39 East
At a New York boarding house, Penelope Penn, a minister's daughter pursuing a singing career, takes a chorus job that shocks her landladies and falls for Napoleon Gibbs, a man with a troubled past.
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At a New York boarding house, Penelope Penn, a minister's daughter pursuing a singing career, takes a chorus job that shocks her landladies and falls for Napoleon Gibbs, a man with a troubled past.
Sculptors Anne and Tom Herford enter competing works in a contest. When Anne wins, Tom and others react with hostility, while Anne’s friend Ruth also clashes with her fiancé over his expectation that she give up work for domestic life. Anne ultimately sets aside her sculpture to care for her daughter.
Nice People was a 1921 Broadway four-act comedy written and staged by Rachel Crothers, produced by Samuel H. Harris and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Francine Larrimore. After working with Bankhead in 39 East, Crothers wrote Nice People expressly for her. The general manager was William G. Norton, the scenic was designed by Navon Bergman, and John Kirkpatrick was the stage manager. It ran for 120 performances from March 2, 1921 to June, 1921, at the Klaw Theatre. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1920-1921. It was also Katharine Cornell's Broadway debut. It was adapted into the 1922 silent film Nice People, now believed to be lost.
At a New York boarding house, Penelope Penn, a minister's daughter pursuing a singing career, takes a chorus job that shocks her landladies and falls for Napoleon Gibbs, a man with a troubled past.
Sculptors Anne and Tom Herford enter competing works in a contest. When Anne wins, Tom and others react with hostility, while Anne’s friend Ruth also clashes with her fiancé over his expectation that she give up work for domestic life. Anne ultimately sets aside her sculpture to care for her daughter.
Nice People was a 1921 Broadway four-act comedy written and staged by Rachel Crothers, produced by Samuel H. Harris and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Francine Larrimore. After working with Bankhead in 39 East, Crothers wrote Nice People expressly for her. The general manager was William G. Norton, the scenic was designed by Navon Bergman, and John Kirkpatrick was the stage manager. It ran for 120 performances from March 2, 1921 to June, 1921, at the Klaw Theatre. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1920-1921. It was also Katharine Cornell's Broadway debut. It was adapted into the 1922 silent film Nice People, now believed to be lost.