Sidney, Victor Jory, Judy Parrish, Alfreda Derwent and Ernest Cossart. Produced and directed by Shepard Traube.

February 23 through February 28, 1942
LOUISIANA PURCHASE – musical comedy by B.J. de Sylva; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Morrie Ryskind. Starring William Gaxton, Vera Zorina and Victor Moore; with Irene Bordoni.

March 2 through March 14, 1942
MY SISTER EILEEN – comedy by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Starring Betty Furness, Dorothy Littlejohn, Leo Chalzel, Georgette Leslie, Alfred Etcheverry, Max Showalter, Jean Caso, Sam Bonnell, Frank Wilcox, Carl Johnson, Thomas Hume and Bijou Fernandez. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

March 16 through March 21, 1942
WITHOUT LOVE – comedy by Philip Barry. Starring Katharine Hepburn and Elliott Nugent. Cast includes J.M. Kerrigan, Barry Thomson, Robert Shayne, Audrey Christie, Donald Briggs and Robert Chisholm. Staged by Robert B. Sinclair.

March 23 through March 28, 1942
MACBETH – by William Shakespeare. Starring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson, with Harry Irvine, John Rudley. Cast includes John Ireland as the first murderer and the sergeant and Staats Cotsworth as Banquo.

March 30 through April 4, 1942
YESTERDAY’S MAGIC – by Emlyn Williams. Starring Paul Muni, with Jessica Tandy and Alfred Drake; Brenda Forbes, Patrick O’Moore, Margaret Douglas, Cathleen Cordell and James Monks. Staged by Reginald Denham.

April 5, 1942
DANCE PLAYERS – ballet performance of Prairie, The Man from Midian, and Harlequin for President. Principals include Eugene Loring, Janet Reed, and Lew Christensen.

April 6 through April 12, 1942
CLAUDIA – comedy written and directed by Rose Franken. Starring Frances Starr, Donald Cook, Dorothy McGuire, Olga Baclanova, Audrey Ridgewell, Wilton Graff, Frank Tweddell, Adrienne Gessner and Audrey Ridgwell.

April 13 through April 26, 1942
HELLZAPOPPIN – revue presented by Olsen and Johnson. Starring Billy House and Eddie Garr.

April 27 through May 2, 1942
HIGH KICKERS – music and lyrics by Bert Kalmer and Harry Ruby, based on a book by George Jessel, Bert Kalmer and Harry Ruby. Starring Sophie Tucker, George Jessel. Cast includes Chick York and Rose King, Betty Bruce, Imogene Carpenter, Chaz Chase, Jack Mann, Lee Sullivan, Honey Murray, Franklyn Fox, Sidney Stone, Joe E. Marks and the American Beauty Octet.

May 4 through May 9, 1942
PUNCH AND JULIA – comedy by George Batson. Starring Jane Cowl, with Arthur Margetson, Viola Roache, Janet Fox, Frances Heflin, and Gregory Peck. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

May 11 through May 16, 1942
BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE CARLO -- performing Swan Lake, Scheherazade, Gaiete Parisienne, and the Nutcracker, Spectre de la Rose, Capriccio Espagnol, the Magic Swan, the New Yorker, Seranade, Vienna-1814, Three Cornered Hat, Prince Igor, Afternoon of a Faun.

May 18 through May 30, 1942
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE – comedy by Joseph Kesselring. Starring Laura Hope Crews, Erich Von Stroheim, Jack Whiting, Effie Shannon, Forrest Orr. Staged by Bretaigne Windust. Presented by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.

June 1 through June 5, 1942
CANDIDA – by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Katherine Cornell, Raymond Massey, Katherine Cornell, Burgess Meredith, Brenda Forbes, Stanley Bell, Ernest Cossart. Staged by Guthrie McClintock.

August 10 through August 15, 1942
THE MOON IS DOWN – by John Steinbeck. Starring Conrad Nagel and Maria Palmer. Cast includes Allan Hale, Doris Packer, John D. Seymour, John Ireland, Jesse White, Lloyd Nilson, Bernard Randall, Herbert Duffy, Victor Thorley. Directed by Chester Erskine.

August 17 through August 22, 1942
MY SISTER EILEEN – by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Starring Georgette Leslie and Betty Furness. With Russell Hardie, Henry Richards, King Calder, Leo Chalzel, Jean Casto, Sam Bonnell, Frank Wilcox, Bijou Fernandez. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

August 31 through September 5, 1942
PRIVATE LIVES – comedy by Noel Coward. Starring Ruth Chatterton with Ralph Forbes, Everett Ripley, Dora Sayers, and Royal Raymond. Produced and directed by Russell Lewis.

September 7 through September 12, 1942
VICKIE – farce by Sig Herzig. Starring Jose Ferrer and Uta Hagen. Cast includes Margaret Matzenauer, Taylor Holmes, Charles Halton, Collette Lyons, Frank Conlan, Mildred Dunnock, Red Buttons, Gerry Carr and Lynne Carter. Staged by Mr. Ferrer and Frank Mandell. Presented by Frank Mandell.

September 14 through September 19, 1942
HELLO OUT THERE (one act play by William Saroyan) and MAGIC (by G.K. Chesterton). Starring Eddie Dowling and Julie Haydon. Cast includes Bram Nossen, Jess Barker, Stanley Harrison, John McKee, Ferrell Pelly, Ann Driscoll and John Farrell. Staged by Eddie Dowling.

September 21 through September 26, 1942
FRANKLIN STREET – comedy by Arthur Sheekman. Starring Dorothy Peterson and Reynolds Evans. With William J. Kelly, King Calder, Calvin Thomas, Florence Sundstrom, Robert T. Haines, Ethel Wilson, Frank Otto, Peggy Conway, Henry Antrim, Tommy Lewis, Joe Verdi. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

September 29 through October 10, 1942
THIS IS THE ARMY – a War Department Production, with songs by Irving Berlin, for the benefit of Army Emergency Relief. Opened in New York on July 4, 1942; a Command Performance at the National for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 8. Master-Sergeant Ezra Stone (who later played Henry Aldrich in films) "assembled and staged" the original Broadway production. He appeared in the film version, with Corporal Ronald Reagan (later President of the U.S.), produced by Warner Brothers in 1943. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, with choreography by LeRoy Prinz. The segregation policy was not enforced during the run of the “War Department” show.

October 12 through 24, 1942
THE PIRATE – by S.N. Behrman. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine. With Jack Smart, Lea Penman, Estelle Winwood, James O’Neill, Albert Popwell, Maurice Ellis, Walter Mosby, Robert Emhardt, William Le Massena, Muriel Rahn, Clarence Derwent. Staged by Mr. Lunt and John C. Wilson.

October 26 through November 7, 1942
MR. SYCAMORE – comedy by Ketti Frings, based on a story by Robert Ayre. Starring Lillian Gish, Stuart Erwin, and Claiborne Foster. Cast includes Harry Townes, Otto Hulett, Mary Heckart. Directed by Lester Vail.

November 9 through November 14, 1942
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH – comedy by Thornton Wilder. Starring Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, and Florence Eldridge; with Florence Reed. Cast includes E.G. Marshall, Dickie Van Patten, Montgomery Clift. Directed by Elia Kazan.

November 16 through November 21, 1942
THE MERRY WIDOW – operetta by Franz Lehar. Starring Murial Angelus and Donald Bryan. Cast includes Edmund Dorsay, William Kent, Nina Olivette, Virginia George, Austin Fairman, Jack Stanton, Ronnie Cunningham, Jules Epailly, Donald Clark, Mary Dyer and Eleanor Tennis.

November 23 through November 28, 1942
BOSTON COMIC OPERA COMPANY present GILBERT AND SULLIVAN -- Productions include The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Gondoliers, Patience, Iolanthe.

November 30 through December 6, 1942
THE THREE SISTERS – by Anton Chekov. Starring Judith Anderson, Gertrude Musgrove, and Katharine Cornell. Cast includes Edmund Gwenn, Alexander Knox, Ruth Gordon, Dennis King, McKay Morris, Tom Powers, Eric Dressler, Alice Belmore Cliffe, Stanley Bell, Arthur Chatterton, Tom McDermott, Walter Craig, and Kirk Douglas (playing an orderly). Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

December 7 through December 12, 1942
DOUGHGIRLS – comedy by Joseph Fields. Starring Virginia Field, Arleen Whelan, Doris Nolan, and Arlene Francis. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

December 14 through December 26, 1942
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE – by Konstantin Simonov, adapted by Clifford Odets. Starring Leon Ames, Luther Adler, Victor Varconi, Elizabeth Fraser, Eleanora Mendelssohn, E.A. Krumschmidt, Herbert Berghof, Eduard Franz, Margaret Waller. Directed Harold Clurman.

December 28, 1942 through January 2, 1943
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE – comedy by Joseph Kesselring. Starring Boris Karloff, with Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Clinton Sundberg and Edgar Stehli. Staged by Bretaigne Windust.

1943
January 4 through January 9, 1943
THIS LITTLE HAND – a new melodrama by Wilfred H. Pettitt. Starring Adele Longmire, Barbara Bel Geddes, K.T. Stevens. With Maxine Stuart, Ruth K. Hill, Mary McCormick, Marilyn Erskine, Kao Copeland, and Irene Dailey. Staged by Reginald Denham.

