Loud Speaker
Written by	John Howard Lawson
Date premiered	March 2, 1927 (1927-03-02)
Place premiered	New Playwrights' Theatre
Original language	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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Sources

• Lawson, John Howard. 1927. Loud Speaker: A Farce. New York: The Macaulay Company.