Colonel Newcome (play)

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Colonel Newcome is a 1906 play by the British writer Michael Morton. It is based on the character from the 1855 William Makepeace Thackeray novel The Newcomes . The part was written for the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree. [1]

Michael Morton was an English dramatist in the early Twentieth Century.

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  1. Matthews p.152

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