APPENDIX I
R.U.R.
By Karel Čapek. English version by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair. (Frazee Theatre, January 1, 1923.) Management: Theatre Guild. Cast: Henry Travers, Mary Bonestell, William Devereux, Percy Waram, Kathlene MacDonell, Myrtland LaVarre, Marlyn Brown, Charles Esdale, Whitford Kane, Beatrice Moreland, John Rutherford, Spencer Tracy (First Robot), Richard Coolidge, Bernard Savage, Mary Hone, Charles Ellis. Staged by Philip Moeller. Also toured.
THE WOOD PLAYERS
(Palace Theatre, White Plains, N.Y., April 16, 1923.) Manager: Leonard Wood, Jr. Company: Louise Treadwell, Ernest Woodward, Delores Graves, Frederick Hargrave, Helene Niles, Alma Powell, Charles S. Greene, Fairfax Burgher, Thomas Hudson, Helen Edwards, Spencer Tracy, Valentine Winter, Edward Crandall. Director: Kendal Weston.
THE WOOD PLAYERS
(Empire Theatre, Fall River, Mass., June 13, 1923.) Manager: Leonard Wood, Jr. Company: Louise Treadwell, Thomas Williams, Delores Graves, George Simpson, Millie Beland, Jack W. Cowell, William Williams, Helen Edwards, Spencer Tracy. Director: Raymond Capp.
THE WOOD PLAYERS
(Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, Pa., July 2, 1923.) Manager: Leonard Wood, Jr. Company: Delores Graves, William Williams, Ernest Woodward, Ione Bright, Dorothy Hall, Thomas Williams, Borden Harriman, Louis Kracke, June Webster, Spencer Tracy, Helen Olcott. Director: Raymond Capp.
THE STUART WALKER STOCK COMPANY
(Cox Theatre, Cincinnati, September 10, 1923.) Manager: Stuart Walker. Company: Lucile Nikolas, Tom Powers, Clark Hoover, Judith Lowry, William H. Evarts, Edward Andreas, Norvin Gable, Agnes Horton, Spencer Tracy, Barnara Bridge, Aldrich Bowker, Ethel Downie, William Kirkland, Tom Springer, Genevieve Addleman, Charles Capehart, Boyd Agin, Wayne Huff, Regina Stanfiel. Director: Stuart Walker.
A ROYAL FANDANGO
By Zoë Akins. (Plymouth Theatre, November 12, 1923.) Management: Arthur Hopkins. Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Cyril Keightley, Jose Alessandro, Teddy Jones, Beverly Sitgreaves, Edward G. Robinson, Virginia Chauvenet, Charles Eaton, Lorna Volare, Harold Webster, Denise Corday, Walter Howe, Drake deKay, Aileen Poe, Frank Antiseri, Spencer Tracy (Holt). Staged by Arthur Hopkins. Twenty-four performances.
THE PROCTOR PLAYERS
(Proctor’s Theatre, Elizabeth, N.J., December 3, 1923.) Company: Russell Hicks, Ruth Rickaby, Harry Huguenot, Olga Hanson, Charles W. Dingle, Spencer Tracy, Jessie Brink, Walter J. Winter, Joe Moran, William Gerold, Thelma Ritter, Marguerite Bishop, Joe Crehan, George Barbier, George Bylett, Harold Burnett. Director: A. J. Edwards.
THE PLAYHOUSE STOCK COMPANY
(The Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg, January 14, 1924.) Company: Allyn Gillyn, Coates Gwynne, Jetta Geffen, Jeanette Connor, Del McDermid, Spencer Tracy, Harrison Hoy, Jay J. Mulrey, Tom Richards. Director: Kendal Weston.
THE LYCEUM STOCK COMPANY
(Lyceum Theatre, Pittsburgh, April 7, 1924.) Manager: William H. Wright. Company: Marguerite Fields, Matthew McHugh, Catherine McHugh, William Crookshank, Cliff Boyer, Spencer Tracy, Eugene G. Harper, Nellie Booth, Arthur Mack, Ernest Gantier. Director: John Ellis.
THE BROADWAY PLAYERS
(Powers Theatre, Grand Rapids, Mich., June 16, 1924.) Manager: William H. Wright. Company: Selena Royle, Kenneth Daigneau, William Laveau, Halliam Bosworth, Spencer Tracy, Arthur Kohl, Ramon Greenleaf, Herbert Treitel, John Ellis, Charlotte Wade Daniel, Elsie Keene, Elizabeth Allen. Director: John Ellis.
