''Wings Over Europe'' was a 1928

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three-act play written by Robert Nichols and

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, produced by the

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and directed by

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. It opened on December 10, 1928 at the

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and then moved to the

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sometime in 1929 running for 90 total performances. Young British genius Francis Lightfoot has discovered how to make terrible bombs using the atom. He's soon dismayed by the greed and militarism of the British cabinet members. Includes brief plot summary.

Cast

Hugh Buckler Hugh Chilman Buckler (9 September 1881 – 30 October 1936) was a British actor. He was married to stage actress Violet Paget, about whom little has been found, save that she was somehow related to the Marquess of Anglesey. The film actor John ...

as Stapp * Frank Conroy as Arthur *

Wheeler Dryden George Dryden Wheeler Jr. (31 August 1892 – 30 September 1957), known better as Wheeler Dryden, was an English-born American actor and film director. He was the son of Hannah Chaplin and music hall entertainer Leo Dryden, and younger half-br ...

as Plimsoll * Frank Elliott as Dedham *

Joseph Kilgour Joseph Kilgour (11 July 1863 – 21 April 1933) was a Canadian actor of the silent film era. He was a well-known veteran stage actor in Broadway theatre before entering silent films. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1909 and 1926. Kil ...

as Grindle *

Alexander Kirkland William Alexander Kirkland (September 15, 1901, Mexico City, Mexico – 1986) was a leading man in Hollywood during the early sound era as well as a stage actor who starred in productions of the Group Theatre (New York), Group Theatre in New Yo ...

as Lightfoot *

Robert Rendel Robert Rendel (2 December 1884, in St Mary Abbots Kensington, London – 9 May 1944, in Marylebone, London) was a British actor of stage, screen, television and radio. Career His stage work included roles in the original Broadway theatre, Broadw ...

as Vere * Lionel Bevans as St. Man * Thomas Braidon as Cossington * Charles Carden as Taggert * John Dunn as Sunningdale * Charles Francis as Faulkiner * George Graham as Pascoe * Nicholas Joy as Haliburton * A. P. Kaye as Rummel * Ernest Lawford as Grantby * Edward Lester as Hand * Gordon Richards as Dunn * Grant Stewart as Blount

Accolades

''Wings Over Europe'' was included in

Burns Mantle Robert Burns Mantle (December 23, 1873February 9, 1948) was an American theater critic. He founded the ''Best Plays'' annual publication in 1920.Chansky, Dorothy (2011)"Burns Mantle and the American Theatregoing Public" in ''Theatre History Stu ...

's ''The Best Plays of 1928–29''.

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