| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Belle of New York'; C. M. S. McLellan is the pseudonym of Hugh Morton; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; typescript inside front cover and throughout cover gives cast lists and dates; includes programme with cast list 1942; printed flyer [1933]
Performed at Dalys Theatre, London, 2 Apr 1931; presented by J. Bannister Howard; music by Gustave Kerker; produced by Frederick C. Lloyd; dances by Alison McLaren; orchestra under Leonard Hornsey
Transferred to: The Winter Garden, London, 2 Jun 1931, closing performance, 20 Jun 1931; returned to Dalys Theatre, London 13 Jul 1931, closing performance, 29 Jul 1931; The Garrick Theatre, London, 5 Aug 1933, closing performance, 21 Oct 1933; presented by Vyvian Thomas under the direction of J. Bannister Howard; orchestra directed by George Burnley; The Garrick Theatre, London, 24 Dec 1934, closing performance, 12 Jan 1935; The Coliseum, London, 24 Sep 1942 ('entirely new presentation'); presented by Emile Littler; production devised by Rodney Ackland; staged by Joan Davis and Emile Littler; dances and ensembles arranged by Joan Davis; orchestra directed by Michael Collins; additional musical numbers by Harry Parr Davies and Mark Lubbock; additional lyrics by Barbara Gordon and Basil Thompson; The New Hippodrome, Coventry, 25 Aug 1942
The Golders Green Hippodrome 6 Aug 1951; presented by James Shirvell by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd; produced by Robert Purser; dances and ensembles by Pauline Gaye; augmented orchestra directed by Howard Sylvester (follows 1942 Coliseum Production)
On tour: 1931: The Grand Theatre, Belfast; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, London; The Grand Theatre, Leeds; 1932: The Opera House, Coventry; The Perth Theatre, Perth; The Empire Theatre; 1933: The Princes Theatre, Manchester; 1934: The Grand Theatre, Leeds; The New Theatre, Oxford; 1937-1938: The Ilford Hippodrome; 1939: The Theatre Royal, Nottingham; The Theatre Royal, Brighton; 1946: The Boscombe Hippodrome, Bournemouth; The New Royal Theatre, Norwich; 1954: The Royalty Theatre, Chester; The Theatre Royal, Birmingham
Originally at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 12 Apr 1898; produced by J. Bannister Howard; The Lyceum Theatre, London, 17 May 1919 (97 performances)
America: The Casino Theater, New York, 28 Sep 1897
Casts: Bert Byrne, Patrick Waddington, Norman Page, Griffiths Moss, Johnnie Schofield jr, Walter Uridge, Jack Frost, Albert Goodwin, Kathleen Burgess, Lorna Hubbard, Alison Mclaren, Dorothy Ward, Molly Fisher, Stephanie Stephens, M. R. Morand, Herbert St. John, Laurence Caird, John Sanger, Johnnie Schofield, Walter Uridge, Ernest Gifford, T. O'Brien, Arthur Lawrence, Lionel Law, T. D. McDonald, Walter Albert, Dorothea Clarke, Julia James, Lily Gullick, Dorothy Craske, May Romayne, Bessie Middleton, Olive Noble, Dorothy Vint, Phyllis Grosvenor, Raie Denton, Lily Brame, Enid South, Tom McFarlane, Thomas Dixon, Lorna Hubbard, Molly Fisher, Edna May, Kathleen Burgis, Eileen Eley, Sylvia Pickering, Merle Stevens, Keith Graham, Griffiths Moss, Laurie Wensley, Geoffrey H. Asquire, Fred Rene, George Bellamy, Noreen Hamilton, Gwen Gorton, Freda Constance, Doris Lyndon, Bee Ingram, Lilian Lee, Adrian Ross, Barbara Kent, Raye Miller, Margery Dawe, Samuel Curtis, Albert Goodwin, Richard Milner, Willie Hartill, Bertha Riccardo, Vivienne Peek, Dorsi Palm, Olive Allen, Betty Robinson, Wendy Wellings, Betty Martin, David Reybould, Joan Boesche, Jack Hardy, Reg Clarke, Jack Anderson, Dennis Cadsey, Richard Drury, Arthur Willard, George G. Sharpe, Billy Tasker, Basil Austen, Harold Farrar, Lucille Dale, Molly Montgomery, Leslie Beaufort, Shirley Belmore, Enid Stamp Taylor, John Redmond, Daphne Tanner, Irving Kaye, Gordon Whelan, Marion Wilson, George Wilder, Billy Danvers, Dimitri Vetter, John Davis, Peter Yardley, Evelyn Laye, Jane Corda, Terry Atkinson, George Lacey, Mary Meredith, Phyllis Baker, Gavin Doyle, Daphne De Wit, Millar Wilson, Cecil Wayne, Pauline Gaye, Anthony Gordon, Peggy Inglis, Thelma Durant, Jack Gallagher, Bernard Giddy, Henry Adnes, Ouida McDermott, Adrian Ross, Frank Eden, Ernest Eden, Marianne Conan, Anne Croft, Florence Benson, George Mozart, Leslie Dwyer, Leslie Mitchener |