January 11 through January 17, 1943
BOSTON COMIC OPERA present GILBERT AND SULLIVAN – performing The Mikado, Trial by Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, and Iolanthe. Starring Florenz Ames, Catherine Judah, Robert Pitkin.

January 18 through January 22, 1943
SPRING AGAIN – a new comedy by Isabelle Leighton and Bertram Bloch. Starring Grace George, C.Aubrey Smith; with Ann Andrews. Staged and presented by Guthrie McClintic.

January 24, 1943
THE EVE OF ST. MARK - COMMAND PERFORMANCE [See entry for run beginning May 3.]

January 25 through January 30, 1943
COUNTERATTACK – Soviet melodrama by Janet and Philip Stevenson based on a play by Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman. Starring Morris Carnovsky, Barbara O'Neill, and Martin Wolfson. Cast includes Sam Wanamaker, Karl Malden, Richard Baseheart, John Ireland, and Wendell Corey. Directed by Margaret Webster.

February 1 through February 6, 1943
CLAUDIA – comedy by Rose Franken. Starring Donald Cook, Frances Starr and Dorothy McGuire. Cast includes Adrienne Gessner, Frank Tweddell, Wilton Graff, Olga Baclanova, and Audrey Ridgwell. Directed by Rose Franken.

February 8 through February 14, 1943
JUNIOR MISS – comedy by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. Starring Cora Sue Collins, Rosemary Rice, Robert Allen, Katherine Anderson, Effie Afton, Lynne Arlen, Edgar Mason, William Whitehead and Ruppert Baron. Directed by Moss Hart.

February 15 through February 28, 1943
HARRIET – drama by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. Starring Helen Hayes. Cast includes Rhys Williams, Sydney Smith, Jane Seymour, Guy Sorel, Geoffrey Lumb, Carmen Mathews, Hugh Franklin, Gaylord Mason, Harda Klaveness, Ronald Reiss, Robert Harrison. Staged by Elia Kazan.

March 1 through March 14, 1943
PRIORITIES OF 1942 – a vaudeville revue starring Gloria Swanson, Lou Holtz, Willie Howard, Bert Wheeler and Hank Ladd.. Cast includes Gene Sheldon, Luba Malina, Peggy and Moro, Harold J. Kennedy, Helen Reynolds Skaters, Diane Denise, Loretta Fisher, Lari Conchita, Laura Sanders, Al Kelly and the Versailles Beauties.

March 22 through March 28, 1943
SAN CARLO OPERA COMPANY – performing Aida, Carmen, Lucia de Lammermoor, Faust, and Rigoletto. Directed by Fortune Gallo.

March 29 through April 3, 1943
THE CORN IS GREEN – drama by Emlyn Williams. Starring Ethel Barrymore. Cast includes Richard Warring, Perry Wilson, Louis L. Russell, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Esther Mitchell, Tom E. Williams, and Gwyneth Hughes. Directed by Herman Shumlin.

April 4 through April 10, 1943
THE STUDENT PRINCE – operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Everett Marshall, with Walter Johnson, Roy Barnes, Barbara Scully, Nina Varela, Lorraine Bridges, Joseph Toner, Zella Russell, Herman Magidson. Production staged by Barrie O’Daniels.

April 12 through April 17, 1943
BLOSSOM TIME – operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Everett Marshall, Frank Hornaday, Detmar Poppen, Agnes Cassidy, Barbara Scully.

April 18 through April 24 , 1943
TOBACCO ROAD – drama by Jack Kirkland, based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring John Barton, Sarah Perry, Vinnie Phillips, Lillian Ardell, Ellen Andrew, Gladys Leslie, and Edwin Walter. Directed by Anthony Brown.

April 26 through May 1, 1943
THE HOME FRONT – comedy by Phoebe and Henry Ephron. Starring Ruth Weston, Robert Burton, Ethel Owen, Francis de Sales, and Katherine Bard. Cast includes Doro Merande, Joe Verdi, Edwin Philips, Dorothy Gilchrist, Edmund Dorsay, Gee Gee James, Jean Bellows, William Wadsworth, Richard Midgley, Virginia Vass, Carl Judd, and Earl MacDonald. Staged by Henry Ephron.

May 3 through May 16, 1943
THE EVE OF ST. MARK – comedy/drama by Maxwell Anderson. Cast includes Philip Coolidge, Charles Wiley, Sr., Helen Brown, Eric Burtis, Richard Irving, Gene Blakely, Russell Morrison, Cyrilla Dorn, John Dall, Tom Daly, John Call, Owen Jordan, John de Shay, Horton Henderson, Lou Polan, Rollin Bauer, Mary Dickson, Mary Ann Bestor, Paul Sterling, Helene Ambrose, Marguerite Morrissey, Frank Bradley and Amelia Romano.

May 17 through May 29 , 1943
THE MERRYMAKERS – variety revue prior to Broadway opening. Ray Kavanaugh and Orchestra. Jay C. Flippen, Master of Ceremonies.

May 31 through June 12, 1943
THE DOUGHGIRLS – comedy by Joseph Fields. Starring Joy Hodges, Becky Brown, Marianne O’Brien, and Ann Hunter. Staged by George S. Kaufman. Presented by Max Gordon.

June 21 through June 27, 1943
DRACULA – dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker’s novel. Starring Bela Lugosi. Cast includes Joy Nicholson, Guy Spaull, Charles Francis, Frank Jaquet, Eduard Franz, Mary Heath, and Janet Tyler. Directed by O.D. Woodward.

July 6 through July 11, 1943
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU – comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Starring Fred Stone. With Daisy Atherton, Bobbe Arnst, Roseta Le Noir, Hale Norcross, Donald Keyes, Lance Cunard, Frank Wilson, Lynda Nelson, William Sharon, Ralph Douglas, Robert Bernard, Peggy Fenn, Ainsworth Arnold, Elizabeth Challingsworth, and Cynthia Blake.

July 12 through July 17, 1943
JANE EYRE – by Charlotte Bronte, dramatized by Helen Jerome. Starring Sylvia Sidney and Luther Adler. With Teresa Dale, Jean Ashworth, Mary Perry, Elwell Cobb, Katherine Allen, Mary McCormack, Frederica Going, J.W. Austin, Curtis Karpe, Clyde Waddell, Ruth Gergory, Cora Witherspoon and Mr. Hunt. Staged by Mr. Adler.

August 9 through August 22, 1943
JUNIOR MISS – comedy by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. Starring Peggy Romano, Dorise Bell, Renie Riano, Loring Smith, Anthony Rivers, Phyllis Holden and Joel Marston. Staged by Moss Hart.

August 23 through August 28, 1943
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE – comedy by Joseph Kesserlring. Starring Boris Karloff, with Jean Adair, Jack Whiting, Ruth McDevitt, Malcolm Lee Beggs and Donald MacDonald. Presented by Lindsay and Crouse.

September 6 through September 11, 1943
A NEW LIFE – a new play by Elmer Rice. Starring Betty Field and George Lambert. Cast includes Ann Thomas, Merle Maddern, Walter N. Greaza, Blaine Cordner, Joan Wetmore, John Ireland. Staged by the author; settings by Howard Bay. Presented by the Playwrights’ Company.

September 13 through September 18, 1943
DARK EYES – comedy by Elena Miramova in collaboration with Eugenie Leontovitch. Starring Elena Miramova, Ludmilla Toretzka and Tamara Geva. With Frank Latimore, Oscar Polk, Minnie Dupree, Virginia Tomas, Audrey Long, Geza Korvin, and Mitchell Harris. Staged by Jed Harris.

September 20 through September 25, 1943
BIG TIME – variety revue. Starring Ed Wynn. Cast includes Cross and Dunn, Marie Nash, Bob Dupont, Gomez and Beatrice, Eleanor Niles, Nancy Hill, Paul Lavarre and Brother, Paul Haakon and Patricia Bowman.

September 27 through October 2, 1943
ANOTHER LOVE STORY – comedy by Frederick Lonsdale; prior to opening on Broadway. Starring Roland Young and Margaret Lindsay. With Arthur Margetson, Doris Dalton, Philip Ober, Fred I. Lewis, Eugenia Rawls, Lyster Chambers, Henry Mowbray, Fay Baker, and Augusta Dabney. Directed by the author.

October 4 through October 9, 1943 [no program file]
THE ARMY PLAY BY PLAY – an all soldier variety show for the benefit of Army Emergency Relief.

October 11 through October 16, 1943
BLOSSOM TIME – operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Barbara Scully, Doug Leavitt, Roy Barnes, Roy Cropper, Helen Arthur, Zella Russell and Harry K. Morton.

October 18 through October 30, 1943
OKLAHOMA! – musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II. Choreography by Agnes DeMille. Starring Harry Stockwell and Evelyn Wyckoff. Cast includes David Burns, Pamela Britten, Walter Donahue, Lou Polan, Mary Marlo.

November 1 through November 13, 1943
SONS O’FUN – revue starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. Cast includes Frank Libuse, Joe Besser, Wynn Murray and Lionel Kaye, the Pitchmen, Steve Olsen, Jack Whitney, Margot Brander, June Johnson, Jean Moorehead..

