| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Princess Charming', adapted from the original book of Ferencz Martos; with photographs and illustrations of cast members and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, changes in cast members and dates; printed flyer on cover [1926]; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical
Performed at The Palace Theatre, London, 21 Oct 1926, closing performance, 3 Sep 1927; music by Albert Szirmai; lyrics by Arthur Wimperis; additional numbers and lyrics by Russell Bennett and Jack Waller; presented by Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller; produced by William Mollison; dances and ensembles arranged by Espinosa and Kelland Espinosa
On tour: 1926: The Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow; 1927: The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool; The Kings Theatre, Glasgow; The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; The Wimbledon Theatre, London; The Theatre Royal, Brighton; 1928: The Grand Theatre, Southampton; 1929: The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool; The Grand Theatre, Croydon; The Royal Theatre, Bury; The Winter Gardens, New Brighton
America: The Imperial Theatre, New York, 13 Oct 1930; presented by Bobby Connolly and Arthur Swanstrom by arrangement with Clayton and Waller; staged under the direction of Bobby Connolly; scenery by Joseph Urban; costumes by Charles LeMaire; The Shubert Theatre, Boston, 8 Sep [1930]
Casts: Peter Gawthorne, Bernard Clifton, Eileen Redcott, W. H. Berry, John Clarke, Winnie Melville, Gerald Nodin, Alice Delysia, Edmund Willard, Charles Penrose, George Grossmith, Ernest Graham, Evelyn Laye, Stanley Lupino, Marguerite Ronald, Edward O'Bryan, Bebe Phillips, Elaine Lettor, Ardath de Sales, Miriam Sabbage, Dorothy Passmore, Kathleen Clifford, Rosemary Rock, T. Pauncefort, Wylie Watson, Billy Rego, Robert Hine, Mamie Watson, Joan Pelton, Neta Underwood, Howell Worster, Arthur Riscoe, Max O'Bryen, Sylvia Cecil, H. Murray Davey, Eric Bridson, Ronald Alpe, Harry Frankiss, John Bateman, Jeanne Aubert, Evelyn Herbert, Robert Halliday, Victor Moore, Danielle Bregis, Douglas Dumbrille, Betty Gallagher, Bartlett Simmons, Raymond Walburn, John Kane, Dorothy James, Yvonne Grey, Walter Passmore, Nancy Fraser, Hugh Kennedy, Juliette de Gai, Henry Ludlow, Hilda Constantine, Charles F. Howard, Francis Waddell, J. Murray Ind, Jack Stock, Colin Gent, Philip D. Williams, Wilfred E. Payne, Evelyn Herbert, Robert Halliday, Jeanne (Jane) Aubert, Victor Moore, Danielle Bregis, Betty Gallagher, Bartlett Simmons, Raymond Walburn, John Kane, Dorothy James, Yvonne Grey |