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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/675
Title'The Anatomist' by James Bridie
Extent1 file
Date1930-1948
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Anatomist' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes magazine extracts with photographs cast members in scenes from the plays produced 1931, 1948; magazine extract from 'The Sphere' Oct 1931 featuring the subjects of 'The Anatomist' Robert Knox, William Burke and William Hare; printed flyer [1931]

Performed at The Westminster Theatre, London, 7 Oct 1931, closing performance, 30 Jan 1932; presented by Anmer Hall; produced by Tyrone Guthrie; settings and costumes by Molly McArthur; The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 3 Jul 1930; presented by the Masque Theatre Players
Revived at: The Westminster Theatre, London, 2 Nov 1948; presented by Alec L. Rea and E. P. Clift with Roy Limbert; produced by Alastair Sim
On tour: 1932: The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; His Majestys Theatre, Aberdeen
America: The Bijou Theatre, New York, Nov 1932; settings by Alexander Wyckoff

Casts: Betty Hardy, Carleton Hobbs, Gillian Scaife, Meg Buchanan, Henry Ainley, Robert Eddison, Craighall Sherry, Flora Robson, Joan White, D. Morland Graham, J. A. O'Rourke, Harry Hutchinson, John Allen, B. A. Fleming, Ormerod Greenwood, John Kentish, Angus Murray, David L. Porter, Gordon Ramsey, Gordon Richardson, A. Rolfe, Alan Trotter, John Whitehead, Evelyn Neilson, Maud Risdon, Ireland Wood, Doreen Cayley, Alfred Wilde, David Wilton, R. Halliday Mason, Mattie McLennan, William Henry, Eric H. Messiter, Douglas Allen, Basil Gill, Gwenda Sayre, Anne Wilson, John McCormac, Kendal Chalmers, Marshall Moore, Frederick Gibson, Alice Esme Bell, Betty Rubens, Alastair Sim, Alexis France, Elenna Fraser, Josephine Crombie, Liam Redmond, Michael Ripper, Molly Urquhart, Carmel McSharry, Ian Wallace, George Cole, Derek Blomfield, Howard Connell, Frank Conroy, Ralph Cullinan, Jack McGraw, Paula Bauersmith, Leslie Barrie, Eunice Osborne, Audrey Ridgwell, Molly Pearson
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