Men and Women (play)

Men and Women is an American play written by David Belasco and Henry Churchill de Mille.

It was featured on Broadway in 1890, opening at Proctor's Twenty-Third Street Theater on October 21, 1890. The cast included Maude Adams. ^[1] It proved successful with audiences, and played for over 200 performances. ^[2]

It was adapted to a silent film of the same name in 1914.

Original Broadway Cast

• Frederic De Belleville as Israel Cohen
• William Morris as Wm. Prescott
• Orrin Johnson as Edwin Seabury
• R.A. Roberts at Calvin Stedman
• Henry Talbot as Lyman H. Webb
• Frank Mordaunt as Stephen Rodman
• M.A. Kennedy as Zachary T. Kip
• T.C. Valentine as "Dick" Armstrong
• J.C. Buckstone as Sam Delafield
• Emmett Corrigan as Arnold Kirke
• Louis Haines as Messenger
• Sydney Armstrong as Agnes Rodman
• Odette Tyler as Mr. Kate Delafield
• Etta Hawkins as Margery Knox
• Annie Adams as Mrs. Jane Prescott
• Lillian Chantore as Mrs. Kirke
• C. Leslie Allen as Pendleton
• W.H. Tillard at Reynolds
• Arthur Hayden as Bergman
• Edgar Mackey as Wayne
• E.J. McCullough as Crawford
• Richard Marlow as John
• Maude Adams as Dora
• Winona Shannon as Lucy
• Gladys Eurelle as Julia

Ida Waterman joined cast as Mrs. Kirke on December 8, 1890 The two-hundredth performance was held on March 25, 1891, and it closed on March 28. ^[1]

References

1. Brown, T. Allston. A History of the New York Stage, Vol. 3, p. 511 (1903)
2. Fields, Armond. Maude Adams: Idol of American theater, 1872-1953, p.79-83 (2004)

External links

• ​Men and Women​ at the Internet Broadway Database