The blue bird
Contributors: Seymour, Selina; Thatcher, James; Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949; Poli Players (Washington, D.C.); Poli's Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1915
Language: eng
Description: The New Poli Players in "The Blue Bird," a fairy fantasy in four parts and sixteen scenes by Maurice Maeterlinck, staged under the direction of Harry Andrews, Miss Selina Seymour (of original Blue Bird Co.), stage manager, the entire production under the personal supervision of Mr. James Thatcher, dances and ensembles by Howard Leslie Holt, Henry F. Smith, musical director.
Notes: Poli's Theatre, Washington, D.C., week of June 28, 1915.

Title devised by Library staff.

"Poli's Theatre weekly and program, Vol. 1, no. 39"--Cover.

"The Blue Birds, an original song by James Thatcher, written especially for 'The Blue Bird' production will be sung between first and second acts by Miss Agnes Whelan, Washington's beautiful soprano".

Cast: Miss Selina Seymour, Mr. John M. Kline, Miss Mary Eaton, Miss Doris Eaton, Miss Helen Tracy, Mr. Gavin Harris, Master Joseph Eaton, Master Francis Bidwell, Master Clifton Zier, Master Francis Swan, Mr. Albert Roscoe, Mr. Louis Haines, Mr. Russell Fillmore, Miss Rose Macdonald, Miss Rose Nelson, Mr. Robert Lowe, Miss Maud Gilbert, Miss Helen Simpson, Miss Mildred Carrol, Miss Ruth Molineux, Miss Henrietta Watson, Miss Dorothy Reeder, Miss Anna Boyden, Miss Josephine Duffy, Miss Margaret Walker, Miss Avery Grant, Miss Lillian Tendler, Miss Jeanette Berman, Miss Dorothy Tendler, Miss Frances Birkle, Miss Myrtle Bardroff, Miss Catherine Birkle, Miss Myrtle Bardroff, Miss Virginia Ale, Miss Frances Pulizzi, Miss Bertha Watson, Miss Carrie Jones, Miss Tacie Luckett, Miss Audrey Keys, Miss Katherine Donovan, Miss Helen Mullen, Miss Dorothy Mullen, Miss Thelma Paisley, Miss Charlene Sprinsguth, Miss Clara King, Miss Madge Bruce, Miss Teresa Dale, Miss Ruby Raymond, Miss Madge Bruce, MissMabel Wynne, Miss Margaret McCambridge, Miss Agusta Hill, Miss Catherine Mack, Miss Pearl Eaton, Miss Margurite Heard, Miss Ethel White, Miss Helen Lowe, Miss Conseulo Hawkes.

"Next week-'Commencement Days' by Margaret Mayo".

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).