The Eternal City

The Eternal City is a play by Hal Caine (1853–1931)[1].

The original text

Originally written as a hugely successful novel, which was the first novel to have sold over a million copies worldwide, the stage version of The Eternal City

It opened on Broadway in 1902.

Translations and adaptations

Filmed in 1915 as a silent film[2], was released by produced by Adolph Zukor and the Famous Players Film Company, directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter. A remake of the film was filmed in 1923, directed by George Fitzmaurice. and starring Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell, and Lionel Barrymore.

Performance history in South Africa

1902-3: Performed by Leonard Rayne at the Opera House, Cape Town, under the auspices of the Mouillot-De Jong Company, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Caine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eternal_City_(1915_film)

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 1923. (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.

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