| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Queen High', adapted from 'A Pair of Sixes' by Edward Peple; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, dates and changes in cast members; includes colour illustrated flyers on front cover and inside [1927]; programme extract with cast list for tour venue 1927; also includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical
Performed at The Queens Theatre, London, 2 Nov 1926, closing performance, 23 Apr 1927; lyrics by B. G. De Sylva; music by Lewis E. Gensler; presented by Alfred Butt; produced by Edgar MacGregor; dances by Sammy Lee; musical director Perceval Mackay; The Empire Theatre, Sunderland, 25 Oct 1926
Originally at: The Queens Theatre, London, [15 Sep 1920 - 23 Oct 1920] (as 'A Pair of Sixes') [46 performances]; [presented by Percy Hutchinson]; [produced by Eille Norwood]
On tour: 1927: The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; The Royal Theatre, Torquay; The Grand Theatre, Croydon; The Golders Green Hippodrome; The Metropole Theatre, Bootle; The Darlington Hippodrome; The New Theatre, Cambridge
America: The Ambassador Theatre, New York, 8 Sep 1926 (367 performances); directed by Laurence Schwab; The Wilbur Theatre, Boston, [Sep 1926]
Casts: Frank Masters, Sonnie Hale, Terri Storri, Kathryn Ellis, Doreen Farnham, Nada Munday, A. W. Boscomb, Joseph Coyne, Anits Elson, Stephanie Stephens, Joyce Barbour, Haddon Mason, Hermione Baddeley, Joan Dare, Regina West, Phoebe Hodgson, Dorothy Dolman, Percy le Fre, Frank Adey, Phyllis Povah, Haddon Mason, Theodore Phil, Brian Buchel, Edith Worrall, Jessie Holmes, Elsie Culver, Florence Walker, Herbert Mundin, Edna Bellonini, Ethel Oliver, Julian Hamilton, Violet Phlora, Doris Adair, Babs Allen, Violet Bowman, Eunice Capes, Pearl Janis, Mabel Lines, Rosie Lines, Adravine Oliver, Violet Rousseau, Winifred Read, Peggy Mansfield, George Bray, Andre Brouard, Jack Gibson, Thomas Hicks, Jack Laurie, Frederick Pepperwell, Frank Rowlands, Leedham Stanley, Eric Cave, Gwen Crystal, Arthur Osmond, Jennie Johnson, Prue Temple, Eileen Connelly, Ally Ford, Stanley Overbury, Ivy Shilson, Barbara Redford, Beatrice Harcourt, Troy Osmond, Leonard de Renzi, Betty Marshall, Felicia Firmin, Richard Laurence, Eddie Melvin, Signe Ekman, Fred Rene, Fred Kane, Charles Ruggles, Frank McIntyre, Luella Gear, Mary Lawlor, Clarence Nordstrom, Gaile Beverly, Julia Sanderson, Frank Crumit, Jack Hazzard, Mildred Brown, Joseph Wagstaff, Nina Olivette |