| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Vagabond King', based on 'If I Were King' by Justin Huntley McCarthy; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; programme extract inside front cover gives cast and has typescript dates; includes programme with cast list 1943 [sic 1942]; printed flyer [1937]
Performed at The Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, 19 Apr 1927; presented by Russell Janney; staged by Richard Boleslavsky; dance numbers staged by Royal Cuiter and Helen Grenelle; scenery and costumes by James Reynolds; music by Rudolf Friml
Transferred to: The Gaiety Theatre, London, 23 Jan 1928, closing performance, 9 Jun 1928; The Opera House, Manchester, 4 Apr 1927
Revived at: The Adelphi Theatre, London, 14 Oct 1929 (2 weeks); The Coliseum, London 18 Mar 1937, closing performance (40th) 17 Apr 1937; presented by Oswald Stoll and Lee Ephraim by arrangement with Russell Janney; staged by Stanley Bell; The Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, 22 Apr 1943; presented by Tom Arnold for Whitley Productions Ltd; staged by Robert Nesbitt; decor by Alec Shanks; costumes by Charles Dawson; dances and ensembles by Joan Davis
On tour: 1928: The Golders Green Hippodrome; The Wimbledon Theatre; The Kings, Hammersmith; The Grand Theatre, Swansea; 1930: The Victoria Palace; The Finsbury Park Empire; The Victoria Palace Theatre; 1937: The Pavilion, Torquay
America: The Casino Theatre, New York, 21 Sep 1925 (511 performances); staged by Julian Alfred; costumes and settings by James Reynolds
Casts: Dennis King, Carolyn Thompson, Max Figman, Mimi Hayes, H. Cooper Cliffe, Marian Alta, Donald Mather, F. Wilson Barrett, Helen Kinnaird, Valerie Willoughby, Ivy Bryant, William Kidd, Norah Blaney, Mark Lester, Stephen Ewart, H. A. Saintsbury, Derek Oldham, Winnie Melville, Franklyn Kelsey, Frederic Collier, Henry de Coninck, Betty Eley, Hubert Ennor, Gus Sharland, Jean Carello, Kathleen Brett, Letty Robertson, Edward Earle, Rachel Fry, Christine Rosslyn, David Evans, Richard Wheatley, Robert McQueen, Gwen Noel, Syd Walker, Beth Alys, Alec Fraser, Helen Breen, Gladys Godwin, Helen Kinnaird, Muriel Angelus, Dorothy Seaham, Helen Wilson Barrett, Dorothy Grahame, Eileen Sharland, Sylvia Spiers, Nina Carleton, William Worsley, Hugh Terry, Florence Vie, Magda Neald, Sylvia Welling, George Graves, Valentine Dyall, Harry Welchman, Maria Elsner, Lawrence Shiel, Arthur Hosking, Frederic de Lara, Nancy Neale, Walter Bird, Mark Stone, Anna Duse, Webster Booth, Anne Zielger, Clement Hamelin, Trevor Glyn, Barbara Babington, Zena Forsyth, Ann Stapleton, Danny Duggan, Tessa Deane, Reyner Barton, Henry Baynton, Webster Booth, Arthur Ellis, John Oliver, Howard Fry, Sara Gregory, Peter Upcher, Leon Hockloff, S. Tustain, Robert McQueen, Letty Robertson, Kathleen Brett, Frank Rowland, Harry Emerson, Beryl Adair, May Hewitt, Ethel Moon, Harold Knight, Cecile Forbes, Godfrey Irwin, John McDonald, William Wilson, Patricia Russell, Geoffrey Startin, Gordon Hill, Doris Kirk, Moya Connor, Leigh Clayton, Fred Younge, James Forsyth, John MacCallum, Walter Cross, John Perry, Harry Jones, Andrew Waterston, Nellie Hayes, Phyllis Dean, Hilda Brookman, Eric Boyd, Aubrey Leonhardt, Leslie Arnold, Constance Miller, Robert Hughes, William Dawson, Jack Lodge, Kathleen Fraser, Doris Francis |