page_title: The Princess and the Butterfly
section_title: Original London and New York Casts
hierarchical_section_title: The Princess and the Butterfly / Original London and New York Casts
caption_attribution_description: English: Cabinet card image of English actor and producer George Alexander (1858-1918), in character as Sir George Lamorant in The Princess and the Butterfly, first staged in 1897. TCS 1.294, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University
context_page_description: The Princess and The Butterfly: or, The Fantastics is a comedy in five acts by Arthur Wing Pinero first produced at London’s St. James's Theatre on March 25, 1897 and in New York at the Lyceum Theatre on November 23, 1897. The New York version of The Princess and the Butterfly was somewhat abbreviated from the four-hour production that originally played in London.
context_section_description: Catharine … Eleanor Aickin … Evelyn Carter
  Maxime Demailly  … A. Royston … William Courtleigh
  Faulding … A. W. Munroe … John Findlay
  Annis Marsh … Dorothy Hammond … Katherine Florence
  Mrs. Marsh … Mrs. Kem Mis … Grace Root
  Percival Ord … A. Vane Tempest … Seymour George
  George Lamorant  … George Alexander … James K. Hackett
  Blanche Oriel … Mabel Hackney … Helen Macbeth
  Fay Zuliani … Fay Davis … Mary Mannering
  Bartley Levan … Gerald Gurney … Henry Miller
  Honorable Charles Denstroude … Frank R. Mills … Ivo Dawson
  Edward Oriel … H. B. Irving … Edward Morgan
  Mr. St. Roche … H. V. Esmond … Felix Morris
  Mrs. St. Roche … Miss C. Granville … Elizabeth Tyree
  Mrs. Sabiston … Mrs. Cecil Raleigh … Nina Morris
  Mrs. Ware … Julie Opp … Alison Skipworth
  Adrian Mylls … George Bancroft … H. S. Taber
  The Princess Pannonia … Julia Neilson …  Julie Opp
  Major-Gen. Sir Robert Chichele, K.C.B  … H.  H. Vincent  … Charles Walcot
  Lady Ringstead … Rose Leclercq … Mrs. Charles Walcot
  Lady Chichele … Pattie Bell … Blanche Whiffen
  Lieut.Colonel Arthur Eave … C. A. Smith … George Alison
  Sir James Velleret … M.P R. Dalton … n/a
  Col. the Hon. Reginald Ughbrook, C.B. … C. Stafford… n/a
  Mrs. Ughbrook … Miss Leila Repton … n/a
  Count Vladislau Reviczky … S. Hamilton  … n/a
  General Yanokoff … Mr. Richards … n/a
  Madame Yanokoff … Ellen Standing…  n/a
  Sources: Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright: a Study by Hamilton Fyfe, 1902 and Plays of the Present by John Bouvé Clapp and Edwin Francis Edgett, 1902
caption: George Alexander as George Lamorant
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