Colonel Smith
Subtitle: a comedy in three acts
By: by A.E.W. Mason
Publisher: Printed at the Chiswick Press
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Portraits; Promptbooks; Specimens
Notes: Prompt book; issues known to be interleaved.

At head of title: Notice--this play is here privately printed and not for circulation. All its dramatic rights are fully secured, and proceedings will be immediately taken against anyone who attempts to infringe them.

Colonel Smith, a light farce, was presented by Sir George Alexander at the St. James's Theatre, London, 23 April 1909, with Alexander in the cast as Smith. Other cast members included William Farren, E. Vivian Reynolds, Evelyn Beerbohm, Ernest Thesiger, Reginald Owen, Henry Kitts, Irene Vanbrugh, Lydia Bilbrooke, Althea Francies, and Dorothy Green. See Mason, A.E.W. Sir George Alexander & the St. James' Theatre; London Times, 24 April 1909.

In English.

Purchased January 1, 2020, with the Russel Crouse Fund for Twentieth Century Theatre.

Producer and actor George Alexander's prompt copy, with his illustrated bookplate mounted inside front cover; postcard publicity photo of Alexander laid in, with note on verso to Tony Talbot about finding the promptbook fascinating, signed Ronnie Barker (?). Annotations in red ink may be in Alexander's hand but more likely that they would be in the prompter's or stage manager's hand.

Interleaved prompt copy, with significant manuscript textual additions, deletions, and stage blocking in red ink, including a single sheet tipped in with more textual additions. Some paste-overs with additional text, and some additional notes in pencil. Four sepia photos of the stage set tipped in; cast listed in red ink, with performance date "Apr. 23rd 1909" on cast page in preliminaries.