THEATRE PROGRAMMES AND THEATRICAL EPHEMERA


Theatre Programme
"Lady Frederick" at the Royal Court Theatre, December 16, 1907. Starring Ethel Irving.
Maugham's first commercially successful play made him famous overnight. Within the next six months he would have
four plays running simultaneously in the West End.

Theatre Programme
"Lady Frederick" at the Criterion Theatre, 250th performance, 3 June 1908. Starring Ethel Irving.

Souvenir Memento
Memento of the 250th performance of Lady Frederick at the Criterion Theatre 3rd June 1908.
An engraved plate of Ethel Irving as Lady Frederick from the original painting by F. Howard Michael. Signed by Ethel Irving.
In a brown paper folder printed in gold.

Theatre Programme
"Lady Frederick" at the Hudson Theatre, New York, 1908. Starring Ethel Barrymore who also starred in the
1919 Metro film of the same name.

The Theatre Magazine
Front cover only, December, 1908. Full page photograph of Ethel Barrymore in "Lady Frederick" at the Hudson Theatre.

Theatre Programme
"Jack Straw" at the Empire Theatre, New York, 1908. Featuring John Drew.

The Theatre Magazine
Front cover only, October, 1908. Full page photograph, scene from "Jack Straw" at the Empire Theatre.

Theatre Programme
"Mrs Dot" at the Comedy Theatre, London, 18 May 1908. Starring Marie Tempest (Miss Florence Tempest),
Fred Kerr and Graham Browne.

Theatre Programme
"Mrs Dot" at the Comedy Theatre, London, 3 August 1908. Starring Marie Tempest (Miss Florence Tempest),
Fred Kerr and Graham Browne.

Theatre Programme
"Mrs Dot" at the Comedy Theatre, London, 27 October 1908. Starring Marie Tempest (Miss Florence Tempest),
Herbert Ross and Graham Browne.

Theatre Programme
"Penelope" at The Comedy Theatre, London. First night, September 1, 1909. Featuring Marie Tempest,
Graham Browne and Maugham's great love Ethelwynn Sylvia (Sue) Arthur-Jones,
who was the model for Rosie in Cakes and Ale, playing Peyton the maid.

Theatre Programme
"Penelope" at The Comedy Theatre, London. 16 July 1909. Same cast as above except Peyton is played by Shiela Heseltine.
With the original Keith Prowse/Grosvenor Hotel ticket stub laid in.

Theatre Programme
"The Tenth Man" Madras Dramatic Society, 1921.

Theatre Programme
"Smith" at The Comedy Theatre, London. December 13, 1909. Featuring Irene Vanburgh and Robert Loraine.

Theatre Programme
"Smith" at Parson's Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut, February 1910. Featuring John Drew.

Theatre Programme
"The Land of Promise" at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, June 12, 1914. Starring Irene Vanburgh and Charles V. France.

Theatre Programme
"The Unknown" at the Aldwych Theatre, London. August 1920. Starring Lady Tree (Miss Viola Tree) and Basil Rathbone.

Theatre Programme
"The Circle" at The Selwyn Theatre, New York, 1921. With Mrs. Leslie Carter.

Playbill
"The Circle" at The Playhouse Theatre, New York, April 18, 1938. Starring Tallula Bankhead.

Programme
"The Circle" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1951. With John Geilgud and Yvonne Arnaud.

Playbill
"The Circle" at the Ambassador Theatre New York, May 1990. Rex Harrison, Glynis Johns and Stewart Granger.

Theatre Programme
"Caesar's Wife" at the Royalty Theatre, London. October 4, 1919. Starring Fay Compton and C. Aubrey Smith.

Catalogue of Plays The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1921
Descriptions of nine of Maugham's plays available from his American publisher.

Theatre Programme
"East of Suez" at the His Majesty's Theatre, London, September 1922. Starring Basil Rathbone,
Henry Kendall and Miss Meggie Albanesi

Theatre Programme
"Rain" at Maxine Elliot's Theatre, New York, December 4, 1922. Featuring Jeanne Eagels who also starred in the 1929
Paramount movie version of "The Letter."

Theatre Programme
"Rain" at the Gaiety Theatre, New York, September 22, 1924. Featuring Jeanne Eagels.

Playbill
"Rain" at The Music Box, New York, February 12, 1935. Starring Tallula Bankhead.

Theatre Programme
"Rain" 1940's. Starring Gladys George.

Theatre Programme
"Rain" 1950's. Starring Edie Adams.

Theatre Programme
"Rain" at The Astor Place Theatre, 1975. With John Travolta.

Sadie Thompson
Black and white photograph of Bette Davis as Sadie, in costume for a stage production.
Another Photograph of Davis as Sadie.

Photograph
Tallula Bankhead as Sadie Thompson in the Broadway revival of "Rain."

Black and white photograph of Tallulah Bankhead as Sadie, in costume for a stage production.
Attached is a typewritten note--Chapter Nine, release Monday, January 26, 1953.
Tallulah as Sadie Thompson in "Rain," a role she finally got ten years after Somerset Maugham
fired her, as related in this chapter.

Full page magazine photograph of Tallulah Bankhead as Sadie.

