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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/787
Title'Alf's Button' by W. A. Darlington
Extent1 file
Date1924-1937
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Alf's Button' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast lists and dates; includes extract from a provincial programme with cast list

Performed at The Princes Theatre, London, 24 Dec 1924, closing performance, 7 Mar 1925; presented by Martin Henry; produced by Holman Clark and E. Dagnall; The Golders Green Hippodrome, 22 Sep 1924; The Royal Theatre, Portsmouth, 25 Aug 1924
Revived at: The New Theatre, Oxford, 17 Dec 1925, closing performance, 23 Jan 1926; produced by E. Holman Clarke and E. Dagnall
The Scala Theatre, London, 26 Dec 1931, closing performance, 9 Jan 1932; presented by Martin Henry
The Kingsway Theatre, London, 23 Dec 1933 (musical version); presented by Martin Henry; music by Temple Abaday; lyrics by Grenville Robbins
On tour: 1925: The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne; 1926: His Majestys Theatre, Aberdeen; The New Theatre, Northampton; The Royal Theatre, Leamington Spa; The New Theatre, Oxford; 1927: The Chelsea Palace Theatre; 1928: The Royal Theatre, Grantham; 1937: The Aston Hippodrome

Casts: Ambrose Thorne, Herbert Young, Douglas Stanley, George Mason, Victor Blake, Edward Ouston, Charles Cliffe, E. C. Hawken, Jack Morris, Tubby Edlin, Jerry Verno, George F. Ide, Kenneth Carlisle, Emerton Court, Cyril Cobb, George Thirwell, F. Wyndam Goldie, Jane Welsh, Agatha Kentish, Arthur Pitt, Hazel Jones, Marjorie Mars, Esme Fitz Gibbon, Anita Devi, Doris Johnstone, Elsie Brown, Petresha, Ayala, James Carrall, John Harlow, Ada Palmer, Forbes Dawson, Charles Steel, H. Adams, Fred Kemp, H. Phipps, S. Stuart, S. L. Chapman, Charles Cullum, D. Scott, Joan Clarkson, Frances White, Fred Baker, Teddy Brogden, Dorothy Monkman, Jack Denton, Charles Vane, H. Thomas, W. Bentley, M. Drury, Jack Martyn, Will Stuart, Guy Fane, Bertram Parnell, Alfred Whitehorn, Valerie Blanka, Rex Alderman, Joan Irons, Harry J. Clifford, Mary Martin Henry, Betty Field, Ross Hassid, Edward Swinton, Christine Jensen, Harry Gould, Jack Morrison, Harry Weste, Charles Cecil, Lawrence Hepworth, Billy Tasker, C. C. Charles, Dudley Rolph, Blossom Berncastle, Stuart Clare, Richard Maxwell, Julie Suedo, Lorna Hubbard, Sybil Brooke, William Bradford, Rex London, Lockwood West, Garry Marsh, Fred Morris, Helen Vayne, Gladys Durham, Josephine Rose Thorn, Bert Randall, John Johnston, Lillian Hillier, Mary Martell, Brian Royceton, H. A. Mather, Robert Ernest, Daphne Ronchetti, Maria Seymour, Syd Clayton, Bernard Mervyn, Daphne Gray, Jack Miles, Eillen Whale, Dorothy Barry, Paul Beresford, Beatrice Macdonald, Joan O'Shea, Melville Birley, Nora Posford, John Barber, Doris Ford, Elaine Garreau, Raymond Lovall, Gwendoline Hubbard
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