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The Creaking Chair

Theater: Comedy Theatre
Opening Date: July 22, 1924
Performances: 235


Playwright: Allene Tupper Wilkes
Director: C. Aubrey Smith
Producer: Martin Sabine


Partial Cast: J. Phillips Roberts, Nigel Bruce, C. Disney Roebuck, Olga Slade, Fabia Drake, Rita John

Tallulah's Role: Anita Latter
Salary: 50 pounds per week


Despite terrible reviews, The Creaking Chair turned out to be a hit and ran for six months. This resulted in irking Tallulah, who had other fish to fry and was itching to snag the role of Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugaum's Rain (she didn't get the part, see Biography for details).

Tallulah's Comments: "Although it ran for thirty weeks, The Creaking Chair was nothing to disturb G.B.S. or Barrie. On the opening night, the author was booed. The reviews, while satluting Aubrey Smith, Nigel Bruce and your far from humble servant, said the melodrama was reminiscent of something that had been fished from under the East India docks in Limehouse."

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