Monsieur Beaucaire

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Monsieur Beaucaire is play by E.G. Sutherland and Booth Tarkington.


The original text

Based on the short novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington (first published in 1900), it was adapted as a play by Tarkington and Sutherland in 1904 and first performed starring Evelyn Millard and Lewis Waller, the play received a Royal Command Performance at Windsor Castle before Edward VII.

In 1924-25 it was a considerable West End success for Gerald Lawrence, who played the lead.

Performed in South Africa

It was one of the plays performed in 1929 by a West End theatre company from London headed by actor-manager Gerald Lawrence on a South African tour.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Beaucaire_(novel)

https://books.google.co.za/books?id=5vFEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=Monsieur+Beaucaire+Gerald+Lawrence&source=bl&ots=eeLIrELcLT&sig=dlTo6-ZP06riIwcGElJQxi6Myp4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIkczj1ojfxgIVsgjbCh0hpQls#v=onepage&q=Monsieur%20Beaucaire%20Gerald%20Lawrence&f=false

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