| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Housemaster' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list with typescript amendments, dates and changes in cast members; includes programme with cast list for provincial theatre 1938; printed postcard and leaflet flyers for 1936
Performed at The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, 12 Nov 1936; presented by Firth Shephard; produced by Herbert Bryan; settings by Aubrey Hammond; scenery by Harkers and Jack Hill
Transferred to: The Shaftesbury Theatre, 22 May 1937, closing performance, 12 Jun 1937; The Aldwych Theatre, 29 Jun 1937, closing performance (643rd) 11 Jun 1938
Originally at: The Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 Nov 1936
Revived at: The St Martin's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, 19 Jan 1954, closing performance (38th) 20 Feb 1954; presented by Alan Hay and Leslie French; directed by Jack Hulbert
On tour: 1937: The Kings Theatre, Portsmouth; The New Theatre, Oxford; The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne; 1938: The Empire, Swansea; The Wimbledon Theatre
America: The Morosco Theatre, New York, 25 Jan 1938 (as 'Bachelor Born'); presented by Milton Shubert and Ruth Selwyn; produced by Frederick Leister
On tour: 1938: The Cort Theatre, New York; The Lyceum, New York; [1939]: The Mansfield Theatre, New York
Casts: Frederick Leister, Tony Wickham, Robert Craven, J. H. Roberts, Lesley Burton, Hilda Trevelyan, Joan White, Winifred Willard, Rosalyn Boulter, Elizabeth Nolan, John Ford, Humphrey Morton, P. Kynaston Reeves, H. G. Stoker, Henry Rayner, Derek Blomfield, Laurence Kitchin, Lawrence Hanray, Jean Webster Brough, Jaqueline Squire, Elizabeth Ferguson, Richard Ainley, Alfred Ayre, Miles Byrne, Patric Curwen, Marie Dainton, Michael Logan, Eldon Gorst, Cyril Luckham, Gerald Pemberton, June Daunt, Ethel Hope Johnstone, Gabrielle Daye, Cobie Court, Anne Brooke, Mary Anstey, John Roderick, Richard Pearson, Frederick Keen, Lionel Newbold, Ian Stuart, Hugh Munro, John Mann, Michael Logan, Daphne Newton, Celia Lloyd, Stuart Burge, Jane Tennyson, Jack Hulbert, Thomas Connliffe, Donald Hewlett, Julian d'Albie, June Laverick, Winifred Shotter, Mary Sivern, Margaret Flint, Yvette Wyatt, Joan Winmill, David Aylmer, Malcolm Webster, Maurice Durant, John Mannell, Harvey Hallsmith, Thomas Moore, Derek Pollitt, Aubrey Mather, Phoebe Foster, Peggy Simpson, Milton Shurbert, Gavin Muir, Stephen Ker-Appleby, Francis Compton, Philip Tonge, Helen Trenholme, Jane Sterling, Bertram Transwell, Arthur Gould Porter |