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The Silver King is an 1882 melodramatic play, by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman. It was "so well known that criticism is superfluous" and played to record-breaking audiences.[1] It was adapted for films in 1919 and 1929.[2][3] The play featured stars such as Mary Pickford, with Phoebe Carlo playing Ned in the original production.


The play was serialised for Australian radio in 1941 with a cast including Harvey Adams and Ron Randell.[4] It was dramatised as a 90-minute play for the BBC Home Service (now BBC Radio 4) in 1964, starring Sir Donald Wolfit as Wilfred Denver.[5]
References
edit- ↑ "Music and the Drama". The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts. 1 (17): 270. 27 March 1884. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
- ↑ "The Silver King (1919) - George Irving | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
- ↑ "The Silver King (1929)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017.
- ↑ "OLD MELODRAMA. NOW RADIO SERIAL", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (28 (July 12, 1941)), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-721545838, retrieved 17 March 2024 – via Trove
- ↑ BBC, programmes, The Silver King