Jim the Penman

Jim the Penman is a romantic play by Charles Lawrence Young ()[]

The original text

A play about an attractive forger in Victorian Britain, who is eventually unmasked by a wife he had deceived.

Pre3sented by A.M. Palmer at the Madison Square Theatre in 1886.

Translations and adaptations

Twice made into a silent film, in 1915[1] by Edwin S. Porter and in 1921[2] by Kenneth Webb with Lionel Barrymore.

Performance history in South Africa

1886: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town by Madame Pearmain's company, featuring Adolphus Ellis as "Baron Hartfeld" and Emily Levettez as "the wife".

1900: Performed by Herbert Flemming and his company, probably featuring Lionel B. Stent, as part of an extended season in the Opera House, Cape Town.

Sources

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020775

Facsimile version of the Samuel French version (1905), The Internet Archive [3]

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press (pp.336-7)[4]

J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. (p. 5). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book[5]

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. 383, 408

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