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Port O'London
A play in three acts by George W. Oliver. Opened at Daly's Theatre, New York City, February 9, 1926, and lasted 24 performances. Produced by W. Herbert Adams, directed and staged by Thompson Buchanan.
Cast of characters
| Harriet Pook | Alison Skipworth |
| Erb Pook | Walter Kingsford |
| Kitty Pook | Betty Linley |
| Officer | Frank Horton |
| Alf Tibetts | Alf Helton |
| Anthony Pook | Basil Rathbone |
| Captain Smithers | James C. Carroll |
| Mamie | Joan Lowell |
| Mrs. Higgins | Alice John |
| Charlie Fix | Paul Porter |
| Ling | Daniel Wolf |
| May | Suzanne Bennett |
| Teddy Casbourne | Frank Horton |
| Daisy | Dorothy Fletcher |
| Bill Wilshire | George Thorpe |
| Act I — Erb Pook's home on the
Dockside, Shadwell, London Act II — Sitting Room of Mrs. Higgins' Rooming House. Act III — A Doss House in the Limehouse District. |
"Anthony Pook, an impoverished artist of the London dockside, marries
Mamie Smithers, the half-caste daughter of a sea captain, to save her from a
brutal father. Mamie, not quite bright, wanders away from Pook's home into the
Limehouse district. Pook finds her, but meantime she has recovered her wits,
does not recognize him, and runs away with a sailor."
[from The Best Plays of 1925-26, ed. by Burns Mantle (Dodd, Mead and
Co., 1926), page 551.]