November 15 through November 27, 1943
UNCLE HARRY – drama by Thomas Job. Starring Eva LeGallienne and Joseph Schildkraut. Cast includes Fiona O’Shiel, John Lynds, Marian Evensen, Marguerite Lewis, Leona Roberts, Royal Rompel, Paul Byron, A.P. Kaye, Ralph Theodore, William Bush, Colville Dunn, Bruce Adams and Madeleine L’Engle. Staged by Lem Ward.

November 29 through December 11, 1943
THE PATRIOTS – drama by Sidney Kingsley. Starring Walter Hampden. Cast includes Cecil Humphries, Julie Hayden, Guy Sorel, Ross Matthew, John Boyd, Sonya Stokowski, Marie Dow, Leslie Bingham, Philip White, Theodore Leavitt. Staged by Shepard Traube.

December 12 through December 25, 1943
BOSTON COMIC OPERA COMPANY – performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, Patience, the Mikado, HMS Pinafore, Cox and Box, Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Gondoliers and Ruddigore.

December 27 through January 1, 1943
OVER 21 – a new comedy by Ruth Gordon. Starring Ruth Gordon. Cast includes Beatrice Pearson, Tom Seidel, Harvey Stephans, Loring Smith, Edmund Hodge, Jessie Busley, Carroll Ashburn, Dennie Moore, Jack Durant and Kay Aldridge. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

1944
January 3 through January 8, 1944
JACKPOT – musical comedy: music and lyrics by Howard Dietz and Vernon Duke; book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon and Ben Roberts. Starring Allan Jones, with Jerry Lester, Benny Baker, Nanette Fabray, Mary Wickes and Betty Garrett. Directed by Roy Hargrave.

January 10 through January 15, 1944
MARIANNE – musical in a pre-Broadway run: book by Sylvia Regan and Kenneth White; music by Abraham Ellstein; lyrics by Beatrice and Lothar Metzl and Robert B. Sour. Starring Ernest Truex, Jerry Wayne, Virginia MacWatters and Mary Jane Walsh. Staged by Marion Gering.

January 17 through January 28, 1944
KISS AND TELL – comedy by F. Hugh Herbert. Starring Violet Heming, Walter Gilbert and Betty Anne Nyman. Presented and directed by George Abbott.

January 23, 1944
THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE – comedy by John Van Druten. Starring Margaret Sullavan and Elliott Nugent, with Audrey Christie. Command performance in honor of the birthday of President Franklin Roosevelt.

January 30 through February 11, 1944
STUDENT PRINCE – operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Everett Marshall, Frank Hornaday, Laurel Hurley, Detmar Poppen, Nina Verala, Percy Helton, Gloria Hope, William Pringle, Sylvia Russell and Raymond Jacquemot.

February 13 through February 26, 1944
LIFE WITH FATHER -- by Clarence Day; made into a play by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. Starring Harry Bannister and June Walker. Cast includes Jean Martin, Bernard Carson, Warren Briggs, Michael Merritt, Rose Flynn, Katherine Cody-Forbes, Elsa Johnson, Harry Irvine, Hope Townsend White, Nellie Burt, Raymond Bramley, James Jolley and Mary McNamee. Staged by Bretaigne Windust.

February 28 through March 10, 1944
JACOBOWSKY AND THE COLONEL – romantic comedy by Franz Werfel. Starring Louis Calhern, Annabella, and Oscar Karlweis. Cast includes J. Edward Bromberg and E.G. Marshall. Staged by Elia Kazan.

March 12 through March 17, 1944
3 IS A FAMILY – a comedy by Phoebe and Henry Ephron. Starring Charles Burrows and Margaret Irving. Cast includes Otto Hulett, Dulcie Cooper, Josephine McKim, Richard Camp, Helen Stenborg, Myrtle Tannehill, H.E. Currier, George Calvert, Frank Adams, George Spelvin, Eulabelle Moore, Kay Ross, Truman Gaige, and Barbara Bell Wright. Staged by Mr. Ephron.

March 19 through March 24, 1944
JANIE – comedy by Josephine Bantham and Herschel Williams. Starring Gertrude Beach and Bill Thomson. Cast includes Frank Babcock, Nancy Cushman, Dortha Duckworth, Paul Foley, Artibell McGinty, Grant Mills, Lee Parry and W.O. McWatters. Directed by Antoinette Perry.

March 27 through April 2, 1944
THE DOUGHGIRLS – comedy by Joseph Fields. Starring Taylor Holmes, Lenore Ulric, Betty Furness, Leila Ernst, Peggy French. Cast includes Don Kohler, Russell Hardy, Henry Richards, Olive Reeves Smith, Royal Beal, Viola Roache, Frank Otto, Bram Nossan, Alfred Kappler, Larry Oliver, William Roselle, LeRoi Operti, Joseph Marks, Gwen Barlow, Majorie Lamie. Directed by George S. Kaufman.

April 3 through April 15, 1944
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE -- a musical by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, based on a book by Herbert Fields. Starring Vivienne Segal and Dick Foran. With Vera-Ellen, Mimi Berry, Robert Chisholm, Chester Stratton, Jere McMahon, Stuart Casey, Robert Byrn, and Virginia Reed. Directed by John C. Wilson.

April 17 through April 22, 1944
THE CORN IS GREEN -- by Emlyn Williams. Starring Ethel Barrymore. Cast includes Tommy Williams, Jane van Duser, Gene Ross, Gwyneth Hughes, George Bleasdale, Lewis Russell, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Darthy Hinckley, Lance Clark, Bert Kalmar Jr., Richard Astor, Ray Albert, Marcel Dill, Harry Neville. Directed by Herman Shumlin.

April 24 through April 29, 1944
BLITHE SPIRIT – comedy by Noel Coward. Starring Peggy Wood, Mildred Natwick, Haila Stoddard and PhilipTonge. Cast includes Doreen Lange, Francis Compton and Valerie Cossart. Staged and presented by John C. Wilson

May 1 through May 13, 1944
ROSALINDA –opperetta: music by Johann Strauss, new musical arrangement by Erich Wolfgang Korngold; lyrics by Paul Kerby. Starring Dorothy Sarnoff, with John Hendrik, Virginia MacWatters, Mimi Benzell, Everett West, Edward J. Lambert, Alexander Ivo, Paul Best, Gene Barry. Directed by Felix Brentano. Conducted by Josef Blatt. Dances by George Balanchine.

May 15 through May 21, 1944
SAN CARLO OPERA COMPANY – presenting La Traviata, Carmen, Aida, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, Faust and Cavelleria. Emerson Buckley, conductor. Principals include Stella Andreva; Mobley Lushanya; Armanda Chirot; Mary Henderson; Elda Ercole; Lucian Prideaux; Arthur Anderson; Harold Kravit; Mario Palermo, Mostyn Thomas; Carlo Morelli.

May 22 through May 27, 1944
LOVERS AND FRIENDS – by Dodie Smith. Starring Katherine Cornell and Henry Daniell, with Arthur Margetson, Carol Goodner, Ann Burr and Mabel Taylor. Written by Dodie Smith. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

May 29 through June 3, 1944
LET'S FACE IT – a musical comedy based on the book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields; songs by Cole Porter. Starring Benny Rubin, Mary Jane Walsh, with Brenda Forbes, Cynda Glenn, Jacqueline Susann, Leslie Litomy, Betty Brewer, Penny Edwards, Tom Powers, Keith Hall, Zarco and Beryl, and Ben Yost’s White Guards. Staged by Harry Howell.

June 5 through June 10, 1944
TEN LITTLE INDIANS -- by Agatha Christie. With Claudia Morgan, Michael Whalen, Halliwell Hobbes, J. Pat O’Malley, Estelle Winwood, Nicholas Joy, Harry Worth, Anthony Kemble Cooper, Neil Fitzgerald, Georgia Harvey and Patrick O’Connor. Staged by Albert de Courville.

June 11 through June 17, 1944
TOBACCO ROAD – drama by Jack Kirkland based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Starring John Barton, with Sara Perry, Vinnie Phillips, Jane McCloud, Kirk Lucas, Norman Shelly, Lillian Ardell, Caroline Reynolds, Jon Richards, Charles Rhyner and Edwin Walker. Directed by Anthony Brown.

June 19 through June 24, 1944
ABIE'S IRISH ROSE -- written and directed by Anne Nichols. With Abe Gore, Bertha Walden, James O’Neill, Robert Leonard, Robert Douglas, Jean Pearce, Donald Brian, Herbert Duffy, Peggy Wagner, Margaret Hodges, Judith Clair, Marianne Ferguson, Eileen Murphy.

July 10, 1944 through July 15, 1944
RAMSHACKLE INN – melodramatic farce by George Batson. Starring Zasu Pitts, with Joe Downing and Harlan Briggs. Cast includes Mason Curry, Margaret Callahan, Cora Witherspoon, Ralph Theadore, Helen Heigh, Delma Byron, Lucian Self, Jack Ruth, Royal Dana Tracy, Mary Barthelmess, Robert Toms and John Lorenz. Presented by Robert Reud. Staged by Arthur Sircom.

