Stage Play: Topsy and Eva. Musical comedy. Music by The Duncan Sisters. Book by
Catherine Chisholm Cushing. Lyrics by The Duncan Sisters. Based on the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Musical Director: Jerome Stewardson. Musical Staging by Jack Holland. Directed by
Oscar Eagle. Sam H. Harris Theatre: 23 Dec 1924- 9 May 1925 (159 performances). Cast:
Rosetta Duncan (as "Topsy"),
Vivian Duncan (as "Eva St. Clare") [final Broadway role], Alice Averill (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Billie Bart (as "Pickaninny"), Shirley Beauford (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Antoinette Boots (as "Bessie/Old-Fashioned Girl"), Floyd Carder (as "Plantation Quartette"), Helen Case (as "Mrs. Shelby"), Roy Collins (as "Plantation Quartette"),
Ashley Cooper (as "Erasmus Marks") [Broadway debut], Hazel Cushman (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Wilbur Cushman (as "Austustine St. Clare"), Nydia D'Arnell (as "Mariette"), Kitty Dolan (as "Pickaninny"),
Myrtle Ferguson (as "Ophelia St. Clare"), Harry Furney (as "Plantation Quartette"),
Ernee Goodleigh [credited as Ernay Goodleigh] (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Davis Goodman (as "Gee Gee"),
Robert Halliday (as "George Shelby"),
Dixie Harkins (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Ross Himes (as "Rastus"),
Harriet Hoctor (as "Henrique/Danseuse Premiere"), Violet Little (as "Pickaninny"), Renee Lowrie (as "Helen/Old-Fashioned Girl"), Florence Martin (as "Eliza"), Edith Maybaun (as "Jane/Old-Fashioned Girl"), Toresa McSpirit (as "Pickaninny"), Glory Minehart (as "Harry"), Patricia Pattisson (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Jessie Pollard (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Lorraine Ray (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"),
Basil Ruysdael (as "Uncle Tom"), Phillip Ryder (as "Plantation Quartette"), Minnie Shaw (as "Pickaninny"), Lea Swan (as "Ann/Old-Fashioned Girl"), Ethel Swettenham (as "Pickaninny"), Rosie Swettenham (as "Pickaninny"), Elsie Thompson (as "Pickaninny"), Rosa Thompson (as "Pickaninny"), Aimee Torriani (as "Chloe"), Natasha Verova (as "Old-Fashioned Girl"), Frank K. Wallace (as "Simon Legree"), Hettie Ward (as "Pickaninny"). Replacement actor:
Rex Cherryman (as "George Shelby") [Broadway debut]. Produced by Thomas Wilkes. Note: Filmed as
Topsy and Eva (1927).
