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==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
Twice filmed, in 1931 as  ''The Man in Possession'' by Sam Wood and in 1937 as ''Personal Property''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Property_(film)] by W.S. Van Dyke, with Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor. (The latter film also used the  alternate title of ''The Man in Possession'' on occasion).
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Twice filmed, in 1931 as  ''The Man in Possession''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_Possession] by Sam Wood and in 1937 as ''Personal Property''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Property_(film)] by W.S. Van Dyke, with Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor. (The latter film also used the  alternate title of ''The Man in Possession'' on occasion).
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 06:46, 19 October 2019

There are two plays by this name


The Man in Possession by James Albery (1876)

The original text

Written by by James Albery (1838–1889)[1], it opened at the Gaiety Theatre, London, on 4 December, 1876.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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The Man in Possession by H.M Harwood (1930)

The original text

A play in three acts and an epilogue by Harold Marsh Harwood (1874–1959)[2], it opened on . Published in London by E. Benn in 1930.

Translations and adaptations

Twice filmed, in 1931 as The Man in Possession[3] by Sam Wood and in 1937 as Personal Property[4] by W.S. Van Dyke, with Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor. (The latter film also used the alternate title of The Man in Possession on occasion).

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.) F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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