- (1937) Stage: Wrote (w/Jonathan Finn) "Chalked Out", produced on Broadway. Melodrama. Directed by Antoinette Perry. Morosco Theatre: 25 Mar 1937-Unknown (12 performances). Cast: Harry Bellaver (as "Smoky"), Ronald Brogan (as "Chuck"), Maurice Burke (as "Scappa"), Roger Combs (as "Tower Guard"), James Coots (as "Warden"), Blair Davies (as "Keeper Burns"), Philip Faversham (as "Slim"), Price Holmes (as "Keeper"), David Hughes (as "Patsy"), Otto Hulett (as "Carey"), John M. James (as "Andy"), Frank Jaquet (as "Pop"), Charles Jordan (as "Frank Wilson"), Frederick Kaufman (as "Jake"), Leo A. Kennedy (as "Principal Keeper (P.K.)"), Frank Lindsay (as "Officer Black"), Lex Lindsay (as "Smitty"), Frank Lovejoy (as "Fred Burke"), Stephen Maley (as "Zip"), John Marriott (as "Sam"), Katherine Meskill (credited as Katherine Meskil]; as "Madge Stone"; Broadway debut), Mabel Montgomery (as "Mrs. Stone"; final Broadway role), Robert J. Mulligan (as "Sergeant Monahan"), Marlin Poindexter (as "Johnson"), John Raby (as "Johnny Stone"), Ed Smith (as "District Attorney"), Sandy Strouse (as "Blimp"), John Taylor (as "Doctor"), Tom Tully (as "Officer Carter"), Charles Walton (as "Tom"), Harry Wilson (as "George"). Produced by Brock Pemberton.
- (1932) Book: "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (Criminal Justice in America)". Published by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith. 412 pages. Reprinted 1942 by New Home Library. Other editions (including facsimiles) available. NOTES: (1) Filmed as 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), Invisible Stripes (1939), Castle on the Hudson (1940). (2) Lawes was a prison warden (New York's Sing Sing State Prison; now Ossining Correctional Facility in Ossining) in 1920 and a proponent of prison reform. During his 21-year tenure at Sing Sing he supervised the executions of 303 condemned prisoners.
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