July 17 through July 22, 1944
WITHOUT LOVE – by Philip Barry. Staring Constance Bennett. Cast includes Hugh Franklin, Dean Norton, Virginia Dreher, Anne Francine, Marilyn Monk, Gordon Nelson, Sherling Oliver, Roland Bottomley, Farrell Pelly and Richard Bowler. Staged by Lee Elmore. Presented by George Brandt.

July 24 through July 29, 1944
EARLY TO BED – musical revue: music by Fats Waller, book and lyrics by George Marion, Jr. Starring Doris Patston, Joseph Macaulay, Amy Arnell and Ann Parker. Cast includes Ralph Bunker, Harold Cromer, Janice Andre, Mervin Nelson, James Starbuck, Helen Bennett, Anthony Blair, Vario Vida, Jack Foley, Ernie di Gennaro and Nickie O’Daniel. Staged by Richard Kollmar.

July 31 through August 12, 1944
KISS AND TELL – comedy by F. Hugh Herbert. Starring Lila Lee, Walter Gilbert and Betty Anne Nyman. Also Albert Vees, Kittie Cosgriff, Billy Nyman, Kay Coulter, Gene Fuller, Alan Ross, David Conlin, Ellen Hall, William David, Mary Jackson, Irving Mitchell, Errnest Woodward and “Wrinkles” Harris. Staged and presented by George Abbott.

August 14 through August 19,1944
UNCLE HARRY – by Thomas Job. Starring Luther Adler and Beth Merrill, with Isabelle Bonner, Josephine Van Fleet, Len Mence, Vicki Stringer, Jeanne Temple. Staged by Lem Ward. Presented by Clifford Hyman.

August 21 through August 26, 1944
THE DOUGHGIRLS – a comedy by Joseph Fields. Starring Lenore Ulric and Taylor Holmes, with Betty Furness, Leila Ernst and Peggy French. Also, George Blackwood, Sydney Grant, Don Kohler, Dan Barrett, Charlotte Ordway, Frances Rey, Allen Reisner, John Godfrey, Ted Gordon, Edwin Redding, Taylore Holmes, Phil Arthur, Lucille Benson, Lenore Ulric, Harold Grau, Joseph Olney Ainsworth Arnold and Mary Dallas. Staged by Joseph Olney

August 28 through September 2, 1944
WALLFLOWER – comedy by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham. Starring Kay Buckley, Betty Blythe, Frank McNellis and Sonya Stokowsky. Staged by Mr. Denham.

September 4 through September 9, 1944
CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYBODY – a new comedy by Laszlo Vadnay and Max Lief. Starring Eddie Nugent, Eva Condon, Will Geer, Helen Parrish , Arthur Elmer, Nellie Burt, Alexander Clark, Frances Tannehill, and John McGovern. Directed by Earle McGill.

September 11 through September 16, 1944
WHILE THE SUN SHINES – pre-Broadway run of a new comedy by Terence Rattigan. Starring Melville Cooper, with Stanley Bell, Ilexander Ivo, Cathleen Cordell, Anne Burr, Lewis Howard and J.P. Wilson. Staged by George S. Kaufman. Produced by Max Gordon.

Septem ber 18 through September 23, 1944
OUR FANNY – a new farce by Harry Segall. Starring Joy Hodges, with J.C. Nugent, John Archer and Lou Polan. Directed by Arthur Sircom.

September 25 through September 30, 1944
SOLDIER’S WIFE – pre-Broadway run of a new comedy written and directed by Rose Franken. Starring Martha Scott and Myron McCormick, with Glenn Anders, Frieda Inescort, and Lili Darvas.

October 2 through October 14, 1944
EMBEZZLED HEAVEN – a new play by L. Bush-Fekete and Mary Helen Fay, based on the novel by Franz Werfel. Starring Ethel Barrymore, with Albert Basserman, Eduard Franz, Sanford Meisner, and Martin Blaine. Directed by B. Iden Payne.

October 16 through October 21, 1944
TANGLED WEB – melodrama written and directed by Channing Pollock. With Clay Clement, Norman MacKay, Dorothy Emery, Doris Day, Dean Norton, Bram Nossen, Martin de Costa, Lillian Kemble, William Marceau, Edwin Redding, Natalie Hammond Core, James Rousseau, Derby Rogers, and Robert LeSeur.

October 23 through October 28, 1944
THE LATE GEORGE APLEY – a comedy based on the novel by John P. Marquand in collaboration with George S. Kaufman. Starring Leo G. Carroll, with Percy Waram, Janet Beecher and Margaret Dale. Staged by Mr. Kaufman. Presented by Max Gordon.

October 30 through November 3, 1944
HARRIET – drama based on the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. Starring Helen Hayes. Cast includes Robert Emhardt; Alberta Perkins, Richard Wilder, Jane Seymour, Robert Harrison. Staged by Elia Kazan.

November 5 through November 12, 1944
BLOSSOM TIME – operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Earl Covert and Ruth Gillette, with Zella Russell, Harry K. Morton, Edmund Dorsay, William Mariel, Victor Morley, Joseph Toner and Betty Davis. Peggy O’Neil, John Alexander.

November 13 through November 18, 1944
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERA COMPANY – performing Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, Gondoliers. Lead players include Robert Pitkin, Catherine Judah, Ralph Riggs, and Kathleen Roche.

November 20 through December 2, 1944
REBECCA – drama based on the book by Daphne DuMaurier. Starring Bramwell Fletcher, Florence Reed and Diana Barrymore. Cast included Richard Temple, Margaret Bannerman, Franklyn Fox, Claude Horton, Jacqueline Max, Kenneth Treseder, George Baxter, Reginald Mason and Edgar Kent.

December 4 through December 9, 1944
DARK HAMMOCK – by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham. Starring Elissa Landi, with Mary Wickes, Charles McClelland, Arthur Hunnicutt, Mary Orr, Scott Moore, James Ganon, Mabel D. Berger, Alonzo Bosan, and Alan Dreeben. Staged by Reginald Denham.

December 11 through December 16, 1944
OVER TWENTY- ONE – comedy by Ruth Gordon. Starring Ruth Gordon, with Clinton Sundberg, Loring Smith, Millard Mitchell, Carol Ashburn, Kip Good, Emily Ross, Jane Sterling, Margorie Clarke, Eddie Hodge and Patricia Fargo. Staged by George S. Kaufman. Produced by Max Gordon.

December 18 through December 30, 1944
THE CHERRY ORCHARD – by Anton Chekhov. Starring Joseph Schildkraut and Eva LeGallienne. With John Bleifer, Fiona O’Shiel, A.P. Kaye, Horace Sinclair, Lois Hall, Carmen Matthews, and Leona Roberts. Staged by Miss LeGallienne. Presented by Carly Wharton and Margaret Webster.

December 31, 1944 through January 6, 1945
HOPE FOR THE BEST – comedy by William McCleery. Starring Franchot Tone, with Mercedes McCambridge, Doro Merande, Joan Wetmore, Leo Bulgakov, and Paul Potter. Staged by Marc Connelly. Presented by Jean Dalrymple and Marc Connelly.

1945
January 8 through January 13, 1945
STAR IN THE WINDOW – comedy by L. Bush-Fekete, Sidney Sheldon, and Mary Helen Fay. Starring Peggy Conklin. With Kirk Douglas, Roger Clark, William Lynn, Florence Shirley, G. Albert Smith, William Carroll, Tom McElhany, Judith Abbott, Darthy Hinkley, Jerry Vincent, George Ives, Mickey Stewart, and Frederick Tillinghast.

January 15 through January 20, 1945
A GOOSE FOR THE GANDER – comedy by Harold J. Kennedy. Pre-Broadway run. Starring Gloria Swanson and Conrad Nagel, with Maxine Stuart, Choo Choo Johnson, Joyce Sirola, Harold J. Kennedy, John Clubley, George Margolis, and David Tyrell.

January 21 through January 27, 1945
STAR TIME – variety review. Starring Lou Holtz, Benny Fields, Tony and Sally DeMarco and Dorothy Donegan. With Connie Russell, Jimmy and Mildred Mulcay, the Whitson Brothers, Armand Cortez, Linda Brent and George Prospery.

January 28, 1945
DEAR RUTH -- command performance for President Roosevelt’s birthday.

January 29 through February 4, 1945
THE MERRY WIDOW – operetta by Franz Lehar. Starring Marcella Howard, Frank Melton, Nina Olivette, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Ken Kelly, Fred Hillebrand.

February 5 through February 17, 1945
DARK OF THE MOON – by Howard Richardson and William Birney. Starring Richard Hart and Carol Stone, with A. Winfield Honey, Roy Fant, Iris Whitney, Margery Belle, Maidel Turner, Kathryn Cameron, Norman Thompson, Millicent Coleman, Agnes Scott Yost, Ross Mathew, Charles Thompson, Frances Goforth, Georgia Simmons and Sherod Collins. Production supervised by John Huntington.

February 19 through February 24, 1945
CATHERINE WAS GREAT – comedy by and starring Mae West (as” Diamond Lil of all Russia”). With Ray Burbon, Charles G. Martin, Coburn Goodwin, Stephen Roberts, Charles Gerrard, Gene Randall, Bernard Huffman, John Parrish, Phillip Cary Jones and Leon Hamilton. Directed by Roy Hargrave.

