A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE

   The second produced play by Harriet Ford opened on 30 December 1901 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 120 performances. The casting of Kyrle Bellew and Eleanor Robson as the romantic interest enhanced the appeal of this seven-scene historical drama set in Renaissance France. The swordplay and other physical activity brought shrieks, cheers, and whistles of delight from the gallery. Ford herself later referred to it as "the slaughter of eighteen" and "the last of the swashbucklers" (Patterson, 18).