Loud Speaker
title: "Loud Speaker" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1927-plays", "broadway-plays", "plays-by-john-howard-lawson", "modernist-theatre"] topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loud_Speaker" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Loud Speaker |
| writer | John Howard Lawson |
| premiere | |
| place | New Playwrights' Theatre |
| orig_lang | English |
| genre | Modernist farce |
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Loud Speaker is a play by American playwright John Howard Lawson. It was first produced by the New Playwrights' Theatre at the 52nd Street Theatre in New York, opening on March 2 1927. Harry Wagstaff Gribble directed, Mordecai Gorelik designed the sets, Eugene L. Berton composed its music, and Leonard Sillman choreographed its dances.
Characters
- Harry U. Collins
- Peterson
- Emma Collins
- Maid
- Clare Collins
- Josephus
- Johnnie Dunne
- Floradora Finnigan
- A Stranger with a Beard
- Dorothy Dunne
- Armenian Iky
- 1st Reporter
- 2nd Reporter
- 3rd Reporter
- 1st Photographer
- 2nd Photographer
- The Harlem Committee
- The Imperial Serenaders
Sources
- Lawson, John Howard. 1927. Loud Speaker: A Farce. New York: The Macaulay Company.
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