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The Green Goddess (play)

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Written by
  
William Archer

Original language
  
English

Playwright
  
William Archer

Adaptations
  
The Green Goddess (1930)

Place premiered
  
Booth Theatre

Date premiered
  
January 18, 1921

First performance
  
18 January 1921

Genre
  
Drama

Adapted from
  
The Green Goddess

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Setting
  
Remote area near the Himalayas

Similar
  
Native Son, Horse Eats Hat, The Cradle Will Rock, Around the World, June Moon

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The Green Goddess was a popular stage play of 1921 by William Archer. In the three years after its publication, the play toured in both America and England. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1920-1921.

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The 1921 Broadway production four-act melodrama was produced and staged by Winthrop Ames. It ran for 175 performances from January 18, 1921, to June 1921 at the Booth Theatre.

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Broadway cast

  • George Arliss as Raja of Rukh
  • Ronald Colman as Temple Priest
  • Ivan F. Simpson as Watkins
  • Cyril Keightley as Dr. Basil Traherne
  • David A. Leonard as High Priest
  • Helen Nowell as An Ayah
  • Herbert Ransome as Lt. Denis Cardew
  • Herbert Waring as Major Antony Crespin
  • Olive Wyndham as Lucilla
  • The play was the basis for both a 1923 silent film and a 1930 talkie. Star George Arliss and Ivan F. Simpson reprised their roles in both films, as the Raja of Rukh and his chief aide, respectively.

    In 1925 a railway locomotive was named after it, the locomotive's owner having been inspired by the stage play.

    In 1939, Orson Welles staged a version in New York, which was preceded by a short film prelude – this was two years before the release of his debut feature film, Citizen Kane. The footage is now believed lost.

    Green Goddess salad dressing was invented in the 1920s, by the chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, to commemorate the actor George Arliss and this play.

    References

    The Green Goddess (play) Wikipedia