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The Chief Thing

Guild Theatre, (3/22/1926 - circa. 4/1926)
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Opening:Mar 22, 1926   
Closing:Apr 1926 Total Performances:40


Category: Play, Comedy, Drama, Original, Broadway
Description: A play in three acts
Setting: The beginning of the Twentieth Century in Central Russia





by opening date


Produced by The Theatre Guild

Written by Nikolai Evreinov; Translated by Leo Randole and Herman Bernstein

Staged by Philip Moeller


Opening Night Cast

Donald Angus Tigelin  
Patricia Barron A Fallen Woman  
Alice Belmore Cliffe Landlady in a Rooming House  
Romney Brent Petronius  
Harold Clurman Nero  
Peggy Conway Popea Sabina  
Ernest Cossart A Comedian  
C. Stafford Dickens An Actor  
Dwight Frye A Student  
William Griffith Electrician  
Hildegard Holliday Nigidia  
 A Deaf Mute  
House Baker Jameson Lucian  
Kate Lawson Ligia  
Edith Meiser Lady With the Dog  
Esther Mitchell Landlady's Daughter  
McKay Morris Paraklete  
Edward G. Robinson A Stage Director  
Lee Strassberg A Prompter  
Willard Tobias A Slave  
Henry Travers Retired Government Clerk  
Mary True Calvia Crispinilla  
Helen Westley A School Teacher  
Estelle Winwood A Dancer  
Stanley G. Wood The Manager of a Provincial Theatre