The better 'ole
Contributors: Coburn, Ivah, 1906-1937; Coburn, Charles; Darewski, Herman, 1883-1947; Knight, Percival; Eliot, Arthur; Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1887-1959; New National Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1919
Language: eng
Description: New National Theatre, direction W.H. Rapley, business manager W.H. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Coburn present James K. Hacket in "The Better 'Ole," or "The Romance of Old Bill," (by arrangement with Charles B. Cochran, of London) a fragment from France in two explosions, seven splinters and a short gas attack, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather and Captain Arthur Eliot. Music composed, selected and arranged by Herman Darewski and Percival Knight. Andrew M. Springer, musical director.
Notes: New National Theatre [Washington, D.C.], week beginning Sunday, March 30, 1919. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: George Sydenham, Julie Barnard, Harry McNaughton, Victor Dyer, James K. Hackett, Frankie Savage, J. Palmer Collins, William Raymond, Richard Silvester, Edythe Mason, Tracy Barrow, Amelie Barleon, Helen Douglass, Beatrice James, Gladys Brassel, Adrianne Batchelder, Regis Collins, Etta Mundy, Mary Wilkins, Julie Barnard, Frank Farley, Therese Josephs, Frank Farlow, Peggy Payter, Regis Collins. Mssrs. Otto Graf, Louis Koreff, Charles E. Shoye, Andrew Spring Jr., William Fish.

LC copy: Gift: Mrs. Frances H. Stadler, Jan. 19, 1972. Accompanied by 2 ticket stubs for Friday, April 4th performance.

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