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15 October 1927 · The New Yorker

Charles Brackett

Bram Stoker Estate account · Original source: English

Estate summary

Charles Brackett finds the Deane–Balderston stage version of Dracula genuinely frightening despite its theatrical contrivances. Reviewing the Fulton Theatre production, he recognises how radically the adaptors have simplified Bram’s novel, then follows Van Helsing’s investigation and the contest for Lucy’s life. He praises Edward Van Sloan, Bernard Jukes and Dorothy Peterson, while suggesting that some stage tricks are unnecessary to the play’s effect. The notice captures the Broadway production’s early reception before the 1931 film made the story still more familiar. It forms the opening section of a longer theatre column reviewing several other plays.

Charles Brackett, The New Yorker, print issue of 15 October 1927. The complete relevant publisher transcription was checked; the linked original issue viewer was not inspected. The website also displays 8 October in its metadata. The related London programme is not from the reviewed New York production.

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Garrick Theatre programme for Hamilton Deane’s Dracula (1927) — Programme for Hamilton Deane’s Dracula at London’s Garrick Theatre, 1927. Related stage adaptation; not the Fulton Theatre production reviewed by Brackett.Courtesy of the Bram Stoker Estate.