Jim the Penman

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

Als found as Jim, the Penman.

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

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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