Collecting Cousins: A Bit of Tomfoolery

According to Leslie Ruth Howard in her book A Quite Remarkable Father, Murray Hill was a play her father worked on for many years and which went through continual revision including the following titles: Higginbotham, Tweedie, Tweedie Gets Married, The Man From Crumbles, A Farce In Three Acts, Collecting Cousins, Tell Me the Truth and Elizabeth Sleeps Out.

Murray Hill, according to Ronald Howard, was named for a "respectable locality of seedy retirement in New York where the action takes place—the principal characters were three maiden ladies who lived, concealed from the world, behind the shutters of an ancient, 'brownstone' house. Totally divorced from contemporary time, they existed oblivious of 'speakeasies', short skirts or 'The Charleston'."

Collecting Cousins*, A Bit of Tomfoolery by Leslie Howard
Opera House†, Tunbridge Wells
Author
5/21/1928

*Nicoll, p. 738
ref: Wearing, p. 603
ref: Wearing, p. 23
†Theatres and Halls in Tunbridge Wells, Kent
†Images of the Tunbridge Wells Opera House in August 2008
†Images of the Tunbridge Wells Opera House in September 2014

Collecting Cousins, A Bit of Tomfoolery by Leslie Howard
Pier Theatre††, Eastbourne
Author
5/28/1928

ref: Program in PDF • From LeslieHowardForever
††Theatres and Halls in Eastbourne, on England's South Coast
††Pier Theatre and Music Pavillion

See also Murray Hill • Boston 1927 - ten weeks; New York 1927 - 28 performances
See also Tell Me the Truth • London 1928 - 64 performances
See also Elizabeth Sleeps Out • London 1934; New York 1936 - 44 performances; Many other repertory productions

[Program • Front and Back Cover]

[Program • Inside]

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