Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

Produced at the Comedy Theatre, London, on May 12, 1906, with the following cast of characters: —¹

THE EARL OF AMERSTETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Frederick Volpé.

LADY MELROSE (his sister) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Hilda Thorpe.

VISCOUNT CROWLEY (his son) . . . . . . . . . Mr. Courtenay Foote.

LADY ETHEL (his daughter) . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Lettice Fairfax.

GWENDOLINE CONRAN (a cousin) . . . . . . Miss Jessie Bateman.

CURTIS BEDFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Dion Boucicault.

MERTON (his assistant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. James Franklyn.

CRAWSHAY (a burglar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Laurence Irving.

MRS. VIDAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Sarah Brooke.

MARIE (a French maid) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Florence Sinclair.

GOLDBY (a butler) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Horton Cooper.

BARRACLOUGH (Porter at the Albany)

HARRY MANDERS (better known as “Bunny”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Graham Brown.

and

A.J. RAFFLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Gerald du Maurier.

ACT I

Milchester Abbey, Dorset                                               September-Evening.

ACT II

The same.                                                                             Next morning.

ACT III

Raffles’s Chambers, The Albany, London.                Next afternoon.

ACT IV

The same.                                                                             Night.

TIME OF ACTION: —Twenty-four hours.