February 26 through March 9, 1945
FOOLISH NOTION – comedy by Philip Barry. Starring Talullah Bankhead, with Henry Hull, Donald Cook and Aubrey Mather. Also Mildred Dunnock, Terry Dix, Barbara Kent, and Maria Manton. Directed by John C. Wilson.

March 11 through March 23, 1945
THE STUDENT PRINCE - operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Alexander Gray, Laurel Hurley, Detmar Poppen and Frank Farrell.

March 26 through April 7, 1945
WINGED VICTORY - written and directed by Moss Hart. The cast included members of the Army Air Force including S/Sgt. Barry Nelson, Cpl. John Forsythe, Phyllis Avery, S/Sgt. Edmund O’Brien, S/Sgt. Kevin McCarthy, Cpl. Ed McMahon, Sgt. Gary Merrill, T/Sgt. Peter Lind Hayes, Cpl. Red Buttons, Olive Deering, S/Sgt. Ray Middleton.

April 9 through April 14,1945
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS – drama by Martin Veil. Starring Elisabeth Bergner, with Joel Ashley. Also Michelette Burani, Stiano Braggiotti, Margary Maude, Leslie Barrie, Rhodella Heller and Jean Platt. Directed by Reginald Denham.

April 16 through April 26, 1945
THE SEARCHING WIND - drama by Lillian Hellman. Starring Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dennis King and Dudley Digges. With Henry Barnard, Walter Kohler, Mercedes Gilbert, Barbara O’Neil, Sylvestre Lamont, Aldo Aldi, Anthony Carlo, Walter Palm, William Marceau, Donald Foster, and William F. Schoeler. Staged and presented by Herman Shulman.

May 1 through May 12, 1945
SING OUT, SWEET LAND! - musical by Walter Kerr, which originated at Catholic University Drama Department. Starring Burl Ives, with Ray Jaquemot, Alma Kaye, Bibi Osterwald, Phillip Coolidge, Jack McCauley, Robert Penn, James Westerfield, Jerry Ross, Irene Hawthorne, and Ted Tiller. Staged by Leon Leonidoff.

May 21 through May 26, 1945
SNAFU - a comedy by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman. Starring Eve McVeagh, Paul Stanley, and Janet Ward. With Grace Kleine, Marie Paxton, Marilyn Sable, Matthew Smith, Ernest Rowan, John Clubley, Paul Byron, Tom Morrison, Dort Clark, Winfred Cushing, John Adair, Pax Walker and Leo Chalzel. Staged by G. Winfield Smith.

May 28 through June 3, 1945
SAN CARLO OPERA COMPANY -- presenting Carmen, Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Aida, La Boheme, La Traviata, Faust and Il Trovatore. Artists include Margery Mayer, Mary Henderson, Grace Panvini, Tandy MacKenzie, Ernice Lawrence, Stephan Ballarini, Harold Kravit, Carlo Morelli, Sidney Rayner, Marie Powers, Mario Palermo, Wilma Stewart, Olympia DiNapoli, Barbara Venditti and Mostyn Thomas.

June 4 through June 9, 1945
MARINKA – romantic musical: book by George Marion Jr. and Karl Farkas; lyrics by George Marion Jr.; music by Emmerich Kalman. Starring Joan Roberts, Jerry Wayne, Romo Vincent, Luba Malina, Taylor Holmes and Reinhold Schunzel. With Ethel Levy, Leonard Elliott, Ronnie Cunningham and Jack Gansert. Staged by Hassard Short.

July 18 through July 22, 1945
BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE CARLO – presents Leonide Massine’s Ballet Russe Highlights e, Irina Baranova, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowski, Katherine Lee, Anna Istomina, Franz Allers. Presented by Fortune Gallo.

July 23 through August 4, 1945
GOOD NIGHT LADIES – adapted by Cyrus Wood from a play by Avery Hopwood and Charlton Andrews. Starring Skeets Gallagher, Eddie Glover, with Gloria Humphreys and Marlo Dwyer.

August 6 through August 25, 1945
LIFE WITH FATHER -- by Harold Lindsey and Russell Crouse from the book of Clarence Day. Starring Carl Benton Reid and Betty Linley. Cast includes Mary Diveny, Charles Wright, John Reynolds, David Demarest, Helen Kingstead, Priscilla Towers, Cathy O’Donnell, Hale Norcross, Juin Whipple, Vivian Purcell, William Jeffrey, James Jolley and Helen F. Evans.

September 10 through September 22, 1945
OKLAHOMA! – musical: music by Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II. Choreography by Agnes DeMille. Starring Mary Hatcher and James Alexander. With Mary Marlo, Al Webster, Brent Flenniken, Earl Scholl, Walter Donahue, Norman MacKay, Doreathea MacFarland, David Morris, Ona Skever, Jemze de Lappe, Davie Gladstone, Louise Fornaca, Betsy Ross, Margaret Nelson, Dave Mallen, Eugene Keith, Robert Early, Erik Kristen, Jerry Clayton, Edwin Ziegler, and Alfred Cibelli Jr. Production directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

September 24 through September 29, 1945
POLONAISE – musical by Gottfried Reinhardt and Anthony Veiller; music by Frederic Chopin. Starring Jan Keipura and Marta Eggerth, with Kurt Bois, Rose Inghram, Tania Riabouchinska and Ferdi Hoffman. Dtaged by Edward Duryea Dowling.

October 1 through October 13, 1945
THE RUGGED PATH – drama by Robert E. Sherwood. Starring Spencer Tracy, with Ernest Woodward, Kay Loring, Emory Richardson, Martha Sleeper, Gordon Nelson, Jan Sterling, Clinton Sundberg, Robert Keith, A.P. Kaye, Laurence Fletcher, Henry Lascoe, Ralph Cullinan, Nick Dennis, Rex Williams, Theodore Leavitt, Paul Alberts, Sandy Campbell and Sam Sweet. Directed by Capt. Garson Kanin.

On October 5, President Truman invited Spencer Tracy and cast of Rugged Path to tea at the White House.

October 15 through October 20, 1945
THE NEXT HALF HOUR – by Mary Chase. Starring Fay Bainter, with Conrad Janis, John Ruth, Pamela Rivers, Francis Compton, Art Smith, Esther Owens, Thelma Schnee, Jean Adair, and Larry Oliver. Staged by George S. Kaufman.

October 22 through November 4, 1945
DUNNIGAN’S DAUGHTER – comedy by S.N. Behrman. Starring Dennis King with Virginia Gilmore, Glen Anders, Arthur Franz, Hale Norcross, Anne Jackson, and Arthur Gondra. Staged by Elia Kazan.

November 6 through November 11, 1945
STATE OF THE UNION – comedy by Russel Lindsay and Howard Crouse. Starring Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Hussey, with Myron McCormick, Minor Watson, and Kay Johnson. Cast includes G. Albert Smith, Maidell Turner, Herbert Heyes, George Lessey, Victor Sutherland, Helen Ray, Madeline King, Fred Cotton and Howard Graham. Staged by Bretaigne Windust.

November 12 through November 17, 1945
THE PASSING SHOW – revue presented prior to Broadway. Starring Willie Howard, with Bobby Morris, Sue Ryan, Dick Buckley, Bob Russell, Masters and Rollins, Ruth Davis, Mimi Kellerman, Betty Luster, Ruth Clayton, Gil Johnson, Sylvia Russell.

November 19 through November 25, 1945
THE LATE GEORGE APLEY – comedy by John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman. Starring Leo G. Carroll, Janet Beecher, Percy Waram, Margaret Dale. With Howard St. John, Catherine Proctor, Peter Boyne, Ellen Cobb Hill, Margaret Phillips, Richard Barbee, Mrs. P. Morrison, Byron Russell, Mabel Acker and Reynolds Evans. Staged and directed by Mr. Kaufman.

November 27 through December 8, 1945
SPRING IN BRAZIL – musical comedy: book by Philip Rapp; music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Starring Milton Berle, with Mary Healy, Joseph Macauley, Jack Macauley, Don Arres, Ray Long, John Cherry, Mort Stevens, Roger Ohardino, Kent Edwards, William Quintmeyer, Wilson Woodbeck and Betty Riley. Staged by Philip Rapp.

December 10 through December 22, 1945
THE WINTER’S TALE – by William Shakespeare. Starring Henry Daniell, Florence Reed, Jessie Royce Landis, with Romney Brent, Witford Kane, Colin Keith-Johnson, Philip Houston. Directed by B. Iden Payne and Romney Brent.

December 24 through December 29, 1945
THE JOYOUS SEASON – comedy by Philip Barry. Starring Ethel Barrymore with Frank Conroy, Mary Welch, Craig Kelly, Hugh Franklin, Patricia Fargo, Elizabeth Dewing, Ty Perry, Don Keiffer, Olive Dunbar, Lida Kane, and William J. McCarthy.

