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-[[S.J. Pretorius]]. 1961. Copy of the typed [[SABC]] radio text of ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'', held in the Drama Department archive of the [[University of Stellenbosch]].
+[[S.J. Pretorius]]. 1961. Copy of the typed [[SABC]] radio text of ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'', held in the Drama Department archive of the [[University of Stellenbosch]]. Now held in the [[ESAT repository]] held at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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−	1961: ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'' broadcast by the [[SABC]] in the programme ''[[Radioteater]]'' on 3 March, directed by [[Pieter Grobbelaar]].	+	1961: The radio adaptation, ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'', was broadcast by the [[SABC]] in the programme ''[[Radioteater]]'' on 3 March, directed by [[Pieter Grobbelaar]].

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	==The original text==		==The original text==
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		+	A play about a number of guests - including a British couple on their honeymoon, and people from Germany, France, and America - trapped in the Hotel Monte Gabriel in the Italian Alps, at the beginning of a world war.

	The play was produced by the Theatre Guild and directed by Bretaigne Windust. After a pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., it opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on 24 March, 1936, and ran for 300 performances till 30 January, 1937.		The play was produced by the Theatre Guild and directed by Bretaigne Windust. After a pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., it opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on 24 March, 1936, and ran for 300 performances till 30 January, 1937.

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	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood
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		+	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot%27s_Delight_(film)

	[[S.J. Pretorius]]. 1961. Copy of the typed [[SABC]] radio text of ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'', held in the Drama Department archive of the [[University of Stellenbosch]].		[[S.J. Pretorius]]. 1961. Copy of the typed [[SABC]] radio text of ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'', held in the Drama Department archive of the [[University of Stellenbosch]].

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-The play was adapted for film by Sherwood and filmed in 1939 with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable.[]
+The play was adapted for film by Sherwood and filmed in 1939 with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot%27s_Delight_(film)]
 Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'' ("The hotel on the border") and adapted as a radio play by [[S.J. Pretorius]] in 1961.

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-''[[Idiot's Delight]]'' is a play by Robert E. Sherwood ()[].
+''[[Idiot's Delight]]'' is a play by Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood].
 ==The original text==
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot%27s_Delight_(play)
 [[S.J. Pretorius]]. 1961. Copy of the typed [[SABC]] radio text of ''[[Die Hotel op die Grens]]'', held in the Drama Department archive of the [[University of Stellenbosch]].

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 ==The original text==
-The play opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on 24 March, 1936, and ran for 300 performances till 30 January, 1937, for 300 performances.
+The play was produced by the Theatre Guild and directed by Bretaigne Windust. After a pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., it opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on 24 March, 1936, and ran for 300 performances till 30 January, 1937.
-The play had a pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., starting on March 9, 1936.[1] The play was presented by the Theatre Guild. Directed by Bretaigne Windust, the cast starred Alfred Lunt (Harry Van) and Lynn Fontanne (Irene), with Sydney Greenstreet as Dr. Waldersee and Francis Compton as Achille Weber. The play was nominated for the 1936 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best American Play.[2]
+The play was nominated for the 1936 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best American Play and awarded the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
 ==Translations and adaptations==