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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1272
Title'Sweet Aloes' by Jay Mallory
Extent1 file
Date1934-1936
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Sweet Aloes' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme inside front cover gives cast list, typescript dates and changes in cast members; includes copy of 'Play of the Moment', photographs of cast members in scenes from the play and the story; also includes programme extract with cast list for provincial production 1935; postcard flyer [1934]

Performed at Wyndhams Theatre, St Martins Lane, 1 Nov 1934 (suspended 16 Mar - 3 May 1935), closing performance, 8 Feb 1936; presented by Moss' Empires and Howard and Wyndham Tours Ltd; produced by Tyrone Guthrie; scenery by Authur de Lissa; The Opera House, Manchester, 24 Sep 1934
On tour: 1935: The Wimbledon Theatre; The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne; The Kings Theatre, Portsmouth; 1936: The New Theatre, Oxford; The Royal Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; The Prince of Wales's Theatre, Cardiff; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham; The Royal Theatre, Nottingham
America: The Booth Theatre, New York, 4 Mar 1936

Cast: Margaret Withers, Josephine Dent, Frances Waring, Diana Wynyard, Frank Allenby, Alan Napier, Vivienne Bennett, Hartley Power, Ernest Trimmingham, Katherine Wilson, Maureen O'Moor, Jack Allen, Joyce Carey, Mercia Swinburne, Evelyn Evers, Derek Cotter, Wynne M. Clark, Esma Cannon, Annie Hughes, Patricia Burke, Terence Neill, Jack Rowe, Joan Curry, William Senior, Sam Henry, Jean Sugden, Betty Cowen, Theodore Meade, Patricia Godfrey, Margaret Nicholls, Charles Clifford, Rosemary Scott, George Butler, Dorothy Hamilton, Marjorie Stewart, John Counsell, Norman Scace, Marshall Sheppard, Emerton Court, Phyllis Jay, Wynne M. Clark, Mollie Shannon, Annie Chippendale, Peter Scott, Ruth Lodge, Hugh Stuart, Jane Millican, Eric Stuart, Gwen Clifford, Evelyn Laye, Rex Harrison, Doris Dalton
Access StatusOpen

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