| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'King Henry VIII' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; magazine extract colour illustration of the curtain designed by Charles Ricketts for the Empire Theatre, London depicting the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Performed at The Empire Theatre, London, 23 Dec 1925, closing performance, 20 Mar 1926; presented by Sybil Thorndike and Lewis T. Casson; produced by Lewis T. Casson; setting by Charles Ricketts
On tour: 1926: The Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Casts: Lewis T. Casson, Arthur Wontner, Eugene Leahy, John H. Moore, E. Lyall Swete, Harold Scott, Francis Martin, Chris Walker, H. Reynor Barton, Norman V. Norman, William Fazan, Hubert Carter, O. B. Clarence, William J. Miller, Charles Bond, Osbourne Adair, Stockwell Hawkins, Matthew Forsyth, H. R. Hignett, Cyril Hardingham, Desmond Deane, Lawrence Anderson, Bruce Winston, Laurence Olivier, Philip Clowes, Angela Baddeley, Ada King, Doris Kealy, Mrs Arthur Whitby, Beatrice Smith, Iris Baker, Agnes Laughlan, Ronald Bayne, Ronald Kerr, H. Melrose, Sam Pickles, B. Russell, Joan Halls, Rosalind Snow, Zillah Carter, Vere Shepstone, Holland Bennett, Ernest Fosbrooke, Michael Logan, David Olive, Cecil Rayne, Richard Turner, Eileen Archer, Dorothy Holliday, Brenda Cleather, Peggy Webster, Charles Bond, H. Hesslegrave, Wilfred Lyndon, Terence Ranson, J. Henry Twyford, Mudah Findlay, Margaret Neeson, Gwen Harter, John Clifford, Alfred Hilliard, Frank Macrae, James Parish, Carol Reed, Guy Vivian, Betty Gwynne, Dorothy Rickinson, Primrose Morgan, Robert Cunningham, Malcolm Tearle, Godfrey Baxter |