Data: Women Playwrights in the West End: 1917 – 1929

Table listing plays by women on the London stage from 1917 – 1929. Taken from West End Women: Women and the London stage 1918 – 1962 by Maggie B Gale. Posted with permission.

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Play title	Author	Theatre	Dates	No. of performances
Sheila	G. Sowerbt	St. James’	07.06.1917 – 28.06.1917	19
Their Mothers	Evelyn Glover	Globe	26.06.1917	1
Billeted	F. Tennyson-Jesse and H.M. Harwood	Royalty	21.08.1917 – 23.08.1918	240
Wild Heather	Dorothy Brandon	Strand	25.10.1917 – 05.01.1918	79
Yvette’s Dilemma	Juliette Mylo	Court	07.02.1918	1
Pauv’ Yvette	Juliette Mylo	Court	07.02.1918	1
Paulina	Marion McCarthy	Court	07.02.1918	1
Signs of the Times	Mrs D.F.C Harding	Court	07.02.1918	1
Rosmary	Elsie Fogarty	Court	11.03.1918 – 14.03.1918	4 mat.
Mrs Riggles Makes a Match	Elsie Fogarty	Court	15.03.1918	1 mat.
Betty at Bay	Jessie Porter	Strand	09.04.1918 – 18.05.1918	53
The Last Match	Georgina Hamilton	Wyndhams’	02.04.1918	1
Dawkins	Mrs Greenaway	Shaftesbury	19.04.1918	1 mat.
Princess Suri Sama	Erica Beale	Shaftesbury	19.04.1918	1 mat.
Lot 79	Rida J. Young	Queen’s	20.04.1918 – 04.05.1918	17
Soldier Boy	Rida J. Young	Apollo	26.06.1918 – 22.03.1919	374
The Chinese Puzzle	Marian Bower	New	11.07.1918 – 11.07.1919	415
The Great Moment	Gwen Lally	St. James’	03.12.1918	1
Time to Wake Up	Evelyn Glover	New	11.04.1919	2
The Honourable Gertrude	Henry Seton’ Vera Beringer	Court	13.05.1919	1
The Altar of Liberty	Marion Bower and Leon M. Lion	New	13.05.1919	1
The Storm	Odette Tcherning	Ambassadors	05.06.1919 – 12.06.1919	2 mat.
Has Little Widows	Rida J. Young	Wyndhams’	16.06.1919 – 21.08.1919	172
Has Little Widows	Rida J. Young	Garrick	04.08.1919 – 11.11.1919
Riding for a Fall	Mrs Hardy	Court	14.07.1919	1 mat.
Dr James Barry	Oldga Racster and Jessica Grove	St. James’	22.07.1919	1 mat.
Little Women (adapt.)	Marion de Forest	New	10.11.1919 – 13.12.1919	35
The Young Person in Pink	Gertrude Jennings	Prince of Wales’	10.02.1920	1 mat.
The Young Person in Pink	Gertrude Jennings	Haymarket	29.03.1920 – 17.04.1920	208
The Young Visitors (adpt. From Daisy Ashford 1919)	Mrs George Norman and Margaret MacKenzie	Court	24.02.1920 – 24.05.1920	104
The Magnet	Gaston Gervex’ (Mrs Montague Fowler)	Ambassadors	20.02.1920	1 mat.
According to the Evidence	Mrs D.F.C Harding and Bibsie Leveux	Ambassadors	26.03.1920	1 mat.
The Polar Post	Ho. Mary Augusta Pakington	Ambassadors	24.02.1920	1 mat.
The Higher Court	Margaret M. Young	Strand	11.04.1920	1
Husbands for All	Gertrude Jennings	Little	06.05.1920 – 22.05.1920	18
Why Mary?	Jesse Lynch Williams	Comdey	12.05.1920 – 05.06.1920	29
For Husbands Only	G.B. Stern and Mrs D.F.C. Harding	Ambassadors	04.06.1920	1 mat.
The Moon Went Behind a Cloud	Ursula Keene	Ambassadors	04.06.1920	1 mat.
The Advocate	Beatrice Heron-Maxwell	Criterion	07.06.1920	1 mat.
The Lonely Wife	Nita Faydon	Comdey	05.07.1920	1 mat.
The Lonely Lady	Nita Faydon	Duke of York’s	24.01.1921 – 05.02.1921	16
Brown Sugar	Lady Arthur Lever	*Duke of York’s / Garrick	07.07.1920 – 09.02.1921	265
Daughters of Eve	Rita’ (Mrs D. Humphreys)	St. James’	13.07.1920	1 mat.
