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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/517
Title'Counsel's Opinion' by Gilbert Wakefield
Extent1 file
Date1931-1932
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Counsel's Opinion' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; printed flyer in form of mock legal documents 1931 with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; other printed flyers [1931]

Performed at The Strand Theatre, London, 26 Aug 1931, closing performance, 19 Dec 1931; presented by Leslie Henson and Firth Shephard; produced by Leslie Henson; costumes by Oliver Messel; scenery by Joseph and Phil Harker
Transferred to: The Phoenix Theatre, London, 26 Dec 1931, closing performance, 30 Jan 1932; The Streatham Hill Theatre, 3 Aug 1931
On tour: 1932: The Royal Theatre, Brighton; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; The Empire Theatre, Penge; The Pavilion Theatre, Torquay

Casts: Fred Hearne, Reginald Kenneth, Owen Nares, Isabel Jeans, Ronald Simpson, Robert Rendel, Morton Selten, Allan Aynesworth, Margaret Baird, Cyril Smith, Zena Dare, Jack Melford, Jack Reid, Stuart Kern, Guy Fane, Guy Middleton, Henry Ford, Leslie Dwyer, Patricia Reid, Russell Gordon, Stanley Fry, Jack Knight, Olwen Roose, Christopher Hodge, Guy Charles, Herbert C. Walton, Elsie Green
Access StatusOpen

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