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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2739
Title'Primrose' by George Grossmith and Guy Bolton
Extent1 file
Date1924-1925
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Primrose' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; programme extracts inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates and cast change; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical

Performed at The Winter Garden Theatre, London, 11 Sep 1924, closing performance (255th) 25th Apr 1925; lyrics by Desmond Carter; music by George Gershwin (by arrangement with Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley); presented by George Grossmith and J. A. E. Malone; produced by George Grossmith; scenery by Joseph and Phil Harker; ballet arranged by Dyta Morena
On tour: 1925: The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne; The Princes Theatre, Manchester; The Palace Theatre, Ramsgate; The Gaiety Theatre, Hastings; The Grand Theatre, Hull

Casts: Ernest Graham, Claude Hulbert, Vera Lennox, Guy Fane, Margery Hicklin, Percy Heming, Ruth Taylor, Leslie Henson, Thomas Weguelin, Harold Bradley, Heather Thatcher, Muriel Barnby, Sylvia Hawkes, James Croome, Mabel Rean, Dorothy Field, Winifred Shotter, Dorothy Deane, Molly Vere, Dorothy Hurst, Constance Neville, Reginald Andrews, Jack Heath, Harry Emeric, Ivy Pole, Aileen Firminger, Edward Maples, Harry St A. Hilliard, Nan Ainslie, Doris Vincent, Lewis Gray, William White, Sam Henry, Helen Adam, Morval Willis, Marjorie Kennard, Cliff Weir, Camilla Feo, May Carpenter, Val Vaux, Vera Joyce, Shaun Desmond, Minnie Lawrence, Phyllis Karran, Jane Dean, Mignon Morenza, Esme De Vayne, Kathleen Burgis, Beryl Murray, Lelia Farmar, Yvonne O' Beare, Phyllis Swinburne, Margaret Moore, Geraldine Aylmer, Phyllis Garton, Dorothy Daw, Sybil Eastley, Bubbles Ryan, Estelle Dudley, Elaine Ferrars, Daisy Dalziel, Audrey Carlyon, Leila Holly, Maisie Glyn, Gladys Summut, Peggy Blake, Marie Lynne, Leslie French, Guy Saunders, Ralph Rutland, George Hamilton, F. Wilson Barrett, Fred Whitlock, Frank Brown, Jack Morgan, Jackson Werndley, John Redmond
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