Nigel Playfair
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Sir Nigel Ross Playfair was an English actor and director, known particularly as actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in the 1920s.
Playfair in 1922
Commemorative stone, St Andrews
Abraham Lincoln (play)
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Abraham Lincoln is a 1918 play by John Drinkwater about the 16th President of the United States. Drinkwater's first great success, it premiered in England in 1918. The 1919 Broadway production starred
Nigel Playfair
…theatre seemed the last place in the world where high-class entertainment could possibly succeed". But the theatre prospered. Among the productions were Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater, and The Beggar's Opera, which, in Frank Swinnerton's phrase, "caught different moods of the post-war spirit", and ran for 466 and…
Poster for the Broadway production (1919)
William J. Rea in the London production of Abraham Lincoln
Frank McGlynn in the Broadway production of Abraham Lincoln (1919)