The New Morality

The New Morality* by Leslie Howard
Shubert Theatre†, New York
Author
Rôle: Ponderous Banker, Philandering Iceman
5/21/1930 and other charity performances

"Fed up with the requests for benefit performances which the company [of Berkeley Square] was asked to put on" Leslie wrote this short play which had parts for the entire cast. The play told how the "wicked upper classes had become solid, dull, and respectable and the workers were now vice-ridden profligates." Leslie Ruth Howard, A Quite Remarkable Father

*A play Howard wrote for his theatre company to perform for charity. Howard thought the play ridiculous but it was very popular and was put on many times for charity. Howard played various parts during its many productions.
ref: Howard, L. R., p. 172
ref: Inafferrabile Leslie Howard, Theatre
ref: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mention 02/02/1930
†Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St., New York, NY


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