The Ever Open Door

The Ever Open Door is a play by English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist George R. Sims (1947-1922), a leading Victorian writer of stage melodramas and H.H. Herbert.

Translations and adaptations
It was one of a number of Sims's plays to be adapted for cinema during the Silent era.

Performance history in South Africa
Produced by Leonard Rayne, with Freda Godfrey as Robbie, the Earl of Dereham, at the Standard Theatre from Monday 17 November 1919.

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