| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Helen', based on 'La Belle Helene' by Meilhac and Halevy; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the opera including copy of 'Play of the Moment'; printed flyers [1932]
Performed at The Royal Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London, 30 Jan 1932, closing performance, 16 Jul 1932; presented by Charles Cochran; directed by Max Reinhardt; scenery and costumes by Oliver Messel; music by Jacques Offenbach; music arranged and orchestra directed by E. W. Korngold; dances devised by Leonide Massine; The Opera House, Manchester, 24 Dec 1931
Casts: W. H. Berry, Evelyn Laye, Desiree Ellinger, Hay Petrie, Bruce Carfax, Winifred Davies, Mahry Dawes, Yetta Luberti, Roy Russell, Leslie Jones, George Robey, Eve, Pearl Argyle, Joy Spring, Sepha Treble, Iris Browne, Shirley Dale, W. E. C. Jenkins, John Gatrell, A. Blandford, Charles Cornford, Madeline Gibson, Victor Dill, Strafford Moss, Paul Basque, Edala Brough, Eve Lynd, Dorothy Colette, Barbara Silverius, Greta May, Ann Angela, Dodo Jay, Elizabeth Romaine, Ruby MacGilchrist, Iris Maitland, Maureen Moore, Margaret Watson, Nancy Brown, Marjorie Raymonde, Marjorie Verne, Harold Kelley, Evan W. Jones, J. Appleton, Claude Britton Eldred, Robert Elliott, J. Farleigh Price, Hector Thomas, Selwyn Morgan, Paul Stanton, Herbert Francis, John Laurie, Bertram Payne, Ernest Ludlow, Maisie Green, Sonia Hulley, Jean Barnes, Aimee Gillespie, Bunty Pain, Peggy Barton, Margaret Neeson, Jackie Marcon, Moira Tracey, Betty Wedgwood, Dorothy Jackson, Florita Fey, Jean Garman, Phyllis Stickland, Cleo Nordi, Sheila Wilson, Claude Newman, Jack Spurgeon, Walter Gore, Rollo Gamble, W. Chappell, Robert Stuart, Guy Massey, Jean Perrie, Harry Webster, Ivor Beddoes, Mark Fawdry, Robert Lindsay, George Bowler, Mina Hillman |