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A SCENE FROM THE THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTION]
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE DIAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
_Printed in the United States of America_
The first regular production of HE in English was by The Theatre Guild on January 9, 1922, at the Garrick Theatre, New York. The original cast was as follows:
_Tilly_ } { Philip Leigh _Polly_ } _Musical Clowns_ { Edgar Stehli
_Briquet, Manager of the Circus_ Ernest Cossart _Mancini, Consuelo's Father_ Frank Reicher _Zinida, a Lion Tamer_ Helen Westley
_Angelica_ } _Trapeze Performers_ { Martha Bryan Allen _Estelle_ } { Helen Sheridan
_Francois_ Edwin R. Wolfe _HE_ Richard Bennett _Jackson, a Clown_ Henry Travers _Consuelo, the Equestrian Tango Queen_ Margalo Gillmore _Alfred Bezano, a Bareback Rider_ John Rutherford _Baron Regnard_ Louis Calvert _A Gentleman_ John Blair _Wardrobe Lady_ Kathryn Wilson _Usher_ Charles Cheltenham _Conductor_ Edwin R. Wolfe _Pierre_ Philip Loeb _A Sword Dancer_ Renee Wilde _Ballet Master_ Oliver Grymes
{ Vera Tompkins { Anne Tonnetti _Ballet Girls_ { Marguerite Wernimont { Frances Ryan
_Actresses in Circus Pantomime_ { Adele St. Maur { Sara Enright
_Thomas, a Strong Man_ Dante Voltaire _A Snake Charmer_ Joan Clement _A Contortionist_ Richard Coolidge _A Riding Master_ Kenneth Lawton _A Juggler_ Francis G. Sadtler
_Acrobats_ { Sears Taylor { Luigi Belastro
_Stage Manager_, Philip Loeb _Ass't Stage Manager_, Oliver Grymes
_Produced under the direction of_ ROBERT MILTON
"Stage, screen, and amateur rights for the translation and the original play in all English-speaking countries are owned and controlled by The Theatre Guild, 65 West 35th St., New York City. No public readings or performances may be given without their written consent."
Leonid Andreyev as a literary figure was born in the gloomy atmosphere of depression of the 'nineties. He thus appeared upon the literary stage at a period when the old and splendid generation of Turgenev and Dostoevsky had already passed away and when Chekhov had begun to demonstrate before the reader the gloom and colourlessness of Russia life.