''Most of the Game'' is a 1935
comedy play
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by the British writer
John Van Druten
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. Much of the play is set in
New York
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where a British writer and his aristocratic wife have fallen out of love with each other, and started new relationships with a teacher's daughter and a Hollywood actor respectively. Complications ensue when the press gets hold of the story.
The play's
Broadway
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run was at the
Cort Theatre
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. The cast included
Dorothy Hyson and
Robert Douglas.
[Bordman p.122]
References
Bibliography
* Gerald Bordman. ''American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969''. Oxford University Press, 1996.
* Wearing, J.P. ''The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
1935 plays
Plays by John Van Druten
West End plays
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