Out of a Blue Sky

Out of a Blue Sky* by Hans Chlumberg (Hans Bardach of Chlumberg)
Booth Theatre†, New York
Adapted by Leslie Howard from the German Das Blau von Himmel
Author • Director
Total Performances: 17
2/8/1930 - 2/22/1930

"For once nothing is ready except the audience, which is probably the first time such a thing has occurred." J. Brooks Atkinson in his column "The Play," The New York Times, 10 February 1930

*OCLC WorldCat Entry Out of a Blue Sky
ref: Eforgan, pp. 79, 80 and Theatre and Film Work Index
ref: Howard, L. R., pp. 170-72, 192
ref: IBDb.com Leslie Howard Page
ref: IBDb.com Out of a Blue Sky
ref: Inafferrabile Leslie Howard, Theatre - Out of a Blue Sky • Included company and cast information and reviews
ref: Miscellaneous Notices
ref: Brooklyn Daily Eagle • "Mr. Howard Has a New One" 02/02/1930
ref: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Review A. Pollock • "The Theater" 02/10/1930
ref: Courier-Journal Review R. Littell • "At the Play" 02/16/1930
ref: Indianapolis Sunday Star Review B. Dudley 02/16/1930
ref: Los Angeles Times Review 02/23/1930
ref: New York Times Review • "Practically a Bolt from the Blue" 02/09/1930 • Interesting to note that the author mentions at the end of the article the search for Hans Chlumberg who actually dies later the same year from a fall into the orchestra pit of the theatre in which he was working.
ref: New York Times Review J. B. Atkinson • "The Play" 02/10/1930
ref: Pittsburgh Press Review 02/23/1929
ref: Program in PDF
†Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th St., New York, NY

[Katherine Wilson as Gabriela Neumann and
Warren William as Paul Rana in Out of a Blue Sky]

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