Tell Me the Truth: 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'."

Tell Me the Truth: A Bit of Tomfoolery* by Leslie Howard
Ambassadors Theatre†, London
Author
Total Performances: 64 (total includes both theatres)
6/18/1928 - 7/14/1928

*OCLC WorldCat Entry Tell Me the Truth
ref: Eforgan, p. 74 and Theatre and Film Work Index
ref: Howard, L. ed. with R. Howard, p. 101
ref: Inafferrabile Leslie Howard, Theatre - Tell Me the Truth • Includes cast information and review
ref: Nicoll, p. 738
ref: Wearing, p. 603
†The Ambassadors Theatre, West Street, London

Tell Me the Truth: A Bit of Tomfoolery* by Leslie Howard
Comedy Theatre††, London
Author
Total Performances: 64 (total includes both theatres)
7/16/1928 - 8/11/1928

*OCLC WorldCat Entry Tell Me the Truth
ref: Wearing, p. 603
††Comedy Theatre, Panton Street SW1

See also Murray Hill • Boston 1927 - ten weeks; New York 1927 - 28 performances
See also Collecting Cousins • Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne May 1928
See also Elizabeth Sleeps Out • London 1934; New York 1936 - 44 performances; Many other repertory productions


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