Precilla and the Profligate	Laura Wildig	Duke of York’s	13.10.1920 – 14.12.1920	64
The Fair and the Brave	Cicely Hamilton	Kingsway	29.10.1920	1 mat.
Love Tokens	May Aldington	Queen’s	29.10.1920	1 mat.
Adoption	Xenia Lowinsky	Ambassadors	16.12.1920	1 mat.
For Her Sake	Marion Crofton	Ambassadors	16.12.1920	1 mat.
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Apollo	23.12.1920 – 22.01.1921	26 mat.
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Apollo	22.12.1921 – 28.01.1922	36
Daniel	Sybil Harris	St. James’	15.01.1921 – 26.02.1921	45
The Five Wishes	Laura Leycester	Ambassadors	27.01.1921	1 mat.
No Winkles	Olive Greenaway	Savoy	11.02.1921	1 mat.
Kynaston’s Wife	Winifred Dolan	Shaftesbury	28.02.1921	1 mat.
Bill of Divorcement	Clemence Dance	St. Martin’s	14.03.1921 – 04.03.1922	402
Nightie Night	Martha Stanley and Adelaide Mathews	Queen’s	22.03.1921 – 23.04.1921	73
The Chemist	Blanche Weiner	Little	20.03.1921 – 25.05.1921	104
Love Among the Paintpots	Gertrude Jennings	Aldwych	30.04.1921- 02.07.1921	73
Reggie Reforms	Irena Bubna and Edgar Camille	Everyman	02.05.1921 – 07.05.1921	7
The Blast	Irena Bubna and Edgar Camille	Everyman	02.05.1921 – 07.05.1921	7
The Goat	Dorothy Massingham	Kingsway	27.05.1921	1 mat.
Tipperary	Honor M. Pulley	Kingsway	27.05.1921	1 mat.
Mother of Pearl	Gertrude Jennings	Winter Garden	30.05.1921	1 mat.
Rising of the Moon	Lady Gregory	Court	10.06.1921	1 mat.
The Cinema Lady	Nancy and Jean Rioux	Royalty	14.06.1921 – 16.06.1921	4
The Toast	Irena Bubna and Edgar Camille	Everyman	02.05.1921 – 07.05.1921	7
Who Pays	Margaret Pedler	Comedy	26.06.1921	1
The Doctor of Dreams (Freudian c 3a)	Michale Orme’ (Alix Augusta Grein)	Prince of Wales’	13.07.1921	1 mat.
The Legion of Honour	Baroness Emmusea Orczy	Aldwych	24.08.1921 – 10.09.1921	21
The Hotel Mouse	Fryn Tennyson-Jesse and Harold Harwood	Queen’s	06.10.1921 – 05.11.1921	36
The Child in Flanders	Cicely Hamilton	Lyric	07.11.1921	1 mat.
Wolf! Wolf!	Mrs Leo Myers	Palace	15.11.1921	1
Virginia	Mrs Clifford Mills	Palace	15.11.1921	1
Pierrot’s Wellcome	Constance Smedley (Mrs Armfield)	Palace	15.11.1921	1
Will Shakespeare	Clemence Dance	St. Martin’s	17.11.1921 – 07.01.1922	62
Clothes and the Woman	George Pabton’ (Emily Morse Symonds)	Ambassadors	07.12.1921 – 28.01.1922	66
Me and My Diary	Gertrude Jennings	Strand	19.01.1922 – 18.02.1922	37
Money Doesn’t Matter	George Pabton’ (Emily Morse Symonds)	Aldwych	21.01.1922 – 11.03.1922	46
Lady Larcombe’s Lapse	Mrs Jessie Porter	Kingsway	15.02.1922	1
Some detective	Harvey J. Higgins and Harriet Ford	Empire	16.07.1921 – 06.08.1921	25
The Cone of Beyond	Kay Horniman and Ruby Miller	Garrick	09.08.1921 – 14.01.1922	192
Araminta Arrives	K.Smith and Dorothy Brandon	Comedy	11.101.1921 – 12.11.1921	39
Enter Madam	Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne	Royalty	15.02.1922 – 01.04.1922	53
The Rise of Silas Lapham	Lillian Keal Sabine	Lyric	20.02.1922 – 24.02.1922	2
Me and My Diary	Gertrude Jennings	Aldwych	22.02.1922 – 11.03.1922	22
In Nelson’s Days	Mrs Clifford Mills	Shaftesbury	11.03.1922 – 14.03.1922	3
Elegant Edward	Gertrude Jennings and C. Boulton	Palace	17.03.1922	1 mat.
