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Cover of the 1929 US edition, published by Samuel French. Rope, retitled Rope's End for its American release, is a 1929 English play by Patrick Hamilton.It was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
The Game's Afoot [1] (ISBN 978-0-573-70046-0; The Game's Afoot; or Holmes for the Holidays) is a play written by Ken Ludwig [2] and published by Samuel French, Inc. [3] on November 14, 2012, and which later won the Edgar Award for Best Play in 2012.
Treasure Island is a play in four acts and ten scenes by Jules Eckert Goodman that is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name. [1] It was first published in 1915 by Samuel French, Inc. , [ 2 ] and was later included in the children's play anthology Another Treasury of Plays for Children (1926, Little, Brown and Company ...
Samuel French (1821–1898) was an American entrepreneur who, together with British actor, playwright and theatrical manager Thomas Hailes Lacy, pioneered in the field of theatrical publishing and the licensing of plays.
The Phantom is published under Samuel French's Standard Drama, No. 165 (New York, 1856.) [2] This play moved Boucicault into writing plays that were technically demanding. [3] The Phantom is an adaption of Le Vampire , by Pierre Carmouche , Achile de Jouffroy, and Charles Nodier , which was published in Paris in 1820. [ 4 ]
Seventeen is a 1917 play by writers Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Stannard Mears, and Stuart Walker, based on Booth Tarkington's 1916 novel. It is a four-act comedy with six scenes and two settings. It is a four-act comedy with six scenes and two settings.
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The play deals with the personal ordeals of each of the female characters. Many of them are very touching; a few are even intensely emotional. However, there is also the very comical. Even the funny ones, however, have an underlying depth to them that gives a sensitive insight into each of the characters involved.