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Broadway production of An African Millionaire
Location: the Princess Theater, New York
Time: eight performances starting 4/4-1904
Adaptation by Frederick W. Sidney
Cast:
J. Palmer Collins
J.M. Colville................Sir Charles Vandrift
Minnie Dupree.............Mrs Richard Brazon
Bertram Godfrey
John E. Gray ...............inspector of Police
Rapley Holmes
Maude Knowlton........Lady Amelia van Drift
Henry J. Lillford.......... Chief of Police
Tully Marshall.............Jepson
Grace Merritt. ............Isabel Wentworth
Sherman Ramsay.........Waiter
Marie Rawson ............ Indiana Hord
H. Reeves-Smith .........Colonel Clay
Henry Rich ..................The Duke of Oakshire
Harry St. Maur
George Henry Trader
Beresford Webb
Cyril Young
New York Times April 5 1904: «An African Millionaire» Play found on Grant Allen's Stories Fails to Thrill
"If you can't be a bell cow, fall in behind," sang one of that noble band of poets, who are ever seeking to enlighten humanity and lift the burden from suffering mortals. It must have been rememberance of that sage advice that inspired Fred C. Whitney, theatrical manager, when he conceived and executed the direful idea of perpetrating «An African Millionaire» on an unsuspecting New York public.
Click here to read the whole review
BBC Radio show of an African Millionaire
Broadcast dates
00/01/08 episode 1 Mexican Seer
00/01/09 episode 2 Diamond Links
00/01/15 episode 3 Tyrolean Castle
00/01/16 episode 4 Arrest of Colonel Clay
00/11/13 episode 5 German Professor
00/11/14 episode 6 Scottish Retreat
00/11/15 episode 7 Old MAster
00/11/16 episode 8 Japanned Dispatch Box
The Woman Who Did Free Audio Book
Grant Allen's most famous novel about the independent Hermenia Barton is also available as audio books.
There is a free audiobook from librivox.org and another payed version published by Assembled Stories.
Download the Assembled Stories version for £ 4.99 from their website or . . .
listen to the free audiobook here
"The Great Ruby Robbery" Free Audio Book
Grant Allen's detective story published in Strand Magazine September 1892 is available as a free audio book from Librivox.org. Listen to it here
"Miss Cayley's Adventures" Free Audio Book
Grant Allen wrote one of the first novels to feature a female detective. Librivox.org is currently publishing a free audiobook of Miss Cayley's Adventure by Grant Allen. Only the first part has been finished and you can listen to it here
"The Type Writer Girl" Free Audio Book
Writing under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Raynor, Grant Allen published this novel in 1897 about Juliet Appleton, a Girton graduate, who must earn her living as a secretary. Librivox has just finished a free audiobook of the book. Listen to it here
