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A Comedy Drama in Four Acts by Edwin Milton Royle, originally entitled ''[[The Squaw Man]]'' in the USA.
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== Original play ==
 
 
 
Originally written as The Squaw Man, it is the story of a White man who marries an Indian maiden.
 
 
The play was first produced at Wallack's Theatre by Leibler and Company, New York in 1905, printed in 1906 by them.
 
 
 
Performed with the title ''[[A White Man]]'' in England, ''inter alia'' at The Lyric Theatre, Londonin 1908.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations ==
 
 
 
The play was adapted into a novel called ''[[The Squaw Man]]'' by Edwin Milton Royle and Julie Opp Faversham, and published by Ardent Media, 1906. Apparently the novel too was published as [[A White Man]]  in London by Hutchinson, 1908.
 
 
 
Filmed in  1914 by Cecil B. De Mille, which he subsequently remade in 1918 and again 1931. The films too were released as ''[[A White Man]]'' in England.
 
 
 
A revised version of the play was written by Brooklyn playwright Anthony E. Wills.
 
 
 
 
 
== Performances in South Africa ==
 
 
 
19??*: Performed by the  [[Leonard Rayne Company]] in South Africa, with [[Leonard Rayne]], [[Freda Godfrey]], [[Cecil Kellaway]] and [[Clarence Bigge]].
 
 
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=aASUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&dq=A+White+Man+the+stage+play+about+a+white+man+and+the+indian+maiden&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mHQvVZ7lNYTZyAOSt4GIDQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=A%20White%20Man%20the%20stage%20play%20about%20a%20white%20man%20and%20the%20indian%20maiden&f=false]
 
AbeBooks[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=hUwIMwEACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Edwin+Milton+Royle%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AngvVab6IKHPygOq24GYCA&ved=0CB4Q6AEwATgK]
 
 
 
Richard Wattenberg. 2011. Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway. P. 246[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=_X7FAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA245&dq=The+Squaw+Man+Edwin+Milton+Royle&hl=en&sa=X&ei=S3svVePrNubj7QbYoIGIAg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Squaw%20Man%20Edwin%20Milton%20Royle&f=false]
 
 
 
 
 
[[Margot Bryant]], 1979: pp. 80-81 (photograph), 154
 

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