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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2222
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 4:59 am: | 
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Found this mention today of a 1916 play called "Who Is He?" by one Horace Vachell which is based on story "current for years in England" that Jack was a wealthy, eccentric peer. Anyone known anything about this or about Mr Vachell?
The report is from the Washington Post of 2 April 1916
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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2224
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 5:25 am: |
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"The now-forgotten British author Horace Vachell introduced polo to the Pacific Coast when he relocated to Southern California in 1882. Purchasing a large cattle ranch near Arroyo Grande, which he renamed Tally-Ho, Vachell bred ponies and even socialized in the costume of the sport. His greatest acclaim came from the 1905 novel The Hill, an aristocratic Icarus fable in which the son of a Liverpudlian merchant attends the elite Harrow boarding school, rising to cricket prominence before his evitable downfall and dismissal due to class difference." |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5115
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 6:14 am: |
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Chris, this was apparently adapted from a novel by Mrs Belloc Lowndes ("Times").
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Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1485
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 7:36 am: |
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Chris
From our previous discussion of a similar report, it seems likely that the elderly multimillionaire peer was the Duke of Bedford, who killed himself in early 1891 (though not at Wimbledon!).
http://www.casebook.org/forum/messages/4924/6487.html
Chris Phillips
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andy charity
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 12:29 am: |
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apologies if i'd posted this here before - i have been looking for this 1916 play, "the lodger or who is he?" for some time. actually, the british museum is willing to make a xerox copy at cost, but it's a little complicated and expensive process to order it from them. if anyone has another lead on any copy of the play, to buy or to read, even in a reference library, i'd be very grateful, or would pay all expenses if someone has it and can make a photocopy. thank you! my email is bbcmacbear@hotmail.com. |
Jay Salsberg
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 4:11 pm: |
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WHO IS HE aka THE LODGER was, apparently, never printed as a hardback or acting edition. If, indeed, the British Museum has a copy, it will be an original performance manuscript... very rare indeed.
And, the man who directed WHO IS HE and played the title role (in both London and NY) was Lionel Atwill, who would later play a whole host of memorable cinematic villains. |
andy charity
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 7:10 pm: |
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to jay and any other interested parties: i meant to type british library, not british museum. they have a copy of the play in the Lord Chamberlain Collection of Play Manuscripts, under the title Who Is He? Subject to copywright retrictions which have to be checked for an individual title, they will make a xerox and mail it out, i made inquiries about a year ago but did not get all the way to ordering it. the cost would be roughly around $60 or $70 as i recall. if you go the website for the british library and choose one of the email addresses to write to, (i no longer have my old correspondence) i think perhaps the email for the manuscripts dept. (mss?), a librarian will look up the title, as the lord chamberlain collection is not (or wasn't last year) catalogued on the website. in order to eventually fill out the order form for a photocopy you will need to know how many pages it is, which may have to be counted off by hand, and what size of paper this manuscript would need to be copied onto.
this collection is a great source for unpublished english plays in all sorts of genres, as untl 1968 every play on the london stage had to be submitted to the censor to be passed and these copies were then deposited into the british library. |
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