(1925). Stage Play: Is Zat So? Comedy. Written by James Gleason and Richard Taber. 39th Street Theatre (moved to Chanin's 46th Street Theatre from 15 Mar 1926- close): 5 Jan 1925- Jul 1926 (closing date unknown/618 performances). Cast: Robert Armstrong (as "Eddie "Chick" Cowan"), Tom Brown (as "Master James Blackburn Parker"), Marie Chambers (as "Susan Blackburn Parker"), Marjorie Crossland (as "Marie Mestretti"), James Gleason (as "A.B. "Hap" Hurley"), John C. King (as "Robert Parker"), William London (as "Smith"), Victor Morley (as "Major, the Hon. Maurice Fitz-Stanley"), Eleanor Parker (as "Grace Hobart"), Carola Parson (as "Angie Van Alsten"), Duncan Penwarden (as "Fred Hobart"), Jack Perry (as "John Duffy"), Sidney Riggs (as "C. Clinton Blackburn"), Jo Wallace (as "Florence Hanley"). Produced by Earle Boothe. Note: Filmed by Paramount Pictures as Pugilismo Social (1935).
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Minneapolis Saturday 27 June 1935 on WTCN (Channel 11).