Zander the Great

Empire Theatre / New York City / July 30, 1923

- New York Daily News / April 30, 1923 (pg.40) -

Zander the Great opened April 9, 1923 and closed in June 1923 for a total of 80 performances at the Empire Theatre.

- Wall Street Journal / April 11, 1923 (pg.3) -

(Actual program measures 5 1/24 x 7 5/8")

- photo from the play "Zander the Great" with Alice Brady and Jerome Patrick, on page 67 of the July 1923 Shadowland. -

- In 1925, Comsmopolitan Pictures made an 80-minute version of Zander the Great starring Marion Davies and Holbrook Blinn. -

Plot: Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander.
Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same
orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

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