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Scarlet Sister Mary   

 
Ethel Barrymore Theatre , (11/25/1930 - circa. 12/1930)
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Opening Date:Nov 25, 1930   
Closing Date:Dec 1930 Total Performances:24

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Description: A play in five scenes
Setting: The dooryard at Maum Hannah's, twenty years ago. July and Mary's home, one year later. The crossroads at Heaven Gate Church, present.
Comments: Barrymore and the company appeared in blackface.


Production Staff
Theatre Owned / Operated by Messrs. Shubert (Lee and J. J.)
Produced by Lee Shubert
Written by Daniel Reed; from the novel by Julia Peterkin
Directed by E. M. Blyth
Scenic Design by Watson Barratt; Costume Design by Orry Kelly
Company Manager: William Frank
Stage Manager: Ed A. McHugh
Company Press Representative: Ray Henderson
Cast
Ethel Barrymore Sister Mary
Si May-e
Sylvia Allen The Heaven Gate Singers
Daniel Bagnell Brer Dee
an old churchman
Horace Braham Budda Ben
Hannah's son
Alan Campbell Brunton
Alice Cannon The Heaven Gate Singers
Joseph Christian The Heaven Gate Singers
Burke Clarke Luke
Blanche Collins Tussie
Ethel Barrymore Colt Seraphine
Wilbur Cox Gadsen
Theodore De Corsia Big Boy at age 30
Marcel Dill Reverend Duncan
Thatcher
Helen Dowdy The Heaven Gate Singers
Toussaint Duers The Heaven Gate Singers
Herbert Gentry Big Boy
Andrew's son
Walter Gilbert July
twin brother
Sam Gray The Heaven Gate Singers
Corrine Harris Flower Girl
Frank Jackson The Heaven Gate Singers
Leo Kennedy Cousin Andrew
a deacon
William B. Mack Daddy Cudjoe
Marjorie Main Gracey
Georgie Drew Mendum Doll
sister of June and July
Denise Morris Tressie
Bertha Powell The Heaven Gate Singers
Charles Quigley Wade
William Raymond The Heaven Gate Singers
Albert Ridge Unex
Mabel Ridley The Heaven Gate Singers
John Roseleigh June
twin brother
Anita Rothe Mona
Erma Smith Flower Girl
Julia Smith Flower Girl
Malcolm Soltan Unex at age 20
Beatrice Terry Maum Hannah
Estelle Winwood Cinder