On the Brink

On the Brink* by Sydney Holloway
Ambassadors Theatre†, London
Director
Total Performances: One matinée, Experimental Only
1/27/1921

*Nicoll, p. 729
ref: Eforgan, Theatre and Film Work Index
ref: Inafferrabile Leslie Howard, Theatre does not mention this credit and her site is very accurate. This credit is only found in Eforgan in the Theatre and Film Work Index. Eforgan does not mention this play in the body of her book. Eforgan included in her book director's credits for three one-matinée-only performances at the Ambassadors Theatre on this date which Howard could not possibly have directed because Leslie and Ruth Howard did not return to London until the summer of 1921. Eforgan also included in her book a director's credit from Wearing for The Faithful Heart, 11/16/21, p. 127, which also could not be for the Leslie Howard being discussed because Leslie Howard was performing in New York at the time of that production. See notes in Chronology for that listing. I have also included in the Chronology a listing from Wearing for The Beggar's Opera, 3/11/29, p. 656, with a Leslie Howard shown in the rôle of Filch in order to demonstrate that there is another Leslie Howard, or that Wearing is not infallible because it is unlikely that Leslie Howard would have appeared in a musical in 1929. This and the other listings in Wearing are obviously misprints or are for another Leslie Howard or for someone named H. Leslie, the name being transposed. [In Nicoll, pp. 782 and 787, a person named Lion and an H. Leslie are cross-referenced in regard to a play the two authored together. Then, in the Wearing listing for The Faithful Heart, p. 127, Leon M. Lion is listed as the producer and Leslie Howard the stage director, a suspicious coincidence.]
ref: Wearing, p. 76
†The Ambassadors Theatre, West Street, London


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