THE MONTAUK PLAYERS
(Montauk Theatre, Brooklyn, N.Y., September 22, 1924.) Manager: William H. Wright. Company: Selena Royle, Spencer Tracy, William Laveau, Georgia Backus, Halliam Bosworth, C. Porter Hall, Ramon Greenleaf, Herbert Treitel, John Ellis, Josephine Royle, Charlotte Wade Daniel. Director: John Ellis.
THE BROADWAY PLAYERS
(Powers Theatre, Grand Rapids, Mich., April 12, 1925.) Manager: William H. Wright. Company: Selena Royle, Spencer Tracy, William Laveau, Halliam Bosworth, Josephine Royle, Herbert Treitel, John Ellis, Charlotte Wade Daniel, Ernest Gantier. Director: John Ellis.
THE SHEEPMAN
By Charlotte B. Chorpenning. (Stamford Theatre, Stamford, Conn., October 9, 1925.) Management: Boothe, Gleason & Truex. Cast: Dodson Mitchell, Margaret Borough, Spencer Tracy (Jack Roberts), Emmett Shackelford, Thomas Findlay, James Seeley, Max Walzman, Paul Jacchia, Carleton Macy, Julius Seebach, A. O. Huhan, Charles F. Burns, Marshall Hale, Claude E. Archer. Staged by James Gleason. Tryouts only.
THE TRENT STOCK COMPANY
(Trent Theatre, Trenton, N.J., November 3, 1925.) Manager: Walter Reade. Company: Ethel Remey, Spencer Tracy, Louise Huntington. Director: Frank McCoy.
THE BROADWAY PLAYERS
(Regent Theatre, Grand Rapids, Mich., February 8, 1926.) Manager: William H. Wright. Company: Helen Joy, Spencer Tracy, William Laveau, Betty Hanna, Ann Constant, Halliam Bosworth, Herbert Treitel, John Ellis, Charlotte Wade Daniel. Director: John Ellis.
YELLOW
By Margaret Vernon. (National Theatre, September 21, 1926.) Management: George M. Cohan. Cast: Chester Morris, Selena Royle, Hale Hamilton, Shirley Warde, Spencer Tracy (Jimmy Wilkes), Marjorie Wood, Harry C. Bannister, Frank Kingdon, Jane Wheatley, Richard Freeman. Staged by John Meehan. 132 performances.
NED MCCOBB’S DAUGHTER
By Sidney Howard. (Princess Theatre, Chicago, February 20, 1927.) Management: John Cromwell. Cast: John Cromwell, Florence Johns, Spencer Tracy (George Callahan), Burke Clarke, Harriette MacGibbon, Elmer Cornell, Robert Wayne, Arthur Cole, Joseph Daly, Ranold Savery. Staged by John Cromwell.
Note: Tracy left the cast after six weeks.
THE WRIGHT PLAYERS
(Faurot Opera House, Lima, Ohio, April 17, 1927.) Manager: William H. Wright. Company: Spencer Tracy, Louise Treadwell, Porter Hall, Vincent Dennis, Geraldine Browning, David Livingstone, Joseph Demier, Isabelle Herbert, Anthony Blair, Kitty Cosgriff, Harry Horne. Director: Harry Horne.
THE BABY CYCLONE
By George M. Cohan. (Henry Miller’s Theatre, September 12, 1927.) Management: George M. Cohan. Cast: Grant Mitchell, Natalie Moorhead, Spencer Tracy (Gene Hurley), Nan Sunderland, William Morris, Georgia Caine, Agnes Gildea, John T. Doyle, Joseph Allen, Charles F. McCarthy. Staged by Sam Forrest. 187 performances. Also toured.
STOCK AT THE OHIO THEATRE
(Ohio Theatre, Cleveland, June 24, 1928.) Leading man: Pierre Watkin.
Note: Tracy appeared in productions of The Baby Cyclone, Broadway, and Lulu Belle.
WHISPERING FRIENDS
By George M. Cohan. (Broad Theatre, Newark, N.J., August 21, 1928.) Management: George M. Cohan. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Joe Sanford), Georgia Caine, Walter Edwin, Gwenn Lowrey, Jack McKee, Kathleen Mulqueen. Staged by Sam Forrest. Tour only.
NIGHTSTICK
By John Wray, the Nugents, and Elaine Sterne Carrington. (Freeport Theatre, Freeport, Long Island, November 5, 1928.) Management: Russell Mack. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Tommy Glennon), Marjorie Crossland, James S. Barrett, Clara Palmer, Frances Horine, Victor Kilian, Donald Dillaway, Jerome Sheldon, Owen Martin, Frederick Strong, Harry Jenkins, Vera Trett, Loretta Puck, Emil Hirsch. Staged by Arthur Bouvier. Eight performances.
