| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'He Wanted Adventure' based on 'Ambrose Applejohn's Advenutre' by Walter Hackett; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme inside front cover with cast list, photographs of cast members and typescript dates and cast changes 1933; printed flyers [1933]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical
Performed at The Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 28 Mar 1933, closing performance, 19 Aug 1933; presented by Jack Waller; produced by William Mollison; dances and ensembles by Fred Leslie; costumes by Hedley Briggs, William Chappell and Jill Casson; adaption and lyrics by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee; music by Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge; additional lyrics by Clifford Grey; The Palace Theatre Manchester, 6 Mar 1933
On tour: 1933: The Wimbledon Theatre; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham; The Gaiety Theatre, Douglas; 1934: The Winter Gardens, New Brighton
Casts: Bobby Howes, Mary Mauldon, Dorothy Cooper, Doris Clemence, Diana Walkington, Naomi Waters, Glen Pointing, Elizabeth Jenns, Ronald Pope, Harry Foster, Robert Coomber, Arthur Hadfield, Frank Herbert, Richard Harris, Wilfred Ward, Kenneth Evans, James Dobbs, Thomas Howell, Robert Hine, Ernest Graham, Judy Gunn, Lena Halliday, Wylie Watson, Marie Burke, Raymond Newell, Winifred Izard, Abraham Sofaer, Arthur Bell, Kitty Glen, George Worsley, Cecil Brierley, Hindle Edgar, Pearl Green, Dorothy Langley, Lawrence Barclay, Flora Milne, Fanny Wright, Edmund Tottenham, Alec Hunter, E. Dudley Stevens, Isa Bowman, William Daunt, Karl Melene, Ralph Daly, Leslie Hatton, Irene Lister, George Dapier, Eileen McCarthy Duncan Sim, Franklin Davies, Nina Barry, Alec Hunter |