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'' Marry the Girl'' is a farce by George Arthurs and Arthur Miller. It was one of the series of Aldwych farces that ran at the Aldwych Theatre in London nearly continuously from 1923 to 1933. The play centres on a breach of promise case brought before a British court of justice. The piece opened on 24 November 1930 and ran until 16 May 1931, a total of 195 performances.〔"Mr. Ralph Lynn", ''The Times'', 10 August 1962, p. 11〕 The actor-manager Tom Walls, who presented the farces and co-starred in most of them, gathered a regular company of players for the series. All the chief members of the company took part in ''Marry the Girl''. A film adaptation of the play was made in 1935 under the same title.〔("Marry the Girl" ), British Film Institute, accessed 2 March 2013〕 ==Background== '' Marry the Girl'' was the eighth of the twelve Aldwych farces, and only the second not written by Ben Travers. The first four in the series, ''It Pays to Advertise'', ''A Cuckoo in the Nest'', ''Rookery Nook'' and ''Thark'' had long runs, averaging more than 400 performances each. The next three were less outstandingly successful, with progressively shorter runs: ''Plunder'' (1928) ran for 344 performances, ''A Cup of Kindness'' (1929) for 291, and ''A Night Like This'' (1930), 267.〔 Like its predecessors, the play was directed by Tom Walls, who co-starred with Ralph Lynn, a specialist in playing "silly ass" characters. The regular company of supporting actors included Robertson Hare, who played a figure of harassed respectability; Mary Brough in eccentric old lady roles; Ethel Coleridge as the severe voice of authority; Winifred Shotter as the sprightly young female lead; and the saturnine Gordon James.〔Trussler, p. 278〕〔Travers, p. vi〕 ==Original cast== *Banks – George Barrett *Jane Elliott – Doreen Bendix *Mrs Elliott – Ethel Coleridge *Walford Gibbs – Ralph Lynn *Mrs Chattaway – Mary Brough *Cyril Chattaway – Denis O'Neil *Hugh Delafield – Tom Walls *Doris Chattaway – Winifred Shotter *Sergeant Burrows – Philip Carlton *Sir Anthony Plumstead – Gordon James *Mr Justice Sparrowhawk – Robertson Hare *Mervyn Parkes – Archibald Batty 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marry the Girl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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