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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2964
Title'A Man with Red Hair' by Ben Levy
Extent1 file
Date1928-1942
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'A Man with Red Hair', adapted from 'Portrait of a Man with Red Hair' by Hugh Walpole; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes printed flyer on front cover [1928]; printed flyer for tour theatre inside [1928]; magazine extract article by Hugh Walpole with his opinion of the play

Performed at The Little Theatre, London, 27 Feb 1928, closing performance, 5 Mar 1928; presented by B. A. Meyer; produced by Theodore Komisarjevsky; scenery by Aubrey Hammond
Revived at: The Ambassadors Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 18 Sep 1942; presented by Eleven Twenty Three Ltd; produced by Andre van Gyseghem; decor by Danae Gaylen
On tour: 1928: The Hippodrome, Aldershot; The Grand Theatre, Fulham; 1942: The Royal Court, Liverpool
America: The Springdale Theatre, Stamford, 6 Jun 1928; presented by A. H. Woods; directed by Joseph Graham; The Adelphi Theatre, Chicago [1928]

Casts: E. Ion Swinley, Keyo Akimoto, J. H. Roberts, Gillian Lind, Charles Laughton, James Whale, George Bealby, Kay Chiba, O. Morai, Richard Carr, Ah Woo Sing, Walter Hudd, Francis L. Sullivan, Mischa de la Motte, Lionel Gadsden, Yves Renaud, Eric Noels, Nevil Wyatt, Lionel Dixon, Edna Crowder, Thomas Armitage, Humphrey Heathcote, Denis Banyard, Mischa Motte, Crane Wilbur, Alan Brooks, Joan Maclean
Access StatusOpen

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