Hyacinth Halvey	Lady Augusta Gregory	*Ambassadors / Aldwych	18.03.1922 – 07.04.1922	24
Nightie Night	Martha Stanley and Adelaide Mathews	Shaftesbury	18.03.1922 – 01.04.1922	17
When Eyes Are Opened	Mrs St. Clair Stobart	Kingsway	24.03.1922	1 mat.
Slings and Arrows	Betty Bower	Kingsway	24.03.1922	1 mat.
Pride and Prejudice	Eileen H. A. Squire and J. C. Squire	Palace	24.03.1922	1 mat.
Washe Ashore	Dorothy Massingham	Kingsway	02.04.1922	1 mat.
The Girl and the City	Beatrice Mayor	Kingsway	02.04.1922	1 mat.
Thirty Minutes in a Street	Beatrice Mayor	Kingsway	02.04.1922	1 mat.
The Bat	Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood	Kingsway	21.02.1922 – 04.11.1922	327
Lass O’Laughter	Edith Carter and Nan Marriott-Watson	Queen’s	29.04.1922 – 12.08.1922	121
Life’s A Game	Michale Orme’ (Alix Augusta Grein)	Kingsway	18.05.1922 – 26.05.1922	6 mat.
The Green Cord	Marion Bower and L. Ellis	Royalty	02.06.1922 – 16.09.1922	122
Quarintine	F. Tennyson-Jesse	Comedy	06.06.1922 – 02.09.1922	102
The Stop-Gap	Florence N. M. Atack	Aldwych	07.06.1922	1
Elegant Edward	Gertrude Jennings and C. Boulton	Daly’s	09.06.1922	1 mat.
The Way of and Eagle	Ethel M. Dell	Adelphi	20.06.1922 – 30.09.1922	150
Concerning Mary Dewhirst	Florence Marriot-Watson and Grace Edwin	Savoy	28.06.1922	1 mat.
Suppressed desires	George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell	Everyman	17.07.1922 – 22.02.1922	7
Secrets	May Edington and Rudolf Beiser	Comedy	07.09.1922 – 28.07.1922	373
The Scandal (adpt. Of M. Bataille, ‘Le Scandale’ 1909)	Lady Bell (Mrs Hugh Bell)	New	19.09.1922 – 25.11.1927	77
Little Lovers	Esme Wynne-Tyson	Aldwych	22.10.1922	1
Biffy	Vera Beringer (‘Henry Seton’) and William Ray	Garrick	28.11.1922 – 03.02.1923	91
When Knights Were Bold	Harriet Jay (‘Charles Marlow’)	Court	26.12.1922 – 27.01.1923	31
Via Crucis (adpt. Hugo V. Hofmannstal, ‘Jedermann’ 1911)	Hon Sybil Amherst and Dr C. E. Wheeler	Garrick	05.02.1923 – 22.02.1923	21
Good Gracious! Annabelle	Claire Beecher Kemmer	Duke of York’s	14.02.1923 – 27.02.1923	15
Lavender Ladies	Daisy Fisher	Strand	25.02.1923	1
The Alternative	Lucy Wilson and Adrian Alington	Everyman	12.03.1923 – 24.03.1923	14
The Inevitable	Isabel Jay	St. James’	21.03.1923 – 16.06.1923	101
Beltane Night	Vera Beringer (‘Henry Seton’)	Aldwych	23.03.1923	1
Isabel, Edward and Anne	Gertrude Jennings	Haymarket	31.03.1923 – 16.06.1923	101
The First Stile	Elsie Hayes	Kingsway	24.04.1923	1
The Voice Outside	Gertrude Jennings	Globe	28.04.1923 – 16.06.1923	58
South Wind	Isabel C. Tippet and N. Douglas	Kingsway	29.04.1923 – 30.04.1923	2
The Outsider	Dorothy Brandon	St. James’	31.05.1923 – 01.09.1923	107
The Proof	Phyllis Birkett	Vaudeville	21.05.1923	1 mat.
Come Through a Cranford Door	Irene Ross and Frank Lind	New	10.07.1923	1 mat.
The Young Person in Pink	Gertrude Jennings	Adelphi	13.07.1923 – 25.08.1923	98
Tancred (from Disraeli’s novel of 1847)	Edith Milbank	Kingsway	16.07.1923 – 28.07.1923	14
Trust Emily	May Edington	Criterion	10.10.1923 – 27.10.1923	21
Fledglings	Marguerite Rea	St. Martin’s	01.11.1923 – 14.11.1923	6 mat.
