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acclaimed andsuccessful productions in London,Berlin,Prague and other majorcapitals.  \nHerb Tank has drawn upon his lifeas a seaman for the stuff of his play.The fast moving action,lusty humorand down-to-earth portraits of sea-men arise from Tank's intimateknowledge of his material  \nJacket by Rockwell Kent  \nPhotos of the American Production  \nby Vivian Cherry  \nPhotos of the English Production  \nby Cyril Bernard  \nHill for the Berlin production.  \nThe German translation is by Elizabeth Hauptmann.  \nl1r10.Published and Distributed by60AUVE RGNEPUBLISHERSin conjunction withNEW PLAYWRICHTS.INC.s1501081 Jerome AvenueNew York 52,N.Y.  \nfob 2  \nLongde49  \nA PLAY  \nby  \nHERB TANK  \nNEW PLAYWRIGHTS,INC.  \nNEW YORK,N.Y.  \nCoPYRICHT 1952 BY NEw PLAYWRICHTS,INC.BARNARD RuBIN,ExECUTIVE DIRECTOR  \nThis play in its printed form is designed for the reading public only.All dramatic rights in it are fully protected by copyrights and nopublic or private performance-professional or amateur-may begiven without the written permission of the producers and the pay-ment of royalty.As the courts have also ruled that the public read-ing of a play for pay or where tickets have been sold constitutes apublic performance,no such reading may be given except underthe conditions above stated.Anyone disregarding the author's orpublisher's rights renders himself liable to prosecution.Communi-cations should be addressed to New Playwrights,Inc.,P.O.Box  \n65,Rego Park,N.Y.  \n55  \nMANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICABY AMERICAN BOOK-STRATFORD PRESS,INC.,N.Y.  \nALABAMA  \nARAB LONGSHOREMAN  \nBROOKS  \nMAGUIRE  \nBLACKIE  \nMATE  \nCAPTAIN  \nOILER  \nSWEDE  \nCOOKIE  \nCHILENO  \nDOCTOR  \nSEAMAN  \nLoNGITUDE 49 was first presented by New Playwrights in NewYork City on April 15,1950 with the author as director,set-tings by Ed Walsh and Idell Carruth,lighting by Ed Dvorakand incidental music by William Moore Jr.  \nCAST OF THE NEW YORK PRODUCTION  \nFrederick SetonLouis AlhonoteSidney PoitierFrank SilveraHerb ArmstrongVic WintonAl NadlerJerry MorrisJack SorianGarfeld LoveLouis AlhonoteMcElroy WilkesStanley Fields  \nOn October 27,1950 LoNGITUDE 49 was presented under theauthor's direction at Unity Theatre,London.  \nOn September 15,1951 the play was produced under the titleTANKER NEBRASKA at the Theatre Am Schifbauerdamm inBerlin,Germany.  \nOn October 19,1951 the play was produced simultaneously inSouth Bohemia and in Pilsen,Czechoslovakia under the titleTANKOVA LoD MACKAY.  \nThe action takes place in the crew's fo’c'sle,Captain's quar-ters and crew's messroom aboard the American tankerMACKAY docked in Abadan,Iran,longitude 49-latitude  \n30,between the hours of eight in the evening and four inthe morming on a night in the recent past.  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nHerb Tank's powerful tragedy,taken from the daily life ofthe American seamen,was the first production of our NewPlaywrights'Theatre.  \nCertainly no finer example of proletarian drama couldhave served to introduce the theatre to the workers ofNew York.  \n\"Longitude 49”now marks a further step in the theatre'sdevelopment.It is our first offering in a series of publishedplays that we hope will serve as a permanent record andlegacy to the future,as well as another demonstrationtoday that America of the People still lives.  \nWhat is America?Is it our big machines,our sky-scrapers,or all the hoarded gold?No,America is thePeople.“The people are the nation!”was one of the greataffirmations of the French Revolution.  \nIn America,Walt Whitman,our nation's Bard,assertedthe same vast truth.But a hundred years after Walt rovedthe sidewalks of New York you can search the brassyBroadway jungles and find not a single stage on which thePeople is allowed to appear.  \nOut of some twenty-five plays now current only one isconcerned with the main problems of humanity.The","cbCaijJRK9uzFgqv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijJRK9uzFgqv","pdf",5780716,104,"English","# Introduction\n## The play’s 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