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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4572
Title'If I Were You' by Shalom (Sholem) Aleichem
Extent1 file
Date1931-1933
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'If I Were You', translated by Tamara Berowitz and dramatized by Sholem Aleichem from his novel 'Bloody Laughter'; originally produced in Yiddish under the title 'It is Hard to be a Jew'; with photographs of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates

Performed at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 15 Jun 1933, closing performance, 24 Jun 1933; presented by Sydney Carroll and Lewis Schaverien; produced by Maxwell Wray
America: The Ambassador Theatre, New York, 23 Sep 1931; presented by Lee Shubert; transferred to: The Comedy Theatre, New York, 19 Oct 1931
The 49th Street Theatre, New York

Casts: Maurice Schwartz, Edward Leiter, Harry Mervis, Natalie Browning, Robert Speaight, Victor Lewisohn, David Kosky, Glennis Lorimer, Joan Pereira, Augustus Yorke, Neal Arden, Harold Mortlake, D. Williams, Ralph Trueman, Roland Cobb, Fred Royal, Frith Banbury, Donald Masters, Neville Flynn, Anthony Pelly, Peter Bull, Eunice Landeru, Betty Summer, Cynthia Carlton
Access StatusOpen

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