Our Ostriches	Dr Marie Stopes	Court	14.11.1923 – 02.02.1924	91
The Morals of Vanda	Hazel May Marshall	Everyman	29.11.1923 – 15.12.1923	18
The Rising Generation	Wyn Weaver and Laura Leycester	Shaftesbury	03.12.1923 – 05.04.1924	235
When Knights Were Bold	Harriet Jay (‘Charles Marlow’)	Criterion	17.12.1923 – 16.02.1924	105
The Painted Lady	Vera Beringer	Everyman	12.01.1924 – 19.01.1924	8
Outcasts	May Creagh-Henry	Strand	13.01.1924	1 mat.
The Stepmother	Githa Sowerby	New	13.01.1924	1
The Immortal Hour	Fiona Macleoud and Rutland Broughton	Regent	28.01.1924 – 17.05.1924	127
The Way Things Happen	Clemence Dance	Ambassadors	02.02.1924 – 29.03.1924	65
Not In Our Stars (adpt. M. Maurice’s novel 1923)	Dorothy Massingham	Wyndhams’	04.02.1924 – 05.04.1924	72
The Fairy Tale	May Edington	Apollo	06.02.1924 – 01.03.1924	28
Monsieur Beaucaire	Booth Tarkington and Mrs E. G. Sutherland	Strand	23.02.1924 – 22.03.1924	101
Monsieur Beaucaire	Booth Tarkington and Mrs E. G. Sutherland	Prince of Wales’	24.03.1924 – 17.05.1925
Her Market Price	Frances Nordstrom	Lyceum	17.04.1924 – 24.05.1925	51
By Chance	Lady Violet Greville	Daly’s	05.05.1924	1 mat.
Before Sunset	Nan Marriott-Watson	Aldwych	20.05.1924	1 mat.
Two Women and a Telephone	Rica Bromley-Taylor	Aldwych	25.05.1924	1
Wife to a Famous Man (adpt. G. M. Sierra’s ‘La Muier Del Herde’)	Mr and Mrs H. Granville-Barker	Aldwych	25.05.1924	1
In The Next Room	Eleanor Robson and Harriet Ford	St. Martin’s	06.06.1924 – 29.11.1924	202
The Rat: The Story of an Apache	(‘David L’Estrange’) Constance Collier and Ivor Novello	Prince of Wales’	09.06.1924 – 13.09.1924	282
Punchinello	Laura Wildig	Court	22.06.1924	1
Tiger Cats	Mrs J.T. Grein (‘Michale Orme’)	Savoy	26.06.1924 – 17.07.1924	7 mat.
The Pleasure Garden	Beatrice Mayor	Regent	29.06.1924 – 30.06.1924	2 mat.
Waiting for the Bus	Gertrude Jennings	St. Martin’s	10.07.1924	1 mat.
A Surplus Man	Sylvia Earl	Court	21.07.1924	1 mat.
Tiger Cats	Mrs J.T. Grein (‘Michale Orme’)	Garrick	11.08.1924 – 13.09.1924	116
The Claimant	Mrs F. E. Watts	Queen’s	11.09.1924 – 18.10.1924	44
It Happened in Ardoran	Ann Stephenson and A, MacBeth	Court	19.10.1924	1
The Pelican	F. Tennyson-Jesse and H.M. Harwood	Ambassadors	20.10.1924 – 07.03.1925	243
Bartons Folly	Gladys Parish	Court	14.12.1924	1
When Knights Were Bold	Harriet Jay (‘Charles Marlow’)	Fortune	15.12.1924 – 31.01.1925	79
Just Married	Adelaide Matthews and Anne Nichols	*Comdey / Queens	15.12.1924 – 19.12.1925	423
Pollyanna (adpt. Eleanor Porter’s nov. 1913)	Catherine Chisholm Cushing	St. James’	18.12.1924 – 03.01.1925	24
The Outsider	Dorothy Brandon	Regent	22.12.1924 – 24.01.1925	7
The Fairway (adpt. Of Jacques Deva’s ‘Une Fiable Femme’)	Noel Scott and Auriol Lee	New	04.01.1925	1
The Fairway	Auriol Lee	New	04.01.1925	1
Meddlers	Agnes Platt and Norman Ough	St. James’	06.01.1925 – 10.01.1925	6
Camilla States Her Case	Mrs R. Golding Bright (‘George Egerton’)	Globe	07.01.1925 – 14.02.1925	45
Me and My Diary	Gertrude Jennings	Garrick	12.01.1925 – 17.01.1925	45
Cats Claws	Gertrude Jennings	New	20.01.1925	1 mat.
