THE NEW YORK STORY

"Newest Best Seller . . . New Hit" —WALTER WINCHELL, Mirror

"A gay and sagacious comedy . . . When the Theatre Guild, Miss Hepburn and Mr. Barry are in top form at the same time, all is for the best in the best of all possible Broadways." —BROOKS ATKINSON, Times

"The Radiant Miss Hepburn . . . brings a loveliness to our stage such as has not been seen here-abouts in years. She is a play in herself, and one that is urgently worth seeing." —JOHN MASON BROWN, Post

"Philip Barry has . . . provided Katharine Hepburn with her most charming vehicle of recent years . . . The dialogue is rapid, sparkling and rich in wit." —SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE, World-Telegram

"Alert and suave is his comedy, and touched . . . with tenderness. Miss Katharine Hepburn gives a brightly winning performance." —RICHARD LOCKRIDGE, Sun

"It is pleasant to be able to report that Miss Katharine Hepburn, Mr. Philip Barry and the Theatre Guild are all in good form once more . . . Lively and entertaining, written with all of Mr. Barry's graceful wit." —RICHARD WATTS, JR., Herald-Tribune

"A delightfully amusing and refreshing show, blessed, too, with an exceptionally good troupe of entertainers, besides the electric Hepburn." —WALTER WINCHELL, Mirror

"... a perfectly pleasant evening in the theatre, especially in the Guild's handsome production with Katharine Hepburn at the head of an excellent cast." —JOHN ANDERSON, Journal-American

THE THEATRE GUILD presents

A NEW COMEDY BY PHILIP BARRY

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

with

KATHARINE HEPBURN

VAN HEFLIN

JOSEPH COTTEN

NICHOLAS JOY

SHIRLEY BOOTH

Directed by ROBERT B. SINCLAIR

Settings designed and lighted by
ROBERT EDMOND JONES

Produced under the supervision of
THERESA HELBURN & LAWRENCE LANGNER

SHUBERT THEATRE

44th STREET WEST of BROADWAY
MATINEES THURSDAY AND SATURDAY

FRANK FENTON

LENORE LONERGAN

DAN TOBIN

LENORE LONERGAN is only eleven years old. Her family is one of the few in this country that can boast of three generations of actors. Her grandfather was the late Lester Lonergan. Her father, Lester Lonergan II, is well known to theatre audiences. Her mother is Juliet Lonergan, who was an opera singer but gave up a successful career to

attend to her domestic duties. Despite her tender age Lenore has been active in motion pictures and radio, too. "Crime Marches On" and "Fields Beyond" were two plays in which she appeared, and she was also seen with Noel Coward in "The Scoundrel". Her ambition is to be a great ballet dancer.

THERESA HELBURN has been a member of the Board of Managers of The Theatre Guild almost since its inception, functioning for the first twelve years in the important position of executive director. A graduate of Bryn Mawr, Miss Helburn also attended Radcliffe and was a member of George Pierce Baker's famous "47 Workshop". She is the author of several plays, including "Enter the Hero", "Alison Makes Hay", "Denbigh", "A Hero Is Born" and others; has published considerable verse and at the time of the Guild's beginning was dramatic critic of "The Nation". Her work for the Guild soon put an end to her career as a writer. But with the Guild's presentation of Maxwell Anderson's "Mary of Scotland", she added another successful venture to her list of accomplishments in the theatre. She directed that production, in which Helen Hayes played the lead and which for two years broke records both in New York and on tour. Miss Helburn is now administrative director of the Guild with Mr. Langner.

LAWRENCE LANGNER is the person most responsible for the foundation of The Theatre Guild, and one of its pioneering directors. Like Miss Helburn, he has won considerable prestige and success in practically all phases of the theatre. To him should be credited the original initiative for the production of both Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" and Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude", two of the longest, and in the case of the latter, one of the most popular productions ever presented by The Theatre Guild. He is the author of several plays, including "The Pursuit of Happiness" (written in collaboration with his wife, Armina Marshall), which had a successful run in New York several years ago. His "Five One-Act Comedies", with a preface by St. John Ervine, was favorably commented upon by Bernard Shaw. "Licensed", the first play to be presented by the Washington Square Players, was from his pen. Two others which were repeatedly performed in the Little Theatres throughout the country are "Another Way Out" and "The Family Exit".

THERESA HELBURN

LAWRENCE LANGNER