The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket is a 1914 Broadway play by dramatist Michael Morton, which premiered at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre in Manhattan on January 20, 1914. Plot Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to pretend to be a prostitute to obtain a prostitute's passport (a "yellow ticket") in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. When she arrives in St. Petersburg, she learns that her father has been killed. She encounters a young journalist and tells him of the crimes the state perpetrates against its citizens. Original cast John Barrymore as Julian Rolfe Florence Reed as Anna Mirrel, aka Marya Varenka Emmett Corrigan as Monsieur Zoubatoff A. C. P. Evans as Vassellevitch Macy Harlam as Petrov Paviak Elaine Inescort as Marjory Seaton Julian L'Estrange as Count Nikolai Rostov Harry Lillford as Boglosky John B. Mason as Baron Stepan Audrey David Torrence as John Seaton Michael Wilens as Peter In other media