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Originally Posted by Noir_Noir

The Crisis was playing in the Burbank Theater at the end of January 1910.


Los Angeles Herald - 27 January 1910

Originally Posted by Earl Boebert

That's the other Winston Churchill, the American novelist.
The play was an adaptation of his novel of the same name, set in Missouri as the Civil War approached.

Cheers,

Earl

I'm embarrassed to admit it, Earl, but I didn't know there was an American author named Winston Churchill.

His book, The Crisis, was the best selling book in the United States in 1901.




The Crisis was also one of the issues of Classics Illustrated.



You can read more about him at Forgotten Fiction

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