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Wings Over Europe (play)

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Date premiered
  
December 10, 1928

Genre
  
drama

Setting
  
10 Downing Street

Original language
  
English

First performance
  
10 December 1928

Place premiered
  
Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Written by
  
Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne

Playwrights
  
Robert Nichols, Maurice Browne

Wings Over Europe was a 1928 Broadway three-act play written by Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne, produced by the Theatre Guild and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It opened on December 10, 1928 at the Martin Beck Theatre and then moved to the Alvin Theatre sometime in 1929 running for 90 total performances.

Contents

Young British genius Francis Lightfoot has discovered how to make terrible bombs using the atom. He's soon dismayed by the greed and militarism of the British cabinet members.

Cast

  • Hugh Buckler as Stapp
  • Frank Conroy as Arthur
  • Wheeler Dryden as Plimsoll
  • Frank Elliott as Dedham
  • Joseph Kilgour as Grindle
  • Alexander Kirkland as Lightfoot
  • Robert Rendel as Vere
  • Lionel Bevans as St. Man
  • Thomas Braidon as Cossington
  • Charles Carden as Taggert
  • John Dunn as Sunningdale
  • Charles Francis as Faulkiner
  • George Graham as Pascoe
  • Nicholas Joy as Haliburton
  • A. P. Kaye as Rummel
  • Ernest Lawford as Grantby
  • Edward Lester as Hand
  • Gordon Richards as Dunn
  • Grant Stewart as Blount

    • Accolades

    Wings Over Europe was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1928–29.

    References

    Wings Over Europe (play) Wikipedia
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