Love Finds the Way

Love Finds the Way (originally titled The Right to Happiness) is a three-act play written by Marguerite Merington and first performed in 1896. Theatrical manager A. M. Palmer acquired the rights to a German play by Olga Wohlbrück, which Merington adapted into English. The adaptation debuted at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware on November 30, 1896, with actress Minnie Maddern Fiske in the lead role.[1] The title was changed to Love Finds the Way for Broadway, where it opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on April 11, 1898, with A Bit of Old Chelsea by Mrs. Oscar Beringer as a curtain raiser. (Fiske starred in both plays.) Love Finds the Way is a comedy-drama about a young woman who seeks romance despite an injury that has left her unhappy and alienated from her family.[2]

Love Finds the Way
Publicity photo of Minnie Maddern Fiske in Love Finds the Way
Written byMarguerite Merington
Date premieredNovember 30, 1896 (1896-11-30)
Place premieredGrand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware
GenreComedy-drama

Cast and characters

The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below:[2]

Opening night cast
Character Broadway cast
Doctor Lee Frederic De Belleville
Douglas Colbert Forrest Robinson
Raymond Winfield Verner Clarges
Edgar Townsend George Trader
Simon Wilfrid North
William Frank McCormack
Leslie Lotta Linthicum
Mrs. Bessell Sydney Cowell
Madeline Winfield Minnie Maddern Fiske
Helen Alberta Gallatin
Jane Dorothy Chester

References
  1. "Opera House: Minnie Maddern Fiske in The Right to Happiness". Wilmington Morning Star. November 28, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Some of the Easter Holiday Offerings of the Principal Theatres". The New York Times. April 12, 1898. p. 9.
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