page_title: Cecil Raleigh
section_title: Plays
hierarchical_section_title: Cecil Raleigh / Plays
caption_attribution_description: The Great Ruby. Direction, Jacob Litt; Arthur Collins' production; written by Cecil Raleigh &amp; Henry Hamilton. The original Drury Lane Theatre, London production, from Daly's Theatre, New York. Promotional poster for the theater play. The New York Times review: "The Great Ruby," now on view at Daly's, possesses the priceless element of vitality. It throbs with living interest from beginning to end, in spite of the unnecessary confusion of incidents in the story. With very little care the authors might have avoided the slight bewilderment caused by their loose treatment of the story between the sleep-walking episode (which is theatrically effective in spite its essential absurdity) and the encounter of the detective and the thieves in the pseudo Countess's apartment.
context_page_description: Cecil Raleigh was the pseudonym of Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands, an English actor and playwright.
context_section_description: The Derby Winner, 1894, co-written with Hamilton and Augustus Harris, produced in the United States under the title The Sporting Duchess and adapted for film in 1915 and 1920
  Cheer, Boys, Cheer, with Harris and Hamilton, 1895
  The White Heather, 1897, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1919 silent film
  The Great Ruby, 1898, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1915 silent film
  Hearts Are Trumps, 1900, the basis for the 1920 silent film
  The Sins of Society, 1909, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1915 silent film
  The Whip, 1909, with Henry Hamilton, the basis for silent films of 1917 and 1928
  The King's Minister, the basis for the 1914 silent film
  Sealed Orders, 1915, with Hamilton, adapted for the 1918 film Stolen Orders
  Sporting Life, with Seymour Hicks, the basis for silent films of 1918 and 1925
  The Marriages of Mayfair, the basis for the 1920 silent film The Fatal Hour
  The Hope, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1920 silent film
  The Best of Luck, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1920 silent film
  The Best of Friends
  The Price of Peace
  The Grey Mare, with George Robert Sims
  The Guardsman, with Sims
caption: Theatrical poster for The Great Ruby
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