Sapho (play)
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Sapho was a 1900 American play by Clyde Fitch, based on an 1884 French novel of the same name by Alphonse Daudet and an 1885 play by Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It was at the center of a sensational New
Depiction of Olga Nethersole in poster advertising the play
Listing of original Sapho cast, circa 1900
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice was an American organization dedicated to supervising the morality of the public, founded in 1873. Its specific mission was to monitor compliance with
Sapho (play)
…The original Broadway choreographer was Carl Marwig and settings were by Ernest Albert. Representatives of groups such as the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, the Society for the Study of Life, and the New York Mother's Club, protested that the play's language and costumes were immoral. Some of the outcry…
New York Society For The Suppression Of Vice