Playbill
Opening Night playbill of the musical "Sadie Thompson" by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian at the
Alvin Theatre (New York) dated 11/16/44. Starring June Havoc.
Music by Vernon Duke. Based on the short story and play "Rain" by
W. Somerset Maugham, John Colton and Clemence Randolph.

Sadie Thompson
Sheet music for "The Love I Long For" from Sadie Thompson: A Musical Play. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
Life Magazine, December 1944. Four pages of photos and plot of the Broadway musical version starring June Havoc.

Theatre Programme
"Caroline" (The Unattainable), a revival at the The Playhouse, London, August 5, 1926.
Starring Irene Vanburgh, Marie Lohr and Edith Evans.

Theatre Programme
"Our Betters" at the Globe Theatre, London, 1922. Starring Constance Collier.
Contains a printed note: Owing to various rumours which were circulated when this play was produced in America,
the Author wishes to state that the characters in it are entirely imaginary. Forty years later in Looking Back,
Maugham admited that the rumours were true that the Arthur Fenwick character is a portrait of Gordon Selfridge.

Theatre programme
"Our Betters" at the Chichester Festival Theatre, 1997. With Kathleen Turner.
Contains 8 pages of photos and background material on the play and Maugham by Sheridan Morley and others.

Theatre programme
"Home and Beauty" at The Arts Theatre Club (1925). Signed W. Somerset Maugham

Theatre Programme
"The Camel's Back" at the The Playhouse, London, February 6, 1924. An unpublished play.

Photograph
The Strand Theatre, London, 1927. The Constant Wife with Fay Compton and Leon Quartermaine.

Theatre Programme
"The Constant Wife" at the Globe Theatre, London. 1937. With Ruth Chatterton and Cecil Parker.

Play announcement
"The Constant Wife" with photo of cast: Lou Tellegen, Charlotte Walker and Norman Hacket

Theatre Programme
"The Constant Wife" at the National Theatre, Washington DC. November 22, 1926. With Ethel Barrymore.

Theatre Programme
"The Constant Wife" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York. April 11, 1927. With Ethel Barrymore.

Theatre Programme
"The Constant Wife" at The Schubert Theatre, New Haven. October 1927. With Ethel Barrymore.

The Playgoer Magazine
"The Constant Wife" at The Sam Harris Theatre, Chicago, January 9, 1928. Starring Ethel Barrymore.

Theatre Programme
"The Constant Wife" at the Globe Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, 1950. Starring Ruth Chatterton and Cecil Parker.

Playbill
"The Constant Wife" at the National Theatre New York, January 1952. Starring Catherine Cornell and Brian Ahearne.
Staged by Guthrie McClintic. New Yorker theatre review laid in.

Chicago Stagebill
"The Constant Wife" at the Selwyn Theatre, Chicago, January 4, 1953.
Starring Katherine Cornell. Staged by Guthrie McClintic.

Playbill
"The Constant Wife" at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York, April 14, 1975.
Starring Ingrid Bergman. Directed by John Gielgud.

Theatre Programme
"The Letter" at The Schubert-Plymouth Theatre, Boston, December 1927. With Katherine Cornell.
Produced by Messmore Kendall and directed by Guthrie McClintic

Theatre Programme
"The Sacred Flame" at The Henry Miller Theatre, November 19, 1928.

Theatre Programme
"The Sacred Flame" at The Playhouse, London, 1929. Starring Gladys Cooper.

Theatre Programme
"For Services Rendered" at the Globe Theatre, London, 1932. Starring Cedric Hardwicke and Louise Hampton.
Cutting from the Sunday Express serialization (Stott D97a) laid in.

Theatre Programme
"Sheppey" Colonial Theatre, Boston, April 3, 1944. Starring Edmund Gwenn and directed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Theatre Programme
"Theatre" Monday November 17, 1941. Starring Cornelia Otis Skinner. Maugham's novel dramatized by Guy Bolton.
"Theatre" January 14, 1942. Starring Cornelia Otis Skinner.

Playbill
"Theatre" at The Hudson Theatre, New York, November 17, 1941. Starring Cornelia Otis Skinner.
Adapted for the stage by Guy Bolton from the novel by Maugham.

Playbill
"Jane" at the Coronet Theatre New York, March 17, 1952. Starring Edna Best and Basil Rathbone.
Adapted for the stage by S. N. Behrman from the short story by Maugham.

Theatre Programme
"Jane" at the Aldwych Theatre, London, 1947. Starring Ursulla Howells, Yvonne Arnaud and Ronald Squire.

Theatre Programme
"Liza of Lambeth, A Musical" at the Shaftsbury Theatre, August 1976. Starring Angela Richards.
Written by William Rushton and Berny Stringle.

Soundtrack recording
"Liza of Lambeth, A Musical" Starring Angela Richards. Written by William Rushton and Berny Stringle.

Publicity photograph of Rosalind Russell
With a typewritten note: Rosalind Russell appears in person as one of the roster of special "friends" who will introduce
Dennis King and Garson Kanin in "Rembering Mr. Maugham," July 22 thru July 27 at the Mark Taper Forum.
Others include Diahann Carroll, Jack Lemmon, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Simmons, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty,
and Ruth Gordon.



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