It Happened in Ardoran	Ann Stephenson and A, MacBeth	Everyman	24.12.1925 – 07.03.1925	13
Anyhouse	F. Tennyson-Jesse	Ambassadors	12.03.1925 – 28.03.1925	20
Persevering Pat	Lynne Doyle	Little	13.03.1925 – 04.04.1925	27
The Painted Swan	Eliabeth Bibesco	Everyman	16.03.1925 – 04.04.1925	21
The Verge	Susan Glaspell	Regent	29.03.1925 – 07.04.1925	3
The Sign in the Sun	Vere Sullivan	Regent	03.05.1925	1
Sun-Up	Lula Vollmer	Vaudeville	04.05.1925 – 22.08.1925	233
Sun-Up	Lula Vollmer	Lyric	24.08.1925 – 21.11.1925
The Swallow	Viola Tree	Everyman	06.05.1925 – 09.05.1925	5
Educating a Husband	Edith Carter	Regent	11.05.1925 – 16.05.1925	8
Five Birds in a Cage	Gertrude Jennings	Haymarket	21.05.1925 – 06.06.1925	21
Nerves	Ann Stephenson	Court	15.06.1925	1 mat.
Dear Ann	Elizabeth Fagan	Aldwych	23.06.1925	1 mat.
Lavender Ladies	Daisy Fisher	Comedy	29.07.1925 – 21.11.1925	156
The Man From Hong Kong	Mrs Clifford Mills	Queen’s	03.06.1925 – 22.08.1925	24
Fires Divine	Rosaline Rossomer	Scala	15.09.1925 – 03.10.1925	7
The Moon and Sixpence (from Maugham’s novel 1919)	Edith Ellis	New	24.08.1925 – 28.11.1925	75
That Which Counts	Shirland Quinn’ (Enid Guest)	Duke of York’s	04.10.1925	1
The Rising Moon	Lady Augusta Gregory	Royalty	17.10.1925 – 17.11.1925	26
The Old Adam	Cicely Hamilton	Kingsway	17.11.1925 – 16.01.1926	67
Gloriana	Gwen John	Little	08.12.1925 – 23.12.1925	19
The Godless	Karen Bramson	Wyndhams’	15.12.1925 – 17.12.1925	2 mat.
The Child in Flanders	Cicely Hamilton	Old Vic	21.12.1925 – 08.01.1926	6
Baby Mine	Margaret Mayo	Apollo	23.12.1925 – 07.01.1926	10
Inheritors	Susan Glaspell	Everyman	28.12.1925 – 10.01.1926	21
The Man Who Was Thursday	Mrs C. Chesterton and R. Neale	Everyman	20.01.1926 – 30.01.1926	12
Blind Alley	Dorothy Brandon	Playhouse	27.01.1926 – 06.02.1926	13
The Widow’s Cruise	Joan Temple	Ambassadors	03.03.1926 – 08.05.1926	81
Ashes	Vera, Countess Cathcart	Prince of Wales’	15.03.1926 – 20.03.1926	9
The Rescue Party	Phyllis Morris	Regent	28.03.1926	1
Enchantress	K. Bramson and A. Augusta Grein	Garrick	07.04.1926 – 24.04.1926	21
The Cat’s Cradle	Aimée and Philip Stuart	Criterion	08.04.1926 – 21.08.1926	156
Temptation	Gladys Hastings Walton	New Oxford	19.04.1926 – 24.04.1926	13
The Rescue Party	Phyllis Morris	Comdey	26.04.1926 – 12.06.1926	56
The Great Lover	L. Ditrichstein, Fanny and F. Hatton	Shaftesbury	30.04.1926 – 05.06.1926	442
Distinguished Villa	Kate O’Brien	Aldwych	02.05.1926	1
The Song	Adela Maddison	Court	03.05.1926	1 mat.
