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''Theatre Magazine'', January 1916, p. 17 The play was first performed on March 7, 1910 in Plainfield, New Jersey.(8 March 1910)
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, it debuted on Broadway on September 7, 1910 at the

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.(8 September 1910)
'Mother's' Woes Win Tears at Hackett
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''The Theatre'' (October 1910) It played at the Hackett through December 3, 1910, and then moved to the Circle(?) Theatre, where it opened on December 5 and ran through December 31,Who's who in music and drama
p. 376 (1914) for a total run of 133 performances. Mantle, Burns
Best Plays of 1909-1919
p. 423 (1943) The play was adapted to the screen in a 1914 silent film of the same name.

1910 Broadway cast

* Emma Dunn as Mrs. Katherine WetherillEmma Dunn - Stage Mother
''The Theatre Magazine'' (January 1911) * Frederick Perry as William Howard Wetherill * Albert Latcha as Walter Thompson Wetherill * Arthur Ross as James Bingham Wetherill * David Ross as John Walton Wetherill *

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as Ardath Wetherill * Marion Capman as Leonore Wetherill * James Brophy as John Rufus Chase * John Stokes as Harry Lake *

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as Elizabeth Terhune * Justine Cutting as Agatha

References

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External links

''Mother'' on the Internet Broadway Database

New York Public Library production photos

''Mother''
(1911) (book version of play on Google books) 1910 plays Broadway plays American plays