Morosco Theatre, "Bird in Hand" and "The Firebrand"
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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: 1924-1929
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content: Box 2, Folder 18
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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 play was directed by writer John Drinkwater and starred Jill Esmond Moore and Herbert Lomas. This program would have been used somewhere near the beginning of its 500 performances run between 1929 and 1930. During that run, the production changed theaters frequently, opening at the Booth Theatre, transferring to the Morosco Theatre, then the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, the Theatre Masque (now named the John Golden Theatre), the Forrest Theatre (now named the Eugene O'Neill Theatre), and the 49th Street Theatre. Bird in Hand is a drama about an innkeeper whose daughter is dating the son of a local squire. He does not think it is proper for her to potentially marry above her station, and he worries further when he thinks the two have snuck off to a secluded place together. The father hashes out his worries with the guests at his inn, and then has it out with his daughter. Eventually he comes around and the play concludes with a happy ending.