A Serpent's Tooth

A Serpent's Tooth* by Arthur Richman
Little Theatre, New York
Rôle: Jerry Middleton
Total Performances: 36
8/24/1922 - c. 9/1922

*OCLC WorldCat Entry A Serpent's Tooth
ref: Eforgan, p. 56 and Theatre and Film Work Index
ref: Howard, L. ed. with R. Howard, pp. 38-39
ref: Howard, L. R., pp. 75-7, 79
ref: Howard, R., Plays Index
ref: IBDb.com Leslie Howard Page
ref: IBDb.com A Serpent's Tooth
ref: Inafferrabile Leslie Howard, Theatre - A Serpent's Tooth • Includes cast information, reviews and photos
ref: New York Times Miscellaneous Notices
ref: New York Times Review A. Woollcott • "The Play" 08/25/1922
†Little Theatre aka Golden Theatre, 240 W. 44th St., New York, NY

Comments made in reviews of Arthur Richman's other play, The Awful Truth, running during the same time at Henry Miller's Theatre:

"...The Serpent's Tooth, a bit of dramatic shoddy given a momentary gleam of significance by the fine art of the incomparable Marie Tempest." "The Awful Truth" by Alexander Woollcott in his column "The Play," The New York Times, Tuesday, September 19, 1922

"It is reported by Mr. Richman's friends that untold assaults were committed on the text of his other play, A Serpent's Tooth, now already in limbo. In his behalf it has been explained that the shilly-shally in it was not the work of his hands and that he himself was so outraged by the mongrelized version he saw in the final rehearsals that there was no luring him to the Little Theatre on the opening night. We do not weep for him. The solvent playwright—and Mr. Richman is excessively solvent—who does not reserve the right to veto all such revisions is, to our notion, not so much a pathetic figure as an absurd one." "The Awful Truth" by Alexander Woollcott in his column "Second Thoughts on First Nights," The New York Times, Sunday, September 24, 1922

[Leslie Howard with Marie Tempest]

[Theatre Magazine, November, 1922]

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