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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1508
Title'The Truth Game' by H. E. S. Davidson (i.e. Ivor Novello)
Extent1 file
Date1923-1931
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Truth Game' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 5 Oct 1928, closing performance, 23 Feb 1929; presented by Ivor Novello; produced by W. Graham Browne
Revived at: Daly's Theatre, London, 25 Jun 1929, closing performance, 13 Jul 1929; presented by Ivor Novello and Barry O'Brien; produced by W. Graham Browne
On tour: 1929: The Lewisham Hippodrome; The Alhambra, Glasgow; The Golders Green Hippodrome; 1930: The Pavilion, Torquay
America: The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 27 Dec 1931 (108 performances); staged by G. Hamilton Gay

Casts: Lily Elsie, Ivor Novello, Eric Copley, Doris Cooper, Lilian Braithwaite, Frederick Oxley, Viola Tree, Frederick Volpe, Glen Byam Shaw, Mabel Sealby, George Byrne, Moya Mackintosh, Beryl Norman, John Burton, Sydney Fairbrother, Rex Walters, Erica Tozer, Dora Jay, Margaret Calisle, Joy Saville, T. Renaud Lockwood, Ernest J. Borrow, Rex Stewart, John Lewis, Joyce Riss, Nancy Esmond, Sylvia Allan, Helen Ford, Lionel Westlake, Billie Burke, Phoebe Foster, Harold Huth, George Byrne, John Barton
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