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The World We Live In
The Insect Comedy
Play
Comedy
Original
Broadway
Opening Date
Oct 31, 1922
Closing Date
Feb 03, 1923
Performances
111
Play
Comedy
Original
Broadway
Open Date: Oct 31, 1922
Close Date: Feb 03, 1923
Closed Flag: n
Is Final Week:
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Jolson's 59th Street Theatre
(Oct 31, 1922 - Jan 06, 1923)
44th Street Theatre
(Jan 08, 1923 - Feb 03, 1923)
Description
A play in thee acts, a prelude, and an epilogue
Setting
A forest
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
William A. Brady
Written by
Josef Capek
and
Karel Capek
; Book adapted by
Owen Davis
Staged by
John Cromwell
Lola Adler
Apatura Clythia
Seldon Bennett
Messenger
Mary Blair
Chrysalis
Orrin Burke
Quartermaster
Scott Cooper
Male Beetle
Jane Corcoran
Female Beetle
Jasper Deeter
Parasite
James Difley
Inventor
Grace Dougherty
Ichneumon Fly's Larva
Robert Edeson
The Vagrant
Vinton Freedley
Male Cricket
Etienne Girardot
Otakar
N. St. Clair Hales
The Professor
Head of General Staff
May Hopkins
War Worker
Paul Irving
Another Male Beetle
Blind Ant
Rexford Kendrick
Victor
Robert Lawler
Journalist
Kenneth MacKenna
Felix
Commander-in-Chief of Yellow Ants
Ann Martin
A Baby
Beatrice Maude
Apatura Iris
Harold McGee
Bond Salesman
Jill Middleton
Female Cricket
Henry Mortimer
Woodcutter
Edgar Norton
Ichneumon Fly
Logan Paul
Telegrapher
Susan Steele
A Woman
John Ward
Dictator
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
William A. Brady
Written by
Josef Capek
and
Karel Capek
; Book adapted by
Owen Davis
Staged by
John Cromwell
Lola Adler
Apatura Clythia
Seldon Bennett
Messenger
Mary Blair
Chrysalis
Orrin Burke
Quartermaster
Scott Cooper
Male Beetle
Jane Corcoran
Female Beetle
Jasper Deeter
Parasite
James Difley
Inventor
Grace Dougherty
Ichneumon Fly's Larva
Robert Edeson
The Vagrant
Vinton Freedley
Male Cricket
Etienne Girardot
Otakar
N. St. Clair Hales
The Professor
Head of General Staff
May Hopkins
War Worker
Paul Irving
Another Male Beetle
Blind Ant
Rexford Kendrick
Victor
Robert Lawler
Journalist
Kenneth MacKenna
Felix
Commander-in-Chief of Yellow Ants
Ann Martin
A Baby
Beatrice Maude
Apatura Iris
Harold McGee
Bond Salesman
Jill Middleton
Female Cricket
Henry Mortimer
Woodcutter
Edgar Norton
Ichneumon Fly
Logan Paul
Telegrapher
Susan Steele
A Woman
John Ward
Dictator
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