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Ritz Theatre, (12/26/1927 - 6/30/1928)

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Opening Date:	Dec 26, 1927
Closing Date:	Jun 30, 1928	Total Performances:	216

Category: Play, Comedy, Play with music, Original, Broadway

Description: A play in three acts

Setting: A small vaudevile theatre in Los Angeles; the N.V.A. club in New York City; Elsa's apartment in New York City; in and around the Palace Theatre, New York City.

Opening Night Credits
Songs

Production Staff
Theatre Leased by Messrs. Shubert (Lee and J. J.)
Produced by Barbour, Crimmins & Bryant
Written by John McGowan; Musical Director: Morris Zentner; Featuring songs by Ray Henderson; Featuring songs with lyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva
Directed by Melville Burke; Musical Staging by John Boyle; Production Supervised by Paul Dickey
Scenic Design by P. Dodd Ackerman; Costume Design by Jenkins, Maison Simone and Mahieu
Technical Director: Edward Clarke Lilley
Conducted by Bruce Healy

Cast

The Admirals	Band
Maud Blair	Sarah Benton
Nace Bonville	Jack Merrill
William Boula	Joe DeLeon
Herbert Clark	Val D'Errico
Charles Dalton	Charlie
John H. Dilson	Frank Arnold
Mort Downey	George McCarthy
Eric Dressler	Eddie Kane
Vladimir Dubinsky	Bob
Doris Eaton	Betty Ford
Frances Goodrich	Rita Rydell
Miriam Hopkins	Elsa McCoy
Frank Horton	Al Kent
Boyd Marshall	Herbert Crammon
Frank McHugh	Jimmy Dunn
Howard Morgan	Dad
Lawrence O'Sullivan	Marvin
Merald Tollefsen	Bill
Denton Vane	Harry Hart
Suzanne Willa	Mabel Ford

ACT 1	Sung By
For Old Times' Sake (music by Ray Henderson; lyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva)	George McCarthy
ACT 2
Gene Buck Song
ACT 3	Sung By
Those Two Girls and That Boy	Jimmy Dunn, Eddie Kane, Betty Ford and Mabel Ford