The marriage proposal
Contributors: Coe, Richard L. (Richard Livingstone), 1914-1995, annotator; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904; American University (Washington, D.C.); District of Columbia. Department of Recreation; Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1950
Language: eng
Description: D.C. Recreation Department, twenty-second annual one-act play tournament 1950, American University presents "The Marriage Proposal," by Anton Chekov, directed by Severino Montano.
Notes: Roosevelt Auditorium, preliminaries Tuesday, February 28, 1950.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: John Spielman, Anne Seigal, Dominic Spodaro.

"Judges for the preliminaries: Colonel Frank A. Derouin, Mrs. Wilson Ewart, Frank L. Baer ... Finals, Thursday, March 9, 8:15 p.m. Judges for the finals: Jay Carmody, Evening Star, Richard Coe, Washington Post, Oscar Davis, Daily News, Ernie Schier, Times Herald".

LC copy has notations by Coe. Shelved under: D.C. Recreation Dept.

With: Dear Ruth / Norman Krasna -- A night at an inn / Lord Dunsany -- If the shoe pinches / Babette Hughes -- For each man kills / Gerty Agoston -- The happy journey / Thornton Wilder -- Knives from Syria / Lynn Riggs -- What never dies / Percival Wilde -- Jinxed / George Mosel -- No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre -- A cup of tea / Florence Ryerson -- Paragraph at Sam's / Carl Eardley -- The ugly duckling / A.A. Milne. Issued together.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).