| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Sons O' Guns' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates; programme for American production with cast list 1929; printed flyers; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical
Performed at The London Hippodrome, 26 June 1930, closing performance, 13 Dec 1930; presented by Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller in association with Moss Empires Ltd by arrangement with Jack Buchanan and Connolly, Swanstrom Inc; produced by William Mollison; dances, ensembles and ballets by Ralph Reader; lyrics and music by Arthur Swanstrom, Benny Davis and Fred Coots; The Empire, Liverpool, 9 June 1930
On tour: 1931: The New Theatre, Northampton; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham
America: The Imperial Theatre, New York, 26 Nov 1929; presented by Bobby Connolly and Arthur Swanstrom; production staged by Bobby Connolly; scenery by Joseph Urban; costumes by Charles LeMaire; ballets by Albertina Rasch
Casts: Bobby Howes, Jill Patson, Robert Hale, Bruce Carfax, Noel Dainton, Rosie Moran, Robert English, Donald Kingston, Peter Haddon, Griffith Humphreys, Henry Mollison, Toni Sympson, Ernest Graham, Theo Yelson, Grades Yelson, Louise Fisher, Mireille Perrey, S. A. Locke, Muriel Angelus, Ray Metcalfe, Gordon Harker, John Smith, Tom Knight, Margaret White, Lily Damita, Jack Donohue, Shirley Vernon, William Frawley, Milton Watson, Barry Walsh, Mary Horan, Richard Temple, Eddie Hodge, Robert Dohn, Alfred Bardelang, Ann Karyle, Gwendolyn Milne, Marion Chambers, Frances Markey, Isobel Zehner, David Hutcheson, Raoul de Tisne, Charles E. Bird, Joseph Spree, Harry Holbrook, Charles Dodson, Dina Maxwell, Phil Williams, Frank Major, Andre Brouard, Bertram Parnell, Henry Fielding, Fred Harold, Tessa Deane, Marjorie Lotinga, Dan Young, Doris Whale, William Senior, Leslie Hatton, Ann Constance, Nora Kildare, Millicent Bancroft, Marcella Miller, Della Harkins, Edna Bunte, Marion Santre, Sylvia Roberts, Anne Goddard, Clare Hooper, Wanda Stevenson, Billie Cortez, Muriel Hoey, Iola Sparks, Edna Burford, Mae Rena Grady, Adel Story, Gloria Clare, Adrienne Lampel, Muriel Hayman, Ruth Grady, Topsy Humphrey, Firlie Banks, Ida Berry, The Albertina Rasch Girls: Jeanette Bradley, Wilma Kaye, Josephine Wolfe, Virginia Allen, Nora Pontin, Lillian Jordan, Virginia Whitmore, Frances Wise, Ethel Greene, Ruth Hayden, June English, Evelyn Nichols |