A Pair of Sixes, originally titled The Party of the Second Part,[1] is a farce in three acts by Edward Peple that made its Broadway debut at the Longacre Theatre on March 17, 1914. The piece was produced by Harry Frazee and achieved a run of two hundred and twenty-seven performances at the Longacre before closing in the third week of September 1914.[2]
Over the following months A Pair of Sixes, reappeared at the Majestic Theatre in Brooklyn and Manhattan’s Standard Theatre. A national tour followed, as did runs at London’s Wyndham's Theatre and Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne.[3][4][5] Peple's farce spawned a novel by Lilian Lauferty, a 1918 silent film A Pair of Sixes with Maude Eburne and Taylor Holmes[6] and the 1926 hit Broadway musical comedy, Queen High,[7] that in turn begat the 1930 Hollywood talkie Queen High starring Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan and Ginger Rogers.[8] In 1937 it was filmed as On Again-Off Again with the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.
- ^ The Dramatic Index for 1915, 1916, p. 239
- ^ A Pair of Sixes, Internet Broadway Database Retrieved May 14, 2014
- ^ A Pair of Sixes a Smart Play. Reno Evening Gazette, Saturday, 19, 1914, p. 5
- ^ Brooklyn Playhouses. New York Times, October 4, 1914, p. 65
- ^ At other Houses. New York Times, November 29, 1914, p. X8
- ^ A Pair of Sixes, Internet Movie Database Retrieved May 15, 2014
- ^ Queen High, Internet Broadway Database May 14, 2014
- ^ Queen High (1930) Internet Movie Database Retrieved May 14, 2014