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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1279
Title'Sweet and Low' by Alan Melville
Extent1 file
Date1943-1948
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Sweet and Low' with photographs and illustrations of members of the casts; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the revue; programme extracts with cast lists for two productions of the revue [1944-1946]; also includes press and magazine articles on leading cast member Hermione Gingold

Performed at The Ambassadors Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London, 10 Jun 1943; presented by J. W. Pemberton and A. A. Dubens; directed by Charles Hickman; decor and costumes by Berkeley Sutcliffe; scenery built by Harry Clifford and Brunskill and Loveday
Revived at: The Ambassadors Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London, 17 Feb 1944 (as 'Sweeter and Lower'); presented by J. W. Pemberton and A. A. Dubens; directed by Charles Hickman; decor and costumes by Berkeley Sutcliffe; dances arranged by Geroge Carden; The Ambassadors Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London, 9 May 1946, closing performance [790th] [3 Apr 1948] (as 'Sweetest and Lowest'); presented by J. W. Pemberton and A. A. Dubens; directed by Charles Hickman; decor and costumes by Berkeley Sutcliffe; dances arranged by Geroge Carden; The Royal Theatre, Brighton, 31 May 1943
On tour: 1948: The Kings Theatre, Glasgow; The Grand Theatre, Derby

Casts: Hermione Gingold, Henry Kendall, Brenda Bruce, Ilena Sylvia, Denis Waldcock, Clifford, Davis, Walter Crisham, Bonar Colleano, Mary Irwin, Yvonne Jaques, Pauline Fraser, Edna Wood, Gretchen Franklin, George Carden, Richard Curnock, Nancy Bacon, Olive Wright, Christopher Hewett, Pam Trevers, Hugh Hastings, Julie Stafford, Monica Mallory, Doreen Farmer, George Lacy, Phyliss Monkman, Betty Shaw, David Short, Clive Drummond, Renee Beck, Ann Mathew, James Brown
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