December 31, 1945 through January 5, 1946
THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE – drama by Emmet Lavery. Starring Louis Calhern and Dorothy Gish. With Mason Curry, Fleming Ward, Christopher Marvin, Nicholas Saunders, Eleanor Swayne, William Roerick, Sherling Oliver, Philip Truex, Robert Healy, Edgar Barrier, Gertrude Dallas, Grey Stafford, Edward Hudson, Edwin Whitner and Bruce Bradford. Directed by Arthur Hopkins.

1946
January 7 through January 19, 1946
O MISTRESS MINE – a new comedy by Terence Rattigan. Starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, with Margery Maude, Esther Mitchell, Dick Van Patten, Anne Lee, and Marie Paxton. Directed by Alfred Lunt.

January 21 through January 26, 1946
YOU TOUCHED ME – a romantic comedy by Tennessee Williams and Donald Windham, suggested by a short story by D.H. Lawrence. Starring Edmund Gwenn, with Catherine Willard, John Conway, Neil Fitzgerald, Phyllis Ryder, and Nora Howard. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

January 27, 1946
THE GLASS MENAGERIE - A command birthday performance honoring Franklin Roosevelt. Play by Tennessee Williams, with Laurette Taylor, Eddie Dowling, Julie Haydon and Anthony Ross.

January 28 through February 2, 1946
WINDY HILL – a new comedy by Patsy Ruth Miller. Starring Kay Francis, with Roger Pryor. Cast includes Eileen Heckart, Jetti Preminger, Donald McClelland, Ruth Conley, Lawrence Fletcher, Roger Pryor, Eulabelle Moore, Grant Gordon, Earle Mayo, James Hagan. Staged by Ruth Chatterton.

February 4 through February 16, 1946
THE HASTY HEART – comedy by John Patrick. Starring with Mary Stuart MacDonald, John Dall and Dort Clark. With Victor Chapin, John Burke, Lee Kresel, Joseph Foulk, Walter F. Appler, and J. Colville Dunn. Staged by Bretaigne Windust. Presented by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse.

[TELEVISION - From the HASTY HEART program’s “Intermission Time” Fashion Notes: “We certainly cannot overlook the fact that television is becoming more and more real so that we can look forward to television sets in our own home. If not this year, certainly within the next year or two, television sets will become part of each household....]

February 18 through March 2, 1946
THE DESERT SONG – operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book by Otto Harback, Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel. With Harry Stockwell, Marguerite Piazza, Iris Whitney, Jack Goode. Also Lester Matthews, Richard Charles, George Burnson, Wilton Clary, Sherry O’Neill, Jean Bartel and Thayer Roberts. Presented by Russell Lewis and Howard Young, who took over the production from the San Francisco Civic Light Opera Association.

March 4 through March 16, 1946
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED – a new version by Judith Guthrie from the original by Andreyev. Starring Dennis King, with Stella Adler, John Abbott, Reinhold Schunzel. Staged by Tyrone Guthrie.

March 18 through March 23, 1946
MISS JONES – a new comedy by Ruth Gordon, staged by Garson Kanin. Starring Victor Kilian, Barbara Leeds, Sawyer Smith, Ellen Hall, Betty Caulfield, Janet Crews, Palmer Williams, Howard Ferguson, Margaret Mullen, Virginia Downing. Staged by Garson Kanin.

March 25 through March 30, 1946
WEST OF THE MOON – new play by Louis Bromfeld and Lazlo Vadnay. Starring Donald Cook, Estelle Winwood, with Anne Burr, Edgar Stehli, Wyrley Birch, Marta Linden, Harry Worth, Earl McDonald, and Mabel Bergen. Directec by Albert de Courville.

April 1 through April 14, 1946
BLOSSOM TIME – operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Twenty-fifth anniversary production starring Edmund Dorsay, Ruth Gillette, Tom Barry, Frank Farrell, Zella Russell, Harry K. Morton, Narian Stevens, and Ann Lay.

April 15 through April 20, 1946
HAMLET – by William Shakespeare. Starring Maurice Evans. With Lili Darvas, Thomas Gomez, Frances Reid, Harry Sheppard, Whit Conner and Emmett Rogers. Staged by George Schaefer.

April 22 through April 27, 1946
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS – by Martin Veil. Starring Elisabeth Bergner, with Joel Ashley, Michelette Burani, Stiano Braggiotti, Eva Leonard Boyne, Rhodelle Heller, Leslie Barrie, Rhodelle Heller, and Jean Platt.

May 6 through May 12, 1946
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR – by William Shakespeare. Starring Charles Coburn, Jessie Royce Landis, with Romney Brent, David Powell, Gina Malo, and Charles Francis. Sets by Stuart Chaney. Directed by Romney Brent.

May 13 through May 15 and May 23 through May 25, 1946
ANTIGONE - adapted by Lewis Galantiere form the play by Jean Anouilh after Sophocles. Starring Katherine Cornell, with Cedric Hardwicke. Also Bertha Belmore, Wesley Addy, Ruth Matteson, George Matthews, and Oliver Cliff, and Marlon Brando (as the Messenger), Michael Higgins (The Third Guard). Staged by Guthrie McClintic. Presented by Katherine Cornell in association with Gilbert Miller.

May 16 through May 22, 1946
CANDIDA -- by Bernard Shaw. Starring Katharine Cornell, with Cedric Hardwicke and Mildred Natwick. Cast included Wesley Addy, Oliver Cliff, and Marlon Brando. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

May 27 through June 1, 1946 [no program file]
LAURA - a play by Vera Caspary and George Sklar, from the novel by Vera Caspary. Starring Miriam Hopkins, Otto Kruger, and Tom Neal. Cast includes Tom Walsh, Walter Coy, Camilla Ashland, Isabel Bonner, and Roger Clark. Directed by Michael Gordon. Presented by Hunt Stromberg, Jr. in association with Paula Stone.

June 3 through June 8, 1946
LAFFING ROOM ONLY -- musical revue. Starring Olsen and Johnson, with Frank Libuse, Willie West and McGinty, Harrison and Fisher, Mary LaRoche and Eleanor Tennis, Billie Young, Margot Brander, harry Burns, Shannon Dean, Eddie Franklin. Directed by John Murray Anderson.

June 17 through June 30, 1946
THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE – comedy by John Van Druten. Starring Harvey Stephens, Louisa Horton, Peggy French. Staged by John van Druten.

July 22 through July 27, 1946
MEET THE WIFE – a comedy by Lynn Starling. Starring Mary Boland, with Stapleton Kent, Jacqueline Ronkin, John Roche, Keith Barton, Patricia Fargo, Gene Blakely and Edward Cullen. Directed by Stapleton Kent.

July 29 through August 17, 1946
DEAR RUTH – comedy by Norman Krasna. Starring Howard Smith, Leona Powers, Lois Wheeler, and William Talman. Directed by Moss Hart.

August 19 through August 24, 1946
LIFE WITH FATHER – by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, from the book by Clarence Day. Starring Edwin Maxwell and Betty Alden (who were husband and wife), with Donald O’Day, Raymond Moorehead, Mary Dallas, Michal Janis, George Le’soir, Agnes Gildea, Eleanor Brown, Betty Amiard, William Jeffreys, James Jolley. Staged by Bretaigne Windust.

August 26 through August 31, 1946
BLACKSTONE THE MAGICIAN

September 2 through September 14, 1946
THE MAGNIFICENT HEEL – a new play by Constance O’Hara. Starring Peggy Wood and Bert Lytell, with Richard Verney, Frank Merlin, and Edith Meiser. Directed by Brock Pemberton.

September 16 through September 21, 1946
THE TEMPORARY MRS. SMITH – pre-Broadway run of a new comedy by Jacqueline Suzann and Beatrice Cole. Starring Francine Larrimore, with Mischa Auer, Millard Mitchell, Fania Marinoff, and Howard St. John.

September 23 through September 28, 1946
COME ON UP – a new comedy by Miles Mander, Fred Schiller, Thomas Dumphy. Starring Mae West. Cast includes Michael Ames, Roy Gordon, Robert Tafur, Charles La Torre, Joe McTurk, Francesca Rotoli, Don Harvey, Cleo Desmond, John Doucette, Willis Claire, Robert Long. Directed by Russell Fillmore.

September 30 through October 11, 1946
PRESENT LAUGHTER – a light comedy by Noel Coward. Starring Clifton Webb, Evelyn Varden, Doris Dalton, Marta Linden. Produced and directed by John C. Wilson.

October 13 through October 19, 1946
THE STUDENT PRINCE – operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Frank Hornaday, Detmar Poppen, Marian Stevens, Nina Varela, John Mooney, Mary Lou Boyd, Walter Cartwright and Mary Anne Walsh. Music by Sigmund Romberg.

October 21 through October 26, 1946
PYGMALION – by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Gertrude Lawrence and Dennis King, with Cecil Humphreys, Katherine Emmet and Ralph Forbes, Cynthia Latham. Staged by Cedric Hardwicke.

October 28 through November 2, 1946
THE HAVEN – a mystery drama by Dennis Hoey, prior to New York premier, based on a novel by Anthony Gilbert. Starring Melville Cooper, with Valerie Cossart, Dennis Hoey and Viola Roache. Cast includes Queenie Leonard, Eliza Sutherland, Charles Francis, Darby Summers, Martin Baum, Keith Palmer and Ivan Simpson. Directed by Clarence Derwent.