Intimate Enemies	Zenia Lowinsky and N. McKinnel	Savoy	17.05.1926 – 29.05.1926	15
As We Are	Gertrude and M. J. Landa	Scala	27.05.1926	1
Billeted	F. Tennyson-Jesse and H.M. Harwood	Royalty	31.05.1926 – 26.06.1936	32
Granite	Clemence Dance	Ambassadors	15.06.1926 – 07.08.1926	62
Down Hill	(Constance Collier and Ivor Novelle) ‘David L’Estrange’	*Queen’s / Princes	16.06.1926 – 04.09.1926	94
Jiggs in Clover	Margaret Coulan	Regent	21.06.1926	1
The Twin	Vere Sullivan and G. Brenchley	Everyman	29.06.1926 – 10.07.1926	4
Clock o’ the Roost	Rida J. Young	Garrick	02.07.1926 – 17.07.1926	18
Distinguished Villa	Kate O’Brien	Little	12.07.1926 – 04.09.1926	12
A Balcony	Naomi Royde-Smith	Everyman	25.08.1926 – 04.09.1926	12
Virginia’s Husband	Florence Kilpatrick	Comedy	06.09.1926 – 02.10.1926	31
The Whole Town’s Talking	Anita Loos and John Emerson	Strand	07.09.1926 – 18.12.1926	118
The Constant Nymph	Margaret Kennedy	New	14.08.1926 – 13/08.1927	387
The Edge O’ Beyond	Ruby Miller and Roy Horman	Regent	23.10.1926 – 29.10.1926	12
Shavings	Pauline Phelps and Marion Shorts	Apollo	01.11.1926 – 20.11.1926	24
Yellow Sands	Eden and Adelaide Philpotts	Haymarket	03.11.1926 – 25.02.1928	612
It Is Expedient	Lady Kathleen Curson-Herrick	Royalty	14.11.1926	1
Aspidistras	Joan Temple	Strand	05.12.1926	1
Christmas Eve	Rose Fyleman	Old Vic	20.12.1926 – 01.01.1927	42
When Knights Were Bold	Harriet Jay (‘Charles Marlow’)	Scala	22.12.1926 – 15.01.1927	42
Daddy Long Legs	Jean Webster	Regent	27.12.1926 – 07.01.1927	22
Nobody’s Daughter	George Paston ‘E.M. Symonds’	Regent	08.01.1927 – 14.01.1927	12
The Square Peg	Mildred Hodson	Everyman	18.01.1927 – 05.02.1927	20
The Bat	Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood	Regent	29.01.1927 – 04.02.1927	12
En Pension	Mrs Cyril Scott	Globe	30.10.1927	1
The Rat: The Story of an Apache	(Constance Collier and Ivor Novelle) ‘David L’Estrange’	Prince of Wales’	12.02.1927 – 26.03.1927	49
No Gentleman	Aimée and Philip Stuart	St. Martin’s	08.03.1927 – 23.-04.1927	58
Angela	Lady Florence Evelyn Bell	Prnces’	14.03.1927	1
A Hen Upon a Steeple	Joan Temple	Globe	23.03.1927 – 23.04.1927	37
Bert’s Girl	Elizabeth Baker	Court	30.03.1927 – 16.04.1927	20
Abie’s Irish Rose	Anne Nichols	Apollo	11.04.1927 – 30.07.1927	128
Lolotte	Betha N. Graham	New	06.05.1927	1 mat.
Ishmael	Elizabeth Southwart	Strand	15.05.1927	1
The Bridge	Kate O’Brien	Arts	31.05.1927	1
Meet the Wife	Lynn Starling	St. Martin’s	01.06.1927 – 10.09.1927	117
Wild-Cat Hetty	Florence A. Kilpatrick	Savoy	20.06.1927 – 16.07.1927	31
Nevertheless	Sylvia Blennerhasseti	Arts	05.07.1927 – 08.07.1927	4
Streaks of Light	Grace Frank	Arts	10.07.1927 – 12.07.1927	3
Samson and Delilah	Michale Orme’ (Alix Augusta Grein)	Arts	17.07.1927 – 18.07.1927	2
The Village	Vere Sullivan	Globe	18.07.1927 – 06.08.1927	24
The Cage	Joan Temple	Savoy	22.07.1927 – 20.08.1927	34
Cautious Campbell	Brenda Girvan and Monica Cosens	Royalty	26.07.1927 – 13.08.1927	22
Billeted	F. Tennyson-Jesse and H.M. Harwood	Regent	03.09.1927 – 11.09.1927	12
I’ll Give You a Ring	Audrey and G. Carten	Globe	25.09.1927	1
Scrapped	Alma Brosnan	Arts	23.09.1927 – 27.09.1927	5
A Wife in the House	Inglis Allen	Globe	25.09.1927	1
The Lady-in-Law	Bertha Murrey	Wyndhams’	29.09.1927 – 12.11.1927	54
The Outsider	Dorothy Brandon	Regent	15.10.1927 – 21.10.1927	6
At Number Fifteen	Alma Brosnan	Garrick	16.10.1927	1
The King Decrees	Constance Smedley (Mrs Armfield)	Kingsway	21.10.1927	1 mat.
