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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4919
Title'Othello' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1930
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DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Othello' with photographs and illustrations of cast members and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre.

Performed at The Savoy Theatre, London, 19 May 1930, closing performance, 5 Jul 1930; presented by Maurice Browne; produced by Ellen Von Volkenburg; settings by James Pryde; costumes by George Sheringham; The Golders Green [Hippdrome] 14 Jul 1930.

Cast: Paul Robeson, Lawrence D'Orsay, Conway Dixon, John Garside, Philip Desborough, Max Montesole, Ralph Richardson, Maurice Browne, Vernon Fortescue, Horace Sequeira, Peggy Ashcroft, Sybil Thorndike, Naomi Ludolf, John Thompson, A. J. Brown, Andrew Cruikshank, Robin Craven, Michael Curwen, Harold Dewhurst, W. V. Garrod, Geoffrey Gomer, Wilfred Grantham, John Horsley, Gerald Kent, Cecil Rayne, Russell Sedgwick, Alaister Sim, Leslie Sorrell, John V. Trevor, Richard Turner, Herbert Uzieli, Gerald Vane, C. Jervis Walter, Richard Williams, Rowland Dyson, A. Whittaker, Rita Daniel, Winifred Oughton, Margaret Barr, Joyce Peters, Rosemary Showler, Hilary Fisher White, W. V. Garrod, Davies Lucas, Philip Desborough, Neil Porter, Sybil Thorndike.
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