Ethel Barrymore Theater, "Bird in Hand" and "The Kingdom of God"
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content: Phillip Graneto Broadway Theater Collection
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content: Phillip Graneto Broadway Theater Collection / Series 4: Broadway Theater Programs (New York, New York)
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content: 1929
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content: Box 1, Folder 7
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: The cover of the program features a portrait of Barrymore in profile. Kingdom of God was the first production in the new Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances between December 1928 and March of 1929. The play starred Ethel Barrymore playing the same character at 19, 29, and 70, though Barrymore herself was around 50 at the time. The plot of the play concerns a young woman who has become a nun, and three different postings that she experiences – first in a home for older men, then one for unwed mothers, then in an orphanage. Barrymore also directed the production under the pseudonym E M Blythe (her name at birth was Ethel Mae Blythe).Program for a performance of The Kingdom of God at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, NY, the week of February 11, 1929.