A White Man
A Comedy Drama in Four Acts by Edwin Milton Royle, originally entitled The Squaw Man in the USA.
Original play
Originally written as The Squaw Man, it is the story of a White man who marries an Indian maiden.
The play was first produced at Wallack's Theatre by Leibler and Company, New York in 1905, printed in 1906 by them.
Performed with the title A White Man in England, inter alia at The Lyric Theatre, Londonin 1908.
Translations and adaptations
The play was adapted into a novel called The Squaw Man by Edwin Milton Royle and Julie Opp Faversham, and published by Ardent Media, 1906. Apparently the novel too was published as A White Man in London by Hutchinson, 1908.
Filmed in 1914 by Cecil B. De Mille, which he subsequently remade in 1918 and again 1931. The films too were released as A White Man in England.
A revised version of the play was written by Brooklyn playwright Anthony E. Wills.
Performances in South Africa
19??*: Performed by the Leonard Rayne Company in South Africa, with Leonard Rayne, Freda Godfrey, Cecil Kellaway and Clarence Bigge.
Sources
Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader[1] AbeBooks[2]
Richard Wattenberg. 2011. Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway. P. 246[3]
Margot Bryant, 1979: pp. 80-81 (photograph), 154
