Pearls: Play in One Act

[moderate age-toning to edges of covers, name "James H. Butler" stamped and written on front cover, additionally stamped on the first inside page along with "Banner Play Bureau, Inc., 449 Powell Street, San Francisco, (2) Calif."]. One-act play about a young man who brings home a faux pearl necklace as a gift for his younger sister, which leads her and their older sister to suspect that he has stolen it from the department store where all three of them work. Dan Totheroh (1894-1976) was a prolific but never very prominent playwright, sometime screenwriter and occasional novelist, whose most notable literary achievement was probably his 1942 novel "Deep Valley," which was made into the 1947 movie of the same name. According to his obituary in the San Francisco Examiner, "Pearls" was his first produced play -- actually written as a vaudeville sketch, that played the Pantages and Orpheum Theatres in San Francisco, and eventually at the Palace in New York. He was deeply involved in the Bay Area theatre community, maintaining a fifty-plus-year relationship with the Mountain Theatre on Marin County's Mt. Tamalpais and also writing a number of plays for exclusive performance at the Bohemian Grove. (He was also the younger brother of Charlie Chaplin's longtime cinematographer, Roland (Rollie) Totheroh.)

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Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Year: (c.1931)

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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