The Seventh Devil	Constance Smedley (Mrs Armfield) and Max Armfield	Kingsway	21.10.1927	1 mat.
The Kingdom of GoD (adpt. Of G.M Sierra’s ‘El Reino de Dios’ 1916	Mr and Mrs H. Granville-Barker	Strand	26.10.1927 – 03.12.1927	47
Woman’s Honour	Susan Glaspell	Arts	27.10.1927 – 28.10.1927	2
Nipper	Susannah Nicholson	Regent	04.11.1927 – 11.11.1927	13
The Peaceful Thief	Audrey Lucas	Arts	06.11.1927 – 07.11.1927	2
He Who Gets Slapper	Gertrude Schurhoff and B Jackson	Everyman	08.11.1926 – 10.12.1927	34
His Grace	Maie Bacon	Globe	27.11.1927	1
A Wife in the House	Inglis Allen	His Majesty’s	12.12.1927	1
The Caveman	Daisy Fisher and Harold Simpson	Savoy	12.12.1927 – 17.12.1927	8
Out Flat	Mrs H. Musgrave	Regent	17.12.1927 – 23.12.1927	6
Whispering Wires	Kate l. McLaurin	Apollo	19.12.1927 – 14.01.1928	37
Caged	Mrs Henry Germaine Mainwaring	Arts	21.12.1927	1 mat.
The Young Visitors (adpt. From Daisy Ashford 1919)	Mrs George Norman and Margaret MacKenzie	Strand	10.01.1928	1
Discounted Peter	Marguerite Groswald	Arts	14.01.1928 – 18.01.1928	4
Jordan	Margaret Kennedy	Strand	22.01.1928	1
Sauce for the Gander	Norma M. Mitchell and R. Medcraft	Lyric	30.01.1928 – 21.03.1928	72
London Pride	Gladys Unger and A. Neil Lyons	Drury Lane	08.03.1928	1 mat.
Tinker, Tailor	Phyllis Morris	Royalty	08.03.1928 – 10.03.1928	4
The Way	Constance Malleson	Arts	25.03.1928 – 26.03.1928	2
Gentleman Prefer Blonds	Anita Loos (Nou) and John Emerson	Prince of Wales’	02.04.1928 – 12.05.1928	48
The Trail of You	Vere Bennet	Queen’s	15.04.1028	1
Come With Me	*Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean	New	19.04.1928 – 23.06.1928	76
For Better, For Worse	May Edgington	Arts	05.05.1928 – 08.05.1928	4
After Death	Virginia and Frank Vernon	Little	14.05.1928 – 02.06.1928	23
The Many They Buried	Karen Bramson	Ambassadors	06.06.1928 – 16.06.1928	12
Holding Out The Apple	Betty Wynne-Bower	Globe	16.06.1928 – 30.06.1928	17
Prejudice	Mercedes of Acosta	Arts	17.06.1928 – 19.06.1928	3
Chance	Mury Fox-Davies	Strand	17.06.1928	1
The Comic Arts	Susan Glaspell and N. Matson	Strand	24.06.1928 – 14.07.1928	1
Samson and the Phillistines	Michale Orme’ (Alix Augusta Grein)	Little	26.06.1928	22
My Lady’s Mill	Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts	Lyric	02.07.1928 – 14.07.1928	16
The Chinese Puzzle	Marian Bower and Leon M. Lion	Regent	07.07.1928 – 13.07.1928	12
Contraband	Marion W. Fawcett and N. Doon	Prince’s	27.07.1928 – 18.07.1928	26
Her Cardboard Lover	Valerie Wyrrgate and PG. Wodehouse	Lyric	21.08.1928 – 19.01.1929	173
Yellowsands	Eden and Adelaide Philpotts	Court	10.09.1928 – 28.09.1928	24
The Constant Nymph	M. Kennedy and Basil Dean	Garrick	27.09.1928 – 10.11.1928	58
Deadlock	May Edgington	Comedy	08.10.1928 – 20.10.1928	15
The l00th Chance (adpt. of her nov. 19l7)	Ethel M. DeIl	Regent	20.10.1928 – 26.10.1928	12
The Workhouse Ward	Lady Augusta Gregory	Arts	25.10.1928 – 28.10.1928	4
Richmond Park	Gertrude Jennings	Arts	05.11.1928	1 mat.
