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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2427
Title'He Who Gets Slapped' by Leonid Andreyev
Extent1 file
Date1922-1947
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'He Who Gets Slapped' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; briefly mentions film version of the play

Performed at The Everyman Theatre, London, 8 Nov 1927, closing performance, 10 Dec 1927; presented by Milton Rosmer and Malcolm Morley; produced and settings by Milton Rosmer; The Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 20 Feb 1926; translated by Gertrude Schurhoff and Barry V. Jackson; produced by H. K. Ayliff; scenery and costumes by Paul Shelving
Revived at: The Duchess Theatre [17] Jun 1947; version by Judith Guthrie; presented by Four Seasons Ltd; produced by Tyrone Guthrie; artistic direction by Robert Helpmann and Michael Bethall; decor Fanny Taylor
America: The Garrick Theatre, New York, 9 Jan 1922; presented by the Theatre Guild

Casts: Eliot Makeham, Yvonne Rorie, Fewlass Llewellyn, Brember Wills, Dorie Sawyer, Richard Coke, Winifred Clynes, Anne M. Walls, Milton Rosmer, Stanley Groome, Gabrielle Casartelli, Godfrey Baxter, Frederick Lloyd, Walter Pearce, W. Babson Cowan, Amy Dalby, Digby Vernon, S. Griffiths, Frederick Sorrell, Malcolm Morley, Alan Howland, Edward Chapman, Charles Leighton, A. Bromley Davenport, Margaret Chatwin, Dorothy Black, Phyllis Percy, Alfred W. Beale, Roland Thomson, Stanley Lathbury, Andrew Churchman, Muriel Hewitt, Roger Barry, Frank Moore, Dorothy Hall, Louise de Lacy, Howell Davies, Herbert B. Clements, Arthur Turner, Alan Edmiston, Terence Duff, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Gaskin, Joan Wellings, Stasia Udale, H. Tranter, C. H. Johnson, C. Nicholls, F. B. Phillips, C. Williams, O'Dwyer Russell, Albert Neale, Robert Helpmann, Margaret Diamond, Audrey Fildes, Arnold Marle, Leonard White, Peter Varley, Alfie Bass, Stanley Radcliffe, Eric Pohlmann

Film cast mentioned: Lon Chaney
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