| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Madame Pompadour', adapted by Frederick Lonsdale and Harry Graham from the libretto by Adolph Schanzer and Ernest Walisch; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; programme extracts inside front cover give cast list and typescript dates and changes in cast members; includes programme extract giving the history of 'The Pompadour'; photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical; programme with cast list for tour venue 1931; cuttings give brief mentions of foreign productions of the musical
Performed at Dalys Theatre, Coventry Street, London, 20 Dec 1923, closing performance (437th) 31 Jan 1925; presented by George Edwardes; produced by Fred J. Blackman; costumes by Comelli; musical director by Arthur Wood; lyrics by Harry Graham, music by Leo Fall
Revived at: The Golders Green Hippodrome 3 Aug 1931; presented by Charles B. Cochran; staged by Herbert Bryan
On tour: 1924: The Grand Theatre, Blackpool; The Royal Theatre, Brighton; The Aquarium Theatre, Great Yarmouth; 1925: the Wimbledon Theatre; The Royal Theatre, Plymouth; The New Theatre, Crewe; The Palace Theatre, Ramsgate; The Richmond Theatre; The Grand Theatre, Croydon; The Royal and Empire Theatre, Peterborough; 1926: The Playhouse, Bury St Edmunds; The New Theatre, Cambridge; The Royal Theatre, Bury; The Opera House, Workington; The Royal Theatre, York; The Kings Theatre, Greenock
Casts: Bertam Wallis, Derek Oldham, Leonard Mackay, Leonard Russell, Noel Colne, Edmund D. La Touche, Louis Harrison, Donald Mather, Fred Pedgrift, Desmond Roberts, Stanley Rendall, Huntley Wright, E. Stamp Taylor, Maisie Bell, Evelyn Laye, Elsie Randolph, Cecilia Cavendish, Eve Gray, Ileen Evelyn, A. H. Majilton, Wilfred Temple, Edith Cecil, Walter Passmore, Cecily Saxe Wyndham Lees, Lauri Newton Lovat, Nan Wild Robinson, Kathleen [Bebington], Connie St Clarie, Gwen D'Espe, Madge Gray, Renee Mathar, Renee Mallory, Yvette Anning, Strafford Moss, Adrian Lucas, F. Rickett, Betty Huntley Wright, Doreen Langton, Arthur Lucas, Harold Thorley, Maudie Olinar, Harry Rousby, Frederick Ives, Cedric Percival, Phyllis Irane, Tom A. Shale, Cecil Clayton, Noel Dainton, Noel Colne, Frank Haylett, Frank Jones, David Henley, Hunt Robinson, George Hartley, Kenneth Dawson, James Davis, Reg Fenton, Harold Thorley, Aubrey Milton, Royston Taylor, Leon Alexander, Irwin Thomas, Gordon Harper, Maisie Weldon, Esme Major, Ver Macdonald, Cecil Dereham, Maudie Olmar |