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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2552
Title'The Song of the Drum' by Fred Thomson and Guy Bolton
Extent1 file
Date1931
Description Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Song of the Drum' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates 1931; printed flyer [1931]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical

Performed at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, 9 Jan 1931, closing performance, 2 May 1931; music by Vivian Ellis and Herman Finck; lyrics by Desmond Carter; directed by Alfred Butt; produced by Felix Edwardes; ballets and ensembles arranged by Ralph Reader; mise en scene by Ernst Stern

Cast: George Bishop, Brian Gilmour, Alan Stevenson, Peter Haddon, Arthur Macrae, Leslie Coles, Clarice Hardwicke, Derek Oldham, Helen Gilliland, Bobby Howes, Marie Burke, Cecil Musk, Clifford Bullock, Ivan Berlyn, Gordon Crocker, Reginald Smith, Allan Jeayes, Robert Woollard, Raymond Newell, The Helen Howell Foursome
Access StatusOpen

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