November 4 through November 17, 1946
THE APPLE OF HIS EYE – by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. Starring Walter Huston with Doro Merande, Don Doherty, Mary James, Roy Fant, Ellen Andrews, Nancy Frankel, Joseph Sweeney, Clare Woodbury, and Rose Elliott.

November 19 through November 30, 1946
BLOOMER GIRL – musical: music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E.Y. Harburg; book by Sid Herzig and Fred Saidy. Starring Nanette Fabray, Dick Smart, Peggy Campbell, Hubert Dilworth, Olive Reeves-Smith, Mabel Taliaferro, Matt Briggs. Choreography by Agnes DeMille. Staged by E.Y. Harburg.

December 2 through December 7,1946
EAGLE RAMPANT – by Jean Cocteau. Starring Tallulah Bankhead, Clarence Derwent, Marlon Brando and Colin Keith-Johnston, Eleanor Wilson and Cherokee Thornton. Produced and directed by John C. Wilson.

During the run, Miss Bankhead protested against segregation of the theatres, telling The Washington Post that she thought it “an international scandal that our great country’s capital should make a laughing stock out of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, discriminating against any human being in any form.”

December 9 through December 14, 1946
LOVE GOES TO PRESS – comedy by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles. Starring Joyce Heron and Ralph Michael with Jane Middleton, David Tyrrell, Georgina Cookson, Nigel Neilson, Peter Bennett, William Post Jr., Warren Parker, Gerald Andersen and Don Gibson. Directed by Wallace Douglas.

December 16 through December 21, 1946
THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE – drama by Emmet Lavery. Starring Louis Calhern, with Sylvia Field. Cast includes William Weaver, Christopher Marvin, Carl Shelton, Fleming Ward, Eleanor Swayne, Charles Adams Baker, Nicholas Saunders, Grace Stafford, Robert Healy, Richard Bowler, Jerome Shaw, Bernard Pollack, Francis Henley and Edward Witner.

December 23, 1946 through January 11, 1947
UP IN CENTRAL PARK – musical comedy: book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, music by Sigmund Romberg. Mike Todd production. Starring Betty Bruce, Maureen Cannon, Russ Brown, Earle McVeigh, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Walter Burke, Guy Standing Jr., Stanley Noonan and William H. Taft.

1947
January 13 through January 18, 1947
UP IN CENTRAL PARK. Book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music Sigmund Romberg. Mike Todd production. Starring Betty Bruce, Maureen Cannon, Russ Brown, Earle MacVeigh, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Walter Burke, Guy Standing Jr., Stanley Noonan, and William H. Taft. [NOTE: This production may have replaced German actress Elisabeth Bergner starring in Countess Juliet [by Strindberg] and The Proposal [by Chekov], originally scheduled for this time slot.]

January 20 through February 1, 1947
BLOSSOM TIME - operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Victoria Sherry, Earle Covert, Zella Russell, Edith Herlick, William Valentine, Dennis Carroll, Anthony Blair.

During a performance attended by President Harry S. Truman, members of the Congress for Racial Democracy picketed in front of the theatre protesting the theatre’s segregation policy.

February 3 through February 15, 1947
THE GLASS MENAGERIE – new play by Tennessee Williams. Starring Pauline Lord with Richard Jones, Jeanne Shepherd, and Edward Andrews. Staged by Eddie Dowling and Margo Jones.

February 17 through March 8, 1947
STATE OF THE UNION – comedy by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. Starring Neil Hamilton, Erin O'Brien-Moore, James Rennie, with Katherine Meskill, Donald Kohler, John Leslie.

DISCRIMINATION SUIT – Five patrons brought a discrimination suit against National Theatre testing the Civil Rights Act of 1875. They asked for ticket refunds after being denied admission due to race. The Theatre was currently under lease to Marcus Heiman, President of E Street Theatre Corporation.

March 10 through March 22, 1947
THE FATAL WEAKNESS – new comedy by George Kelly. Starring Ina Claire, with Jane Seymour, Howard St. John and Mary Gildea, Jennifer Howard, John Larson. Directed by the author.

March 24 through April 5, 1947
THE ICEMAN COMETH – drama by Eugene O'Neill. Starring E.G. Marshall, Carl Benton Reid, Nicholas Joy and Frank Tweddell. Directed by Eddie Dowling.

April, 1947
EQUITY FIGHTS SEGREGATION – Actors' Equity Association announced that no member of the unions could perform at the National unless the theatre’s discrimination policies were withdrawn. The ban, scheduled to go into effect on June 1, was later extended to August 1, 1948. Helen Hayes, Richard L. Coe, drama critic of The Washington Post and Rev. Gilbert V. Hartke, O.P., of the Catholic University Department of Speech and Drama were vocal supporters of the action.

April 7 through April 12, 1947
HAMLET -- by William Shakespeare. Starring Maurice Evans, with Miles Malleson, Doris Lloyd, Pamela Conroy, Henry Edwards, Philip Foster, Emmett Rogers; produced by Michael Todd.

April 14 through April 19, 1947
DEAR RUTH – comedy by Norman Krasna. Produced under the direction of Moss Hart. Starring Anne Henderson, Anthony Carr, Peggy Romano, William Bush, Mary Reynolds and Amy Douglas. .

April 21 through April 26, 1947
CALL ME MISTER – musical revue: music and lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach. Starring Jane Kean, Jules Munchen, Bill Callahan, Lawrence Winters, George Hall, Harry Clark, Maria Karnilova, Alan Manson, Danny Scholl, Betty Lou Holland, David Nillo, Chandler Cowles, George Irving, and Glen Turnbull. Directed by Robert H. Gordon.

April 28 through May 11, 1947
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS -- drama by Martin Vale. Starring Elizabeth Bergner, with Joel Ashley. Cast includes Michelette Burani, Stiano Braggiotti, Eva Leonard Boyne, Rhodelle Heller, Leslie Barrie and Eleonore Mendellsohn. Staged by Reginald Denham.

May 13 through May 24, 1947
LOVE FOR LOVE – comedy by William Congreve, produced by John Gielgud. Starring John Gielgud, Cyril Ritchard, Sebastian Cabot with Richard Wordsworth, George Hayes, Adrianne Allen, John Kidd, Donald Bain, Philippa Gill, Pamela Brown, Malcolm Keen, Marian Spencer, Jessie Evans, Robert Flemyng and Mary Lynn.

May 26 through June 9, 1947
LUTE SONG – musical: story by Sidney Howard and Will Irwin; music by Raymond Scott; lyrics by Bernard Hanighen. Starring Yul Brynner, Dolly Haas, Louis Hector, Virginia Gilmore, Augustin Duncan and Marian Leeds. Staged by John Houseman.

June, 1947
DISCRIMINATION SUIT -- The Henderson suit was dismissed.

July 21, 1947 through August 16, 1947
OKLAHOMA! – A musical play: m.usic by Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II. With James Alexander as Curly, Peggy Engel as Laurey and Robert Nash as Jud Fry. Also Edith Gresham, Alfred Webster, Ridge Bond, Victor Young, Patricia Shay, David Morris, Christine Karner, Claire Pasch, Jessie Maddison, Louise Fornaca, Marcella Dodge, Lois Johnson, Dave Mallen, Eugene Keith, Robert Early, George Lawrence, Jerry Clayton, Robert Hendricks and Alfred Cibelli. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Dance by Agnes DeMille.

July 29, 1947
DESEGREGATION SUIT -- A judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in the segregation suit was returned.

August 12, 1947
DESEGREGATION – The National Theatre management announced that it would not alter its segregation stand unless the integration policy throughout Washington was changed either by legal action or by the mutual consent of business and civic groups.

August 18 through August 30, 1947
THE RED MILL – musical comedy: music by Victor Herbert; book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. Starring Jack Whiting, Odette Myrtil, Buster West, Dorothy Stone, Edward Dew, Jeanne Bal, Earl William, Frank Jaquet, Billy Griffith, Hal Price, Charles Mayer, Sara Ann McCabe and Charles Collins. Production prepared by Edwin Lester. Stage Direction by Billy Gilbert. Presented Paula Stone and Hunt Stromberg, Jr.

September 1 through September 6, 1947
WE LOVE A LASSIE – a new comedy by Marcel Wallenstein and Kathleen Kennedy. Pre-Broadway opening. Starring Valerie Cossart, Julie Harris, Barbara Everest, John F. Hamilton, Winston Ross, A. Winfield Hoeny, Leslie Barry, Frank Tweddell and Mary Michaels. Staged by Melville Cooper. Presented by the Messrs. Shubert.

September 8 through September 13, 1947
THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE – comedy by John Van Druten. Starring Haila Stoddard with Sheila Bromley and Philip Faversham. Staged by Edward Gordon. Settings by Stewart Chaney.

