The Silver King (play)

Maud Jeffries as Nellie Denver
Wilson Barrett as Wilfred Denver

The Silver King is an 1882 melodramatic play, by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman. It was "so well known that criticism is superfluous" and played to record-breaking audiences.[1] It was adapted for films in 1919 and 1929.[2][3] The play featured stars such as Mary Pickford.[4]

The play was serialised for Australian radio in 1941 with a cast including Harvey Adams and Ron Randell.[5] It was dramatised as a 90-minute play for the BBC Home Service (now BBC Radio 4) in 1964, starring Sir Donald Wolfit as Wilfred Denver.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Music and the Drama". The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts. 1 (17): 270. 27 March 1884. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Silver King (1919) - George Irving | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
  3. ↑ "The Silver King (1929)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Schmidt, Christel (2012). Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies. University Press of Kentucky. p. 50. ISBN 978-0- 8131-3667-7.
  5. ↑ "OLD MELODRAMA. NOW RADIO SERIAL", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (28 (July 12, 1941)), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-721545838, retrieved 17 March 2024 – via Trove
  6. ↑ BBC, programmes, The Silver King
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