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Broadhurst, George Howells

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 682 words | Copyright

Broadhurst, George Howells (1866–1952), English-born American dramatist and theatre manager. His early plays were farcical comedies such as What Happened to Jones (1897) and Why Smith Left Home (1899), but The Man of the Hour (1906), about an idealistic mayor's struggle against political corruption, was in a more serious (if melodramatic) vein, in which he continued in Bought and Paid For (1911), Today (1913), and The Law of the Land (1914). In 1917 he opened a theatre under his own name (below), the first of his own plays to be seen there being The Crimson Alibi (1919). His later productions included an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes (1921).

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