September 15 through October 4, 1947
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN – by Oscar Wilde. Starring Cornelia Otis Skinner. With Estelle Winwood, David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher, Judith Fellows, Rex Evans, Evan Thomas and George Thirlwell. Also Henry Vincent, Richard St. John, Suzette Meredith, Richard Harrison, Mary Brady, Peter Keyes, Nola Haines, Arthur Stenning, Madge Preston, Matilda Baring, Cauncy Horsley, Joyce Harris, Michael Sadlier and Mary McCloud. Directed by Jack Minster. Scenery, Costumes, Lighting by Cecil Beaton. Music by Leslie Bridgewater. Presented by Homer Curran in association with Russell Lewis and Howard Young.

October 6 through October 19, 1947
THE WINSLOW BOY – new play by Terence Rattigan. Starring Frank Allemby, Valerie White and Alan Webb; with Frank Cellier, Madge Compton, Betty Sinclair, George Benson, Michael Kingsley, Michael Newell, Owen Holder, Dorothy Hamilton and Leonard Mitchell. Directed by Glen Byam Shaw. Presented by The Theatre Guild with H.M.Tennent, Ltd. of London, and John C. Wilson.

October 20 through October 25, 1947
ROSE MARIE -- operetta: music by Rudolph Friml and Herbert Stothart; book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Cast includes Blanche Chanson, Nina Olivette, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Billy Sully, Helene Maye, Kent Williams, Nancy Newton, Raymond Bailey, Patricia Flynn. Staged by Lillian Udvardy.

October 26 through November 1,1947
THE MERRY WIDOW – operetta by Franz Lehar; modernized by Rowland Leigh. Cast includes Nina Olivette, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Billy Sully, Beverly Sills, Frank Melton, Helene Maye, Kent Williams, Nancy Newton, Raymond Bailey, Patricia Flynn, Mary Jane Floane. Staged by Lillian Udvardy.

November 3 through November 8, 1947
SONGS AND IMPRESSIONS BY MAURICE CHEVALIER -- Mr. Chevalier was accompanied by Irving Actman.

November 10 through November 22, 1947
SONG OF NORWAY – operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg: musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest; book by Milton Lazarus; play by Homer Curran. With Doreen Wilson, Melva Niles, Gilbert Russell, Ralph Magelssen and Sig Arno. Produced and directed by Edwin Lester. Choreography by George Balanchine.

November 24 through November 29, 1947
THE FIREFLY – operetta: music by Rudolf Friml; book and lyrics by Otto Harbach. With Grazia Aurelia, Jack Goode, Marian Hughes, Nina Varela, Richard Davies, Hank Henry, Judy Searles and Gloria Evans.

December 8 through December 20, 1947
SWEETHEARTS – musical by Victor Herbert; original book by Harry B. Smith and Fred De Gresac; lyrics by Robert B. Smith. Starring Bobby Clark, with Marjorie Gateson, June Knight, Robert Shackleton, Ann Andre, Alan Ross, Anthony Kemble Cooper, Jack Collins. Also Joan Anderson, Rose Marie Patane, Karen Lund, Lois Palmer, Linda Winsett, Marjorie Wellock, Eva Soltesz, Murial Bruenig, Raynor Howell, June Knight, Richard Benson, George Harwell, Elenore Tennis, John Anania, George Warwell, Louis De Mangus, Wayne McIntyre and Hal McMurrin. Production staged by John Kennedy. Presented by Paula Stone and Michael Sloane.

December 22, 1847 through January 3, 1948
I REMEMBER MAMA – by John Van Druten. Starring Charlotte Greenwood. With Kurt Katch, Jean Ruth, Grandon Rhodes, Marie Bainbridge, Ruth Lee, Raymond Roe, Eleanor Lawson. Directed by Russell Fillmore. Presented by Russell Lewis and Howard Young. “Note: In deference to requests from subscribers and patrons in general the customary mid-week matinees will be performed on Fridays for this engagement.”

1948
January 5 through January 23,1948
CAROUSEL – musical based on Ferenc Molnar’s “Liliom” (as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer): music by Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2d. With Henry Michel, Iva Withers, Louise Larabee, Eric Mattson, Gloria Elwood, Jane McGowan, Mario de Laval, Betta Striegler, Kenneth MacKenzie, Dusty Worrall. Production directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Production supervised by Lawrence Langer and Theresa Helburn. Presented by The Theatre Guild.

January 25 through February 1, 1948
THE STUDENT PRINCE – operetta: music by Sigmund Romberg; book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Victoria Sherry, Toby Durst, Ditmar Poppen, Nina Varela, Robert Grandin and June Rymer. Staged by Walter Johnson.

February 2 through February 7, 1948
BURLESQUE – comedy by Arthur Hopkins and George Manker Watters. Starring Bert Lahr, Fay McKenzie, Peggy Cass, Bobby Barry, Charles G. Martin, Gail Garber and Ross Hertz. Directed by Arthur Hopkins.

February 8 through February 14, 1948
BLOSSOM TIME – operetta by Sigmund Romberg, adapted from the music of Franz Schubert and H. Berte; book and lyric adapted from the original of A.M. Willner and H. Reichert by Dorothy Donnelly. Starring Everett Marshall, Marion Stevens, Elizabeth Houston and Harold R. Brown, Zella Russell and Harry K. Morton. Staged by Zella Russell.

February 16 through February 21, 1948
PICK-UP GIRL – drama by Elsa Shelley. Starring Peggy Ann Garner, Frank Wilcox, Dorothy Peterson. Directed by Loy Nilson.

February 22, 1948
SHYLOCK AND HIS DAUGHTER – drama by Ari Ibn Zahav. Starring Maurice Schwartz and his Yiddish Art Theatre Company.

February 23 through February 28, 1948
THE LINDEN TREE – drama by J. B. Priestly. Starring Boris Karloff, Una O’Connor, Barbara Eversest. Cast includes Viola Keats, Cathleen Cordell and Marilyn Erskine, Halliwell Hobbes, Noel Leslie, Mary Kimber and Emmett Rogers. Directed by George Schaefer.

March 1 through March 13, 1948
THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER -- operetta based on a book by Rudolph Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson; music by Oscar Sraus. Starring Billy Gilbert and Keith Andes, Ruth Gillette, Kaye Connor, Henry Calvin, Doretta Morrow, Donald Clarke, Barbara Heath, and Lillian Lanese. Directed by Felix Brentano.

March 14 through March 27, 1948
SPIKE JONES and HIS MUSICAL DEPRECIATION REVUE - Comedy bandsman show featuring the City Slickers band. Troupe includes Doodles Weaver, Helen Grayco, George Rock.

March 29 through April 10, 1948
AN INSPECTOR CALLS – drama by J.B. Priestly. Starring Thomas Mitchell. With Melville Cooper and Doris Lloyd, Rene Ray and John Buckmaster. Also Patricia Marmont and John Merivale. Directed by Cedric Hardwicke. Settings, costumes and lighting by Stewart Chaney. Presented by Courtney Burr and Lassor H. Grosberg.

April 12 through April 24, 1948
THE PLAY'S THE THING – by Ferenc Molnar. Starring Louis Calhern and Faye Emerson with Arthur Margetson, Ernest Cossart and Claud Allister. [Mr. Allister recreated the role he originated when the play was first produced by Mr. Miller in 1926.] Staged by Gilbert Miller. Presented by Gilbert Miller in association with James Russo and Michael Ellis.

April 26 through May 1, 1948
THE RED MILL – musical comedy: music by Victor Herbert; book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. Starring Jack Whiting, Odette Myrtil, Buster West, Dorothy Stone, Edward Dew, Jeanne Bal, Earl William, Frank Jaquet, Billy Griffith, Hal Price, Charles Mayer, Sara Ann McCabe and Charles Collins. Production prepared by Edwin Lester. Stage Direction by Billy Gilbert. Presented Paula Stone and Hunt Stromberg, Jr.

May 3 through May 8, 1948
THE FIRST MRS. FRASER – a comedy by St. John Ervine. Starring Jane Cowl, Reginald Mason, Anne Meacham, Richard Verney. Staged by Lex Richards.

May 10 through May 15, 1948
THERE GOES THE BRIDE – a new version of George Oppenheimer’s “Here Today.” Starring lka Chase, Robert Alda, with Harold J. Kennedy. Directed by Phillip Coolidge.

May 17 through July 10, 1948
HARVEY - comedy by Mary Chase. Starring Frank Fay, with Jean Stapleton, Dora Clement, Fred Irving Lewis, Kate Tomlinson, Mabel McCallum, Thomas Hume. Directed by Antoinette Perry.

June, 1948
Management announces that The National Theatre will become a special engagement motion picture house rather than desegregate.

July 12 through July 31, 1948
OKLAHOMA! - musical comedy by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II. Choreography by Agnes DeMille. Starring Wilton Clary, Carolyn Tanner, Bruce Hamilton, Jacqueline Daniels, Edith Gresham. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

August 1, 1948
NATIONAL THEATRE CEASES STAGE PERFORMANCES: The final performance of Oklahoma! closed the National Theatre as a legitimate theatre due to the management's unwillingness to de-segregate. The Washington Star, May 6, 1952)

August, September, 1948
Motion picture equipment installed.

October 16, 1948
THE RED SHOES a British ballet film starring Moira Shearer, opened as a reserved-seat attraction. The theatre marquee and facade were decorated with flags, pennants and bunting to celebratte “The Motion Picture Event” of 1948.

1949

1950