S.R.O.
Subtitle: the most successful plays in the history of the American stage
By: compiled by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell; introduction by John Chapman.
Contributors: Cartmell, Van Henry, 1896- joint comp.
Publisher: Garden City Pub. Co.
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Garden City, N. Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 920
Subjects: American drama
Other titles: Most successful plays; SRO
Notes: On spine: The most successful plays.
Table of contents: title: The old-timers: Uncle Tom's cabin, by Harriet B. Stowe (revised version by A.E. Thomas). East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood. The two orphans, by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon.; title: Starring vehicles: The old homestead, by Denman Thompson. Rip Van Winkle, as played by Joseph Jefferson. The man from home, by Booth Tarkington and H.L. Wilson.; title: Not so long ago: Peg o' my heart, by J.H. Manners. Lightnin,' by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. The bat, by Mary R. Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.; title: You can't laugh them off: Abie's Irish Rose, by Anne Nichols. Tobacco road, by Erskine Caldwell.; title: Today and forever: Life with father, by Harold Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Arsenic and old lace, by Joseph Kesselring. Oklahoma! By Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II.; title: Biographical notes.