Pickwick
Contributors: Gollan, Campbell, 1881-1939; Reilly, Frank C.; Hamilton, Cosmo, 1872?-1942; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Shubert-Belasco Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1927
Language: eng
Description: Shubert-Belasco Theatre in Washington City.  1827-1927 a Pickwick centennial, most notable artistic event in the history of Dickens dramatization "Pickwick," by Cosmo Hamilton and Frank C. Reilly, freely based upon "Pickwick Papers," by Charles Dickens, with John Cumberland, and an ideal cast such as Dickens himself, would have selected, including: Charles McNaughton ... and 50 others. Staged by Cambell Gullan, eight gorgeous scenes, incidental music composed by Bernard Hamblin.
Notes: Shubert-Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., World Premiere Mon. Feb. 14, nightly at 8:30. Wed. and Sat. afternoons at 2:30, 1927.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Charles McNaughton, Katherine Stewart, Ruby Hallier, Marie Paxton, Jill Willis, Ralph Bunker, Rex O'Malley, Paul Porter, John Rogers, Sol Solomon, Bruce Winston, Hugh Miller, Doreen Wyckoff, Emily Lorraine, Sheelagh Hayes, Olga Katzlin, Harry Plimmer, Galway Herbert, Edward Jephson, George Mack and 50 others.

LC copy accompanied by newspaper clipping from a Washington newspaper, Feb. 16, 1927. Caption title: "Samuel Pickwick, Esq., steps out of the past. Celebrated old character, perfectly portrayed by John Cumberland, occupies Belasco Stage in the Pickwickian manner".

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