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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2482
Title'Murder on the Second Floor' by Frank Vosper
Extent1 file
Date1929-1930
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Murder on the Second Floor' 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

Performed at The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 21 Jun 1929, closing performance, 23 Oct 1929; run resumed, 25 Nov 1929, closing performance, 19 Apr 1930; presented by Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller; produced by Frank Vosper
On tour: 1929; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; 1930: The Grand Opera House, Belfast; The Royal Theatre, Halifax; The Royal Theatre, Plymouth; The Grand Theatre, Croydon; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; The Royal Theatre, Exeter; The Ardwick Green Empire
America: The Eltinge Theatre, New York, 12 Sep 1929 (45 performances); staged by William Mollison

Casts: Frank Vosper, Dorice Fordred, Nora Swinburne, Frederick Leister, Sara Allgood, Muriel Aked, Stanley Lathbury, Frank Cochrane, Ernest Haines, Ernest Mainwaring, Cyril Fairlie, George Hiscoke, Nugent Steele, Ivan Samson, Christine Barry, Cecil G. Calvert, Winifred Oughton, S. A. Cookson, Florence Vie, Guy Martineau, Dorothy Darke, Wilfred E. Payne, John Darwin, Frederick Atwill, John Morley, L. Jackley, Edward Wheatley, Margery Spiller, Victor Loraine, Charles Hersee, Bridget McCornish, Nona Wynne, Winifred Pitt, A. W. Tyrer, Stanley Grant, Weston Fields, Gordon le Strange, T. Riley, Ernest Madelle, Graham Stuart, J. G. Grahame, Annette Wilson, Beatrix Renwick, H. Harmer, Zerlina Harrington, Clifford Spurr, John Darwin, Betty Nelson, Paul Kelston, Henry Mather, Robert Planas, Edward Gee, Charles Oliver, L. Jackley, Frances Waring, Laurence Olivier, Viola Lyel, Phyllis Kenstam, Charles Brown, Florence Edney, O. B. Clarence, George Probert, Drusilla Wills, Henry Warwick, John R. Turnbull, Emil Jennings
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