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So Was Napoleon (sap from Syracuse)
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So Was Napoleon (sap from Syracuse) Playbill - January 1930
So Was Napoleon (sap from Syracuse)
Broadway
Original
Sam H. Harris Theatre
226 W. 42nd St., New York, NY, New York, NY
SYNOPSIS:
playwright:
John Wray
,
Jack O'Donnell
People (26)
Granville Bates
Solomon Hycross
(Original)
Spencer Bentley
Bells
(Original)
Paul Byron
Sam Henderson
(Original)
Frances Crossey
Belle Cherry
(Original)
Frank Dae
Adolph
(Original)
Ruth Donnelly
Dolly Thornton
(Original)
Elsa Ersi
Countess de Bouchard
(Original)
Louis Frohoff
Commodore Barker
(Original)
Albert Gesse
Beauvais
(Original)
Oliver Holmes
R. Walter Tulliford
(Original)
Hugh McConnell
Littleton Looney
(Original)
Grant Mills
Hartley Hopkins
(Original)
Mary Murray
Florence Goodrich
(Original)
Jack Raffael
Senator Halpin
(Original)
Sidney Riggs
Pedro Zaballa
(Original)
Czara Romanyi
Juju
(Original)
Marcel Rousseau
A Detective
(Original)
Lloyd Russell
George Pope
(Original)
George Spelvin
A Gendarme
(Original)
Joseph Spelvin
Another Gendarme
(Original)
Roland Wilson
Earl Truesdale
(Original)
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Granville Bates
Solomon Hycross
(Original)
Spencer Bentley
Bells
(Original)
Paul Byron
Sam Henderson
(Original)
Frances Crossey
Belle Cherry
(Original)
Frank Dae
Adolph
(Original)
Ruth Donnelly
Dolly Thornton
(Original)
Elsa Ersi
Countess de Bouchard
(Original)
Louis Frohoff
Commodore Barker
(Original)
Albert Gesse
Beauvais
(Original)
Oliver Holmes
R. Walter Tulliford
(Original)
Hugh McConnell
Littleton Looney
(Original)
Grant Mills
Hartley Hopkins
(Original)
Mary Murray
Florence Goodrich
(Original)
Jack Raffael
Senator Halpin
(Original)
Sidney Riggs
Pedro Zaballa
(Original)
Czara Romanyi
Juju
(Original)
Marcel Rousseau
A Detective
(Original)
Lloyd Russell
George Pope
(Original)
George Spelvin
A Gendarme
(Original)
Joseph Spelvin
Another Gendarme
(Original)
Roland Wilson
Earl Truesdale
(Original)
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Jack O'Donnell
Writer
John Wray
Writer
John Hayden
Staging
Robert V. Newman
Producer
Arnold Johnson
Producer
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Pro Info
Opening Date
Jan
8
1930
Closing Date
Jan
25
1930
Performances
25
as of Jan 10, 2026
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