Lysistrata
Contributors: Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970; Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958; Ornstein, Leo, 1892-2002; Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958; Weidman, Charles; Aristophanes; Philadelphia Theatre Association, Inc; Forty-Fourth Street Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1930
Language: eng
Description: 44th Street Theatre, 44th Street, near Broadway, Sam S. and Lee Shubert, Inc., lessees, direction of Lee and J.J. Shubert. The Philadelphia Theatre Association, Inc. under the management of Robert Sparks presents "Lysistrata," by Aristophanes (first performance at the Lenaeum Theatre, Athens, in January, 411 B.C.) A new adaptation by Gilbert Seldes, staged by Norman Bel Geddes, music by Leo Ornstein, dance by Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman.
Notes: 44th Street Theatre [New York, N.Y.], beginning Thursday evening, June 5, 1930, matinees Wednesday and Saturday.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Violet Kemble Cooper, Jose Limon, Mary Blair, Virginia Chauvenet, Marie Lalloz, Miriam Hopkins, Hortense Alden, Ruth Garland, Helen Savery, Nancy McKnight, Ilse Gronau, Ernestine Henoch, Betty Schlaffer, Consuelo Flowerton, Letitia Ide, Lona Dawn, Gloria Braggiotti, Justine Chase, Marion Morehouse, Hope Emerson, Ian Wolfe, Houston Richards, Etienne Girardot, Owen Meech, Conrad Cantzen, Sydney Greenstreet, Elliott Sullivan, Lucian Scott, Howard Wilson, John Glenn, Orrin Burke, Paul Haskle, Morton Moore, Chester Hammond, Thornton Whitney, Eric Dressler, Ernest Truex, John Clearman, George Cotton, Clayton Irving, James McCallion, Albert Van Dekker, Elizabeth Kennedy, May Gerald, Ada Barbour, Ada Klein, Maude B. Sinclair, Pauline Potter, Doris Hesser, Lillian Ardell, Myra Brooks, Elizabeth Rechelle, Charles R. Burrows, Harry Henshaw, Ernest Howard, Charles E. Douglas, George J. Williams, James Boshell, Albert Robinson. The dancers: Helen Savery, Betty Schlaffer, Ise Gronau, Letitia Ide, Gwendolyn Mervin, Louise Hale, Ernestine Henoch, Miriam Schiller, Mary Ann Holt, Elsie Rand, Helen Blair Bailey, June Wilkinson, John Glenn, Lucian Scott, Howard Wilson, Charles Laskey, Bernard Jay, Jerome, John Clearman, George Cotton, Dave DeSin, Elliott Sullivan, Schuyler MacGuffin.

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