The Dancing Girl
The Dancing Girl is a drama in four acts by Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929)[1]
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The original text
The dancing girl; a drama in four acts. byJones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929. Performed and published in 1891.
First produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on 15 January, 1891 and on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, August 31, 1891.
Published in New York by Samuel French in 1907.
Translations and adaptations
Filmed in 1915 as The Dancing Girl by the Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the play by Henry Arthur Jones and was directed by Allan Dwan.
Performance history in South Africa
1902: Performed in the Opera House, Cape Town, in June by Kate Vaughan and her company.
Sources
Russell Jackson. 1982. Plays by Henry Arthur Jones. British and American Playwrights (Volume 13), Cambridge University Press: p. 225[2].
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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