THE LESTER BRYANT STOCK COMPANY
(Auditorium Theater, Baltimore, December 24, 1928.) Manager: Lester Bryant. Company: Edna Hibbard, Spencer Tracy, Pat O’Brien, Martin Walfson, Frank McHugh, Philip Van Zandt, Alex Campbell, Harry Stafford. Director: Noel Travers.
CONFLICT
By Warren F. Lawrence. (Fulton Theatre, March 6, 1929.) Management: J. E. Horn (Spad Producing Co.). Cast: Spencer Tracy (Richard Banks), Edward Arnold, Frank McHugh, Peggy Allenby, Dennie Moore, Charles Scott, Albert Van Dekker, Jack Mead, Mabel Allyn. Staged by Edward Clarke Lilley. Thirty-seven performances.
SALT WATER
By Dan Jarrett (uncredited: Jean Dalrymple). (Playhouse, Mamaroneck, N.Y., May 27, 1929.) Management: John Golden. Cast: Spencer Tracy (John Horner), Edythe Elliott, Una Merkel, George Spelvin, Claude Cooper, Robert Burton, William Edmunds, Alan Goode, James C. Lane, Harry Lawrence, Patricia O’Hearn. Staged by John Golden. Tryouts only.
Note: Tracy was fired after the play’s Atlantic City engagement.
THE E. F. ALBEE PLAYERS
(Albee Theatre, Providence, R.I., June 24, 1929.) Manager: Foster Lardner. Company: Selena Royle, Spencer Tracy, John W. Moore, Walter Kenmore, William Harrison, Charles I. Schofield, Mal Arthur, Mal Kelly. Director: Charles I. Schofield.
NIGGER RICH (THE BIG SHOT)
By John McGowan. (Royale Theatre, September 20, 1929.) Management: Lee Shubert. Cast: Roderick Maybee, Spencer Tracy (Eddie Perkins), Don Beddoe, Adelaide Hibbard, Elvia Enders, Eric Dressler, John A. Butler, Helen Flint, Franklyn Fox, Richard Taber. Staged by the author. Eleven performances.
DREAD
By Owen Davis. (Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., October 20, 1929.) Management: Sam H. Harris. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Perry Crooker), Madge Evans, Miriam Doyle, Frank Shannon, George Meeker, Edwin Stanley, Marie Haynes, Helen Mack, Kathleen Comegys. Staged by the author. Tryouts only.
Note: The play closed after its Brooklyn engagement.
BLUE HEAVEN (VENEER)
By Hugh Stange. (Garrick Theatre, Chicago, December 22, 1929.) Management: Harry L. Cort, Charles H. Abramson. Cast: Joanna Roos, Spencer Tracy (Charlie Riggs), William Roselle, Betty Brown, John Kane, Harold Waldrige, Edith Shayne, Robert Sinclair. Staged by the author.
Note: Tracy replaced Henry Hull in the role of Charlie Riggs and played a week at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre in New York prior to Chicago.
THE LAST MILE
By John Wexley. (Sam H. Harris Theatre, February 13, 1930.) Management: Herman Shumlin. Cast: Spencer Tracy (John Mears), James Bell, Howard Phillips, Hale Norcross, Ernest Whitman, George Leach, Joseph Spurin-Calleia, Don Costello, Herbert Heywood, Orville Harris, Ralph Theadore, Richard Abbott, Henry O’Neill, Clarence Chase, Allen Jenkins, Albert West. Staged by Chester Erskine. 289 performances. Also Chicago.
Note: During Tracy’s absence over the summer of 1930, the part of Mears was played first by Thomas Mitchell, later by Allen Jenkins.
THE RUGGED PATH
By Robert Emmet Sherwood. (Plymouth Theatre, November 10, 1945.) Management: The Playwrights’ Company. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Morey Vinion), Martha Sleeper, Rex Williams, Clinton Sundberg, Lawrence Fletcher, Vito Christi, Kay Loring, Ernest Woodward, Emory Richardson, Gordon Nelson, Jan Sterling, Henry Lascoe, Ralph Cullinan, Nick Dennis, Theodore Leavitt, Paul Alberts, Sandy Campbell, Sam Sweet, Lynn Shubert, Howard Ferguson, William Sands, David Stone, Clay Clement, Edward Raquelo. Staged by Captain Garson Kanin. Eighty-one performances.