The better 'ole
Contributors: Coburn, Ivah, 1906-1937; Coburn, Charles; Darewski, Herman, 1883-1947; Knight, Percival; Eliot, Arthur; Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1887-1959; Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1919
Language: eng
Description: Broad St. Theatre, New Broad Streeet Theatre Co., Frank Nirdlinger, business manager, Mr. and Mrs. Coburn present "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. Maclyn Arbuckle as "Old Bill". Louis Maurice, musical director.
Notes: Broad Street Theatre [Philadelphia, Pa.], last two weeks beginning Monday, Februay 17, 1919, nights a5 8:15. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2:15.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Shannon Cormack, Julie Barnard, Percival Knight, Percival Vivian, Maclyn Arbuckle, Marie St. George, J. Palmer Collins, William Raymond, Arthur Shaw, Josephine Adams, St. Clair Bayfield, Betty Turner, Helen Douglass, Peggy Melick, Frankie Savage, Amy Jericho, Ruby Rosalie, Gladys Brassel, Pete Boyd, Julie Barnard, Tracy Barrow, Mlle. Andree Greuze, Richard Silvester, George G. Carr, Peggy Payter, Regis Collins. Messrs. Otto Graf, Louis Koreff, Charles E. Shoye, Ralph Sorrentino, Harry Williams, Fred Wood, William Fish.

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