''Secrets'' is a 1922 play by

Rudolf Besier Rudolf Wilhelm Besier (2 July 1878 – 16 June 1942) was a Dutch/English dramatist and translator best known for his play '' The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1930). He worked with H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole and May Edginton on dramatisations. E ...

and May Edginton. The play first opened in London at the

Comedy Theatre The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,

on September 7, 1922, starring

Fay Compton Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage per ...

and

Leon Quartermaine Leon Quartermaine (24 September 1876 – 25 June 1967) was a British actor whose stage career, in Britain and the United States, extended from the early 1900s to the 1950s. He was born in Richmond, London, and educated at the Whitgift School in ...

.(13 August 1922)
The London Stage
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The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

''(8 October 1922)
London Notes
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'' ''Secrets'' opened in New York at the

Fulton Theatre The Fulton Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 210 West 46th Street in Manhattan, New York City, that was opened in 1911. It was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1955. The theatre was demolished in 1982. After the former Little Theatre o ...

on December 25, 1922, and ran through May 1923, for 168 performances.Corbin, John (26 December 1922)
The Play
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''Bordman, Gerald
American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930
p. 198 (1995)("The play's five-month run silenced pundits who sneered that Broadway would never accept so gentle, undramatic an evening.") The play was also adapted for films released in

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

and

1933 Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...

. It was also adapted for Australian radio in 1925.

London cast (partial)

Produced by

John Eugene Vedrenne John Eugene Vedrenne (July 13, 1867-February 12, 1930), often known as J. E. Vedrenne, was a West End theatre producer who co-managed the Savoy Theatre with Harley Granville-Barker, and then (from 1904 to 1907, also with Granville-Barker) the Ro ...

as Lady Carlton *Doris Mansell as Lady Lessington * Margaret Scudamore as Mrs. Marlowe * Hubert Harben as William Marlowe *Bobbie Andrews as John Carlton

Broadway cast (partial)

Directed by Sam Forrest and produced by Sam H. Harris * Margaret Lawrence as Lady Carlton *Barbara Allen as Lady Lessington *Mrs. Edmund Gurney as Mrs. Marlowe *Orlando Daly as William Marlowe *Tom Nesbit as John Carlton *Allan Jenkins as Briggs * Beatrice Kay as Blanche

References

External links

* {{IBDB show, 7833, Secrets 1922 plays Plays by Rudolf Besier West End plays