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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3693
Title'Johnson Over Jordan' by J. B. Priestley
Extent1 file
Date1939
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Johnson Over Jordan' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, change in cast member and dates; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The New Theatre, London, 22 Feb 1939, closing performance, 11 Mar 1939; produced by Basil Dean; decor by Edward Carrick; costumes and masks by Elizabeth Haffenden; ballets arranged by Anthony Tudor; music by Benjamin Britten and Ernest Irving; The Saville Theatre, London, 21 Mar 1939, closing performance (75th) 6 May 1939

Cast: Louise Frodsham, Henry Hallatt, Edna Best, Violet Blythe-Pratt, Christopher Quest, Victoria Hopper, Ernest Borrow, Ralph Richardson, Stafford Hilliard, Tarva Penna, Lawrence Bascomb, George Hayes, Wilfred Babbage, Richard Ainley, Sepha Treble, Jack Lambert, R. Meadows White, Betty Marsden
Access StatusOpen

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