A Race for Dinner

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Full title: A race for a dinner: or, "No dinner yet". A farce in one act by James Thomas Goodenham Rodwell (in some sources with George Daniel). A translation and adaptation of the French comedy Le gastronome sans argent by Scribe and Brulay.

First performed, apparently after Rodwell's death) at Covent Garden Theatre in 1828 and published the same year in London (Thomas Hailes Lacy and/or Samuel French). Performed and published in New York in 1829.

Sources

https://archive.org/details/racefordinnerfar00rodw

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009564854

http://www.worldcat.org/title/race-for-a-dinner-or-no-dinner-yet-a-farce-in-one-act-adapted-from-the-french/oclc/38482498?ht=edition&referer=di

Bosman, 1928: pp. 426-7

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