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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/357
Title'Roberts Wife' by St John Ervine
Extent1 file
Date1937-1939
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Roberts Wife' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates; includes magazine extracts with photographs of members of the cast in scenes from the play; also includes printed flyers [1937-1939]; file also contains unrelated photographs of Fay Compton (actress) at back

Performed at The Globe Theatre, London, 23 Nov 1937, closing performance, 4 Feb 1939; presented by H. M. Tennent Ltd; directed by Murray Macdonald, decor by G. E. Calthrop; orchestra directed by Leslie Bridgewater; The Kings Theatre, Edingburgh, 25 Oct 1937
Revived at: The Savoy Theatre, London, 6 Mar 1939, closing performance 20 May 1939
On tour: The Golders Green Hippodrome; The Royal Theatre, Brighton; The Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham

Casts: Edith Evans, Owen Nares, Ann Farrer, Jacqueline Clarke, Edith Sharpe, John Bailey, David Horne, Margaret Moffat, David Markham, E. J. Kennedy, John Linden, Margaret Scudamore, Robert Holmes, Rosamund Burne, Nell Carter, Aubrey Mather, Jordan Lawrence, Isobel Ohmead
Access StatusOpen

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