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Power


Note: This production is a revival production in the same location as the original 1937 production.
New York, February 10, 1938
Ritz Theatre
Directed by Edward Vail
Music by Lee Wainer

Credits
Title - Power
Author - Arent, Arthur
Location - New York, NY(Ritz Theatre)
Date - Feb 10, 1938
Genre - Drama/Living Newspaper
Director - Edward Vail
Composer - Lee Wainer
Conductor - George Rubenstein
Costume Designer - Dorothy Ward
Set Designer -

Cast
Voice of the Living Newspaper - Boyd Agin
Old Man at Radio, Martin Insull, M. H. Aylesworth, Clerk of Senate, James Lawrence Fly - Charles Danforth
Old man's Wife - Kate Cloud
Police Operator, Policeman, Grocer, Butcher - Charles Lewis
Surgeon, Electric Company Manager - Oliver Putnam
Internes - Robert Bowen
Intern, Robert E. Healy, Second Congressman - Everet Charleton
Patient - Agnes Moss
Garment Workers - Lottie Quinby, Frances Nichols
Policeman, Butcher, Governor Hill McAlister - Charles Douglas
Theatre Manager, Grocery Clerk, Fruit Vendor, Barber - Sam Lewis
Irish Mother - Sadie Belgarde
Baker Proprietor - Joseph Murray
Airport Radio Operator, James M. Beck - Arthur Davies
Restaurant Proprietor, Hardware Clerk - Harry Kline
Traffic Accident Victim - Peggy Hastings
Driver of Car, Fruit Vendor, Carl D. Thompson, Man on Soap Box - Brandt Peters
Announcer, Senator Sherman Minton, City Dweller, City Man - John Lorenz
William Gilbert - Don Harwood
Michael Faraday, Court of Appeals Judge - Robert Halsey
George Simon Ohm, Editor, Public Utilities Commisioner, - Harry Brooks
Zenobe T. Gramme, J. L. Murphy, Business Man - Clay Cody
Thomas Edison, Chairman, Wendell L. Wilkie - Harrison Brockbank
Financier, T. Commerform Martin, Sanator Burton K. Wheeler, The Messrs. Carmichael, Utilities Representative, William Cope, Voice of Chief Justice Hughes - Dudley Hawley
Consumer, Angus T. Buttonkeeper, Investor - Allan MacAteer
Electrician, Man Who Knows, Forney Johnston - Ben Rose
Grocery Clerk - Ivan Acharg
Butcher, Rent Collector, Linesman - Kenneth Tuttle
Electric Company Manager, Elec. Co. Clerk, Company Agent, Man on Street, Consumer-at-Large - Warren Pettinger
Electric Co. Clerk, Grocer, Governor Bibb Graves - Jack Casey
Man on Bench, Farmer - Wilfred Clark
Witness, Father, Mayor's Secretary, Voice of Linesman, Man on Street - James Swift
Senator Goerge W. Norris - Haliam Bosworth
Daughter - Viola Swayne
Samuel J. Insull, Politician, Bernard F. Weadock, Voice of Justice McReynolds - William Mulligan
Mr. Lane - Craig Neslo
Mrs. Lane of 1913 - Edith Appleton
Mrs. Lane of 1926 - Jane Graham
Hardware Clerk, Linesman - William Myron
Drygoods Clerk - Thomas MacIntyre
Drygoods Clerk, Federal Trade Commisions Spokesman, Business Man - Walter Franklyn
Rent Collector, Utilities Executive - Frank Verigun
Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs - Jack Kingsburg
Representative John E. Rankin, Chairman - Ulric Collins
Third Congressman, District Court Judge - Charles Peyton
Farmer's Wife - Frances Ware
City Dweller's Wife - Gladys Parke
Chairman - William Barrows
Storekeeper - Law Lederer
Old Woman - Edith Harcourt
Colored Farmer - Milton Williams
Company Agent - Julius Klineman
Frank W. Smith - Jack Kingsbury
Woman Stockholder - Mabel Grainger
Broker - Ellsworth Woods
Business Man - Edward West
Nurses, Marchers, Consumers, Housewives - Peggy Hastings, Winifred Gilmore, Mabel Grainger, Marjorie Betz, Alice Courtney, Patsie DeForrest, Gladys Parks, Eda Reis, Viola Swayne, Eleanor Barrie, Alice De Lane, Winifred Gilmore, Nancy Kelly, Agnes Moss, Lottie Quimby, Lulu Thorne
Electricians, Business Men, Directors, Commisioners, Stagehands, College Professors, Farmers, Catoosa County Residents, Reporters, Marchers, Consumers - Ben Rose, Kenneth Tuttle, Julius Klineman, Charles Peyton, Charles Lewis, William Myron, Ellsworth Woods, George Fay, Edward West, Harry Brooks, Don Harwood, Clay Cody, Dudley Hawley, Jack Casey, Jack Smith, Sam Lewis, Warren Pettinger, Joseph Murray, William Gallagher, Charles Douglas, Thomas MacIntyre, Robert Halsey, Harry Kline, Charles Levine, Arthur Davies, Frank Verigun, Everet Charleton, Alonzo McWaith, Philip Thomas, Ivan Acharg, Alfred George, C. P. Glocker, Milt Williams, William Barrows, J. T. Casey, W. J. Franklin, Law Lederer, H. McLaughlin, Frances Nichols


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