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[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | [[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | ||
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His House in Order is a play by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[1].
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The original text
First performed at St James's Theatre, London, on 1 February 1906, and played in New York in the same year, where it starred John Drew and Margaret Illington.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted as an American silent film in 1920 by Famous Players-Lasky company, directed by Hugh Ford, and again as a British silent film, directed by Randle Ayrton and starring Tallulah Bankhead, Ian Hunter and David Hawthorne, in 1928.
Performance history in South Africa
1906: Performed by a Comedy Company presented by the Wheeler Company at the Opera House, Cape Town, as part of a season in the spring (the season started on 27 August with R.C. Carton's play, Mr Hopkinson). The cast of His House in Order included Marie Housley (as "Geraldine Ridley"), Wilfred E. Payne (as "Major Maurewark") and six year old Sylvia Edney (as "Derek Jessen").
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_House_in_Order_(1920_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_House_in_Order_(1928_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 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: p.426
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