Clara Gibbings	Aimee and Philip Stuart	Vaudeville	19.11.1928 – 21.01.1929	64
The Pelican	F. Tennyson-Jesse and H. Harwood	Regent	01.12.1928 – 07.12.1928	12
Adam’s Opera	Clemence Dane	Old Vic	03.12.1928 – 05.01.1929	20
Out She Goes	Lillian Trimble-Bradley	Criterion	11.12.1928 – 02.02.1929	62
These Pretty Things	Gertrude Jennings	Garrick	14.12.1928	1 mat.
Ag and Bert	Mabel Constanduros and Michael Hogan	Arts	16.12.1928 – 18.12.1928	3
The Wallflower	Audrey Scott	Arts	28.12.1928 – 30.12.1928	3
The Chinese Bungalow	Marion Osmond and James Corbet	Duke of York’s	09.01.1929 – 13.04.1929	109
Byron	Alicia Ramsey	Lyric	22.01.1929 – 02.02.1929	14
Her Shop	Aimee and Philip Stuart	Criterion	07.02.1929 – 04.05.1929	99
Fame	Audrey Carten and W Carten	St James’	20.02.1929 – 25.05.1929	108
Mafro, Darling	Naomi Royde-Smith	Queen’s	25.02.1929 – 02.03.1929	8
Red Rust	Virginia and Frank Vernon	Little	28.02.1929 – 16.02.1929	20
The Borderer	Madge Howard and L. Gordon	Strand	28.02.1929 – 23.02.1929	28
The Pleasure Garden	Beatrice Mayor	Everyman	08.03.1929 – 23.03.1929	17
The Iron Law	Aimee Scott	Court	10.03.1929	1
The Mayor	Adelaide Philpotts	Royalty	11.03.1929 – 23.03.1929	16
Porgy	Dorothy and D. Heyward	His Majesty’s	10.06.1929 – 01.06.1929	61
The Way of an Eagle	Ethel M. Dell	Regent	13.04.1929 – 19.04.1929	12
Daniel Deronda	Lily Tobias and Lydia Lewisohn	Palace	14.04.1929	1
Requital	Molly Kerr	Everyman	23.04.1929 – 04.05.1929	15
Mariners	Clemence Dane	Wyndham’s	29.04.1929 – 25.05.1929	32
The Matriarch	G.B. Stern	Royalty	08.05.1929 – 23.11.1929	229
The Black Ace	Dorothy Brandon and N. Farso	Globe	09.05.1929 – 18.05.1929	10
Notoriety	Mrs Martha Myers and E. Page	Garrick	12.05.1929	1
Why Drag in Marriage?	Audrey Scott	Strand	31.05.1929 – 22.06.1929	26
Let’s Leave it at That	Jeanne De Casalis and Colin Clive	Queen’s	10.06.1929 – 15.06.1929	8
In the Next Room	Eleanor Robson and Harriet Ford	Regent	15.06.1929 – 21.06.1929	12
Tower of Babel	Karen Branson	Strand	07.07.1929	1
Bill of Divorcement	Clemence Dane	St Martin’s	09.07.1929 – 07.09.1929	70
The Tower	Mary Pakington	Everyman	15.07.1929 – 20.07.1929	7
These Pretty Things	Gertrude Jennings	Arts	21.07.1929 – 22.07.1929	2
These Pretty Things	Gertrude Jennings	Garrick	06.08.1929 – 28.09.1929	62
Sun-up	Lula Vollmer	Little	13.08.1929 – 07.09.1929	30
Scraps	Gertrude Jennings	Garrick	31.08.1929 – 28.09.1929	33
Yesterday’s Harvest	Gladys St John Coe	Apollo	11.09.1929 – 05.10.1929	29
The Constant Nymph	Margaret Kennedy	Regent	14.09.1929 – 20.09.1929	12
Secrets	B. Bessier and May Edgington	Comedy	16.09.1929 – 23.11.1929	79
Happy Families	Audrey Carten and Waveney Carten and J.Ross	Garrick	01.10.1929 – 26.10.1929	30
The Mother	Olive Lethbridge	Globe	29.11.1929	1 mat.
The Helping Hand	Gertrude Jennings	Prince of Wales’	03.12.1929	1 mat.
The Workhouse Ward	Lady Augusta Gregory	Haymarket	04.12.1929 – 21.12.1929	22
The Love Game	Mrs C.A. Chesterton and Ralph Neale	Regent	14.02.1929 – 21.12.1929	14
A Warm Corner	Arthur Wimperis Lauri Wylie	Prince’s	24.12.1929 – 19.07.1930	238

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Data: Women Playwrights in the West End: 1917 – 1929

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