By Wireless Telegraphy

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By Wireless Telegraphy
Labor Call 20 Oct 1910
Written by"Anson Grave" (William Anderson and Roy Redgrave)[1]
Date premieredOctober 22, 1910 (1910-10-22)
Place premieredKings Theatre, Melbourne
Original languageEnglish
Genremelodrama
SettingRoyal Music Hall, London
R.M.S. Richmond at sea[2]

By Wireless Telegraphy was a 1910 Australian play by William Anderson and Roy Redgrave.

Background

The play was based on the case of Hawley Harvey Crippen who was still on trial when the play went into production.[3]

The cast included regulars like Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan.[4] Anderson's regular star, Eugenie Duggan, did not appear however as she was resting (although her name featured in advertising).[5]

According to the Weekly Times "The author... has shown enterprise rather than originality. He has practically dramatised a sensational case which, even as the curtain went up, was engaging the attention of the English courts. He has not even dis- guised the names to any extent."[6]


The Age said "the taste which leads to the presentation on stage of adaptations of such cases is to be deplored" and called the play a "merely ordinary melodrama, capably played and staged." [7]

Redgrave wrote a number of plays for Anderson.[8]

References

  1. ^ "At the Theatres". Labor Call. Vol. V, no. 211. 3 November 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Amusements". Leader. No. 2859. 22 October 1910. p. 34. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Margaret Williams, 'Anderson, William (1868–1940)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/anderson-william-5023/text8357, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 7 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Off the Stage". Table Talk. 20 October 1910. p. 25. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "THE Deadhead's Diary". Truth. No. 385 (City ed.). 19 November 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Entertainments". Weekly Times. No. 2,151. 29 October 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "King's Theatre--By Wireless Telegraphy". The Age. No. 17,350. 24 October 1910. p. 9. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Greenroom Gossip". Punch. Vol. CXVI, no. 2950. 8 February 1912. p. 34. Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
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