by
Francis Hopkinson Smith Detective Sparkes Morton's comedy called
Detective Sparkes opened at the
Garrick Theatre in August 1909 to good reviews. He also directed the production which ran into October for a total of 64 performances.
The Yellow Ticket In 1914, Morton's play,
The Yellow Ticket ran 183 performances on Broadway and starred
Florence Reed and
John Barrymore. It was adapted to the screen and, due to its popularity, several filmed versions were made in the silent era alone. The first,
The Yellow Passport (1916), was directed by
Edwin August and starred
Clara Kimball Young. The second version,
The Yellow Ticket (1918), starred
Fannie Ward,
Warner Oland and
Milton Sills. A German version called
Der Gelbe Schein was produced in 1918 and starred
Pola Negri. Yet another filmed version was a talking picture and was directed by
Raoul Walsh in 1931. It was also titled
The Yellow Ticket; its players were
Elissa Landi,
Lionel Barrymore and
Laurence Olivier.
James Wong Howe was the cameraman.
Colonel Newcome in
Colonel Newcome (1917) Morton adapted
William Makepeace Thackeray's 1854-55 novel
The Newcomes into a play called
Colonel Newcome, which opened in April 1917 at the
New Amsterdam Theatre and starred
Herbert Tree and
St. Clair Bayfield.
Woman to Woman His 1921 play
Woman to Woman was adapted three times for film.
Alibi He adapted
Agatha Christie's novel
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd into a play called
Alibi, which opened in London in 1928. This was her first work adapted to the stage and it ran 250 performances. ==Notes==