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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1731
Title'Ten Minute Alibi' by Anthony Armstrong
Extent1 file
Date1933-1956
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Ten Minute Alibi' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme inside front cover includes cast list and has typescript dates and cast changes 1933; includes magazine extract 'Play of the Moment' with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play and the story [1933]; printed flyers [1933]; programme with cast list 1956; also includes programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre 1934

Performed at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 8 Feb 1933; presented by Ronald Adams and Sinclair Douglas; scenery by George Wiggins
Originally at: The Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, 2 Jan 1933; presented by Ronald Adams; produced by Sinclair Hill; scenery by Bagnall Harris
Transferred to: The Phoenix Theatre, London, 23 Apr 1934; then to: The Comedy Theatre, Haymarket, 28 Jan 1935, closing performance (878th) 23 Feb 1935
Revived at: The Westminster Theatre, London, 2 Nov 1956, closing performance 1 Dec 1956; presented by James P. Sherwood; directed by Jevan Brandon Thomas; setting by Henry Graveney
On tour: 1933: The Winter Gardens, New Brighton; The Opera House, Manchester; The Grand Theatre, Blackpool; The Kings Theatre, Southsea, The Royal Theatre, Brighton; The Royal Theatre, Nottingham; 1934: The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; The Royal Theatre, Bath; The Pleasure Gardens Theatre, Folkstone; 1935: The Playhouse, Swindon; The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
America: The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, Dec 1933

Casts: Roland Caswell, Anthony Ireland, Celia Johnson, Robert Douglas, John Garside, George Merritt, T. G. Saville, Jon Godfrey, Maisie Darrell, Jessica Tandy, Aileen Marson, Doris Hilditch, Gillian Maude, Phyllis Konstam, Bernard Lee, Alec Finlayson, Peter Scott, Beatrice Radley, Charles Stuart, A. W. Tyrer, Stanley Browne, Leslie Beach, Henry Ingram, Clare St Clare, Michael Barry, Alan Lawrence, Cecil Brooking, Frank Foster, Hugh Butt, Howell Davies, Gerald Olivier, Kay Esmonde, R. Stewart West, Patrick Crean, Martin Lowater, Deirdre Mason, John Biggerstaff, Brian Brooke, Edwin Beverley, Charles Leno, Conrad Phillips, Claire Caldwell, Jeremy Burnham, Ralph Wilson, Arnold Bell, Edward Cast, Bramwell Fletcher, R. Halliday Mason, Noel Carey
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