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The Command to Love
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The Command to Love Playbill - September 1927
The Command to Love
Broadway
Original
Longacre Theatre
220 W. 48th St., New York, NY
SYNOPSIS:
playwright:
Rudolf Lothar
,
Fritz Gottwald
People (19)
Violet Kemble-Cooper
Marie-Anne
(Original)
Mary Nash
Manuela
(Original)
Basil Rathbone
Gaston, Marquis du Saint-Lac
(Original)
Henry Stephenson
The French Ambassador to Spain
(Original)
Walter Colligan
A Lackey
(Original)
David Glassford
The French Foreign Minister
(Original)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
The Spanish War Minister
(Original)
Percy Hemus
Don Tomas Martinez
(Original)
Anthony Kemble Cooper
Emile Ardillot
(Original)
Thomas Louden
Don Pedro Munaterra
(Original)
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Violet Kemble-Cooper
Marie-Anne
(Original)
Mary Nash
Manuela
(Original)
Basil Rathbone
Gaston, Marquis du Saint-Lac
(Original)
Henry Stephenson
The French Ambassador to Spain
(Original)
Walter Colligan
A Lackey
(Original)
David Glassford
The French Foreign Minister
(Original)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
The Spanish War Minister
(Original)
Percy Hemus
Don Tomas Martinez
(Original)
Anthony Kemble Cooper
Emile Ardillot
(Original)
Thomas Louden
Don Pedro Munaterra
(Original)
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Rudolf Lothar
Writer
Fritz Gottwald
Writer
Herman Bernstein
Book Adaptor
Brian Marlow
Book Adaptor
Lester Lonergan
Staging
Walter Colligan
Stage Manager
Tom Weatherly
Press Representative
William A. Brady
Producer
Dwight Deere Wiman
Producer
John Tuerk
Produced In Association with
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Opening Date
Sep
20
1927
Closing Date
Apr
1
1928
Performances
247
as of Dec 03, 2025
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The Command To Love - September 26, 1927
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