| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Streets of London or Poverty is no Crime', based on 'Les Pauvres de Paris'; revised by W. A. Darlington; with photographs of members of the cast; programme inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates [1932]; includes magazine extract 'Play of the Moment' with photographs of members of the cast in scenes from the play and the story; printed flyers, one with press opinions and reviews [1932-1933]
Performed at The Ambassadors Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 20 Dec 1932, closing performance (158th) 29 Apr 1933; presented by Sydney Carroll and Lewis Schaverien; produced by Maxwell Wray; music by Herman Finck; orchestra directed by Carlton Mason; stage manager Leslie Bodley; stage director E. Vivian Reynolds
Revived at: The Cambridge Theatre, 28 Jan 1943; presented by Jay Pomeroy; produced by Maxwell Wray; decor by Joan Jefferson Farjeon
On tour: 1933: The Princes Theatre, Manchester; The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
Casts: Sam Livesey, E. Vivian Reynolds, Alexander Field, A. B. Imeson, Harold Warrender, Andrew Leigh, Valentine Rooke, Sydney Fairbrother, Hilary Pritchard, Campbell Fletcher, Arthur Bander, Margaretta Scott, Diana Churchill, Clare Greet, Wallace Douglas, Percy Walsh, Lionel Dixon; Walter Cross, Blake Gifford, John Gibson, Nimon Gilbert, Winnie McCelland, Arthur Pitt, George Sims, Phyllis Grovesnor, George Lowdell, Zoe Davis, Harwood Cooper, Walter Plinge, George Kennedy, George Palmer, Ashley Sinclair, Elsie French, John Mott (The Aspidistras), Wilfrid Lawson, Graeme Muir, John Nicholson, Roger Snowdon, Charles Doe, Derek Randal, Duff McCulloch, Oriel Ross, Betty Fleetwood, Nuna Davey, Winifred Willard |