Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 11, 1936

Pre-Honeymoon (by Anne Nichols & Alford Van Ronkel; Anne Nichols, producer) is the first drama to bear the Nichols auctorial stamp since this phenomenal show woman wrote and produced Abie's Irish Rose in 1922. That theatrical miracle, thoroughly damned by critics, struggled along at cut-rate prices for six months, then suddenly got second wind and ran for five years on Broadway, setting an all-time record of 2,532 performances. Abie's Irish Rose made Play wright Nichols an estimated $6.000,000. In California, where she still putters at playwriting and raises alligator pears, she...

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