The Girl in the Limousine (play)

The Girl in the Limousine
Doris Kenyon as Betty Neville
Written byWilson Collison, Avery Hopwood
Date premieredOctober 6, 1919 (1919-10-06)
Place premieredEltinge 42nd Street Theatre
Original languageEnglish
GenreFarce
SettingAn apartment bedroom

The Girl in the Limousine is a play written by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood.[1] The story is a bedroom farce about a man who accidentally finds himself undressed in the bedroom of his ex-girlfriend. Producer A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway in 1919. The production was a success, closing at the end of January 1920 after 137 performances. The play was adapted into a movie in 1924.

Plot

Tony Hamilton is on his way to a party at the home of his former girlfriend Betty and her new husband Freddie Neville. He is waylaid by thieves who take most of his clothes and dump him into a dark room of a nearby apartment. This room turns out to be Betty Neville's bedroom. Betty has been feeling ill and has retired from the party to sleep. Various complications ensue as Tony attempts to conceal or explain his near-naked presence in Betty's bedroom. First Betty's aunt Cicely shows up. She has never met Betty's new husband, and finding Tony in the bedroom, she assumes he must be Freddie. The real Freddie makes his way to the bedroom later, as do several of the party guests.

Cast and characters

Cast of the Broadway production
Character Broadway cast[2]
Kargan Edward Butler
Giles Harry Charles
Tony Hamilton John Cumberland
Lucia Galen Claiborne Foster
Betty Neville Doris Kenyon
Benny Dann Malloy
Riggs Barnett Parker
Dr. Jimmie Galen Charles Ruggles
Bernice Warren Vivian Rushmore
Aunt Cicely Zelda Sears
Freddie Neville Frank Thomas

History

Advertisement for the play in The Jacksonville Daily Journal, February 2, 1921

Wilson Collison wrote the initial version of the play and offered it to producer Al Woods, who had previously produced Up in Mabel's Room, a play Collison co-wrote with Otto Hauerbach. Woods gave it to Avery Hopwood for revisions. The play was initially titled Betty's Bed, but was changed for production to The Girl in the Limousine, despite the fact that no female character is in a limousine at any time during the story.[3]

The play's Broadway opening was at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on October 6, 1919.[2] John Cumberland and Doris Kenyon starred as Tony and Betty. It ran on Broadway until January 31, 1920,[4] with 137 performances.[2] The play subsequently went on tour, appearing in cities such as Kansas City,[5] Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco[6] with John Arthur and Nancy Fair leading the cast.[7][8][9]

Reception

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle said the play "lost its humor in plain coarseness and indecency" and claimed it "exhausts the possibilities for vulgarity".[10] The New York Tribune said it used "familiar formulae" and had only one good joke.[11] In The Evening World, Charles Darnton called it "mechanical" and said audiences would be bored rather than shocked.[12] Dorothy Parker, writing in Vanity Fair, found it "undeniably very funny".[13] George Jean Nathan for the literary magazine The Smart Set wrote: "Avery Hopwood..., it begins to look, is selling his artistic soul to the highest bidder".[14]

Adaptations

Lobby card for the film adaptation

Chadwick Pictures produced a silent film adaptation of the play, also titled The Girl in the Limousine, in 1924.[15] Larry Semon and Claire Adams starred as Tony and his ex-girlfriend; Oliver Hardy played Freddie. Semon co-directed with Noel M. Smith. The movie is considered a lost film.

References

  1. ^ American Play Company (1894–2006). "BOX-FOLDER 172/12". American / Century Play Company scripts and business papers, 1894-2006. findingaids.loc.gov. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "The Girl in the Limousine". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Wainscott, Ronald Harold (1997). The Emergence of the Modern American Theater, 1914-1929. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 56–57. ISBN 0-300-06776-3. OCLC 35128122.
  4. ^ "The Stage Door". New York Tribune. January 26, 1920. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Cain, Giles (November 6, 1920). "Two Sides of the Footlights". The Independent. p. 2.
  6. ^ "Drame: The Girl in the Limousine". The Argonaut. December 18, 1920. p. 418.
  7. ^ "Farce Opens Adelphi". The Philadelphia Inquirer. August 31, 1920. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "News of the Theaters". Pittsburgh Gazette Times. September 6, 1920. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Alcazar". Pacific Coast Musical Review. April 30, 1921. p. 11 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ "The Girl in the Limousine". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 79, no. 278. October 7, 1919. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  11. ^ "The Girl in the Limousine Another Bedroom Farce". New York Tribune. Vol. 79, no. 26, 623. October 7, 1919. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  12. ^ "The New Plays: The Girl in the Limousine Mechanical Farce". The Evening World. October 11, 1919. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  13. ^ Parker, Dorothy (December 1919). "The First Hundred Plays Are the Hardest: A Strenuous Effort to Keep Up with the Oncoming Dramas". Vanity Fair. p. 110.
  14. ^ Nathan, George Jean (December 1919). "Criticism at a Gallop". The Smart Set. Vol. 60, no. 4. Smart Set Company. p. 136.
  15. ^ Roberts, Jerry (2003). The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, TV, Video and DVD. New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. p. 110. ISBN 1-55783-512-8.

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