| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Home and Beauty' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and date; includes programme with cast list and script dates 1950; programme extract with cast list [1942]; also includes magazine extract photographs of members of the cast in scenes from the play
Performed at The Playhouse Theatre, Charing Cross, London, 30 Aug 1919, closing performance [20 Mar 1920] (235 performances); presented by Frank Curzon and Gladys Cooper in conjunction with Charles Hawtrey; directed by Charles Hawtrey Revived at: The Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London, 29 Sep 1930; presented by Alec L. Rea and Arthur R. Whatmore; produced by A. R. Whatmore; The Playhouse Theatre, Charing Cross, London, 12 Nov 1942; presented by Lee Ephraim and B. A. Meyer in conjunction with Tom Arnold; produced by Val Gielgud; The Wimbledon Theatre, 31 Aug 1942; The St Martin's Theatre, Cambridge Circus, 27 Sep 1950; presented by The Sherek Players Ltd; directed by Roy Rich; settings by Fanny Taylor; costumes by Michael Ellis; The Arts Theatre, Great Newport St, London, 31 Aug 1950 Transferred to: Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1 Jan 1951, closing performance, 3 Mar 1951 (180th) America: The Booth Theatre, New York, 8 Oct 1919 (as 'Too Many Husbands')
Casts: Gladys Cooper, Laura Lydia, Doris Cooper, Lottie Venne, Hubert Harbon, Malcolm Cherry, Charles Hawtrey, Katherine Somervell, Lyston Lyle, Jean Cadell, Alfred Ayre, Joyce Bland, Arthur Whatmore, Francis L. Sullivan, Charles Lefeaux, Josephine Middleton, Wallace Evennett, Edith Sharpe, Joan Manners, Laura Webster, Judy Menteath, Ronald Squire, Barry Jones, Isabel Jeans, Anthony Holles, Kynaston Reeves, Althea Parker, Margaret Scudamore, Gwendolyn Gray, June Willock, Daisy Bindley, Irene Russell, Gwenneth Bevan, Iris Vandeleur, George Howe, Eric Hilton, Hugh Burden, Athony Marlowe, Brenda Bruce, John Boxer, Brian Oulton, Barbara Leake, Susan Richmond, Marjoire Dunkels, May Hallatt, Virginia Hewett, Peggyann Clifford, Trevor Hill |