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| − | + | Only two sources have been found for this attribution. The first [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980, p. 403, citing [[D.C. Boonzaier]]), who ascribes the play performed in South Africa by the [[Ernest Searelle Comedy Company]] to "R.R. Lumley". Given the fact that Bosman almost certainly has the name of the company wrong (it is probably the [[Luscombe Searelle Comedy Company]]), it is highly probable that this could also hav e been Law's text. | |
Revision as of 06:19, 14 November 2019
There appear to have been two plays by this name, both from the mid 1890s:
The New Boy: a comic farce by Arthur Law
Arthur Law (1844-1913)[1] was apparently inspired to write the play by F. Anstey’s popular book Vice Versa. The New Boy opened at Terry's Vaudeville Theatre, London, on February 28, 1894, with Weedon Grossmith in the title role, and finally closed in April 1895. The first American performance of was in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 14, 1894.
The posters for Law's play are speculated to have been the source of the famous Mad Magazine cover image of "Alfred E. Neumann". (See the entry on this in Yesterday's Papers, an inspiring blog by cartoonist, illustrator and storyteller John Adcock at http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-face-of-new-boy.html.)
The New Boy: a comedy by R.R. Lumley
Only two sources have been found for this attribution. The first F.C.L. Bosman (1980, p. 403, citing D.C. Boonzaier), who ascribes the play performed in South Africa by the Ernest Searelle Comedy Company to "R.R. Lumley". Given the fact that Bosman almost certainly has the name of the company wrong (it is probably the Luscombe Searelle Comedy Company), it is highly probable that this could also hav e been Law's text.
