By Wireless Telegraphy
| By Wireless Telegraphy | |
|---|---|
 Labor Call 20 Oct 1910 | |
| Written by | "Anson Grave" (William Anderson and Roy Redgrave)[1] |
| Date premiered | October 22, 1910 |
| Place premiered | Kings Theatre, Melbourne |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | melodrama |
| Setting | Royal Music Hall, London R.M.S. Richmond at sea[2] |
By Wireless Telegraphy was a 1910 Australian play by William Anderson and Roy Redgrave.
Background[edit]
The play was based on the case of Hawley Harvey Crippen who was still on trial when the play went into production.[3]
The cast included regulars like Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan.[4] Anderson's regular star, Eugenie Duggan, did not appear however as she was resting (although her name featured in advertising).[5]
According to the Weekly Times "The author... has shown enterprise rather than originality. He has practically dramatised a sensational case which, even as the curtain went up, was engaging the attention of the English courts. He has not even dis- guised the names to any extent."[6]
The Age said "the taste which leads to the presentation on stage of adaptations of such cases is to be deplored" and called the play a "merely ordinary melodrama, capably played and staged."
[7]
Redgrave wrote a number of plays for Anderson.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "At the Theatres". Labor Call. Vol. V, no. 211. 3 November 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Amusements". Leader. No. 2859. 22 October 1910. p. 34. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Margaret Williams, 'Anderson, William (1868–1940)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/anderson-william-5023/text8357, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 7 February 2024.
- ^ "Off the Stage". Table Talk. 20 October 1910. p. 25. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE Deadhead's Diary". Truth. No. 385 (City ed.). 19 November 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Entertainments". Weekly Times. No. 2,151. 29 October 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "King's Theatre--By Wireless Telegraphy". The Age. No. 17,350. 24 October 1910. p. 9. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Greenroom Gossip". Punch. Vol. CXVI, no. 2950. 8 February 1912. p. 34. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
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