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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/382
Title'Rookery Nook' by Ben Travers
Extent1 file
Date1926-1957
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Rookery Nook' with photographs and illustrations of member of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates and change in cast member; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; printed flyers [1926-1927]

Performed at The Aldwych Theatre, London, 30 Jun 1926, closing performance, 25 Jun 1927; presented by Tom Walls and Leslie Henson; produced by Tom Walls; scenery by F. L. Lyndhurst; The Kings Theatre, Southsea, 21 Jun 1926
Revived at: The St Martins Theatre, London, 1942; presented by Bernard Delfont, Barry O'Brien and Roy Limbert; The Wimbledon Theatre, London, 5 Aug 1957; produced by John McKelvey; scenery by Anthony Purvis and Bruce Scott
On tour: 1926: The Princes Theatre, Manchester; 1927: The Royal Theatre, Nottingham; The Princes Theatre, Manchester; The Royal Theatre, Worcester; The New Theatre, Cambridge; The Palace Pier, Brighton; The Royal Theatre, Great Yarmouth; St Julians Theatre, Guernsey; The Royal Theatre, Windsor; The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; 1928: The Royal Theatre, Nottingham; The Princes Theatre, Manchester; The Royal Theatre, Leamington Spa; The Gaiety Theatre, Ayre; 1929: The New Theatre, Crewe; The Hippodrome, Birkenhead; 1930: The Playhouse Theatre, Galashiels; 1932: The Pier Pavillion Theatre, Colwyn Bay; 1942: The Empire Theatre, Swansea

Casts: Ethel Coleridge, Mary Brough, J. Robertson Hare, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Griffith Humphreys, Gordon James, Ena Mason, Stella Bonheur, Vera Gerald, Leonard Thompson, Sydney Lynn, William Daunt, Aubrey Dexter, Eileen Peel, Yves Renaud, Mary Braithwaite, Marjorie Bassett, Peter Baxter, Joan Henley, Luigi Ellis Powell, Clara Biscoe, Ralph Truman, Stephen Russell, Arthur Page, Josephine Gordon, Edwin Sykes, Ivan Leslie, Thea Johnston, Gladys Tudor, Alex Begbie, Avis Grahame, James Stillwell, James Grey, Muriel Broadbent, Millie Walker, Agnes Verity, Margery Bruner, Anne Seymour, Douglas Ives, Roy Futvoye, Marjorie Byrne, Maud Locker, Bligh Chesmond, Nannie Taylor, Edward Maples, Felis de Lange, Valentine Dunn, Florence Lyndon, Lenton Murray, Stanford Holme, Charles Beale, Amy Nowell, Doris Moxon, Sylvia Roussin, Margery Binner, Ida Millais, William Allison, Harold Warrender, Hilary Brough, Jack Knight, Bebe Norris, Molly Owen Harries, E. St John Boreham, Margaret Nicholls, Mabel Middleton, Esme Curzon, C. Cavanagh, Trixie Grey, Rhoda Ring, Charles Wingrove, Arthur Stanley, Harry Piddock, Betty Cooper, Wynne Bronte, Basil Bowen, Ethel Arden, Cyril Vernon, Ruth Lotinga, Marjorie Day, Sylvia Sewell, Vernon Kelso, Guy Fane, Joan Shannon, Marjorie Caldicott, Jean Lester, Edgar K. Bruce, Mary Horn, Hazel Lawrence, Rosina White, Robertson Hare, Muriel George, Charles Stone, Angela Dowding, Monica Mcleod, Margaret St Barbe West, John Marquand, Douglas Malcolm, John Hart Dyke, Jasmine Dee, David March, Freank Pettit, Rosaline Haddon, Enid Lowe, Anne Yorke
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