April 10 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Dillingham, Savoy, dinner, 7.30. / Marda. / She Stoops to Conquer. / Invite Doubleday & wife here to tea” [NB 43 TS 8].

Note: this entry was written & struck through on Apr. 7. Sam noted Oliver Goldsmiths’ (1728-1774) play, She Stoops to Conquer. Gribben speculates “conceivably he saw a performance of it around that time in London”

“Marda” (which Sam spelled “Morda” in his Apr. 7 cancel entry) was possibly Magda by Prussian Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928). The best known of Sudermann’s plays is Die Heimat, translated under the title Magda, the name of its heroine. The title role of this play attracted such renowned actresses as Modjeska, Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Gribben lists two books by Suderman Frank N. Doubleday.